Mario Garcia
Appearances
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Hey, Andrea.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
They did indeed, Andrea. I mean, in court, we found out that they went into Jason Chen's, the accused department, at least three times. And then they called 911 after the first time. But they were desperate. And they, as Katrina, the mother, said on the stand, I would have done anything to try and find my daughter.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Anybody have anything else? Great. Thanks, everybody. Good to see you all.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
The medical examiner went through very precisely and said, look, all 60 of the wounds were in a very focused, small area. And really, the only sense that it made was that she was already bound in that fetal position that she was found in.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
I mean, it fit their narrative. The narrative was Jasmine was the provoker of the fight, upset about alleged messages on a dating app that she didn't know about, and she came at him.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
They started the closings where they started the openings. They had the suitcase again and let it sit there while they went through the timestamps, all of the cell phone records, all of the traffic cameras. Everything we've shown you leads to premeditation.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Their closing was pretty short and just tried to emphasize what premeditation meant.
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A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
And then the prosecutor, the DA, Cody Womp, she had a rebuttal, and she literally opened with, wow, just like that, and said, nothing they just said connects to their opening. They gave you this theory about what happened, and we've heard nothing else about this in this trial.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
It was one of the most dramatic closings we've ever seen.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Her older sister spoke. Then her older cousin spoke. And she took out a glass jar and started dropping blue little glass stones into the glass jar. And she counted out 60 little glass stones for each stab wound that Jazzy had experienced.
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A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
She also said, you know, you haven't just torn apart our family. I pray for your mother. I feel awful for your mother. You have torn apart two families.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
They did. In Tennessee, if you're found guilty of first degree premeditated murder, the jury then decides the sentence. The jurors spent about 20 minutes deliberating the sentencing.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
The Pace family did let out a little triumphant scream. His mother and his brother were crying.
Dateline NBC
A verdict in Chattanooga. A widow accused of murder. And how to avoid natural disaster scammers.
Thanks for having us.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Thanks for having me, Andrea.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
The prosecution's argument is that Jasmine disappeared the night that she went to her boyfriend's house, was never heard from again, and her boyfriend, the person she was seeing at the time, was involved.
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An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Yeah, her mom didn't see it until a couple days later, and frantic family members had already gone down the road of trying to kind of self-investigate the case because they felt that police weren't helping them as much as they wanted.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
This family got into the apartment, maybe illegally, maybe not. What Katrina said on the stand is Jasmine's father, Travis Pace, used the credit card to actually, Jimmy, open the door. And then they went in.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
She took iPads. She took notebooks. This is not the way things usually happen.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
The prosecutors came out of the gate in a way that I have not really ever seen before. It was impressive.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Yeah, I mean, they very craftily said, this is a distraught mother and family that did what anybody else would do.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Well, you're not the only one, Andrew.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
They said he's guilty of killing her, but he's not guilty of killing her the way that the state has said.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
They said they were dating in a relationship. She came over and they did what they always do. They had some wine. They smoked some weed. And then they say that his phone was in the kitchen. He was in the bedroom. His phone started making that unique pinging that Tinder sounds make. She saw that he was communicating with other women on Tinder. She got really upset.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
A glass and a wine bottle got broken. She came at him, and he was trying to defend himself. And then he blacked out, and when he came to, she was dead. And then he panicked more, and he disposed of the body.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Well, you know, he is the son of immigrants, and so am I. You know, there are things that happen in personal psychologies that can make somebody act in certain ways. Is that what happened here? I don't know.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
She got up there and she held her own. She was very stern and strong and answered the questions.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
The defense tried to trip her up. You said the two of you or the four of you, how many was it that went in? Who actually used the credit card to break into the apartment?
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
They called the manager of the Walgreens. They called the manager of the Walmart. Places that Jason went to buy things that the prosecution says were used to cover up the crime. The law enforcement folks, the lead detective...
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
They have been submitting questions, and then the judge calls the prosecutors and the defense attorneys up. They go over what's going to be allowed, and the judge then asks the questions of the witness before they leave the stand.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
You don't usually get to see what the jury is thinking in real time.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
Who's sleeping, who's taking notes.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
But, you know, and the judge keeps thanking them for being such a plugged in jury. It's really fascinating.
Dateline NBC
An accused killer's surprising defense. A pharmacist on trial for poisoning. And a medical examiner's strategy for cracking cold cases.
I'm happy to be here anytime you all want me to be.