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Hi there, everybody. Welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts, and as always,

I am so happy to see you all today and for you to hear us today. We're going to bring you

really some exclusive details to our

reporting of our most recent 2020 episode called The Final Cut. You'll understand that play on

words in a second, but it is almost like a psychological thriller. There were secret identities

that reveal double lives, but it's a true story that centers around the death of a 34-year-old mom and a hairdresser by the name of Jolene Cummings.

Jolene was popular in her area of work. She was a hairstylist, and she had dreams of opening her own salon.

She had clients who called her a herapist, a little play on

therapist because she loved to talk to them about their lives and help them try to solve their

problems. But on May 13th, 2018, Mother's Day, which also happened to be Jolene's birthday,

she didn't show up to pick up her children from her ex-husband, which was out of

character for her. Nobody heard from her. Her mother didn't hear from her. It was very strange.

And nobody knew where she was, of course, except the person who was responsible for her

disappearance. I worked on this story. I traveled down to Florida and spoke with a number of

people involved, including women who had worked and been at the hair salon where Jolene had worked for years. Also, I worked alongside

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