The Murder of Jasmine “Jazzie” Porter

In February 1996, 36-year-old Jasmine “Jazzie” Porter was found dead inside her Bronx apartment. Her five-year-old son, Jeremy, had been left alone with her for days, too young to fully understand what had happened but old enough to know his life had changed forever.

For more than two decades, Jasmine’s case sat cold. Detectives collected evidence at the time, including fingernail clippings, but in the mid-1990s, DNA technology was still in its infancy. Without a strong lead or an immediate match, the case eventually stalled. Jasmine’s family—including the little boy who grew up without his mother—was left searching for answers that never came.

That changed when NYPD Detective Robert Klein reopened the case nearly 25 years later. Klein discovered that Jasmine’s fingernail clippings had been preserved but never tested. He sent them for modern DNA analysis. The results came back with a match: Gregory Fleetwood, a man with a violent history who had already been convicted of killing another woman in the 1980s.

Fleetwood was arrested in 2022 and charged with second-degree murder in Jasmine Porter’s case. His trial is still pending, and under the law, he is presumed innocent until proven guilty. To this day, prosecutors have not identified a clear motive. One haunting detail remains—both Jasmine Porter and Fleetwood’s earlier victim, Linda Miller, were pregnant at the time of their deaths.

This episode of Forensic Tales explores Jasmine’s life, the tragic day in 1996, and how forensic science decades later helped bring her family closer to justice.

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