WEBVTT 1 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.880 Boston and Massachusetts. It's one of America's oldest cities. It 2 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.920 was founded in sixteen thirty by Puritan settlers and became 3 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.200 the cradle of the American Revolution. By the nineteenth century, 4 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.479 it had transformed into an industrial powerhouse and a gateway 5 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.479 for immigrants seeking new lives. Waves of Irish, Italian, and 6 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.920 later Cape Verdean families arrived at its ports, building communities 7 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.200 that would shape the city for generations. By February of 8 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.599 twenty to nineteen, Boston Seaport District had transformed from industrial 9 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:20.359 waterfront into one of the city's trendiest areas. Glass walled 10 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.519 restaurants and upscale night clubs drew crowds every weekend. Young 11 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.040 professionals and college students alike flooded the street after dark, 12 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.719 seeking escape in the pulsing music and dim lights of 13 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:36.280 establishments such as Venue. Venue was exactly the kind of 14 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.599 place people went through to forget their troubles. On the 15 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.959 night of the twenty third of February twenty nineteen, the 16 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.680 temperature had dropped to the low thirties. It was cold 17 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.719 enough that your breath missed in the air, cold enough 18 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.159 that you wanted to get inside, get warm. Get somewhere safe. 19 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:55.840 It was just after two a m. When the nightclub 20 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:59.599 stores opened and guests filled out on to Tremont Street. 21 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.599 The music had stopped, the lights had come up. Everybody 22 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.640 was heading home. Among the crowd was a young woman 23 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.400 in an orange jumpsuit and a denim jacket. She had 24 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.159 no shoes. She was just barefoot on the freezing pavement. 25 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.360 She was alone now, but she hadn't meant to be. 26 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.319 There was an uber parked at the curb, its interior 27 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.919 light glowing. The young woman tapped on the window, then 28 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:29.080 climbed into the front passenger seat, but moments later, the 29 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.639 door flung open. The woman fell from the car onto 30 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:37.360 the sidewalk, landing hard on the coal concrete. There was 31 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:56.479 a man standing nearby. He was watching. Jasse Corea was 32 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.360 born in Prayer, the capital city of Cape Verd, on 33 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.479 the twenty sixth February nineteen ninety six. The small island 34 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:05.960 nation off the coast of West Africa was where her 35 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.680 story begun, but it wouldn't be where she would grow up. 36 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.599 When Jassy was just three years old, she emigrated to 37 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:15.840 the United States with her father, settling in Dorchesterhire in Massachusetts. 38 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.280 Her father had wanted a better future for his daughter. 39 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.520 He looked at their life in Cape verd and then 40 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.280 with the promise of America, and he had made a choice, 41 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.680 the kind of choice that parents make when they believe 42 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:32.960 impossibility over certainty. The United States he felt, offered opportunity. 43 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.599 Jassie's mother lived in Portugal, and she didn't see her 44 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:41.719 daughter very often. Dorchester became Jassy's home. There she grew 45 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.360 up surrounded by a large, loving family, including Anne's uncles 46 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.719 and cousins, who adored her. The close knit Cape Verdon 47 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.400 community in Boston provided a bridge between two worlds, allowing 48 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.240 Jassie to maintain her cultural routes while building a new 49 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:59.599 life in America. She spoke Portuguese at home English at school. 50 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:03.159 She belonged to both laces, in neither the way so 51 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:07.319 many immigrant children do. Jassy was funny and bright, with 52 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.319 a passion for two things that brought her joy, dancing 53 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.840 and photography. Friend said that she was outgoing, the kind 54 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.920 of perison who could get along with anybody. She had 55 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.319 this ability to make people laugh, even at their worst moments. 