www.justiceforchandra.com

[rd]

hey, that's great J4J. Yes, two cameras. The one you noted facing the gate took the stills we're analyzing. That's the one that model and settings are needed for testing.

The other one was around the side overlooking the pool out to the main entrance drive. That's the one the video came off of. Are they different? I don't know, but the only one that matters is that one facing the gate where the stills came from.

Distance and angle is pretty much what you saw. The real key is what that camera does to images. Only testing will determine that. That will be so helpful if we're able to do that.

rd

[UCFAlum2002]

Hi CM7...

I've been really involved in this case since the beginning and just wanted to clarify a few things.

1) She did not leave her purse behind. It is still missing. The picture on the www.findjenniferkesse.com website is the picture of her purse from another time to show people what to look out for.
2) Her boyfriend is 100% cleared in this case so not a suspect in any way shape or form. The police have publicly declared this and I personally believe it 150%!


I'm interested in why you say the poi is a blonde... that is a first for me.

Looking forward to reading more from you!

Thanks,
UCFAlum2002

[rd]

Thanks for those clarifications, UCFAlum.

J4J, I posted three of your pictures in the Jennifer Kesse Suspect Blowup thread. Thanks for those helpful shots. Here's what I wrote:

Site member J4J took these shots looking back from the gate to the camera that took the stills. The third picture is looking back as the suspect did from the gate across the pool to where he parked Jennifer's car. It was parked where the white van is.

rd

[tampadjd]

After spending a few days reading the entire discussion board here, I reached the end and wondered if there had been any developments with the Nicole Gonguzza case so I did a Google search. Just thought I would post what I found. Interesting that the search warrant recently issued was for a former Parks employee who often rode a bicycle and missed work on the day he was supposed to submit a DNA sample. Also, the second link references that his father was in law enforcement.

http://www.wftv.com/news/18851339/detail.html

http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/03/04/nicole-ganguzza-murder-break-in-the-case-former-orange-county-employee-questioned-evidence-seized/

[rd]

hi tampadjd, and welcome. Yes, I believe there's a previous post about the arrest warrant that was issued for that park employee, thanks for the info and link.

That's a lot of info you just went through. :) Please feel welcome to add your thoughts.

thanks
rd

[rd]

from Orlando Sentinel crime blog Homicide Report:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_homicide/2009/05/today-would-be-jennifer-kesses-28th-birthday.html

Camille-Toronto Canada wrote:
I wish Nancy Grace would do a show on Jennifer Kesse again. It is frightening to think a young woman could go missing so mysteriously with no trace. I am a firm believer in security cameras EVERYWHERE. It may not prevent the crime - but it sure makes solving it easier. Unfortunately, there was only one camera catching a glimpse of a possible witness/person of interest. There should be security cameras on the entrances to buildings, in the lobby, street corners etc. When in public areas, security is more important than privacy.

The only people who should NOT want multi-cameras are those who perpetrate crimes.


I agree with the sentiments on multiple cameras, but the entrance where Jennifer's car was driven in and parked was covered by two cameras, not one.

One camera recorded Jennifer's car driven in and parked, the other recorded the suspect walking back around the swimming pool fence and away.

It is also not accurate to say that the camera only caught a glimpse of the suspect. With incredibly bad luck in timing, both stills dead ahead of the camera have his face obscured by fence railing posts. Had that not happened, his face likely would have been recognizable.

So although I agree with the sentiment of your post, just want to set the record straight as far as facts go.

(I still would like to get the model and settings of that surveillance camera to get one and verify what kind of images it produces, but people in Orlando who have checked into it have not been successful so far. The details of the camera model were never reported AFAIK.)

thanks,
rd
www.justiceforchandra.com

[UCFAlum2002]

RD- not sure if you have heard about Missing Tracy Ocasio from Ocoee (where Jenn worked) after she left a sports bar with James Virgil Hataway (height 5'9). Please check him out and compare him to what you've been able to see. In one of the videos re bond he had a shirt with some sort of badge-like emblem.

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[rd]

Yes, UCF, I've been following that. There's a lot to be suspicious about with this character and associates. Tracy Ocasio missing, her car 150 yards from this creep's house, her cell phone pinging a cell tower yards away from his house at 8:30 the next morning.

