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responding to an anonymous email:

Thanks for the feedback. First, a quick answer about posting the pictures. Each is large and might not be appreciated being embedded in web pages, especially for mobile. A link that doesn't show the picture until you click on it is fine, but the links that pull the image into the page would not be a good idea imo.

My experience is that neither the Kesses or Orlando police responded whatsoever. You would think they'd say thanks but don't think they can do anything with the info or something, but they only respond to people who think they know where Jennifer is buried, psychic visions and whatnot. So I kept the pictures posted all these years but no interest.

I spent weeks and weeks at night the year I worked on this (2007 I think) blowing up at different sizes, darkening, lightening, adjusting contrast, over every part of the photos. I know there's something to what I found but no one can believe it so they don't.

I would be interested if anyone does have questions or wants to know more, I would be glad to explain anything I've found and posted about. I haven't followed discussions elsewhere so don't know that there are any thoughts or questions on it.

I will be the first to admit the picture distortion is horrendous, what with the delayed image snapshots (a second and a half between pictures?) and the distortion from the center out to the edges that I believe makes his shoes very large. I was unable to get anyone to say what the camera model was and settings were, or even likely settings. Like I say, police and Kesses it appears consider everyone else to be a nuisance to be ignored in hopes they go away. People would have been willing to recreate the scene, determine what clothes and size would make those images, etc.

But Orlando police apparently don't like to be shown what they have said on it to be wrong. So it is what it is, an unsolved crime that's not surprising given their refusal to investigate (other than dig up sites if someone gives a tip that she is buried there).

What I thought was on his arm was a law enforcement shoulder patch, but is distorted due to arm movement perhaps. It may be something else but there has been no effort whatsoever to consider the sources of these images. The same goes for the ring like pattern around his neck in both pictures. Nor for that matter that a similar pattern of back of a bike helmet on his head is crystal clear in both pictures.

The hand is a very interesting find. I have to admit being stunned as I found these images one after another with days and days of effort in between each find. To me the hand is clearly gripping, and it looks to me like gripping a gun, or specifically a stun gun that is holstered in the strap down on his thigh seen in the picture. My guess is that as he was walking away from parking Jennifer's car he was holstering his gun, that is, it wasn't holstered while he was driving her car. Or he could have been pulling it.

But in any event, it does appear he has the stun gun back behind him a bit as he's walking past that gate. I don't think there's any mistake that those are clenched fingers around a handle in that picture.

As for a backpack possibility, there is clearly some kind of hardware connector hanging behind his back and many thought he might be wearing some kind of water backpack because of the bow of his back (going by memory here). I think he is fully outfitted in some type of bike law enforcement uniform.

It's an odd combination, and I searched for months for something that looked like it, and finally found the picture of a security bike officer in an ad for a Ft. Lauderdale security form that lost their license that very year, so no one to ask where they got their uniforms, etc.

But it turns out no one cared anyway.

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[Rainbow]

We care, RD.

[Rainbow]

Hi, everybody!
RD, you said that the uniform store that sold uniforms like the perpetrator may have worn (Lakeland police department) went out of business. Who took over the business of supplying uniforms to that police department? May be they have access to the old business records, where officers' information would have been recorded. May be the perpetrator has a relationship with someone who still works in the Lakeland police department or worked at the old uniform store.
A criminal justice instructor, who worked with one of our local law enforcement agencies, told me that something along those lines happened to officers in his department. A woman who worked at the uniform shop had a boyfriend who was in a gang. She gave all of the police officers' personal information to her boyfriend, which put the officers' lives in danger.

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yes, Rainbow, those kind of connections is what I thought was investigatable by the police. But not to be.

The picture I found of a security guard dressed exactly as I described from my analysis was from the web page for a security company in the Ft. Lauderdale area. A search I did and posted showed they were bidders for work in other areas too, construction sites I think.

