Kimberly Kessler

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Speaker 3 No matter where Jolie was at, she would always answer her phone.

Speaker 8 I just felt like something bad had happened and that she wouldn't be back.

Speaker 5 A woman with a history of choosing the wrong man.

Speaker 13 She didn't always pick the best guys. I don't know why.
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Speaker 14 I've got text messages from other people saying he's bad dude.

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Speaker 8 she went by around 17 different aliases she had several driver's licenses in different states

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Speaker 8 She stabbed me in the chest. She bit my dad in the left.

Speaker 3 She was extremely jealous. She was very controlling.
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Speaker 3 Fernandina Beach is located on Amelia Island. It's in the very northeastern corner of Florida, just above Jacksonville.

Speaker 16 It's a little island. Everybody knows everybody.

Speaker 16 And so it's a great place to grow up and raise a family.

Speaker 5 But on May 14th, 2018, a feeling of dread settles over the beach town when Ann Johnson calls the local sheriff's office to report her 34-year-old daughter, Jolene Cummings, missing.

Speaker 15 We originally got a call from Ann Johnson, and she said the last time somebody spoke to Jolene was May 12th. And a couple days later, no one had still heard from her.

Speaker 5 Ann says she began to worry on Sunday, May 13th when Jolene failed to pick up her two sons after their week-long visit with their father.

Speaker 8 The kids' father contacted her mother, Ann Johnson, said, you know where Jolene's at? She's supposed to pick the kids up and he didn't know where she was.

Speaker 5 What's more, the Sunday of May 13th was a very special day for Jolene and her kids.

Speaker 15 Her mother told me it was Jolene's birthday, and also this is Mother's Day.

Speaker 3 Jolene's mother reported that she had not been able to reach her by phone.

Speaker 8 It was a big concern that she couldn't be found because she does have kids, she loves her kids.

Speaker 8 So, certainly, you want to try to find them as soon as possible.

Speaker 12 I just felt like something bad had happened and that she wouldn't be back.

Speaker 5 Born on May 13th, 1984, Jolene Jensen was a small-town girl who loved her family fiercely.

Speaker 13 It was just Jolene and her mom and her stepdad. They had a good relationship.

Speaker 16 They were always together, having family dinners.

Speaker 5 Joyful and energetic, Jolene drew people in.

Speaker 13 Jolene had a large circle of friends.

Speaker 3 Everybody loved Jolene.

Speaker 5 After graduating high school, Jolene left for cosmetology school, but she knew she would never be gone for long.

Speaker 13 Jolene was very much a small-town girl. She wanted to own a salon, so the small town is the best for that.

Speaker 5 After a few years away and a failed relationship that left her a single mother, Jolene moved back to her hometown.

Speaker 13 Jolene was very excited to be a mom. She didn't always pick the best guys.
I don't know why. She could always do so much better.

Speaker 3 She worked at Tangles Hair Salon in Fernandina Beach.

Speaker 12 The salon we worked at was a very family-friendly place.

Speaker 12 We had fun there. Everybody got along, you know, had lunches together.

Speaker 16 She was the light of the salon.

Speaker 5 Jolene used this time to build toward her dreams.

Speaker 12 She advertised herself a lot on social media and she built a very good clientele. I never knew a day that she wasn't booked.

Speaker 5 Jolene's career was taking off and when she met Jason Cummings, her personal life quickly followed suit.

Speaker 5 After the birth of their first son in 2013, they married, and Jolene gave birth to another boy in 2015.

Speaker 16 She was so obsessed with those babies that nothing else mattered. Those kids came first.

Speaker 5 Although Jolene was overjoyed to grow her family, her marriage to Jason soon began to fray.

Speaker 13 They didn't have a very good relationship in the end, but she kept trying.

Speaker 4 She loved him.

Speaker 13 And she always put her men and her kids before anything.

Speaker 5 The two separated in 2017.

Speaker 12 She wasn't real talkative about Jason.

Speaker 12 She was focused on her kids.

