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Killers: Caught on Camera - Season 4 Episode 2 - Dylan Rounds & Cristina Prodan
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00:08This time on Killers Caught on Camera.
00:12Tuesday night is the last time I saw my daughter.
00:15In the U.S. in Tennessee.
00:18Parents search for their missing 22-year-old daughter.
00:23Is she in there?
00:24Turn in here.
00:26The evidence leads to a fatal conclusion.
00:30They found quantities of blood that were not survivable.
00:35And in the U.K., in Staffordshire, a night out ends in murder.
00:43They found a female laying on the bed, clearly deceased.
00:48This was a brutal and sustained attack, showing no regard for Meghan's life.
00:58It just sounds like something bad is happening to her.
01:01We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
01:05I heard some gunshots.
01:06I need to hear the gun.
01:10Man, that's cool.
01:12The camera doesn't lie.
01:20In Tennessee, Hamilton County.
01:24The city of Chattanooga.
01:29County County 911, what's an emergency?
01:31Her daughter had been gone since Wednesday.
01:34And she had actually sent a message.
01:36And it had a pin drop on it.
01:39We followed the pin drop.
01:43And my daughter's driver's license, her credit cards, everything is right here in the open.
01:49And I'm freaking out.
01:52What's your name?
01:54Her name is Jasmine Pace.
02:0322-year-old Jasmine Pace, known affectionately as Jazzy, was a student at the University of Tennessee.
02:13Kintrell Harris went to high school with Jasmine and worked with her at a local restaurant.
02:19What made Jasmine special was her ability to be compassionate for others, to have empathy for other people.
02:28To be that listening ear whenever you're going through something.
02:32Jasmine was peaceful, loving, caring, friendly, supportive.
02:40Jasmine was super sweet, outgoing.
02:42She cared about people.
02:44And she had a lot of friends.
02:46She was very well involved in the community.
02:49All right.
02:49Bye.
02:50Love you, chick.
02:51Mwah!
02:52Jasmine lived with her mom in Chattanooga.
02:55And worked for her family's construction business.
02:58She was extremely close to her great grandmother.
03:01On November 22nd, her grandmother had passed away.
03:05She was with her family when her grandmother passed away.
03:08And at some point that evening, she left.
03:13But two days later, Jasmine failed to turn up to Thanksgiving dinner.
03:20Thanksgiving is a massive deal.
03:22You're always around your family.
03:23So if you're just randomly not at Thanksgiving dinner, it's going to be pretty alarming.
03:29Her mom gets a message from her that she's with her friend, that she's not coming, which really prompts immediate
03:35concern from her mother.
03:37Then a post appeared on Jasmine's social media, which seemed out of character.
03:43Something fell off because the photo was quite suggestive. Jasmine normally wouldn't do that.
03:51A distinctive tattoo on Jasmine's right shoulder was also missing.
03:58Because of the missing tattoo, it indicated that it was quite old.
04:02And it wouldn't have been from that day.
04:05The family were increasingly concerned.
04:07So Jasmine's mother used an app linked to her daughter's vehicle to track her movements.
04:12And went to the car's last known location.
04:19911, what's the location of your emergency?
04:22900 Mountain Creek Road.
04:23OK. What's going on?
04:25My daughter has been missing.
04:26I haven't heard from her since Wednesday.
04:28And she's had no phone activity.
04:30And we just located her vehicle outside these apartments.
04:34It's been here since Wednesday night at 8.47 and has not left them.
04:39We have reason to suspect that, you know, she may be in danger.
04:46Chattanooga police joined Jasmine's parents at the scene.
04:51Hello.
04:53So what's going on exactly?
04:56She's been missing for four days.
04:58So our daughter, Wednesday, said, uh, texted.
05:01We never actually spoke to her.
05:04Texted and said she was going out of town for the week with a girl friend, Emma.
05:10OK?
05:10OK.
05:11I just talked to Emma today.
05:14She did not go out of town with Emma.
05:17OK.
05:17So I tracked her, um, her, my Chevrolet app.
05:24Tuesday night is the last time I saw my daughter.
05:26Wednesday, it came right here.
