Kimberly Lee Kessler pulled off a vanishing act 14 years ago.

She changed her name and moved from her Connoquenessing Township home. She was going into hiding, she told her mother, to get away from a paramour.

In a “poof,” or so it appeared, she had a new life. Somewhere.

She apparently managed to shed her former identity and her past, authorities said, until her seemingly forgotten name resurfaced, ironically during the investigation of another woman's disappearance in northern Florida.

The Nassau County Sheriff's Office on May 16 arrested Kessler on a charge of grand theft auto, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the Nassau County Sheriff's Office.

She is also considered a suspect in the disappearance of a co-worker there, according to the sheriff's office.

Florida authorities say Kessler is accused of stealing the vehicle belonging to 34-year-old Joleen Cummings, who was last seen May 12 and reported missing to police two days later.

Police said they found Cummings' vehicle in a Home Depot parking lot and when viewing surveillance footage from the store, they allegedly saw a “figure dressed in black” park and exit the vehicle on May 13, according to the affidavit.

A short time later, Kessler, dressed in black, was seen on surveillance walking into a nearby shopping center and taking a taxi to the hair salon where she and Cummings worked, according to court documents.

Investigators said when Kessler was arrested at a rest stop in St. John's County, Fla., she denied ever using Cummings' vehicle, documents said.

She reportedly was found with a fake ID and counterfeit passport, using a Social Security number and going by a bogus name and date of birth.

She is being held in the Nassau County Jail & Detention Center on $500,000 bail.

Authorities including the FBI continue to investigate Cummings' disappearance while seeking additional information about Kessler. “Many questions remain unanswered about Sybert,” Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said told the Florida Times-Union Wednesday.

A check of records by the Butler Eagle at the Butler County Courthouse on Thursday failed to uncover any information about Kessler.

No one by that name, for example, had ever registered to vote, applied for a marriage license, filed a lawsuit or was sued in the county; or was arrested or got a parking ticket anywhere in the state.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Jim Long, a public information officer at the Butler barracks, was working in the patrol unit in 2012 when he spoke to Kessler's mother.

Connie Kessler contacted police to report her daughter missing — since 2004.

Long, who took the initial missing person's report, said he could not remember what Connie Kessler told him when he asked her why it took so long for her to come forward.

She said her daughter advised her that she wanted to “change her name and change her whole life,” Long said. “And it seemed like she succeeded in that.”

Kessler also told her mother, Long recounted, that she had already picked out a new name — Pamela Kleber or Pamela Kleiber — to use.

“She got (the name) off a tombstone,” Long said.

Connie Kessler also provided police with the reason her daughter gave for seeking a new life.

“She wanted to be hidden from a paramour,” he said. She also may have had plans to head to Virginia Beach, Va.

It was not known why Kessler ended up picking the name Jennifer Marie Sybert — the name she was using when she was arrested last week in Florida.

Long said after taking the initial missing person's report, he immediately forwarded it to the crime unit to investigate.

Trooper Joshua Black was assigned to the case. Black is not at work this week and was unavailable for comment.

The extent of the police investigation was not known. But Long said Kessler was never entered into the National Crime Information Center as a missing person.

He noted Kessler was an adult — 35 years old — in 2004 when she advised her mother she was leaving on her own and that she did not want to be found.