Hey, everybody. I'm Dennis Murphy, and you have reached Talking Date Lion. And our guest today is Blaine Alexander, my colleague, and she's going to be talking about her most recent episode, which was called The Pin at Apartment 210. Hey, Blaine, how are you?

Dennis, I'm so good. I'm so glad to join you, my friend. How are you?

Good. You know, you had me all the way through right from the beginning. I wanted to see what happened next.

And boy, once you set those horses running, this is a great story. Thank you so much.

And I want to talk about it, but let's do a little recap first for people who haven't seen it yet. It's about 22-year-old Jasmine Jazzy Pace. She went

missing around Thanksgiving of 2022, and her mom Katrina knew that something was terribly wrong.

When authorities weren't giving her the answer she wanted, she took matters into her own

hands, even against police recommendations. And for this talking Dateline, we have an extra clip

from an interview with the juror in this case, talking about her experience coming to a verdict

back during that emotional trial, and it was. Okay, so let's dive in and talk Dateline. Blaine,

the hardest thing I've always felt in being a Dateline correspondent is sitting in a chair,

talking to a family member who has lost someone who was taken in such an ugly fashion way too soon.

Tell me about cousin Jackie.

Jackie was incredible.

Jackie is somebody that, I mean, she really was kind of like the heart and soul of our story.

She spent a lot of time just kind of talking to us about Jazzy.

The two were very close. I mean, they were very, very close. And from the very beginning,

you kind of noticed that, you know, when they were together, when they were mourning granny,

they were the two that said, no, we got to make sure our moms are okay. We've got to do this.

So they were kind of, you know, you have that person in the family that you're like, okay, we're going to take care of things. That was Jackie and Jazzy. That's kind of the feel I got from them.

But what a heaping plateful of grief this family had put on them.

Here was their great-grandmother, very beloved figure in the family, and all of a sudden, they're gathered at her hospital bed saying goodbye.

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