Dateline Unforgettable Season 7 Episode 2

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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

00:23she 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 records she's not making

00:46phone calls 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 this

01:00one 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 could 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

01:20that i wrote the time down so this was right next door exactly are you thinking jasmine could be inside

01:27yes we 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 when you're desperate

01:59you just don't stop moving especially if one of them was in trouble it's been messing for four days

02:07this family went to the ends of the earth what can we do and the edge of the law can't investigate

02:14anything in there that you found they'd only find out later if they had gone too far

02:20i first got to know jasmine pace jazzy through the many videos she posted she was young very online

02:31just a vivacious young woman i learned more about her through dozens of conversations and also about

02:37her family they had a sort of unwritten code to show up for each other no matter what this story is

02:44is about their determination to find jazzy even if it meant breaking the law chattanooga tennessee

02:512022 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 had

03:09metastasized it went from hey let's figure out what's wrong to she's gonna die very soon that fast

03:18yes so it was really quick it was really unexpected the family all gathered at the hospital including

03:24jackie's cousin jasmine pace jazzy as the family called her adored granny how was jasmine during all

03:34of that she kept it together because that's what we do in my family we're strong for each other but when

03:41i got there she was outside alone having her breakdown so she was devastated i mean devastated absolutely

03:52devastated

03:55everyone had their own moment with her and she passed

03:59as 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 just two days

04:17away jazzy helped lead the charge she offered you know i can bring stuff our moms are not gonna want to

04:26have thanksgiving but granny will haunt us if we do not she's like we have to get everyone together

04:33even 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

04:52and you got a response i did saying what i just need some time alone after everything that happened

05:00was that a normal response from her for an emotional event yes

05:07but then jazzy texted to say she was spending thanksgiving with a friend instead of the family

05:13and said you know i'm going to south carolina with emma for her family's thanksgiving i just need

05:22some time away from everyone after everything that happened jackie couldn't believe it

05:29her not coming to thanksgiving it upset me i mean i'm like girl be here you know and i tried to call

05:38her on thanksgiving and it went straight to voicemail jazzy's half sister gabby pace also found it strange

05:48especially when she got this snapchat from jazzy a photo with the message baby i'm good

05:55what did you think odd because they were old pictures it didn't look like the most recent jazzy

06:02by 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

06:21the day 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

06:35everyone her mom called emma the friend jazzy said she was visiting emma actually told her my family's

06:44not in south carolina so i don't even know where that came from and there was more jazzy wasn't with

06:51her on thanksgiving and that's when it was like panic stricken she knew something wasn't right and

06:58and she's like what do i do and i said she's 22 she's on your phone plan who is she talking to like

07:04let's let's unravel this the search for jazzy would force the family to go places

07:12and do things they never imagined what can we do at this point i mean i'm not saying it sounds like you

07:19all went into full investigation mode you know it's not her we know it's not her and from that

07:24moment on it was just digging like where is she spending money who's she talking to you you're

07:30terrified of what you're about to find

07:31november 26th 2022 it had been four days since family and friends last saw jasmine pace it was

07:52totally unlike jazzy to disappear like that her family started tracking her down it's 2022 everyone

08:01has an electronic footprint there are clues everywhere especially they figured for a bright

08:08and fun 22 year old who was normally in constant touch what was she like sweet sassy

08:19so 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

09:10worked for that company so it was all day every day on the phone with them

09:14jazzy had always been someone they could lean on in times of crisis her number one i would say was her

09:23family now jazzy might be the one in crisis her family kicked into high gear not only were they

09:30determined to find her they were tech savvy they went to the verizon store and pulled jazzy's phone records

09:38one call in particular caught their attention it happened on the day granny died a 71 minute call

09:45to a number they didn't recognize the next day her phone turned off they couldn't ping her location

09:54but they thought of something else you know every car has a computer mostly after 2015 now and so we would

