Security footage recorded a "person of interest" parking Kesse's car and walking away, but the individual could not be identified due to poor camera quality, a fence blocking the view, and the absence of any visible distinguishing physical features.

At the time she disappeared, she was working as a finance manager at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company in Ocoee and had recently bought a condominium in Orlando.

[2] After returning on Sunday, she spent that night at her boyfriend's home, then drove straight to work on the morning of Monday, January 23, 2006.

[3][4] Friends and family distributed fliers about Kesse that evening, and the Orlando Police Department organized search parties on foot and on horseback, as well as by boat, helicopter, car, and ATV.

Investigators were excited to learn that several hidden cameras at the apartments surveilled the part of the lot where the car had been parked as well as the exit.

[5] The surveillance footage showed an unidentified "person of interest" dropping Kesse's vehicle off at approximately noon the day she went missing.

[11] Investigators were disheartened to find that the best video capture of this subject, in three separate snapshots, was obscured by the complex fencing, the posts aligning to conceal the face.

[5] At the time of her disappearance, Kesse's condominium complex had been undergoing a major expansion, and many of the laborers on site were non-English speaking.

[12] Investigators and Kesse's friends and family remain open to the theory that she fell victim to human trafficking but consider it less likely than others.

[12] In May 2007, Kesse's company, led by David A. Siegel, offered a $1 million reward for information leading to her whereabouts, with a July 4 deadline and the stipulation that she had to be alive.

[16][17] In December 2022, it was reported that the investigation into Kesse's disappearance had been turned over to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) cold case unit.

[18] Kesse is still considered missing and endangered by the Orlando Police Department, FBI, Orange County Sheriff's Office, FDLE, NCIC, NCMA, and Interpol.