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PN FRIDAY, AUGUST 6. 2010 SUNSENTINEL.COM SUN SENTINEL 3B S(Q)f8i EQfll LrwvlOflUl Friends, family recall major Bob Ferrell retired after 20 years with Sheriff's Office pf-isipw ri n- 1 Nam: 5.4, 20Si6 OCUhMDO. IFi. iter KjsBSiss Age-. 24 Description: 5'B" Shoulder Length Sandy Blonde Hair, Green Eyes, t251hs ---I si WWW.FindJenniterKesae.com Call a Lawyer or 321-23S-S300 1-800-T, Crime Line Orlando Police CAREY WAGNERSUN SENTINEL PHOTOS Drew Kesse puts posters in his car, wrapped with a sign publicizing the'case of his missing daughter, Jennifer, who was abducted from her Orlando condo in 2006.

1 Law enforcement conference addresses mistakes in unsolved cases of Tiffany Sessions and Jennifer Kesse By Cynthia Roldan and Sonja Isger THE PALM BEACH POST i With a 21-gun salute and fly-by of two helicopters, friends and family said goodbye on Thursday to retired Sheriffs Maj. Robert "Bob" Ferrell. More than 100 law enforcement officers accompanied Ferrell's family to the South Florida National Cemetery. i Afterward, friends and family remembered the 64-year-old with laughter and food at the Fraternal Order of Police's lodge in West Palm Beach. "Bob would've wanted us to have some fun," said Chief Mike Gauger, of the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office.

"He was a roaster; the Don Rickles of the office." In honor of Ferrell, Gauger made fun of a few deputies in the crowd, roasting them as Ferrell would have. Ferrell's youngest son, Douglas Ferrell, spoke about watching late-night movies with his father and his father's love affair with plain ice cream sandwiches, his favorite snack. loved Chick-fil-A nuggets," he said with a smile. "He hated all other types of chicken, but loved those nuggets." Douglas Ferrell plans to follow in his father's footsteps. 4 He plans to join the Sheriffs Office and, refuses to consider any; other police force, except the Boynton Beach Police Department.

"My dad was one of the most amazing people I ever met in my whole life," he said. "Me and him turned into best friends. I told him I him every single day" Bob Ferrell started as a police officer in the 1960s, became Boynton's vice mayor in the 1980s, earned his Screen Actors Guild card on the set of "Ace Pet Defective" and created the real-life role of Sheriffs Office spokesman in the 1990s. He also served in the Navy Ferrell retired in 2007 as a major after 20 years with the Sheriffs Office. Ocean Ridge Police Department Chief Chris Yannuzzi met Ferrell when they both served for the Boynton Beach Police Department.

"He used to do this thing with his eyebrows. Like he was sending you a message," he said. "Depending on how he was doing it, you were either in trouble or you were doing a good job." Ferrell battled poor health, including kidney failure, for more than a decade. He died at the Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital in Delray Beach, said Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Sheriffs Office." Ferrell is survived by wife, Tracee; sons Robert Ferrell Jr. and Douglas Ferrell, and two granddaughters.

i nrrr-w I WW'f By Linda Triscbitta SUN SENTINEL I BOCA RATON Wounds from mistakes by law enforcement can cut nearly as deep as the pain of having a murdered or abducted child, parents told investigators and prosecutors Thursday at a conference on sex crimes and crimes against children. Tiffany Sessions was a 20-year-old University of Florida junior when she went for a power walk in Gainesville and never came back. That was 21 years ago. "I came down here to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly," Tiffany's mother, Hilary Sessions, said of her experiences with police. "From the very beginning I was not spoken with or interviewed.

Police only talked with me when they wanted my blood. She encouraged busy detectives to get a victim's advocate involved early in a case. i "I had nobody who cared about me," Sessions said. Drew Kesse's daughter, Jennifer, was a 24-year-old financial analyst when she was abducted from her Orlando condo Jn 2006. "To me, she's been trafficked," Kesse said.