The company had a violation from the state that I posted as well, and they closed a few months after Jennifer disappeared if I recall correctly. My hope was that the Orlando Police, who I contacted (a volunteer took the info), would follow up on source of their very distinctive uniform and gear and have a chance to determine who might have purchased from the supplier.

The Orlando Police did not respond. They're probably up to their eyeballs in blood spattered murders down there and don't have time to investigate anything, who knows? I did the hard part, all they had to do was make some phone calls.

The years have gone by now. They're probably like the DC Police. They would rig a case against an illegal like they've been talking about from the beginning if they had to.

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responding to a comment about the poi wearing white clothing and probably a painter, etc.:

I think the appearance of light colored clothing is extremely critical. While I have no way of knowing if the clothes are actually light, I was never able to ascertain the model of surveillance camera to test it out, and that was a long time ago when it'd actually be possible to get a hold of one, to me there is a critical statement made by the police spokesperson (who I believe is also the model they used to reenact the poi walking by the gate, I saw news video of her doing it). The spokeswoman, Jones I believe, said that there were difficulties because dark clothes showed up light in the camera. But then they said don't worry about the clothes, and that's where it has been left all these years.

Based on her statement I do not believe the clothes are actually white which has pointed many many comments toward a cook or painter, etc.

Obviously for anyone who has seen my poi blowups I believe the poi was wearing law enforcement gear and dressed as a bike security officer or such.

But that came accidentally from analyzing the pictures, I had no inkling that the clothes were not as they appeared. But Jones statement is unmistakeable.

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responding to a comment about taking a look at the blowups:

It'd be great for all to take a look. Just search Jennifer Kesse POI Blowups. Site is justiceforchandra.com.

A couple of comments. I noted at the time that the higher resolution screens or smaller screens etc. obscures the details. I never would have seen them if that was the case today. I used a 19" glass monitor with a laptop with 1024 x 768 resolution. (Was becoming old school even back then).

So the images are overwhelming at first. A compensating factor these days are big screen tv's. That has the size to get a better feel from the images.

There are many many comments in that thread and the Blowup Analysis thread. I basically blogged as I went along and found things even I didn't believe. Of course I contacted Orlando police, even gave me a report number, but nothing has ever come of it from them.

Actually was just trying to figure out if hat or hair. Bike helmet imo.

The zigzag back outline is unmistakable imo. So it made it a bike security officer based on that (and tie down thigh holster) but doesn't look like any official uniforms in area that I've searched for. I did find an exact replica from a security company in S Florida north of Miami that went out of business a few months after Jennifer disappeared.

Based on research I did at time and posted, the camera seemed to me to be taking shots at second and half intervals or something like that, not motion detection. It was set up in top of pool building pointed down at gate POI walked by.

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responding to: "they indicated that the person left the HOG complex and walked through an adjacent field or wooded area based on the tracking dog"

That's helpful but let's clarify. The two complexes are about a mile or so apart. The "walking through woods", if indeed this took place, is only after walking a mile down Americana, the main drag between them, them just before getting to Jennifer's complex cutting through an undeveloped area to side of the complex rather than walking a bit further down and entering through front gate.

The poi in the pictures is headed toward Americana running along the front of that complex (as it also runs across front of Jennifer's complex) and is walking in driving lane of the apartment complex running along the side street, Texas I believe. The lane is for parking only and stops before getting to the front street and has no exit to the side street beyond that gate. The entrance/exit to the side street, that he drove in with Jennifer's car, is behind him as he passes the gate. In fact if you look at the pictures there's a brick wall behind him which forms part of an entrance/exit decoration I believe.

There is nothing about walking a few feet up to the corner along Texas that would suggest he will walk down Americana back to Jennifer's complex, only the dog tracking, which I would have much higher opinion of had the dog not been at Jennifer's complex and was brought down Texas to the Huntington complex and then see what happened.

I don't know that that didn't happen, but I have a vague recollection that the dog was taken to Jennifer's apartment to get scents. The dog merely returned back down the road to where it came from and of course doesn't go through front gates but directly to where it came from (ie cut across). I would be pleased to be told that isn't the way it happened.

