Jackie White
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
He said, I heard a scream that was so startling that I wrote the time down. So he went and got the paper and I want to say it was in three to four minutes of that pin drop that he heard that scream.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She went down and got her credit card out of her car and they got in. They popped the lock with the credit card.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
Thanks for finding this. Yes, let us take it from here. We had no confidence whatsoever in the police because up to this point, it was like, we can't be, it's a holiday weekend. How'd you get my number? She's fine. She's posting on social media.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
Absolutely, because what have you guys done for us this far? Anything we thought could be a clue to help us find her, we were chasing that.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
It was hard, and the cancer had metastasized. It went from, hey, let's figure out what's wrong, to she's going to die very soon. That fast? Yes. So it was really quick. It was really unexpected.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
I got a call at work from Katrina. Hey, get here to the police station now. They're calling us in. They have an update. So we rushed there, and they told us, seeing what we believed to be the crime scene, There's so much blood that was lost that it was not survivable. So this is no longer a missing person's case. This is a homicide.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
So that's a strange thing because I think in the back of your mind, we still were like, well, are you a hundred percent? It was her blood. You know, maybe she did somehow survive it. You're telling me she's gone, but we don't have her.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
I think maybe we wanted to cling to that. I mean, we all accepted what they were telling us. Yes, we know that this person you loved died, and we know it was pretty brutal, but we don't really know what happened after that.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
How was Jasmine during all of that? She kept it together because that's what we do in my family. We're strong for each other. But when I got there, she was outside alone having her breakdown. So she was devastated. I mean, devastated, absolutely devastated. Everyone had their own moment with her, and she passed as soon as I started praying.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
It was painful. You know, it was really painful. We all stayed together and just waited. But by the second day, I was like, if they don't find her today, I'm... I'm going looking. We had come up with a game plan to kind of just look on our own because we needed that closure. We needed that piece of putting her to rest.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
If there was anywhere that she had to be for that many days, she loved it there.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She told him that he should go and see it before the leaves fall.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
So that was torture. Just feeling like, did we make a mistake? It was a constant just pit in your stomach of... there were times katrina would call me and just say he's not going to get away with this right two years after jasmine pace was killed
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She loved her family. She put everything she had into being there for everybody else.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
What was it about that post that stood out to you? The photos. That's not something she would put out there of her in lingerie.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She offered, you know, I can bring stuff. Our moms are not going to want to have Thanksgiving, but granny will haunt us if we do not. She's like, we have to get everyone together, even if we're all in pajamas and crying. Yeah. So that was the plan to kind of recoup the day in between and figure it out. And then I'll get back together on Thanksgiving.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
60 stones are in this jar, one to represent every stab wound found on my beautiful, innocent 22-year-old cousin.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She put everything she had into being there for everybody else. She always put herself last. I mean, she got Joy out of doing for others and being a loving, compassionate, kind, warm human being.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
And you got a response. I did. Saying what? I just need some time alone after everything that happened.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
For an emotional response. event, yes. I think my whole family is that way. We kind of retreat inwardly and like to process alone. So I thought maybe that's what was happening.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
And said, you know, I'm going to South Carolina and with Emma for her family's Thanksgiving. I just need some time away from everyone after everything that happened. Jackie couldn't believe it. Her not coming to Thanksgiving, it upset me. I mean, I'm like, girl, be here, you know? And I tried to call her on Thanksgiving and it went straight to voicemail.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
When she couldn't reach her on the phone by the day after Thanksgiving, it was like, no, something's wrong. She's not picking up the phone. She's not checking on me. She knows her daughter. She does. And it's very unlike Jasmine to not be there for everyone.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
Emma actually told her, my family's not in South Carolina, so I don't even know where that came from. And there was more. Jazzy wasn't with her on Thanksgiving. And that's when it was like panic stricken. She knew something wasn't right. And 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, let's unravel this.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
And from that moment on, it was just digging. Like, where is she spending money? Who is she talking to? You're terrified of what you're about to find.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
It's 2022. Everyone has an electronic footprint. There are clues everywhere.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
We found a way in the apartment complex. He said, I heard a scream that was so startling that I wrote the time down. So this was right next door? Exactly.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
Sassy. So easy to talk to. She had a lot of friends. Definitely kind of an old soul. She liked to read. And as social as she was, she was a homebody, too.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She was still in college, but worked for that company. So it was all day, every day on the phone with them.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
You saw that post? I did. I felt like That's someone that wants to humiliate her. That's not something she would put out there of her in lingerie on social media.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
So on the phone with me. I mean, she pulled up her Verizon and started scrolling through, and she said the last person she was on the phone with, it's this number.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
And I put it in Cash App, and I said, Jason Chin, do you know that person? She said yes, and she hung up on me.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
When you're desperate, I think that's what you do. You just don't stop moving. It's like you're trying to lean into anything you can that you think is going to bring you some kind of answer.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
She sees the pin drop and realizes, oh. She sent a message. Yes.
Dateline NBC
The Pin at Apartment 210
It was scary. I think that that's when I think fear really set in.