In the final episode of SEQUESTERED: A Juror’s Perspective on the Murder Trial for Jasmine Pace, Sara reflects on the journey from jury duty to podcast creation and the immense emotional and mental weight of seeking justice. Joined by co-producer Andrea, Sara revisits the pivotal moments of the case and shares new insights from prosecutors Coty Wamp and Paul Moyle, whose dedication to Jasmine’s family left a lasting impression. Listeners hear from fellow jurors as they grapple with their own experiences and reflections following the trial. Sara answers heartfelt listener questions, offering a glimpse into her motivations for making the podcast and her hopes for how Jasmine’s story will be remembered. The episode closes with a poignant reminder: Jasmine’s story doesn’t end here. Sara and Andrea pledge to continue their search for answers, including following Jason Chen’s upcoming appeal. This powerful and emotional conclusion to the series leaves listeners with a call to remember Jasmine Pace for who she was—a vibrant, loving person whose story deserves to be told with compassion and respect. Here is the blog for this episode on our website. On our website, you can see more photos, videos, and blogs about each day of the trial, organized by episode. Go to SequesteredPod.com Website: sequesteredpod.com Instagram: @sequesteredpod TikTok: @sequesteredpod Thank you for listening. SEQUESTERED is a BP Production.
Chapter 1: Who is Sara and what was her role in the Jasmine Pace murder trial?
Welcome to the final episode of Sequestered, a jurors perspective on the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. I'm Sarah, juror number 11, and I can't believe we're here. This journey began months ago, but it feels like it's been a lifetime. In January 2025, I was chosen to serve on the jury for the state of Tennessee versus Jason Chen.
And what I expected to be a civic duty became a profound, life-altering experience. This case has been like a gravitational force, something I couldn't shake, even after the verdict was delivered. From the moment I returned home to Nashville, it was like my mind and my heart couldn't leave Chattanooga behind.
I was home for less than a day before my co-producer Andrea and I were writing and recording the trailer for this podcast. And just three days later, we were driving back to Chattanooga to retrace Jasmine's steps, to see the places that had only been described to us in court. Sometimes a force so immense comes into your life and you just have to step into its current.
This felt like a giant ship pulled up alongside of me and I just climbed aboard without hesitation. Saying yes to this journey was like stepping onto that ship and committing fully to wherever it would take me. I mean, I could have opted out. I could have found a way to avoid serving on the jury or even walked away once the trial was over. But something deeper pushed me forward.
It felt like all of this aligned for a reason. And saying yes wasn't just a decision. It was a commitment. A commitment to Jasmine's story. A commitment to honoring her life. This experience has reshaped my perspective in ways I never anticipated. I'll share a lot about that in this episode. And now, as we close out this podcast, we're going to explore the journey we've taken together.
Today, we'll dive into the questions you, our listeners, have asked along the way. We'll revisit key moments and share insights from a couple of my fellow jurors, journalist Latricia Thomas from News Channel 9, and a conversation we had with District Attorneys Cody Womp and Paul Moyle. It's a special episode that we hope resonates with you.
This is Sequestered, a juror's perspective on the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. I'm Sarah, juror number 11. Each episode, I'll take you inside the courtroom, behind the scenes, and into the weighty moments of this trial as we honor Jasmine's life and navigate the complexities of seeking justice. Let's begin. This is episode 10, After the Verdict. Leaving Chattanooga felt surreal.
My world had shifted on its axis. I had spent nine days so deeply entrenched in the details of Jasmine's death and life, and then suddenly it was over. The case was finished, but nothing felt resolved. I returned home, but life didn't snap back to normal. Everything had changed. Instead of unwinding, I felt compelled to throw myself into this project almost immediately.
There was this urgency, like if we didn't start piecing everything together now, the details would slip away forever. I'd been journaling in my hotel room during the trial, trying to capture everything I could, but most of my notes were kept in a notebook that I was required to leave at the courthouse. I took a lot of notes throughout the trial, pages and pages of details, timelines, testimonies.
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Chapter 2: How did Sara's experience on the jury transform into a podcast?
When I told her I was going to be on a sequestered jury, she was immediately hooked on the case and ended up watching the entire trial online as it was happening each day, taking all of her own notes along the way. The realization that this might become a podcast hit me like a lightning bolt on day four of the trial in the evening.
I was sitting in my hotel room, working on this ridiculous miniature house of a greenhouse garden, a Christmas gift I'd received years ago. It's this delicate model building project with thousands of pieces. Tiny plants, paper rugs, doll-sized furniture. Think building a model plane or assembling a ship in a bottle. Something that would take hundreds of hours of solitude to complete.
Perfect for a 10 to 14 day sequestration, right? I was deep into assembling some little detail when it happened. My hands stopped, the tiny paper rug between my fingers fell to the table, and I heard myself say out loud, oh my God, we have to do a podcast about this. It felt like a switch flipped, like my brain had suddenly connected all the pieces I'd been holding.
