A mom's desperate search to find her daughter. Tears and fury in an Ohio courtroom. And the latest in the Karen Read case.
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The judge ended the day in suspense. They do end up finding her body, and those charges are up to murder.
Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning. It's January 9th, and here's what's on our docket. In Ohio, there were tears and rage at a sentencing last week as multiple family members admitted their parts in what's been called the Pike County Massacre.
It's like what I've done. I am glad I got caught.
In Dateline Roundup, Karen Reid's defense team was back in court this week talking about dogs. And we've got details on new charges filed against the man at the heart of what's been called the real-life Gone Girl case.
It's the same M.O., and it's a very unusual, scary, terrifying M.O.
Plus, a new year could mean an unexpected summons to jury duty. A jury consultant gives us her tips on what to expect.
Jurors can feel a lot of sympathy and even empathy for the defendant while also finding him or her guilty.
But before all that, we're heading to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a highly publicized murder trial is about to get underway. And the mother of the victim has faced questions about what she did to try to find her daughter and whether she went too far. In the early morning hours of November 23rd, 2022, 22-year-old Jasmine Pace sent her mother an unsettling text message. There were no words, just a pin drop sharing her location. Jasmine never came home after that. Sensing something was wrong, Jasmine's mother Katrina and her family went into investigation mode. They went to the location of the pin drop, a condo complex where the family forced open the door to an apartment. Katrina took several items she found there, including Jasmine's phone, license, and credit cards, and was left with a bad feeling.
What was your reaction when you found those?
I knew it wasn't good. A few days later, Jasmine's body was found stuffed in a suitcase. She'd been stabbed 60 times. Police had already zeroed in on a suspect, Jasmine's boyfriend, Jason Chen. He was charged with murder and abuse of a corpse. He has pleaded not guilty. But in the more than two-year run-up to Chen's trial, the unauthorized investigation by Jasmine's desperate mother has come under heavy fire from the defense.
It's normal for you to break into other people's apartments.
How might it all impact the trial set to begin next week? Here to bring us up to speed is Grayson Gordon, a news reporter from our NBC affiliate WRCB Local 3 News. Grayson, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. This is such a sad story. To start, can you just tell us tell us about Jasmine Pace and who was she?
What was she like? What have you learned about her? We know that she was very loved by her family. Whenever you're listening to testimony from her mother, Katrina, you can hear how close they were and how much they talked. And having that communication with her and her family, how close she was with her mother, was really the way that her mother was able to know that she was not okay as quickly as her mother was able to figure that out. And what do we know about Jason Chen and how they met? So we know that they met on a dating app a few months before she went missing. They were both college students.
So her mom sort of turns investigator, right? Because it's unlike Jasmine to not check in with her mom.
Absolutely. And you can understand a mother pleading and doing... everything in her power to try to find her child. She gathers her family and she realizes that her daughter had sent her a, dropped her a pin. That pinned location took them to Jason Chin's apartment.
So Jason's not there in the apartment and they gain entry and And that's when they say they found Jasmine's phone, credit cards, and driver's license. So obviously very scary for the family to not know where their daughter is and to walk in and find that.
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