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00:00some stories are unforgettable this is one of them she loved her family she put everything
00:13she had into being there for everybody else a couple of days go by and i hadn't heard from her
00:22she called me and she's like have you heard jasmine's missing what was it about that post
00:28that stood out to you the photos that's not something she would put out there of her in
00:34lingerie jasmine's family told me she had a maturity about her so i understood their alarm
00:40when it appeared her behavior suddenly changed i pulled up her phone record she's not making phone
00:46calls since tuesday night and someone has been resetting her passwords her family catapulted
00:54the investigation they took matters into their own hands i have never covered a story quite like
01:00this one there were two parallel investigations one by the police and another by jasmine's family
01:06but lines were crossed and that put the case in jeopardy we can see the pin drop from jasmine's
01:13phone we found a way in the apartment complex he said i heard a scream that was so startling that
01:20i wrote the time down so this was right next door exactly are you thinking jasmine could be inside yes
01:29we forced the door open terrified of what you're about to find
01:40this is dateline unforgettable i'm blaine alexander with a fresh look at the pin in apartment 210.
01:51how far would you go for your family for the people you love most in the world
01:58when you're desperate you just don't stop moving especially if one of them was in trouble
02:05it's been messing for four days this family went to the ends of the earth what can we do and the edge of
02:12the law can't investigate anything in there that you found they'd only find out later if they had gone
02:19too far i first got to know jasmine pace jazzy through the many videos she posted she was young
02:30very online just a vivacious young woman i learned more about her through dozens of conversations and
02:36also about her family they had a sort of unwritten code to show up for each other no matter what this
02:43story is about their determination to find jazzy even if it meant breaking the law chattanooga
02:50tennessee 2022 just two days before thanksgiving jackie white and her family were heartbroken
03:00the family matriarch granny had cancer and the prognosis wasn't good it was hard and the cancer
03:09had metastasized it went from hey let's figure out what's wrong too she's gonna die very soon
03:16that fast yes so it was really quick it was really unexpected the family all gathered at the
03:23hospital including jackie's cousin jasmine pace jazzy as the family called her adored granny
03:32how was jasmine during all of that she kept it together because that's what we do in my family
03:38we're strong for each other but when i got there she was outside alone having her breakdown so she
03:46was devastated i mean devastated absolutely devastated everyone had their own moment with her and she
03:59passed as soon as i started praying jackie grieved with her cousin jazzy the two worried about their moms
04:10granny had raised them both so they made plans for the family to gather on thanksgiving
04:16just two days away jazzy helped lead the charge she offered you know i can bring stuff our moms are
04:25not gonna want to have thanksgiving but granny will haunt us if we do not she's like we have to get
04:32everyone together even if we're all in pajamas and crying yeah so that was the plan to kind of recoup
04:39the day in between and figure it out um and then i'll get back together on thanksgiving
04:47the day before thanksgiving jackie texted jazzy to see how she was holding up
04:53and you got a response i did saying what i just need some time alone after everything that happened
04:58was that a normal response from her for an emotional event yes but then jazzy texted to say
05:09she was spending thanksgiving with a friend instead of the family and said you know i'm going to south
05:17carolina with emma for her family's thanksgiving i just need some time away from everyone after
05:24everything that happened jackie couldn't believe it her not coming to thanksgiving
05:32it upset me i mean i'm like girl be here you know and i tried to call her on thanksgiving and
05:39it went straight to voicemail jazzy's half sister gabby pace also found it strange especially when she
05:49got this snapchat from jazzy a photo with the message baby i'm good what did you think odd because
05:58they were old pictures it didn't look like the most recent jazzy
06:04by that friday morning worry started to creep in jazzy's mother katrina realized nobody had actually
06:13spoken to jazzy in three days since the night granny died when she couldn't reach her on the phone by the
06:21day after thanksgiving it was like no something's wrong she's not picking up the phone she's not
06:27checking on me she knows her daughter she does and it's very unlike jasmine to not be there for everyone
