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live from the local station news or Jax
starts now the news for Jax i-team
uncovering more possible bombshell
evidence in the pending murder case
against Kimberly Kessler the woman
awaiting trial in the disappearance and
death of a Nassau County mom
Jolene Cummings Kessler appeared in
court today where her attorneys are
raising the possibility they may argue
to have her ruled incompetent for trial
we first began showing you yesterday
newly released evidence from the Kessler
investigation and now we have much more
today we uncovered what detectives say
she searched on her phone more than four
hundred times in the days after Jolene
Cummings disappeared last spring we also
found Kessler may have targeted Cummings
weeks before Cummings vanished
today Kessler appeared in a Nassau
County courtroom still wearing a medical
mask
the sheriff says that's a permanent
precaution because Kessler refuses to
take a tuberculosis test Cummings mother
spoke with News four jacks after the
hearing she is still desperate for
answers wanting to know what happened to
her daughter unlike some people I'm not
able to see my daughter I want to
proceed Julianne again to whisper to her
one more time
that I love you Jolene did not deserve
to be taken from us so cruelly I did not
deserve to live for the rest of my life
in pain without my daughter
Cummings body has never been found her
three children are now living with her
mother
News 4 Jack's i-team reporter Lindsay
Gardner has been poring through this
evidence all day Lindsay tell us what
you found disturbing is one way to put
it there from witchcraft to Satan how to
code open a body how to preserve a body
psychosis as well as meth induce
paranoia plus the body of Christ Jesus
and redemption all of those searches and
all of that information in kessler's
phone giving us valuable
insight into her mindset new evidence
shows disturbing internet searches made
by Kimberly Kessler before Jolene
Cummings murder including this search
Kessler typed into her phone co-worker
guilty of murder missing person body not
found that search was done on April 30th
2018
two weeks before investigators say the
murder ever happened
we also found Kessler had a photo of
Cummings appointment book from April she
had also written a note on her phone in
April that read Jolene
I think Vicky wants to get rid of me
because I'm not bringing in any money
Vicky was their boss at the tangle salon
after Cummings disappearance made
headlines we found Kessler searched
Jolene Cummings name at least 457 times
in just 48 hours that included an
internet search of simply Jolene
Cummings no body no crime
Cummings body has still not been found
today but also days before the crime
Kessler's phone reveals that she viewed
bizarre images through Pinterest
including plastination and how to
preserve a human body and also how to
dissect a human body Kessler also makes
references to witchcraft this photo with
the name Virginia and which written on
top of it stored to her phone as were
these two pages of names with evil
murderous gang at Walmart witch and
Satanist scribbled in between them
investigators later traced some of these
names back to Kessler's past in
Pennsylvania where she grew up they
traveled there and met with her
childhood friends and learned more about
Kessler's past before she left
Pennsylvania in 2004 claiming to be
running from an abusive relationship you
have any idea who she would even be
talking about if she said she was afraid
of some guy she dated that unidentified
friend said Kessler once ran with the
popular crowd before turning into
someone else entirely
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and dark is one way to describe the
evidence that we saw on her phone there
today
now Kessler also had pictures of church
hymns Bible verses messages about Satan
how God forgives and redemption for lost
souls but overall guys it was just
fascinating to see how her surgeon one
second could be meth induced psychosis
paranoia dissecting a body right into
Fernandina Beach Church services like
all within like three seconds four and
then she would search a certain Bible
verse and it was like you could just
tell it was like erratic as she was
doing it since this investigation began
we have seen clearly that Sheriff Bill
leaper of Nassau County has been very
disturbed by this murder more disturbed
than I've ever seen him before you talk
to him today what did you tell you you
know what and he's also very
tight-lipped and normally Sheriff Lieber
is you know good with communicating here
with the media and the public as well
but he reminded us all that he's under a
gag order from a judge but I was telling
him sheriff Lieber like there's just so
much to go through and he was like that
is just the tip of the iceberg you don't
even have close to all of it right now
we know the FBI still very much involved
in this case of I was calling sheriff
Lee for specifically about these
pictures with all of these names and we
were doing our own digging tracing some
back to Pennsylvania some of these
people have since passed we were trying
to figure out the connection why was she
walking around with this list of names
and sheriff leaper couldn't tell us that
but it's something that we are still
looking into and will be covering for
you this evening it felt like things you
only hear about in movies absolutely in
fact it's something that sheriff leapers
says we will likely see made into a
movie one day when all of the facts come
of course the next development in the
case is the defense attorneys asking for
a mental examination is they appear to
be moving toward asking the court to
have her declared mentally in
competent for trial absolutely her
defense team did not object to all of
this data coming out meanwhile deeply
disturbing for the family of Jolene
Cummings to know what she was searching
and that that mother still has not been
brought home Lindsay thank you