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Convicted husband-killer Molly Corbett still claims hubby was the aggressor, wants conviction overturned · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: to thing, Um, my name is Tom Martin by and
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Speaker 1: by a daughter's husband, UM my son in law. UM
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Speaker 1: gotten a bike with my daughter. I hearne and I
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Speaker 1: think we need help. Okay, what do you need? The
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Speaker 1: bed keep leaving all over and I'm him killed it coming?
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Speaker 1: What happened? Did you eat him in the head or
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Speaker 1: hit him in the head with bud with a baseball bat?
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Speaker 1: With a baseball bat, ma'am it was cokeing my diary
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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna kill her. Move the baseball bat at
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom here with me, Okay, don't touch it.
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Speaker 1: Inn In Moore Okay, ma'am, I'm putting then we've already
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Speaker 1: got him started that way to hang up to stay
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Speaker 1: with me. Wow, he didn't sound too upset. We go
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Speaker 1: inside the blood spattered bedroom where a former model and
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Speaker 1: her dad, an x FBI agent, beat her husband dead
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Speaker 1: with a baseball bat and a landscaping stone. I a
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Speaker 1: block of cement that just so happened to be sitting
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Speaker 1: on the bedside table. I mean, see, Grace, this is
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Speaker 1: crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. What really
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Speaker 1: happened in the death of this husband from Ireland. She
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Speaker 1: Molly had been the family's nanny, the babysitter, the o pair,
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Speaker 1: but after his wife passed away complications relating to an
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Speaker 1: asthma attack, things quickly turned romantic between Molly and the
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Speaker 1: Irish husband soon to be. But what went wrong than not?
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Speaker 1: He was bludgeoned dead. Joining me right now, Crime Stories
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Speaker 1: and Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole part Nicole,
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Speaker 1: Let's just start at the beginning. How does an evening
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Speaker 1: where everybody's asleep in bed end up with the dad
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Speaker 1: of these little children, a brand new husband to the
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Speaker 1: nanny end up beating dead with a block of cement
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Speaker 1: and a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. You know, Nancy. This
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Speaker 1: started out as a beautifully planned weekend. Molly's father, Thomas,
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Speaker 1: and her mother Sharon travel up from Tennessee to spend
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Speaker 1: the weekend with Molly and her husband and the two children.
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Speaker 1: They have a beautiful, happy dinner together, the guys are
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Speaker 1: planning golf for the next day, and then sometime in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night and argument ensues and the
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Speaker 1: next thing we know, the nine one one call is
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Speaker 1: made and Jason Corbett is dead. Well, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to what the nanny turned new wife, Molly Corbett says
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Speaker 1: to ABC. He woke up and he was angry, and
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Speaker 1: you want to know why I had gotten up, And
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Speaker 1: I told him it was because Sarah had a nightmare.
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Speaker 1: And then he was just furious because Sarah had been
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Speaker 1: doing this lately. And you know, she just wanted to
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Speaker 1: be coddled and she was too old for that. And
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have gotten out of bed. I said, she's
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Speaker 1: just eight. She had a nightmare. I should be allowed
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Speaker 1: to go upstairs and comfort our daughter. You know, all
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Speaker 1: she wanted was her mom de lay with her for
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, and he I forgot my parents
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Speaker 1: were there. Well't Number one, she's not the little girl's mom,
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Speaker 1: all right, she's a stepmother, and she just married the
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Speaker 1: dad after his wife passed away with asthma. But number two,
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Speaker 1: that story that he began the husband began to choke
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Speaker 1: her dead because she went to the door to take
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Speaker 1: care of the eight year old girl. Tell me again,
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Speaker 1: Nicole Parton, how this whole thing supposedly unfolded. We're being
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Speaker 1: told Molly's story is that everyone went to bed after dinner.
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Speaker 1: She's asleep. The young girl, Sarah, comes to the door
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Speaker 1: whispers to Molly that she's had a nightmare. She's seeing
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Speaker 1: things in the bedroom. Molly tiptoes out of the bedroom
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Speaker 1: not to disturb. Jason goes upstairs, changes the bed sheets,
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Speaker 1: changes the pillow cases, does everything she can to console
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Speaker 1: The daughter comes back downstairs, tiptoes back into the bed.
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Speaker 1: Jason wakes up angry and begins to try to choke her.
