Juror: DNA, internet searches & attempt to clean crime scene sealed Kimberly Kessler’s fate

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Kimberly Kessler record photo.

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – News4JAX connected Tuesday spoke with 1 of the jurors astir the execution proceedings that ended with a condemnation of Kimberly Kessler successful the decease of her salon co-worker Joleen Cummings.

The juror said it was not a hard determination and aft she heard captious pieces of evidence, she knew Kessler was guilty.

Jurors person been released to talk publically since the verdict successful the proceedings of Kessler on Dec. 9. The juror who spoke to News4JAX connected Tuesday did truthful connected the information of anonymity.

“She [Kessler] was precise clever to commencement out. She knew what she was doing,” the juror said. “But present she wants to accidental that she was crazy. She’s not competent.”

The juror pointed to galore things that led her to that decision, but a superior 1 was DNA grounds recovered astatine the scene.

When asked if determination were immoderate different cardinal discoveries that led the juror to a blameworthy verdict, she said, “When the DNA woman came up from Duval County and the humor samples that they took. And erstwhile they said it was Joleen Cummings’ blood that was connected her boots. The scissors. It was 5 antithetic spots connected them. Joleen Cummings’ humor was connected there.”

The juror continued, “Her apparel and connected erstwhile you travel into the salon wherever the large receptionist table was, her humor was connected there. For maine arsenic a juror, that sealed the woody for me. I already knew that she was guilty.”

Another happening that she said swayed the assemblage were Kessler’s net searches.

“All the things, the searches, the google searches that she looked up connected however to dismember a body,” the juror said.

There was an absorbing dynamic to this lawsuit successful that Kessler was not contiguous successful the courtroom pursuing galore outbursts. The justice had her sequestered successful a antithetic country for the proceedings and the juror said that it made it hard for immoderate members of the jury.

“It was precise aggravated and immoderate of the jurors asked for her to beryllium successful determination due to the fact that they wanted to spot what her effect was erstwhile the authorities radical got up and everything,” the juror said. “But I conjecture it was precise hard due to the fact that we didn’t cognize what her emotion was astatine the time.”

The juror said Kessler seemed competent successful however she cleaned the transgression country astatine the Tangles Hair Salon.

“It took a methodical caput to regenerate things that were breached and get each the cleaning supplies,” the juror said.

Kessler’s lawyers person cited galore mistakes they accidental the justice made during proceedings and person filed a question for a caller trial.