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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 records she has not made
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 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
02:07this 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
02:24i 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
02:44about 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
02:58the 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 like gonna die very soon
03:17that fast yes so it was really quick it was really unexpected the family all gathered at the hospital
03:24including jackie's cousin jasmine pace jazzy as the family called her adored granny how was jasmine during
03:33all of that she kept it together because that's what we do in my family we're strong for each other
03:39but when i got there she was outside alone having her breakdown so she was devastated i mean devastated
03:51absolutely devastated
03:55everyone had their own moment with her and she passed as soon as i started praying
04:03jackie grieved with her cousin jazzy the two worried about their moms granny had raised them both so
04:13they made plans for the family to gather on thanksgiving just two days away jazzy helped lead the charge
04:22she offered you know i can bring stuff our moms are not gonna want to have thanksgiving but granny will
04:28haunt us if we do not she's like we have to get everyone together even if we're all in pajamas and
04:34crying yeah so that was the plan to kind of recoup the day in between and figure it out um and then
04:43i'll get back together on thanksgiving the day before thanksgiving jackie texted jazzy to see how she
04:51was holding up and you got a response i did saying what i just need some time alone after everything
04:58that happened was that a normal response from her for an emotional event yes but then jazzy texted to
05:08say she was spending thanksgiving with a friend instead of the family and said you know i'm going to
05:16south carolina 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 it upset me i mean
05:34i'm like girl be here you know and i tried to call her on thanksgiving and it went straight to voicemail
05:42jazzy's half sister gabby pace also found it strange especially when she got this snapchat from jazzy
05:51a photo with the message baby i'm good what did you think odd because they were old pictures it didn't
06:00look like the most recent jazzy by that friday morning worry started to creep in jazzy's mother
06:10katrina realized nobody had actually spoken to jazzy in three days since the night granny died
06:17when she couldn't reach her on the phone by the day after thanksgiving it was like no something's
06:24wrong she's not picking up the phone she's not checking on me she knows her daughter she does
06:31and it's very unlike jasmine to not be there for everyone her mom called emma the friend jazzy said she
06:40was visiting and actually told her my family's not in south carolina so i don't even know where that
06:47came from and there was more jazzy wasn't with her on thanksgiving and that's when it was like panic
06:55stricken she knew something wasn't right and and she's like what do i do and i said she's 22
07:01she's on your phone plan who is she talking to like let's let's unravel this
07:06the search for jazzy would force the family to go places and do things they never imagined what
07:15can we do at this point i mean i'm not saying it sounds like you all went into full investigation
07:21mode no it's not her we know it's not her and from that moment on it was just digging like where
07:27is she spending money who's she talking to you you're terrified of what you're about to find
07:36what you're about to find out to find out to find out to find out to find out to find out
07:42november 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
08:06especially they figured for a bright and fun 22 year old who was normally in constant touch
08:13what was she like sweet sassy so easy to talk to
08:23she 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 she always wanted to be where the adults
08:50were she could be five six years old and jasmine wanted to know what was going on be part of it
08:56as she got older jazzy wanted to be a part of the family business too she started working in her mom
09:05and stepdad scott's construction company she was still in college but worked for that company
09:11so it was all day every day on the phone with them jazzy had always been someone they could lean on
09:19in times of crisis her number one i would say was her family now jazzy might be the one in crisis her
09:27family kicked into high gear not only were they determined to find her they were tech savvy they
09:34went to the verizon store and pulled jazzy's phone records one call in particular caught their attention
09:41it happened on the day granny died a 71-minute call to a number they didn't recognize
09:47the next day her phone turned off they couldn't ping her location but they thought of something else
09:56you 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 through
10:09her email so we had to transfer her phone number over to a new phone to be able to access all of that
10:15stuff once they got into jazzy's email account they found out that the passwords to her bank and social