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Speaker 1: She screams for help. Okay, wall wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: let's just stop right there. Wendy Patrick joining me, renowned
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Speaker 1: California prosecutor along with Dr Jan Gorniac Fulton County, Georgia
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Speaker 1: medical examiner Karen Smith, forensics expert. When a Patrick, I mean,
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Speaker 1: if I wait, my husband up in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night by accident, he just goes back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: For instance, if I you know, something happens and um
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Speaker 1: one of the twins call me, or just whatever it
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Speaker 1: may be, he just goes straight back to sleep. Yeah, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: And that's why we tell our jurors not to check
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Speaker 1: their common sense at the door when they come into
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Speaker 1: a courtroom, because it's exactly right. It is so unusual,
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Speaker 1: it's highly unlikely. And those are the kind of circumstances
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Speaker 1: that really cast doubt on everything that comes afterwards. When
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Speaker 1: a story begins in a fashion that just doesn't seem right,
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Speaker 1: we've got to really break it down as we're doing here,
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Speaker 1: and think through, well, who would result, who would react
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Speaker 1: that way coming from a dead sleep, And I know
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Speaker 1: you're right, there are spouses everywhere thinking, boy, I only
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Speaker 1: wish somebody had a little bit of energy in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night, much less to the extent that
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Speaker 1: would have been necessary to create what ended up a
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Speaker 1: deadly scenario. So you're right, it is highly dubious. So
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Speaker 1: what we're hearing is that she, the nanny turned wife,
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Speaker 1: Molly Corbett, gets up to comfort the children, the husband's children,
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Speaker 1: that when she comes back down to bed, that wakes
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Speaker 1: him up. When she comes back into the bedroom, and
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Speaker 1: he gets so angry with her for waking him up,
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Speaker 1: he begins to choke her. And then what happens, Nicole,
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Speaker 1: She begins to scream for help. She says that then
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Speaker 1: he muffled her mouth. She screams for help again. Her father,
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Speaker 1: who's sleeping downstairs in the basement bedroom, comes up to
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Speaker 1: her rescue with a baseball bat in his hand. That's
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Speaker 1: when the altercation ensues that unfortunately results in Jason's death. Now,
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Speaker 1: hold on just a moment, Karen Smith, forensics expert. We
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Speaker 1: know that the father is also x FBI. Now what
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Speaker 1: does that tell you about what went down? Well, it
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Speaker 1: tells me that he knows how crime scenes work, he
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Speaker 1: knows how law enforcement works. He knows the story that
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Speaker 1: he's going to have to either tell to try to
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Speaker 1: mid get the circumstances surrounding his involvement and his daughter's
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Speaker 1: involvement in this um. But looking at the crime scene photos,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how that's going to play out.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this. Martin's claimed to us that he came
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Speaker 1: up to the room and there was an argument, but
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Speaker 1: there were no bruises on either of them. No more.
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Speaker 1: The blood that we're on was on them was Jason's blood. Um,
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Speaker 1: No torn clothes, nothing at all. UM. And what I
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Speaker 1: believe happened is a different story. Would you like to
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Speaker 1: share it with us? When I believe that Monty Martin's
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Speaker 1: planned to kill Jason UM, and that all the evidence
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Speaker 1: pointed towards that I was disappointed there wasn't a first
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Speaker 1: degree charge. Um. I believe that I know that Jason
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Speaker 1: had a bag pact with the kid's clothes. He was
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Speaker 1: going to leave. He'd been looking up flights um that
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Speaker 1: he had been dropped. And the toxicology report shows that
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Speaker 1: drugs and ass time and those drugs come from suspect
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Speaker 1: they were they were prescribed to Molly Martin's on the
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Speaker 1: Friday before jessumas Martin, do you think he might if
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Speaker 1: she might have spite his dream? Absolutely, That's what I believe,
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Speaker 1: and that he was asleep, that he was asleep, and
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Speaker 1: that he was hitting the hitt In bed while he
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Speaker 1: was asleep, and that Molly Martins um hit him in
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Speaker 1: a toward and then into his life with the book.
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Speaker 1: You are hearing the deceased Jason Corbett's sister as she's
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Speaker 1: speaking on the Late Late Show describing her belief. Did
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Speaker 1: this was all planned out? To Dr Jane Gorniac, Fulton
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Speaker 1: County Medical Examiner joining us today. Dr Gorniac, the sister says,
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Speaker 1: and it was proven in the autopsy with toxicology reports
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Speaker 1: that there were drugs in Jason's system that were prescribed
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Speaker 1: to Molly just the Friday before the bludgeoning death, so
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Speaker 1: we would have to know. I mean, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what those drugs were. So depending on what they were,
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Speaker 1: could they have caused UM sedation be could they have
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Speaker 1: caused what we call CNS depressant um where he was sedated?
