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With Kessler in custody, detectives begin searching her phone.
Her phone was definitely an insight into where her mind was leading up to the moment that Jolene went missing.
We see Kimberly Kessler's search history starts to shift from recipes and stores and the normal things to how long does it take for a body to decay?
It was very weird what she was searching, you know, no body, no crime, how to dismember a body.
And it's in that alley where detectives find another huge clue.
The surveillance video shows Kimberly Kessler taking numerous large trash bags that are pretty full and pretty heavy based on the way that she's got to swing them into the dumpster behind the salon.
Once detectives start piecing things together from inside of the Tangle salon and looking at the alley outside, they start to develop a theory that Jolene Cummings may have been dismembered and discarded in that very dumpster.
They processed the whole place, and there was so much blood there that nobody was going to survive that.
Investigators scan that surveillance tape, hoping for more clues, and boy, did they get one.
They see Kessler driving by Tangles as though she's checking to see if the dumpsters had been emptied.
Police learned that the contents were taken to a landfill in Georgia, about 25 miles away from Nassau County.
The FBI took the lead on actually searching the landfill.
We knew it was going to be a needle in a haystack, but we knew we had to try to search and see what evidence or if Jolene herself was in that dump.