Joleen Cummings, a Nassau County mother of three who went missing last May and is presumed dead, made a chilling premonition about Kimberly Kessler, the woman now charged with her murder.
“She said she cannot explain it but something about Jennifer is not right,” said Ann Morgan who worked with both women at Tangles Hair Salon in Nassau County. “She’s not the person that she says she is.”
Kessler told coworkers her name was Jennifer Sybert. Investigators now know it’s one of over a dozen aliases Kessler used.
The quote comes from an interview with a detective released as evidence in Kessler’s murder trial on Wednesday.
In the interview, Morgan told the detective Kessler and Cummings frequently had arguments in the salon, about things as small as who should wash a customer’s hair or whether the thermostat should be on or off.
At one point, Cummings told Morgan she planned to look up the criminal history of Jennifer Sybert, the name by which she knew Kessler.
“I have a feeling that there is something about her that I don’t trust,” Morgan recalled Cummings saying.
Days later Cummings disappeared and has not been seen since. Her body has not been found but investigators believe her to be dead.