06:35her mom called emma the friend jazzy said she was visiting emma actually told her my family's not in
06:45south carolina so i don't even know where that came from and there was more jazzy wasn't with her on
06:52thanksgiving and that's when it was like panic stricken she knew something wasn't right and and
06:58she's like what do i do and i said she's 22 she's on your phone plan who is she talking to like let's
07:05let's unravel this the search for jazzy would force the family to go places and do things they
07:13never imagined what can we do at this point i mean i'm not saying it sounds like you all went into
07:20full investigation mode you know it's not her we know it's not her and from that moment on it was just
07:26digging like where is she spending money who's she talking to you you're terrified of what you're about to
07:31fond november 26 2022 it had been four days since family and friends last saw jasmine pace
07:52it was totally unlike jazzy to disappear like that her family started tracking her down
07:59it's 2022 everyone has an electronic footprint there are clues everywhere especially they
08:07figured for a bright and fun 22 year old who was normally in constant touch what was she like sweet
08:16sassy so easy to talk to
08:20she had a lot of friends definitely kind of an old soul she liked to read and as social as she was
08:32she was a homebody too and also outdoorsy she liked walking along the banks of the tennessee river
08:42family friend brianna edge had known jasmine since she was born
08:46she always wanted to be where the adults were she could be five six years old and jasmine wanted to
08:54know what was going on be part of it as she got older jazzy wanted to be a part of the family business
09:02too she started working in her mom and stepdad scott's construction company she was still in college but
09:09worked for that company so it was all day every day on the phone with them jazzy had always been
09:17someone they could lean on in times of crisis her number one i would say was her family now jazzy might
09:25be the one in crisis her family kicked into high gear not only were they determined to find her they
09:32were tech savvy they went to the verizon store and pulled jazzy's phone records one call in particular
09:39caught their attention it happened on the day granny died a 71 minute call to a number they didn't
09:47recognize the next day her phone turned off they couldn't ping her location but they thought of
09:55something else you know every car has a computer mostly after 2015 now and so we would be able to
10:02track her car location through that but in order for us to be able to do that we had to log in
10:08through her email so we had to transfer her phone number over to a new phone to be able to access all
10:14of that stuff once they got into jazzy's email account they found out that the passwords to her bank and
10:21social media accounts had been changed it sounds like you all went into full investigation mode i think
10:28that idea was out there of let's use what we can by now the family had accessed jazzy's car app since
10:39the last time the family saw her her car had been to two locations and it was still at one of them
10:46mountain creek road jazzy's mom and stepdad raced over gabby arrived shortly after and there it was
10:55in the parking lot jazzy's suv but no sign of jazzy immediately we see her family is resourceful
11:05jazzy's half sister gabby told me that she looked in the car window and noticed that the driver's seat
11:11was pushed all the way back that indicated that a tall person had been behind the wheel well jazzy was
11:17short gabby told me that that was her first moment of real dread knowing that for whatever reason
11:23someone else had been driving her sister's car and left it in this strange place jazzy's mom called
11:31the police hello and before long a patrol officer showed up body cam rolling so what's going on
11:38exactly that's mom katrina on the left stepdad scott on the right they told the officer everything
11:45they've learned so far she's been missing for four days so tuesday night at 11 27 she left our house
11:53and went to a house on or a place on fraser avenue wednesday it left fraser avenue came right here
11:59it hadn't been moved since i pulled up her phone record she's not making phone calls since tuesday
12:05night okay no data has been used because i had her phone line transferred to a new device so i could
12:12track track track her stuff and someone has been resetting her passwords you know it's not her we
12:17know it's not her just then while the family stood in the lot jazzy seemed to emerge a racy photo popped
12:25up on her facebook account that's when i got scared you saw that post i did i felt like that's someone
12:34that wants to humiliate her that's not something she would put out there of her in lingerie on social