05:28It hadn't been loose since.
05:29I pulled up her phone record.
05:31She has not made any phone calls since Tuesday night.
05:34And someone has been resetting her passwords.
05:39Have y'all been in, like, any arguments or anything recently?
05:43No.
05:43Nothing like that?
05:44OK.
05:45Everybody's close.
05:46Her granny lived with us.
05:48She passed Tuesday night.
05:50OK.
05:51Sorry to hear that.
05:52No, everybody's been fine.
05:53There's been no arguments.
05:55And she's never done it.
05:57Inside the car, the driving position had been changed.
06:01The seat was further back than Jasmine would have had it.
06:04Jasmine was very petite.
06:06She was short and she was small.
06:08And the seat seemed to have been further back than a short, small woman would have driven it at.
06:13As far as right now, I can get her listed as missing in the national database.
06:18So that if anybody comes across her, it's going to pop up bright red, missing person.
06:23If you look at missing person statistics, it's not that common for women in their 20s to go missing and
06:29to not be found relatively quickly.
06:30So most missing persons who are female are juveniles.
06:36I'm going to go ahead and call an investigator.
06:39OK.
06:42Jasmine's car being found in a random place, her not making contact with her parents and missing Thanksgiving.
06:48Those are all things that, for Jasmine, are out of the ordinary.
06:52And so it's more those factors that make this an important case because those are all unusual things for her.
06:59And when we look at missing persons, just like with any other kind of situation where there's a big question
07:04mark,
07:04we're looking for things that are out of the ordinary for the specific individual.
07:09We're looking for what are called changes from baseline.
07:14The police were limited in what they could do, but Jasmine's parents were convinced something sinister had happened.
07:20They did their own detective work and tracked Jasmine's vehicle even further back in time.
07:30Because the car was attached to an app, they were able to track its movements,
07:33and they were eventually able to discover that that car had been to Tremont Street previously.
07:40The exact address had already been sent by Jasmine to her mom.
07:46Jasmine had dropped her location to her mother on the night she went missing,
07:52in the middle of the night, around 2.15 a.m.
07:55Mom initially did not see the pin drop.
07:59It was only when the family was really searching for Jasmine that her mother was able to go back in
08:04her text
08:05and all of a sudden said, oh my gosh, she sent me her location.
08:14Jasmine's parents went straight there.
08:18It was an apartment complex on Tremont Street, just five miles away from where Jasmine's car had been found.
08:27When they get to the apartment building, they started sort of canvassing the apartment building.
08:34This couple that lived in the building also was able to identify a scream of what seemed like a female
08:41around the time Jasmine went missing.
08:44The neighbors confirmed to her parents the scream came from inside apartment 210.
08:53The occupant, a student named Jason Chen, a name familiar to Jasmine's parents.
09:02Jasmine was a young female. She was not in a serious relationship.
09:07She was casually seeing a student at the local university, Jason Chen.
09:12Some of her family members had met him, but her parents had not.
09:18Desperate to find their daughter, Jasmine's parents decided to break in to Jason Chen's apartment.
09:27We are at 110 Tremont, room 210 on the second floor.
09:38What's going on?
09:40My daughter's driver's license, her credit cards, everything is right here in the open.
09:46I'm freaking the f*** out.
09:48I'm waiting in the hallway for the officers. They are en route to you right now.
09:52I knew that something bad had happened when I learned that the family found Jasmine's personal items in this apartment.
10:04They were items that you would not leave behind.
10:08A driver's license.
10:10Your credit cards.
10:12I knew that something was wrong.
10:16A few minutes after the 911 call, officers arrived to pick up Jasmine's parents' investigation.
10:23None of y'all are in here?
10:25No.
10:25Okay.
10:26No, I shouldn't.
10:29Just hang out out here.
10:31We're just going to make sure that, you know, obviously there is no one in here.
10:36Smells like rotting food.
10:43See that?
10:44Yeah.
10:45One here, there.
10:48Kit down here.
10:50That's definitely female.
10:54Okay.
10:58Is she in there?
10:59She's not in here.
11:00No one on the side.
11:03A missing child is one of the greatest fears that any parent would have.