Speaker 12 They would go visit their father, but her kids always lived with Jolene.

Speaker 5 Soon after the separation, she began dating someone new. But after her past failed relationships, Jolene wanted to keep this one to herself.

Speaker 16 With Mint, she was a very private girl. I knew she was dating a new guy.

Speaker 16 And at times when I would see her, she was very excited. It was new.
It was butterflies.

Speaker 5 Jolene was enjoying motherhood, a flourishing career, and a growing romance. It seemed all of the pieces of her life were falling into place.

Speaker 5 Until May 14th, 2018, when the reliable mother is nowhere to be found.

Speaker 16 Everyone was just panicking. We didn't know what could have happened.
We still held on to the hope that she was okay somewhere, but it was like deep down we knew better.

Speaker 5 Local authorities start their search by contacting the first person to notice Jolene's absence, her estranged husband, Jason Cummings.

Speaker 3 Jolene was going through a divorce with her husband, Jason Cummings, and the final custody had not been determined. A custody dispute can be a huge motivator to possibly do violence.

Speaker 3 I wanted to meet with him in person.

Speaker 5 Jason agrees to come to the sheriff's office the next day for an interview, and investigators continue to call more of Jolene's family and friends.

Speaker 3 Through contacting people who know her, and doing interviews with them.

Speaker 3 The last place that we could determine that Jolene was seen was at her place of employment at Tangles Hair Salon on the 12th of May. We talked to the salon owner.

Speaker 3 We got the names of people who were working that day. She had Jolene Cummings who had been with her for several years.

Speaker 3 Ann Morgan who had been there for approximately 10 years. And she had a newer employee who had only been there for a couple of months and her name was Jennifer Seiber.

Speaker 5 The salon owner says Jolene and Jennifer closed the salon on Saturday, May 12th, around 5 p.m.

Speaker 8 Well, we knew the type of vehicle that Jolene drove was not anywhere near the salon.

Speaker 8 And the salon had a camera, but it was not working.

Speaker 3 We did attempt to ping her cell phone, and the cell phone was either not working or it had been turned off.

Speaker 3 We checked her bank records. We checked social media accounts.
None of those had had any activity since the last day that she had worked, which was on May 12th.

Speaker 3 We know that after that, nobody had seen her. So the focus of our timeline was basically between the 12th and the 14th.

Speaker 5 Investigators immediately release a description of Jolene and her vehicle to the local news and reach out to her coworker, Jennifer.

Speaker 3 We asked if Jolene mentioned anything about going anywhere. Jennifer went into a long explanation about why she could not be involved in a law enforcement investigation.

Speaker 3 She stated that she had an ex-boyfriend who was a computer expert and that he was a stalker. And if her name was listed anywhere, he would track her down.

Speaker 3 I said, I just need to know, did you work with Jolene on Saturday and if she discussed any upcoming plans? Jennifer stated that her and Jolene were not close, that Jolene was acting normally, and that

Speaker 3 she didn't mention any upcoming plans for the weekend.

Speaker 5 With concern for Jolene mounting, detectives dig deeper into her history.

Speaker 3 If somebody's reported missing, we're going to look for recent police reports. I had discovered a previous police report on the 9th of May there had been a domestic situation.

Speaker 3 Jason G had come over and asked to spend the night.

Speaker 3 She told him he could not spend the night. He got upset.

Speaker 5 Detectives then arranged to meet Jolene's stepfather at her home to conduct a wellness check. And what they find is concerning.

Speaker 18 That afternoon on Monday the 14th, we noticed that the residence was secured, but once entering in, the house looked a little bit in disarray.

Speaker 18 There are some cabinet doors that were loose, some holes in the walls.

Speaker 18 We actually reached out to an officer who had responded there, and he advised that that was typical for that house.

Speaker 5 Coming up, detectives suspect that Jolene's disappearance could be connected to her complicated love life.

Speaker 3 We did discover that sometimes Jolene may not have made the best decisions with the guys that she chose to date.

