Our family heard about the woman found late last night. Today has been yet another trying day. We spent the day waiting to hear if this was in fact our Jasmine Sue. We hope for this nightmare to finally be over with. Sadly enough our journey in searching for Jasmine is not over. Jasmine has been missing for 10 long months. She was a loving mother. She is missed and loved very much. Right now our thought and prayers go out to the family of the women that was found yesterday afternoon. Missouri Missing will be doing anything they can to help find this women's family. We hope to bring them some piece of mind that we are all longing for with our own missing loved one. If anyone has any information about a missing women to please contact the Callaway County Sheriff's Department and or Missouri Missing.
Thank you again for all of your love and support.
Nicole Sue




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Body Found in Callaway County Not Haslag
Sheriff's deputies believe it is a murder victim, but not the Mid-Missouri woman who's been missing more than a year.

Story written by News Staff
Story posted on April 21, 2008

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The body of a woman found in a shallow grave near the Missouri River in Mokane is not Jasmine Haslag, a mother of three who had been missing since last summer and police said likely was murdered.



A reserve deputy of the Callaway County Sheriff's Department found the woman yesterday while he was looking for mushrooms, according to a news release sent by the department today.



Sheriff Dennis Crane told ABC 17 the body is a 25- to 40-year-old woman. It appears the woman was killed.



Crane said authorities used fingerprints to determine the woman was not Haslag. The sheriff's department will contact state and federal authorities for help in trying to determine the identity of the woman.



Haslag, 32, was last seen in June when she was scheduled to pick up her three children in Bland. She never showed up, and authorities have said they believed she was murdered.



The spot where the body was found yesterday is nearby the area where authorities found Haslag's car last year.



An autopsy had been scheduled for this morning, and police on the scene said they would contact Haslag's mother, Peggy Florence, before making more information public.



ABC 17 will continue to follow the story as it progresses and have more tonight at 6 p.m.


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Updated: Female body found in Callaway County
woman body

By Colleen Hogan
Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 10:46 p.m.

UPDATE: KRCG has learned that preliminary autopsy results are in and that the body found is not the body of Jasmine Haslag. The Callaway County Sheriff's Department has called in the FBI to widen the search to national missing persons. Stay tuned to KRCG for further details.



Previous story:

An off-duty reserve officer of the Callaway County Sheriff's Department was searching for mushrooms when he made a much bigger discovery.

The Callaway County Sheriff's Department Sunday is confirming that a grizzly discovery has been made. The body of a female in what appeared to be a shallow grave along the banks of the Missouri river just off the Missouri Conservation Departments access ramp in Mokane.

"At this time, we have removed a corpse from that location. An autopsy is scheduled for 9:30 am Monday. Past that, we don't know cause of death yet and we do believe, there's reason to believe there's foul play," said Callaway County Sheriff Dennis Crane.

The sheriff's department was notified around 3:30 Sunday afternoon about the corpse. Both the Callaway County and Osage County Sheriffs Departments are working the ongoing investigation. County road 479 near PP has been deemed a crime scene and is closed to all traffic.

Crews plan on staying overnight Sunday as they continue to process the scene and search the area for evidence.

The sheriffs departments' are not speculating Sunday if they think the body may be that of missing Russellville woman Jasmine Haslag.

Haslag went missing June 18th, 2007, after she never showed to pick up her children.

Her car was found miles from where the female body was found




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Since When?

Since when do we know who the police suspect? She dated an "Olton" But His name didn't start with a "T" I think people like to think they know everything when they actully know nothing. Maybe they pretend to be so smart as to know the unknown because the unknown scares them. Also the Who who got aquited, his charges had nothing to do with this girl she was being charged with the same thing.

— Buzzing Ears, 65101

To Her Immediate Family

My thoughts and prayers are with you...the truth will come out and they will find Jaz. Keep faith in your heart.
Some of you can stay in denial about the truth however it IS getting closer. BET ON THAT! I have a dear friend that has been dragged thru this from the start and I do know this person is being eyed just to keep others safe. Talk all you want, Karma

— facts65101 karma, JC

My apology.

I do apologize... I read the article too quickly before posting my comment. I'm sure those who responded to "positively" to my mistake have never misread anything before. Again, I do apologize.

— Mandy Kliethermes, Loose Creek

Involved???

I wasn't involved in this... I wasn't even in the state so don't go saying I was involved...I just hope that it's not her for the sake of the Family and I Just don't want to believe she's gone...I never met her, but was told how wonderful she was/is. I talk to her mother and she's also a great woman, and my prayer's are with her as well...

— T O, russellville,mo

Do people actually read this story right?

The story never said anything about not having foul play..people just don't know how to read.


and WE DO BELIEVE, there's reason to believe there's foul play," said Callaway County Sheriff Dennis Crane.


Wake up people and read it right before you post things.

— B S, Mid-Missouri

re: PLEASE TELL US IT'S NOT HER

"PLEASE TELL US IT'S NOT HER!!!

