Wild Jasmine

What happened?

The Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department is investigating the murder of 19-year-old Jasmine Ledbetter, an assistant manager at an Oxford pizza place.

Her body was found wrapped in plastic and left in a clearing in the woods off Highway 7 south of town. Local hiker Mark Eldridge made the disturbing discovery around dawn.

Help investigate the case

The Wild Jasmine case documents are presented in chronological order in the Case Files.

• Click the Evidence, Interview, Biography, or Press tag at the top of the Case Files page to filter by document type.
• Click the Day tags at the top of the Case Files page to filter case documents by the day they happened in the investigation.

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Where do you start?

If this is your first look at the investigation, you may want to start with the Case Recap or one of these case documents:

• YCSD incident report
• Biography of the victim, Jasmine Ledbetter
• Interview with the person who found the body
• Interview with the victim's mother
• Inventory of evidence found at the scene
• Interview with the victim's prospective employer