Reflecting on his last conversation with Jennifer in 2006, Drew shared that everything appeared to be usual.
At 24 years old, Jennifer had just returned from a weekend getaway with her boyfriend Rob and his family, making her way back to Florida.
She had shared with friends and family the wonderful time she had, but concern grew when her parents were unable to reach her.
In an interview with the Mail Online, Drew explained how he and his wife, Joyce, reacted: ”Since she was 15 and we gave her a phone and a car that was the first time she never answered and it went straight to voicemail. We immediately knew right then that something was wrong. We took off for Orlando immediately.”
On January 24, 2006, the day after her last phone calls to family, Jennifer did not report to her job as a finance manager at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company.
Jennifer’s apartment showed no signs of a disturbance and appeared as though she had prepared for her usual workday and left.
Her concerned parents contacted the police to file a missing person report and initiated an urgent search for Jennifer.
Two days later, her vehicle was located abandoned about a mile away at a different condominium complex, Huntington on the Green. Items such as her phone, purse, iPod, and keys were missing.
Security footage from the complex captured a person parking Jennifer’s car and departing on the day she disappeared, around noon.
A NASA team was consulted for their expertise, seeking to enhance the footage to identify the individual involved clearly.
Unfortunately, despite their efforts, the endeavor was unsuccessful as the person’s face was obscured by fencing. The person in the footage is described as being about 5 foot 3 to 5 foot 5 tall, with notably large feet for their stature, and dressed in workman’s attire.
Jennifer’s father urges anyone with knowledge regarding his daughter’s disappearance to contact the authorities.
He expressed: “After 19 years, it’s just unfathomable that we don’t even have any direction.
“Someone must know who that is [in the footage]. Someone has to know. If you know that person, you would look at that and know who that is. You can look at a picture and go ‘oh yeah, that’s my cousin, that’s my son.
“If you know anything about Jennifer please just go to a lawyer, go to the police if you feel comfortable, or go to a priest if you feel comfortable doing that.”