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What I noticed when I was there is that is a covered bus stop cater-corner to where he is walking. It would be about as convenient a parking place to walk over and wait for next bus as you could get. The only way it would be more convenient is to turn left upon entry and drive up along where he is walking and park close to corner. But that would make it obvious he was going to get on the bus.

As it is he parked in first general spot (I think second down instead of right next to curb) available on main entrance which was after passing the pool. He could have turned right or left before the pool which could have been a little closer but again I think that says I'm ditching it and leaving whereas where he parked next to main entry sidewalk says I'm here in these apartments. Just a perception thing to throw people off imo.

Also being unfamiliar with car makes it likely to turn in at wrong angle, so backed up and pulled in straight so as not to draw attention to the parked car.

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While I inderstand that the the main theory is that the poi was an illegal immigrant laborer who walked back to Jennifer's complex, imo walking back down Americana is a pretty good hike and crossing John Young Parkway on the way would make you seen by a lot of people, for that matter same with walking a mile down Americana to a place you work or worked and people know you. And for that matter, isn't it rather obvious that a resident disappears and you don't return till the next afternoon?

yeah, I know the thinking, non-entity laborer that no one even knows is there or not and no one would even recognize if they did see them, illegal immigrant, fled the country, etc. etc. I mean people go to some trouble to enter the country and find work and most of them from what I've seen aren't very big so this overwhelming urge to overpower a tall American woman and then flee the country doesn't make any sense to me, even if the poi wasn't wearing law enforcement gear as is clearly seen in the blowups.

No, if it was such a person that was parking close to walk back to Jennifer's complex, I would expect parking the other way nearer the mall in a strip mall. I mean an immigrant laborer isn't going to be going to great lengths to try to mislead the cops that the kidnapper lived in those apartments where the car was found and then walk in broad daylight a mile down the road and cross a major intersection because ditching the car in a strip mall wasn't clever enough.

But again, I understand the prevailing theories and offering a different perspective from my way of thinking. I did a similar major hike in the Chandra Levy case but didn't feel this theory was compelling enough for me to make the hike back down Americana to reenact it.

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If the police had brought the tracking dog down Texas from the north, without taking the dog to Jennifer's condo, and the dog followed a scent down Americana to Jennifer's condo then I'd say you have something.

Bringing the dog from Jennifer's condo up Americana, and the dog returns back down the street I say you have nothing. That to me has been the biggest red herring in this case along with refusal of police to acknowledge the poi is wearing a thigh holster and bike helmet. It's no wonder this case has gone nowhere for more than 10 years.

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responding to: "rd, I think you did such great job getting the shot of the poi as he turned around in picture three . I see a Caucasian male with glasses . What is your assessment? Also is that some type of beard or elongated soul patch ?"

thanks. trust me, finding the poi in the picture turned around no less was absolutely shocking. I mean I think I went into shock when I found I was looking at a face that was looking back at me because all I was looking for was any detail that might have been missed. That was quite a detail.

I have said from beginning that it's either a chinstrap for the bike helmet or a goatee. When I found the bike security guard picture for the firm in S Florida that matches this poi pretty much spot on the security guard had a chinstrap on his bike helmet. The company lost their security license a few months after Jennifer disappeared but I was hoping someone would be able to source any of the particulars of that equipped bike security officer. It is very rare based on the many searches I did for the bike officer to wear long pants and a thigh holster as seen in the poi images and in the security PR photo.

If I had been aware of particular getups like that I might have actually looked for certain things but as it was I found them and then tried to find something that looked like it. That one security firm website photo was the only one I found that matched it, months later.

The thing I wasn't able to do was tie the prominent ring around the neck in both photos one and two with a helmet strap and the chinstrap, the rings have about the size and texture of a helmet strap but circle around the neck, so I don't know.

