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The timing couldn’t be better for the sister and husband of Fairfax County firefighter Nicole Mittendorff, who took her own life a decade ago.
“This week marks 10 years since we realized that Nicole was missing, when she didn’t show up for work,” Jennifer Clardy Chalmers, Mittendorff’s sister, said. “A week later, we found her in Shenandoah National Park.”
Mittendorff’s body was found April 21, 2016, after an intense search in Shenandoah National Park, eight days after she was last heard from…