10:21media accounts had been changed it sounds like you all went into full investigation mode i think that
10:29idea was out there of let's use what we can by now the family had accessed jazzy's car app
10:38since the 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 jazzy's
11:05half-sister gabby told me that she looked in the car window and noticed that the driver's seat was
11:11pushed all the way back that indicated that a tall person had been behind the wheel well jazzy was short
11:18gabby told me that that was her first moment of real dread knowing that for whatever reason someone
11:23else had been driving her sister's car and left it in this strange place jazzy's mom called the police
11:31hello and before long a patrol officer showed up body cam rolling so what's going on exactly that's mom
11:39katrina on the left stepdad scott on the right they told the officer everything they'd learned so far
11:46she's been missing for four days so tuesday night at 11 27 she left our house and went to a house on
11:54or a place on fraser avenue wednesday it left fraser avenue came right here it hadn't been moved since
12:01i pulled up her phone record she has not made any phone calls since tuesday night okay no data has been
12:08used because i had her phone line transferred to a new device so i could try to track her stuff and
12:14someone has been resetting her passwords you know it's not her we know it's not her just then while the
12:19family stood in the lot jazzy seemed to emerge a racy photo popped up on her facebook account that's when
12:28i got scared you saw that post i did i felt like that's someone that wants to humiliate her that's
12:38not something she would put out there of her in lingerie on social media what can we do at this point
12:46i mean i'm not saying it's not weird circumstances because that definitely is i can get her listed
12:53as missing jazzy's mom wanted more she asked them to pull any security footage from that parking lot
13:00see if she actually drove this car here i know the courtesy officer that does work here but as far as
13:05this time of night i don't imagine i'd be able to get anything until tomorrow can we try as jazzy's
13:12family waited on that security footage her mom remembered that long call jazzy made the day granny
13:20died when she didn't recognize the number she had called jackie who was helping from home so on the
13:27phone with me i mean she pulled up her verizon and started scrolling through and she said the last
13:33person she was on phone with it's this number jackie got right to work while still on the phone with
13:39jazzy's mom she ran the number through one of her mobile payment apps and i put it in cash app and i
13:47said jason chin do you know that person she said yes and she hung up on me katrina knew jazzy had been
13:56casually seeing a guy named jason chen for a few months maybe he could help find her hello so there
14:03jason right in front of police katrina called him no one has seen or heard from her since tuesday
14:09night 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
14:34jason chen a guy she'd met on a dating app the two had been casually dating for a few months
14:41and had gone on a trip to chicago together now jazzy's mom was on the phone with him
14:47jason told katrina he hadn't spoken to jazzy since that monday but she knew that wasn't true
15:02and you haven't talked to her since then hang on one second hang on one second i just muted him
15:08he just lied he talked to her for 71 minutes
15:11okay he would remember that jazzy's mom pressed him hey jason i just called up her call log and i
15:22have it on here where she talked to you for 71 minutes tuesday afternoon while her granny was in
15:27the hospital jason said he did remember talking to jazzy that day he'd simply forgotten for police
15:36it wasn't much to go on i can document that but as far as putting him as a suspect we don't know
15:43okay i'm just letting you please document it katrina pushed them to do more could we possibly go to
15:50a local um business that you have to pass to get these apartments and ask them to pull up first
15:58so we could see if she's driving her detects but they're not just going to pull it out for you
16:02i understand that but i can't just not i understand i understand i'm just i'm
16:11trying to explain to you the extent of what i can do i think that every mom every parent can really
16:18relate to katrina in this moment i know i did in this body camera video you can see her desperation
16:24let's try this let's do this let's check this video and that's really what any parent would do when
16:30they think their child is in danger i can feel her frustration realizing there was only so much
16:35police could do in that moment my heart truly went out to her eventually the officers left if police
16:44wouldn't follow the leads the family would when you're desperate i think that's what you do you just
16:51don't stop moving it's like you're trying to lean into anything you can that you think's gonna
16:56bring you some kind of answer they went to the address they had for jason but all they found was
17:04an abandoned house frustrated jazzy's mom went back through jazzy's texts from that night and suddenly