11:09You instantly go to very dark places.
11:13Is my child hurt?
11:15Is my child alive?
11:17Is she being held against her will?
11:22Officers needed to speak with the neighbors who'd heard the scream.
11:28Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning.
11:30We were sitting on the couch right there.
11:32Heard some yelling.
11:34I took a note on my phone.
11:37So, I just wrote the time down around about that I heard it.
11:41That was the date.
11:43I haven't changed it since.
11:44So, November 23rd.
11:46That was Wednesday night.
11:48I wrote down a time of 2.15 a.m.
11:51The time of the scream exactly matched when Jasmine sent the pin drop to her mom.
11:58The police urgently needed to find her.
12:02They started to look for Jason Chen.
12:06All they knew was that he was a university student doing computer science.
12:13Jason Chen was nowhere to be found.
12:15Police are calling him.
12:17They are trying to contact him.
12:18They have his information.
12:20He is not responding.
12:22And they do not know where he is at.
12:25Alongside, a major search operation was also underway for Jasmine.
12:32Everyone is looking for Jasmine.
12:34Her mom is frantic and trying to find her daughter.
12:37She was clearly very popular.
12:38She clearly had a lot of people who cared about her.
12:40And, you know, Chattanooga is such a close-knit community
12:43that when someone goes missing like this, you'll see it spread like wildfire.
12:48Pace's disappearance has caught the eye of social media.
12:51Please stop scrolling and help me find my friend.
12:54Share it.
12:54Get the word out.
12:57When I heard the news that Jasmine was missing, it was truly horrific.
13:03I couldn't believe that what was going on was truly happening.
13:08At this point in the investigation, a search warrant was then executed by the Chattanooga Police Department.
13:17They utilized a tool that we basically refer to as luminol.
13:20It is a substance that can identify the presence of blood.
13:24With the naked eye, most of the investigators could not really see any blood.
13:28But when they utilized that luminol, turned the lights off.
13:39This was not a faint trace of blood.
13:43They found quantities of blood that were not survivable.
13:48A closer forensic examination of the apartment only confirmed the worst-case scenario.
13:56There was clearly a clean-up job, but not good enough.
13:59It was clear that not only had something gone terribly wrong,
14:03but that most likely, whosoever blood that was, was not alive.
14:10Investigators needed to confirm if it was Jasmine's blood.
14:14Law enforcement took a sample from her toothbrush at her parents' house to compare it to the blood in the
14:19apartment.
14:20We sent it off to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and asked for it to be tested as soon as
14:24possible.
14:26Outside the apartment, by a dumpster, the police discovered items covered in blood.
14:34Jason Chen has gone from a person of interest to the primary suspect in possibly a homicide.
14:42Police were working around the clock to find him.
14:46They checked the neighborhood for surveillance footage in search of digital clues.
14:52Law enforcement are seeking out video footage from different locations that Jason may have visited nearby his residence.
15:00Police got a lucky break when they checked the security footage from a nearby store.
15:10The morning after Jasmine went missing, Jason Chen was captured on camera, buying cleaning products.
15:18What was especially interesting to us is that throughout these videos and throughout this day,
15:24Mr. Chen wears a very distinct hat that makes him extremely easy to identify,
15:30and we continue to see this hat throughout the course of the investigation.
15:37Another local store provided the police with even more unsettling scenes.
15:46Jason was buying bandages and hydrogen peroxide.
15:52There's something called the illusion of invulnerability, which is when perpetrators think that they can't get caught.
15:58So they're basically overconfident in their ability to get away with a crime.
16:02And in this case, having a really distinctive hat could be an oversight,
16:08but it could also be someone who's just incredibly overconfident and thinks,
16:12it doesn't really matter what I wear, it doesn't really matter what I'm doing because I'm not going to get
16:16caught.
16:19The day after Jasmine went missing, doorbell footage captured Jason returning to his apartment multiple times.
16:28And when investigators checked footage from a street camera outside the apartment,
16:33they made another shocking discovery.
16:36We were able to locate video footage of Jasmine Pace's vehicle actually leaving his apartment.
