FL - Jennifer Kesse, 24, Orlando, 24 Jan 2006 - #12

[rd_jfc]

I've always been surprised that more details about Jennifer's brother (and his friends) spending the weekend at her condo have not been explored more. The brother's friend's missing mobile has factored into the disappearance and it's just another part that ties back to that weekend Jennifer's condo was being used by her brother. Questions I would like answered: had Logan used her condo before for that purpose with or without her being home? Was she aware he was using her condo before the gathering occurred? So my math could be a bit off considering exact dates but I think Logan would have been 21 at the time of her disappearance. Were all of his friends 21? Had any/all of his friends met Jennifer? If so, what level were the relationships? i.e. just knowing one of their names through conversation, Facebook friends, hung out several times via Logan, etc.

They were all very close, close family, close friends.

 

[Markybug]

Was there any similar abductions/attacks/rapes etc at jens complex , before she moved in ? And after she went missing?

Maybe she inadvertently appeared on someone’s radar ( she had only been resident a handful of months ?)

 

[liz b.]

After more reading : Jen never belonged to a gym, and no gym bag was found.

Some things that stand out to me : the seeming complete lack of any food ( or beverage ?) intake on Jen's part. From the night of the 23rd to perhaps the next morning ?

The fact that Jen spoke Spanish. Don't exactly know why, but this niggles.

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[Lavinia]

I had read that Jennifer spoke Spanish as well but this was debunked by a close friend from college who did an interview on the Unconcluded podcast link >> (https://audioboom.com/posts/6158414-jennifer-joyce-kesse)

After more reading : Jen never belonged to a gym, and no gym bag was found.

Some things that stand out to me : the seeming complete lack of any food ( or beverage ?) intake on Jen's part. From the night of the 23rd to perhaps the next morning ?

The fact that Jen spoke Spanish. Don't exactly know why, but this niggles.

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[liz b.]

I had read that Jennifer spoke Spanish as well but this was debunked by a close friend from college who did an interview on the Unconcluded podcast link >> (https://audioboom.com/posts/6158414-jennifer-joyce-kesse)

Interesting, and ty for this. Just listened to it again...the friend said that Jen wasn't fluent in Spanish, but she knew some phrases ( she mentioned "get me a beer " as an example ). Jen took and passed honors Spanish in HS, so I believe she knew the framework of the language, and I think she did speak and understand some "street Spanish " jmo I think this interested me because of the workers at her condo. I bet they made comments about her in Spanish as she walked by. And I wondered if she answered them back ? Other things from the podcast : "she interned at the same company she worked for after graduation" so she was quite well known at the company. Also Jen only mentioned the workers being bothersome once to her friend, and seemed to shrug it off.

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[Truth Prevails]

@ about 30:55 minutes:

Rob: She always felt that the workers and the people in the neighborhood that were doing the construction would always stare at her; kind of give her that leering look.

Whenever Jen wasn’t in her car or wasn’t in her office—whenever she was walking to her condo; from the gym; from her car—she would always be on the phone.

And I know; for a fact; she had told me: “Hey, look, you know these guys are creeping me out a little bit.”
https://youtu.be/fdKm_mYUFaA?t=30m55s

 

[rd_jfc]

@ about 30:55 minutes:

Rob: She always felt that the workers and the people in the neighborhood that were doing the construction would always stare at her; kind of give her that leering look.

Whenever Jen wasn&#8217;t in her car or wasn&#8217;t in her office&#8212;whenever she was walking to her condo; from the gym; from her car&#8212;she would always be on the phone.

And I know; for a fact; she had told me: &#8220;Hey, look, you know these guys are creeping me out a little bit.&#8221;
https://youtu.be/fdKm_mYUFaA?t=30m55s

"the gym" there would be in her condos, wouldn't it? Condos and apartments at that level usually have fitness machines in a workout room. Everything I looked at in 2005 and 2006 here in Florida did including the apartments I moved into.

 

[Truth Prevails]

"the gym" there would be in her condos, wouldn't it? Condos and apartments at that level usually have fitness machines in a workout room. Everything I looked at in 2005 and 2006 here in Florida did including the apartments I moved into.

BBM, yes, there was a small fitness center there at the time.

Here is a snipped quote from a very old MSM article:

. . . Melissa Toot, who was in Orlando from Chicago, visited the condominium complex's fitness center, and a friend of Kesse said the missing woman did frequently work out there.