12:42media what can we do at this point i mean i'm not saying it's not weird circumstances because that
12:50definitely is i can get her listed as missing jazzy's mom wanted more she asked them to pull any
12:58security footage from that parking lot see if she actually drove this car here i know the courtesy
13:03officer that does work here but as far as this time of night i don't imagine i'd be able to get
13:08anything until tomorrow can we try as jazzy's family waited on that security footage her mom remembered
13:16that long call jazzy made the day granny died when she didn't recognize the number she had called jackie
13:25who was helping from home so on the phone with me i mean she pulled up her verizon and started
13:30scrolling through and she said the last person she was on phone with it's this number jackie got
13:37right to work while still on the phone with jazzy's mom she ran the number through one of her mobile
13:43payment apps and i put it in cash app and i said jason chin do you know that person she said yes and she
13:52hung up on me katrina knew jazzy had been casually seeing a guy named jason chin for a few months
14:00maybe he could help find her hello so there right in front of police katrina called him no one has
14:07seen or heard from her since tuesday night what would he have to say
14:14jasmine pace's parents were busy tracking her digital footprint trying to determine her movements
14:30since they last saw her they learned she'd had a phone call with jason chin a guy she'd met on a
14:37dating app the two had been casually dating for a few months and had gone on a trip to chicago together
14:43now jazzy's mom was on the phone with him jason told katrina he hadn't spoken to jazzy since that
14:59monday but she knew that wasn't true and you haven't talked to her since then hang on one second
15:06i just muted him when i come in he just lied he talked to her for 71 minutes
15:11tuesday afternoon okay he would remember that jazzy's mom pressed him hey jason i just pulled off her
15:19her call log and i have it on here where she talked to you for 71 minutes tuesday afternoon
15:26while her granny was in the hospital jason said he did remember talking to jazzy that day
15:33he'd simply forgotten for police it wasn't much to go on i can document that but as far as putting
15:41him as a suspect we we don't know okay i'm just letting you please document it katrina pushed them
15:47to do more could we possibly go to a local um business that you have to pass to get these
15:56apartments and ask them to pull up footage so we could see if she's driving her detect but they're
16:00not just going to pull it down for you i understand that but i can't just not
16:08i understand i understand i'm just i'm trying to explain to you the extent of what i can do
16:15i think that every mom every parent can really relate to katrina in this moment i know i did in
16:21this body camera video you can see her desperation let's try this let's do this let's check this video
16:27and that's really what any parent would do when they think their child is in danger i can feel her
16:32frustration realizing there was only so much police could do in that moment my heart truly went out to
16:39her eventually the officers left if police wouldn't follow the leads the family would when you're
16:48desperate i think that's what you do you just don't stop moving it's like you're trying to lean into
16:54anything you can that you think is going to bring you some kind of answer they went to the address
17:01they had for jason but all they found was an abandoned house frustrated jazzy's mom went back
17:09through jazzy's texts from that night and suddenly katrina realizes she has a text on her phone
17:16mm-hmm she sees the pin drop and realizes oh she sent a message yes at 2 18 a.m on the night she
17:26disappeared jazzy had sent her mother a pin with her location on it katrina was grieving granny's passing
17:35and never saw it how shocking was that for her
17:37it was scary i think that that's when i think fear really set in you could tell immediately that
17:48a message like that was a cry for help yes no other explanation i mean there was no for three
17:54o'clock in the morning or two o'clock whatever time it was that pin led them to yet another
18:01apartment complex the family made their way into the building just started knocking on every single
18:07door what are people telling you um at first they said no we haven't seen that girl no we haven't seen
18:12that girl and we almost gave up on knocking on the doors because we were coming to dead ends so you're
18:18just trying to narrow down which floor which apartment yes and then finally we realized that
18:24her pin drop had coordinates to it so then we would walk near every door and down the hallway just
18:31brushing up against the side of the wall trying to get as close to the coordinates as we possibly could
18:36finally they got the perfect hit apartment 210. you knock on the door yes what happens nobody answers
