It’s been two weeks since Vero Beach Police updated the public on the hunt for Jesse Ellis, the 64-year-old grandfather charged with two counts of murder for allegedly gunning down his wife and her male co-worker on March 24, but new photos of a man walking south on the beach toward St. Lucie County illustrate one big hurdle to closing this case – a whole lot of local men look like the wanted killer.
One set of high-quality images submitted by a resident of The Moorings on Friday, April 3 show a man closely resembling Ellis walking south behind an oceanfront home. The sophisticated security system captured video of the man from different camera angles showing him from the front and the back.
The image shows the only man who walked south past the cameras on March 25 but did not return walking back north. The resident sifted through dozens of images of men walking alone that day, using AI-assisted technology to eliminate any man who was walking with another person, or who made the round-trip walk. The system, owned by a career public safety professional who worked with police on investigations over the years, can even sort by color of attire…