"In Orlando, police believe is no such thing. Trafficking is i an $18 billion business." Kesse said the FBI recently took on the case. A 2007 National Institute of Justice report said there "are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the United States on any day Kesse cited a Florida Department of Law Enforcement statistic, that the state has 4,100 active cases of missing persons, many of them juveniles and runaways. "A habitual runaway, we find them, put them back home, and they run again," Kesse said. "Are they getting beaten or raped? They'll be lured, become someone else's toy and end up dead.

There is something wrong in Tiffany Sessions has been missing for 21 years. TheUni- versity of Florida Junior went a for a walk and hever came back. on a bandage and in hair follicles, and should be dated and stored in white envelopes in a cool, dry place. She had never had Tiffany's fingerprints taken, but said investigators were able to lift her daughter's thumb print from a decorative plaster handprint that she made for her mother when she was 5. It may seem paranoid to collect such things, but a blood type, DNA and dental records are sometimes the only way to identify human remains, Sessions said.

Though getting confirmation that a child's remains have been identified could be unbearable, that knowledge can end the pain of not knowing what happened to a love one who has vanished. "Hell happened one day," Kesse said, "and it hasn't stopped." Linda Trischitta can be reached at that family. And you need to find out." Palm Beach County Sheriffs Detective Debi Phillips said it was OK to tiear the criticism and that she valued it. "The actual victim is much more effective as a teacher," Phillips said. "We can learn from other agencies' mistakes." The conference that drew 45 investigators, prosecutors and advocates for victims of sex crimes and abductions wrapped up on Thursday Hosted by the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, speakers included officials from the Broward State Attorney's Office, FBI, U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies. There was also a therapist who offered insights into the mind of a sexual predator. Sessions said parents can assist police by providing dental X-rays, DNA samples and a child's fingerprints. JShe said DNA can be found in blood rr THE PALM BEACH POSTFILE Bob Ferrell In 1979. He became a police officer In the 1960s and spent 20 years with the Sheriff's Office.

Missing helicopter pilot is Jupiter resident Search for Adam Chip Reeves, 45, will continue Friday in northern Georgia north of Atlanta, between Madison and Gainesville, based on reports from people who might have heard or seen Reeves' chopper. As nightfall approached Thursday, the search was suspended. Family and friends shared 'Jew details Thursday about Reeves' trip. It wasn't clear, for example, if Reeves was flying alone in his 2006 Robinson R44 helicopter or was accompanied by someone. Reeves Obtained his pilot's license in September 2009, Federal Aviation Administration records show.

He left the North Palm Beach County Airport on Monday and was expected at 7 p.m. at the Brasstown Resort and Spa in Young Harris, Ga. He never showed. Reeves refueled about 6 p.m. Monday at a municipal airport in Madison and then took off again, Joyner said.

Where it went from there is unknown. "We'reW ruling out the possibility it might have landed somewhere and might be doing something different," Joyner said. Bob Munro, a neighbor of Reeves' $1.3 million waterfront home, said Reeves spent hour9 planning his Georgia trip and had intended to make it with an experienced pilot. But for some reason, he went by himself, Munro said. He said Reeves never had flown over the sort of mountainous terrain he would encounter in northwestern Georgia but said the task didn't faze his neighbor.

"He was not nervous. He was very confident," he said. Munro said he called Reeves on Monday as Reeves headed to the airport. He said he called Reeves again on Tuesday to check on him. The call went straight tovoicemail.

Now, considering the possibility that Reeves might have crashed, Munro voiced faith in his neighbor. "If anyone was able to survive, he would be able to because of his fitness i and medical skills," Munro said. But, he added, "Thank God his family was not with him." Palm Beach Post staff writer Eliot Weinberg contributed to this report. By Alexandra Seltzer, Cynthia Roldan and Michael LaForgia THE PALM BEACH POST ft A pilot who disappeared on Monday during a helicopter trip to a Georgia resort is a former U.S. Air Force medic who runs health care and realty companies in Palm Beach County, according to interviews and records.

The aerial search for Adam Chip Reeves, 45, of Jupiter, described by friends as a confident pilot and fitness buff, will resume at first light Friday over northern Georgia. Maj. Paige Joynet; spokeswoman for the Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, said scouts are scouring areas.