Nassau County Sheriff Invoice Leeper threw a giant celebration for his deputies and workers members with a customized cake celebrating an notorious murderess getting her “simply desserts.”
Thirty-four-year-old hairstylist Joleen Cummings was final seen alive working at Tangles, a hair salon in Fernandina Seashore, Florida. She was supposed to satisfy up along with her ex-husband within the metropolis of Hilliard about 45 minutes away the following day to choose up her three children to have a good time Mom’s Day and her birthday. However, she by no means confirmed up.
After an intensive investigation with many twists and turns, Nassau County deputies arrested a girl named Jennifer Sybert for the homicide of Cummings. Nevertheless, the true Jennifer Sybert died in 1987 in Germany, the sufferer of a automotive crash, and was laid to relaxation in Butler, Pennsylvania. That’s when authorities found Jennifer Sybert was certainly one of many aliases utilized by Kimberly Kessler.
Throughout the investigation, Kimberly Kessler was noticed on safety digicam video driving Cummings’ Ford Expedition. That led the search to the CCTV footage from the Tangles Hair Salon from the night time Cummings was final seen. It confirmed Kessler throwing out a number of massive trash baggage behind the salon. Authorities stated additionally they discovered retailer video of Kessler buying trash baggage, ammonia, cleansing gloves, and an electrical knife close to the time Cummings vanished, FOX30 reported.
“Investigators and prosecutors stated DNA proof confirmed Cummings’ blood was discovered all through the enterprise, on Kessler’s scissors and boots, and stated there was a cleanup effort, believing that she was killed there regardless that her physique has by no means been discovered,” CBS47 reported. “A jury in Nassau County discovered Kimberly Kessler responsible of first diploma homicide.”
Kessler’s antics whereas in custody grew to become notorious all through Nassau County. Hoping to persuade the choose she was insane and couldn’t face trial, Kessler resorted to “smearing feces that was in Styrofoam containers on herself and the partitions,” in accordance with one report, “she [also] started to throw feces on the officer and one other standing close by.”
Kessler additionally claimed the officers have been attempting to “poison” her and went on a starvation strike. “By the top of her strike, she reportedly weighed solely 89 kilos. Nevertheless, testimony from hospital and jail workers stated that when she was not within the jail, Kessler would ‘binge’ eat and drink till she was returned to jail,” Florida Occasions Union reported. Throughout the trial, Kessler routinely disrupted the proceedings by inflicting a commotion and hurling obscenities on the choose.
The convicted murderess continued her weird habits throughout sentencing. “[I]n typical trend, Kessler was eliminated earlier than her sentencing listening to was absolutely underway,” FTU reported. “She might be heard shouting…earlier than she reached the courtroom — and as she was promptly wheeled again out.” So, when Kessler was sentenced to life with out the potential for parole and was leaving the Nassau County Jail to go to her “perpetually house” in certainly one of Florida’s maximum-security prisons, Sheriff Leeper and his workers celebrated.
“We’re going to have a good time her house going, as a result of her new house, for the remainder of her life, till she takes her final breath, goes to be Florida State Jail,” Leeper stated. “She has over the previous few weeks tried to take her life and was unsuccessful, however we wished to maintain her protected in our jail so we may do away with her and put her within the state’s arms and allow them to cope with her now. The prices borne by the taxpayers of Nassau County for her custody since her arrest have been staggering,” Sheriff Leeper declared in a Fb put up. “A conservative estimate value for her suicide watch, medical prices, transportation and meals amounted to over $215,000.” It’s no surprise they have been glad to see her go.
