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{\an8}[melancholy music playing]
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[seatbelt clicks]
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Today is Thursday, August 6th, 2015.
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I'm about to do an interview
on Sarah Corbett.
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Well, Sarah, did you know
why you're here today?
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[Sarah] Yes.
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Tell me why you're here today.
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Because my dad died.
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Okay.
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{\an8}Just have a seat for me.
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And, Jack, my name is Brandy,
and it's my job to talk to you today.
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You said your dad died.
What's your dad's name?
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Jason Paul Corbett. C-O-R-B-E-T-T.
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[Brandy] What is your mom's name?
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[Jack] Molly Martens.
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[Brandy] And what is your grandpa's name?
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[Jack] His name is Tom Martens.
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[Brandy] Okay. And what do you call him?
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I call him Grandpa Tom.
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Grandpa Tom. Okay.
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[seatbelt unbuckles]
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[foreboding music playing]
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[phone dialing]
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[line ringing]
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[operator] Davidson County 911.
What is the address of your emergency?
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[Tom] My name is Tom Martens.
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I'm at Panther Creek Court,
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and… we need help.
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[operator] Okay, what's going on there?
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[Tom] My… My daughter's husband,
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um, my son-in-law,
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uh, got in a fight with my daughter.
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I intervened, and I…
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I hit him in the head.
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- [operator] With what?
- With a baseball bat.
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- [operator] With a baseball bat?
- Yes, ma'am.
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[Molly] Help!
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{\an8}- [operator] Is he conscious at all?
- [Tom] No.
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[operator] Is he breathing?
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[Tom] I can't tell.
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I'm dead asleep in bed
when the phone rings.
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{\an8}As a detective, you know when that phone
rings at three o'clock in the morning,
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{\an8}it's never good.
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So, I'm out of the bed,
and I'm out the door,
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and I am headed to Meadowlands
in North Carolina.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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[crickets chirping]
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I go into the house,
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and I look inside the master bedroom,
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and it's pretty horrific.
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[camera clicking]
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It's one of the bloodiest crime scenes
I've seen in a long time.
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The female resident tells me
that her name is Molly Corbett…
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[camera clicks]
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…and that the victim
is her husband, Jason Corbett.
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[Wanda] These offices are really cold.
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- [Molly] Thanks.
- You're welcome.
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[Tom grunts]
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[Wanda] All right.
Tell me what happened tonight.
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{\an8}We were fighting.
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- Who was fighting?
- My husband.
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My daughter had a nightmare.
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She or I woke him up, so he was angry.
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He choked me.
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How did he choke you?
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First, with his hand
pressed really hard right here.
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He let go for a second,
and I screamed really loud.
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[Molly sniffles, exhales]
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I can't remember next
until my dad came in.
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[Wanda] Okay.
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I heard arguing and thumping going on
on the floor above me.
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And it-- it sounded bad.
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I grabbed the bat, and I ran upstairs.
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So, I open the bedroom door,
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and he's got Molly
by the throat like this.
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And he sees me coming,
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and he goes around the throat like this.
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And I said, "Let her go."
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"I'm gonna kill her."
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- "Let her go."
- "I'm gonna kill her."
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And he started to drag her
towards the bedroom,
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into the, uh, bathroom.
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And I hit him.
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I hit him with the baseball bat.
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And he reaches out, and he grabs the bat.
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Jason got the baseball bat.
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And… he tried to hit my dad.
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I think he might have missed, and…
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I… [sniffles]
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Um…
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I hit him on the head.
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You hit him on the head with what?
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With… With a brick on my nightstand.
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[Wanda] Okay.
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[Molly] I'm not sure.
I hit him on the head or the shoulder.
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[Wanda] How many times did you hit Jason?
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I don't know.
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Okay. You don't remember?
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[crying] I don't know.
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I can't tell you how many times I hit him.
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I can't tell you
how many times he shoved me.
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I can't tell you. I…
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'Cause it was a battle.
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[Wanda] These two people are telling us
they just were in a fight for their life.
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Her husband has horrific injuries.
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And they don't appear to have any.
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[camera clicking]
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In North Carolina,
they have a right to defend themselves.
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But are they the victims,
or is he the victim?
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[Wanda] You know your husband
didn't survive his injuries, right?
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I didn't… I didn't think so.
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[Wanda] No,
he didn't survive his injuries.
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[Sarah breathes deeply]
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How long have you been together?
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Probably seven years.
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{\an8}My children
aren't biologically my children.
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They're his first wife's children,
and she died.
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Is there anybody that you need for us
to contact from your husband's family?
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[Molly] Oh God.
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[crying] What if I'm scared of his family?
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[sobbing]
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I'm scared they'll try to take the kids.
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[Wanda] Um…
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- You guys are legally married?
- Yes.
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- Did you adopt the children?
- No.
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Okay, then that's a real possibility.
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[sobs] Oh!
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Oh!
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[phone vibrating]
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My brother got a call
to say that Jason was dead.
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{\an8}He and Molly had an argument.
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{\an8}She pushed him,
he fell, hit his head, and died.
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So I immediately started to call Molly,
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um, and I got no answer at that time.
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I can't comprehend. I can't process.
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You know, I just couldn't believe it.
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Jason and I, we were super close.
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We had a really big family.
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We grew up in Janesboro in Limerick.
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And Jason and Wayne and myself
are the three youngest.
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Jason remained a constant best friend.
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When I had learned the news,
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my first thought
was to the welfare of Jack and Sarah.
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And so, within hours,
I'm packed and on the road
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to fly to America in order to find out
what happened to Jason
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and to make sure Jack and Sarah are safe.
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{\an8}We just knew that we needed to get
to North Carolina as quickly as possible.
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Myself and Tracey were named
as guardians in Jason's will.
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I went straight
to Jason's solicitor's office.
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I collected the will and flew out
to America a couple of hours later.
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[pensive music playing]
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[Wanda] We start coordinating
with the district attorney's office
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about where the investigation
needs to go from here.
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[man] What immediately strikes me
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{\an8}is that this is going to be a case
outside the normal of what we deal with.
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I'm a retired FBI agent.
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[detective] What did you do with the FBI?
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First half of my career was Criminal.
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Second half of my career
was Counterintelligence.
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[Alan] Tom Martens is a retired FBI agent,
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and he has been schooled in
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and has schooled other officers
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on the art of interrogation.
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We would be remiss in our duties
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if we ever just accepted,
wholesale and without examination,
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what any person
who's killed somebody has to say.
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Perhaps it would be helpful
if I just kinda launched into the story.
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[detective] Okay.
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'Cause it will contribute
to my state of mind.
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[detective] Okay.
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I see Tom attempting
to control the narrative
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and present things
the way he wants to present them.
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Tom never admits
that he saw Molly hit Jason at all.
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[detective] At any point,
did Molly join in on the volley?
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When I lost control of the bat
and she wiggled out,
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she somehow distracted him,
but I don't know.
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I'm scrambling. I don't know.
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We find that hard to believe.
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The night of the incident,
I'm at the house,
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I learned that Molly's mother
was in the basement.
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So, we get a statement from her.
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Sharon Martens tells us
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{\an8}that they got awakened
in the middle of the night to a ruckus,
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{\an8}and she hears her daughter scream.
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Her husband gets out of bed,
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goes upstairs
to take care of whatever the ruckus is,
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and she rolls over and goes back to sleep.
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I'm… dumbfounded.
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Like, what grandmother does that?
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What mother does that?
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[Alan] Sharon Martens is telling us
she never responded in any way
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to this horrible, violent, explosive event
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that was happening right upstairs
in a house full of people that she loved.
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It just doesn't quite add up.
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We are also looking at the 911 call.
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[Molly] …three, four.
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- [Tom] One, two, three, four. Good.
- [Molly] One, two, three, four.
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One, two, three, four. One…
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[Alan] EMS workers are listening
to this recording and saying,
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"I don't think
those people are doing CPR."
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It's too hard.
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You can't count out loud like that
with that precision, that rhythm.
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[Tom] One… I'll count. I'll count.
One, two, three, four.
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[Alan] EMS personnel also describe
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that Jason's body was cool to the touch,
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and one of them even looked
at another and said,
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"When did they say he went down?"
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This is not scientific evidence,
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and there are sufficient variables
in how quickly a body cools,
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but it was compelling information for us.
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[Wanda] Now there's a possibility
the Martens were thinking,
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"I've got to sit down
and get my story straight
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before I call the cops."
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[somber music playing]
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[Tracey] We found out
that within hours of Jason's death,
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Molly and Thomas Martens returned home,
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and at this point,
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the children are in the care and control
of Molly Martens and her family.
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Within 48 hours,
the Martens had filed for guardianship,
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adoption, and custody of Jack and Sarah.
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I asked to speak to them,
you know, on the phone,
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to have a supervised visit, uh, anything.
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I just wanted to put my arms around them.
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They had lost their father.
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And Molly would not allow it.
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There's all these things happening,
all at once, all colliding,
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and I want to see my brother.
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We spoke to the funeral director,
trying to get to see Jason,
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and he apologized profusely,
but he had been given clear instructions
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that we were not allowed to view Jason.
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[Tracey] I believe that Molly's trying
to cremate Jason's body
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before I got there.
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I thought to myself, "What have you done?"
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[Alan] Then we get the results
from the autopsy.
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And the autopsy findings…
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are horrific.
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Jason has abrasions on his forehead,
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under his eye,
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his shoulder blades,
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and then… we get to his head.
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And in… 30 years of prosecuting…
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I've never seen photographs like these.
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He had…
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so many blows to his head
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that the pathologist couldn't count them
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because they overlapped,
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and a chunk of Jason's skull
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fell out onto the table.
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It takes an incredible amount of force
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to cause that kind of injury.
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[somber music playing]
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[footsteps approaching]
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[Tracey] It's taken me four days
of legal action to see Jason's body.
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It's horrendous to see
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what one human being
can inflict on another.
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His children lay in a bedroom
just feet away from him,
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and I know his last thoughts
would have been with them.
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I hold his hand, and I promise him
that his children would be okay,
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and I promise that I would get justice
for what happened to him.
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[music ends]
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[Wanda] Jack and Sarah were in the home,
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in bed asleep,
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when this event occurred.
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We need to have them interviewed
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by people that are trained
to interview small children.
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So, they're taken
to the Dragonfly Child Advocacy Center.
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Let's just start with the very first thing
you told me, that your dad died.
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How did your dad die?
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Well, my sister had a nightmare
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about insects crawling.
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She had fairy blankets
and insects all over her bed.
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My dad got very mad,
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and he was screaming at my mom,
and Mom let out a scream,
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and my grandpa came up
and started to hit him with a bat.
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And then my dad grabbed a hold of the bat,
and hit my grandpa with the bat.
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And so my mom… put her… like…
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We were going to paint a brick
that was in there, like, a cinder block,
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and it hit his temple right here,
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and he died.
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[Brandy] Okay.
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Now, your sister had a nightmare.
How did you know that?
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My pare… My mom told me.
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Okay.
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Did your mom and dad fight before this?
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He gets very angry at my mom
for leaving one light on.
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- What would he do?
- He would… he would scream at her.
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Okay. Did you ever see him hit her?
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Um…
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Once.
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He just got very mad about simple things.
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- [Brandy] And who would he get mad at?
- My mom.
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- Did you see him get mad at her?
- Yes.
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And when he would get mad,
what would he do?
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He would physically and verbally hurt my…
physically and verbally hurt my mom.
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Did you see him physically hurt her?
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Um, once or twice.
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What did you see?
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Um, punching, hitting, pushing.
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[Alan] The children do both
make some statements about Jason.
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We have to pay close attention to that.
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But they also use a lot of words
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that eight-year-olds and ten-year-olds
don't generally use.
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He would physically and verbally hurt my…
physically and verbally hurt my mom.
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That's unusual and stands out.
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And… And how do you know
she's afraid of him?
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She told us.
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[Sarah] No. My mom told me about that.
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And who told you about that?
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Uh, my mom.
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My mom told me.
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She told me.
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[Brandy] Your mom told you.
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There's a possibility
the kids may have been coached.
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There's a lot of, "This is
what my mom told me about that night
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and about things
that had happened in the past."
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My mom told me,
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not when I was four, not when I was five,
but she told me when I was six,
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"Your dad is not that good of a dad."
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[Alan] Why is she saying that to Sarah?
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What is the truth and what's not?
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We went back
to Molly and Tom's interviews.
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I know he's got me outmatched.
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I know he's a martial arts guy.
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I know he's a boxer.
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I am trying to stay
a bat's length away from this guy.
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[detective] Right.
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I'm scared to death.
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[Wanda] We're trying to verify
any training that Jason may have had
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in karate or martial arts,
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any boxing training that he may have had.
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[Tracey] Within one week
of Jason being killed,
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{\an8}I am contacted by
the Davidson County Sheriff's Department
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{\an8}asking questions like,
"Was Jason an MMA fighter?"
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"Was he a professional boxer?"
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"Was our family
in the Irish Republican Army?"
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[gun firing on TV]
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But, of course,
these things are ridiculous.
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They were just doing everything they could
to destroy his character.
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I want the world to know
the truth about Jason.
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[man] He was the most kind-hearted
person you could meet.
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You'd never not see the man smiling.
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{\an8}Everybody loved him.
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{\an8}Everybody loved Jason. He was just…
He was everybody's friend.
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[bright music playing]
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[Tracey] He was very charismatic,
and he had a loud voice as well.
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You knew when Jason was around.
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Family meant everything to him.
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I never thought
he was a romantic growing up,
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um, until he met his first wife, Mags.
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[woman] We were out socializing one night,
and I introduced Mags to Jason.
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{\an8}And from the start,
they were just meant for each other.
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{\an8}They were very, very happy.
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I, Margaret, take you, Jason,
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as my husband,
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for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer,
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in sickness and in health,
all the days of our lives.
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[David] They'd built their house.
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Mags had opened a new crèche,
and Jason had got promoted in work,
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00:20:00,782 --> 00:20:02,117
so life couldn't have been better.
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00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,368
It was like a fairy tale.
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And Jason's kids were everything to him.
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When they were born,
he was just the happiest he's ever been.
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That's it. Good boy. I love Sarah.
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- Aw! You're the best boy, Jack.
- [Mags] Who's that, Jack?
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[Jason] Jack, do you know what…
do you know what Sarah told me?
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She said she's getting Jack
a tractor and a trailer as a present
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because you're her brother.
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'Cause she loves Jack.
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Get off my chair. Get off my chair.
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This was the beginning of his whole life.
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{\an8}What you doin'?
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You dancin'?
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[music continues]
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[Lynn] All that changed drastically
when I got a phone call
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at home one night, telling me
that Mags had had an asthma attack.
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[tense music playing]
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Myself and my husband
managed to get to the hospital.
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And Jason was with Mags,
and we could hear him…
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[inhaling deeply]
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He just begged her not to go
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and leave him.
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00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:11,270
Jason, in that moment, was just…
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broken into pieces.
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00:21:13,647 --> 00:21:15,649
[somber music playing]
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He would write letters to Mags
and then leave them at the grave site.
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{\an8}All of our family rallied around,
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{\an8}but obviously,
he had very little space to grieve.
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{\an8}He was a single parent of two babies,
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00:21:33,917 --> 00:21:36,086
{\an8}and he had to go to work every day.
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So, he advertised for an au pair,
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00:21:43,927 --> 00:21:48,432
and that's when Molly Martens
came into our lives.
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00:21:49,182 --> 00:21:51,184
[somber music continues]
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00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:59,860
I was in my early 20s, and I'd been
in a relationship for several months
403
00:21:59,943 --> 00:22:03,697
{\an8}and, um, unexpectedly got pregnant,
404
00:22:03,780 --> 00:22:05,532
{\an8}and, um…
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00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:09,453
shortly thereafter,
suffered a miscarriage.
406
00:22:09,536 --> 00:22:12,873
And I think anybody
who's suffered a miscarriage
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00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:16,626
can understand that
that is devastating at the time.
408
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:18,545
I, um…
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00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:21,298
was in that relationship with someone,
410
00:22:21,381 --> 00:22:25,302
and I realized I didn't want
to spend my life with that someone,
411
00:22:25,385 --> 00:22:28,472
and I felt like
that might be easier if I got away
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and enjoy the world.
