MISSING: Jasmine Robinson

Dateline: Missing In America

NBC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jasmine Robinson was last seen in the Archer, Florida home she shared with her grandmother on February 18, 2019. The 23-year-old was approximately six months pregnant when she went missing. Police believe she disappeared at approximately 7 p.m. Earlier that day, she had a heated phone call at work with the man she believed to be her baby’s father. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz talks with her sister, Shantavia Robinson, her grandmother, Rosa Robinson and Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Det. Chris Weitzel. Jasmine is 5’2” and 150 lbs. She wears black-framed glasses, and has brown eyes and black, braided hair. If you have information about Jasmine’s case call the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, at 352-367-4161; or to leave tips anonymously, call CrimeStoppers, at 352-372-7867.

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0:00.0	Life can only be understood backwards, set a philosopher.
0:09.6	Unfortunately, it has to be lived forwards.
0:13.4	Throughout the course of her 88 years, Miss Rosa Robinson has raised her children and
0:19.2	some of her children's children.
0:21.9	The woman they call mama has weathered many storms over the decades, humbly describing
0:27.4	life's twists and turns as tough.
0:32.0	Having come through it, Miss Rosa beams with a sense of accomplishment because all her
0:36.9	kids and grandkids made it through the challenges they encountered along their journey.
0:42.3	Well, make that almost all of them.
0:45.3	These days like the rest of her family, Miss Rosa is looking backwards, searching for
0:49.8	a trace of her 23-year-old granddaughter, Jasmine Robinson.
0:54.6	Jasmine, I miss you.
0:57.4	I just miss you, baby.
0:59.3	I can't sleep some time at night.
1:01.6	I'll be one to see you, but I'll be thanking you for that, but no, she's not there.
1:08.1	Miss Rosa says she'll never forget the moment when everything changed for her family.
1:13.2	It was the winter of 2019, and a cool rain pelted the small town of Archer, Florida.
1:19.7	It was cloudy, gloomy, and that darkness in the sky would soon settle.
1:24.6	We had to settle in over the Robinson's, who'd made a life there for generations.
1:29.7	If you follow Florida State Route 24 Southwest from Gainesville, and if you don't blink, you'll
1:36.7	run right through Archer, population 1100.
1:41.7	Archer, it is a very small little country town.
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