In The Jennifer Kesse Case, Look At The Name Johnny Lee Campos

It’s amazing to think she’s been gone since January 2006.

Ted Bauer
7 min readMay 23, 2023

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Here are the basics of the case. She disappeared from Orlando on January 24, 2006 sometime in the morning (her last phone call was the previous evening at 9:57pm, but based on the condition of her apartment — clothes laid out, etc. — it’s likely she was not abducted before the morning). At around noon on the same day, a mysterious figure drove her car to another apartment complex about 1.2 miles east, sat in the car for 32 seconds, and then walked away. The direct video camera aiming at the walk route was on a time lapse, so thus you don’t get a very clear shot:

It will be nine years this winter on the Kesse disappearance, and there haven’t been any great leads yet. There was a belief that James Hataway, now in prison on a different abduction, could have been the suspect; he’s about 5–10 (height) and the suspect on video is probably not much taller than 5–5, so ultimately little came of that.

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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