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Speaker 1: I'm responsive, But what would be for me interesting to
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Speaker 1: know is where are these blows occur? I know he
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Speaker 1: was hit with a baseball bat and then like a
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Speaker 1: cinder block type object. UM. But then also her injuries
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing, UM. So as a forensic pathologist medical examiner,
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Speaker 1: my job is to prove or disprove the circumstances, and
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Speaker 1: so everything plays into the circumstances. So as I'm listening
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Speaker 1: to her saying that she was being choked with also
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Speaker 1: a hand over her mouth, I'm trying to visualize how
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Speaker 1: that occurs. UM. My job isn'to You know, a death
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Speaker 1: at the hand of another equals homicide. I'm not into who.
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Speaker 1: Like I've said before um previously, but Nancy, knowing all
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Speaker 1: the pieces will will would help. But back to your
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Speaker 1: original question or comments about the drugs, it would be
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Speaker 1: very interesting to know not only what drugs, but the
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Speaker 1: level of those drugs in his system to prove or
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Speaker 1: disproved whether he was capable of doing the injuries or
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Speaker 1: the act that she accuses him up. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what precisely woke me up, but what I heard were
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Speaker 1: loud voices and I kind of like thumping. Something bad
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Speaker 1: was going on, so I grabbed that League baseball at
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Speaker 1: that and I ran upstairs. He wanted to shut me up,
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Speaker 1: so he covered my mouth and then he started choking me.
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Speaker 1: But at some point when he stopped, I screamed. The
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Speaker 1: next thing I remember is my dad standing in the doorway.
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Speaker 1: Do you believe them? I believe she went and got
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Speaker 1: her father as he lay dying, and her father came
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Speaker 1: up and did hit Jason with the baseball of that,
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Speaker 1: and there were post Martin hits on Chasen's body UM afterwards,
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Speaker 1: and I believe they left him to die. I believed
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Speaker 1: that you know what they wished to call when the
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Speaker 1: E M T arrived UM, you know when they gave
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Speaker 1: evidence that Jesson's body was called UM. I believe they
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Speaker 1: left Jesson today before they called to nine moment. Jesson
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Speaker 1: was probably did a long time before they called my moment.
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Speaker 1: You are hearing the sister of Jason Corbett speaking on
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Speaker 1: the Late Late Show regarding her brother's brutal death. The
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Speaker 1: crime scene photos were so horrific that one of the
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Speaker 1: jurors actually got sick and threw up, and the jury box,
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Speaker 1: according to sources, actually got sick when they saw the
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Speaker 1: horrible crime scene photos of Jason Corbett bludgeoned dead. Joining
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Speaker 1: me California prosecutor Wendy Patrick, renowned medical examiner Dr Jan
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Speaker 1: Gorni At, Karen Smith forensics expert, and Cole Parton Crime
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Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter. You can find this story
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Speaker 1: as we track it at crime online dot com. The
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Speaker 1: cool parton uh the as we say murder weapons were
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Speaker 1: a Louisville slugger and also a block of cement or
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Speaker 1: a stone outdoor landscaping stone. Why was that in the bedroom?
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Speaker 1: And that is one of the biggest questions. Molly says,
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Speaker 1: it was lying next to her on the nightstand in
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Speaker 1: the bedroom. Who knows had they been looking at pavers
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Speaker 1: to repay the driveway and had brought one inside to
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Speaker 1: discuss it. That's a huge question, a huge factor that
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Speaker 1: plays into why would you have a brick paver? Beside
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Speaker 1: the bed. Why would you have one inside your home
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Speaker 1: anyway when you have young children. We know that, uh,
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Speaker 1: the evidence in this case involves that landscaping stone. What
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Speaker 1: do you make of the claim to Wendy Patrick, California
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Speaker 1: prosecutor that some of the blows were postmortem? You know
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Speaker 1: what Wendy hold on because I want to tell Dr
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Speaker 1: Jane Gorney at the Medical Examiner that the drugs found
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Speaker 1: in Jason corbett system were Molly Martin Corbett's sleeping pills.
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Speaker 1: That was what was in the system, according to the
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Speaker 1: toxicology reports at autopsy. Dr Gorniac. So, okay, that's very
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Speaker 1: that's very important. But one of the things we don't
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Speaker 1: know is and whether she says it or not, that
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Speaker 1: you know, there's time where people take other people's drugs, right, So,
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Speaker 1: but we would have to really question that. So once again,
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Speaker 1: depending we know it's sleeping aid and the concentration, we
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Speaker 1: have to prove or disprove whether he was capable of
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Speaker 1: waking up angry or even waking up at all. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's a good point about waking up at all having
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Speaker 1: taken a sleeping pill, whether wittingly or unwittingly. Now, see,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of that angle yet. I was thinking
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Speaker 1: about the angle of dead Molly Martin's Corbett. Give him
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Speaker 1: the drug or slip it to him so he could
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Speaker 1: be beaten dead because the loads to this guy, Jason Corbett,
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Speaker 1: the young father of two little children. He's a widow.