17:12katrina realizes katrina realizes she has a text on her phone she sees the pin drop and realizes oh
17:21she sent a message yes at 2 18 a.m on the night she disappeared jazzy had sent her mother
17:29a pin with her location on it katrina was grieving granny's passing and never saw it how shocking was that for
17:37her it 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 o'clock in
17:55the morning or two o'clock whatever time it was that pin led them to yet another apartment complex
18:02the family made their way into the building just started knocking on every single door what are
18:08people telling you um at first they said no we haven't seen that girl no we haven't seen that
18:12girl and we almost gave up on knocking on the doors because we were coming to dead ends so you're just
18:18trying to narrow down which floor which apartment yes and then finally we realized that her pin drop had
18:25coordinates to it so then we would walk near every door and down the hallway just brushing up against
18:32the side of the wall trying to get as close to the coordinates as we possibly could finally they got
18:38the perfect hit apartment 210 you knock on the door yes what happens nobody answers so they knocked on the next
18:48door apartment 212. a couple answered the family asked if they'd seen anything seen no the couple
18:57said but they had heard something he said i heard a scream that was so startling that i wrote the time
19:06down so he went and got the paper and i want to say it was in three to four minutes of that pin drop
19:16that 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 was
19:40fearless maybe even a little reckless she went down and got her credit card out of her car and they got
19:48in they popped the lock with the credit card the family slowly made their way into the small one-bedroom
19:56apartment right away something caught katrina's eye they had found my sister's to go bag like a night
20:04bag that she takes to go and stay places as you guys continue looking around the apartment what else
20:09did you see in the desk drawer they found my sister's credit cards and her driver's license all stacked up
20:15neatly in a pile also on the desk a notebook they opened it and saw a name jason chin
20:22and 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
20:39that was news to the family who said they'd not been contacted by anyone but as of right now
20:45there'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 come back absolutely
21:42because what have you guys done for us this far anything we thought could be a clue to help us find
21:49her we were chasing that jasmine pace's loved ones had done all they could and maybe more than they
22:06should to find her they'd broken into an apartment then defied police instructions and gone in again
22:14jazzy's family told me they had no hesitation about breaking into that apartment that they'd do it
22:21again if it meant possibly saving her rather than sitting back and waiting for police to step up they
22:28started doing their own digging but here at dateline we've seen cases where important evidence was
22:33thrown out because it wasn't gathered properly and that's what jazzy's family was risking by going into
22:40that apartment very anxious because even though you know that you're in the right direction you're
22:46terrified of what you're about to find you have no idea what you're going to find and you don't want to
22:51find certain 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 tennessee
23:19chattanooga where he majored in computer science that's where ryan barrett met him in the summer of
23:262020. initially we were the first two people at the dorm so he spent about the first three or four days just
23:32us together really just getting to know each other just figuring out general interests that we both
23:36like you know playing video games ryan says he and jason became good friends that he was fun to be
23:43around what was his demeanor like more quiet guy but he was pretty funny he'd always kind of come in with
23:48those you know little jabs at everybody the two got along so well they became roommates and even landed
23:55jobs at the same place a soap company summertime was great i mean we were going we spent fourth of july
24:02together at the park downtown now jazzy's family was convinced jason had something to do with her
24:10disappearance they took everything they'd gathered that could be used as evidence jazzy's driver's
24:16license and credit card the cell phones and a tablet and gave it to the police and they didn't stop
24:23there they had their family lawyer reach out to the district attorney general asking for help i received a
24:29phone call from my supervisor he called and said that we were going to come in and assist our missing
24:34persons unit with the jasmine pace missing persons investigation detective zach crawford headed to the
24:42apartment when you got in there how did you find the apartment was it clean was it messy i would say that
24:48it was a clean apartment it appeared that things may have been slightly out of place in terms of where
24:53they were located and you could smell a little bit of a cleaning product inside of the apartment it smelled
24:59like it had possibly been recently cleaned correct considering everything that you know up until this