56 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:22.920 Her loved ones all said that there was something magnetic 57 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.160 about her and energy that could draw just about anybody 58 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:31.079 in When Jassie walked in their room, people noticed. In 59 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.319 December of two thousand and sixteen, when she was twenty 60 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.600 years old, Jassi gave birth to a girl she named 61 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:41.879 Gabriella Gabby for short. Mother had transformed her. Those who 62 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.680 knew her described Jassie as a devoted mother, somebody who 63 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.360 treasured every moment with her daughter. She cherished the time 64 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.079 she spent with her friends and family, and the simple 65 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.000 afternoons at the park with Gabby. These weren't grand moments, 66 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.920 they were ordinary, but to Jassie they were precious. Life 67 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:03.360 for Jassie, however, had been easy. Gabby's father, Miguel Gastro, 68 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.160 was violent. On the twenty eighth of January twenty eighteen, 69 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.399 Jassie sent a text message to his mother which read, 70 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.800 you need to help me. Miguel won't let me leave. 71 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.040 Don't call him, He'll kill me. She attached a photograph 72 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.720 of herself. What Castro's mother saw on that image was 73 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:28.240 almost unrecognizable. Jassie had two black eyes and blood tinged 74 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:32.800 tears were running down her face. Her nose was completely distorted, 75 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.399 and her mouth was so swollen it wouldn't close. This 76 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:42.279 was her son's work. She immediately called police. Officers responded 77 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.040 to Castro's home and found Jassie hiding under the basement stairs. 78 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.600 They found blood all over the home, blood spattered on 79 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:54.639 Castro's clothing. He had punched Jassie so hard he had 80 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.000 broken her nose and fractured her orbital bone. The police 81 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.360 report read, in part, her injuries were so extensive that 82 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.920 somebody who knew her most likely wouldn't recognize her. Castro 83 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.680 was arrested and charged with mayhem, the intentional disfigurement of 84 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.639 another person, as well as multiple counts of assault and kidnapping. 85 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.839 He was eventually convicted and sentenced to four and a 86 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.040 half years in prison, followed by three years of probation. 87 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:26.759 That conviction meant that Jassie was finally free. By early 88 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.959 twenty nineteen, she was twenty two years old and living 89 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.800 in an emergency shelter in Lynne with her two year 90 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.360 old daughter. If hadn't turned out for Jassie the way 91 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:40.639 she had expected, the path had been harder, darker than 92 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:44.279 anything she imagined as a girl in Dorchester. But with 93 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.199 Castro locked away, Jossie was fighting for something better. She 94 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.079 was working as a hostess at Del Frisco's restaurant in 95 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.240 the Seaport neighborhood of Boston. It was quite a commute 96 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.720 from Lynne, but Jassi made it work. She had big 97 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.079 dreams and plans, but more import she had dreams for 98 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:05.360 Gabby's future. She was working with the social worker mapping 99 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.839 out the next steps, Determined to create a safe and 100 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:12.720 loving home for her daughter. Jassie kept the notepad on 101 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.600 the front she'd written in careful letters, life is my 102 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:20.000 favorite adventure. Inside she had made lists including apply for 103 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.680 jobs in person, go see family, take the test at 104 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.279 least once. But mixed in with the two items were 105 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:31.519 words of encouragement, messages to herself remind us of her 106 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:36.160 own strength. You've got this, you can do it. Jassy 107 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:41.199 was optimistic. After everything she had endured, the violence, the fear, 108 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.800 the nights spent hiding, she still believed in better days ahead. 109 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.199 She still had hope. She had a job interview lined 110 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.480 up for the twenty fifth of February, the day before 111 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.319 her twenty third birthday, but Jassy would never make it 112 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.879 to that interview. She wouldn't make it to her birthday either. 113 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:10.560 It was cold on the night of the twenty third 114 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:15.079 of February twenty nineteen. Jassy's birthday was just three days away, 115 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.720 but since it fell on a weekday, she made plans 116 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:21.759 to celebrate that Saturday night. Instead, she and a friend 117 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:26.800 from Western Massachusetts, Agia, were heading out in Boston. Jassi's 118 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.879 saught her was staying with her grandmother for the weekend. 