Family letter from
www.findjenniferkesse.com
October 24, 2007 Family Letter
91 weeks, 21 months have now passed since Jennifer was abducted. We are going to keep this months message positive. There is no reason to dwell on the obvious pain we experience every minute of every day we are without Jennifer. Our pain does not matter, Jennifers is the only PAIN which matters. Having said that, we would like to thank everyone who continues to talk about Jennifer, pass on information about Jennifer and who simply cares about her situation. Leads continue to come to us on a daily basis from several sources, Family Tipline, Crimeline, Orlando Police and Americas Most Wanted, to name a few. The efforts of the general public, family, Friends and volunteers have been invaluable in keeping Jennifers case extremely active even after 21 months. You are, in conjunction with the authorities, keeping her case moving forward!
Many people think that Jennifers case may be losing steam, cold, or even that she had been found as we hear from you. This could not be further from the truth. Jennifers case is the most active it has been since the early weeks after she was taken. The quality of leads are improving also.
Now is the time we ask all of you to continue the pace of passing on information. It is crucial that it not let up. We are desperately seeking answers to where Jennifer is, who took her and how do we find her and get her back home to us, her family. We truly feel we will find Jennifer and it will take a world of caring people to make that happen. We have heard from people in every state in our country as well as at least 48 other countries, all passing on Jennifers information and keeping their eyes and ears open for her because she could be anywhere in the world at this point in time. We are humbled by your true concern and thank you for your unending actions of awareness for her. We are especially thankful to the Orlando/Central Florida region for refusing to let Jennifers case subside as well as the police agencies who continue to investigate her abduction.
Please remember there is an abductor(s) still amongst us who need to be identified and brought to justice. Until then, we can only ask, Whos Next and when it will happen?
We are again attempting to enhance our Missing Persons laws in the State of Florida in the next session. Our proposed Bill changes (cuts down the time period) when, how and to what databases a Missing person information MUST be entered. It also raises the age from 18 to under 26 years of age for an immediate Missing persons report to be generated and after 90 days still missing, the law will require DNA be found , taken and added to specific databases to help solve the case, as well as gathering more information than currently taken by Police. We have sponsors for Senate Bill SB502 in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The FDLE has been working very hard in writing the law and gaining the needed support to make it become law which we are grateful for. Please visit
www.myflorida.com and search for Senate Bill SB502, sponsored by Senator Lee Constantine of Winter Park Fl., and follow it as it goes through committees and hopefully passed into law. There is a copy of the legislation on this page to the left for your review.
We ask that you contact and express support for the Bill to your local state representatives so they are familiar with the proposed law when it comes up for vote, to insure passage. It will surely help those in the future. The quicker police respond the better the chance of recovery of the missing person Plain Fact!
We have had some great media awareness for Jennifer this past month and upcoming month. We were asked to do a segment on The Montel Williams Show, which aired 10/11/07. It was a great show with Tom Morris from Americas Most Wanted along with Montel spotlighting high profile criminal cases and missing people. We were honored to have Jennifers case on the show which was shown around the world!
We also were contacted by the Oxygen Network for the show Captured which features cases where people are abducted or missing and found, then the last 5 minutes of the show a current missing persons case is featured, Jennifer will be one of those featured as still Missing. Date to be announced.
On 10/13/2007, the Northgate Baptist Church in Tampa conducted an awareness vigil for Jennifer which we attended and were thankful for, having raised our family in Tampa for 16 years. Once again the community has stepped up in support of Jennifer and will not let her story go away.
We have also been contacted by the producers at Americas Most Wanted who are putting together a segment on Jennifer for their show. This is absolutely huge for Jennifer! The show has a standing record of 1 case solved for every show they produce. That is Results! We will keep you posted on an air date.
We were also interviewed by Poker Pro magazine for an article which came out in this months issue about the 100,000 decks of playing cards Crimeline and FDLE placed in the State Prison system and also for sale to the public which Poker clubs have been buying and using in Poker Runs(Tournaments). Leads are coming in and a murder case from 2004 was just solved by a prisoner playing with the cards noticing someone he knew and speaking with authorities about facts which directly solved the murder! 3 years after the murder, considered a cold case and 2 ½ months after placing the cards in the prisoners hands. They do work and we urge all states to generate a playing card program for their prison system.
We also want to thank The Maury Povich show, who till this day, continues in different markets and countries to show the Missing Persons episode which featured Jennifer. The latest showing this month was in Canada and Australia. Again, simply invaluable awareness for Jennifer and others who are Missing.
So as you can see we still hold great HOPE that Jennifers journey through hell will end soon and there are multitudes of people, police and media who along with us will not give up on Jennifer being found. She deserves to be found all the Missing deserve to be found!
