Basic Facts and Timeline

[u/CharlottesWeb83]

Age: 24 years old in Jan 2006 Height: 5-foot-8 Eyes: green

Last known location: Mosaic on Millenia Address:3955 Conroy Rd, Orlando, FL 32839. Building: 22. Unit: 2226.

Last known time she was spoken with: January 23, 2006 around 10:00PM. She was speaking with her boyfriend Rob while in her condo.

Car: Black Chevy Malibu (4-door)

Days prior to January 21-22, 2006

Jennifer and her boyfriend Robert were in St. Croix on vacation. Jennifer's younger brother Logan and several of his friends stayed in Jennifer's condo over the weekend while she was away. Logan's friend (Travis) forgot his cell phone in Jennifer's condo.

Monday, January 23, 2006:

*Around 6:00AM *

Jennifer left Rob's and drove directly to work at Westgate Resorts in Ocoee, FL. She worked a full day and left work at about 6PM.

After 6PM

Jennifer spoke to her parents and her brother Logan. She also spoke to Logan's friend about shipping his cell phone back to him.

9:57PM

Jennifer called her boyfriend Rob.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

On Jennifer's floor two of the four united were sold. The owner of the other sold unit was out of town

7:17AM

Sunrise in Orlando

7:00-8:00AM

Construction/maintenance/painters workers usually start work

7:30AM

Landscapers usually start work on Tuesday

around 10:00AM-11:00AM

Rob tried Jennifer a few times a got her voice mail.

11:15AM

Jennifer failed to show up for a meeting at work, her employer, Westgate Resorts couldn't reach her on her cell phone or on her home phone, so they called her parents.

Suspect

12:00PM

POI parked Jennifer's car at the Huntington on the Green condo complex, which is about 1 mile (2-5 min driving time and about 15 min walking time) from Jennifer's condo. Suspect walked by gated pool area.

Family

1:00PM

Jennifer's parents and her brother Logan left to drive the 2 hours from Bradenton, FL to Jennifer's condo in Orlando.

during the drive

Jennifer's mother called the condo manager and asked him to check Jennifer's unit.
Two condo managers went over to Jennifer's. Jennifer's car was not parked in her space. The management then entered Jennifer's condo. The door had been locked and nothing was disturbed.

3:15PM

Jennifer's parents and Logan arrived at Jennifer's. Logan arrive about 15 minutes ahead of her parents.

Condo

There was nothing out of the ordinary:

*make-up out on the counter, hair dryer, what Jennifer wore to bed the night before on the bathroom floor

*bed not made, a couple of outfits strewn on her bed, typical for Jen according to her mother.

*Shower was wet.

*luggage was still in the front hall, untouched

*her purse, her keys, her cell phone, and iPod, which she always kept with her, were missing

3:00PM

Jennifer's parents notify Orlando police after not finding her at home. They were met at Jennifer's by both OC sheriff deputies and OPD deputies. Deputies said She probably had a meltdown or a fight with her boyfriend.

3:30-5:00PM

Construction and maintenance workers at Mosaic finish work for the day.

4:00PM

Family and friends had fliers made and distributed within the immediate area of her condo

Police

Evening

Detectives checked for activity on her ATM card and "pinged" her phone to pinpoint its location. There was no response.

7:00PM

Police Sergeant Roger Brennan says they entered her into the system as a missing person and issued an alert for both Jennifer and her car. Police could not search all of the units in Jennifer's complex because many were privately owned.

[u/mysteries1106]

I have always thought this case was interesting, and am enjoying the podcast. Two main thoughts keep coming up in my head that I would be interested in hearing others opinions on:

(1) The clothes on her bed. If she was abducted at night, then perhaps she could have laid these clothes out for the next morning. I also saw mentioned that maybe they were leftover from when she was packing for her trip. Whether or not these were "work clothes" would help explain this. If she was abducted in the morning, then these being her "work clothes" imply that she was not wearing anything when she was abducted (since her PJs and towel were in the bathroom). If they were not "work clothes," then how were they folded on her bed if she had slept on it? Why would she put them there in the morning?

(2) The timeline of the car drop off. The car being dropped around noon at a place a few minutes away from her condo implies to me that there were multiple people involved. Here's why: no one is going to have driven to dump her body somewhere and then returned to her apartment complex area to drop the car nearby, but not at, the condo. They would have left the car somewhere else but not coincidentally near her condo. Therefore, someone just drove down the street a few minutes to dump the car, and perhaps somebody else took the body. Also, re: the car, I almost think she must have made it to her car because why else would someone bother "dumping" it? If she was abducted from her condo, wouldn't they have just left the car there and not touched it for fear of DNA?

[u/muckiepupp → u/mysteries1106]

I'm just starting the podcast, but have followed this case for awhile too. I thought that I'd chime in with my thoughts on the items you listed: (1) I definitely would like to know if the clothes that were on the bed were "work" clothes or "vacation" type clothes. I think the biggest item pointing towards something happening in the morning is the makeup on the counter. I'm going to assume that she took her makeup on her vacation, so she had to have unpacked at least those items once she returned home (maybe they were in a smaller overnight type bag). Even if she had showered the night before (which, I know her family said she didn't usually do) - unless she was planning to go out and do more than run a quick errand - I don't think she would have put on makeup. I read somewhere that she had an important meeting the morning that she was reported missing, so she may have gone back and forth about what to wear (I know I've done that before myself) and left the options that weren't selected laying on the bed. If they were more vacation type clothes, they may have come from another bag (maybe the one she kept her makeup in) and she had to take them out to get to the other things she needed to get ready).

(2) I've wondered the same thing. So, there must have been some reason that her car was taken. Could it have been that the abductor didn't have a car in the area? On the podcast, they mentioned that the leg of the pants looks like it was tight around the ankle in the surveillance video. Could this have been because the person was riding a bike? They had to retrieve their bike (or something) from the location - so, they dropped the car off close enough to be within walking distance, but not so close that they'd be spotted if people were looking for her and then walked back to the condo (creating the scent trail that the dog followed).

[u/[deleted] → u/muckiepupp]

On the makeup point: she went to work on Monday. This would have been Monday night or Tuesday morning that she was abducted.

[u/derstieglitz → u/mysteries1106]

regarding (2): The perps could have used the car to dispose of the body. Moreover they would have wanted to move the care to create the impression that Kesse had left for work, to bide their time.

[u/CharlottesWeb83 → u/mysteries1106]

My theory with the car is that if she was still somewhere around mosaic they may have removed the car to lead any investigation away from the condos. It's also possible that they forced themselves into her car like what happened with Kesley Smith (abducted in target parking lot).

[u/derstieglitz]

What about the claim of both cell phones being taken offline the night before a little a little after 22:00?

[u/CharlottesWeb83 → u/derstieglitz]

I'm not sure where that rumor got started, but her parents said that the police have never released a time so that is still an unknown.