16:43And this is when that hat becomes important again,
16:46because we believe that the figure in the driver's seat of the vehicle can be identified as Jason Chen based
16:52on the hat he's wearing.
16:55But why would Jason Chen be driving Jasmine's car?
17:01As investigators continued to search through hours of surveillance footage,
17:07another glimpse of Jason aroused suspicion.
17:11The one piece of video evidence that's really stuck, drew me in and captured my imagination,
17:20was the camera that we have installed on a street corner.
17:23And it just so happened to look up Tremont Street to Jason Chen's apartment.
17:30On that I could see Jason Chen coming and going,
17:34and ultimately I could see him taking a suitcase out the front door of his apartment and then driving away.
17:43The contents of the suitcase remained a mystery.
17:48Jasmine was still nowhere to be found.
17:52Then the DNA results came back.
17:55The blood in the apartment was confirmed to be Jasmine's.
18:00The moment with the family in which we had to tell them that we did not expect to find Jasmine
18:06alive,
18:06based on the blood found in his apartment, was when we just had to be honest with them.
18:11At that point, we were all realistic that we were simply looking for a body.
18:19Eight days after Jasmine went missing, police were finally able to access Jason's cell phone location data.
18:27It led them on a drive two hours away from Chattanooga to Nolansville, Tennessee.
18:38A house owned by Jason Chen's parents.
18:43Police.
18:46Hey, how are you doing?
18:48Mr. Chen?
18:49Yes.
18:50Mr. Chen?
18:50Huh?
18:51Hey, I'm Detective Crawford.
18:52Came here to speak with your son Jason.
18:55He emerged from the shadows.
18:59All right, you're going to go with this officer right here.
19:00We're going to pat you down, make sure you don't have everything on you.
19:02Okay.
19:02Since you're on the back of the police car, he's going to put you in handcuffs.
19:05Why would I need to be put in the police car?
19:07Because you can't go down there.
19:09You're not free to go down there by yourself.
19:10You're going to have to go down there with us.
19:12Is there any, like, probable cause or anything?
19:14They'll explain that.
19:15They're going to explain that to you.
19:17Asking the police officers whether they have probable cause, it feels like legal language,
19:21which could suggest that he's been researching the kinds of things the police need to have
19:26in order to arrest him, but also in terms of the kinds of evidence they need to prosecute him.
19:30And that, to me, given the circumstances, does feel suspicious.
19:35Go ahead and put your hands behind your back.
19:41The police say blood spatters found in a young man's apartment
19:44led them to charge him with homicide in the case of missing 22-year-old Jasmine Pace.
19:50When Jason was taken into custody, police tried to conduct an interview with him,
19:56and at that point in time, he chose not to say anything.
20:01But a search of Jason's parents' house led to more incriminating evidence.
20:09They had a one-car garage, and it was his vehicle that was meticulously cleaned
20:15that was in his parents' garage while his parents' vehicles were in the driveway.
20:19Police also discovered handwritten notes about Jasmine's life
20:24and a complete timeline of their interactions.
20:29Jason Chen was now in custody, but Jasmine was still missing.
20:38All search efforts were focused on finding Jasmine's body.
20:44In any homicide prosecution, we always want to have a body.
20:50It is vitally important to prove one of the essential elements in that there was an unlawful killing.
20:57Absent a body, there's always a reasonable doubt that that person is still alive.
21:03We knew that he was a suspect in a homicide, but we did not have Jasmine Pace, and that's what
21:08we needed.
21:10Using Jason Chen's cell phone location data, investigators worked on pinpointing his movements
21:17around the time Jasmine went missing.
21:21When law enforcement began to go through those records, we found that he was all over town,
21:27but in a very suspicious place at one point on the bank of the Tennessee River.
21:37When the investigators arrived in the secluded area off of Suck Creek Road west of Chattanooga,
21:47they immediately noticed a suitcase.
21:53They dragged that suitcase up onto the flat ground, opened it up, and immediately felt what they recognized to be
22:02a human body.
22:06The medical examiner took X-ray images of the suitcase's contents.
22:13The body was wrapped in three separate garbage bags.