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00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:33,310
And for me, working with children
was a natural choice.
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00:22:33,393 --> 00:22:36,688
And so, I joined an au pair agency.
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00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:40,275
And when Jason reached out to me,
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he indicated on his profile
that he had lost his wife.
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00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:46,698
I guess that just pulled
on my heartstrings.
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00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:48,533
There were these two babies
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{\an8}without a mother,
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00:22:50,494 --> 00:22:53,830
{\an8}and maybe I had an ache to fill that need.
421
00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:58,293
{\an8}It was only natural
that she would develop a talent
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00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:01,755
{\an8}for taking care of young children,
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00:23:01,838 --> 00:23:04,758
in that her two younger brothers
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00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:09,805
came along as she was nearing the age
where she could help her mother.
425
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:12,891
She was very good at engaging them.
426
00:23:14,017 --> 00:23:18,647
I arrived in Ireland
on, um, a traditional rainy day.
427
00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:23,110
And I met Jason, and he put me at ease.
428
00:23:23,193 --> 00:23:24,277
[gentle music playing]
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00:23:24,361 --> 00:23:26,238
He was charming, funny.
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00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:28,657
He made me feel very special.
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00:23:30,450 --> 00:23:33,787
[Tracey] Molly hadn't been
in the country too long
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when I began to pick up on things,
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just little signals
between Jason and Molly.
434
00:23:39,918 --> 00:23:42,337
We were walking on the beach,
and they were dropping behind us,
435
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:44,131
and I think Tracey mentioned to me
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00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:46,758
that, you know, she thought
there was more to the relationship
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00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:48,343
than employer-employee.
438
00:23:48,885 --> 00:23:54,683
I felt like I was bringing joy
into Jack, Sarah, and Jason's life.
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00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:56,685
[Molly] Okay, go get your sandal.
440
00:23:56,768 --> 00:23:57,686
[Sarah babbling]
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00:23:57,769 --> 00:23:59,771
[Molly] You gotta put them on
over your tight…
442
00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:00,689
Hello.
443
00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:03,400
…'cause it's the warmest day
in Ireland and you still need tights.
444
00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:05,235
Sarah, how old are you?
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00:24:05,318 --> 00:24:06,319
Two.
446
00:24:06,403 --> 00:24:08,447
- [Molly] Two and a half.
- Yeah.
447
00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:09,698
[Molly] How old are you?
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00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:10,782
Four and a half.
449
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:13,410
- Are you sure you're not one and a half?
- No.
450
00:24:13,493 --> 00:24:14,578
[Molly] Are you sure?
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00:24:15,203 --> 00:24:17,831
But that noise you make,
sometimes it kinda sounds like this…
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00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:19,166
[mimics a crying baby]
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00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:21,376
That's kinda like
a one-and-a-half-year-old.
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00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:26,798
And it was in the very early days
that Sarah started calling me "Mom."
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I was really becoming
a mother to those kids
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00:24:32,095 --> 00:24:34,973
before I became a mother to those kids.
457
00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:37,684
It was just wonderful.
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00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,813
[Tracey] Molly made Jason smile,
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00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:43,982
and he hadn't in a very long time.
460
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:50,280
But it was clear
from emails from Jason to Molly
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00:24:50,363 --> 00:24:55,035
that Jason wanted to slow the pace
of their relationship down.
462
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:59,122
"My concern is for Jack and Sarah."
463
00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:01,833
"They have had enough
tragedy in their short lives,
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00:25:01,917 --> 00:25:04,419
and while I know that they are resilient,
465
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:07,506
I'm nervous about putting them
through anything further."
466
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:09,508
"I'm really scared, Molly."
467
00:25:09,591 --> 00:25:10,926
"I don't want to lose you,
468
00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:13,970
but more so,
I don't want to risk Jack and Sarah
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00:25:14,054 --> 00:25:16,598
losing another mother
if we don't work out."
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00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:21,770
But Molly always wanted
the relationship validated.
471
00:25:21,853 --> 00:25:24,564
And she's pushing, pushing, pushing.
472
00:25:32,739 --> 00:25:37,369
Eventually, Jason began
to talk about the opportunity
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00:25:37,452 --> 00:25:39,955
to begin a new life for Jack and Sarah,
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00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:43,208
to allow them to have
a stable family environment
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with a mother and father.
476
00:25:47,462 --> 00:25:50,799
I was on a regular night out
with my friends.
477
00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:53,385
Jason walked in first,
and Molly walked in behind,
478
00:25:53,969 --> 00:25:56,179
showing the ring on her finger.
479
00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:59,724
And I said, "I am delighted.
I want you to be happy."
480
00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:01,476
"Mags wouldn't want you to be miserable."
481
00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:06,022
[Molly] Ultimately, we decided
to move to the United States.
482
00:26:06,106 --> 00:26:09,276
Mostly, it was the lifestyle,
483
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,655
and in particular, the lifestyle
in regard to raising children.
484
00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:15,198
[bright music playing]
485
00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:17,158
{\an8}[birds chirping]
486
00:26:17,242 --> 00:26:19,953
{\an8}I was excited
about a new beginning for our family.
487
00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:23,498
[birds chirping]
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00:26:30,005 --> 00:26:33,258
My first time seeing the house,
I thought it was like a mansion.
489
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:37,470
It was so cool.
490
00:26:37,554 --> 00:26:39,556
Everything was much bigger than Ireland,
491
00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:40,765
which I loved.
492
00:26:42,058 --> 00:26:43,935
I remember when I first went in,
493
00:26:44,019 --> 00:26:46,646
I went into my room
and started running around in circles.
494
00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:48,565
And I loved how big the garden was,
495
00:26:48,648 --> 00:26:51,526
'cause my dad told me
we could get a trampoline and a dog.
496
00:26:53,069 --> 00:26:54,070
It was just really happy.
497
00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:56,156
Everyone was excited
for this new adventure.
498
00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:57,991
We just moved to America.
499
00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:04,623
{\an8}[Jack] I feel like we fit in straightaway
500
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:07,709
when we moved over
to Meadowlands in North Carolina.
501
00:27:08,209 --> 00:27:10,962
We got straight into activities
like swimming,
502
00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:12,547
joining teams.
503
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:15,008
Everyone there was so nice, so friendly.
504
00:27:16,259 --> 00:27:18,720
It was a great community to be part of.
505
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,352
[Tracey] After Molly, Jason, Jack,
and Sarah moved to North Carolina,
506
00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:28,271
within a couple of weeks,
there was going to be a wedding
507
00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:32,233
and just a joyous occasion
that we were looking forward to.
508
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:36,154
We just wanted Jason to be happy,
and we traveled to support him.
509
00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:37,614
[exciting music playing]
510
00:27:37,697 --> 00:27:39,449
When we arrived, everyone was excited.
511
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:42,243
[laughing]
512
00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:44,829
[Brendan] Jason and Molly
had loads planned for us.
513
00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:46,581
We went to NASCAR,
514
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,292
barbecues,
515
00:27:49,376 --> 00:27:50,960
loads of games, loads of fun.
516
00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:53,588
[camera clicking]
517
00:27:54,172 --> 00:27:56,925
[announcer] We have Molly
from Knoxville, Tennessee…
518
00:27:57,008 --> 00:27:57,842
[cheering]
519
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:00,845
…and we have Jason
all the way over from Limerick, Ireland!
520
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:01,888
[all cheering]
521
00:28:01,971 --> 00:28:05,016
It's my duty as the best man
to introduce everybody,
522
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:06,476
and we all hit it off straightaway.
523
00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:08,520
♪ …caught in a trap ♪
524
00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:12,148
♪ Can't walk out… ♪
525
00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:15,318
[Brendan] We sang,
and we drank, and we danced.
526
00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:17,278
[song continues]
527
00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:18,613
The atmosphere was fantastic.
528
00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:20,240
[all cheering]
529
00:28:20,323 --> 00:28:21,533
[Brendan] He looked happy.
530
00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:24,327
[party music fades]
531
00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:26,413
[somber music playing]
532
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:30,500
[Tracey] The next day, at the wedding,
533
00:28:30,583 --> 00:28:33,044
it started to become apparent to me
534
00:28:33,128 --> 00:28:35,004
that there was something amiss
535
00:28:35,797 --> 00:28:40,343
when I had a conversation
with the maid of honor, Susie.
536
00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:43,722
[Susie] I had a speech prepared.
537
00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:47,517
{\an8}Before I was supposed to give it,
I was talking to Tracey,
538
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,395
just telling her, you know,
it's just like a fairy tale.
539
00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:54,399
She starts to say how amazing it all is
and how romantic.
540
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,735
You know, Molly goes over there
541
00:28:57,318 --> 00:29:00,363
to be the godparent to Jason's kids,
542
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:03,408
since she was childhood friends with Mags.
543
00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:04,701
What?
544
00:29:04,784 --> 00:29:08,705
And now, like, you know,
she's gonna be their stepmom.
545
00:29:09,205 --> 00:29:11,875
I… I don't know what you're talking about.
546
00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:14,377
Uh, she was the au pair.
547
00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:16,296
I'm like, "What?" [scoffs]
548
00:29:16,379 --> 00:29:18,047
Like, "You gotta be kidding me."
549
00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:20,925
[David] We're just in disbelief
550
00:29:21,009 --> 00:29:24,220
that this is what the American contingent
of the wedding believe.
551
00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,600
Why would anybody create
this fabricated story?
552
00:29:28,683 --> 00:29:30,226
[suspicious music playing]
553
00:29:31,102 --> 00:29:32,228
[birds chirping]
554
00:29:34,397 --> 00:29:35,857
[music fades]
555
00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:38,067
[Alan] In the course of the investigation,
556
00:29:38,151 --> 00:29:41,362
we are interviewing people about Molly.
557
00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:44,073
Her friends, her family, her neighbors.
558
00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:50,079
And what we are learning
becomes full-on bizarre.
559
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:54,375
[Wanda] One of the neighbors tells us
that she was part of a book club,
560
00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:57,045
and one of the ladies comes in
561
00:29:57,128 --> 00:30:00,757
and is just excited
about finding out she's pregnant.
562
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,300
[pensive music playing]
563
00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:07,514
Allegedly, Molly starts telling everybody
this whole drawn-out story
564
00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:10,141
about how she gave birth to Sarah.
565
00:30:11,518 --> 00:30:15,313
And some of the people in the room
already knew that wasn't true.
566
00:30:15,396 --> 00:30:18,817
And yet, the story was being told
to other people in front of them.
567
00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:25,657
And she had told her college roommate
about a dead sister,
568
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,867
and that her sister had died of cancer.
569
00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:31,204
We found that's also not true.
570
00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:35,959
So, she is fabricating a story
about a sister that doesn't exist.
571
00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:40,421
[Alan] Why does it matter that,
on so many occasions,
572
00:30:40,505 --> 00:30:44,884
Molly has told so many things
that are clearly not true?
573
00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:49,722
It matters because there were
only three people in that room that night.
574
00:30:50,348 --> 00:30:52,058
Jason can't tell his story.
575
00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:54,978
The two people who are left
are Tom and Molly.
576
00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:59,774
And we come to the conclusion
that Molly is not credible.
577
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:06,281
Another thing that comes to light
578
00:31:07,365 --> 00:31:11,536
is Molly's consistent demand
579
00:31:11,619 --> 00:31:14,539
to be able to adopt Jason's children.
580
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,960
Just months after the wedding,
581
00:31:19,043 --> 00:31:23,923
she had visited a divorce attorney
to explore her rights to the children.
582
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,553
I wanted to adopt them
because they were my children.
583
00:31:28,636 --> 00:31:33,308
I mean, I was their mommy.
I was their mama. They were my kiddos.
584
00:31:34,642 --> 00:31:38,938
Jason and I had spoke previously
of an adoption ceremony
585
00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:41,232
being part of the wedding ceremony.
586
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:43,234
There were a lot of promises
that were broken,
587
00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:44,819
but that was a big one.
588
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,946
[Tom] I brought it up several times
589
00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:49,657
and say,
"Where are we on the adoption process?"
590
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:51,242
"Anything I can do to help out?"
591
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:53,453
And he would say,
well, you know, he's working on it,
592
00:31:53,536 --> 00:31:56,873
and, um, then nothing would happen.
593
00:31:56,956 --> 00:31:58,958
[gentle music playing]
594
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:05,506
[David] Looking back on the correspondence
that we got access to after Jason's death,
595
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:07,926
we realized Jason was trying
to follow through on his promise
596
00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:10,136
to allow Molly to adopt the children.
597
00:32:12,388 --> 00:32:15,433
We saw an email from Jason to an attorney.
598
00:32:18,144 --> 00:32:21,439
I think one line stands out
in the email from the attorneys.
599
00:32:31,157 --> 00:32:33,117
Jason would never take that risk.
600
00:32:38,122 --> 00:32:40,124
[news theme music playing]
601
00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:45,755
[reporter] Behind closed doors
in Davidson,
602
00:32:45,838 --> 00:32:48,216
a custody battle began yesterday.
603
00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:51,052
At its center
are ten-year-old Jack Corbett
604
00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:53,304
and his eight-year-old sister, Sarah.
605
00:32:53,388 --> 00:32:55,473
The children are in the care
of this woman,
606
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:57,934
his second wife, Molly Paige Martens.
607
00:32:58,685 --> 00:33:00,728
[Sarah] I remember Molly telling me that
608
00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:03,439
Tracey and David
were trying to take us away,
609
00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:05,483
and that she was going to court.
610
00:33:05,566 --> 00:33:07,318
And she told me that she was winning.
611
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:11,447
[Jack] Molly was telling us
about the new life we're going to have.
612
00:33:11,531 --> 00:33:13,866
She was already looking at apartments,
613
00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:16,577
looking at new cars,
new schools we were going to.
614
00:33:18,538 --> 00:33:20,707
[David] It shouldn't
even have got to this.
615
00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:24,794
These children are two Irish citizens.
Their father was an Irish citizen.
616
00:33:24,877 --> 00:33:27,839
{\an8}There's nothing. There's no adoption.
There's no dual citizenship.
617
00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:29,716
{\an8}They're solely Irish citizens.
618
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:32,427
We presented evidence that I was a mother,
619
00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:34,637
and clearly was the mother.
620
00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:37,015
I'm the one that took them
to all their appointments,
621
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:41,686
and took care of meals,
and did all the day-to-day activities.
622
00:33:41,769 --> 00:33:44,939
and I feel like we proved that
without a doubt,
623
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:49,193
and their home environment was with me
and that they were safe and stable.
624
00:33:50,778 --> 00:33:53,990
[judge] We're here on the matter
of the guardianship
625
00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:58,411
of the minor children,
Sarah and Jack Corbett.
626
00:33:59,495 --> 00:34:01,664
The parents of Sarah and Jack,
I'm almost certain,
627
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:05,460
would want their children to be raised
in the land of their origin,
628
00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:09,255
where the culture,
the religion, the customs,
629
00:34:09,338 --> 00:34:13,301
and their extended family on both sides
are prepared to nurture them in a manner
630
00:34:13,384 --> 00:34:15,511
that will be in the child's best interest.
631
00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:20,183
These children will be
returning to Ireland.
632
00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:23,102
All these people, you know, have said,
633
00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:26,814
"Well, Jason wanted his children
to be in Ireland with their family." What?
634
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:28,232
Jason wanted to be alive.
635
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:29,192
[scoffs]
636
00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:33,613
Jason didn't think he was gonna die.
I didn't think he was gonna die.
637
00:34:33,696 --> 00:34:38,534
And I don't know, if some crazy world
where he thought he was gonna die,
638
00:34:38,618 --> 00:34:41,996
I believe he would have wanted
the children to be with their mother.
639
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,248
That is something I do believe.
640
00:34:44,332 --> 00:34:46,334
[birds chirping]
641
00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:49,962
[Jack] I remember the day
that I was taken from Molly.
642
00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:53,341
A police car pulled up outside the house,
643
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:55,760
and two policemen hopped out,
644
00:34:55,843 --> 00:34:59,138
and a van came up behind them
with two people in it.