119 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.000 It was a rare night off, a chance to be 120 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.440 twenty two, not just a mother fighting her way out 121 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:37.480 of a shelter. To start the night, Jassi headed to 122 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.000 the apartment of her friend Neah, lived in Dorchester. Earlier 123 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.679 that day, they'd gone shopping for an outfit. Jassi had 124 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.679 picked out an orange jumpsuit, a denim jacket with wings 125 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:53.159 embroidered on the back, and black high heeled shoes. She 126 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.840 looked at herself in the mirror and smiled. The plan 127 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.960 was simple, celebrate, stay over at nee a is A park, 128 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:05.639 then collect Gabby. The next morning, another friend, Reggie, drove Asia, Jassie, 129 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.159 and Nea to downtown Boston. They parked in a garage 130 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.360 on Tremont Street, then walked one block to Venue, which 131 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.799 was a popular nightclub. The line stretched her on the 132 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.399 block by the time they made it inside It was 133 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.279 already twelve forty a m. It was crowded, The music 134 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.080 was loud, the kind that vibrates in your chest. The 135 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.320 small group of friends claimed a corner of the bar. 136 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.360 They shared a bottle of champagne and had a couple 137 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.679 of shots of tequila. Then the women headed out onto 138 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:38.759 the dance floor. Reggie stayed behind at the bar for 139 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:43.600 a while. Everything seemed fine, normal, just friends celebrating, but 140 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:47.679 something in the dynamic shifted. Nea had suddenly become angry 141 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:51.159 and aggressive. Her mood had turned dark in a way 142 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.360 that nobody could explain. She would later say she believed 143 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:57.000 that her drink had been spiked, that the way she 144 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.720 had been acting wasn't normal, wasn't her, But in the 145 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:05.080 moment there was no explanation, just anger. When venue closed 146 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:06.919 to a m, the group headed out on to the 147 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:11.279 street and started walking towards the parking garage. The cold 148 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.559 hit them immediately. The temperature had dropped. Nea was still 149 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.679 in a combative mood. She shoved Jessie once, then again. 150 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.000 After the first push, Jasie took off her high heels 151 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.919 Eedga picked them up, holding them as they walked. Jassy 152 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.759 was trying to calm Nae down, speaking to her softly, 153 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:34.240 the way you might talk to somebody who's not quite themselves. 154 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:38.919 Nea was acting irrational on the stable EDGEA told Jassie 155 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.840 to leave Nea behind to come with her and Reggie 156 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.559 back to the car, but Jassie refused. She said she 157 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.240 wouldn't leave her friend behind. Even angry, even aggressive, Nea 158 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.320 was still her friend. Jessy wasn't the kind of person 159 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:58.320 who abandoned people. But it was late. Everybody else was tired, cold, 160 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:02.120 and ready to go home. Aga asked Jassie how they 161 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.559 would get back to Nia's apartment. Jassie said they would 162 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.919 take an uber. At that point, Asia and Reggie left, 163 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.679 walking back towards the garage. They left Jassie and Nea 164 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:18.159 on the street, two women, one in an aggressive state, 165 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.720 one barefoot, trying to be a good friend. It was 166 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:34.480 the last time they would ever see Jassie alive. The 167 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.039 next morning, Jesssie never arrived to pick up her daughter. 168 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.440 Her family started calling her on to her friends. They 169 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.200 soon learned that she had never made it back to 170 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:47.559 Nia's apartment. Nie had made it home, She remembered that much. 171 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.840 She said that she and Jassie had split up after 172 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.399 Agia and Reggie left them on the street. She had 173 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.360 assumed that after the argument, Jassi had just gone back home, 174 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.559 back to Lynn, back to the shelter, But Jassie hadn't 175 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.759 arrived at the shelter. She was missing. Her friends and 176 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.759 family called her phone over and over, but it went 177 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.679 straight to voicemail. The next day, Jassy never showed up 178 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.679 for her shift at Del Frisco's. This wasn't like her. 179 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.840 Jassie needed that job. She wouldn't just skip work. She 180 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.759 wouldn't disappear without telling anybody, especially not when Gabby was 181 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.639 waiting for her. Her father then called police to report 182 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:34.320 his daughter missing. Somewhere in Boston, Jassi Corea had vanished. 183 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:44.559 After Jassy was reported missing, detectives immediately spoke with her friends. 