22:17It was curled into what's described as the fetal position.
22:24The body was confirmed to be Jasmine Pace.
22:28Jasmine Pace was handcuffed.
22:31Twice.
22:32Once with a handcuff to her wrist attached to her right leg,
22:38another with a set of leg shackles.
22:41One of the shackles was affixed around her elbow area and the other one to her opposite left leg.
22:49The report of our medical examiner was very chilling.
22:53It told us that Jasmine Pace had been stabbed 60 times in her shoulder, in her throat, in her head,
23:05in her abdomen.
23:06It described a large portion of a large knife being broken off in her lung.
23:16She died of blood loss and aspirated on her own blood.
23:26When the body of Jasmine Pace was positively identified, it really shook the entire city.
23:32People just wanted to understand, why could someone do this to this girl?
23:40This is a really brutal find and specifically the fact that she was stabbed so many times makes it really
23:48clear that this had nothing to do with self-defense.
23:51It had nothing to do with someone who is acting impulsively maybe once or twice.
23:56This is someone who is intentionally going back and back and back in order to cause either maximum damage while
24:02she's still alive or maximum damage to her body afterwards.
24:05So this is an obvious and clear case of overkill where someone is maybe emotional, but in a way that
24:13is sustained, not in a way that is sort of a rash reaction.
24:22This was a tough case for everybody.
24:25Just the gruesome nature of it, the uniqueness based on what we typically see in terms of violent crime in
24:32Chattanooga.
24:32So this had been a tough process.
24:34It was a tough process to go through with her family.
24:36So as trial approached, it was somber.
24:40And while they were preparing for the trial, a crucial late discovery of more evidence.
24:46We got a call from the detective in the case who said, we found our SIM card and it was
24:53in Jason Chin's backpack.
24:55The fact that the criminal defendant has the victim's SIM card in his possession is just great evidence.
25:01There is no explanation for that.
25:03And so we put that on top of everything that we already had.
25:06And it was sort of the cherry on top of this case.
25:09A vital piece of evidence that proved Jason had been impersonating Jasmine after she was killed.
25:17She was murdered around 2.15 in the morning a.m.
25:22And then it wasn't until that night around 6 to 6.30 p.m. that we know that he takes
25:28her body to the bank of the Tennessee River.
25:31During that day, he's also texting her as if she is still alive and ensuring that her phone, which he
25:39had in his possession, appears that these messages were read.
25:44He posted a picture of him holding a drink in his hand.
25:49The problem with that is the photograph metadata, well, it showed that it was actually taken months and months before
25:57the homicide.
25:57So it was fake.
25:59He knew that Jasmine Pace was dead and he was trying to create a digital alibi for himself.
26:06The trial began in January 2025.
26:12It was shocking to us when in the defendant's opening statement, his attorney admits, yeah, he did kill her, but
26:20he did it in a state of passion.
26:23He was provoked.
26:25The defense that something is a crime of passion is a line of defense that has long been used by
26:31people, especially by men killing women, especially men killing intimate partners.
26:35And that is something that is changing in terms of the societal perception of acceptability.
26:40It's no longer seen as something that should excuse murder or even potentially be a mitigating circumstance.
26:47The question we should also be asking as a society is, do we care?
26:52Because really, people should be able to control their emotional responses, even to strong and threatening situations.
26:58And murder is never an acceptable option, no matter how angry you would get.
27:03The defense claimed that Jasmine had attacked Jason with a wine bottle after discovering that he was messaging other girls
27:10on Tinder.
27:11It seemed basically impossible that one, that she could have posted any physical threat to Jason.
27:17And that two, with the cell phone data, it was revealed that the day before Jason killed Jasmine, he had
27:23not received one message on Tinder.
27:28But the cell phone data revealed Jason did use a dating app within six hours of killing Jasmine.
27:37Jason had been messaging other girls mere hours after he had killed Jasmine Pace and was telling them, hey, I
27:47guess we're boyfriend, girlfriend now.
27:49And also, he was playing video games after, like with her body still in the apartment, he was talking about
27:55like, hey, let's run some Call of Duty.
27:57All of this is happening while Jasmine is dead in the apartment.