645
00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:00,973
[police radio chatter]
646
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:05,019
They told me that there had been
a court order to remove the kids.
647
00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:08,773
You know, Jack was kicking
and screaming and saying,
648
00:35:08,856 --> 00:35:11,025
"I'm not leaving with you.
I'm not leaving with you."
649
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:12,276
"I'm not going,"
650
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,903
and "You can't take me."
651
00:35:13,986 --> 00:35:17,198
And Sarah was crying.
652
00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:23,871
I remember I was holding Jack's hand,
and I asked them, "Where are we going?"
653
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:27,041
"Who are you? Take us back.
Where are you taking us?"
654
00:35:29,377 --> 00:35:33,714
And I was… I was melting down,
and, you know, I was crying,
655
00:35:34,298 --> 00:35:37,593
um, but I was trying to hold it together.
656
00:35:37,677 --> 00:35:41,139
I was trying to make sense of this,
and I was trying to… I don't know.
657
00:35:41,222 --> 00:35:43,224
How can this possibly be happening?
658
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,812
[Molly crying]
659
00:35:57,655 --> 00:35:59,365
[Molly] I love you so much.
660
00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:02,743
[Jack] I remember just saying goodbye
and saying "I love you" to her,
661
00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:05,037
and she was saying that she loved me.
662
00:36:05,121 --> 00:36:06,372
I was a ten-year-old kid,
663
00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:09,542
and this was the only person
that had been there every single day.
664
00:36:10,376 --> 00:36:12,545
[Sarah] I'm saying goodbye
to someone who'd been my mom
665
00:36:12,628 --> 00:36:14,088
for as long as I can remember.
666
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:15,923
I loved Molly.
667
00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:19,844
[Molly] It was not a goodbye for me,
it was just a visit,
668
00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:21,804
and I was going to see them soon,
669
00:36:21,888 --> 00:36:24,015
but it was the last time I saw them.
670
00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,274
[sobbing]
671
00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:37,612
[reporter] Eleven-year-old Jack
and eight-year-old Sarah
672
00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:39,655
arrived back in Ireland yesterday.
673
00:36:39,739 --> 00:36:43,034
Molly Martens and her father,
65-year-old Thomas Martens,
674
00:36:43,117 --> 00:36:45,453
are described by police
as persons of interest
675
00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:47,955
in the death of 39-year-old Jason.
676
00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:50,249
[Jack] When I came back to Ireland,
677
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,878
there was just a huge media frenzy
around our family and my dad.
678
00:36:53,961 --> 00:36:55,963
{\an8}[melancholy music playing]
679
00:36:56,839 --> 00:36:59,926
{\an8}It was just a shock
to see so many people interested,
680
00:37:00,009 --> 00:37:02,094
and it being such
a high-profile case back home.
681
00:37:04,972 --> 00:37:07,016
I had made a promise to Jason
682
00:37:07,099 --> 00:37:11,854
that I would make sure
that he would be buried with Mags.
683
00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:13,940
[church bell tolling]
684
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:17,818
[Jack] There were so many people there
that loved and supported my dad,
685
00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:19,487
and supported all of us.
686
00:37:19,570 --> 00:37:23,366
And for the last, like, 200 meters,
we walked behind the casket.
687
00:37:23,449 --> 00:37:25,451
[somber music playing]
688
00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:31,707
It was just hard to know
that I'm never going to see him again.
689
00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:36,045
[somber music continues]
690
00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:48,307
I remember holding Sarah in my arms
in bed at night, and she's asking me,
691
00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:51,352
how did she lose, you know, three parents.
692
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:54,313
I wanted to trust Tracey and David.
I really did.
693
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:55,982
And I remember thinking about that.
694
00:37:56,065 --> 00:37:57,650
I remember thinking to myself,
695
00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:00,987
"You should just trust them.
You know they love you."
696
00:38:01,070 --> 00:38:04,115
But I found it really hard to let myself
697
00:38:04,699 --> 00:38:06,534
because I didn't want to get hurt again.
698
00:38:08,536 --> 00:38:13,416
[Tracey] We were dealing with just two
completely traumatized little children.
699
00:38:14,333 --> 00:38:19,547
And they just needed me to be a mother,
and that's what I did.
700
00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:23,926
I suppose we were lucky that myself
and Tracey had trained as foster parents.
701
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:25,761
We knew what needed
to happen to the two kids
702
00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:27,179
in order for them to move forward,
703
00:38:27,263 --> 00:38:30,558
and counseling was going to be
a very important part of their healing.
704
00:38:33,185 --> 00:38:35,021
[phone ringing]
705
00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:37,523
[Molly] The family
wouldn't allow any contact.
706
00:38:37,606 --> 00:38:39,817
They wouldn't answer any calls.
707
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:41,193
[phone continues ringing]
708
00:38:42,278 --> 00:38:46,157
And so, I used social media
709
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,826
{\an8}to send messages to my kids.
710
00:38:48,909 --> 00:38:50,911
[pensive music playing]
711
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:53,039
{\an8}[Molly] I have not spoken…
712
00:38:53,539 --> 00:38:57,710
spoken to them
since my visitation with them…
713
00:38:58,461 --> 00:39:01,714
{\an8}…um, under which
we were all under the impression
714
00:39:01,797 --> 00:39:03,883
{\an8}that it was a visitation, not a goodbye.
715
00:39:03,966 --> 00:39:06,344
{\an8}[crying] I want someone to tell them
that I love them.
716
00:39:07,136 --> 00:39:10,056
{\an8}And happy birthday, kiddos,
with all of my heart.
717
00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:13,476
They tried to fly a plane over our school.
718
00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:19,023
{\an8}And Molly was asking people
on social media websites
719
00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:21,400
{\an8}to just tell us that she loved us.
720
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,110
{\an8}[pensive music continues]
721
00:39:28,407 --> 00:39:30,242
{\an8}[David] It was just a constant barrage.
722
00:39:30,868 --> 00:39:33,579
We were trying to build
a safe environment for them,
723
00:39:33,662 --> 00:39:37,041
and they were attempting
to undo everything.
724
00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:38,876
We don't want them
contacting these children.
725
00:39:38,959 --> 00:39:41,128
These are the people
that have killed their father.
726
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,214
[music continues]
727
00:39:51,263 --> 00:39:54,558
[Wanda] We were waiting
for the results of the toxicology report
728
00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:59,772
because we had been told
in the initial stages of the investigation
729
00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:02,233
that Jason was quite drunk.
730
00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,527
I know he'd been drinking.
731
00:40:04,610 --> 00:40:09,156
I mean, he was wild.
732
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:12,159
[Wanda] Would you say
that you thought he was drunk?
733
00:40:12,243 --> 00:40:13,994
Yes, he was drunk.
734
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:16,622
It wasn't just sloppy drunk.
735
00:40:17,248 --> 00:40:19,834
{\an8}Now we have definitive scientific evidence
736
00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:22,044
{\an8}that this was not true.
737
00:40:24,296 --> 00:40:26,424
The number is .02.
738
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:30,344
It's legal to drive
in North Carolina to .08.
739
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:33,222
At the time he died, he was not drunk.
740
00:40:35,057 --> 00:40:37,184
In addition to a little bit of alcohol,
741
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:41,897
Jason has some
of Molly's sleep medication tranquilizer
742
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:42,857
in his system.
743
00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:45,860
{\an8}[Wanda] Did he take it voluntarily,
744
00:40:45,943 --> 00:40:47,945
or was it given to him
without his knowledge?
745
00:40:48,028 --> 00:40:52,199
That's a question that we probably
will never be able to answer.
746
00:40:53,367 --> 00:40:58,080
But it's setting off flags for me
as to what really happened here.
747
00:40:58,164 --> 00:40:59,874
[suspenseful music playing]
748
00:40:59,957 --> 00:41:02,126
Reviewing Tom's interview
749
00:41:02,209 --> 00:41:05,588
about where this fight happened
and how it happened,
750
00:41:05,671 --> 00:41:07,214
it didn't make any sense.
751
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,759
It turned out to be defensive
to have her in front,
752
00:41:10,843 --> 00:41:12,470
to have her between us.
753
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:14,388
He's holding her in front of him.
754
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:16,098
I'm afraid I'm going to hit her.
755
00:41:16,182 --> 00:41:20,352
I kept trying to get around
and distract him,
756
00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:22,229
and get him to let her go.
757
00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:27,109
Most of Jason's injuries
were to the back and side of his head.
758
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:29,236
How do you swing a baseball bat
759
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,740
and hit somebody in the back of the head
if you're standing in front of them?
760
00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:36,160
It makes more sense
that they were either running from you
761
00:41:36,243 --> 00:41:37,870
or you came up behind them.
762
00:41:37,953 --> 00:41:39,580
[camera clicking]
763
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:46,921
[Alan] At the crime scene, there was
blood spatter in more than one room.
764
00:41:48,255 --> 00:41:49,590
The master bedroom.
765
00:41:50,132 --> 00:41:51,383
[camera clicking]
766
00:41:51,467 --> 00:41:52,927
In the hallway.
767
00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:54,887
In the bathroom.
768
00:41:55,513 --> 00:42:00,017
There's defects in the walls
from weapons being swung.
769
00:42:04,730 --> 00:42:07,233
The blood spatter expert points out
770
00:42:07,316 --> 00:42:10,569
there are places
that appear to be consistent
771
00:42:10,653 --> 00:42:13,697
with Jason being hit as he goes down.
772
00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:14,782
[camera clicking]
773
00:42:16,408 --> 00:42:18,452
There's one place in particular
774
00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:22,581
where Jason was hit
when his head was inches from the floor.
775
00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:27,795
Clearly, Jason was still being struck
in the head after he was down.
776
00:42:29,088 --> 00:42:30,422
[camera clicks]
777
00:42:30,506 --> 00:42:35,094
Also, he points out that there is blood
on the back of the bedroom door.
778
00:42:35,177 --> 00:42:36,595
[camera clicking]
779
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:41,892
That means there's a possibility there was
deadly violence going on in that room
780
00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:45,312
before Tom got there,
and the door was closed.
781
00:42:46,313 --> 00:42:48,691
Did Molly start something
that Tom got pulled into?
782
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:53,529
Even if it started as self-defense,
783
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:58,075
at the point that Jason
is no longer aggressive toward them,
784
00:42:58,158 --> 00:43:00,160
they have to stop beating him,
785
00:43:00,244 --> 00:43:01,537
and they didn't.
786
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:03,205
And they beat him to death.
787
00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:05,624
[music fades]
788
00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:08,419
[Alan] As a result
of all that examination,
789
00:43:08,502 --> 00:43:12,214
we decide that it is appropriate
to charge second-degree murder.
790
00:43:12,298 --> 00:43:14,466
This isn't just excessive force.
791
00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:16,093
This is murder with malice.
792
00:43:16,176 --> 00:43:17,928
[cameras clicking]
793
00:43:18,012 --> 00:43:21,223
The case of a former model
and her father, an ex-FBI agent,
794
00:43:21,307 --> 00:43:24,226
{\an8}both now charged with murder
for the killing of her husband.
795
00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:26,562
[newsreader] They're due back in court
later on this month
796
00:43:26,645 --> 00:43:28,981
and are expected to plead not guilty.
797
00:43:29,064 --> 00:43:31,233
{\an8}If convicted,
they could face up to life in prison.
798
00:43:31,317 --> 00:43:34,778
{\an8}[reporter] A $200,000 security
must be paid for each of them.
799
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:36,905
They must surrender their passports,
800
00:43:36,989 --> 00:43:40,951
and they must agree to cease
all contact with the Corbett family,
801
00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:43,954
specifically Jason Corbett's
two young children.
802
00:43:44,038 --> 00:43:46,040
[pensive music playing]
803
00:43:53,672 --> 00:43:56,258
[Jack] In the first few months
I was back in Ireland,
804
00:43:56,342 --> 00:43:58,218
I just felt I was very out of place.
805
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,137
I just felt very alone.
806
00:44:01,138 --> 00:44:02,598
I didn't trust anyone.
807
00:44:02,681 --> 00:44:04,683
I didn't have
a lot of friends at the time,
808
00:44:05,267 --> 00:44:07,645
and I missed my friends over in America.
809
00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:11,273
We miss everyone in Meadowlands.
810
00:44:11,357 --> 00:44:14,234
And to tell everyone that we miss them.
811
00:44:14,318 --> 00:44:15,861
Bye. Love you.
812
00:44:17,029 --> 00:44:19,031
Me and Sarah
had really different experiences,
813
00:44:19,114 --> 00:44:21,075
even though we came
from the same situation.
814
00:44:21,158 --> 00:44:24,328
She fit in a lot better.
She was a lot more chatty than me.
815
00:44:24,411 --> 00:44:25,871
She was more outgoing.
816
00:44:25,954 --> 00:44:28,749
[girl] Now, let's go over
and see what Sarah's doing.
817
00:44:29,291 --> 00:44:32,544
[Sarah] Hi, guys.
I call this the baby swing.
818
00:44:33,128 --> 00:44:34,338
[speaking indistinctly]
819
00:44:34,963 --> 00:44:36,715
[girls giggling]
820
00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:38,926
Okay, let me try that again.
821
00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:41,595
She was able to find friends
a lot quicker than I would have been.
822
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:44,848
And she kind of was
able to open up easier.
823
00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:48,060
So, you see her nails.
They haven't been painted, have they?
824
00:44:48,143 --> 00:44:49,395
[Tracey] Not for a while.
825
00:44:49,478 --> 00:44:52,481
No, they're not really
working out very well.
826
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,319
And I missed my life,
I missed all the sports that I did,
827
00:44:57,403 --> 00:44:59,029
I missed, um, school,
828
00:44:59,113 --> 00:45:00,406
and I did miss Molly.
829
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:04,868
[line ringing]
830
00:45:07,663 --> 00:45:10,833
Hi, Mom, this is Jack.
This cannot go public.
831
00:45:10,916 --> 00:45:12,876
I miss you, and I love you.
832
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,004
Keep fighting really hard.
I want to know how you are.
833
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,549
I love you so much.
834
00:45:18,632 --> 00:45:20,884
Call me, pretty please.
835
00:45:24,805 --> 00:45:27,182
And then it was
just released to the press,
836
00:45:27,766 --> 00:45:29,685
which was just a huge betrayal.
837
00:45:31,770 --> 00:45:34,440
And that was kind of
when my perspective changed,
838
00:45:34,523 --> 00:45:35,941
and I started to look things up,
839
00:45:36,024 --> 00:45:38,235
and I started to find out
what really happened
840
00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:42,072
and gain my own opinions
and see what the truth really was.
841
00:45:42,156 --> 00:45:43,157
[tense music playing]
842
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:44,658
[siren blaring]
843
00:45:48,704 --> 00:45:50,706
[Alan] As we are preparing for trial,
844
00:45:51,206 --> 00:45:56,670
we get word from Ireland that Jack needs
to come forward with the truth.
845
00:45:57,713 --> 00:46:01,216
So we set up
a live video-conference interview
846
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:05,095
between our office and Jack in Ireland.
847
00:46:06,054 --> 00:46:11,518
{\an8}Molly made me lie, uh,
to the people who were interviewing me.
848
00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:15,355
{\an8}[Ina] And how did Molly make you lie?
849
00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:17,816
[Jack] Um…
850
00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:20,736
She made up a lot of stories about my dad.
851
00:46:21,487 --> 00:46:22,654
Um, that he was…
852
00:46:22,738 --> 00:46:26,033
She said that he was very abusive,
and she wasn't lying.
853
00:46:26,116 --> 00:46:29,578
Then she started crying,
and she said, "I'd never see you again."
854
00:46:29,661 --> 00:46:31,121
I didn't know what was going on.
855
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:33,207
[contemplative music playing]
856
00:46:33,290 --> 00:46:39,296
There has been this weight
on my shoulders for so long, of guilt.
857
00:46:39,963 --> 00:46:41,298
Molly told me,
858
00:46:41,381 --> 00:46:44,635
"You need to say that your dad hit me,
or they're gonna take you away."
859
00:46:44,718 --> 00:46:46,345
"And you're never going to see me again."
860
00:46:46,428 --> 00:46:48,347
Tell me why you're here.