25:05point when you smell something like that does that raise your antenna do you pay attention to that yes it's
25:10something that is notated along with smelling it you're also looking for a potential sheen on the floor to see if a if this was a crime scene location if anything had been altered in terms of cleaned up wiped or anything like that
25:21then he noticed something just on the right of the futon on the floor on the hardwoods i saw what appeared
25:31to be blood transfer in the form of a hill print on the floor blood transfer on the floor when you say
25:36blood transfer you mean like a bloody footprint essentially a bloody footprint so the crime scene
25:41unit comes in what do they do they first document the scene by photographs and video we asked for certain
25:47items to be collected that we observed in our walkthrough i also asked for blue star reagent to be applied to
25:53that scene blue star reagent is a forensic tool that will show the presence of wiped cleaned or invisible
26:01blood to the naked eye that could give further details of how much blood we are dealing dealing with
26:07what do they find so we requested during the application of blue star to be present upon first
26:13spray it illuminated uh essentially a third of the living room area what did this show it showed an
26:20extremely large amount of volume of blood the largest that i had seen to that point in terms of blue star
26:25reaction in my career i vividly remember looking at sergeant emory and detective siege and we all said
26:30we 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 we don't really know
27:33what happened after that it would now be detective crawford's job to find out i mean is your next step
27:42find jason chin yes
27:54detectives searching for missing jasmine pace found
27:58so much blood evidence they knew they had a homicide on their hands what they didn't have was a body
28:06or a suspect in custody it was now their mission to find both there's multiple avenues that are
28:13happening evidence that we're finding at the crime scene location is providing further follow-up we also
28:18have search warrants being conducted on the phone records of jason chin
28:21they honed in on the day after jasmine disappeared jason's phone records revealed he went to walgreens
28:29and walmart and security footage showed someone resembling jason buying cleaning supplies he was
28:36wearing a very identifiable hat it was a red and white hat called anything goes once jason chen left
28:43his apartment on november 23rd he never went back detectives continued to track his phone
28:50ultimately where did you find jason chen we ended up locating him in nolensville tennessee
28:54at his parents address so he comes down what happens he was wearing items of clothing that were
28:59consistent with what we observed him wearing uh during different stages of the investigation what
29:05does that tell you it gives us further details of confirming um that is jason chen in the video footage
29:11we 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 was that surprising to
29:22you we were more excited that he was wearing it so we didn't have to search for it police arrested
29:28jason chen and charged him with first degree premeditated murder but we attempted an interview
29:35with uh jason at the nolensville police department and he invoked his right to counsel so we were unable
29:40to give an interview with him that night jason refused to tell investigators anything as news of
29:47his arrest spread across chattanooga one person listened with particular interest his former roommate
29:54ryan barrett how unbelievable was it that your former roommate was wanted for murder insane i just i
30:03he had done a lot of crazy things to me but murder was not what i was expecting ryan and jason
30:10had their own strange falling out a few months before jazzy disappeared ryan's online accounts
30:17were hacked he suspected jason was behind it since he was the only one who had easy access to ryan's
30:24phone nearly all of my like venmo accounts any social media accounts were all locked out of same
30:31with my personal email he even got fired from his job he says after some messages and social media
30:38posts from his account saying what just like very aggressive messages to managers that i would
30:45have never sent ryan says he doesn't know why jason would do that to him but he'd had enough and moved
30:53out when i went back to grab my last few items it turned out jason had disengaged the lock manually
30:59reset it to where my code wouldn't let me into the apartment so you couldn't get the last of your
31:03things i couldn't get the last of my things i spent probably about an hour banging on the door ryan
31:08says they never spoke again the day after jason's arrest jasmine's family was on edge desperate for the
31:16one thing still missing her body talk to me about that process it was painful um you know it was really
31:26painful we all stayed together and just waited um but by the second day i was like if they don't find
31:36her today i'm i'm going looking like we had come up with a game plan to kind of just look on our own
31:44because we needed that yeah closure we needed that piece of of putting her to rest detectives continued