This Hataway guy appears to have made her disappear, and is associated with Jennifer both with the Florida Tap Room which Jennifer used to live near and visited occasionaly, and with living in Ocoee where Jennifer worked and lived until she bought her condo two months before she disappeared.

Then before that he's seen with two other guys coming out of woods near a car of a guy who disappeared.

But before that, a year ago, he lived in Casselberry and again tried to murder a woman who gave him a ride home. The details aren't pretty. Tried to strangle her, she managed to get out of the car and he chased he down in the street, grabbed her head by the hair, and started banging her head on the street pavement and tried to snap her head and break her neck.

Only neighbors who came out to see what the ruckus was saved her life.

Looking at one picture of him, son of a gun if he doesn't have a beard like in the POI photo. Picture below:



Then it gets to some more serious coincidences. Hataway used to live in Hillsborough County, the Tampa Bay area, where the Kesse's live. And then something really interesting that I didn't know about. According to the post, Jennifer was a member of the Cardio Club next to the Florida Tap Room, and Hataway and Greg Toole, himself another interesting character, 5'5", registered sex offender and felon, worked there occasionally as trainers. So the world just got a lot smaller.

Here's the part that I hadn't heard of before. According to the post, Jennifer's family says Jennifer was known to keep a gym bag in her trunk and that is missing along with her purse, keys, cell phone, and briefcase (which purse or briefcase held her brother's friend's cellphone she was to overnight to him, which is also missing).

And they are the same age (Hataway is 27) and he lived in Tampa as a teenager. That maybe just a real coincidence though, I think.

And on top of everything else, what does this guy do for a living? Illegal debris and waste dumping and dredging ponds.

Could there be any other experience more suited to successfully hiding bodies than that? I don't think so.

But I looked for a security guard background for Hataway or Toole and they don't have any, and Hataway doesn't appear to be sophisticated enough to impersonate LE and use a taser in an assault on a woman.

I also have a problem with driving from Ocoee to the area of Jennifer's condo to assault her as she comes out to go to work, parking at least a mile away and walking there sometime in early morning to ambush her, then driving her car somewhere and eventually parking it at the Huntington presumably near where he had parked his car early that morning.

He would have to be very familiar with Jennifer's routine on Conroy two months after she had moved from Ocoee, and familiar with her schedule. For example, the previous morning she wasn't home, she had driven straight to work from Ft. Lauderdale.

And I think someone intent on a sexual assault who is stalking her in her parking lot would push her back into her apartment rather than somehow subdue her and then drive off somewhere in her car, and of course the whole early morning thing to plan a sexual assault and murder on someone they knew of from Ocoee is just very strange. His other two assaults since Jennifer disappeared were from getting rides home from bars at closing time.

But there is a major connection here, to be sure.

rd

Here's all the links:

WDBO Local News
Seminole County woman claims Ocasio's suspect tried to kill her
By WDBO Staff
June 2, 2009
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/06/seminole-county-woman-claims-o.html


WDBO Local News
Similarities in Kesse and Ocasio disappearances
By Joe Ruble
June 5, 2009
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/06/similarities-in-kesse-and-ocas.html


Award Offered In Missing Woman Case
Police Say Tracy Ocasio Left Bar With James Hataway
WESH.com
June 4, 2009
http://www.wesh.com/news/19630001/detail.html


Suspect In Missing Woman Case May Be Tied To 5 Others
WFTV.com
June 4, 2009
http://www.wftv.com/news/19648776/detail.html


Prime suspect in disappearance of Ocoee woman Tracy Ocasio linked to Jennifer Kesse
blinkoncrime.com
June 5, 2009
http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/06/05/prime-suspect-in-disappearance-of-ocoee-woman-tracy-ocasio-james-hataway-linked-to-jennifer-kesse/


Jennifer Kesse family sees possible connection to Ocoee case
By Bianca Prieto and Susan Jacobson
Orlando Sentinel Staff Writers
June 6, 2009
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-tracy-ocasio-060509,0,2057126.story

[rd]

Someone told me via email that Rachel is in a group picture with some of the people named here, and wondered how Hataway may have got to Jennifer's condo to assault her.