861
00:46:48,430 --> 00:46:54,186
My aunt and uncle from my dad's side
are trying to take me away from my mom.
862
00:46:56,396 --> 00:46:59,191
[Alan] The judge hears
the Dragonfly House recordings,
863
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:03,695
he also is given the information
about Jack's recantation,
864
00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:08,367
and at this point,
the judge agreed with us
865
00:47:08,450 --> 00:47:11,578
that Jack and Sarah's statements
at the Dragonfly House
866
00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:13,789
are inadmissible hearsay,
867
00:47:13,872 --> 00:47:15,874
and now the jury will not hear them.
868
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:21,380
[Sarah] I said what Molly told me to say.
869
00:47:21,463 --> 00:47:22,631
I had just lost my dad,
870
00:47:22,714 --> 00:47:25,259
I had already lost my mom,
I didn't want to lose anybody else,
871
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:27,344
um, so I lied.
872
00:47:27,845 --> 00:47:32,349
I never saw my… my dad ever lay hands
on Molly, not once in my life.
873
00:47:32,432 --> 00:47:35,602
I was scared and afraid,
and I was so young,
874
00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:37,521
and I had no one else in the world,
875
00:47:37,604 --> 00:47:39,481
and I was afraid of losing Molly.
876
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,775
I have so much guilt
877
00:47:41,859 --> 00:47:44,820
because, in a way,
I felt like I let my dad down.
878
00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:48,782
I described someone
that was the complete opposite of my dad.
879
00:47:49,741 --> 00:47:51,827
[toy plane whirring]
880
00:47:52,744 --> 00:47:53,996
Boom!
881
00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:55,372
I want people to know the truth,
882
00:47:55,455 --> 00:47:57,958
and I want people to know
my dad as a person.
883
00:47:58,041 --> 00:48:00,627
Um, my dad was a really amazing person,
884
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:03,130
and what happened to him
shouldn't have happened to him.
885
00:48:03,213 --> 00:48:05,215
[pensive music playing]
886
00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:09,094
[Jack] My dad was killed
the way no person should be killed.
887
00:48:11,179 --> 00:48:15,684
He was beaten to death
with a cinder block and a baseball bat,
888
00:48:16,393 --> 00:48:21,857
and no… no person should ever have
to go through that… that sort of pain.
889
00:48:22,357 --> 00:48:23,901
And, like, in the evidence,
890
00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:26,236
you see that
he tries to get away from them,
891
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,113
and they keep hitting him.
892
00:48:28,196 --> 00:48:29,531
They… They won't stop.
893
00:48:30,073 --> 00:48:33,118
And it's just really hard
to… to even think about.
894
00:48:39,124 --> 00:48:42,836
[Tracey] I'm trying to establish
why Jason was killed.
895
00:48:44,504 --> 00:48:47,174
There's a lot of email exchanges
between Jason and Molly
896
00:48:47,257 --> 00:48:48,842
that are concerning.
897
00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:50,928
[suspenseful music playing]
898
00:49:04,441 --> 00:49:05,567
[mouse clicking]
899
00:49:14,826 --> 00:49:18,747
[Tracey] There seems to be red flags
in the relationship.
900
00:49:19,748 --> 00:49:23,502
I'm also getting messages
from members of the Meadowlands community.
901
00:49:24,002 --> 00:49:26,713
This one in particular
came on Facebook Messenger.
902
00:49:27,923 --> 00:49:31,510
It says, "Jason and Molly were at a party
the Friday before his death,
903
00:49:31,593 --> 00:49:34,471
and she was belittling him,
calling him a fat ass,
904
00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:37,265
saying that he must have taken
all the nutrition from his twin
905
00:49:37,349 --> 00:49:39,434
because he looked like
he had eaten for two."
906
00:49:41,311 --> 00:49:45,524
Jason actually left the party early
and seemed down, not like himself.
907
00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:51,446
He had spoken to me
about coming back to Ireland
908
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:55,075
because the marriage
wasn't in a good place.
909
00:49:56,034 --> 00:49:58,620
And he had sent a text to his friend.
910
00:49:58,704 --> 00:49:59,788
[chiming]
911
00:50:16,763 --> 00:50:19,474
Putting the pieces of the jigsaw together,
912
00:50:19,558 --> 00:50:22,978
I believe the relationship was over,
and he wanted to move home,
913
00:50:23,061 --> 00:50:25,480
and it was going to happen really quickly.
914
00:50:27,524 --> 00:50:30,736
And Molly couldn't let Jason leave
with the children,
915
00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:33,321
because if she does,
she's lost everything.
916
00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:36,742
[music fades]
917
00:50:41,455 --> 00:50:42,664
[reporter] Developing tonight,
918
00:50:42,748 --> 00:50:44,791
a murder mystery
getting national attention now
919
00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:48,086
{\an8}as a former model and her father,
a former FBI agent,
920
00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:51,631
{\an8}find themselves facing life behind bars
for the death of the woman's husband.
921
00:50:53,508 --> 00:50:55,719
I did not commit a crime.
922
00:50:56,344 --> 00:51:01,600
I had one moment in this altercation
where I protected my father,
923
00:51:01,683 --> 00:51:05,520
and if I hadn't done that,
I believe that he would be dead,
924
00:51:05,604 --> 00:51:08,065
and then I would also have been killed.
925
00:51:08,148 --> 00:51:12,652
I don't know
if a father can see something worse
926
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:17,449
than watching his child die
in front of him.
927
00:51:17,532 --> 00:51:21,328
I was going to save her life
or die trying.
928
00:51:21,411 --> 00:51:23,205
And I have no regrets.
929
00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:29,878
{\an8}Tom's number one priority
is to protect Molly.
930
00:51:30,462 --> 00:51:33,465
{\an8}He wants to save Molly,
so he has to say that he killed him.
931
00:51:33,548 --> 00:51:35,926
But he leaves Molly completely out of it.
932
00:51:36,009 --> 00:51:37,177
[pensive music playing]
933
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:40,555
Molly is guilty of murder too,
the state contends.
934
00:51:42,474 --> 00:51:45,977
She was angry that she'd not been
allowed to adopt the children.
935
00:51:47,437 --> 00:51:50,649
Situation has been described
where he bought the house.
936
00:51:50,732 --> 00:51:52,109
He makes all the money.
937
00:51:52,776 --> 00:51:53,610
She's stuck.
938
00:51:54,694 --> 00:51:59,866
Malice feels like, when delivered
with the bat from Tom Marten…
939
00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:01,368
- [bat slams]
- …"I hate him!"
940
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,496
That's what malice feels like.
941
00:52:04,579 --> 00:52:06,456
You know what malice feels like
942
00:52:06,540 --> 00:52:08,917
when it comes from the brick
that Molly had?
943
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,335
It feels like…
944
00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:13,088
- [brick slams]
- …"I hate him! And I want those kids!"
945
00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:15,882
That's what malice feels like.
946
00:52:16,508 --> 00:52:18,426
You know what malice looks like?
947
00:52:19,636 --> 00:52:23,473
Malice looks like all of those pictures
of what they did to his skull.
948
00:52:27,936 --> 00:52:31,273
{\an8}The wife and father-in-law
of Limerick man Jason Corbett
949
00:52:31,356 --> 00:52:35,193
have been sentenced
to between 20 and 25 years in jail
950
00:52:35,277 --> 00:52:38,488
after being found guilty
of second degree murder.
951
00:52:39,489 --> 00:52:43,952
[Molly] I was in a state
of complete shock.
952
00:52:44,035 --> 00:52:46,371
I believed in the system,
953
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,041
and I believed
that the truth would matter.
954
00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:55,630
And I felt like if I hadn't screamed
that night, if I…
955
00:52:56,339 --> 00:52:58,842
You know,
maybe he would've just strangled me,
956
00:52:58,925 --> 00:53:00,510
and maybe I would've been okay.
957
00:53:01,011 --> 00:53:02,053
And I felt like…
958
00:53:04,514 --> 00:53:08,351
that after my dad, you know,
lived this life serving his country
959
00:53:08,435 --> 00:53:10,020
and being a wonderful father,
960
00:53:10,103 --> 00:53:14,107
now the rest of his life was over,
961
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:16,109
and it was my fault.
962
00:53:16,985 --> 00:53:20,989
We worried the jury might not find
the two accused guilty,
963
00:53:21,072 --> 00:53:23,575
but they did, and we thank them for it.
964
00:53:23,658 --> 00:53:28,747
{\an8}For us, it's the beginning of healing,
of rebuilding our lives.
965
00:53:29,497 --> 00:53:32,334
Life has possibility for us again.
966
00:53:32,417 --> 00:53:33,418
[joyful music playing]
967
00:53:33,501 --> 00:53:36,046
It's the first time
where I just felt so free
968
00:53:36,129 --> 00:53:39,007
and so just empty, but in a good way.
969
00:53:39,633 --> 00:53:41,009
How dare you disapprove?
970
00:53:41,092 --> 00:53:43,511
- [Tracey laughing]
- There. You still lose.
971
00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:46,181
I started to settle
into my family properly.
972
00:53:46,264 --> 00:53:51,978
♪ Happy birthday
Dear Sarah and Grandad… ♪
973
00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:55,690
This is my mum, this is my dad,
and these are my brothers.
974
00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:57,525
Show us how it's done!
975
00:53:57,609 --> 00:53:59,569
- No, Jack.
- [Jack] You're just moving your arm.
976
00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:00,946
Come on, show us how it's done.
977
00:54:01,029 --> 00:54:02,239
[Sarah humming]
978
00:54:02,322 --> 00:54:03,531
[Tracey] Sarah!
979
00:54:03,615 --> 00:54:06,284
[indistinct conversation]
980
00:54:06,368 --> 00:54:09,329
I can remember the first time
Jack called me "Dad."
981
00:54:09,412 --> 00:54:12,999
He was going up the stairs one day,
and he just answered, "Okay, Dad."
982
00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:15,377
And you know, it was very…
983
00:54:16,503 --> 00:54:18,421
It was a very emotional moment for me.
984
00:54:18,505 --> 00:54:20,340
[joyful music continues]
985
00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:23,260
[Sarah shouts joyfully]
986
00:54:23,343 --> 00:54:24,970
[Tracey chuckling]
987
00:54:25,053 --> 00:54:28,682
[Tracey] It was very much
a coming together of our little tribe,
988
00:54:28,765 --> 00:54:29,849
our blended family.
989
00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:35,689
[Jack] Everything was going well,
but then it took a turn for the worst
990
00:54:35,772 --> 00:54:37,440
and everything went wrong again.
991
00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:39,526
[foreboding music playing]
992
00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:44,281
[suspenseful music playing]
993
00:54:46,908 --> 00:54:49,077
We know how Jason Corbett died.
994
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,413
{\an8}Now we're gonna tell you why he died.
995
00:54:53,206 --> 00:54:54,666
[man] We are gonna tell this story.
996
00:54:54,749 --> 00:54:57,544
{\an8}It did not get told at the first trial.
997
00:54:57,627 --> 00:55:00,630
{\an8}By gosh,
it is going to get told this time.
998
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:10,932
Molly Corbett's family come to me
and asked me to review the record
999
00:55:11,016 --> 00:55:15,645
to convince the North Carolina
Court of Appeals to award a new trial.
1000
00:55:16,896 --> 00:55:20,817
One of the first things
I come across is an interview
1001
00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:23,903
that Molly gave
the morning that this happened.
1002
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:28,658
[Wanda] How many times before tonight
have you guys had physical altercations?
1003
00:55:28,742 --> 00:55:30,076
I don't know. [exhales]
1004
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,411
[Wanda] Too many to count?
1005
00:55:33,788 --> 00:55:34,789
A lot.
1006
00:55:35,290 --> 00:55:36,958
And the next thing I see
1007
00:55:37,584 --> 00:55:41,087
is that the authorities
interviewed the children,
1008
00:55:41,171 --> 00:55:45,967
starting the very next day with a visit
by the Department of Social Services,
1009
00:55:46,843 --> 00:55:52,599
and they both describe their father
as controlling and abusive.
1010
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:57,729
And then three days later,
at the Dragonfly House,
1011
00:55:57,812 --> 00:56:00,607
they repeat the initial statements.
1012
00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:03,777
He just got very mad about simple things.
1013
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:06,488
It's gotten worse
over the past two months.
1014
00:56:07,989 --> 00:56:12,077
Now he's been cussing and screaming
a lot more, getting a lot angrier.
1015
00:56:13,578 --> 00:56:15,246
[Doug] Unbeknownst to anybody,
1016
00:56:15,330 --> 00:56:17,999
two weeks earlier,
Jason has gone to his doctor,
1017
00:56:18,750 --> 00:56:22,754
and he complained
that he found himself getting angry
1018
00:56:23,588 --> 00:56:25,215
for no reason.
1019
00:56:26,049 --> 00:56:29,552
Almost Jack's identical words.
1020
00:56:29,636 --> 00:56:33,932
So, now I'm thinking,
"Wow, maybe there's something to this."
1021
00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:37,060
[Jack] I just came up with a keyword.
1022
00:56:37,143 --> 00:56:38,228
Tell me about that.
1023
00:56:38,311 --> 00:56:41,398
Um, "galaxy," that's mine,
and my sister's is "peacock."
1024
00:56:42,607 --> 00:56:45,110
And who told you to set up these keywords?
1025
00:56:45,777 --> 00:56:46,736
My grandma.
1026
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:49,823
I could just say, "peacock,"
and then I hang up the phone,
1027
00:56:49,906 --> 00:56:51,408
and she would come over to our house.
1028
00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:53,785
- From Tennessee?
- Yeah.
1029
00:56:53,868 --> 00:56:55,870
Do you remember
when she came up with that?
1030
00:56:55,954 --> 00:57:00,542
A few weeks before my dad died,
the peacock thing happened.
1031
00:57:01,126 --> 00:57:03,920
[Brandy] What about their phone numbers?
Did you have those written down?
1032
00:57:04,003 --> 00:57:06,381
[Jack] Yeah, we have one under a doll.
1033
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,261
[Jay] Their grandmother,
Sharon Martens, was concerned
1034
00:57:11,344 --> 00:57:14,055
'cause of things she knew
about what's going on in the house,
1035
00:57:14,139 --> 00:57:16,516
that she had the kids create a code word
1036
00:57:17,142 --> 00:57:21,438
and gave the kids her phone number
and hid it from Jason
1037
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:23,565
because they knew how he would react.
1038
00:57:23,648 --> 00:57:26,317
Tell me about this cinder block
that you're talking about,
1039
00:57:26,401 --> 00:57:28,653
or the brick that your mom used.
1040
00:57:28,736 --> 00:57:32,615
[Jack] Um, we just got flowers
that we were going to plant
1041
00:57:32,699 --> 00:57:34,492
in our front yard or backyard.
1042
00:57:34,993 --> 00:57:37,954
And we were gonna paint it
so it looked pretty.
1043
00:57:38,788 --> 00:57:42,750
And it was in my mom's room
because it was raining earlier.
1044
00:57:42,834 --> 00:57:44,878
[Wanda] You have a brick
on the nightstand?
1045
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:49,174
The kids and I were gonna paint…
1046
00:57:50,758 --> 00:57:51,634
[sniffles]
1047
00:57:51,718 --> 00:57:56,306
Paint these bricks and flowers
around the mailbox.
1048
00:57:56,389 --> 00:57:57,599
It's not a coincidence
1049
00:57:57,682 --> 00:58:00,727
{\an8}that all the physical evidence
and the circumstantial evidence
1050
00:58:00,810 --> 00:58:06,524
{\an8}all corroborate what Tom and Molly
told law enforcement from the beginning.
1051
00:58:06,608 --> 00:58:10,069
I was stunned to read that the state
1052
00:58:10,862 --> 00:58:14,741
had successfully persuaded
the trial judge to exclude
1053
00:58:15,408 --> 00:58:17,410
everything that the children had said.
1054
00:58:19,245 --> 00:58:21,664
How could there have been a fair trial
1055
00:58:22,248 --> 00:58:25,960
when the jury never heard
the very evidence that supports
1056
00:58:26,461 --> 00:58:28,421
what Molly said happened that night?