10:02be able to track 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

10:27mm-hmm i think that idea was out there of let's use what we can by now the family had accessed jazzy's

10:37car app since the last time the family saw her her car had been to two locations and it was still

10:45at one of them mountain creek road jazzy's mom and stepdad raced over gabby arrived shortly after

10:53and there it was in the parking lot jazzy's suv but no sign of jazzy immediately we see her family

11:04is resourceful jazzy's half-sister gabby told me that she looked in the car window and noticed that

11:10the driver's seat was pushed all the way back that indicated that a tall person had been behind the wheel

11:16well jazzy was short gabby told me that that was her first moment of real dread knowing that for

11:22whatever reason someone else had been driving her sister's car and left it in this strange place

11:30jazzy's mom called the police hello and before long a patrol officer showed up body cam rolling so

11:37what's going on exactly that's mom katrina on the left stepdad scott on the right they told the officer

11:44everything they've learned so far 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 frazier avenue wednesday it left frazier avenue came right here

12:01i pulled up her phone record she has not made any phone calls since tuesday night

12:06okay no data has been used because i had her phone line transferred to a new device so i could

12:12try to track her stuff and someone has been resetting her passwords you know it's not her we know it's not

12:17her just then while the family stood in the lot jazzy seemed to emerge a racy photo popped up on her

12:26facebook account that's when i got scared you saw that post i did i felt like that's someone that wants

12:36to humiliate her that's not something she would put out there of her in lingerie on social media what can

12:43we do at this point i mean i'm not saying it's not weird circumstances because that definitely is

12:51i can get her listed as missing jazzy's mom wanted more she asked them to pull any security footage from

12:59that parking lot see if she actually drove this car here i know the courtesy officer that does work here

13:04but as far as this time of night i don't imagine i'd be able to get anything until tomorrow can we try

13:10all right as jazzy's family waited on that security footage her mom remembered that long call jazzy made

13:19the day granny died when she didn't recognize the number she had called jackie who was helping from

13:26home so on the phone with me i mean she pulled up her verizon and started scrolling through and she

13:33said the last person she was on phone with it's this number jackie got right to work while still on

13:39the phone with jazzy's mom she ran the number through one of her mobile payment apps and i put

13:46it in cash app and i said jason chin do you know that person she said yes and she hung up on me

13:54katrina knew jazzy had been casually seeing a guy named jason chen for a few months maybe he could help

14:01find her hello so there right in front of police katrina called him no one has seen or heard from her

14:08says tuesday night what would he have to say jasmine pace's parents were busy tracking her digital footprint

14:28trying to determine her movements since they last saw her they learned she'd had a phone call with jason

14:35chin a guy she'd met on a dating app the two had been casually dating for a few months and had gone

14:42on a trip to chicago together now jazzy's mom was on the phone with him and you've seen last time you

14:50seen her was saturday jason told katrina he hadn't spoken to jazzy since that monday but she knew that

15:01wasn't true and you haven't talked to her since then hang on one sec hang on one second jason i just

15:07muted him when i come in he just lied he talked to her for 71 minutes tuesday afternoon okay he would

15:14remember that jazzy's mom pressed him hey jason i just called off her call log and i have it on here

15:22where she talked to you for 71 minutes tuesday afternoon while her granny was in the hospital

15:28jason said he did remember talking to jazzy that day he'd simply forgotten for police it wasn't much

15:37to go on i can document that but as far as putting him as a suspect we don't know okay i'm just letting

15:44you please document it katrina pushed them to do more could we possibly go to a local

15:50um business that you have to pass to get these apartments and ask them to pull through so we

15:58could see if she's driving her but they're not just going to pull it up for you i understand that

16:04but i can't just not i understand i understand i'm just i'm trying to explain to you the extent of what

16:13i can do i think that every mom every parent can really relate to katrina in this moment i know i

16:20did in this body camera video you can see her desperation let's try this let's do this let's