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Speaker 1: His wife dies of complications from an asthma attack. He
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Speaker 1: hires a nanny to come in and help him take
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Speaker 1: care of the children. Within just a few months, they're
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Speaker 1: in a sex relationship, and bam, she turns into Molly
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Speaker 1: Martin's Corbett. But listen to this and tell me what
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Speaker 1: you think. To Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, and then Karen Smith.
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Speaker 1: We learn, according to the autopsy report that the degree
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Speaker 1: of skull fractures are similar to a victim that died
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Speaker 1: in a car crash or that fell from a great height.
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Speaker 1: And we're learning that from licensed pathologist Dr Craig Nelson,
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Speaker 1: who studied the case. He stated also that Jason was
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Speaker 1: struck in ten spots and two other spots where areas
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Speaker 1: of repeated blows. Wow, this guy was so blunt and
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Speaker 1: he couldn't even tell how me any times Jason was
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Speaker 1: actually struck Uh, that's a lot of blows, Wendy Patrick.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like a lot more than you need. If you
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Speaker 1: find your son in law attacking or strangling your daughter,
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Speaker 1: he bludged them apparently even after he was dead. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know that that kind of display of absolute rage
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Speaker 1: is so important to jurors. You know, evidence speaks louder
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Speaker 1: than words with injuries that are determined to be so
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Speaker 1: far over and above what you would expect if it
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Speaker 1: was self defense or defensive others as as alleged I
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Speaker 1: guess both of a sort of allegend this case. But
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Speaker 1: you're right, you would look at the extent of that damage.
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that juror got sick. I've had jurors
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Speaker 1: in my case is asked for breaks so they could
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Speaker 1: go throw up when the evidence is that bad. But
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Speaker 1: that's exactly why we have to match the extent of
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Speaker 1: that carnage with the excuse. And when you put on
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Speaker 1: top of that somebody that would have been already compromise
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Speaker 1: due to sleeping pills, it just, you know, you lose
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Speaker 1: the logical train that you would need to go down
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Speaker 1: to figure out that it actually would be consistent with
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Speaker 1: what this woman is saying, it's far more consistent with
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Speaker 1: the an unexpected obviously not even fighting back, an unexpected
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Speaker 1: attack that goes over and above what you would need
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Speaker 1: to actually kill him, particularly under the circumstances if he
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Speaker 1: was drugged. Medical examiner Dr Jan Gorney at with us.
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Speaker 1: Another tidbit that I noticed when I was combing through
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Speaker 1: the autopsy report, Dr Gorney, act, we learned that one
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Speaker 1: scrape on Jason's head occurred after his heart stopped. Now
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Speaker 1: what does that mean to me? Was he dragged from
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Speaker 1: the bed, as Jason's sister said on the Late Late Show?
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Speaker 1: Was he drive from his bed and placed in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the bedroom. I don't know that, But what
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Speaker 1: I do know is that it is a post mortem injury,
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Speaker 1: which means the attack or the dragging, whatever kept on
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Speaker 1: after he was dead. Dr Gorniac, how can you tell that, Well,
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Speaker 1: postmortem injury has different characteristics. So obviously, if someone is
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Speaker 1: not alive and the heart is not beating, there's going
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Speaker 1: to be less blood in the in the tissue um. Also,
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Speaker 1: the body is not able to react to it, so
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Speaker 1: the edges of the wound aren't going to be red,
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Speaker 1: They're not going to be swollen, and then sometimes they
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Speaker 1: even are dry and yellow, so they get a totally
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Speaker 1: different characteristic to them. So we can tell the difference
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Speaker 1: between antimordem before death and postmortem after death injuries. And
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Speaker 1: also will be important to know it's also like you said,
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Speaker 1: if he was dragged, is there carpet? What caused that
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Speaker 1: postmortem injury? But if he's dead where he is um
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Speaker 1: and there's no postmortem injuries or you're seeing this abrasion,
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Speaker 1: you know that he had been moved. So once again
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Speaker 1: another piece of the puzzle. Was he moved from the bed?
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Speaker 1: Was he moved you know, across the floor work? But
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Speaker 1: then um E M S personnel? So the e M
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Speaker 1: T s the paramedics did they move him and and
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Speaker 1: it caused the postmortem injury because they were trying to
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Speaker 1: perform why saving measures? Not sure about that. But if
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Speaker 1: you have to look at all the evidence at the scene.
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Speaker 1: To Karen Smith, forensics expert, speaking of that, you are
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Speaker 1: getting sick. At trial, graphic photos of Jason Corbett's head
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Speaker 1: were shown. Okay, those are autopsy photos what we're talking about,
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Speaker 1: And that's when a gr threw up. Now I've had
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Speaker 1: gerars cry, but I've never had one just throw up
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Speaker 1: right then and there. That was the nature of the scene.
