The parents of Jennifer Kesse have truly been inspirational in their efforts to find their missing daughter.

 Joyce Kesse, Jennifer’s Mother:
“It’s hard, very hard, but we remain devoted and committed to finding Jennifer, and we will not stop. We’ll scream from the mountains to keep the awareness out there. We are blessed to have the family and friend support we have and the support of the community, which continues to astound us.”

Drew Kesse, Jennifer’s Father:
“They will continue on, they will never stop. They have promised us that.”

The Kesse’s have fought long and hard to find their missing daughter as well as trying to establish laws that will help families in the future of missing adults.

The house passed a bill on Friday requiring law enforcement to send out alerts within two hours for any missing person under the age of 25.

The cutoff use to be 18 and as a result, it did not apply when Kesse went missing.

The bill is named for Kesse and Tiffany Sessions, who vanished from the University of Florida 18 years ago.

The bill still requires the governor’s signature.

Bill Proposed By Kesse’s Parents Passes

This weeks guests include:

• Mike Melson & Tracy Mayo, discussing the search for missing person Nita Mayo
• Drew Kesse, discussing the search for missing person Jennifer Kesse
• Stephanie Good, New York Times Bestselling Author of Exposed and her new book A Rush To Injustice

See VIDEO HERE.

The problem is, they lack a clear photo, a name and cannot say for sure whether it is a man or a woman.

But after months of debate between Kesse’s parents and detectives — and solid leads exhausted — police decided Thursday to release a grainy, out-of-focus, wide-angle surveillance-camera video showing a person who parked Kesse’s car at a south Orlando condominium complex. The suspect, estimated to be 5 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 5 inches tall, then was recorded walking away by another security camera about noon Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006. (Sun Sentinel)

For more information go to Find Jennifer Kesse.com

Jennifer Kesse: Still Missing Without a Trace

A week ago the Orlando police released that grainy video to the public. The video shows someone parking Kesse’s car in a condominium lot near her home on the day she disappeared.

Police say they didn’t release the video earlier because they were hoping to use it to check the story of any suspects. Sgt. Barbara Jones of the Orlando Police Department told ABC News that the video was held back “as an investigative tool to be able to lock a suspect into the story,” but added that “its release could generate more leads, significant leads which may break the case.”

Police hope that, despite the rough quality of the video, it might jog someone’s memory about seeing that person that night. Kesse, at 5 feet 8 inches, is at least four inches taller than the person on the video. She has sandy blond shoulder-length hair and green eyes and weighs 125 pounds. But the past week has yet to yield results. (ABC News)

On The Record interview with Drew & Joyce Kesse, transcript from “On the Record ,” May 17, 2007

DREW KESSE: I think they’re father ahead. Are we close? No, I don’t think we’re close. There’s a lot still just very unknown. You know, a lot of times, the word vanishment (ph) comes up. I have to be honest with you. But leads are still being called in every day. It’s an amazing thing that, you know, 15-and-a-half months, we still get leads. We have a personal lead phone. Just last week, there were seven leads on that phone alone that came to us. So the community is very aware, and actually, the United States is very aware. And the calls come in, they just have not been the proper call.

Read the full transcript HERE

Listen to Drew Kesse’s interview on Scared Monkeys radio with Dana Pretzer regarding the one year anniversary of Jennifer Kesse’s disappearance. (go to 30:10 on the podcast)

http://www.findjenniferkesse.com/

Family holds vigil for Jennifer Kesse

Joyce Kesse, Jennifer’s Mother:
“It’s hard, very hard, but we remain devoted and committed to finding Jennifer, and we will not stop. We’ll scream from the mountains to keep the awareness out there. We are blessed to have the family and friend support we have and the support of the community, which continues to astound us.”

Drew Kesse, Jennifer’s Father:
“They will continue on, they will never stop. They have promised us that.”

Our prayers are with Jennifer and the Kesse family.