16:26check this video and that's really what any parent would do when they think their child is in danger

16:32i can feel her frustration realizing there was only so much police could do in that moment

16:38my heart truly went out to her eventually the officers left if police wouldn't follow the leads

16:46the family would when you're desperate i think that's what you do you just don't stop moving it's

16:52like you're trying to lean into anything you can that you think is going to bring you some kind of answer

17:00they went to the address they had for jason but all they found was an abandoned house

17:07frustrated jazzy's mom went back through jazzy's texts from that night and suddenly katrina realizes

17:14she has a text on her phone she sees the pin drop and realizes oh she sent a message yes

17:24at 2 18 a.m on the night she disappeared jazzy had sent her mother a pin with her location on it

17:32katrina was grieving granny's passing and never saw it how shocking was that for her

17:41it 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

18:12seen that girl and we almost gave up on knocking on the doors because we were coming to dead ends

18:17so you're just trying to narrow down which floor which apartment yes and then finally we realized

18:24that her pin drop had coordinates to it so then we would walk near every door and down the hallway

18:31just brushing up against the side of the wall trying to get as close to the coordinates as we possibly

18:35could finally they got the perfect hit apartment 210 you knock on the door yes what happens nobody answers

18:45so 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

19:11three to four minutes of that pin drop that he heard that scream the neighbors clocked that scream

19:21at 2 15 a.m just three minutes before jazzy dropped that pin they said it sounded like it came from next

19:29door apartment 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

19:47they got in they popped the lock with the credit card the family slowly made their way into the small

19:55one-bedroom apartment right away something caught katrina's eye they had found my sisters to go back

20:03like a night bag that she takes to go and stay places as you guys continue looking around the

20:09apartment what else did you see in the desk drawer they found my sister's credit cards and her driver's

20:13license all stacked up neatly in a pile also on the desk a notebook they opened it and saw a name jason

20:22chin and then we proceeded to call the police for the second time that night police met the family

20:30the officer told them an investigator had already been assigned to the case so i talked with um

20:38the investigator that was news to the family who said they'd not been contacted by anyone but as of

20:45right now there's nothing more that we can do right this second to figure out where she's at now if you

21:03have phone numbers or other information i can put it in the report and then i can forward that along to

21:09the investigator but she's the one that has made the call that she's not responding out here tonight

21:15the police issued a warning do not go back into the apartment thanks for finding this but yes let

21:22us take it from here we had no confidence whatsoever in the police because up to this point it was like we

21:30can't be it's it'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

21:47to help us find her we were chasing that jasmine pace's loved ones had done all they could and maybe

22:05more than they should to find her they'd broken into an apartment then defied police instructions and gone

22:14in again jazzy's family told me they had no hesitation about breaking into that apartment

22:21that they'd do it again if it meant possibly saving her rather than sitting back and waiting for police

22:27to step up they started doing their own digging but here at dateline we've seen cases where important

22:33evidence was thrown out because it wasn't gathered properly and that's what jazzy's family was risking

22:39by going into that apartment very anxious because even though you know that you're in the right

22:45direction you're terrified of what you're about to find you have no idea what you're going to find

22:50and you don't want to find certain things they didn't find anything new but they were convinced jazzy

22:57had been there what's more they were sure jason chen the guy jazzy had been seeing lived in the apartment

23:05his name was on the notebook and a neighbor confirmed it jason was the son of chinese

23:11immigrants who owned a restaurant the family lived 30 minutes outside of nashville but jason moved to

23:17attend the university of tennessee chattanooga where he majored in computer science that's where ryan

23:24barrett met him in the summer of 2020. initially we were the first two people at the dorm so he spent

23:30about the first three or four days just us together really just getting to know each other just figuring

23:35out general interests that we both like you know playing video games ryan says he and jason became

23:41good friends that he was fun to be around what was his demeanor like more quiet guy but he was pretty