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Speaker 1: And right now Molly Corbett apparently headed for freedom. That's
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Speaker 1: what's happening right now after this brutal attack. I want
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Speaker 1: to go to Karen Smith. If his body had been
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Speaker 1: moved or um, if he was killed in the bed
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Speaker 1: and the end the crime scene stage, what would the
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Speaker 1: blood evidence tell you? Well, Nancy, there's a lot to
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Speaker 1: unpack here. I'm looking at these Crencene photos and just
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Speaker 1: to give a frame, in my experience, this would take
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Speaker 1: me three days, a minimum of three days to go through.
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Speaker 1: There is so much blood and so many patterns all
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Speaker 1: over the place. Um, I'm gonna try to describe what
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing here and and it's going to tell a story.
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Speaker 1: You have impact patterns on the walls, you have impact
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Speaker 1: patterns on the door frame, and impact patterns on the
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Speaker 1: interior of the door. And I'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: a second. But what's curious to me is, based on
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Speaker 1: these photos, what I'm looking at our impact patterns up high,
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Speaker 1: impact patterns down low, transfer patterns down low by the floor,
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Speaker 1: transfer patterns in the hallway, impact patterns on the bed sheets,
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Speaker 1: and the bed comforter had been it looked like it
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Speaker 1: had been flipped over, and there were impact patterns on that.
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Speaker 1: There were the baseball bat and the brick laying on
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Speaker 1: the door. So we have a whole lot to describe here.
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Speaker 1: And what's curious to me is the impact patterns up high.
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Speaker 1: That tells me that the victim was upright at some
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Speaker 1: point when a blow was struck, after a blow that
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Speaker 1: brought led to the surface, not throwback from hitting him
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Speaker 1: with the bat, then pulling the bat bat and then uh,
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Speaker 1: they throw back goes up on the ceiling on the
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Speaker 1: top of the wall, right, that's cast off, And they're
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Speaker 1: his head. The physical evidence suggested that he was still
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Speaker 1: being struck in the head after he went down. That's
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Speaker 1: Alan Martin, assistant district attorney, telling our friends at about
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Speaker 1: what really happened according to him. Now what we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: For those of you just joining us, welcome everybody. This
24:35
Speaker 1: is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and we're picking apart
24:38
Speaker 1: a murder. What many people believe is a murder by
24:42
Speaker 1: a nanny turned new bride to Jason Corbett. It's Molly
24:47
Speaker 1: Martin's Corbett and her father accused of murdering her brand
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Speaker 1: new husband. But right now, Molly Corbett says a very
24:56
Speaker 1: good chance to walk free, claiming it was never are
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Speaker 1: proven that she was the aggressor in her husband's death.
25:04
Speaker 1: In other words, that it was never proven that she's
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Speaker 1: the one that first went after her husband. She's claiming
25:12
Speaker 1: that is why she should walk free, and the appellate
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Speaker 1: courts are actually listening. I want to go straight back
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Speaker 1: out to Karen Smith, forensics expert. We know that Jason
25:26
Speaker 1: Corbett was bludgeoned dead in his own bedroom. We know
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Speaker 1: that his new wife's sleeping pills were in his system
25:34
Speaker 1: that night, prescribed to her just the friday before his
25:38
Speaker 1: bludgeoning death. We know his attack went on after he
25:43
Speaker 1: was dead. He had post mortem wounds. The young wife
25:49
Speaker 1: says that his children from the first wife that passed
25:52
Speaker 1: away with asthma, one of them had a bad dream.
25:56
Speaker 1: She went to go check on the child. She comes
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Speaker 1: back and her story is that made the husband so
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Speaker 1: mad he began to strangle her. Her father, who happened
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Speaker 1: to be there that weekend. X FBI comes up and
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Speaker 1: bludgeons him dead with a baseball bat, and she joins
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Speaker 1: in with the landscaping stone that happened to be in
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Speaker 1: the bedroom. Something stinks, Karen Smith, you're also telling me
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Speaker 1: the bedroom door was closed during the attacks of the
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Speaker 1: father rushes into save her life and thinks to close
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Speaker 1: the door behind him. Somebody did at some point. I
26:32
Speaker 1: can see swhite marks on the door handle, and I
26:34
Speaker 1: don't know who put those there, but I can tell
26:37
Speaker 1: you there are blood patterns on the interior that door,
26:40
Speaker 1: and I don't see any on the exterior of the door,
26:42
Speaker 1: So that tells me the door was closed when this
26:44
Speaker 1: attack happened. It's adjacent to an ungodly amount of blood
26:48
Speaker 1: on the floor level and also on the lower part
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Speaker 1: of the wall, where I see possible swipe marks from hair.