Speaker 8 We would call him, he'd hang up, we'd go to his house, he's not there.

Speaker 3 It seems like he's trying to avoid us.

Speaker 5 May 15th, 2018.

Speaker 5 It's been three days since 34-year-old mother Jolene Cummings was last seen.

Speaker 16 No one knew what had happened. but we had a feeling something bad had happened.

Speaker 5 After finding her house in disarray, investigators start looking into the men in Jolene's life, beginning with her estranged husband, Jason Cummings.

Speaker 3 Jolene was going through a divorce with her husband. If somebody's reported missing and going through a separation or a divorce,

Speaker 3 you know, the person involved with that is going to be one of the first people we look at.

Speaker 5 Three days after Jolene's disappearance, Jason sits down with detectives for an interview.

Speaker 5 He admits that he and Jolene had arguments, but denies any physical altercations.

Speaker 14 I wasn't very old. My dad would kick my ass up all up and down this earth.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 14 I see my kids tomorrow.

Speaker 14 But what I do take seriously is my family.

Speaker 3 He gave an alibi of

Speaker 3 being with some friends at a specific location all weekend. I asked him for permission to search and download his cellular phone.
I didn't find anything of evidentiary value

Speaker 3 on the cell phone. He also gave written consent for a search of his vehicle.

Speaker 3 We actually had a crime scene unit go out and examine it and take photos of it, but we saw nothing inside the vehicle of a suspicious nature.

Speaker 5 Before the interview is over, Jason Cummings has a question about the other man in Jolene's life.

Speaker 6 I've never been up there since.

Speaker 5 Detectives find Jason Cummings has never been charged nor convicted of any crimes against Jolene. So they release him while they work to confirm his alibi.

Speaker 3 At that point in time, we began to look for Jolene's boyfriend, Jason G, whose name and information I had discovered in a domestic incident.

Speaker 3 There was no physical violence documented, but it was documented that he had gotten angry and damaged the cabinets in the home.

Speaker 8 When we tried to contact Jason G, we would call him. he'd hang up, we'd go to his house, he's not there, it seemed like he's trying to avoid us.

Speaker 3 He had an active warrant for violation of probation, and we knew that he was dodging that, but still, the more he dodged us, he certainly was becoming more of a suspect.

Speaker 5 Investigators concentrate more resources on locating Jason.

Speaker 3 We were also looking at his background,

Speaker 3 any relatives, any friends, any locations that he frequented. Jason G was eventually found in Hilliard, Florida.
He had a relative that lived there.

Speaker 3 Law enforcement went to the relative's house. He was hiding under some boxes in the bedroom.

Speaker 5 Authorities arrest Jason G on an outstanding warrant and bring him in for an interview.

Speaker 3 Jason G had some criminal history and some brushes with the law.

Speaker 14 You pronounced your last name G or G? G. You're here coming up on a probation violation, okay? You are in custody, you're not free to leave.

Speaker 14 I want to talk to you about something else. Have you heard of Joey was missing? Yeah.

Speaker 14 Can we go just kind of back to the beginning of how you guys got together, where you met?

Speaker 14 A little over a year ago, she had like one more day together.

Speaker 14 I went over to

Speaker 14 party and I mean just got together and just played it.

Speaker 14 Last time I seen her, it was a night, but we got an argument. And she said, oh, it's excuse me, I'll mess around on it.

Speaker 14 I went over there to see what was in the house.

Speaker 14 There were some cabinets broken, there were some holes and stuff. Did that happen that night? No.
And

Speaker 14 what about there's holes in the door with some light pushed?

Speaker 5 Detectives pressed Jason G for his whereabouts on the day Jolene went missing.

Speaker 14 We noticed she was at work on Saturday, but nobody's heard from her since then.

Speaker 14 I don't say something with her Saturday. Okay, was she at work or working?

Speaker 5 For detectives, this information raises a red flag. It's the same day Jolene was last seen and only an hour before the salon closed.