23:47funny he'd always kind of come in with those you know little jabs at everybody the two got along so

23:52well they became roommates and even landed jobs at the same place a soap company summertime was great i mean

24:00we were going we spent fourth of july together at the park downtown now jazzy's family was convinced jason

24:08had something 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

24:32to come 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 was

24:45it clean was it messy i would say that it was a clean apartment it appeared that things may have been

24:51slightly out of place in terms of where they were located and you could smell a little bit of a

24:56cleaning product inside of the apartment it smelled like it had possibly been recently cleaned correct

25:02considering 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

25:19scene location 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

25:35when you say blood transfer you mean like a bloody footprint essentially a bloody footprint so the crime

25:41scene unit comes in what do they do they first document the scene by photographs and video we asked for

25:47certain items to be collected that we observed in our walkthrough i also asked for blue star reagent to

25:53be applied to that scene blue star reagent is a forensic tool that will show the presence of wiped

25:59cleaned or invisible blood to the naked eye that could give further details of how much blood we are

26:06dealing dealing with what do they find so we requested during the application of the blue star to be

26:12present upon first spray it illuminated uh essentially a third of the living room area

26:18what did this show it showed an extremely large amount of volume of blood the largest that i had

26:23seen to that point in terms of blue star reaction in my career i vividly remember looking at sergeant

26:28emory and 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 we know

27:25that this person you loved died and we know it was pretty brutal but we don't really know what

27:33happened after that it would now be detective crawford's job to find out i mean is your next step

27:41find jason chin yes

27:50detectives searching for missing jasmine pace found so much blood evidence they knew

28:01they had a homicide on their hands what they didn't have was a body or a suspect in custody

28:09it was now their mission to find both there's multiple avenues that are happening evidence that

28:14we're finding at the crime scene location is providing further follow-up we also have search

28:19warrants being conducted on the phone records of jason chin they homed in on the day after jasmine

28:24disappeared jason's phone records revealed he went to walgreens and walmart and security footage showed

28:32someone resembling jason buying cleaning supplies he was wearing a very identifiable hat it was a red and

28:40white hat called anything goes once jason chen left his apartment on november 23rd he never went back

28:47detectives continued to track his phone ultimately where did you find jason chen we ended up locating

28:53him in nolensville tennessee at his parents address so he comes down and what happens he was wearing

28:58items of clothing that were consistent with what we observed him wearing uh during different stages of

29:04the investigation what does that tell you it gives us further details of confirming um that is

29:10jason chen in the video footage we see so to be clear when you found him at his parents house he

29:14was wearing the same hat that he was wearing when he went to go buy those cleaning supplies correct

29:21was 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 attempted

29:34an interview with jason at the nolensville police department and he invoked his right to counsel

29:40so we were unable to get 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 was

29:59wanted for murder insane i just i knew he had done a lot of crazy things to me but murder was not what

30:07i was expecting ryan and jason had their own strange falling out a few months before jazzy disappeared

30:16ryan's online 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 locked

30:30locked out of same with my personal email he even got fired from his job he says after some messages

30:37and social media posts from his account saying what just like very aggressive messages to managers

30:44that i 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

31:03last of your thing couldn't get the last of my things i spent probably about an hour banging on the

31:07door ryan says they never spoke again the day after jason's arrest jasmine's family was on edge

31:15desperate for the one thing still missing her body talk to me about that process it was painful um you

31:25know it 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 look

31:43on our own because we needed that yeah closure we needed that piece of of putting her rest detectives

31:53continued to search for clues as to where jazzy's body might be location data from november 23rd put

32:00jason on the banks of the tennessee river on december 1st 2022 they searched the area and found her

32:09there was anywhere that she had to be for that many days she loved it there

32:20that 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 jasmine had been stuffed in a suitcase

32:48she was handcuffed and it got worse this was not something that was quick it was something that was

32:55gruesome it was violent 60 stab wounds in all

32:59as 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 extremely

33:17hamilton county district attorney general cody womp i don't know how the police department would