28:02It does feel like the act of a psychopath.
28:04It feels like someone who doesn't care and is getting on with his life rather than panicking and trying immediately
28:09to deal with the consequences.
28:12After an eight-day trial, Jason Chen was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
28:21What he did was so heinous in this case, was so unprovoked, so uncalled for, that I think Jason Chen
28:30had forfeited his right to ever be back in society.
28:32Because we don't need monsters like that in our society.
28:37I miss Jasmine's personality, her compassion, her empathy.
28:43Jasmine should be remembered for her kind spirit.
28:47We did a visual candlelight for her, you know, celebrating her life and who she was as a person.
28:54There were about 200 people at the visual candlelight.
28:57And just seeing all the students come out and show their love and support,
29:02it was a positive atmosphere for anyone to come out and to celebrate the memory of Jasmine.
29:09She left a really big impact on the community.
29:12And that shows with a lot of people coming to her candlelight.
29:18We would like Jasmine to be remembered as the ray of sunshine within her friends and family group that she
29:25was.
29:26She was vibrant, she was beautiful, she was always there, she was loyal.
29:32She had everything going for her.
29:34And that's part of why this was so tragic.
29:37But she certainly was a ray of sunshine and that's a message that we'll continue to try to get across.
29:53In murder cases, victims almost always know and trust the perpetrators,
29:59which is why the perpetrators are able to get them into compromising situations in the first place.
30:04They effectively hijack the victim's intuition.
30:08And what they're doing is they're overriding all the cues that you could be looking for,
30:14all the red flags, and they're turning them around and making themselves instead seem like nice guys.
30:26In the UK, in Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent.
30:32One of the largest cities in the Midlands, with over 250,000 people.
30:38Known as the home of pottery in the UK, with a football team nicknamed the Potters.
30:44But statistically, a higher than average crime rate.
30:49It was home to 18-year-old Megan Newton.
30:57Megan was studying sports science at Newcastle College.
31:02She was a talented football player and recently got a tattoo to show her love for the game.
31:09Megan had three jobs. She not only did that in her spare time, she coached an under-seven girls football
31:16team.
31:17She was a caring person, dealing with children. She loved children.
31:21She gave up her spare time to help them get better.
31:26Megan's dream was to get a sports scholarship to study in America.
31:31She had real ambition for her life.
31:39Friday, April 19th, 2019.
31:45Megan was working her usual evening shift in a local fish and chip shop.
31:51Megan finished at around 9.30 working in the chip shop that she worked in.
31:57After her shift, Megan went home to get changed.
32:02She went to meet some friends in a pub.
32:05And then they all went to a club together.
32:07They were having a lovely evening.
32:09Megan was happily showing off a new tattoo that she had.
32:14At 2.45am, Megan left the club and took a taxi home.
32:25The next morning, a worrying discovery.
32:29Neighbours found a set of keys covered in blood in a car park outside Megan's apartment.
32:36Some people who live in the block were able to establish it belonged to one of the ground floor flats.
32:42So out of concern for the occupant there, they opened the door, they went in.
32:50And what they found was there was a naked female laying on the bed, quite clearly deceased,
32:59and quite clearly suffering from some horrendous injuries.
33:02So they came away and dialed 999.
33:08Police immediately responded to the scene.
33:12When the officers arrived, the witnesses took them to the flat.
33:16And it was quite obvious from her injuries and the blood at the scene that this wasn't an accident.
33:26Inside they also found a knife, a knife that they believed was the one that caused the injuries,
33:31making this a crucial piece of evidence.
33:34They would have been in no doubt that this was now a murder investigation.
33:39The woman was confirmed to be Megan Newton.
33:47Her flat was now a crime scene, meaning it would be locked down and it would need to be forensically
33:52examined
33:53to look for any trace that could indicate not only what happened there, but who it was that killed her.
34:03Investigators urgently needed to find Megan's killer.
34:07The next important step was to build up a picture of her movements that night, that evening.
34:12Where had she been? Who'd she been with?
34:15Police needed to track Megan's route, retracing how she got to the nightclub the night before.
34:21Police will be looking for what we call quick wins.
