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Video ties former county woman with missing co-worker

This is believed to be Kimberly Kessler, seen here in a freshman yearbook photo from the 1983 Knoch High School yearbook, The Lance. She is a suspect in the disappearance of a co-worker in Florida.

The State Attorney's office for the 4th Judicial Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla., released footage and interviews Thursday showing that a woman with Butler ties entered a gas station around the same time one of her coworkers suspiciously disappeared.

This new footage shows Kimberly Kessler, 50, who formerly lived in Butler County, entering the gas station dressed in all black. She waited there for a cab to arrive.

A vehicle belonging to her coworker, Jolene Cummings, 34, was found in a Home Depot parking lot two days after Cummings was last seen. Security footage from that parking lot showed a figure dressed in black leaving the vehicle.

Interviews with both the cab driver and an employee of the gas station are included in the new release. The employee said Kessler had a red mark on her cheek “where it looked like someone had grabbed her,” records show.

Kessler, who lived in the county about 14 years ago, has gone by 18 aliases since, according to investigators.

FBI and Nassau County Sheriff personnel previously searched a landfill for evidence in the case. Cummings has yet to be found.

Read more in the Eagle.

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