18:46so they knocked on the next door apartment 212. a couple answered the family asked if they'd seen
18:54anything seen no the couple said but they had heard something he said i heard a scream that was so
19:03startling that i wrote the time down so he went and got the paper and i want to say it was in three to
19:12four minutes of that pin drop that he heard that scream the neighbors clocked that scream at 2 15 a.m
19:22just three minutes before jazzy dropped that pin they said it sounded like it came from next door
19:30apartment 210. are you thinking jasmine could still be inside yes she could need help yes jazzy's mom
19:39was fearless maybe even a little reckless she went down and got her credit card out of her car and
19:46and they got in they popped the lock with the credit card the family slowly made their way into
19:54the small one-bedroom apartment right away something caught katrina's eye they had found
20:02my sister's to go bag like a night bag that she takes to go and stay places as you guys continue
20:08looking around the apartment what else did you see in the desk drawer they found my sister's credit cards and
20:13her driver's lessons all stacked up neatly in a pile also on the desk a notebook they opened it and saw a
20:20name jason chen and then we proceeded to call the police for the second time that night police met the
20:29family the officer told them an investigator had already been assigned to the case that was news to
20:40the family who said they'd not been contacted by anyone but as of right now there's nothing more that
20:47we can do right this second to figure out where she's at now if you have phone numbers or other
21:05information i can put it in the report and then i can forward that along to the investigator but she's
21:11the one that has made the call that she's not responding out here tonight the police issued a
21:16warning do not go back into the apartment thanks for finding this but yes let us take it from here
21:23we had no confidence whatsoever in the police because up to this point it was like we can't be it's
21:30it's a holiday weekend how'd you get my number she's fine she's posting on social media
21:36so at this point you're like it's up to us absolutely did your family go back absolutely
21:42because what have you guys done for us this far anything we thought could be a clue
21:48to help us find her we were chasing that
21:51jasmine pace's loved ones had done all they could and maybe more than they should to find her they'd
22:08broken into an apartment then defied police instructions and gone in again jazzy's family
22:17told me they had no hesitation about breaking into that apartment that they'd do it again if
22:22it meant possibly saving her rather than sitting back and waiting for police to step up they started
22:28doing their own digging but here at dateline we've seen cases where important evidence was thrown out
22:34because it wasn't gathered properly and that's what jazzy's family was risking by going into that apartment
22:41very anxious because even though you know that you're in the right direction you're terrified of
22:46what you're about to find you have no idea what you're going to find and you don't want to find
22:51certain things they didn't find anything new but they were convinced jazzy had been there what's more
22:59they were sure jason chen the guy jazzy had been seeing lived in the apartment his name was on the
23:06notebook and a neighbor confirmed it jason was the son of chinese immigrants who owned a restaurant
23:13the family lived 30 minutes outside of nashville but jason moved to attend the university of
23:19tennessee chattanooga where he majored in computer science that's where ryan barrett met him in the
23:26summer of 2020. initially we were the first two people at the dorm so we spent about the first three
23:31or four days just us together really just getting to know each other just figuring out general interests
23:36that we both like you know playing video games ryan says he and jason became good friends that he was
23:42fun to be around what was his demeanor like more quiet guy but he was pretty funny he'd always kind
23:47of come in with those you know little jabs at everybody the two got along so well they became
23:53roommates and even landed jobs at the same place a soap company summertime was great i mean we were going
24:01we spent fourth of july together at the park downtown now jazzy's family was convinced jason had
24:09something to do with her disappearance they took everything they'd gathered that could be used as
24:14evidence jazzy's driver's license and credit card the cell phones and a tablet and gave it to the police
24:22and they didn't stop there they had their family lawyer reach out to the district attorney general
24:28asking for help i received a phone call from my supervisor he called and said that we were going to