Speaker 14 Do you still have the messages in your phone from? I don't have a phone, but yeah,

Speaker 14 I'm sure you can get it to the phone company, but yeah.

Speaker 14 You don't have it? No, sir.

Speaker 5 The whereabouts of Jason's phone fuels only more suspicion.

Speaker 14 That's either cousins or at my aunts where I was this morning. I took the battery out of it and I said, I mean, I haven't been on it.
You're taking your battery out of your phone.

Speaker 14 Are you standing there pinging your phone trying to find you? I told you, the reason I was f ⁇ ing hot, I got a woman.

Speaker 14 For

Speaker 14 I'm not buying what you're telling me. I know you ain't believing that I say, but I'm telling you the truth.

Speaker 6 I had nothing to do with Jolene being missing.

Speaker 14 I love her.

Speaker 3 He's knowing he's going to sit in jail for a little while. He's obviously angry with law enforcement.
But when it comes to Jolene, you know, his demeanor did change.

Speaker 3 He seemed legitimately concerned that she was missing.

Speaker 5 Investigators need to confirm Jason's alibi, but first, they they head to the last place Jolene was spotted, the salon.

Speaker 8 We had no other indication she was anywhere else. Nobody seen her after work, and no one had seen her leave work.

Speaker 15 We didn't know what time or if Jolene Cummings actually walked out of the hair salon.

Speaker 5 Coming up. A potential witness refuses to cooperate with police.

Speaker 3 She calls her owner.

Speaker 8 Said, hey, I'm quitting. You come out of my check.
I can't be involved in any police activity.

Speaker 5 And new evidence sends investigators on a hunt for a mysterious suspect.

Speaker 3 Once the vehicle is parked, a minute or so later, you can see someone exit the driver's side.

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Speaker 5 May 15th, 2018.

Speaker 5 34-year-old mother of three Jolene Cummings has been missing for more than 48 hours.

Speaker 5 Up until now, the investigation has centered on Jolene's former spouse, Jason Cummings, and her boyfriend, Jason G.

Speaker 5 Both men say they were visiting friends and family the weekend of Jolene's disappearance.

Speaker 8 Jason Cummings gave us all of his phones and we could check and see where he was at and so we could eliminate him as being any person of interest or even a suspect.

Speaker 5 Despite having a criminal record, detectives are also able to clear Jason G.

Speaker 3 Jason G gave an alibi that he was at some friends' house in Jacksonville. We sent detectives to talk to the friends in Jacksonville who confirmed that he was there.

Speaker 3 Jason G's father confirmed that he was the one who transported him.

Speaker 5 With their leads dwindling, authorities decide to circle back to the location where Jolene was last seen, the salon.

Speaker 15 One of our detectives went to the hair salon, and while he's in there speaking to the owner of the hair salon, Jennifer Seibert comes to the shop.

Speaker 8 Only Jennifer Seibert and Jolene Cummins were working that day.

Speaker 8 So Jennifer was the last person that we know seen her.

Speaker 15 The owner of the shop actually told Jennifer, hey, there's a detective in here that wants to speak to you.

Speaker 5 However, Jennifer makes it clear once again that she doesn't want to get involved.

Speaker 8 She decided she didn't want to have any part of the police as she leaves.

Speaker 4 She said, hey, I'm quitting.

Speaker 8 You come out of my check. I can't be involved in any police activity, which is a concern.

Speaker 3 I thought it was very unusual. But there are certainly people who don't like law enforcement and don't want contact with law enforcement.

Speaker 5 As detectives prepare to look deeper into Jennifer's background, they receive their biggest tip yet.

Speaker 3 Well, after we put the flyer out for Jolene's vehicle, we did receive a call from an individual who thought he'd seen that vehicle in the Home Depot parking lot.

Speaker 8 When we responded, we verified that it was Jolene's car.

Speaker 3 When we searched the vehicle, we did not see any kind of blood or anything of evidential value. Once we found her vehicle, it gave us a place to start and to work backwards from there.

Speaker 3 So what we did was we looked for surveillance video.