1057
00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:32,842
One of the arguments the state made
1058
00:58:32,926 --> 00:58:38,723
was that the children were
now recanting their original statements.
1059
00:58:39,682 --> 00:58:44,854
{\an8}And is it true
that your father was abusive, or false?
1060
00:58:45,939 --> 00:58:47,524
{\an8}[Jack] Um, false.
1061
00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:53,530
{\an8}I believe that this is
just a gross miscarriage of justice.
1062
00:58:54,113 --> 00:58:58,576
When I watched the interview of Jack,
it looks very rehearsed.
1063
00:58:59,327 --> 00:59:01,120
They appear to be brainwashed.
1064
00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:03,540
I know the truth.
1065
00:59:04,415 --> 00:59:06,751
I know that what they state
is not the truth.
1066
00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:10,588
What's going on inside their heads?
1067
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:11,881
I don't know.
1068
00:59:13,174 --> 00:59:16,761
[Mike] One is conducted
by a trained child interviewer
1069
00:59:16,844 --> 00:59:18,471
in a sterile environment.
1070
00:59:19,055 --> 00:59:20,098
One is not.
1071
00:59:20,181 --> 00:59:23,434
She told us that that's how my dad died,
and to tell the DA…
1072
00:59:23,518 --> 00:59:24,852
Uh, you're gone.
1073
00:59:24,936 --> 00:59:26,437
[Ina exclaims]
1074
00:59:26,521 --> 00:59:28,314
It's okay. Are you… Are you back?
1075
00:59:28,398 --> 00:59:31,109
[Dr. Hayes] I'm going
to have to call David.
1076
00:59:31,192 --> 00:59:33,861
If this is such an important interview,
1077
00:59:33,945 --> 00:59:38,032
uh, why can't Davidson County
fly somebody to Ireland
1078
00:59:38,116 --> 00:59:40,159
and conduct a proper interview?
1079
00:59:40,243 --> 00:59:41,828
- Hi.
- [man] Okay. Is that better?
1080
00:59:41,911 --> 00:59:44,205
[David] I'm gonna go ahead and back out.
You guys carry on.
1081
00:59:45,206 --> 00:59:47,875
Molly Corbett is sitting
in the women's prison
1082
00:59:49,460 --> 00:59:52,046
with a sentence of 20 to 25 years.
1083
00:59:52,130 --> 00:59:54,132
[pensive music playing]
1084
00:59:56,009 --> 00:59:57,802
And I don't think she did this.
1085
00:59:58,636 --> 01:00:00,305
[music fades]
1086
01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:06,227
[bailiff announcing start of session]
1087
01:00:11,441 --> 01:00:12,817
Good morning, everyone,
1088
01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:15,778
and welcome
to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
1089
01:00:16,362 --> 01:00:20,199
I've got to convince these three judges
that an injustice was done.
1090
01:00:20,283 --> 01:00:22,827
Your Honor,
I wanted to address the decision
1091
01:00:22,910 --> 01:00:25,288
to exclude the children's statements.
1092
01:00:25,872 --> 01:00:30,335
The trial court in its conclusions,
in my judgment, were clearly erroneous.
1093
01:00:31,711 --> 01:00:35,048
I got the decision
from the Court of Appeals that we had won.
1094
01:00:36,424 --> 01:00:41,137
And the judge ruled that Jason Corbett
was the aggressor that night.
1095
01:00:43,139 --> 01:00:45,433
But the state is appealing the decision
1096
01:00:45,516 --> 01:00:47,685
to the full Supreme Court
of North Carolina.
1097
01:00:47,769 --> 01:00:49,937
And so, I begin again.
1098
01:00:50,021 --> 01:00:52,899
The children were uniquely positioned
to know the truth
1099
01:00:52,982 --> 01:00:56,444
of whether their father
had an irrational anger problem.
1100
01:00:56,527 --> 01:01:00,573
And therein lies the problem
with excluding the children's statements.
1101
01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:03,117
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
is in recess.
1102
01:01:03,201 --> 01:01:04,994
God save the state
and this honorable court.
1103
01:01:05,078 --> 01:01:06,079
[gavel bangs]
1104
01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:12,919
The Supreme Court has ruled, and we won.
1105
01:01:14,545 --> 01:01:16,464
They have awarded a new trial.
1106
01:01:16,547 --> 01:01:21,010
And this time, the children's statements
are going to be heard by the jury.
1107
01:01:22,011 --> 01:01:25,181
The murder convictions
of Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens
1108
01:01:25,264 --> 01:01:27,392
have been overturned on appeal.
1109
01:01:27,475 --> 01:01:31,187
[reporter] North Carolina Supreme Court
upheld an appellate court's ruling,
1110
01:01:31,270 --> 01:01:33,773
granting Tom and Molly a new trial.
1111
01:01:34,524 --> 01:01:37,193
There had been
serious problems with the trial,
1112
01:01:37,276 --> 01:01:40,279
and it was going to be rectified.
1113
01:01:40,363 --> 01:01:43,074
It was exhilarating. I was going home.
1114
01:01:43,658 --> 01:01:44,867
[tense music playing]
1115
01:01:45,451 --> 01:01:48,705
[reporter 1] Well, tonight, Molly Corbett
and her father, Tom Martens,
1116
01:01:48,788 --> 01:01:50,707
are free on bail.
1117
01:01:50,790 --> 01:01:52,792
[reporter 2] Mr. Martens,
how does it feel to be out?
1118
01:01:52,875 --> 01:01:54,877
[Tom] I'm glad to be back with my family.
1119
01:01:54,961 --> 01:01:57,672
[reporter 3] The father-daughter pair
left the Davidson County Jail
1120
01:01:57,755 --> 01:01:59,632
just an hour apart.
1121
01:02:01,217 --> 01:02:05,304
{\an8}[Doug] For the first time
in over three and a half years,
1122
01:02:06,347 --> 01:02:10,059
{\an8}Molly walked out of that jail free.
1123
01:02:13,020 --> 01:02:14,397
It's not fair…
1124
01:02:15,022 --> 01:02:16,065
[inhales deeply]
1125
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:19,986
…that they're out and walking.
1126
01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:23,197
[sniffles]
1127
01:02:23,281 --> 01:02:24,991
I can't focus.
1128
01:02:28,911 --> 01:02:32,248
[sobbing] And there's no trial date set.
1129
01:02:35,209 --> 01:02:36,043
There's no…
1130
01:02:39,630 --> 01:02:41,340
[sniffling]
1131
01:02:41,424 --> 01:02:46,345
There's nothing to say,
"Okay, this is when it's gonna be over."
1132
01:02:47,013 --> 01:02:48,639
I just have to sit here
1133
01:02:50,475 --> 01:02:54,437
and let my life pass me by again
because of them.
1134
01:02:56,689 --> 01:02:59,776
[Jack] Very hard to see the people
that took so much from you
1135
01:02:59,859 --> 01:03:01,360
and took your dad's life,
1136
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,449
that are able to walk free and be able
to hug their dads and their moms
1137
01:03:08,075 --> 01:03:12,288
when we have to go down to a little patch
of grass with a headstone to see my dad.
1138
01:03:15,208 --> 01:03:19,045
[Doug] Now we have to prepare
for a new trial in front of a new jury.
1139
01:03:19,962 --> 01:03:23,966
All of the evidence is gonna be presented,
and the whole story will finally get told.
1140
01:03:24,967 --> 01:03:29,138
Domestic abuse
was going to come into the light.
1141
01:03:29,222 --> 01:03:30,598
I mean, my domestic abuse,
1142
01:03:30,681 --> 01:03:35,186
the abuse that I suffered and endured,
it was… it was going to come out.
1143
01:03:35,269 --> 01:03:37,271
[birds chirping]
1144
01:03:39,482 --> 01:03:42,652
I think we appeared
as a pretty perfect family,
1145
01:03:43,986 --> 01:03:50,159
but things were not great
in regard to Jason's treatment of me.
1146
01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:51,869
[somber music playing]
1147
01:03:51,953 --> 01:03:55,081
Just every day,
there would be kind of an interrogation
1148
01:03:55,164 --> 01:03:58,709
of what I did that day,
who I talked to, and what I was wearing.
1149
01:03:58,793 --> 01:04:02,338
And if I wore my hair a different way,
there would be,
1150
01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:04,173
"Why did you wear your hair that way?"
1151
01:04:04,257 --> 01:04:06,092
"Were you hoping to talk
to someone specific?"
1152
01:04:07,510 --> 01:04:10,012
Everything was just fraught with peril.
1153
01:04:11,430 --> 01:04:15,309
Sometimes he would
just be kind of seething and angry
1154
01:04:15,393 --> 01:04:18,145
because I hadn't abided by something
1155
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:20,439
or I'd been somewhere
I shouldn't have been.
1156
01:04:22,483 --> 01:04:24,652
And sometimes that would lead, uh,
1157
01:04:25,862 --> 01:04:27,488
to a violent situation.
1158
01:04:27,572 --> 01:04:30,199
[camera clicks]
1159
01:04:32,493 --> 01:04:36,831
Molly was becoming a shell
of what she had been.
1160
01:04:38,207 --> 01:04:41,752
She was definitely not as happy.
1161
01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:44,338
She was definitely not as confident.
1162
01:04:45,172 --> 01:04:47,675
She was acting beaten down.
1163
01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:52,972
I did not realize the extent
or the seriousness of the domestic abuse
1164
01:04:53,514 --> 01:04:54,891
that I do now.
1165
01:04:54,974 --> 01:04:57,768
Not letting me adopt the children
was a method of control.
1166
01:04:57,852 --> 01:05:00,396
And it was something
that I didn't recognize early on.
1167
01:05:00,479 --> 01:05:04,734
He would always say, "Why does it matter?
It's just a piece of paper."
1168
01:05:06,611 --> 01:05:10,281
He knew that a divorce and custody
1169
01:05:10,364 --> 01:05:14,368
was just in the realm of possibility
if I adopted the kids.
1170
01:05:14,452 --> 01:05:17,914
And so, he wanted to make sure
that didn't happen.
1171
01:05:20,207 --> 01:05:22,752
If I had left at that time,
1172
01:05:22,835 --> 01:05:25,129
the kids were not old enough
to have a say in court
1173
01:05:25,212 --> 01:05:29,008
and I would most likely lose the kids.
1174
01:05:29,550 --> 01:05:32,678
And I… I wasn't willing to lose the kids,
and he knew that.
1175
01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:34,889
He knew I couldn't ever leave the kids.
1176
01:05:37,975 --> 01:05:42,563
And so, my friend in the neighborhood
who was the family attorney,
1177
01:05:42,647 --> 01:05:48,402
she recommended that I keep a record
of not only the abuse
1178
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:51,530
but also just general motherhood.
1179
01:05:51,614 --> 01:05:56,160
You know, so if there was a divorce
when the kids were older,
1180
01:05:56,702 --> 01:06:00,665
that there would be a record
that I was their mom.
1181
01:06:00,748 --> 01:06:04,585
And she recommended
that I make recordings.
1182
01:06:07,338 --> 01:06:09,548
[Jason] I was trying to have
a conversation with Jack.
1183
01:06:09,632 --> 01:06:12,426
Could you just give me
two minutes to talk to my kids
1184
01:06:12,510 --> 01:06:14,136
when you're with them all the time?
1185
01:06:15,179 --> 01:06:16,889
- Could you do that?
- [Molly] Yeah, I'm sorry.
1186
01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:17,932
[Jason] You should be.
1187
01:06:19,183 --> 01:06:22,937
They were little recording devices
that were voice activated,
1188
01:06:23,020 --> 01:06:25,731
and I put them around the house.
1189
01:06:27,775 --> 01:06:29,485
Underneath the coffee table.
1190
01:06:30,486 --> 01:06:31,862
Underneath the counter.
1191
01:06:32,446 --> 01:06:34,782
One on the nightstand.
1192
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:39,787
My plan had been to control the situation
1193
01:06:39,870 --> 01:06:42,790
until they were old enough
to have a say in court.
1194
01:06:42,873 --> 01:06:45,167
And there were times when I thought
1195
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:48,879
that I'm gonna die before that happens.
1196
01:06:50,464 --> 01:06:53,009
Um, but there was never a time
1197
01:06:53,092 --> 01:06:56,887
where I thought that Jason might die
before that happens.
1198
01:07:02,977 --> 01:07:05,187
{\an8}[Dr. Hampton] I get a call
from Doug Kingsbery
1199
01:07:05,271 --> 01:07:09,316
saying that he has a case that he thinks
I might be able to help with.
1200
01:07:10,234 --> 01:07:14,071
We have a man who is
a very successful businessman.
1201
01:07:14,155 --> 01:07:15,614
He gets along with everybody.
1202
01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:18,284
Does not have an angry bone in his body.
1203
01:07:19,410 --> 01:07:22,371
The thing is,
abusers can appear one way n public
1204
01:07:22,455 --> 01:07:24,123
but very different in private.
1205
01:07:24,832 --> 01:07:30,713
And so, Doug sent me an audio recording
of the family during dinnertime.
1206
01:07:30,796 --> 01:07:34,300
[Jason] Could I have dinner with the kids?
That's what I asked, but you ignored it
1207
01:07:34,383 --> 01:07:35,676
and went and fed them anyway.
1208
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,845
[Molly] I was on the phone with you
ten minutes ago,
1209
01:07:37,928 --> 01:07:40,890
I said, "I'm gonna make some soup.
Do you want some?" And you said no.
1210
01:07:40,973 --> 01:07:43,559
[Jason] I said no
because I thought we'd have family dinner.
1211
01:07:43,642 --> 01:07:45,436
But you ignored it, honey,
because you just do,
1212
01:07:45,519 --> 01:07:47,063
because it's not what you wanted to do.
1213
01:07:47,146 --> 01:07:49,648
[Molly] I said,
"I'm making soup for the kids."
1214
01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:50,858
"Do you want some?"
1215
01:07:50,941 --> 01:07:53,444
[Jason] The reason I said no
is because you ignored what I asked.
1216
01:07:53,527 --> 01:07:54,820
[Molly] I didn't ignore anything.
1217
01:07:54,904 --> 01:07:57,198
[Jason] You forgot what I asked.
You couldn't care less.
1218
01:07:57,281 --> 01:08:00,785
One of the characteristics of abusers
is they like to take on the victim role.
1219
01:08:00,868 --> 01:08:04,121
And no matter how much Molly tries
to appease him or reassure him
1220
01:08:04,205 --> 01:08:06,499
that she was offering
to do something for him,
1221
01:08:06,582 --> 01:08:07,792
he does not want to be pleased.
1222
01:08:07,875 --> 01:08:09,919
He doesn't want a solution to the problem.
1223
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:11,796
He wants a problem to complain about.
1224
01:08:11,879 --> 01:08:14,465
[Jason] I said,
"I'd like to have dinner with my family."
1225
01:08:14,548 --> 01:08:16,342
That's what I said to you. You decided--
1226
01:08:16,425 --> 01:08:18,844
[Molly] Jack, stop hanging off
the banister. Go to your room.
1227
01:08:18,928 --> 01:08:21,514
[Jason] No, don't go up to your room,
Jack, come down here, please.
1228
01:08:21,597 --> 01:08:23,599
Don't tell them to go
when I'm talking to them.
1229
01:08:23,682 --> 01:08:26,477
- [Sarah] I gotta go to the bathroom.
- [Jason] You can stay there, please.
1230
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,062
Can you look at me? Have some respect?
1231
01:08:28,145 --> 01:08:31,107
Asked you to have dinner with my family.
You said you were feeding the kids.
1232
01:08:31,190 --> 01:08:34,318
That's why I said no, because you ignored
what I said about dinner with my family.
1233
01:08:34,401 --> 01:08:36,737
- [Molly] Sit down, finish your food.
- Who cares what he says.
1234
01:08:36,821 --> 01:08:39,240
Don't send them out when I'm talking.
You don't have the right.
1235
01:08:39,323 --> 01:08:41,033
"You don't have the right."
1236
01:08:41,700 --> 01:08:45,287
I mean, yeah, she's not…
she's not their adoptive mother.
