Sarah Turney

In fact, he'd gone into Jennifer's apartment to fix something the week before she disappeared.

So detectives run Chino through the system and learn that they actually received a tip about him during the first week of the investigation, suggesting he was involved.

And it wasn't hard to track him down because by March 2009, he was doing time in a Florida prison for the statutory rape of a teenage girl, which was committed two years after Jennifer's disappearance.

Plus, there were a few suspicious details about Chino, like the fact that he'd supposedly had keys to every condo in the complex, and that he'd apparently approached other women in the parking lot late at night.

And just nine months after Jennifer vanished, he did too.

He moved out of the complex and was never seen by anyone there again.

However, Chino was a bit taller than the suspect in the footage.

He was around 5'9".

And he was cooperative with the police.

He denied having anything to do with Jennifer's disappearance and even agreed to do a polygraph, which he passed.

Police were never able to find any direct connection between him and Jennifer's case.

So eventually they moved on.

2016 marked 10 years since Jennifer's disappearance.

It was also the year she was officially declared dead by a Florida court.

But the search was far from over.

In 2018, the Kessies sued the Orlando Police Department for a copy of the case file.

In 2019, they were successful.

In fact, they were the first Americans to ever successfully sue for an open case file.

The city charged the family more than $18,000 for those files, but at least they were able to go through them all on their own now.

And they hired their own private team to help, which they probably needed, because there's more than 16,000 pages of documents and 67 hours of interviews and audio tapes.