Speaker 5 When investigators pull video surveillance from a nearby bank, they make a startling discovery.

Speaker 3 Early in the morning, the 13th at about 1.17, you could see the vehicle being driven into the Home Depot parking lot. A minute or so later, you could see someone exit the driver's side.

Speaker 5 The grainy footage makes it impossible to identify the driver, but investigators can see the figure walk to a nearby gas station.

Speaker 18 One of the videos was from a gate gas station. It was a very clear video showing the female wearing all black.
enter into the store.

Speaker 3 Once she enters into the gas station and walks up near the counter, the surveillance is even clearer. And, you know, judging off the driver's license picture I have, I'm like, that's Jennifer Cyber.

Speaker 5 With this new revelation, on Wednesday, May 16th, investigators returned to Jolene's place of work for a closer look.

Speaker 18 The salon had been closed since Jolene Cummings' disappearance due to the fact that the salon is normally closed Sunday, Monday.

Speaker 18 On Tuesday, when the owner showed up to open up the business, she had no employees there to cut hair.

Speaker 18 The salon being closed was pretty important in that nobody had cleaned anything, nothing had been disturbed.

Speaker 5 When the crime scene unit applies luminol, a chemical that reacts with blood, hidden horrors are revealed.

Speaker 3 Just lit up.

Speaker 8 And you say, holy crap, you know, something really serious happened in here.

Speaker 3 That was really the moment when I said, I'm working a homicide investigation.

Speaker 3 And our number one priority at that point in time is to find Jennifer cyber.

Speaker 5 Detectives send samples of the blood evidence for DNA testing. While they wait for results, they release a bolo for Jennifer's vehicle and ping her phone.

Speaker 5 Location data places her somewhere in neighboring St. Johns County.

Speaker 3 St. Johns County, which is a couple counties south of Nassau.
She had given a false address to her employer.

Speaker 3 Instructions were given to check any area where somebody needed to stay or sleep in their car.

Speaker 15 We were informed, hey, she's a transient sometimes. She's living out of her vehicle.
So I went to a rest area.

Speaker 15 I was not expecting to find her vehicle, but when I looked to my left and saw her her black Kia between two semis, I knew it was her.

Speaker 15 I made a phone call to another detective. I told him, hey, her vehicle's here.

Speaker 3 Several detectives quickly responded to St. John's County, including myself.

Speaker 3 We approached and it appeared that there was someone sleeping in the vehicle. At that point in time, I gave the person verbal commands to step out of the vehicle with their hands visible.

Speaker 3 Jennifer Seibert exited the front door of the vehicle.

Speaker 8 She had a nasty cut on her face. Her story was she was riding her bicycle and he ran into a tree.
But that's not what she would have looked like if she'd hit a tree. Looks like she'd been in a fight.

Speaker 8 I asked her, have you ever been in Jolene's vehicle? She said, no, never have.

Speaker 3 At that point in time, I knew she was lying.

Speaker 3 I then confronted her and said, I don't believe you.

Speaker 3 At that time, she said, well, if you don't believe me, maybe I need an attorney.

Speaker 5 Investigators place Jennifer under arrest and transport her to the St. John's County Jail.

Speaker 15 We originally charged Jennifer Seibert with grand theft of Jolene's vehicle.

Speaker 8 We need to continue gathering evidence, looking for any clues, certainly looking to see if we can find Jolene somewhere.

Speaker 5 They start by canvassing the area around the salon for more surveillance footage.

Speaker 3 We did discover a camera for the alleyway behind Tangles where the dumpsters are located.

Speaker 3 In that video you can see Jennifer Seibert exiting the rear of the business.

Speaker 3 with large garbage bags and throwing them into the dumpster behind the business for several hours after Tangles was closed on the 12th of May.

Speaker 5 Footage further shows a truck emptying the dumpster on May 14th, just two hours after Jolene was reported missing.

Speaker 3 We contacted the company that services the dumpsters and they were able to give us a general area of where that particular truck dumped.