34:25CCTV that could potentially give some clues as to what went on and importantly, who the killer may have been.
34:33Police found CCTV footage from outside the club.
34:38They were able to identify Megan leaving in a taxi.
34:43In that taxi was one of her female friends and a male.
34:52This clip shows the three of them getting in the cab.
34:56Megan in the middle and the friend closest to the passenger side.
35:01They all look comfortable and, all intents and purposes, there's nothing suspicious going on here.
35:10Police searched for surveillance cameras close to Megan's home.
35:14They found footage of Megan and the man walking towards her apartment.
35:20By now the cab has dropped them off and there are just the two of them now.
35:24As police tracked Megan's movements on camera, they got a major breakthrough.
35:35There was actually cameras in and around Megan's flat.
35:41Cameras that overlooked her front door.
35:46When detectives searched through the recording, they identified Megan arriving home.
35:54The footage showed her arriving around 3.45am.
35:58And she wasn't alone.
36:01She was with a male.
36:03Tall, slim, young, white, with dark hair.
36:08This is the best quality CCTV so far.
36:11They're smiling.
36:12They look happy.
36:14There was no aggravation between them.
36:16There was definitely nothing at this point that you would point out as looking suspicious.
36:22Analysis of the man's behavior revealed a subtle change in his demeanor.
36:28What was once quite relaxed shifts.
36:31He stands quite close to Megan.
36:33He looks around.
36:34We don't know if he's responding to a noise or just scoping out to see if someone's watching him.
36:39But there's definitely something that's shifted.
36:48Two hours passed.
36:50Then he appeared on camera again.
36:56As the man leaves Megan's apartment, it looks like he is quite calm.
37:00He walks.
37:01He doesn't run.
37:03He seems very composed as he makes his way to the door.
37:07The footage is on a front door.
37:09So there's no dispute as to who went in and who came out.
37:15An exterior camera captured the man as he left Megan's building.
37:22This to me looks really very casual.
37:27And with his right hand we see him throw something down.
37:35The object appeared to land in the same spot where the neighbors had found Megan's keys covered in blood.
37:45Again, he seems quite calm.
37:47Doesn't particularly seem phased.
37:48He's even checking his phone.
37:50It doesn't seem to be that anything's amiss.
37:54Of all the video footage, this clip to me is the one that really hits home.
38:05As he's walking away, he looks down and we can see that there's something on his hands.
38:11You can see the color of it.
38:15It's red.
38:19When police spoke to Megan's friends, they discovered the man in the footage was Joseph Trevor.
38:30A 19-year-old semi-professional footballer who had attended the same school as Megan.
38:38Both of his parents were police officers.
38:42Remarkably, it wasn't the first time he'd come to notice of police.
38:45Because that evening before he met Megan, he'd been stopped by bouncers and found to have white powder on him.
38:52And they called the police and he was dealt with by them for this white powder that turned out to
38:58be ketamine.
38:59The police detained him, but the decision was made that he was not fit to be detained, i.e. he'd
39:07been drinking, potentially taking drugs.
39:09So those drugs were taken from him and he was given a bail date to come to the police station
39:15at a later time.
39:17After Joseph Trevor was released from the police station, he went straight to the Kiln nightclub where he met Megan.
39:25And just a few hours after he left Megan's apartment alone, officers were called out to a potential suicide threat.
39:33The police were called to a male who was sitting on the side of a bridge over the A500.
39:44And when police arrived, they found that that male was Joseph Trevor.
39:52He was sat there in a way that caused concern.
39:56He's on this side of a bridge overlooking a road.
39:58Is he somebody that may be looking to take their own life?
40:03Joseph was taken to the hospital.
40:06He was seen by a mental health worker and picked up by his dad.
40:12We don't know exactly what was going through Joseph Trevor's mind.
40:16It could be guilt.
40:17It could be remorse.
40:19It could be shame.
40:20However, in these instances, self-preservation outweighs guilt.
40:25And what unfolded may have been much more in response to a fear of the consequences rather than true more
40:31for what he had done.
40:34Joseph Trevor had gone home to his house that he lived at with his mum and dad.