184 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.879 They explained what had happened that night, Nea becoming angry, 185 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.320 the shoving, Jassie staying behind with her friend even as 186 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.360 the others left, But what happened after that nobody knew. 187 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:01.519 Nea couldn't remember, she'd been too drunk, so detectives turned 188 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.559 to surveillance footage in the area. The footage showed exactly 189 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.360 what Ega and Reggie had described. It showed them leaving 190 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.720 Jassie and Nea on the street walking back towards the 191 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.519 parking garage. They had assumed that Na and Jassie stayed 192 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:21.799 together after they left, but that wasn't what happened. Shortly 193 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:25.200 after Ega and Reggie disappeared from view, Nea walked off 194 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.919 in another direction, away from Jassie, away from anybody who 195 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:35.320 might have helped. Jassy was left alone on the sidewalk, intoxicated, 196 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:40.120 wearing a denim jacket no shoes, the cold pavement beneath 197 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.759 her feet. There happened to be an Uber driver park nearby, 198 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:49.159 waiting for Uber Exil customers. The surveillance footage showed Jassie 199 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.639 tapping on his window, then climbing into the front passenger seat, 200 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.200 but moments later, the door flung open, Jassie fell from 201 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:01.039 the car on to the sidewalk. Detectives were able to 202 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.879 track the Uber driver down. He told them that when 203 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.320 Jasie climbed in, she tried to hire him through the 204 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.679 Uber app, but the app wouldn't have loyed it, something 205 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.519 about the ride request not going through. Besides, he explained 206 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.840 he was only looking for Uber Excel customers. He could 207 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.799 make more money from them, so he turned Jassie away, 208 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.559 but the surveillance footage showed something else. There was a 209 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.519 man standing nearby as all of this unfolded. He was 210 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.799 watching Jassie. When she fell to the ground, he approached. 211 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.720 He helped her back up. The camera captured him holding 212 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:41.200 her hands, talking to her. Jassi looked around, turning her 213 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.279 head as if she was searching for somebody, looking for Nea, perhaps, 214 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.440 but Nea was already gone. Jassy in the unfamiliar man, 215 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:53.919 then headed off down Tremont Street together. Further down the block, 216 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.960 Jassie climbed on to his back. He carried her piggyback style, 217 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.480 with her arms straped over his should. They continued walking 218 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:05.960 before stopping near the Animal Rescue League. There was a 219 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.879 car park there. The man unlocked it. He and Jassie 220 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:14.600 climbed inside, then they drove away. It was three fifteen 221 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.639 a m. Detectives released a description of the vehicle in question. 222 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:23.240 It was a redness and altema. The footage was greeny 223 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.240 pixelated when they tried to zoom in, but they could 224 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:30.080 just about make out what the man looked like. Bronze skin, 225 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:34.320 dark hair, dark stubble. He appeared to be wearing jeans 226 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.240 and a dark jacket. Armed with this description, detectives made 227 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.879 their wed a Venue, the club where Jassie had spent 228 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:44.120 the night. They wondered whether the man had been inside. 229 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.159 It was the closest nightclub to de remonstrate. It seemed 230 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.399 plausible likely even that he'd been there. Thankfully, venue took 231 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:57.039 photographs of IDs presented when guests centered the club. It 232 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:01.120 was standard procedure. Detectives went through each and every one 233 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:05.440 until they found somebody that stood out. Lewis Dake Holman 234 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.720 the third. He was thirty two years old and from 235 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.399 Providence in Rhode Island. He had a master's degree in 236 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.919 physics from California State University, and he worked as a 237 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:21.000 systems engineer at Raytheon in Waltham, Massachusetts, a company that 238 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:25.480 built miss Island defense systems. On paper, he was educated 239 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.519 employed stable. Detectives conducted a record check to see if 240 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.240 Coman owned a vehicle that matched the one that Jassi 241 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:35.759 had been seen climbing into, but he had no vehicles 242 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:39.960 registered to him. Still, detectives continued looking at him as 243 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.120 a person of interest. He looked far too similar to 244 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.080 the man on the surveillance footage. The resemblance was undeniable. 