Toot said that less than four weeks before Kesse disappeared, she had an encounter with an apparent workman that was so frightening she said she felt the need to leave immediately.

"He kept staring and smiling and asking all these questions about what I was doing," Toot said.

Toot said the man appeared to be working on the fitness center's front door until he became interested in her as she worked out alone.

"I said, 'I love working out,' and he said, 'I can tell,'" Toot said. "Not just like any normal guy ... it made my skin crawl."

Toot said she excused herself to go in to the cardio room and then bolted out of the building.

"I couldn't tell you why it was so weird except it felt so wrong and so uncomfortable," Toot said.

There's not enough detail in the person-of-interest photos released Saturday to know if he might be the man who approached Kesse, Toot said. . . .
http://www.wesh.com/news/6876332/detail.html

 

[liz b.]

BBM, yes, there was a small fitness center there at the time.

Here is a snipped quote from a very old MSM article:

. . . Melissa Toot, who was in Orlando from Chicago, visited the condominium complex's fitness center, and a friend of Kesse said the missing woman did frequently work out there.

Toot said that less than four weeks before Kesse disappeared, she had an encounter with an apparent workman that was so frightening she said she felt the need to leave immediately.

"He kept staring and smiling and asking all these questions about what I was doing," Toot said.

Toot said the man appeared to be working on the fitness center's front door until he became interested in her as she worked out alone.

"I said, 'I love working out,' and he said, 'I can tell,'" Toot said. "Not just like any normal guy ... it made my skin crawl."

Toot said she excused herself to go in to the cardio room and then bolted out of the building.

"I couldn't tell you why it was so weird except it felt so wrong and so uncomfortable," Toot said.

There's not enough detail in the person-of-interest photos released Saturday to know if he might be the man who approached Kesse, Toot said. . . .
http://www.wesh.com/news/6876332/detail.html

TY for this. It's like so many details in this case : I have read "her friends" said that she never worked out,and now I have read that she did work out in the fitness room. About the workmen : I read that her BF was on the phone with her, and he heard her talking to the men working in her condo. I believe it was in connection with her being annoyed about the seeming slow pace of work. Her bf was apparently surprised enough by her tone with the workers that he told her to tone it down. Mentioning this to illustrate that she may not have been all that cowed by the workers. jmo, though.
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[Truth Prevails]

creep out. [phrasal verb] creep (someone) out or creep out (someone) US, informal. : to cause (someone) to have an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or fear : to give (someone) the creeps. That guy really creeps me out.
Creep - Definition for English-Language Learners from Merriam ...

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cow2
kou/
verb
past tense: cowed; past participle: cowed

cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.
"the intellectuals had been cowed into silence"

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Two words, different meanings.

Jennifer was a brave, intelligent, confident young woman. She was not cowed by anyone. She was, however, smart enough to find leering men creepy. jmo

 

[liz b.]

creep out. [phrasal verb] creep (someone) out or creep out (someone) US, informal. : to cause (someone) to have an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or fear : to give (someone) the creeps. That guy really creeps me out.
Creep - Definition for English-Language Learners from Merriam ...

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cow2
kou/
verb
past tense: cowed; past participle: cowed

cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.
"the intellectuals had been cowed into silence"

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Two words, different meanings.

Jennifer was a brave, intelligent, confident young woman. She was not cowed by anyone. She was, however, smart enough to find leering men creepy. jmo

Okay, not the right word choice. perhaps intimidated by the workers ? But, let's not forget the exact quote was "creep me out a [/B]little bit " A little bit.

 

[Harmony 2]

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[rd_jfc]

I have to go back to what I posted the other day. People want to say oh if Jennifer didn't leave her condo then someone must have forced their way into it, and my conclusion was that the ping data doesn't support that. Nothing else supports it either. The only reason people talk about someone forcing their way in to Jennifer's condo is the belief, totally unsupported, that Jennifer wouldn't go back outside for after her 10 pm phone call for any reason whatsoever. And so 12 years later people are still prone to speculate on who might have forced their way into her condo.

And the ping data doesn't support it. That is it. That is all. There is no forced their way into Jennifer's condo and removed her and the cell phones where they disabled them somewhere else a few minutes later.

It is a total waste of time to speculate on who might have done something the data doesn't support anyway.