26:55
Speaker 1: So that tells me that at some point Jason's head
26:58
Speaker 1: was against this wall, not once, but twice. It also
27:01
Speaker 1: tells me that the attack may have started in bed.
27:04
Speaker 1: There were some void patterns, which means blood should be there,
27:08
Speaker 1: but isn't. There's blood on the bed, How could he
27:13
Speaker 1: have been strangling her if the attacks started while he's
27:17
Speaker 1: lying in bed. Then how does that prove he was
27:21
Speaker 1: standing up strangling her? You know what? Take a listen
27:24
Speaker 1: to the father the ex FBI explaining what happened. He
27:29
Speaker 1: has his hands around her neck and he quickly moves
27:33
Speaker 1: to move her in front of him between me, and
27:37
Speaker 1: so he's got her in a chokehold. Fear was, you
27:41
Speaker 1: know secondary at that point. I was just so ashamed
27:43
Speaker 1: that my father would see me like that, allowing myself
27:47
Speaker 1: to retreating like that. I said, let her go, and
27:52
Speaker 1: he said, I'm gonna kill her. Then he starts to
27:55
Speaker 1: edge towards the master bathroom, which has a door. I
27:59
Speaker 1: thought was he gets set the door between me and him.
28:02
Speaker 1: Then she's dead and there's nothing I can do about it.
28:05
Speaker 1: And so I reached around and I hit him in
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Speaker 1: the back of the head with the baseball bat. He
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Speaker 1: makes it to the bathroom, but I'm too close. He
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Speaker 1: can't close the door, and I'm in the bathroom with it,
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Speaker 1: and I hit him again. I mean I have room now,
28:19
Speaker 1: and I hit it hard on the back of the
28:22
Speaker 1: head again. He still got her by the throat, but
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Speaker 1: he changes tactics. He decides to come back at me
28:30
Speaker 1: and I'm swinging the bat and he catches the bat
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Speaker 1: in his hand and he sends me flying across the room.
28:37
Speaker 1: Jason just grabbed the bat away. It was like it
28:39
Speaker 1: was nothing. He could choke me with one hand and
28:42
Speaker 1: grabbed the bat with the other and he was just
28:45
Speaker 1: so much stronger. And I was screaming, don't hurt my dad,
28:48
Speaker 1: don't hurt my dad. And I thought he's gonna hit
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Speaker 1: my dad with the bat and that's it. He's going
28:53
Speaker 1: to kill my father. How could this guy, who has
28:56
Speaker 1: his his system full of sleeping peels attack the dad
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Speaker 1: and do this after he sustained and this is by
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Speaker 1: the FBI Dad's own version. You just heard three blows
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Speaker 1: to the head with a baseball bat. Dr g and
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Speaker 1: Gornea helped me. Nancy. I wish I could, um that
29:18
Speaker 1: is I mean, especially hearing the descriptions of the massive
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Speaker 1: injury he has of his head and if he's swinging
29:25
Speaker 1: this bat, you know, quote unquote trying to save his daughter,
29:29
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not little taps, so
29:31
Speaker 1: these are strong blows. And it just surprises me that, um,
29:37
Speaker 1: that this this man would be blows to his head,
29:39
Speaker 1: skull fractures, brain injury would be even capable of standing, um,
29:45
Speaker 1: being conscious and grabbing something and still be able to communicate. Um.
29:49
Speaker 1: It's just it's hard for me to comprehend. You know,
29:53
Speaker 1: these children lose their mother after complications from an asthma attack,
29:57
Speaker 1: and now their dad. It's blood and dead in the
29:59
Speaker 1: bed room. To Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor. Now, there is
30:04
Speaker 1: one paramedic that says he saw a red mark on
30:07
Speaker 1: Molly Martin Corbett's neck, but then it was later explained
30:12
Speaker 1: that that was actually dried blood from Jason. I don't
30:18
Speaker 1: know of any other defensive wounds that either Molly or
30:22
Speaker 1: her father had. Yeah, you know, this is one of
30:25
Speaker 1: those cases and they come along once in a while
30:27
Speaker 1: where the injuries themselves tell the story chronologically. We at
30:32
Speaker 1: this day and age, we forensics are so powerful and
30:35
Speaker 1: that we can look at everything, including something like this, Nancy,
30:39
Speaker 1: where you have a injury able to be disproven through
30:43
Speaker 1: having a closer look at a red mark on the neck,
30:45
Speaker 1: Where did it come from? And you know, we're we're
30:47
Speaker 1: just hearing so much evidence that tells the story itself.
30:51
Speaker 1: You can have people on the stand explaining what happens.