40:41He decided to confess to his family.
40:45He said to them, I've done something bad.
40:49For Joseph Trevor's parents, who were both police officers, hearing the news about what he did must have been devastating.
40:57But the reality is there was only one outcome.
41:00In order for Meghan to have justice, they had to forego protecting their son.
41:07His parents phoned the police and informed them that the murderer of Meghan Newton was in fact their son, Joseph
41:14Trevor.
41:18Joseph Trevor was arrested and charged with the murder of Meghan Newton.
41:24When someone commits a crime such as this, it's important to understand, well, is this a one-off?
41:30Have they done anything like this in the past?
41:32In the case of Joseph Trevor, it appeared that he had.
41:37When he was 15 years old, he'd been arrested for a sexual assault.
41:45That was never prosecuted, but it gave a clue as to why and how this happened to Meghan.
41:54The autopsy report revealed the full extent of Meghan's injuries.
41:59Dr. Brett Lockyer is a forensic pathologist.
42:04In Meghan's case, the pathologist was able to determine that there were nine stab wounds to the back of her
42:11neck.
42:12Those stab wounds had entered into her chest and had injured both her lungs.
42:16The pathologist had found injuries to her neck, which would indicate that she had been strangled,
42:23that there had been a period of neck compression, followed by nine stab wounds.
42:29This sustained and brutal attack is the reason why Meghan died.
42:36The autopsy also confirmed Meghan had been sexually assaulted.
42:42This is a very disturbing and violent crime.
42:44From a psychological perspective, this is overkill.
42:47And overkill really does often suggest there is an intense emotional experience,
42:53like rage, sadism.
42:55It's about power and control.
42:58We also have to acknowledge that the throat is where our voice resides.
43:01So strangulation can also be seen as a way to silence a victim,
43:05especially if they've been rejected or if there's resistance,
43:08or even to silence the victim from speaking about what actually happened.
43:12In that moment, the perpetrator has that person's life literally in their hands.
43:17They choose if they live or die.
43:19It's about inflicting anxiety, terror in the victim, but also exerting dominance.
43:30In court, the full details of the evening Meghan was killed came to light.
43:36On that evening, she'd taken him home in order to stop him getting into trouble with his parents.
43:42And Trevor has repaid her by raping her, murdering her, and then leaving her dead in her own apartment before
43:49fleeing the scene.
43:50This was a brutal and sustained attack, showing no regard for Meghan's life.
43:57Joseph Trevor had expressed a desire not to go home because he was intoxicated and he didn't want his parents
44:02to see him in that state.
44:04Meghan, being the understanding friend that she was, offered to share her sanctuary with Joseph Trevor.
44:09But he abused it, took advantage of it, and attacked her and killed her in her own home.
44:15This really does highlight how Meghan's act of kindness was met with betrayal and ultimately her losing her life.
44:24The video evidence gave police a rare insight into the mind of Joseph Trevor.
44:30It's quite unusual to actually get a glimpse of a killer soon after the murder has taken place.
44:38You don't often get that look into their eyes as you do in this instance when he's coming out of
44:44that flat.
44:45Knowing that this man is the killer invites us to look at this clip differently.
44:49The calmness that we're seeing takes on a different quality.
44:53It's quite chilling, it's cold, it's callous, and it has no indication of what's just taken place momentarily.
45:00It has no sense before.
45:05In February 2020, Joseph Trevor was sentenced to 21 years for the murder and rape of Meghan Newton.
45:15It's really important that talking about Meghan's murder doesn't take away her dignity.
45:21While it's an important case, that real lessons can be learned.
45:25We have to hold in mind that a real woman, a young woman, a woman who had her whole life
45:30ahead of her, is at the centre of this.
45:33Meghan brought lots of joy to many people.
45:36She was kind, compassionate, and caring.
45:39And she would be missed by not only her friends and her family, but her community.
45:45Meghan was a keen footballer, not only in terms of playing, but also teaching the younger generation to play this
45:52sport.
45:53And encouraging women to get involved.
45:55This is inspiring. This is incredibly hopeful.
45:58This is what Meghan should be remembered for.
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