I will be the first to admit that doesn't leave a lot to look into. We covered the POI images pretty thoroughly. We covered what we know about the ping data pretty thoroughly. I wish there was more we could do, but inevitably speculation turns to avenues the data doesn't support. We probably have to tamp down the inevitable speculation a little harder.

 

[Truth Prevails]

I have to go back to what I posted the other day. People want to say oh if Jennifer didn't leave her condo then someone must have forced their way into it, and my conclusion was that the ping data doesn't support that. Nothing else supports it either. The only reason people talk about someone forcing their way in to Jennifer's condo is the belief, totally unsupported, that Jennifer wouldn't go back outside for after her 10 pm phone call for any reason whatsoever. And so 12 years later people are still prone to speculate on who might have forced their way into her condo.

And the ping data doesn't support it. That is it. That is all. There is no forced their way into Jennifer's condo and removed her and the cell phones where they disabled them somewhere else a few minutes later.

It is a total waste of time to speculate on who might have done something the data doesn't support anyway.

I will be the first to admit that doesn't leave a lot to look into. We covered the POI images pretty thoroughly. We covered what we know about the ping data pretty thoroughly. I wish there was more we could do, but inevitably speculation turns to avenues the data doesn't support. We probably have to tamp down the inevitable speculation a little harder.

This way too long, but I can't decide what to cut--so I'm just going to post it.

RD, your theory is the most logically correct theory. But for me it’s a dead end. I can't accept that. Jennifer Kesse did not vanish. Someone took Jennifer; evil took Jennifer.

I believe your theory is the one law enforcement followed in the beginning. It reaped nothing.

And they have all the facts. Everything we think we need to know to get the correct answers, they know. And still, following your theory lead them nowhere.

For the rest of us, no one can even say for a certainty that a purse belonging to Jennifer is missing. They know it wasn’t the brown one featured prominently, to this day, on the website. They know that because they found that purse still packed in her luggage. So how do they know a purse is missing? And if Jennifer didn’t even take her purse with her, how can we be sure she walked out her condo door with every intention of returning?

It’s debatable, but all that appears to be missing are the two cell phones, her driver’s license, her iPod and her keys.

What about her credit cards, or something to hold cash in? If she went out to mail the cell phone, I think she would have brought a means of payment with her.

If it wasn’t for the two cell phones, speculation which I don’t agree with might be such that she suddenly decided to go for a walk, or for a jog, or down to the gym to workout.

Or—and again I don’t agree—but perhaps she decided it was a good idea to get into her car and drive to the mall where a person she had formerly dated was getting sloshed. Perhaps she impulsively decided to leave the cell phone that not only her brother’s friend had forgotten at her condo, but the guy was her friend, too. Even though she had talked to him earlier in the evening and had promised to “overnight” it, i.e. get it out the next day—on a whim responsible Jennifer could have decided to leave it with a drunk who may or may not even remember her leaving the phone with him.

Also, Jennifer was known to make “safe” calls as she walked from her car to a mall, etc—so, law enforcement must be withholding all information on any call of this type which occurred after 10 pm. (Unless some of the pings are the result of this type of call).

The car—parked at almost exactly high noon on the 24th, with a DVD player clearly visible strapped onto the back seat. Jennifer’s car sat in that spot until approximately 8:10 am on the 26th. In a neighborhood where it’s suggested that if you leave your car for five minutes, they might steal your tires, if not your very life. Why would Jennifer’s car be left untouched by vandals?

The car--with the level of gas indicating that it had not been driven far but the information we have on the ping study indicates the possibility of 11 pings. What do you suggest could account for this--constantly driving back and forth between two nearby towers for about half an hour?

If nothing I have said above alludes to any thoughts that Jennifer might not have left her condo of her own free will, then I feel obligated to point out all your beautiful, logical thinking does not prove that those cell phones were on Jennifer’s person when they were pinging on the evening of the 23rd. Admittedly, it’s not the most likely, but I don’t feel the possibility can be denied.

Way back in July of 2007, a W/S poster did an excellent shower experiment. The conclusion was that it took the shower 4.5 hours to completely dry. Think about that—4.5 hours. (And do your own math with the assistance of Google Maps to check out driving times—it’s interesting).