30:54
Speaker 1: But jurors are going to believe forensics over human testimony
30:58
Speaker 1: when there's a contradiction, merely because there's no bias in
31:03
Speaker 1: forensic evidence and blood spatter and all the different ways
31:06
Speaker 1: in which were able to reconstruct in reverse chronological order
31:10
Speaker 1: in a case like this, exactly what happened when. And
31:14
Speaker 1: then on top of that, they overlay testimony and they
31:17
Speaker 1: decide who they believe is telling the truth and whether
31:20
Speaker 1: or not the injuries are consistent with those stories. Well,
31:23
Speaker 1: to Nicole Pardon, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter right now,
31:28
Speaker 1: Molly Martin's corbett says the claims against her must be overturned,
31:33
Speaker 1: that it has never been proven she was the aggressor
31:37
Speaker 1: and her husband's death. Um, Nicole, But what happened after
31:43
Speaker 1: nine one one arrived, Well, when the one operator was
31:46
Speaker 1: on the phone call with Molly's father, she began to
31:50
Speaker 1: instruct them to perform CPR. They were actually still trying
31:54
Speaker 1: to revive him when paramedics arrived, they were still they're
31:57
Speaker 1: doing chest compressions. They had him on trying to follow
32:00
Speaker 1: the instructions of operating. Take a listen again to this
32:04
Speaker 1: nine one one call. Let's see what we can learn.
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Speaker 1: This is my Molly Martin Corbett's father the county. Now
32:09
Speaker 1: when one want to be just the emergency. UM, my
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Speaker 1: name is Tom Martin's and my daughter's husband, UM, my
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Speaker 1: son in law. UM, gotten a fight with my daughter.
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Speaker 1: I intervene and I think he's in bad shape. We
32:27
Speaker 1: need help. Okay, what do you mean he's in bad shape.
32:29
Speaker 1: He's hurt and he's he's leading all over. I may
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Speaker 1: have killed him coming what happened if you hit him
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Speaker 1: in the head or hit him in the head with
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Speaker 1: watch with a baseball bat, with a baseball bat. Sam,
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Speaker 1: it was choking my daughter. He said, I'm gonna kill her.
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Speaker 1: Who's the baseball bad ass in the bedroom here with me? Okay,
32:48
Speaker 1: just don't touch it anymore. Okay, ma'am, I'm putting some nights.
32:52
Speaker 1: Then we've already got him started. That way, I don't
32:54
Speaker 1: hang up to stay with fast one. Two. All right,
33:01
Speaker 1: listen carefully. I'll say you had a de chest compression. Yeah, alright,
33:04
Speaker 1: make sure they explat on his back from that. Fill
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Speaker 1: us under his head like thee in your hands under
33:09
Speaker 1: his head. That's nothing under his head. Yeah, that's all right.
33:13
Speaker 1: First of all, tell your daughter to go a loot
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Speaker 1: the door and turn on the front porch like like
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Speaker 1: the heel of your hand on the breast pone in
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Speaker 1: the center of his chest, right between the nipples. Okay, well,
33:27
Speaker 1: I got to give the instruction if you just go
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Speaker 1: ahead and do it, if you know, why don't I
33:30
Speaker 1: hear any screaming and the nine one one goes on
33:34
Speaker 1: and you hear the father and the daughter speaking very
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Speaker 1: calmly to each other. Uh. To Wendy Patrick, California Prosecutor,
33:41
Speaker 1: that's not normally what you hear on a nine one
33:43
Speaker 1: one call when your husband's lying there covered in blood
33:46
Speaker 1: and dead. That's exactly right. You know. This is one
33:48
Speaker 1: of the reasons we don't do trial by transcript. Jurors
33:51
Speaker 1: have to see here, smell, touch, everything they need to
33:55
Speaker 1: do to actually be able to gauge the credibility, and
33:58
Speaker 1: in doing that they listen to nine one tapes. Those
34:01
Speaker 1: are powerful pieces of evidence that give us an idea,
34:04
Speaker 1: a flavor of the emotional tension that exists when those
34:08
Speaker 1: calls were made. They listen to the voice. Intonation pauses
34:12
Speaker 1: the quality of what is being described in everything else,
34:16
Speaker 1: and that's one of the things they used to determine
34:19
Speaker 1: who is telling the truth. And so in a case
34:21
Speaker 1: like this, this kind of a nine one one call
34:23
Speaker 1: was no doubt, very powerful evidence to them and will
34:26
Speaker 1: be to a reviewing court in deciding who to believe.
34:30
Speaker 1: And another thing, Wendy Patrick. Right now, Molly Corbett insists
34:33
Speaker 1: her murder conviction be overturned, claiming prosecutors never proved she
34:39
Speaker 1: was the aggressor. That doesn't make sense to me, and
34:42
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because there's nothing new, no new evidence.