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Special Guests:

• Mike McIntyre of Mike on Crime Fame – Mike and Dana will discuss the Adam DePrisco case which is capturing the hearts and minds of Canada.
• Drew Kesse – Drew is the father of missing Jennifer Kesse who went missing nearly a year ago. He will give us an update on the disappearance. Jennifer Kesse Website.

“Nothing thus far has indicated she’s been murdered, but at the time nothing’s indicated that she’s alive either,” Joyce Kesse said. “So we take the positive approach and remain hopeful that Jen will be found. But we want, even if it ends up not being a happy reunion, to find her no matter what.”

Bill Gilmour, Jennifer’s uncle and a former Barnegat mayor, believes the best approach now is spreading the word by e-mailing the Web site link to friends and printing out the poster to tape on cars and storefronts.

“We need the help of the public,” he said. “Somebody out there knows something about this case. (Asbury Park Press)

A national search keeps coming back to John Young Parkway and Americana Boulevard.

Jennifer Kesse’s family gathered at the intersection on Tuesday to remind passing drivers about the search. They were there from 7:30 to 9 a.m. and will gather again from 5 to 6:30 p.m. because they said that’s when Jennifer Kesse would have passed through the intersection on her way to and from work.

“We need to find Jennifer,” Drew Kesse said. “We are willing to do anything.”

Having spoke to Drew Kesse in the past, I believe this. He is a determined man that will never stop searching for his missing daughter. As Drew Kesse said, We are not going away”. If it is any consolation to the Kesse’s, neither are we.

Drew Kesse will be interviewed by Dana Pretzer on the Scared Monkeys Radio network on Sunday, October 29 at 9:00 pm EDT.

The Kesse’s are holding out hope as are we.

“Miracles happen, and who’s to say that Jennifer’s not going to get a miracle?” Joyce Kesse said.

Also please see the person of interest pictures.

For further updates and information, please go to the families website. I would  also ask that all go to www.findjenniferkesse.com and read the letter from Jennifer’s parents regarding the 9 month mark of Jennifer’s disappearance. Remember that all parents of missing children belong to a club of which no one wishes to be a member of. God bless Joyce and Drew Kesse that they get the answers they so desperately need.

Anyone who has any information regarding Jennifer Kesse please call CrimeLine at 800-423-TIPS. Also the family has its own hot line at 407-772-2162

VIDEO

Drew and Joyce Kesse said they want to get information about their daughter out to the public. Now they are putting the information on the back of playing cards, which they’ll send them to jails.

“We feel that it’s one more opportunity to make a percentage of the population aware, and that percentage of the population will be people in jail,” Drew Kesse said. “Obviously, they are criminals if they’re in jail, and I think at this point, we’re looking for a criminal.”

He said he hopes they’ll be playing with cards featuring Jennifer Kesse’s face on a daily basis.

“And maybe someone says, ‘Hey, you know what? I know something about that and it’s time,’” Drew Kesse said. (WESH)

VIDEO

For more information go to http://www.findjenniferkesse.com/

Also see past Jennifer Kesse Missing & Exploited archives.

Her family, friends and supporters plan to mark the occasion with a “Stand Up for Jennifer” event at the corner of John Young Parkway and Conroy Road, not far from Jennifer’s condo and the apartment complex where her car was found a few days after her Jan. 24 disappearance. The event — from 7:30 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. — is designed to keep attention focused on the case.

Another fundraiser is planned for this coming Wednesday, “Stand Up for Jennifer”.

“Stand Up for Jennifer” event/fund-raiser scheduled for the Improv in downtown Orlando on Wednesday, Aug. 9. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts officially at 7:30.

A $10 admission/donation is encouraged but not required to the Jennifer Kesse Trust Fund, which “will be used for Jennifer’s psychological treatment upon her recovery.” All the money from admission goes to the nonprofit. (Orlando Sentinel)

For more information go to the family website for Jennifer Kesse, http://www.findjenniferkesse.com/