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The Jasmine Forbes Case: Vanished & Murdered Across 1,000 Miles

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The Jasmine Forbes Case: How Does Someone Just Vanish Into Thin Air?



By RICHIE D MOWREY for The Sassy Gazette (The Gossip You Didn’t Know You Needed)

There’s a question that haunts me every time I dive into Jasmine Forbes’ story: How does someone just disappear without a trace?

It’s been three years since Jasmine Lynn Forbes vanished from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, on February 23, 2022 the same day two men were gunned down and their house set ablaze. Jasmine’s life intersected with pure violence, and whatever happened that day rippled all the way to Pasco County, Florida, where months later, her remains were found.

Yet here we are in 2025, still asking the same damn questions:

  • How did Jasmine flee to Florida?
  • Who helped her or was she forced to go?
  • Was she kidnapped and taken there against her will?
  • And the biggest question of all: Who murdered Jasmine Forbes?

Two Murders, One Disappearance

Let’s rewind to that February morning in 2022. A house fire raged at 132 Neil Road in Shippensburg. Inside and outside that house lay the bodies of Frankie Dean Thomas and Eddie Lee Shaw both shot in the head before the blaze. Jasmine was living in that same house with Frankie Thomas. She vanished that same day.

From the start, police believed Jasmine was “missing and endangered.” And they had good reason. Larry Burns a man allegedly obsessed with Jasmine was charged with the double murder and arson. Alongside him, Cordaryl Burns stands accused as his co-conspirator. The story goes that Larry felt Jasmine “belonged to him,” and that he even put a $50,000 bounty on Frankie Thomas’s head.

It’s all too chilling and it raises the ultimate mystery:

Did Larry and Cordaryl Burns orchestrate not only the killings in Pennsylvania but Jasmine’s fate in Florida too?

A Thousand Miles South And Still No Answers

Months later, Jasmine’s remains were found in Pasco County, Florida. She’d traveled or been taken roughly 1,000 miles. Her death was ruled a homicide.

But here’s the gut-wrenching problem:

  • No one has been arrested for Jasmine’s murder.
  • Her cause of death hasn’t been publicly disclosed.
  • We have no real answers about how she even got to Florida.

Did she run south to save her own life… only to collide with a new predator waiting in the dark?

Or did Larry and Cordaryl Burns have someone kidnap Jasmine, take her to Florida, and kill her to silence her forever?

Was Jasmine Running Into a New Danger?

A theory I’ve come across and one that chills me to the core—is this: Jasmine fled Pennsylvania terrified of Larry Burns. But in Florida, in a vulnerable, hidden life, she crossed paths with someone entirely new who wanted to cause her harm.

Can you even imagine fleeing for your life… only to run straight into the arms of someone who takes it?

This possibility leaves a bitter taste. It’s one thing to escape the man who terrorized you it’s another to find yourself caught in someone else’s evil.

The Silence Must End

I keep coming back to this simple truth: Someone knows something.

  • Someone saw Jasmine between Pennsylvania and Florida.
  • Someone heard something in Florida.
  • Someone knows who hurt Jasmine Forbes.

We need both Larry and Cordaryl Burns to open up about what happened to Jasmine. And if they’re not the ones responsible for her death, then who is?

Her friends and family deserve closure. They deserve the truth. And the rest of us deserve to stop living in a world where a woman can vanish, only to turn up murdered a thousand miles away, with no justice in sight.

If You Know Something, Speak Up

If you know anything even the smallest detail about Jasmine Forbes’ disappearance, journey to Florida, or her final days, now is the time to speak up.

Don’t let this case fade into the shadows. Jasmine Forbes deserves justice.

👉 Tip Line: Pennsylvania State Police at (717) 249-2121   The Pasco County Tip Line at (800) 706-2488 

 * Tips can also be emailed to pascosheriff.com/tips

🕵️‍♂️ Stay tuned to The Sassy Gazette’s Dicking Around With Richie because we’re not done digging.

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