245 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.360 Detectives then reached out to police and Providence and asked 246 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.919 them to conduct a welfare check at Coleman's apartment on 247 00:16:54.039 --> 00:17:00.240 Chestnut Street. Officers knocked on the door, nobody answered. The 248 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.799 next morning, detectives decided to make the trip to Providence themselves. 249 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:08.720 They too knocked, but nobody answered. But by now detectives 250 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:13.880 had probable cause. They kicked the apartment door down. There 251 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.559 was nobody inside. As soon as they entered, they felt 252 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.079 a chill. Even though it was snowing outside. The windows 253 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.920 were wide open, cold air was pouring into the apartment. 254 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:31.480 Something was off. Detectives searched the apartment and noticed some peculiarities. 255 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:36.039 The shower curtain was missing, a cushion from the sofa 256 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.160 was gone. There were two packages of hooded coverall sitting out, 257 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.559 two respiratory masks in a dumpster. Outside, they found white 258 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:50.880 trash backs, a bag containing plastic sheets, men's chains with 259 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:55.319 bleach stains, a belt, a white nie long hooded coverall, 260 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:01.039 an empty box of baking soda, dock tape packaging. He's 261 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:05.519 weren't the belongings of an innocent man, they thought. Detectives 262 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.880 began scoring surveillance footage from the interior exterior of the 263 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.799 apartment complex. They found Coman on camera on the twenty 264 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.759 fourth of February. It was about four am when he 265 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.079 pulled into the parking lot. He locked the car and 266 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.680 headed up to his apartment, but he didn't stay for long. 267 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.440 Minutes later, he was seen going back down to the car, 268 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.200 This time he was carrying a white comforter. He spent 269 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:33.880 some time maneuvering the car around in the parking lot 270 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:40.640 repositioning it. Then he was seen carrying a body. She 271 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.240 had long hair and she was limp. She was dressed 272 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.920 in an orange jumpsuit, but the top half had come down, 273 00:18:48.400 --> 00:19:02.079 exposing her breasts. It looked like Jassie. Coleman entered the 274 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.880 lobby and put the woman on the floor, then dragged 275 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:08.160 her over to the elevator. Her body moved like a 276 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.839 dead weight. The camera in the sixth floor hallway showed 277 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.559 Coleman dragging her towards his apartment, number six oh two. 278 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.640 The timestamp read four to twenty three am. Over the 279 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.279 next few days, surveillance showed Coleman making trips in and 280 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.640 out of the building. He was seeing carrying Walmart bags 281 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.519 into the apartment. Then on the night of the twenty seventh, 282 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.640 he appeared with a large blue suitcase. Shortly after one am. 283 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:38.119 The next morning, he was recorded dragging that same suitcase 284 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:41.839 to the elevator and out to his car. It appeared 285 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.279 heavy the way he moved with it. He made several 286 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:51.920 additional trips, more bags, boxes, a computer tar Then at 287 00:19:51.920 --> 00:20:00.759 four am he drove off. Detectives working convinced that Coleman 288 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.680 had killed Jassie, brought her body to his apartment, and 289 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.680 then placed her in that suitcase. They released a photograph 290 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.319 of Coleman, along with the photograph of his vehicle in 291 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:15.039 the surveillance footage. They asked him to come forward. 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Thanks 330 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:41.920 to Qualia for sponsoring this episode. It wasn't long before 331 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.440 detectives discovered that Coleman's car had on Star, a vehicle 332 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.960 tracking system they had the company activated on an emergency basis. 333 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.559 This allowed detectives to see live location information for the vehicle. 334 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:57.799 On the twenty eighth, they learned that it was traveling 335 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:02.000 near Wilmington in Delaware. They sent this information to local 336 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.440 officers who were immediately dispatched to search for the vehicle. 337 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:08.200 It was just after two pm when the car was 338 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:13.079 spotted driving along Interstate ninety five. Trooper Hassan Hallis saw 339 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:16.279 the car as it merged onto the highway. He followed 340 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:20.720 it down the interstate, keeping his distance in radio four assistants. 