Speaker 3 We asked them to isolate that area so that we could later search it.

Speaker 5 Authorities obtain a search warrant for Jennifer's car.

Speaker 8 We found a bag in there with combs and scissors.

Speaker 3 The screw that attaches two pieces of scissors together. There was a little bit of a darker color substance in there.
Could have been rust, it could have been anything.

Speaker 3 It was something that we needed to have analyzed. We did that, and it did come back as positive for not just blood, but Jolene's blood.

Speaker 18 I did believe at that point that we had located the murder weapon.

Speaker 5 Detectives also discover a record of purchases made by Jennifer at Walmart around 9 p.m. on May 12th, the last day Jolene was seen alive.

Speaker 3 The detective went to Walmart and obtained video surveillance.

Speaker 15 She bought ammonia, large trash bags. gloves,

Speaker 15 and a carving knife.

Speaker 5 Detectives re-examine the hours of surveillance footage and quickly realize that after Jennifer purchased the items at Walmart, she returned to the salon.

Speaker 5 Over an hour later, she emerges and continues her trips to the dumpster.

Speaker 8 What really floored me was the electric knife. When I saw that, I'm thinking she cut Jolene up, stuffed her in those black trash bags,

Speaker 8 and threw her away like garbage.

Speaker 8 Coming up.

Speaker 5 A shocking confession with a twist no one sees coming.

Speaker 21 I'm 50 years old. I've been running from the FBI for over 25 years.

Speaker 3 At the time, I had no idea if this was true or not true.

Speaker 15 All of a sudden, there's this information with a little girl named Jennifer Seibert, same date of birth, who died in a car accident in Germany at 13 years old. It just gave us chills.

Speaker 5 Jolene Cummings is missing and presumed dead.

Speaker 5 Her co-worker, Jennifer Seibert, is in custody after surveillance video shows her stealing Jolene's vehicle. But blood evidence now points to a much darker crime.

Speaker 3 When the Luminol

Speaker 8 lit up the salon, it was obviously a lot of blood. At that point, we knew we had a murder on our hands.

Speaker 3 The amounts of blood that were found on the walls and the floor, there were samples of those collected.

Speaker 3 They were sent

Speaker 3 and they did come back as Joey's DNA.

Speaker 3 The evidence was mounting and we knew that this crime occurred inside Tangles.

Speaker 8 When you ever have a murder and you can't locate the body, it's a difficult case. You have to have overwhelming evidence.

Speaker 5 Investigators search the landfill where they believe Jolene's body may be located.

Speaker 3 The area was enormous. It was almost inconceivable the amount of refuge that we went through.
We analyzed what we could, but nothing of evidentiary value was found.

Speaker 5 Investigators searched for a potential motive by interviewing the staff about Jennifer and Jolene's relationship.

Speaker 3 When Jennifer Seibert first went to work at Tangles, it seemed like her and Jolene got along very well. But as time went on, there was tension and eventually downright just dislike between the two.

Speaker 16 Jolene had all the clients. I don't think she was making the money that Jolene was making.

Speaker 12 Jolene had talked to me about Jennifer and said that something was really weird with her.

Speaker 5 Another co-worker, Anne Morgan, who has worked with Jolene for nearly six years, claims that the day before her disappearance, Jolene and Jennifer argued.

Speaker 22 Jolene, say,

Speaker 22 go away. I don't want to talk to you.
You fake. You crazy.
You fake. She told me, she said, Miss Anne,

Speaker 22 something about Jennifer that I cannot put my hand on.

Speaker 22 She's not right.

Speaker 3 Jolene basically told her, you're not who you say you are, and I'm going to find out who you are.

Speaker 5 Detectives believe that the cryptic confrontation may have led to Jolene's murder.

Speaker 8 Something triggered Jennifer to do this. What exactly was, we don't know.

Speaker 5 On May 18th, after two days in custody, Jennifer drops a bombshell.

Speaker 3 I want to talk to you for a few minutes.