But I do believe that's his helmet chinstrap and wearing sunglasses and a hat with no visor ie bike helmet. Pretty good details considering.

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[Rainbow]

You have done awesome work on this case, rd! I was wondering, does anyone that there s a possible connection between Jennifer's disappearance and any financial irregularities that Westgate Resorts may have been experiencing at the time, since she was a controller? Or, does all the evidence that has been gleaned so far point more to a problematic personal relationship or a stranger-related event?

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responding to various comments through years that images are overly enlarged and not good quality so it is hard to tell what you are seeing.

well several things. First we have what the police have. They are stills from the surveillance camera and they are what they are. Granted the police gave up but I didn't.

Secondly the reaction is very typical of most people and I understand it. I worked for months on these images and part of that was blogging post after post about my efforts and findings. In it I describe in extreme detail the various resolutions, screen sizes, type of screen, etc. that I dealt with to try to get different looks from the image enhancements.

Thirdly, months of work (evening and weekend hours as I could spare) involved permutation after permutation of enlargement, brightness, and contrast adjustments. The work was done at what is now considered very low resolution, 1024 x 768 on a 19" glass monitor. That is very little data spread out over a wide area. Basically every pixel meant something. There weren't that many to begin with. But what the eye can't see close together can see when enlarged and spread out. Of course everyone knows what a magnifying glass is and how it used to see what you can't see without it, and this is same thing, but digitally I learned this lesson back in the day when I was writing scanner drivers for the preeminent DOS paint product in the beginning, ZSoft PC Paintbrush. I also wrote some pixel enhancement programs, so I spent a great deal of time dealing with smallest detail of images.

Anyway one day I working on a scanner, might have been Ricoh or HP or who knows, we wrote a driver for every one, but I scanned in some text and it was small and unreadable, not even squinty readable. I was working on an enlargement feature, I don't remember the details, and blew it up and lo and behold it was crystal clear text. I never would have guessed you could enlarge things and make them so clear to see. So that stuck with me, although I had no use for it until we had these images where there isn't much discernable detail.

Now as an example, because this has been said by many with what little feedback I received, I posted a part of the still that was recognizable, the time stamp, and I blew it up by the same dimensions on other portions of the image. And I posted it on that page as a reference. If enlargement blurred the result into something unrecognizable or introduced phantom images (a perfect back of a bike helmet or a perfect outline of a tie down thigh holster, phantom? please) then you would look at the enlarged time stamp and go, you know what, it's overly enlarged and I can't read the numbers, and oh by the way there's a phantom badge in there too. But no, you can read the time stamp perfectly well and the image is just larger.

Now why did I did I enlarge the sizes that I did of various adjustments of contrast and brightness? It's a lengthy trial and error effort. You have to start with the original again each time of course, once altered any further alteration is debilitating, but you try and focused only on a square inch or two of an image and you say is that bringing out more detail than my last attempt? Or did I just push it beyond what it has and it's blurry? And you do that over and over and over. That's how I found this stuff in three stills. Police aren't going to do this and I doubt anyone on a government paycheck is going to be given the time to do it. That leaves me.

Now I wrote repeatedly in that web page, in two other threads I have about analyzing it about the pitfalls of what type of display is needed to see the images. I understand this will be difficult for most people, as I said yesterday I had to buy a surplus 19" CRT off of eBay yesterday because mine broke years ago and these dang LCD things are next to worthless. But what am I gonna do? They don't even make real monitors like that anymore so while it was certainly needed by me to find this stuff it may or may not be seen clearly enough by others to deal with it. I did experiment with my big screen tv several years ago and showed the enlarged bike helmet image on it and the outline was crystal clear, unmistakeable back of bike helmet. But that was an outline thing and I'm not sure how the rest of everything else would show on it. The thigh holster is also an outline thing and is just as unmistakeably crytal clear.