24:32come in and assist our missing persons unit with the jasmine paste missing persons investigation
24:40detective zach crawford headed to the apartment when you got in there how did you find the apartment
24:45was it clean was it messy i would say that it was a clean apartment um it appeared that things may
24:51have been slightly out of place in terms of where they were located and you could smell a little bit
24:56of a cleaning product inside of the apartment it smelled like it had possibly been recently cleaned
25:02correct considering everything that you know up until this point when you smell something like that
25:07does that raise your antenna do you pay attention to that yes it's something that is notated along with
25:13smelling it you're also looking for a potential sheen on the floor to see if a if this was a crime scene
25:19location if anything had been altered in terms of cleaned up wiped or anything like that
25:23then he noticed something just on the right of the futon on the floor on the hardwoods i saw what
25:30appeared to be blood transfer in the form of a hill print on the floor blood transfer on the floor when
25:36you say blood transfer you mean like a bloody footprint essentially a bloody footprint so the
25:40crime scene unit comes in what do they do they first document the scene by photographs and video
25:46we asked for certain items to be collected that we observed in our walkthrough i also asked for
25:52blue star reagent to be applied to that scene blue star reagent is a forensic tool that will show the
25:58presence of wiped cleaned or invisible blood to the naked eye that could give further details of how
26:05much blood we are doing dealing with what do they find so we requested during the application of the blue
26:11star to be present upon first spray it illuminated essentially a third of the living room area what did
26:18this show it showed an extremely large amount of volume of blood the largest that i had seen to
26:24that point in terms of blue star reaction in my career i vividly remember looking at sergeant emory
26:28and detective siege and we all said we have homicide
26:34i got a call at work from katrina hey get here to the police station now they're calling us in
26:41they have an update so we rushed there and they told us seeing what we believe to be the crime scene
26:49there's so much blood that was lost that it was not survivable so this is no longer a missing
26:54person's case this is a homicide so that's a strange thing because i think in the back of your mind we still
27:03were like well are you a hundred percent it was her blood you know maybe she did somehow survive it
27:11you're telling me she's gone but we don't have her you still had hope at this point
27:19i think maybe we wanted to cling to that i i mean we all accepted what they were telling us yes
27:25we know that this person you loved died and we know it was pretty brutal but
27:32we don't really know what happened after that it would now be detective crawford's job
27:38to find out i mean is your next step find jason chin yes
27:54detectives searching for missing jasmine pace found so much blood evidence they knew they had a
28:01homicide on their hands what they didn't have was a body or a suspect in custody it was now their
28:09mission to find both there's multiple avenues that are happening evidence that we're finding at the
28:15crime scene location is providing further follow-up we also have search warrants being conducted on the
28:20phone records of jason chin they honed in on the day after jasmine disappeared jason's phone records
28:27revealed he went to walgreens and walmart and security footage showed someone resembling jason
28:34buying cleaning supplies he was wearing a very identifiable hat it was a red and white hat called
28:40anything goes once jason chen left his apartment on november 23rd he never went back detectives continued
28:48to track his phone ultimately where did you find jason chen we ended up locating him in nolensville
28:54tennessee at his parents address so he comes down what happens he was wearing items of clothing
28:59that were consistent with what we observed him wearing uh during different stages of the investigation
29:04what does that tell you it gives us further details of confirming um that is jason chen in the video
29:11footage we see so to be clear when you found him at his parents house he was wearing the same hat
29:15that he was wearing when he went to go buy those cleaning supplies correct
29:19was that surprising to you we were more excited that he was wearing it so we didn't have to search
29:26for it police arrested jason chen and charged him with first degree premeditated murder but we
29:34attempted an interview with uh jason at the nolensville police department and he invoked his right to
29:39counsel so we were unable to give an interview with him that night jason refused to tell investigators
29:45anything as news of his arrest spread across chattanooga one person listened with particular
