A Mother's Day Gone Wrong

On May 12, 2018, 34-year-old Joleen Cummings, a devoted mother of three and hairstylist at Tangles Hair Salon in Fernandina Beach, Florida, finished her shift and vanished without a trace. The following day, Mother's Day and her birthday, she failed to meet her ex-husband to pick up their children, prompting concern from her family. Her mother reported her missing on May 14, initiating a search that would uncover a web of deception and murder.

The Enigmatic Co-Worker

Investigators quickly turned their attention to Kimberly Kessler, who had been working at Tangles under the alias "Jennifer Sybert" for about a month. Kessler failed to show up for work on May 14, and the address she had provided was found to be fictitious. Surveillance footage later revealed Kessler parking Cummings' SUV in a Home Depot parking lot in Yulee, Florida, at 1:17 a.m. on May 13, just hours after Cummings was last seen. Kessler was arrested on May 16, found sleeping in her car at a rest area on Interstate 95....Read More