1237
01:08:46,247 --> 01:08:49,792
According to Jason,
this is further ammunition
1238
01:08:49,875 --> 01:08:52,002
to letting Molly know where she stands.
1239
01:08:52,086 --> 01:08:54,421
[Molly] It's Pancake Tuesday.
Why don't I make some pancakes?
1240
01:08:54,505 --> 01:08:57,341
[Jason] I don't want anything from you.
I asked you over and over again.
1241
01:08:57,424 --> 01:08:59,802
You made it clear you want
to try to separate me from my kids.
1242
01:08:59,885 --> 01:09:00,845
[Molly] No, I don't, J.
1243
01:09:00,928 --> 01:09:02,763
[Jason] I'm gonna do the same to you.
1244
01:09:02,847 --> 01:09:04,932
The difference is,
I will be able to do it.
1245
01:09:05,015 --> 01:09:07,017
That's a very clear threat from Jason.
1246
01:09:07,518 --> 01:09:10,771
"If you try to take the kids from me,
I'll just take the kids from you."
1247
01:09:11,605 --> 01:09:13,691
[Jason] I shouldn't have to say it
over and over…
1248
01:09:13,774 --> 01:09:15,901
[Molly] Can you guys get out
the stuff for pancakes?
1249
01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:17,736
- [Jason] There you go again!
- [chair slams]
1250
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:20,114
I'm talking to you,
and you're talking about something else!
1251
01:09:20,197 --> 01:09:22,366
- [Jack] Stop slamming your chair!
- [Sarah] Stop fighting!
1252
01:09:22,449 --> 01:09:24,034
- [Jason] Go up to bed.
- [Sarah crying]
1253
01:09:24,118 --> 01:09:26,787
- [Jason] Up to bed. Go.
- [Molly] She just got scared, J.
1254
01:09:26,871 --> 01:09:29,039
- [Jason] Up to bed.
- [Jack] She did, Dad. She got scared.
1255
01:09:29,123 --> 01:09:31,000
[Jason] Go to bed. Go to bed. Go to bed.
1256
01:09:31,083 --> 01:09:33,085
[pensive music playing]
1257
01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:38,549
[Mike] If a jury hears this evidence
of domestic abuse,
1258
01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,885
they will find Tom and Molly innocent.
1259
01:09:42,428 --> 01:09:46,182
Because Molly told a story five years ago,
or maybe two stories,
1260
01:09:46,265 --> 01:09:49,935
does that mean
that she was not abused by Jason?
1261
01:09:50,436 --> 01:09:52,354
My daughter's not a liar.
1262
01:09:52,438 --> 01:09:53,480
I'm not a liar.
1263
01:09:55,774 --> 01:09:58,194
And if you think we are, go for it.
1264
01:09:59,111 --> 01:09:59,987
Prove it.
1265
01:10:00,070 --> 01:10:01,697
[music continues]
1266
01:10:03,532 --> 01:10:05,910
[Alan] We learn that
there are secret recordings
1267
01:10:05,993 --> 01:10:08,704
that Molly has made of Jason.
1268
01:10:08,787 --> 01:10:12,249
Molly was the only person who knew
the recording was being made,
1269
01:10:12,333 --> 01:10:15,628
which creates a scenario
where she can control the narrative.
1270
01:10:17,087 --> 01:10:23,260
{\an8}Molly was preparing
for divorce and custody proceedings.
1271
01:10:23,344 --> 01:10:25,596
[Jason] I'll be able to do
what you're trying to do.
1272
01:10:26,347 --> 01:10:28,933
- [Molly] I'm not trying to do anything, J.
- [Jason] You are.
1273
01:10:29,642 --> 01:10:31,560
She clearly is trying to do something.
1274
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:35,898
Anyone who's making secret recordings
in a personal relationship
1275
01:10:35,981 --> 01:10:40,569
can manipulate the context
and make Jason look bad.
1276
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:45,241
[dog barking]
1277
01:10:45,324 --> 01:10:48,202
[Jack] In the last months
before my father was killed,
1278
01:10:48,285 --> 01:10:50,412
the mood was kinda different in the house.
1279
01:10:50,496 --> 01:10:53,624
There wasn't as much activities
with us as a family going on.
1280
01:10:55,334 --> 01:10:57,753
When I kinda
really started to notice it was
1281
01:10:57,836 --> 01:11:01,507
when I found the recording device
in my dad's car, and I showed it to him.
1282
01:11:02,007 --> 01:11:05,219
And he was absolutely shocked
to see it in there.
1283
01:11:05,302 --> 01:11:08,806
And he said, "How do you feel
about moving back to Ireland?"
1284
01:11:09,306 --> 01:11:11,850
And Sarah said, "Without Mommy?"
And my dad said, "Yes."
1285
01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:13,644
And I knew Molly would not like that.
1286
01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:18,607
She knew he'd be able to take us away,
and she'd be able to do nothing about it.
1287
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:22,903
It appears from everything
we learned about Molly
1288
01:11:23,487 --> 01:11:27,908
that things are coming to a head
as it relates to the marriage
1289
01:11:27,992 --> 01:11:32,454
and to, most importantly,
to her custody of the children.
1290
01:11:34,373 --> 01:11:37,835
[Alan] We look back at Tom's statement
the night Jason was killed,
1291
01:11:38,669 --> 01:11:42,423
and the reason for the visit
from Tom and Sharon.
1292
01:11:42,506 --> 01:11:44,174
I mean, we're fairly social people.
1293
01:11:44,258 --> 01:11:46,802
And we didn't really have
anything going on this weekend.
1294
01:11:46,885 --> 01:11:50,180
That Saturday morning, we decided,
"Hey, why don't we go on over to Molly's?"
1295
01:11:50,264 --> 01:11:53,058
It's a four-hour drive,
and it's a beautiful day.
1296
01:11:53,142 --> 01:11:55,978
[Alan] But we learned
from people in Tennessee,
1297
01:11:56,061 --> 01:11:58,147
where Tom and Sharon live,
1298
01:11:58,230 --> 01:12:02,735
that Tom and Sharon had plans
that night with his boss,
1299
01:12:02,818 --> 01:12:05,154
which they canceled at the last minute.
1300
01:12:05,237 --> 01:12:07,239
[pensive music playing]
1301
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,493
We do not believe
that Tom came to North Carolina
1302
01:12:11,577 --> 01:12:13,829
to beat Jason to death
with a baseball bat.
1303
01:12:14,330 --> 01:12:20,294
Our theory is that Molly
had devised some explosive event.
1304
01:12:21,628 --> 01:12:27,092
If Molly could get Jason to blow up
1305
01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:30,846
while her parents were there as witnesses,
1306
01:12:32,097 --> 01:12:35,309
she could apply
for a domestic violence protective order,
1307
01:12:35,392 --> 01:12:37,644
which would remove him from the house.
1308
01:12:39,396 --> 01:12:43,192
And then she can file
for emergency custody of the children
1309
01:12:43,692 --> 01:12:46,195
and take his children away from him.
1310
01:12:49,490 --> 01:12:52,951
But when the plan went awry,
and it got violent,
1311
01:12:53,869 --> 01:12:57,331
it appears she quit caring
whether or not he lived or died.
1312
01:13:00,834 --> 01:13:02,836
[melancholy music playing]
1313
01:13:11,178 --> 01:13:14,306
[reporter] Now, everyone's talking
about Tom and Molly Martens.
1314
01:13:14,390 --> 01:13:16,683
This case has caused a big divide
1315
01:13:16,767 --> 01:13:19,019
between the US and Ireland
for a long time.
1316
01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:23,524
[reporter 2] The situation now is that
they are expected to go for a retrial
1317
01:13:24,191 --> 01:13:26,735
on the same charges in 2022.
1318
01:13:28,112 --> 01:13:30,572
[radio host] How difficult is it
to listen to all the things
1319
01:13:30,656 --> 01:13:33,409
that you know have been said
about your dead brother
1320
01:13:33,492 --> 01:13:35,411
to make him look as if he deserved it?
1321
01:13:35,494 --> 01:13:37,955
I think that's one of the reasons
why I wrote the book,
1322
01:13:38,038 --> 01:13:42,626
because we weren't able to defend Jason.
1323
01:13:44,169 --> 01:13:49,758
I've been fighting
for justice for Jason for seven years.
1324
01:13:51,510 --> 01:13:53,345
Now I face a retrial,
1325
01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:56,640
and I expect
that the defense will call me.
1326
01:13:57,141 --> 01:14:01,562
I believe they're going to try and claim
that I brainwashed Jack and Sarah,
1327
01:14:02,604 --> 01:14:05,315
which is utterly… untrue.
1328
01:14:08,026 --> 01:14:11,155
[David] Telling a child what to say,
or telling a child to lie,
1329
01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:13,615
would go against every fiber of my being.
1330
01:14:14,533 --> 01:14:16,034
That is never going to happen.
1331
01:14:16,118 --> 01:14:18,704
[seagulls squawking]
1332
01:14:21,457 --> 01:14:25,252
[Sarah] I'm just packing, getting ready,
'cause we're leaving in the morning
1333
01:14:25,335 --> 01:14:27,629
for the pre-trial hearing.
1334
01:14:28,130 --> 01:14:32,718
It will be the first time
we see the Martens since 2015.
1335
01:14:33,510 --> 01:14:36,430
So, that's going to be very hard.
1336
01:14:37,764 --> 01:14:39,766
[Jack] The reason
they were granted a retrial
1337
01:14:39,850 --> 01:14:42,102
is a lot to do
with my Dragonfly interview,
1338
01:14:42,186 --> 01:14:44,396
where I said that my dad hit Molly.
1339
01:14:45,189 --> 01:14:47,274
It's always in the back of my mind.
1340
01:14:49,234 --> 01:14:51,695
We all just hope that the retrial is set
as soon as possible.
1341
01:14:51,778 --> 01:14:53,906
These people have been out
for over a year,
1342
01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:58,785
and that I think it's time
for this book to be closed
1343
01:14:58,869 --> 01:15:00,954
and that justice to be served.
1344
01:15:02,039 --> 01:15:04,917
I just want to be there
to support my father and my family.
1345
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,002
[dramatic music playing]
1346
01:15:18,722 --> 01:15:21,975
[reporter] The family of Jason Corbett,
the Irishman found beaten to death
1347
01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:24,811
in his North Carolina home in 2015,
1348
01:15:24,895 --> 01:15:28,857
have said they hope a date
for Molly and Tom Martens's retrial
1349
01:15:28,941 --> 01:15:30,943
will be set at a hearing today.
1350
01:15:32,694 --> 01:15:36,490
[Sarah] They walked into the courtroom
and I saw Molly, and I saw Tom.
1351
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:39,535
They had their heads down.
They wouldn't look at me.
1352
01:15:41,411 --> 01:15:43,830
{\an8}And I thought, "I'm not afraid anymore."
1353
01:15:45,207 --> 01:15:47,125
I'm not the one who should be afraid.
1354
01:15:47,209 --> 01:15:49,002
I… I did nothing wrong.
1355
01:15:49,086 --> 01:15:50,837
I lied, that's true.
1356
01:15:50,921 --> 01:15:52,381
Um…
1357
01:15:52,464 --> 01:15:53,382
But I was eight.
1358
01:15:53,966 --> 01:15:58,428
And I do believe that justice
will be delivered for my dad.
1359
01:15:59,304 --> 01:16:01,848
[reporter 1] We're going
to some breaking news in the last while
1360
01:16:01,932 --> 01:16:05,727
as the killers of Irish businessman
Jason Corbett will face a retrial
1361
01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:07,896
on murder charges next summer.
1362
01:16:08,605 --> 01:16:10,107
[reporter 2] The family had been hoping
1363
01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:12,234
that the retrial would take place
before Christmas.
1364
01:16:12,317 --> 01:16:14,361
Unfortunately, that is not to be.
1365
01:16:15,362 --> 01:16:17,864
[Jack] Right now,
it's really just a waiting game.
1366
01:16:21,326 --> 01:16:24,371
It's stressful having to deal with
this hanging over us.
1367
01:16:25,872 --> 01:16:28,417
But if I get to testify,
which I hope I do,
1368
01:16:28,500 --> 01:16:32,838
I feel confident I'll be able to portray
what really happened inside the house,
1369
01:16:32,921 --> 01:16:36,925
and tell people and the jury
what Molly was really like,
1370
01:16:37,009 --> 01:16:39,386
and the real version of events, the truth.
1371
01:16:39,469 --> 01:16:42,139
I've been waiting a long time
to say everything,
1372
01:16:42,222 --> 01:16:47,436
and I didn't have the words to explain
what happened to me,
1373
01:16:47,519 --> 01:16:49,229
and my brother, and my dad before.
1374
01:16:49,313 --> 01:16:51,315
[contemplative music playing]
1375
01:16:54,776 --> 01:16:56,069
On the outside of the house,
1376
01:16:56,153 --> 01:16:58,864
the house looks like
sunshines and rainbows.
1377
01:17:00,699 --> 01:17:04,077
And on the inside, it's dark and heavy.
1378
01:17:07,831 --> 01:17:10,334
[Jack] My relationship with Molly
got progressively worse
1379
01:17:10,417 --> 01:17:12,294
as we moved over to America.
1380
01:17:14,254 --> 01:17:18,467
Myself and Sarah used to have pictures
of our biological mother in our rooms,
1381
01:17:18,967 --> 01:17:21,637
and she took the picture off me
and hid it.
1382
01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:27,934
I feel that Molly wanted to be
the only mother that existed,
1383
01:17:28,018 --> 01:17:29,936
that there was no one else before her.
1384
01:17:30,771 --> 01:17:34,775
Sarah had a lot closer relationship
with Molly than I did.
1385
01:17:35,901 --> 01:17:37,653
They did everything together.
1386
01:17:38,403 --> 01:17:40,906
She was like the… the star child.
1387
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:44,117
I was closer with my dad.
1388
01:17:46,286 --> 01:17:49,414
I remember when my father
was on a work trip,
1389
01:17:49,498 --> 01:17:51,500
and I said, "Goodbye, I love you."
1390
01:17:52,125 --> 01:17:54,211
She chased me up to my room,
1391
01:17:54,294 --> 01:17:58,423
she destroyed my whole room,
pulled all my clothes out, flipped my bed,
1392
01:17:58,507 --> 01:17:59,883
turned over my dresser.
1393
01:18:02,094 --> 01:18:03,929
[somber music playing]
1394
01:18:04,012 --> 01:18:07,265
I was in the car with Molly,
and I asked her,
1395
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:11,520
"Could I start tee-ball?
Dad's the coach, so he can bring me."
1396
01:18:11,603 --> 01:18:13,939
And Molly turned around and said,
"Do you not love me?"
1397
01:18:14,022 --> 01:18:17,025
"Do you not care about me?
You don't want to spend time with me."
1398
01:18:17,109 --> 01:18:19,236
"Why do you want
to spend time with your dad?"
1399
01:18:19,820 --> 01:18:23,407
I felt awful
because I thought I really hurt her.
1400
01:18:23,490 --> 01:18:25,951
I couldn't even tell my dad
things that happened,
1401
01:18:26,034 --> 01:18:29,705
and that made it really hard for me
to know what was right and what was wrong,
1402
01:18:29,788 --> 01:18:33,500
because I only had one person
whispering in my ear the whole time.
1403
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:39,923
[Jack] I was constantly fighting
to be loved by her.
1404
01:18:40,006 --> 01:18:40,924
[inhales deeply]
1405
01:18:41,007 --> 01:18:45,011
I did everything I could
to just feel attention off her,
1406
01:18:45,095 --> 01:18:46,304
not even love,
1407
01:18:46,388 --> 01:18:47,222
and I loved her.
1408
01:18:49,391 --> 01:18:51,184
[Sarah] Me and Jack both loved her.
1409
01:18:52,144 --> 01:18:56,022
But I think that she pitted
me and Jack against each other
1410
01:18:56,106 --> 01:18:57,441
to fight for her love.
1411
01:18:58,233 --> 01:19:00,569
I think if it had gotten to a case
1412
01:19:00,652 --> 01:19:03,196
where we had been brought
before a judge at 13,
1413
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,158
I would have chose my dad
every day of the week.