I know you totally disagree with the following, but I’m going to add it in anyway. What about the route that the hound dog took? I read up a little bit on how hound dogs track—Bo did not necessarily have to be tracking the most recent route the POI (or Jennifer) took. I enlarged and enlarged that picture of the broken fence until I hopefully correctly identified where it was. When I marked it on my Google map, I realized it’s just a short walk following the side of the pond to the front stairwell of Jennifer’s condo—where the dog supposedly stopped tracking. (At least it’s the most commonly given location). But this is not a route a person would take at high noon and expect to go unnoticed.

Could this be evidence that someone was stalking Jennifer? As much as you can argue against it, an argument can be made for it.

What about the knock on Jennifer’s condo door on the evening of the 23rd? What about the mace being out on the kitchen counter? These can both be easily explained away, but the co-incidence of both of these seemingly innocent occurrences happening on the very last evening a person was ever seen or heard from makes them seem not so innocent to me.

What about the rumors of someone jiggling the door knob to Jennifer’s condo about two weeks before she went on vacation? Could there be any truth to that? What about a complete set of keys to every condo in Jennifer’s building being stolen one month before Jennifer went missing?

What about Jennifer’s nature—according to her parents: a young woman who understood the risks of living alone and took precautions?

I respect your opinion, RD; but I stand firm that we have at least an indication that something much more complicated, and perhaps much more sinister, happened here.

 

[rd_jfc]

This way too long, but I can't decide what to cut--so I'm just going to post it.

RD, your theory is the most logically correct theory. But for me it’s a dead end. I can't accept that. Jennifer Kesse did not vanish. Someone took Jennifer; evil took Jennifer.

I believe your theory is the one law enforcement followed in the beginning. It reaped nothing.

And they have all the facts. Everything we think we need to know to get the correct answers, they know. And still, following your theory lead them nowhere.

For the rest of us, no one can even say for a certainty that a purse belonging to Jennifer is missing. They know it wasn’t the brown one featured prominently, to this day, on the website. They know that because they found that purse still packed in her luggage. So how do they know a purse is missing? And if Jennifer didn’t even take her purse with her, how can we be sure she walked out her condo door with every intention of returning?

It’s debatable, but all that appears to be missing are the two cell phones, her driver’s license, her iPod and her keys.

What about her credit cards, or something to hold cash in? If she went out to mail the cell phone, I think she would have brought a means of payment with her.

If it wasn’t for the two cell phones, speculation which I don’t agree with might be such that she suddenly decided to go for a walk, or for a jog, or down to the gym to workout.

Or—and again I don’t agree—but perhaps she decided it was a good idea to get into her car and drive to the mall where a person she had formerly dated was getting sloshed. Perhaps she impulsively decided to leave the cell phone that not only her brother’s friend had forgotten at her condo, but the guy was her friend, too. Even though she had talked to him earlier in the evening and had promised to “overnight” it, i.e. get it out the next day—on a whim responsible Jennifer could have decided to leave it with a drunk who may or may not even remember her leaving the phone with him.

Also, Jennifer was known to make “safe” calls as she walked from her car to a mall, etc—so, law enforcement must be withholding all information on any call of this type which occurred after 10 pm. (Unless some of the pings are the result of this type of call).

The car—parked at almost exactly high noon on the 24th, with a DVD player clearly visible strapped onto the back seat. Jennifer’s car sat in that spot until approximately 8:10 am on the 26th. In a neighborhood where it’s suggested that if you leave your car for five minutes, they might steal your tires, if not your very life. Why would Jennifer’s car be left untouched by vandals?

The car--with the level of gas indicating that it had not been driven far but the information we have on the ping study indicates the possibility of 11 pings. What do you suggest could account for this--constantly driving back and forth between two nearby towers for about half an hour?

If nothing I have said above alludes to any thoughts that Jennifer might not have left her condo of her own free will, then I feel obligated to point out all your beautiful, logical thinking does not prove that those cell phones were on Jennifer’s person when they were pinging on the evening of the 23rd. Admittedly, it’s not the most likely, but I don’t feel the possibility can be denied.

Way back in July of 2007, a W/S poster did an excellent shower experiment. The conclusion was that it took the shower 4.5 hours to completely dry. Think about that—4.5 hours. (And do your own math with the assistance of Google Maps to check out driving times—it’s interesting).