33:23have ended up getting a search warrant had it not been for her family crucial absolutely but it was

33:31also a ticking time bomb jason chen's attorney josh weiss said the entire crime scene was compromised

33:38the moment jazzy's family stepped inside this isn't one of your run-of-the-mill cases usually

33:46police officers get a search warrant in this case jasmine pace's parents illegally broke into jason chen's

33:54apartment and searched that apartment police warned jazzy's family about it that night we legally can't

34:02investigate anything in there that you found because it wasn't found legally that's not my role

34:11that's the state of tennessee that's just case law so that was torture just feeling like did we make a

34:18mistake it was a constant just pit in your stomach of there were times katrina would call me and just say

34:27say 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 in

35:30this 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

35:47they began by hammering home the brutality of the crime this is the suitcase in which jason chen

35:59stuffed the 98 pound body of jasmine base you know he didn't just stab her 60 times

36:07he then put her body in trash bags he then put her body in a suitcase the first witness up for the

36:14prosecution jasmine's mom katrina were you concerned at that point about the police investigation

36:22i wasn't thinking about a police investigation i was just trying to find 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

36:54suitcase to 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

37:40is saying weiss said jason did kill jazzy but it wasn't premeditated as prosecutors argued instead

37:50he said the evening began with the couple hanging out and drinking wine but then jasmine goes back into

37:58the kitchen to get another bottle and there on the counter is jason's cell phone ding ding ding that

38:07familiar tinder ding jasmine looked at his phone and saw all these messages with other girls and it

38:15sent her in anger into a rage when they started yelling fighting jasmine attacked jason with an empty

38:22wine bottle jason had no choice his attorney argued he acted in self-defense stabbing jazzy in a fight

38:32he didn't start this is a voluntary manslaughter case prosecutors completely dismissed the self-defense

38:39theory and even brought in a forensic tech expert who testified that jason was not on tinder at the time

38:46jazzy was killed in fact the only time he was on the dating app they said was the next morning he's on

38:54social media on tinder hitting on girls and jasmine is dead in his apartment which really says everything

39:02you need to know when it came time to cross-examine jasmine's mother weiss tried to thread a very small

39:10needle showing sympathy while still questioning the evidence you said you would do anything to find

39:16your daughter wouldn't you of course okay but you would break into an apartment did i find my daughter

39:27yes both sides rested now the case was in the jury's hands i tried to remain very objective

39:35sarah reed was juror number 11. there was no question that jason killed jazzy the issue on the

39:42table was premeditation sarah says she was swayed by what prosecutor moyle said not only was it 60 stab

39:50wounds 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

40:04guilty of first degree premeditated murder let's talk about how quickly they came back

40:11i mean we're talking less than an hour yeah surprising i assumed that they were going to

40:17find jason guilty but that it might be over a period of hours or days what we now know is that we had

40:23done our job and in many ways jazzy's family had done their job they had taken a big risk collecting

40:30evidence that the court could have thrown out instead it helped prosecutors convict the person

40:36who killed jazzy this is a story that will always stick with me because as a parent i recognize that

40:43feeling of i will do anything for my child tragically this determined family couldn't save jazzy's life

40:51but they did play a crucial role in bringing her killer to justice now jurors had one more job to do

41:00sentence jason chen before 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 old

41:15cousin jurors jurors had two choices the possibility of parole in 51 years or life in prison with no chance

41:23of getting out that decision came down to a conversation of jasmine doesn't get to come back in 51 years

41:33jason chen is now serving a life sentence no possibility of parole jazzy's family feels like they

41:41are serving a life sentence too a lifetime of missing the beautiful spirit they all loved so much the

41:49world needed to hear that they didn't just need to look at her as a victim of a crime they needed to

41:57look at her as like this most blessed person that would have just shown random acts of kindness to

42:04anybody what do you want people

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