I shot up, grabbed a notebook, and wrote down the words, sequestered, a podcast from a juror's perspective. It wasn't until after listening to DA Womp's closing statement that the title became what it is, a juror's perspective on the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. This wasn't just about processing what had happened to me, to Jasmine, to her family, to the community.
It was about honoring her story, about refusing to let her name fade away. As we drove back to Chattanooga to visit the sites from the trial, we saw them through fresh eyes. We stopped at each of the places mentioned. 110 Tremont Street, 900 Mountain Creek Road, Walmart and Walgreens, and of course, Suck Creek Road.
Standing in each place, we tried to absorb the atmosphere and tried to understand the perspective of Jasmine's story that each space held. The trailer for this podcast had practically spilled out of us. We had so much to talk about, me experiencing it from the inside and Andrea watching it from the outside. We both had two entirely different perspectives of this case.
The two-hour drive back to Nashville became a brainstorm session. We mapped out episodes, sketched ideas, and decided how we wanted to tell this story. We had this grandiose plan of writing and recording all the episodes in quick succession, releasing them while the trial was still fresh on everyone's mind. But we quickly realized how much effort each episode not only demanded, but deserved.
And what started as a seemingly simple project turned into something we poured our whole hearts into. Instead of batch recording 10 episodes for quick release, we ended up devoting over 40 hours a week each to researching, writing, editing, producing, blogging, and building a place for Jasmine's story to be shared.
It's just the two of us, aligned with a deep passion for this case and for ensuring Jasmine's story is known and heard. I have experience in the podcast industry, but I've never done a podcast like this before. This time of sequestration has changed my life, though, and I felt compelled to share my unique perspective of this experience.
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Chapter 3: What was the community's reaction to the Jasmine Pace case?
And then everyone not in the gallery was really patient with us as they explained the most elementary concepts of criminal procedure and explained all the details of a case they had been working on for over two years for probably the hundredth time.
The decision we made was straightforward, but it was solemn, and several of the more compassionate members of the jury cried just about the situation that we were in.
It affected us each in different ways. Some of us carried it like a weight we couldn't shake, while others tried to compartmentalize the experience and just get through the day. Processing something like this is messy and imperfect. And we all felt it. Juror number one described his experience like this.
While the trial was going on, I didn't have super strong emotions about the details of the case themselves. Even with some of the more intense testimony, like the medical examiner, it sort of felt like I was clocked into work and I really didn't have time to sort of process emotionally what I was seeing.
It wasn't until after I got home and sort of spent some time by myself for the first time in two weeks that I began to sort of process everything that had happened. I actually realized this as I was driving to work the day after we returned and I sort of started to get a little choked up on the drive.
And then after getting to work, when the first person asked me how the trial was, I kind of broke down and started to cry. I tried to hold it together as best I could, but I was a little teary.
And so my coworkers told me they would just handle the rest of my caseload for the day since they'd already planned on me being away for the full two weeks and that I should just go home and take some time to process it all.
People have asked me how I've been able to process everything after this, how I was able to see all of that graphic detail or carry the weight of the responsibility. And I think the simple answer is, I haven't. Not entirely. Processing something like this isn't a task you can complete or cross off a list. It's something you carry and revisit over and over.
And the people connected to this case feel its weight in different ways and at varying degrees. I've learned a lot about myself throughout this process. I mean, what a wild experience I went through. There's no way I could be the same person after something like this.
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Chapter 4: How did fellow jurors describe their emotional experiences during the trial?
Womp's office, her and Moyle in a set of cozy chairs, and the two of us on a comfortable couch with a long coffee table splitting the difference between us all. Everyone was in casual attire, Birks, flannel. It was nice, the opposite of official.
But what struck me most was how willing they were to share their perspectives, not only as legal professionals, but as human beings who were profoundly affected by the weight of this case. We discussed the trial, shared our own questions and curiosities, and reflected on what it all meant.
Hearing their insights, especially after diving so deeply into this podcast, brought another layer of understanding to everything. We ended our conversation with them with a couple of questions, and we wanted to share their responses with you. The first was for D.A. Womp about her advocacy for victims' rights.
I wanted to know what drove her passion in this area and how it shaped the way she approaches cases like this one. Here's her response.
I think that that's what this job is. This office, any prosecutor's office, should be victim-focused or why are we all here? And certainly crimes matter that don't have victims. You can argue that there's a lot of crimes that do have victims that we don't necessarily categorize like that, but... We should all prioritize crimes with victims as prosecutors.
And that's what my message is to this office all the time. We have to make sure we're taking care of this community, not just public safety, but taking care of people in this community. And so in these cases, when you... prepare for a trial like this one or any trials that we have where we spend years preparing, you really get to know the victim well.
