Who Trolled Amber? - Introducing...The White Devil

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

We are partnering with Campside Media, so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations like Who Trolled Amber. You can join Tortoise as a member to get early and ad-free access to new series and support our investigations at www.tortoisemedia.com/invite.Introducing...The White DevilSharing something special this week: A show from our friends at Campside Media, called White Devil.Late at night in May of 2021, a single gunshot shattered the silence along the beach at Belize’s luxurious Alaia resort. In White Devil, journalist Josh Dean dives into one of the biggest, splashiest, and most perplexing crime stories you’ve never heard of: The shooting death of renowned cop Henry Jemott, apparently by a Canadian property developer, connected to the family of one very influential billionaire: Lord Michael Ashcroft. In investigating, the craggy depths of Belize are brought to the surface: Its quirks, its corruption, and the all pervasive influence of several generations of one family in particular. You can binge the rest of White Devil at https://link.chtbl.com/tortoisewhitedevil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, it's Tomony from Tortoise. We'll be bringing you a new investigation soon, but in the meantime, we thought you'd enjoy this new show from our friends at Campside Media. It's called White Devil. Late at night in May of 2021, a single gunshot shattered the silence along the beach at the luxurious Alaya Resort in Belize. In White Devil, journalist Josh Dean dives into one of the biggest, splashiest and most perplexing crime stories you've never heard of. The death of renowned cop Henry Jemmott, shot by a Canadian property developer. Over two years of reporting, the depths of Belize's dark underbelly are brought to the surface. It's quirks, it's corruption, and the incredible power of one family in particular. I'm going to play you a clip from the first episode.

You can binge the rest of White Devil wherever you get your podcasts. Police Superintendent Henry Jemont was a father of five and a law enforcement veteran. His friends and family say they are stunned by his sudden death and equally shocked that a police officer could die this way. Police in this central American country confirmed Jemont did not die in the line of duty but instead in what they describe as an incident. The details disclosed that Jemont and a woman were drinking alone on the pier and both were fully

clothed. Details beyond that are scanned. The exact truth of what happened in Belize on May 28, 2021, isn't knowable in any objective way. There were two people there, alone on an isolated pier, and only one survived to talk about it. There were no witnesses, no cameras. And as the saying goes, a dead man tells no tales. So with that in mind, here's what we know. Sometime around 1230 a.m., a security guard outside of some luxury condos on Ambergus

Quay, the largest island off the coast of Belize, heard a gunshot. These condos are adjacent to a brand new luxury resort called Alaya on the outskirts of the town of San Pedro. If you've been to Belize you've probably stayed in San Pedro. It's a party town which fronts the region's largest coral reef so it's filled with bachelors and bachelorettes as well as fishermen and scuba divers. It's noisy and can be crowded as tourists and golf carts buzz around its narrow dirt lanes, dodging Belizean selling t-shirts and coconuts.

But on this night, it was very quiet. This was pandemic times. When the guards who heard that gunshot got to the pier, they found just one person. A woman they knew well. A young blonde Canadian who lived in the condos they were protecting. She was in a panicked state, lived in the condos they were protecting. She was in a panicked state, covered in blood, and muttering about an accident.

Bobbing in the sea just off the pier was the body of a large black man who turned out to be a cop named Henry Jamat. And not just any cop either. Henry Jamat was a boss, a superintendent, at one time the second ranking police officer on the island. And there was no doubt about this part. Henry Jamot was dead.

After seven months of being a murder-free island, San Pedro Town was rocked by the news of the death of its former police commander. Just after one, Superintendent Henry Jamut was fatally shot reportedly with his own weapon. Questions are swirling this morning. A high ranking police officer dead, a woman connected to a billionaire family alone on the pier when he died. This morning calls for justice. Police Commissioner Chester Williams, Belize's highest ranking police officer, spoke to the press a half day later on the afternoon of 29, to update the country on his initial findings in this incredible case of the rich white woman and the dead black cop.

Upon investigating, police found the female on a pier, she had what appeared to be blood on her arms and on her clothing. A firearm was also seen on the pier. That firearm has been retrieved and we have learned that the firearm belonged to the police and inside the waters right near the pier, police recovered the lifeless body of Mr. Jamut with one apparent gunshot wound behind the right ear. Behind the right ear. It's exactly where you would put a bullet if you were trying to execute a man. But the only plausible executioner here was a young woman with no criminal record and a very high profile around town.

Her name was Jasmine Hartin. A socialite accused of killing a police superintendent in Central America is behind bars tonight. Jasmine Hartin was arrested and charged in connection to this deadly shooting. Jasmine Harden was taken into custody and put in a cell. It looked bad, but the way things worked in Belize, everybody figured that this rich, well-connected expat would just buy her way out of it. In this case, everybody was wrong. That was a clip from the first episode of White Devil. Everybody was wrong.