Speaker 21 John's going to tell you. When you run my fingerprints through, they come up as Kimberly Lee Kessler.

Speaker 21 I was born in May of 1968, May 9th. I am 50 years old.
I've been running from the FBI for over 25 years.

Speaker 15 We just didn't know what we had at that point.

Speaker 3 Who is this lady?

Speaker 15 What is she about? Where is she from?

Speaker 5 Kimberly says she grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 21 I was an honorable student. I was a cheerleader.
And when my mom started to like act crazy on me and I started hanging out with the crowd that would take me in.

Speaker 5 Kimberly tells investigators that she dropped out of school and left Pennsylvania for something new that proved dangerous.

Speaker 21 One of my first relationships in Arizona, I was working as a

Speaker 21 topless dancer at a topless bar in Phoenix. And

Speaker 16 just

Speaker 21 started going out with him and whatever. And

Speaker 21 he was with me whenever he called somebody and they said, the FBI is looking for you. And then he tells me everything.
Oh, I've robbed these banks. And I'm like, you what?

Speaker 21 And I hid him in my apartment. And that was like kind of almost the beginning.

Speaker 5 Kimberly claims that after the relationship ended, she changed her name and went on the run.

Speaker 21 I got my real estate license. I have driven tractor and trailer, which I did in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Speaker 8 She stuck by the premise that she was running from an ex who she was afraid of.

Speaker 5 When the conversation shifts to Jolene, Kimberly quickly shuts it down.

Speaker 3 She said that she thought you were fake. She thought you were following you.
She was going to look you up. I don't remember any of that.

Speaker 19 I think you know where Jolene is.

Speaker 3 She's out there somewhere. Her body's up there somewhere.

Speaker 19 And you're the one that can make it happen right now.

Speaker 12 No, I cannot.

Speaker 5 What's more, investigators find no proof that anyone is pursuing Kimberly, FBI or otherwise.

Speaker 3 At the time, I had no idea what was true or not true. So we set to work on finding out who she was.

Speaker 15 I typed in the name Jennifer Seibert, date of birth, and all of a sudden, there's this information

Speaker 15 with a little girl named Jennifer Seibert, same date of birth, who was in a car accident in Germany.

Speaker 15 She died at 13 years old.

Speaker 15 It just gave us chills.

Speaker 15 She was buried in Butler, Pennsylvania, and we knew that Jennifer was from Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 5 They suspect she stole the real Jennifer Seibert's identity from her gravestone.

Speaker 3 A detective contacted the real Jennifer Seibert's father. He was very surprised.
He said that he had no idea how

Speaker 3 Kimberly Kessler could have obtained his daughter's information. I've worked identity theft before.
There's sites you can go to online, dark web and such, and get that kind of thing.

Speaker 5 Pennsylvania authorities tell detectives that Kimberly Kessler was reported missing by her mother in 2004 when she was 36 years old.

Speaker 3 She was an adult at the time she went missing. As a matter of fact, her mother waited several years before she even reported her missing.

Speaker 3 I think she had talked about leaving, getting out of Butler, Pennsylvania. We actually sent an FBI agent to the mother's home and got a DNA swab and discovered, yes, this is truly her daughter.

Speaker 5 Investigators continue digging, conducting interviews with anyone who knew Kimberly.

Speaker 5 They dated and lived together for a while. Well,

Speaker 5 Kim seemed to be the most charming, vulgar person ever and

Speaker 5 snap.

Speaker 3 In talking with people that she had dated in the past, she was extremely jealous. She was very controlling.
She was at times very violent.

Speaker 3 She spapped me, chat, spit my dad in the leg.

Speaker 8 When we're interviewing people, we found out she went by around 17 different aliases. She had several driver's licenses in different states.

Speaker 3 This is

Speaker 3 a weird, evil woman.

Speaker 5 Coming up, circumstantial evidence continues to mount, but Kimberly presents an unexpected new obstacle.

Speaker 8 She was just

Speaker 8 very nasty to her deputies in the jail. She'd actually throw crap at them, cuss at them, spit on them, all that.

