Missing Florida woman Jennifer Kesse's family hopeful 19 years later

(NewsNation) — Florida pistillate Jennifer Kesse was past seen leaving for enactment successful 2006. 19 years later, her household is inactive searching for answers, but anticipation remains with the engagement of authorities and national agencies.

On the day of her disappearance, Jennifer's begetter Drew Kesse joined NewsNation's “Banfield” to stock however helium feels her lawsuit was mishandled and explicate however NASA got progressive successful the search.

“It’s Jennifer's clip successful the lineup, I guess, to either beryllium recovered oregon not found,” Drew Kesse said.

What happened to Jennifer Kesse?

In 2016, 10 years aft her disappearance, Jennifer was officially declared dormant by the authorities of Florida. Since then, the Orlando Police Department handed the lawsuit files implicit to the family, who person present hired a backstage investigator, hoping for answers.

They besides enlisted the assistance of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which is present starring the investigation. The bureau announced Friday that it has conducted much than 50 interviews and reviewed tens of thousands of documents and pieces of grounds successful hopes of processing caller avenues to explore.

“FDLE, yet aft 18 years, got involved, and it took them a small portion to get going, but boy, they're going now," Kesse said. “But they are genuinely putting each the resources that they person towards trying to find retired what happened to Jennifer, and we couldn't beryllium much grateful. It's, been excessively long.”

Nearly 2 decades agone connected Jan. 24, 2006, Jennifer's time started similar immoderate other. She took a shower, got dressed, did her hairsbreadth and constitution and past headed to work. But that's erstwhile things veered from the accustomed routine.

The 24-year-old simply vanished. Her fellow didn't get his accustomed substance that morning, and helium couldn't scope her by phone. She didn't amusement up for work, which was dissimilar her, according to friends and family.

Jennifer’s parents realized her purse, keys, telephone and iPod — items she typically would instrumentality to enactment — were missing from her home. That was erstwhile Jennifer's parents contacted the Orlando Police Department.

Soon after, Jennifer's car was recovered abandoned a mile distant astatine a antithetic flat complex. Apartment information cameras showed images of a antheral parking her car astir noon the time she disappeared.

Because the video was truthful grainy, constabulary made the uncommon determination of reaching retired to NASA for help.

NASA's relation successful Jennifer Kesse's missing persons case

NASA was capable to nutrient a clearer image, providing a partial illustration of the suspect, who wore covering emblematic of a creator oregon immoderate benignant of worker.

At the clip of Jennifer's disappearance, she told her parents that workers astatine her gathering made her consciousness “uncomfortable.”

Once the household received the grounds from section police, they realized the pb detective hadn't been investigating.

“Come to find out, she did not constitute a azygous connection for 7 years,” Kesse said. “It's a bully happening that it's retired of Orlando. I honestly don't deliberation that they had the endowment to bash what's needed to bash successful a semipermanent missing persons case.”

Evidence successful Jennifer Kesse's case

Handprints and scratches connected her car, which appeared to person been cleaned earlier it was found, bespeak determination whitethorn person been a struggle. A skeleton cardinal for Jennifer's gathering had gone missing a twelvemonth earlier.

Physical grounds from the car includes hairs and 100 fingerprints, immoderate of which were not identified to a idiosyncratic astatine the time.

“We bash person to remember, exertion has travel truthful acold since 2006. We didn't adjacent person Google Earth successful 2006. It was successful beta, truthful we were inactive tapping doubly connected our phones for the missive B erstwhile we were texting things similar that," Kesse said. "So, it's travel a agelong way. Unfortunately, it conscionable didn't assistance Jennifer astatine the time.”

“This is what we unrecorded with, and we determination guardant each time due to the fact that we person unconditional emotion for Jennifer," Kesse said. "We're conscionable not going to springiness up until we find her.”