29:52interest his former roommate ryan barrett how unbelievable was it that your former roommate
29:59was wanted for murder insane i just i he had done a lot of crazy things to me but murder was not what i
30:07was expected ryan and jason had their own strange falling out a few months before jazzy disappeared ryan's
30:16online accounts were hacked he suspected jason was behind it since he was the only one who had
30:23easy access to ryan's phone nearly all of my like venmo accounts any social media accounts were all
30:30locked out of same with my personal email he even got fired from his job he says after some messages and
30:37social media posts from his account saying what just like very aggressive messages to managers that
30:45i would have never sent ryan says he doesn't know why jason would do that to him but he'd had enough
30:52and moved out when i went back to grab my last few items it turned out jason had disengaged the lock
30:59manually reset it to where my code wouldn't let me into the apartment so you couldn't get the last of
31:03your things i couldn't get the last of my things i spent probably about an hour banging on the door
31:08ryan says they never spoke again the day after jason's arrest jasmine's family was on edge desperate
31:15for the one thing still missing her body talk to me about that process it was painful um you know
31:25it was really painful we all stayed together and just waited um but by the second day i was like if
31:36they don't find her today i'm i'm going looking like we had come up with a game plan to kind of just
31:43look on our own because we needed that yeah closure we needed that piece of of putting her to rest
31:52detectives continued to search for clues as to where jazzy's body might be location data from
31:59november 23rd put jason on the banks of the tennessee river on december 1st 2022 they searched the area
32:08and found her there was anywhere that she had to be for that many days she loved it there
32:17that was a special place to her she told him that he should go and see it before the leaves fall
32:27so she had told him about that place she did and that's where he ultimately chose to dump her body
32:34yes when you all heard that detail
32:39it just turned my stomach i mean it's sick it's sick
32:44jasmine had been stuffed in a suitcase she was handcuffed and it got worse this was not something
32:53that was quick it was something that was gruesome it was violent 60 stab wounds in all
33:02as the family grieved the man accused of killing jasmine pace sat behind bars thanks in large part
33:09prosecutors said to her family how crucial was her family's involvement in all of this
33:15extremely hamilton county district attorney general cody womp i don't know how the police
33:22department would have ended up getting a search warrant had it not been for her family
33:27crucial absolutely but it was also a ticking time bomb jason chen's attorney josh weiss said the entire
33:36crime scene was compromised the moment jazzy's family stepped inside this isn't one of your run
33:44of the mill cases usually police officers get a search warrant in this case jasmine pace's parents
33:52illegally broke into jason chen's apartment and searched that apartment police warned jazzy's family
33:59about it that night we legally can't investigate anything in there that you found because it wasn't
34:06found legally that's not my role that's the state of tennessee that's just case law so that was torture
34:15just feeling like did we make a mistake it was a constant just pit in your stomach of
34:23there were times katrina would call me and just say he's not going to get away with this right
34:42two years after jasmine pace was killed her family gathered in a courtroom to see jason chen stand trial
34:50for her murder jason's parents and brother were there too what was it like for you to be in there
34:56to be in that courtroom and be in the same courtroom as jason chen i think i'm more so just numb to
35:02everything that at first you feel just so much anger by now the judge had ruled to allow in evidence
35:10from jason's apartment armed with that prosecutors laid out their theory of what happened that night
35:17the couple fought and jason launched a vicious drawn-out attack this wasn't heat of the moment
35:23they said it was premeditated murder prosecutor paul moyle what would you identify as the challenges
35:30in this case anytime you have a first-degree murder case the challenge is premeditation how do you show
35:37that there was an opportunity to reflect on your conduct before committing the murder they began by
35:48hammering home the brutality of the crime this is the suitcase in which jason chen stuffed the 98 pound body
36:01of jason chen you know he didn't just stab her 60 times he then put her body in trash bags he then put her
36:10body in a suitcase the first witness up for the prosecution jasmine's mom katrina were you concerned