31:54to search for clues as to where jazzy's body might be location data from november 23rd put jason on the
32:01banks of the tennessee river on december 1st 2022 they searched the area and found her there was
32:11anywhere that she had to be for that many days she loved it there that was a special place to her she
32:22told him that he should go and see it before the leaves fall so she had told him about that place
32:29she did and that's where he ultimately chose to dump her body yes 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 as the family grieved the man accused of killing jasmine
33:05pace sat behind bars thanks in large part prosecutors said to her family how crucial was her family's
33:14involvement in all of this extremely hamilton county district attorney general cody womp i don't know how
33:22the police department 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-of-the-mill
33:44cases usually police officers get a search warrant in this case jasmine pace's parents illegally broke
33:53into jason chen's apartment and searched that apartment police warned jazzy's family about it that night
34:00we legally can't investigate anything in there that you found because it wasn't found legally that's not
34:10my role that's the state of tennessee that's just case law so that was torture just feeling like
34:18did 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 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 suitcase
36:54to go drop her body by the river after that prosecutors said jason abandoned jazzy's car in that parking lot
37:03where her family found it jason had pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder so what his attorney
37:11joshua weiss said stunned everyone jason chen is guilty but he's not guilty of the crime that he's charged
37:21it's certainly not often that you hear a criminal defense attorney say that his client's guilty i
37:27wanted to get the jury's attention from the beginning i said exactly i'm not here to waste your time jason
37:34chen is guilty of killing jasmine pace but not uh to the degree the state is saying weiss said jason did
37:44kill jazzy but it wasn't premeditated as prosecutors argued instead he said the evening began with the
37:52couple hanging out and drinking wine but then jasmine goes back into the kitchen to get another bottle
38:01and there on the counter is jason's cell phone ding ding ding that familiar tinder ding jasmine looked at
38:10his phone and saw all these messages with other girls and it sent her in anger into a rage when they
38:18started yelling and biting jasmine attacked jason with an empty wine bottle jason had no choice his
38:26attorney argued he acted in self-defense stabbing jazzy in a fight he didn't start this is a voluntary
38:34manslaughter case prosecutors completely dismissed the self-defense theory and even brought in a forensic
38:42tech expert who testified that jason was not on tinder at the time jazzy was killed in fact the only
38:49time he was on the dating app they said was the next morning he's on social media on tinder hitting on
38:57girls and jasmine is dead in his apartment which really says everything you need to know when it came
39:04time to cross-examine jasmine's mother weiss tried to thread a very small needle showing sympathy
39:12while still questioning the evidence you said you would do anything to find your daughter
39:17wouldn't you of course okay
39:22but you would break into an apartment did i find my daughter yes both sides rested now the case was in
39:31the jury's hands i tried to remain very objective sarah reed was juror number 11. there was no question
39:40that jason killed jazzy the issue on the table was premeditation sarah says she was swayed by what
39:47prosecutor moyle said not only was it 60 stab wounds there was 120 choices he made in and out that that
39:56at any point he could have stopped it didn't take long for the verdict to come in we the jury find the
40:03defendant jason chen guilty of first degree premeditated murder let's talk about how quickly they
40:10came back i 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 done
40:23our job and in many ways jazzy's family had done their job they had taken a big risk collecting evidence
40:31that the court could have thrown out instead it helped prosecutors convict the person who killed jazzy
40:38this is a story that will always stick with me because as a parent i recognize that feeling of
40:44i will do anything for my child tragically this determined family couldn't save jazzy's life but
40:51they 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
41:06jason chen is now serving a life sentence
41:36no possibility of parole jazzy's family feels like they are serving a life sentence too
41:44a lifetime of missing the beautiful spirit they all loved so much the world needed to hear
41:51that they didn't just need to look at her as a victim of a crime they needed to look at her as like
41:58this most blessed person that would have just shown random acts of kindness to anybody what do you
42:05want people to know to remember about jasmine she put everything she had into being there for everybody
42:14else she always put herself last i mean she got joy out of doing for others
42:21others and being a loving compassionate kind warm human being
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