I know you totally disagree with the following, but I’m going to add it in anyway. What about the route that the hound dog took? I read up a little bit on how hound dogs track—Bo did not necessarily have to be tracking the most recent route the POI (or Jennifer) took. I enlarged and enlarged that picture of the broken fence until I hopefully correctly identified where it was. When I marked it on my Google map, I realized it’s just a short walk following the side of the pond to the front stairwell of Jennifer’s condo—where the dog supposedly stopped tracking. (At least it’s the most commonly given location). But this is not a route a person would take at high noon and expect to go unnoticed.

Could this be evidence that someone was stalking Jennifer? As much as you can argue against it, an argument can be made for it.

What about the knock on Jennifer’s condo door on the evening of the 23rd? What about the mace being out on the kitchen counter? These can both be easily explained away, but the co-incidence of both of these seemingly innocent occurrences happening on the very last evening a person was ever seen or heard from makes them seem not so innocent to me.

What about the rumors of someone jiggling the door knob to Jennifer’s condo about two weeks before she went on vacation? Could there be any truth to that? What about a complete set of keys to every condo in Jennifer’s building being stolen one month before Jennifer went missing?

What about Jennifer’s nature—according to her parents: a young woman who understood the risks of living alone and took precautions?

I respect your opinion, RD; but I stand firm that we have at least an indication that something much more complicated, and perhaps much more sinister, happened here.

This is beautiful, and I'm glad you didn't trim one word. Every point well taken.

Two cell phones, disabled twenty to forty minutes after her 10 pm phone call, with a controlling tower change and back before being disabled. That data eliminates Jennifer walking outside, to her car, to her gym, anywhere. It eliminates someone masquerading their way into her condo.

There is no one that is going to get her to open the door, abduct her, gather up two cell phones in her condo, drive a short distance, and then disable both the phones. And for sure it's not some random person she knew behaving as an experienced criminal. So the ping data doesn't support anything other than she took both phones and left her condo for some reason. She didn't get far and both phones were disabled. That's consistent for example to maybe driving over to Millenia Mall parking lot, but maybe somewhere else not far away.

If the cell phones weren't moving, there were no phone calls coming in, there was no checking for email updates, there wouldn't be any pings. Or one at most if happened to fall in a periodic scheduled location update. But when cell phones are moved, they are put in a situation of evaluating the relative strength of signals from multiple towers to stay or register with a different controlling tower. That's what is meant by pinging tower A, then pinging tower B. but subsequently tower A can be seen as strongest signal and will re-register back with tower A.

This can happen for a variety of reasons, but one example is something in between cell phone and tower A and the strongest, although weak, signal it can see is from tower B. So it makes tower B its controlling tower. But then car moves past whatever is blocking tower A signal and now tower A signal is strong, cell phone makes tower A its controlling tower again.

This is not driving back and forth between two towers, it's just getting tower A signal blocked temporarily. This is normal cell phone behavior and it is baffling how anyone could describe the behavior as, well, baffling. It isn't. This is really pretty simple stuff made complicated by lack of detail for one reason or the other. But yet we did get enough to at least understand the gist of it.

Any conjecture of Jennifer being up and about in her condo Tuesday morning essentially says she disabled both cell phones after her 10 pm phone call, including disabling her alarm clock, and didn't turn her cell phone back on before being abducted, allegedly at her car in her parking lot sometime in morning.

That is an extreme scenario to justify a damp shower. I don't think anyone would accept that.

But again, that is a beautiful analysis Truth.

 

[Markybug]

If we run with rd jfc’s theory , what reasons could jenn have for going out at night , for a short distance?

1. Dealing with the mobile phone.
2. Meeting someone nearby.
3. Food?

Obviously she wouldn’t take the mobile , if going for food only. And to take if meeting someone, it would depend who that was?..

 

[Truth Prevails]

If we run with rd jfc&#8217;s theory , what reasons could jenn have for going out at night , for a short distance?

1. Dealing with the mobile phone.
2. Meeting someone nearby.
3. Food?

Obviously she wouldn&#8217;t take the mobile , if going for food only. And to take if meeting someone, it would depend who that was?..

If she took a purse with her, I think it's quite possible she would have had Travis' mobile with her in any of the above scenarios.

It seems reasonable to suspect that a woman would immediately place something small she intended to mail in her purse. That way it couldn't be forgotten and she would know exactly where it was when she had time to deal with it.

If she didn't have her purse, then I agree it would depend on who she was meeting as to why she would bring the 2nd cell phone.

They only have her coming through the usual toll booth at 6:15 pm on the 23rd. It remains unknown what time she actually reached her condo. I think she may have stopped for something to eat before she actually got home, but there is no evidence of it.