1414
01:19:07,242 --> 01:19:09,578
But Sarah would have picked Molly.
1415
01:19:11,747 --> 01:19:14,374
Molly took Sarah away
from my dad constantly.
1416
01:19:15,459 --> 01:19:16,460
She never got…
1417
01:19:28,430 --> 01:19:31,183
She never got the relationship
that she wanted with him.
1418
01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:32,851
That's Molly's fault.
1419
01:19:32,934 --> 01:19:34,811
In my opinion, that's Molly's fault.
1420
01:19:39,483 --> 01:19:41,401
[pensive music playing]
1421
01:19:45,947 --> 01:19:49,534
[Doug] As we are preparing for a retrial,
1422
01:19:50,076 --> 01:19:54,998
I find out that
Molly has a handful of close friends
1423
01:19:55,081 --> 01:19:59,961
{\an8}that heard Jason in fits of anger,
1424
01:20:00,962 --> 01:20:02,297
{\an8}threaten her,
1425
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:05,425
or who witnessed
Jason's controlling behavior,
1426
01:20:05,509 --> 01:20:08,261
supporting what Molly has described to me.
1427
01:20:09,262 --> 01:20:11,139
One of the women says,
1428
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:15,936
"Molly has told me Jason
has strangled me before in the bedroom."
1429
01:20:17,687 --> 01:20:18,939
And she said,
1430
01:20:19,815 --> 01:20:26,321
"Molly was afraid
that Jason had strangled his first wife,
1431
01:20:26,905 --> 01:20:30,617
and she was growing concerned
that it could happen to her."
1432
01:20:30,700 --> 01:20:32,953
And I'm… I'm thinking, "What?"
1433
01:20:34,204 --> 01:20:35,580
It's been there all along,
1434
01:20:36,706 --> 01:20:38,583
since the first interview
with law enforcement.
1435
01:20:38,667 --> 01:20:42,838
His first wife died
in mysterious circumstances.
1436
01:20:43,630 --> 01:20:48,134
Um, the finding was
that she had an asthma attack.
1437
01:20:48,635 --> 01:20:49,886
This didn't just come up.
1438
01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:53,181
Tom had concerns
from when he talked to Mikey Fitzpatrick.
1439
01:20:53,265 --> 01:20:55,267
[tense music playing]
1440
01:20:57,727 --> 01:21:00,480
[Tom] We had
the maternal grandparents over.
1441
01:21:00,564 --> 01:21:02,148
They're at our house.
1442
01:21:02,232 --> 01:21:04,067
I have occasion to have a conversation
1443
01:21:04,150 --> 01:21:07,863
with the father
of the deceased first wife.
1444
01:21:07,946 --> 01:21:09,865
His name is Mikey Fitzpatrick.
1445
01:21:10,365 --> 01:21:14,369
He's not a well-educated man.
He's very hard to understand.
1446
01:21:14,953 --> 01:21:17,289
Got a heavy Irish accent.
1447
01:21:17,372 --> 01:21:19,249
I asked him what he thought of Jason.
1448
01:21:19,916 --> 01:21:23,044
He said, "I think he killed my daughter."
1449
01:21:23,587 --> 01:21:25,547
I found that pretty shocking.
1450
01:21:25,630 --> 01:21:28,508
I didn't know if it was just a bitter man
1451
01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:33,305
who… needed somebody to blame
for his daughter's death,
1452
01:21:34,264 --> 01:21:37,225
or if he had a basis for this.
1453
01:21:38,435 --> 01:21:39,853
He was deadly serious.
1454
01:21:41,229 --> 01:21:43,064
He wasn't joking around.
1455
01:21:43,148 --> 01:21:47,861
{\an8}Nobody investigated
any further into Mags' death
1456
01:21:47,944 --> 01:21:50,530
{\an8}and the circumstances
surrounding Mags' death.
1457
01:21:50,614 --> 01:21:53,658
Everybody accepted the autopsy findings
1458
01:21:54,284 --> 01:21:56,912
until Doug started digging further.
1459
01:21:58,288 --> 01:22:01,875
I obtained a copy
of the official autopsy report
1460
01:22:02,876 --> 01:22:04,878
of Jason's first wife.
1461
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:15,847
I have a medical expert look at this.
1462
01:22:16,348 --> 01:22:19,935
He says, "Jason Corbett's first wife
did not die from an asthma attack."
1463
01:22:21,102 --> 01:22:23,313
"The evidence to me shows
1464
01:22:23,396 --> 01:22:26,775
that she succumbed
to injuries from manual strangulation."
1465
01:22:28,777 --> 01:22:33,531
We had learned that Mags' sister
was there that night.
1466
01:22:35,533 --> 01:22:40,956
And she reported, "Mags kept saying,
'I'm going to die. I'm going to die.'"
1467
01:22:43,375 --> 01:22:46,836
That's what happens
to victims of manual strangulation
1468
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:48,630
that survive the event
1469
01:22:49,464 --> 01:22:51,800
but dies from those injuries
within the hour.
1470
01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:58,682
But according to
Mags Corbett's autopsy report,
1471
01:22:59,265 --> 01:23:02,519
there were not visible marks
on the outside of her neck.
1472
01:23:05,563 --> 01:23:10,026
My expert says, "You don't die from
what's on the external part of the neck."
1473
01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:12,404
"You die from the injury
that can't be seen
1474
01:23:12,487 --> 01:23:13,947
on the inside of the neck."
1475
01:23:14,447 --> 01:23:15,573
This is important.
1476
01:23:16,783 --> 01:23:20,078
The state is making an argument
1477
01:23:20,161 --> 01:23:22,539
that Molly couldn't have been
strangled that night
1478
01:23:22,622 --> 01:23:26,001
because there's a lack
of injuries to her neck.
1479
01:23:26,710 --> 01:23:32,173
And he says to me, "Take a look
at the photograph of Molly Corbett
1480
01:23:32,257 --> 01:23:36,803
taken in the early morning hours
right outside the house by the police."
1481
01:23:38,847 --> 01:23:40,974
"Do you see that linear mark
1482
01:23:41,057 --> 01:23:43,935
on the left side of Molly's neck
below her ear?"
1483
01:23:44,436 --> 01:23:46,271
I hadn't noticed it before.
1484
01:23:46,813 --> 01:23:48,606
He says, "That's a nail dig."
1485
01:23:49,733 --> 01:23:52,569
It's what happens
during manual strangulation
1486
01:23:53,111 --> 01:23:56,614
when either the assailant's nails
1487
01:23:57,198 --> 01:23:59,117
dig into the side of the neck,
1488
01:23:59,826 --> 01:24:04,122
or sometimes the victim
is trying to pry the hand away.
1489
01:24:05,331 --> 01:24:07,417
[camera clicking]
1490
01:24:09,002 --> 01:24:10,336
And he says to me,
1491
01:24:10,420 --> 01:24:14,174
"Have you examined her pajamas
that she was wearing that night?"
1492
01:24:14,674 --> 01:24:16,801
"No. What am I looking for?"
1493
01:24:19,220 --> 01:24:22,307
"If the victim loses consciousness,
1494
01:24:23,308 --> 01:24:25,810
uh, they lose control of their bladder."
1495
01:24:26,436 --> 01:24:28,730
"I'll bet you dollars to donuts,
1496
01:24:28,813 --> 01:24:31,566
you're gonna go down there
and find a urine stain
1497
01:24:31,649 --> 01:24:33,777
in the crotch area of her pajamas."
1498
01:24:36,613 --> 01:24:37,614
And there it is.
1499
01:24:39,741 --> 01:24:46,289
I believe the only reason wife number two
was not victim number two
1500
01:24:46,372 --> 01:24:49,250
was because that night
her 65-year-old father
1501
01:24:49,334 --> 01:24:51,961
was there to intervene and stop it.
1502
01:24:52,545 --> 01:24:54,089
[music fades]
1503
01:24:54,964 --> 01:24:59,469
[Alan] There are numerous expert witnesses
for the state and for the defense.
1504
01:25:00,303 --> 01:25:03,431
Every expert who looks
at the autopsy of Mags
1505
01:25:04,057 --> 01:25:07,227
agree that she did not die
of an asthma attack.
1506
01:25:07,310 --> 01:25:08,561
[pensive music playing]
1507
01:25:08,645 --> 01:25:13,066
But our experts said
that you could not extrapolate from that
1508
01:25:13,149 --> 01:25:15,819
that Jason or anybody else had killed her.
1509
01:25:16,402 --> 01:25:20,365
That is a reckless conclusion
and is not supported by the evidence.
1510
01:25:21,741 --> 01:25:25,537
There is a long list
of possible health conditions
1511
01:25:25,620 --> 01:25:29,374
which would have looked like
an asthma attack in a known asthmatic.
1512
01:25:31,209 --> 01:25:34,796
However, the claims
that Jason must have strangled her
1513
01:25:35,296 --> 01:25:38,258
is not the kind of testimony
we want to get in front of a jury.
1514
01:25:38,341 --> 01:25:41,386
We're concerned that a jury hears that,
they may stop listening.
1515
01:25:43,388 --> 01:25:46,266
{\an8}Jack and Sarah are absolutely convinced
1516
01:25:46,349 --> 01:25:49,853
{\an8}that their testimony will fix everything.
1517
01:25:50,770 --> 01:25:53,356
{\an8}But even if they testify brilliantly
1518
01:25:54,107 --> 01:25:56,109
and carry their share of the load,
1519
01:25:56,192 --> 01:25:57,485
and more,
1520
01:25:58,862 --> 01:26:00,530
it could still go sideways.
1521
01:26:02,782 --> 01:26:07,412
And so, we are willing
to consider plea negotiations.
1522
01:26:07,495 --> 01:26:09,497
[music continues]
1523
01:26:16,671 --> 01:26:18,006
[music fades]
1524
01:26:18,590 --> 01:26:20,592
[newsreader] Today,
Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens
1525
01:26:20,675 --> 01:26:22,552
appeared in a Davidson County courtroom
1526
01:26:22,635 --> 01:26:25,889
to plead for a reduced charge
of voluntary manslaughter.
1527
01:26:25,972 --> 01:26:30,185
{\an8}Molly Corbett, she pled no contest
to that charge of voluntary manslaughter.
1528
01:26:30,268 --> 01:26:34,355
{\an8}And Thomas Martens, he pled guilty
to the charge of voluntary manslaughter.
1529
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:38,401
{\an8}Now, they also say his exemplary career
in the FBI in upholding the law
1530
01:26:38,484 --> 01:26:40,528
{\an8}should warrant an easier sentence.
1531
01:26:41,988 --> 01:26:44,532
I had no interest in taking a plea.
1532
01:26:44,616 --> 01:26:46,409
I was ready to go to trial.
1533
01:26:46,492 --> 01:26:49,913
I was ready for the truth to prevail,
and I was ready to fight back.
1534
01:26:51,497 --> 01:26:54,876
But the possibility of us losing at trial
1535
01:26:54,959 --> 01:26:59,589
and my father being incarcerated
for what would be the rest of his life,
1536
01:26:59,672 --> 01:27:02,133
I couldn't handle that responsibility.
1537
01:27:03,051 --> 01:27:05,511
[Madison] The state and defense teams,
they're gonna go through
1538
01:27:05,595 --> 01:27:08,932
{\an8}all of the evidence from a case
that this area knows very well
1539
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:10,308
{\an8}and present that to a judge.
1540
01:27:10,391 --> 01:27:14,479
{\an8}And then he'll make the determination
of how long their sentences should be.
1541
01:27:15,813 --> 01:27:18,816
My whole world has just been
flipped upside down again
1542
01:27:18,900 --> 01:27:22,028
for I don't know how many times
over the last eight years.
1543
01:27:22,111 --> 01:27:27,075
They could walk out at the end
of the sentencing hearing for time served.
1544
01:27:27,158 --> 01:27:28,993
It's just a complete injustice.
1545
01:27:29,869 --> 01:27:33,539
This is not what my dad deserves.
This isn't what I deserve.
1546
01:27:33,623 --> 01:27:35,541
It's not right. It's not fair.
1547
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:40,296
[newsreader] The court has been hearing
testimony from friends and neighbors
1548
01:27:40,380 --> 01:27:41,839
of Molly Martens Corbett
1549
01:27:41,923 --> 01:27:46,511
who said they were aware of arguments,
physical violence and controlling behavior
1550
01:27:46,594 --> 01:27:48,179
in the Corbetts' marriage.
1551
01:27:48,763 --> 01:27:52,225
[reporter] Questions were raised about
the cause of death of his previous wife,
1552
01:27:52,308 --> 01:27:53,476
Margaret Corbett.
1553
01:27:53,559 --> 01:27:56,187
The defense brought in pathologists
who say it's possible
1554
01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:57,772
that someone could've killed her.
1555
01:27:58,982 --> 01:28:00,942
[Sarah] I feel like my dad's on trial.
1556
01:28:01,442 --> 01:28:05,280
And I feel like all the focus
is on my dad's character.
1557
01:28:07,073 --> 01:28:11,494
Molly's lawyers say
that there's one common denominator
1558
01:28:11,577 --> 01:28:14,789
in my birth mother's death
and my dad's death.
1559
01:28:14,872 --> 01:28:16,791
My birth mother was feeding me
1560
01:28:16,874 --> 01:28:19,919
'cause I woke up crying
the night that she died. [sniffles]
1561
01:28:20,003 --> 01:28:24,090
And the night that my dad died,
I woke up and went downstairs.
1562
01:28:25,925 --> 01:28:31,222
How could you blame me for the reason
both of my parents are dead?
1563
01:28:31,306 --> 01:28:32,932
[melancholy music playing]
1564
01:28:37,020 --> 01:28:39,147
That's when I realized that
1565
01:28:40,732 --> 01:28:43,401
this is just a case for the defense.
1566
01:28:43,484 --> 01:28:46,571
They don't know my da-- my dad,
and they don't want to know him.
1567
01:28:47,530 --> 01:28:52,452
[Molly] As painful as that news
could have been for them to hear
1568
01:28:52,535 --> 01:28:55,371
that Mags didn't die of an asthma attack,
1569
01:28:55,455 --> 01:28:59,083
which is the story that
they have been fed their entire lives,
1570
01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:04,255
um, I guess I did have some hope
that this would, you know, cause a break
1571
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:07,175
in… in their brainwashing.
1572
01:29:07,258 --> 01:29:08,384
But, um…
1573
01:29:10,636 --> 01:29:13,014
they continue to believe she did,
1574
01:29:13,097 --> 01:29:15,224
and maybe that's what
they have to believe.
1575
01:29:16,893 --> 01:29:20,897
I'm angry because I know
my dad didn't kill my mom.
1576
01:29:20,980 --> 01:29:22,982
[gentle music playing]
1577
01:29:25,985 --> 01:29:28,821
{\an8}My Auntie Catherine was
in the house that night.
1578
01:29:31,783 --> 01:29:34,994
[Catherine] I do wish that
I had been asked to come over and testify,
1579
01:29:35,078 --> 01:29:39,332
because I'm the only one
who was there the night Mags passed.
1580
01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:44,379
Just after two o'clock,
I'd say, in the morning,
1581
01:29:44,462 --> 01:29:46,964
there was a knock on the bedroom door,
and it was Jason.
1582
01:29:47,048 --> 01:29:51,844
And he said, "Mags isn't well.
She's having a bad asthma attack."
1583
01:29:52,929 --> 01:29:55,348
Mags is in the kitchen holding her chest.
1584
01:29:56,099 --> 01:29:58,017
She had her inhaler in her hand.
1585
01:29:59,852 --> 01:30:04,148
I watched Jason
frantically do everything to save her.
1586
01:30:04,857 --> 01:30:08,986
Tom Marten was saying
that Mike and him had a conversation
1587
01:30:09,070 --> 01:30:12,615
about how Mag died on Jason's hands.
1588
01:30:12,698 --> 01:30:17,537
When we heard this, all my family
were enraged, my father especially.
1589
01:30:17,620 --> 01:30:20,164
[Marian] He said,
"No such thing happened."
1590
01:30:21,874 --> 01:30:24,961
"Until the day I die,
how would I ever believe Jason
1591
01:30:25,044 --> 01:30:26,712
had killed my daughter?"