People talk about enlarged and blurry. I am telling you that the strap from the holster up to the belt had a bevelled connector that was literally awesome to look at. I mean you could see every edge of the bevelling. It's just something that's hard to explain to people that see a bunch of dark shadows and go blurry. But that's what that 19" CRT could do. That image is enlarged so big that the holster takes up the entire 19" screen.

That's why it's enlarged to that size. It was for me to discover stuff. I don't know what the rest of the world's devices can do with it, but it was magical discovering the secrets hidden in those POI stills.

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Responding to: "I do see the helmet. I do see the keys or object on his side. I don't see where the chin strap is though, but once again,
that is my mind's eye that doesn't recognize it. Thank you"

I wrote this about the helmet many years ago: "The profile is amazingly clear in still 2. With that drop down, double hump, and zig zagging
pattern on the back down from there, I would not be surprised if it could be identified as a specific make and model bike helmet."

I am currently taking a look at the images on my normal PC setup. The display is one of those normal elongated LCD monitors. I once
asked years ago when the screens stopped being square why they were all elongated. The salesman (yes, this was when there were still
stores and salesmen and you talked to them) said it was so you could watch movies. I said why would I want to watch movies on my
PC screen? I want a PC screen, not a movie screen. Well, I have a movie screen because apparently everyone watches movies on their PC.

Anyway, I have a typical LCD screen and I took a look at resolution and it wasn't bad, something like 1366x768. With the wider screen that's
what will have to do for 1024x678. But the image outline like for helmet is blurrier than I worked with on CRT. The outline is clear enough,
no doubt, but for example from the black helmet out there are dark gray blocks and then another layer out slightly lighter gray blocks and
so on. It extends out about four layers. I'll take a look with an image product, I use Paint Shop Pro (very low cost and old software but
I did all my work with this.) Pretty much the same, so this looks to be an LCD effect to me. For example with this I can't see the different
shade of helmet over the hair. So that's a shame because it's much sharper and realistic when you can see the various textures and
sharpness of edges. You wouldn't be able to identify a specific bike helmet and model displayed on this.

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responding to : if we think he was on a bike can we explore who rides a bike in Orlando? Security, deliver something like mail or food or someone who just doesn't have a car. Also the white outfit..."

I want to get the light colored clothing out of the way.

I have posted this info about the camera many many many times and it hasn't done a lot of good, but here goes again.

Quote:
" Another mystery is the person of interest seen in surveillance video walking past the pool gate of the condos right around the time the car was left there. At first, police thought he was wearing light-colored clothing. But then crime scene investigators working with the surveillance camera noticed their own dark uniforms also appeared light.

"That kind of concerned them and they started looking a bit more at that camera," explained Sgt. Barbara Jones, Orlando Police Department. "

If there was any way to get people to understand that this was a night vision camera and that police dark uniforms showed up as light in their tests. "It kind of concerned them" but their concern stopped at telling people don't worry about his clothes. And I bothered to worry so I'm the only one that kept looking at the clothes, so I'm the one that found what was there I guess.

I looked into this at the time but wasn't able to ascertain what this exact model camera was or its settings. But it does seem to be a night vision camera and colors are not accurate, police uniforms showed up as light. The poi is wearing an x26 taser or 9mm holster. This is a law enforcement imposter.

And while I'm on a roll here, as I've noted many times in past, the "arm" swung back is an optical illusion and with light colors everyone thinks this guy is wearing a short sleeved tshirt. In actuallity, you cannot see his arms. It is unknown if the shirt is short sleeved or long sleeved, and the shirt is heavy enough to sport law enforcement badge or medallions, etc.

What does extend back is something like a baton, long flashlight which my research showed some came with a chemical dispenser to overcome people, or possibly a rolled up tube like bag that is associated with that linkage device on his back.

As for bikes, this is nothing like any normal bike patrol get up. I found one security firm in S Florida with a uniform that perfectly matches and they lost their security license a few months after Jennifer disappeared. I was hoping the police would source where this unform could be obtained but they didn't do anything.

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