 

[JnRyan]

Something just occurred to me after reading the above exchange.
Jennifer had a practice of being on the phone going to and from her car. Her father, Drew, referred to it several times.
Jennifer often called Rob in the morning. I hear being referred to as a call she made when driving into work &#8211; by her mother. Did she usually initiate that call while walking to her car in the morning? As part of her practice to be on the phone while going to and from her car? Rob stated he did not receive that call that morning.

If Jennifer always initiated the call to Rob as she walked to her car could her abduction have occurred as soon as she walked out of her condo before she could get on the phone?

So I searched the internet and found this transcript:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/07/ng.01.html

Rob states she called as soon as she woke up and this is restated by Wendy Murphy in the interview as &#8220;&#8230;.before she even left her condo.&#8221;

Now I have a contradiction between Rob and Jennifer&#8217;s parents. They state her condo was &#8220;typical&#8217; of Jennifer in the morning &#8211; clothes she wore to bed on the bathroom floor, make-up out on the counter, hair dryer out, etc. &#8211; indicating she was still in the condo that morning. But Rob&#8217;s statement would indicate something happened the night before or at least before she left the condo. Assuming Rob did not misspeak. But no one corrected him &#8211; including Jennifer&#8217;s parents.

Just some random thoughts as to how uncertain the timeline is.

 

[JnRyan]

If she took a purse with her, I think it's quite possible she would have had Travis' mobile with her in any of the above scenarios.

It seems reasonable to suspect that a woman would immediately place something small she intended to mail in her purse. That way it couldn't be forgotten and she would know exactly where it was when she had time to deal with it.

If she didn't have her purse, then I agree it would depend on who she was meeting as to why she would bring the 2nd cell phone.

They only have her coming through the usual toll booth at 6:15 pm on the 23rd. It remains unknown what time she actually reached her condo. I think she may have stopped for something to eat before she actually got home, but there is no evidence of it.

There was a time where I wondered if she didn't just step out her front door - better reception on her cell, heard a noise - and something happened then. But her purse, both cell phones, her briefcase and possibly a pair of her shoes are missing so this would seem to indicate a deliberate attempt to leave the condo. This would also seem to lead one to believe her abduction occurred AFTER she walked out of her condo in the morning.

Food. Because LE did not process her condo we don't know what was in the trash - i.e., take out container. That could at least help with the timeline.

 

[Truth Prevails]

There was a time where I wondered if she didn't just step out her front door - better reception on her cell, heard a noise - and something happened then. But her purse, both cell phones, her briefcase and possibly a pair of her shoes are missing so this would seem to indicate a deliberate attempt to leave the condo. This would also seem to lead one to believe her abduction occurred AFTER she walked out of her condo in the morning.

Food. Because LE did not process her condo we don't know what was in the trash - i.e., take out container. That could at least help with the timeline.

Currently, the Kesses believe that the briefcase is most likely in an evidence locker at the OPD. They think it was in the trunk of the car and law enforcement never released the contents. Mrs. Kesse points out that the briefcase is not listed as missing on the FBI missing person's poster:

Missing items: (a) verizon cell phone (sn &#8211; 039-02071456), (1) nextel cell phone (sn &#8211; 00080850757310), Kesse&#8217;s Florida driver&#8217;s license, ipod (sn &#8211; cnh5323g6j), Kesse&#8217;s keys, and purse.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/jennifer-joyce-kesse

Regarding the food, Mrs. Kesse stated in one of the podcast episodes that there was nothing in the garbage except flyers from the mail. (The rest of the mail was found neatly stacked). They assume she got something to eat from her refrigerator, but except for a cup--iirc--there were no dishes to be washed. Logan had run the dishwasher before he left and all the dishes were still inside.

Regarding the purse, here is what the Kesse's said on their Guestbook site in 2014: (The link currently works because I just checked it).

Quote: One point though, Jennifer's purse/pocketbook has not been recovered as yet. We thought the one shown was with her and it was but was within her baggage from her trip. She was utilizing one we are unaware of since Jennifer had many many pocketbooks and purses, too many.
http://jenniferkesse.123guestbook.com/?page=29

A question I would really like to have answered is how do they know a purse was missing?

Regarding the shoes: two most likely possibilities: either she had them on, or they are in the briefcase.