Speaker 5 May 2018.

Speaker 5 It's been eight days since 34-year-old Jolene Cummings went missing.

Speaker 5 Investigators now suspect the mother of three has been killed by her coworker, Kimberly Kessler, who has allegedly been on the run and living under false identities for nearly 25 years.

Speaker 5 However, investigators have yet to recover a body.

Speaker 3 No-body homicides, they are much more difficult to prosecute than when you have a body. The body itself is evidence, you know, and juries are very visual people.

Speaker 5 A search of Kimberly's cell phone leads to crucial evidence.

Speaker 15 We have her internet searches, co-worker guilty of murder, co-worker not found, no body, no crime.

Speaker 3 There were literally hundreds of searches in reference to Jarlene Cummins' disappearance.

Speaker 5 Despite having no body, on September 7th, 2018, a Nassau County grand jury indicts Kimberly on first-degree murder charges.

Speaker 5 Once she is behind bars, Kimberly exhibits a string of increasingly concerning behaviors.

Speaker 8 She would just be very nasty to our deputies in the jail. She'd actually throw crap at them.
She'd save in a cup and smear it on the windows all over her cell, cuss at them, spit on them, all that.

Speaker 5 The behaviors warrant enough concern to conduct a mental evaluation to determine if Kimberly is fit to stand trial.

Speaker 4 She was diagnosed with delusional disorder. Somebody who has shown that they maintain

Speaker 5 behaviors that

Speaker 10 are not based in any form of fact or reality.

Speaker 4 Now, if a person is a very, very convincing actor, they could convince somebody that they have delusional disorder. So another psychologist re-evaluated Kimberley.

Speaker 4 and based on their assessment found that Kimberly met criteria for an unspecified personality disorder and not a delusional disorder.

Speaker 4 It's not considered to be that real break from reality that we would see in successful sorts of use of an insanity defense.

Speaker 15 Well, the judge is actually the one who makes the final decision. He decided she was clearly okay to stay in for trial.

Speaker 5 When Kimberly's trial begins in December 2021, her gaunt appearance is shocking, as are her antics.

Speaker 3 When she was housed in the Nassau County Jail or Detention Facility, she went on a hunger strike.

Speaker 8 Every time that Kimberly had a court hearing, she would come in and she would be disruptive, so the judge would have her removed.

Speaker 5 The theatrics do nothing to distract prosecutors from building their case. They present Kimberly as a troubled woman who lashed out when Jolene threatened to uncover her long-kept secret.

Speaker 3 I think whenever Jolene told her, I'm going to find out who you are, that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Speaker 4 For somebody with Kimberly Kessler's personality style, once somebody is on to them, it is not unusual. for that person with that personality to get really agitated, to escalate.

Speaker 18 I believe they got into a physical altercation. Jolene Cummings fought back, but I think Kimberly was able to get a hold of a pair of scissors.

Speaker 18 That was what incapacitated Jolene Cummings so that the body could be disposed of later on in the back part of the salon.

Speaker 4 Kimberly Kessler likely felt entitled. to eliminating Jolene so that she could maintain her own false reality that she had been using to get through the world all of these years.

Speaker 4 It's actually quite chilling.

Speaker 5 On December 9th, 2021, the jury convicts 53-year-old Kimberly Kessler of first-degree murder and grand theft auto.

Speaker 3 She was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Speaker 5 To this day, the search for Jolene's body continues, and investigators remain determined to reunite her with her beloved family.

Speaker 3 I will never give up hope on locating Jolene.

Speaker 10 I love and miss Jolene very much, and I would like to say to Kimberly, if you have any decency

Speaker 19 or any

Speaker 12 feelings whatsoever, At least give this family some closure and tell them where she is.

Speaker 17 Kimberly Kessler is currently housed at a women's prison in Ocala, Florida. She is not eligible for parole.
Jolene's daughter is now living with her grandmother, Ann Johnson.

Speaker 17 Jolene's two sons are being raised by their father, Jason.