— T Olten, russellville,mo"

If you were involved in her death as suspected by many, I bet you do hope it's not her that was found.

— Go Fish, JC

The story says.....

the story says "we don't know cause of death yet and we DO believe, there's reason to believe there's foul play."

— Jennifer ELBOURn, JEfferson City

In JC.....

MAK-the article stated we do believe, there's reason to believe there's foul play," So, they do suspect foul play.

— Chrissy Hilt, Jefferson City

MAK

A question to law enforcement.... If this situation is being considered "no foul play" then how does someone bury themselves in what law enforcement is calling a shallow grave?? This story doesn't add up to me. Hopefully we will find out more in the next few days.

— Mandy Kliethermes, Loose Creek

What man?

Please explain as in to "Who" got off on charges just 3 days prior. My friend and I were reading this and do not remember anyone being aquitted several days ago. Is it her ex boyfriend or someone else.

— Holly M, Jefferson City

Body Found

I read that the car was found"mile" from the seen. The line should have read "just miles" from the seen. The car was found ditched off road within a suspicious distance.
I also would wonder about the coincidence about the man getting off just days before this but the facts are it was a jury trial.
Maybe this will put the body to rest for the family.
And thank God for the mushroom hunter being an off duty officer.

— Rick hunger, Eldon

Someone May have Some Explaining

...for someone who was just acquited 3 days prior how ironic this happens. If it is Jaz - I pray they find out who did this TRUTH WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY!

— Facts65101 65101, Jefferson City, MO

I HOPE NOT

PLEASE TELL US IT'S NOT HER!!!

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Authorities say body found is not Jasmine Haslag
Body found not Haslag

By Mallory McGowin
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 at 5:32 p.m.
CALLAWAY COUNTY --

Authorities say the body found Sunday afternoon near Mokane is not Jasmine Haslag. KRCG's Mallory McGowin has the latest information from Mokane where state and county officials now say the fingerprints collected during Monday morning's autopsy do not match those of the missing Russelville woman.



"Indications back from the Highway Patrol in reference to the prints that were taken to them...AFIS is telling us right now that it's not a match on Jasmine Haslag," says Callaway County Sheriff Dennis Crane. "So, right now indications are it's not her."

The female body was found just before four o'clock Sunday afternoon in Callaway County, about a mile down County Road 479 just off Highway 94. The river access road has been closed since a Callaway County reserve deputy was out looking for mushrooms and stumbled upon the body in a shallow grave.

The body was discovered about 30 or 40 yards up the Missouri River bank. At this time authorities do not believe the body was dumped in the river, but rather buried at this location.

Officials taped off the area and removed the body Sunday night. More authorities came to search the area for evidence Monday. Officials from both Callaway and Osage Counties, as well as the Missouri Department of Conservation are now involved. Crane says the search will likely continue into Monday night.

Crane says authorities have every reason to believe foul play was involved in this incident and that the body, identified as a female between the ages of 25 and 40, had been in the shallow grave for a while.

"The most imporant thing right now, at this time, is to identify who this person is," Crane says.

Jasmine Haslag was initially considered because she is from this area and her car was found about five miles from this burial site nearly a week after her June 18th, 2007 disappearance.

I spoke to Haslag's mother, Peggy Florence, by phone several times Monday. In response to the latest details, she says she is still deperately looking for her daughter and seeking closure for herself and Haslag's children.

Crane says the fingerprints collected will now be sent to the FBI and cross checked with the National Missing Person's database. Authorities ask if you have any information about a local missing woman between the ages of 25 and 40, to call the Callaway County Sheriff's Department at (573) 642-7291.

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MOKANE -- A reserve officer of the Callaway County Sheriff's Department was looking for mushrooms near the Mokane River Sunday afternoon and made a more disturbing discovery.

He stumbled across a shallow grave, in it he found what appeared to be a female's body. Callaway County Sheriff Dennis Crane believed the body had been there for a while.

Examiners scheduled an autopsy for 9:30 a.m. Monday and received the results of the autopsy came back this afternoon.

There was speculation earlier that the body could be that of missing Russellville woman Jasmine Haslag who went missing June 18th, 2007. Haslag was declared missing after she never showed to pick up her children. The body was discovered five miles from where Haslag's car was found last Summer.

But in an update as of 3:30 p.m. the Callaway County Sheriff's Department said that according to AFIS, the fingerprints belonging to the unidentified body are not those of Jasmine Haslag. The fingerprints will be sent to the FBI and run through the National Missing Person database to try to obtain an identity.

The Callaway County and the Osage County Sheriffs Departments, along with the Highway Patrol and the Department of Conservation are working together on the investigation.

Sheriff's have named the Mokane River Access, County Road 479, as a crime scene and closed all traffic on the road, while river access is shut down all of Monday.

Edited by: Charlotte Bellis
Reported by: Erika Thomas

Published: Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Last Updated: Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:38 PM.


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