I replied:

Rachel is in the picture? wow, that is one nasty crowd. Toole was quoted as saying Hataway was a good guy, wouldn't do something like this, and this coming from a registered sex offender who actually hasn't been registering since he was released from prison on felon cocaine charges.

And an ex of some type posting that he was gentle, wouldn't do something like this (perhaps not knowing Rachel would come forth), and someone did a check on her and she has a recent multiple DUI and assaults background.

And on and on.

However strong that connection to Jennifer is though, I can't see to plug in this guy into the assumed scenario of someone ambushing Jennifer as she came out to her car to go to work in the morning. But as for getting there, I suppose it would be with whatever he drove to do his illegal dumping at night, I assume with his father's vehicle that they used to dredge ponds with, undoubtedly a pickup of some sort.

rd

[rd]

There are a couple of pictures floating around of Hataway. One shows him in a blue shirt with a logo on the chest and wearing a black cap backwards, the other he's younger and has hair cut in a strange style that actually resembles the black hat.

I can go with the back being a baseball cap visor, simply because we can see so little of it. But there are three additional aspects picturewise in addition to everything else:

- his beard which the suspect appears to have in photo three when he looks back

- his very large dark eyes as seen in previous photo. They were strange looking in photo three, and I noticed the same kind of look in the photo above. In addition the basic shape of face and nose matches as well.

- the logo on his t-shirt. I have searched far and wide for logos that matched photo one. That has the basic shape and position on his chest that I described in the beginning.

This really does closely resemble the suspect. There's something strange about the timing, but given resemblance, familiarity with knowledge of Jennifer, and his horrendous background, including telling art least one friend he wanted to kill women, this is probably the POI.

There's lots of questions to answer first though.

rd

[Rainbow]

You kids are doing some awesome work here!

[rd]

well, as you well know Rainbow, some cases people actually try to find the real guilty person rather than ignoring all evidence and finding someone to pin the murder on for the convenience of various parties.

There was some of that here in the beginning in trying to pin on a profile of another illegal immigrant, a Latino man of short stature, and as in Chandra's case, I keep looking at the facts and laying them out no matter how inconvenient it is to the police storyline.

rd

[rd]

in response to an email that suggested Toole may be the POI:

I think the only thing that is compelling about Toole as the POI is his 5'5" height if one believed that estimate from the police. However, I don't. It looks to me compared to the palm tree (and some distance out from it) that he is average height, perhaps the 5'9" of Hataway.

But way more importantly is Hataway's history of actually murdering and attempted murdering of women, the hat and hairstyle in other pictures of him both of which look like the POI, and his beard, eyes, and face shape which look like the POI.

But like you say Toole was in the area of Hataway's house in the disappearance last week and he could be involved in Jennifer's disappearance. But I see nothing that resembles the POI in Toole except a 5'5" height which I disagree with.

By the way, Hataway is heavily tattooed and at least has potential for some of those tattoos to be the source of markings I've noted around the POI's neck, shoulder, and back. And as I noted in a previous post, the logo on the chest of his jersey in one picture is the general shape of the logo as I wrote about a couple of years ago. Something similar anyway.

Of course I can't figure what anyone is doing stalking and attacking Jennifer at that time of morning or the police equipment I see but there's probably a scenario where it all fits together if we figure it out.

rd

[Hannah]

Does anyone remember when Jennifer's picture was showing up on dating websites? One of those posts was on a senior citizen dating site and the girl identified herself as "LindaNeedsLove". She posted that she was a 25 year old girl with a 75% hearing impairment that was looking for an older man for a friend and a loving relationship.

I always wondered if it was Jennifer actually trying to drop a clue as to where she was or who she was with. It is interesting that she identified herself as a 25 year old (Jennifer's approximate age at the time) and mentioned the 75% hearing impairment. It is my understanding that James Hataway's parents are hearing impaired but not completely deaf.

[jane]

Hi Hannah,

Well, it certainly would be great if Jennifer were alive.

But the scenario you described is difficult to imagine being true, IMO. If Hataway was the person who abducted Jennifer, I can hardly believe he would allow her to stay alive in captivity for any length of time - one girl only made it to the sidewalk outside the bar before he started beating her - it would have been to death if not for intervention by bystanders.
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