And so by the time you get to trial, you know their family, you know what they were like when they were 15 years old, you've heard all the stories, you really get a sense for better or for worse. Sometimes you learn bad things, you know, but you get to know them. And so by the time you get to trial, it really is like, for me, personal. You know this person. You know their family.
They're in your office. You've seen them struggle throughout the last two years since their daughter died. You've seen the ups and the downs to a certain extent. And so it is personal. By the time you get to trial, in my opinion, all you really want to do is fight for them. Because you've been through this process, seeing it from their point of view. And so it is.
It's hard to not make it too personal. For me, I have to remind myself to just take a step back sometimes because it It can affect you and it will affect you if you let it. But to a certain extent, I think that's a good thing. I hope that I always feel that way. And if I don't care like I do now, I hope that I'll leave this job and do something else.
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Chapter 5: What insights did District Attorneys Cody Womp and Paul Moyle share about the case?
Any cases involving children, the rape of a child case that I tried in Bradley County was one of my first big trials. And being able to get a victory for a child like that, who afterwards will say, I didn't think anybody was going to believe me. Because kids don't come forward often because they don't think anybody's going to believe them. Um, and they're scared.
And so to, to have a victory for a child where the system believed them and protected them, like we're supposed to, it makes you feel like this is not just a profession. It's a passion. It is, you know, it's for me, it's sort of who I am. Um, but any, any case with the children, um, but a case like this with a, with a victim who
really was just 1000% innocent in all of this and did not deserve to die and was not involved in any type of criminal activity. And, you know, this was just so random and did not have to happen that it makes it a real privilege to be able to to fight for her. But any of these trials, and most of the trials I've tried have to do with victims.
Most of the cases that my office tries have to do with victims. We try drug cases here and there. We've tried a theft in the last year, but for the most part, we focus on victims and that means that we take these cases to trial.
Finally, I asked both DA Womp and DA Moyle what they hope people will take away from this trial. For Jasmine, for her family, and for the broader fight for justice. Here's how they each replied.
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Chapter 6: What motivated DA Cody Womp’s dedication to victims' rights in this trial?
Chapter 7: How does Sara reflect on the impact of the trial and the podcast journey?
Today, we'll dive into the questions you, our listeners, have asked along the way. We'll revisit key moments and share insights from a couple of my fellow jurors, journalist Latricia Thomas from News Channel 9, and a conversation we had with District Attorneys Cody Womp and Paul Moyle. It's a special episode that we hope resonates with you.
This is Sequestered, a juror's perspective on the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. I'm Sarah, juror number 11. Each episode, I'll take you inside the courtroom, behind the scenes, and into the weighty moments of this trial as we honor Jasmine's life and navigate the complexities of seeking justice. Let's begin. This is episode 10, After the Verdict. Leaving Chattanooga felt surreal.
My world had shifted on its axis. I had spent nine days so deeply entrenched in the details of Jasmine's death and life, and then suddenly it was over. The case was finished, but nothing felt resolved. I returned home, but life didn't snap back to normal. Everything had changed. Instead of unwinding, I felt compelled to throw myself into this project almost immediately.
There was this urgency, like if we didn't start piecing everything together now, the details would slip away forever. I'd been journaling in my hotel room during the trial, trying to capture everything I could, but most of my notes were kept in a notebook that I was required to leave at the courthouse. I took a lot of notes throughout the trial, pages and pages of details, timelines, testimonies.
I had no idea those notebooks would be collected and locked away as soon as the trial ended. That was a huge loss for me. But thankfully, the trial had been livestreamed. And even more thankfully, I had people back home in Nashville watching it in real time, every single day. One of those people was Andrea, my co-producer.
When I told her I was going to be on a sequestered jury, she was immediately hooked on the case and ended up watching the entire trial online as it was happening each day, taking all of her own notes along the way. The realization that this might become a podcast hit me like a lightning bolt on day four of the trial in the evening.
I was sitting in my hotel room, working on this ridiculous miniature house of a greenhouse garden, a Christmas gift I'd received years ago. It's this delicate model building project with thousands of pieces. Tiny plants, paper rugs, doll-sized furniture. Think building a model plane or assembling a ship in a bottle. Something that would take hundreds of hours of solitude to complete.
Perfect for a 10 to 14 day sequestration, right? I was deep into assembling some little detail when it happened. My hands stopped, the tiny paper rug between my fingers fell to the table, and I heard myself say out loud, oh my God, we have to do a podcast about this. It felt like a switch flipped, like my brain had suddenly connected all the pieces I'd been holding.
I shot up, grabbed a notebook, and wrote down the words, sequestered, a podcast from a juror's perspective. It wasn't until after listening to DA Womp's closing statement that the title became what it is, a juror's perspective on the murder trial for Jasmine Pace. This wasn't just about processing what had happened to me, to Jasmine, to her family, to the community.
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