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House of Broken Dreams: The Jennifer Kesse Story

The Legal Battle for 16,000 Pages - E9

House of Broken Dreams: The Jennifer Kesse Story

FOX News Podcasts

News, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

3.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In an unprecedented move for a missing person case, Drew and Joyce Kesse sue the Orlando Police Department for all the records in their daughter’s investigation. The files are rich in information, detailing a cast of people interviewed by police in connection with Jennifer’s disappearance. FNI Season 1 - The Derby City Betrayal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At the time of this recording, Jennifer Kessie has been missing for nearly 15 years.

0:06.3

Her 39th birthday was May 24th. There's no telling what Jennifer would have accomplished all these years in between.

0:15.0

She might have had children of her own and a house, perhaps risen high up in a company or created

0:20.3

her own business. Maybe she'd have traveled the country as she had

0:25.0

dreamt. Anything was possible for Jen. But these milestones were stolen along with Jennifer, never to be realized.

0:35.0

While the Orlando Police Department insists Jen's case is still active,

0:41.0

multiple sources claim that very little, if anything, has been

0:45.8

investigated in the last seven years. With no answers about their daughter's

0:50.8

whereabouts, the Kessie family decided to do something

0:54.1

that I've never seen done before in the case of a missing person. They sued the

0:59.0

Orlando Police Department for all the records on Jennifer's case,

1:03.0

so they could become the lead detectives in their own daughter's disappearance.

1:07.0

Why did you sue the Orlando Police Department

1:10.0

and why did you want all of Jen's records?

1:13.0

We were step in step with them the whole way.

1:16.0

We felt we were a true team right up to when we sued them.

1:20.0

But in, I guess, year 10, nothing was happening.

1:24.0

We were going in every single day of direction, nothing's happening.

1:27.8

So we asked them, let us read the records.

1:30.8

Let us come in effect it.

1:31.8

What are you crazy, get out of here? We're like, okay, let a

1:34.7

P. I of ours come in, read only, eyes only. We're not giving that this would set

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