341 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.960 Then he turned on his lights. The car slowed down 342 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.000 and pulled over at the side of the off ramp. 343 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:31.920 By now more officers had arrived. They approached the driver's 344 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.920 side of the vehicle with their guns drawn. In the 345 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.759 driver's seat was Lewis Coleman. He looked calm. An officer 346 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:43.720 asked if anybody else was in the vehicle. Coleman responded, 347 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.160 She's in the trunk. Coleman was handcuffed and placed into 348 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.480 the back of a patrol vehicle. The officers then turned 349 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:55.279 their attention to the car. They slowly opened it up. 350 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:59.640 Lying in the trunk was a blue suitcase, the same 351 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:02.960 one s on the surveillance footage, the one that Coleman 352 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:05.119 had dragged out of his apartment in the early morning 353 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:09.759 ours They zipped it. Inside was the cushion cover that 354 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:14.240 had been missing from the sofa in Coleman's apartment. Another 355 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:17.960 layer another barrier between what he'd done and the world. 356 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:23.640 They unzipped that stuffed inside, folded into a fatal position, 357 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:29.000 was Jassie. She was bond with duct tape. She was 358 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:32.960 covered in white powder baking soda they would later determine 359 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:38.039 used in a futile attempt to mask decomposition. Her face 360 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.559 was bruised and caked in blood. The officers stepped back. 361 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:47.839 Some of them had children, daughters. This was someone's daughter. 362 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:51.240 The road was closed off as crime scene investigators and 363 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:55.480 detectives descended on the scene. Traffic backed up for miles 364 00:24:55.480 --> 00:25:01.279 as officers worked carefully methodically to preserve the evidence. Jasse's 365 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.960 body was carefully removed and then transported to the medical 366 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.880 Examiner's office. Here it was discovered that her head and 367 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:12.359 torso were covered in bruises, showing that she had been 368 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:16.880 beaten before she was strangled to death. The autopsy also 369 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.799 revealed mail DNA in her vagina and wrecked them at 370 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:24.799 DNA came back as a match to Lewis Coleman. Coleman 371 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:27.519 was booked at the Delaware State Police troop to barracks 372 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.599 and placed into a holding cell. One of the guards 373 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:34.119 noticed a large bandage on the right side of his face. 374 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.680 He asked Coleman if it needed to be looked at. 375 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:47.960 Coleman responded, it's from the girl. After the tragic up 376 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.279 the Jassey's family gathered at one of their homes. The 377 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.680 news had traveled fast. Her cousin carried the pain and 378 00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:58.359 spoke to reporters through tears and said she was a mother, 379 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.039 She was brave, she was strong. She did not deserve this. 380 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.559 She went out to celebrate her birthday and never returned home. 381 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.200 We want justice for her death. Somewhere in that gathering 382 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.079 was two year old Gabby, too young to understand why 383 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.039 her mother wasn't coming back home, too young to know 384 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.079 that the man who took her had been caught. The 385 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:24.000 family set up a gofund made a help care for Gabby, 386 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:27.000 and within days it reached over one hundred and fifty 387 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:32.200 thousand dollars. Strangers from across the country donated. They'd seen 388 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:36.519 Jassie's face on the news, they heard her story. They 389 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.920 wanted to help the little girl who would now grow 390 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:42.960 up without her mother. Venue, the nightclub where Jassie had 391 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:46.720 spent her last hours dancing with friends, donated two thousand, 392 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:50.559 five hundred dollars. Coleman's vehicle was impounded so that it 393 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:54.440 could be examined more closely. Inside the trunk, officers also 394 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:57.880 discovered Coleman's computer tor the same one seen in the 395 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:03.519 surveillance footage, carried out his apartment alongside the suitcase. When 396 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:06.759 the hard drive was analyzed, detectives found a digital trail 397 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:11.000 of his intentions. Between the twenty fourth and twenty seven 398 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:13.880 of the February Coleman had conducted a series of searches. 399 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:16.880 He had searched for whether a body could fit in 400 00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:20.960 a suitcase, how to pull teeth that aren't loose, turkey 401 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.440