36:18at that point about the police investigation i wasn't thinking about a police investigation i was just trying to
36:27find her i was
36:32insanely scared prosecutors knew the stakes if they couldn't prove jason meant to kill jasmine the jury
36:39could drop it to second degree murder or even voluntary manslaughter all of it was on the table
36:48this was prolonged to some extent we know that she was in his apartment until he leaves with the suitcase
36:54to go drop her body by the river after that prosecutors said jason abandoned jazzy's car in
37:02that parking lot where her family found it jason had pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder
37:09so what his attorney joshua weiss said stunned everyone jason chen is guilty but he's not guilty of
37:20the crime that he's charged it's certainly not often that you hear a criminal defense attorney say that
37:26his client's guilty i wanted to get the jury's attention from the beginning i said exactly i'm not
37:32here to waste your time jason chen is guilty of killing jasmine pace but not uh to the degree the state is
37:40saying weiss weiss said jason did kill jazzy but it wasn't premeditated as prosecutors argued
37:49instead he said the evening began with the couple hanging out and drinking wine but then jasmine goes
37:58back into the kitchen to get another bottle and there on the counter is jason's cell phone ding ding
38:05ding ding ding that familiar tinder ding jasmine looked at his phone and saw all these messages
38:14with other girls and it sent her in anger into a rage when they started yelling biting jasmine
38:20attacked jason with an empty wine bottle jason had no choice his attorney argued he acted in self-defense
38:30stabbing jazzy in a fight he didn't start this is a voluntary manslaughter case prosecutors completely
38:37dismissed the self-defense theory and even brought in a forensic tech expert who testified that jason was
38:44not on tinder at the time jazzy was killed in fact the only time he was on the dating app they said
38:52was the next morning he's on social media on tinder hitting on girls and jasmine is dead in his apartment
39:00which really says everything you need to know when it came time to cross-examine jasmine's mother weiss
39:07tried to thread a very small needle showing sympathy while still questioning the evidence you said you
39:15would do anything to find your daughter wouldn't you of course okay but you would break into an apartment
39:25did i find my daughter yes both sides rested now the case was in the jury's hands i tried to remain
39:34very objective sarah reed was juror number 11. there was no question that jason killed jazzy the issue on
39:42the table was premeditation sarah says she was swayed by what prosecutor moyle said not only was it
39:5060 stab wounds there was 120 choices he made in and out that that at any point he could have stopped
39:59it didn't take long for the verdict to come in we the jury find the defendant jason chen guilty of
40:05first-degree premeditated murder let's talk about how quickly they came back i mean we're talking
40:12less than an hour yeah surprising i assumed that they were going to find jason guilty but that it
40:18might be over a period of hours or days what we now know is that we had done our job and in many ways
40:25jazzy's family had done their job they had taken a big risk collecting evidence that the court could
40:32have thrown out instead it helped prosecutors convict the person who killed jazzy this is a story that
40:39will always stick with me because as a parent i recognize that feeling of i will do anything for
40:46my child tragically this determined family couldn't save jazzy's life but they did play a crucial role
40:53in bringing her killer to justice now jurors had one more job to do sentence jason chen
41:02before deliberating they would hear from jasmine's cousin jackie
41:0860 stones hard in this jar one to represent every stab wound found on my beautiful innocent 22 year
41:15old cousin jurors had two choices the possibility of parole in 51 years or life in prison with no
41:23chance of getting out that decision came down to a conversation of jasmine doesn't get to come back
41:31in 51 years jason chen is now serving a life sentence no possibility of parole jazzy's family
41:40feels like they are serving a life sentence too a lifetime of missing the beautiful spirit they all
41:47loved so much the world needed to hear that they didn't just need to look at her as a victim of a crime
41:55they needed to look at her as like this most blessed person that would have just shown random acts of
42:03kindness to anybody what do you want people to know to remember about jasmine she put everything she had
42:11into being there for everybody else she always put herself last i mean she got joy out of doing for
42:21being there for others and being a loving compassionate kind warm human being
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