1592
01:30:28,089 --> 01:30:30,174
[Catherine]
They had a beautiful relationship.
1593
01:30:30,258 --> 01:30:31,926
They were a very loving couple.
1594
01:30:32,427 --> 01:30:34,220
[Marian] And Michael loved Jason.
1595
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:35,805
He was our son.
1596
01:30:37,890 --> 01:30:41,936
We decided Michael would make
a statement to the solicitor.
1597
01:30:42,019 --> 01:30:44,522
[Catherine] My father passed away
from cancer,
1598
01:30:44,605 --> 01:30:46,941
so we're speaking on behalf of my dad.
1599
01:30:48,276 --> 01:30:50,611
"Statement of Michael Fitzpatrick."
1600
01:30:52,071 --> 01:30:55,908
"I wish to put it on record
that I only ever met Thomas Martens once."
1601
01:30:56,409 --> 01:30:58,411
"I can also state categorically
1602
01:30:58,494 --> 01:31:01,122
that we never discussed
my daughter Margaret,
1603
01:31:01,205 --> 01:31:03,332
nor did I inform Thomas Martens
1604
01:31:03,416 --> 01:31:05,626
that Jason had killed
my daughter Margaret."
1605
01:31:05,710 --> 01:31:09,672
"Such statements by Thomas Martens
are totally and utterly untrue."
1606
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:13,759
[dramatic music playing]
1607
01:31:13,843 --> 01:31:16,762
[reporter] The Davidson County judge
will hear closing arguments
1608
01:31:16,846 --> 01:31:18,764
from both the state and defense,
1609
01:31:18,848 --> 01:31:21,809
which could lead
to a final decision on sentencing.
1610
01:31:22,310 --> 01:31:26,147
The last thing that happens
before the judge enters his sentence
1611
01:31:26,230 --> 01:31:29,859
is victim impact statements
from Jason's family members,
1612
01:31:29,942 --> 01:31:33,154
and Jack and Sarah are
the most important of who are gonna speak.
1613
01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:41,078
[Jack] I've written this,
1614
01:31:41,162 --> 01:31:43,664
not just for my dad,
but for myself as well.
1615
01:31:47,710 --> 01:31:49,378
I'm 19 years of age.
1616
01:31:49,879 --> 01:31:52,089
I haven't been able
to speak out for so long,
1617
01:31:52,173 --> 01:31:56,302
and I've had to listen
to lies over the last eight years,
1618
01:31:56,802 --> 01:31:59,222
and this is my opportunity
to say the truth.
1619
01:32:01,933 --> 01:32:05,269
[Sarah] I am old enough,
and I am brave enough now.
1620
01:32:08,898 --> 01:32:11,609
I've always had
someone else tell my story,
1621
01:32:11,692 --> 01:32:15,363
and it's important to me
that I can tell my story myself.
1622
01:32:16,614 --> 01:32:19,242
I'm going to start listening
to "Chicken Fried."
1623
01:32:19,325 --> 01:32:21,494
Do, yeah. Oh, we put it on?
1624
01:32:21,577 --> 01:32:23,329
- We put it on?
- Yeah, do. Yeah, do.
1625
01:32:24,205 --> 01:32:25,915
[Jack] We used to always play it together.
1626
01:32:29,043 --> 01:32:30,795
It felt like he was beside me.
1627
01:32:31,671 --> 01:32:33,756
["Chicken Fried"
by Zac Brown Band playing]
1628
01:32:33,839 --> 01:32:36,133
♪ You know I like my chicken fried ♪
1629
01:32:36,217 --> 01:32:38,844
♪ A cold beer on a Friday night ♪
1630
01:32:38,928 --> 01:32:41,847
♪ A pair of jeans that fit just right ♪
1631
01:32:41,931 --> 01:32:46,602
♪ And the radio up ♪
1632
01:32:56,529 --> 01:33:00,908
♪ Well, I was raised up
Beneath the shade of a Georgia Pine ♪
1633
01:33:00,992 --> 01:33:02,702
♪ And that's home you know ♪
1634
01:33:02,785 --> 01:33:04,745
♪ Sweet tea, pecan pie ♪
1635
01:33:04,829 --> 01:33:06,622
And homemade wine ♪
1636
01:33:06,706 --> 01:33:08,249
♪ Where the peaches grow ♪
1637
01:33:08,332 --> 01:33:12,295
♪ And my house
It's not much to talk about ♪
1638
01:33:13,754 --> 01:33:17,717
♪ But it's filled with love
That's grown in southern ground ♪
1639
01:33:18,676 --> 01:33:21,012
♪ And a little bit of chicken fried ♪
1640
01:33:21,554 --> 01:33:24,015
♪ A cold beer on a Friday night ♪
1641
01:33:24,098 --> 01:33:26,517
♪ A pair of jeans that fit just right ♪
1642
01:33:27,059 --> 01:33:30,104
♪ And the radio up ♪
1643
01:33:30,187 --> 01:33:31,606
♪ I love to see the sun… ♪
1644
01:33:32,648 --> 01:33:36,027
We are the strongest,
most united together.
1645
01:33:36,110 --> 01:33:37,528
- Yeah.
- [Tracey] You know?
1646
01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:39,739
- And we're gonna do this together.
- [Tracey] Yeah.
1647
01:33:40,323 --> 01:33:43,743
- The last word is yours.
- Look at me. All will be okay.
1648
01:33:43,826 --> 01:33:45,202
Time for crying is over.
1649
01:33:45,286 --> 01:33:48,873
Now it's time to get angry.
In there, head up, shoulders back.
1650
01:33:48,956 --> 01:33:51,500
- Fuck these people. They're nothing to us.
- [all] Yeah.
1651
01:33:51,584 --> 01:33:53,919
Come on, Sarah, give it to us.
What are we gonna do?
1652
01:33:54,003 --> 01:33:55,588
- Let's do this!
- [all chuckling]
1653
01:33:55,671 --> 01:33:58,382
- [Tracey breathes deeply]
- [David] So, yeah.
1654
01:34:08,726 --> 01:34:10,728
[cameras clicking]
1655
01:34:14,649 --> 01:34:16,651
[tense music playing]
1656
01:34:21,072 --> 01:34:22,865
{\an8}[Jack] I used to pray at night
when I was a kid
1657
01:34:22,948 --> 01:34:25,743
{\an8}that I would wake up
and it would all have been a bad dream.
1658
01:34:26,619 --> 01:34:28,954
{\an8}I've had to experience childhood,
adolescence,
1659
01:34:29,038 --> 01:34:32,041
{\an8}and the beginning of adulthood
without my dad there to guide me.
1660
01:34:32,124 --> 01:34:35,961
Your Honor, don't be fooled
by this mask of civility of Molly Martens.
1661
01:34:36,545 --> 01:34:40,299
She systematically broke me down
and drip-fed me un-truths.
1662
01:34:40,383 --> 01:34:41,342
I want to be clear.
1663
01:34:41,425 --> 01:34:44,553
I have never witnessed
my dad hit Molly Martens, ever.
1664
01:34:46,097 --> 01:34:47,848
[Sarah] Who is the victim here?
1665
01:34:47,932 --> 01:34:50,476
The Martens made my pain so much worse
1666
01:34:50,559 --> 01:34:53,604
by trying to have the world think
my dad was a bad person.
1667
01:34:54,313 --> 01:34:58,150
What Molly and Tom Martens took from me,
I can never get back.
1668
01:34:59,318 --> 01:35:03,197
I've seen my father's bloody handprint
on the door of his bedroom.
1669
01:35:03,906 --> 01:35:06,784
[sobbing] There was nothing voluntary
about his death.
1670
01:35:11,163 --> 01:35:14,333
He did not choose to leave us.
He was taken from us.
1671
01:35:15,251 --> 01:35:16,836
He was the victim.
1672
01:35:21,799 --> 01:35:23,759
[Jack] Luckily, my dad picked
two wonderful parents
1673
01:35:23,843 --> 01:35:25,344
to guide me through life.
1674
01:35:25,845 --> 01:35:28,723
It hasn't been easy,
but having them made it a lot easier.
1675
01:35:30,641 --> 01:35:34,603
[Sarah] It was only when I went to live
with Tracey and David in Ireland
1676
01:35:34,687 --> 01:35:36,647
that I knew the true meaning of family.
1677
01:35:41,152 --> 01:35:44,447
Molly Corbett and Thomas Marten
are going back to prison
1678
01:35:44,530 --> 01:35:46,198
for the death of Jason Corbett.
1679
01:35:46,282 --> 01:35:51,078
This afternoon, the judge sentenced them
to 51 to 74 months…
1680
01:35:51,162 --> 01:35:53,622
{\an8}…when you factor in
the amount of time they already served
1681
01:35:53,706 --> 01:35:57,001
{\an8}when they were previously found guilty
for second degree murder,
1682
01:35:57,084 --> 01:35:59,211
{\an8}it only adds up
to about seven or eight months.
1683
01:35:59,295 --> 01:36:01,672
{\an8}[reporter] The judge made it clear
it was difficult for him
1684
01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:03,841
{\an8}to find the truth in this case,
1685
01:36:03,924 --> 01:36:06,302
but made very clear
the kids were blameless.
1686
01:36:06,385 --> 01:36:07,678
That's Jack and Sarah.
1687
01:36:08,262 --> 01:36:11,849
[Jay] I think Molly did the best job
she could do with raising those kids.
1688
01:36:11,932 --> 01:36:14,727
And it was just very difficult for her
1689
01:36:14,810 --> 01:36:19,732
to have to listen to them saying
that she somehow hurt them,
1690
01:36:19,815 --> 01:36:22,026
um, which I just don't believe is true.
1691
01:36:22,109 --> 01:36:26,655
I did not emotionally, or physically,
or in any way abuse my children.
1692
01:36:26,739 --> 01:36:30,785
The children have been used
as tools of evil.
1693
01:36:31,494 --> 01:36:34,371
Uh, they've been weaponized against me.
1694
01:36:34,455 --> 01:36:38,334
And, uh… they wanted to hurt me,
and they did.
1695
01:36:40,211 --> 01:36:42,087
Do I think those children know the truth?
1696
01:36:42,171 --> 01:36:45,174
I don't know. How do they remember
the times at the beach?
1697
01:36:45,257 --> 01:36:47,676
How do they remember
Molly as the school mother?
1698
01:36:48,260 --> 01:36:50,471
How do they remember
the meals that she made?
1699
01:36:50,554 --> 01:36:52,932
How do they remember the birthday parties?
1700
01:36:53,015 --> 01:36:56,268
How do they remember
her teaching them how to swim?
1701
01:36:56,352 --> 01:36:57,812
How do they remember?
1702
01:36:59,730 --> 01:37:05,528
How can you remember that and hate Molly?
1703
01:37:07,071 --> 01:37:11,909
{\an8}Today, Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens
will walk out of their prisons free.
1704
01:37:11,992 --> 01:37:13,994
[cameras clicking]
1705
01:37:15,454 --> 01:37:19,708
[Molly] I am not allowed to attempt
to have any contact with the kids.
1706
01:37:19,792 --> 01:37:21,335
That's a court order.
1707
01:37:21,418 --> 01:37:23,629
When it comes to, you know, my feelings
1708
01:37:23,712 --> 01:37:26,715
about whether
I consider myself their mother,
1709
01:37:26,799 --> 01:37:29,385
uh, that would cause them
immense pain right now.
1710
01:37:29,468 --> 01:37:32,388
I think that they hate the person
that they think that I am,
1711
01:37:32,471 --> 01:37:35,558
and they think of me as an evil abuser,
1712
01:37:35,641 --> 01:37:37,768
and they think their father was wonderful.
1713
01:37:38,352 --> 01:37:40,688
I certainly am not their mother now.
1714
01:37:40,771 --> 01:37:45,818
Will I always think of myself
as having been their mother?
1715
01:37:45,901 --> 01:37:48,112
Yes, I was. I was their mother.
1716
01:37:48,612 --> 01:37:52,992
I was the mother to the Jack and Sarah
that existed in another lifetime.
1717
01:37:54,994 --> 01:37:56,620
Sarah, how old are you?
1718
01:37:56,704 --> 01:37:57,538
Two.
1719
01:37:58,038 --> 01:37:58,956
[Molly] Two and a half.
1720
01:37:59,039 --> 01:38:00,040
Yeah.
1721
01:38:00,124 --> 01:38:01,208
[Molly] How old are you?
1722
01:38:01,292 --> 01:38:03,502
- Four and a half.
- Are you sure you're not one and a half?
1723
01:38:03,586 --> 01:38:05,504
[Sarah] It is true that I loved Molly.
1724
01:38:05,588 --> 01:38:09,842
But just because I loved Molly
doesn't make her a good mother.
1725
01:38:10,426 --> 01:38:12,553
- [Molly] Say, "Bye, camera."
- Bye, camera.
1726
01:38:14,638 --> 01:38:17,683
[Jack] I have no feelings
towards her anymore. I don't…
1727
01:38:17,766 --> 01:38:18,767
I don't hate her.
1728
01:38:19,351 --> 01:38:22,104
I just don't want to give her
any power over me anymore.
1729
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:26,859
[softly] Thank you.
1730
01:38:26,942 --> 01:38:28,944
[uplifting music playing]
1731
01:38:31,989 --> 01:38:34,950
[Jack] I understand
how a lot of people could say
1732
01:38:35,034 --> 01:38:37,411
he's been around people who loved his dad,
1733
01:38:37,494 --> 01:38:41,206
his dad's family,
his dad's friends for eight years,
1734
01:38:41,290 --> 01:38:43,417
that's why he's saying these things.
1735
01:38:43,500 --> 01:38:45,502
[indistinct chatter]
1736
01:38:46,462 --> 01:38:51,008
But I was always left to come up
with my own decisions, my own opinions.
1737
01:38:51,091 --> 01:38:53,552
[indistinct conversation]
1738
01:38:53,636 --> 01:38:56,597
[Jack] My dad was my hero.
He was someone I looked up to.
1739
01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:57,806
He was my best friend.
1740
01:38:58,807 --> 01:39:00,309
{\an8}[Jason] There's a gorgeous boy.
1741
01:39:01,435 --> 01:39:03,520
{\an8}Jack, blow Daddy a kiss.
1742
01:39:05,397 --> 01:39:07,149
{\an8}- [Mags chuckling]
- [Jason] Good boy.
1743
01:39:07,232 --> 01:39:08,317
{\an8}Oh, another one.
1744
01:39:09,109 --> 01:39:10,819
[Jack] What are you doing, Daddy?
1745
01:39:11,487 --> 01:39:12,905
Getting Sarah and Mum.
1746
01:39:13,697 --> 01:39:15,407
They're coming home to Jack's house.
1747
01:39:15,991 --> 01:39:18,577
Hi, Bubba! Give Daddy a kiss?
1748
01:39:19,703 --> 01:39:21,455
- Did you miss Daddy?
- Hi!
1749
01:39:21,538 --> 01:39:24,625
- See what Daddy bought ya.
- [Mags] Oh, Daddy buy you presents?
1750
01:39:25,125 --> 01:39:28,212
My dad was an amazing person.
He was a good dad.
1751
01:39:29,421 --> 01:39:31,340
He was, like, my biggest cheerleader.
1752
01:39:31,423 --> 01:39:32,549
[Jason] Go, Sarah!
1753
01:39:36,470 --> 01:39:41,058
[Sarah] I know my dad and my mom
would not want me to sit around upset.
1754
01:39:42,518 --> 01:39:46,230
[Jack] So, you just have to keep
going forward and make them proud,
1755
01:39:46,313 --> 01:39:49,024
and live the life
that they wanted you to live.
1756
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:55,614
[Sarah] My dad loved me and Jack.
1757
01:39:56,615 --> 01:39:58,617
We were his everything, and I know that.
1758
01:39:58,701 --> 01:40:02,079
And I'm really proud to say
that I am Jason Corbett's daughter.
1759
01:40:02,162 --> 01:40:04,164
[music continues]
1760
01:40:13,632 --> 01:40:15,092
[music fades]
1761
01:40:15,175 --> 01:40:19,179
[melancholy music playing]
1762
01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:54,798
[music ends]