34:47
Speaker 1: That's a fact issue, and the jury is the sole arbiter,
34:52
Speaker 1: the sole judge of the facts and the credibility in
34:56
Speaker 1: the case. The appellate court looks at the rule of law.
35:00
Speaker 1: So if she's climbing, well, the state never proved that
35:03
Speaker 1: I was the aggressor, I guess not because the jury
35:07
Speaker 1: disagreed with her. Yeah, that's exactly right. And we see
35:09
Speaker 1: appeals like this all of the time. Simply because one's
35:12
Speaker 1: made doesn't mean it will be successful. And it is
35:14
Speaker 1: the jury, Nancy, as you say, that's the ultimate trier
35:16
Speaker 1: of fact and all of the evidence we've been discussing
35:19
Speaker 1: they took into consideration not just who said what when,
35:23
Speaker 1: but whether or not those stories were consistent with the
35:26
Speaker 1: rest of the evidence. You know, the law phrases it
35:28
Speaker 1: in terms of a reasonable interpretation of the evidence. When
35:32
Speaker 1: they found her guilty, they found that that version of
35:35
Speaker 1: the facts, Molly's version, was an unreasonable interpretation of the evidence,
35:39
Speaker 1: and that is their purview. They are the fact finders.
35:43
Speaker 1: To Karen Smith, what do you make of the forensics
35:46
Speaker 1: in this case, because I believe you know, the only
35:48
Speaker 1: witnesses are Molly Martin's Corbett and her father, the x
35:53
Speaker 1: FBI agent. All right, that's all the testimony. It's going
35:57
Speaker 1: to be on the forensics for the state. Yes, it is.
36:02
Speaker 1: And listen from my experience, their version of events does
36:07
Speaker 1: not match what I'm seeing with the blood stain evidence.
36:09
Speaker 1: There's evidence of a struggle in this room. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: if he's saying he's swinging this baseball bat in the
36:15
Speaker 1: hallway and chasing Jason into the bathroom, that is a
36:18
Speaker 1: very narrow hallway. Admittedly, I don't have all the crime
36:20
Speaker 1: scene photos. I have a limited number, but uh, it's
36:23
Speaker 1: about three feet from my estimate. If you're swinging a
36:26
Speaker 1: baseball bat, you're going to leave dings and dents in
36:28
Speaker 1: the walls, and I don't see any so I really
36:31
Speaker 1: don't understand how that story plays with the forensics. Maybe
36:35
Speaker 1: there were things that aren't shown in these photos, but
36:38
Speaker 1: you know, the fact is the majority of the blood
36:40
Speaker 1: is in the bedroom. It's on the walls up high,
36:43
Speaker 1: and it's on the floor down low. I can tell
36:46
Speaker 1: you that Jason at some point was upright and after that,
36:49
Speaker 1: when the blows were really being struck, he was down
36:51
Speaker 1: on the floor, and that just does not comport. Another
36:54
Speaker 1: thing that we are learning to Wendy Patrick is that
36:59
Speaker 1: he Jason Corbett, was planning to go back home to
37:02
Speaker 1: Ireland without her, without Molly. He had already been looking online.
37:08
Speaker 1: He had bought three tickets, one for him and his
37:11
Speaker 1: two children. He was leaving, and many people believe he
37:15
Speaker 1: was leaving her just before he was blood and dad.
37:19
Speaker 1: This is just Nancy, one more piece of circumstantial evidence
37:22
Speaker 1: that again tells the story that he cannot. And that's
37:26
Speaker 1: the way we piece together murder cases is we use
37:28
Speaker 1: the evidence to explain the circumstances, both personal, professional, forensically
37:34
Speaker 1: everything else. We use that evidence to tell a story
37:37
Speaker 1: that a deceased murder victim would have told were he
37:41
Speaker 1: on the stand in this case, and that's just one
37:44
Speaker 1: of the other things. Can we prove it for sure?
37:45
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, But that doesn't mean the jury can't consider
37:48
Speaker 1: that as powerful evidence of motive. You don't need to
37:51
Speaker 1: prove motive, of course, as you know, to prove murder,
37:53
Speaker 1: but it sure helps if there's an explanation that's different
37:57
Speaker 1: than one they heard from the accused. Well, and now
38:00
Speaker 1: we're hearing from the nanny turned new wife, Molly Martin's
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Speaker 1: Corbett uh talking to about repeatedly being brutalized by her
38:10
Speaker 1: brand new husband the first time and second time, and
38:13
Speaker 1: the third time and the twentieth time. That you are
38:17
Speaker 1: suffocated or strangled or someone holds their hand over your
38:21
Speaker 1: mouth or pillow over your face and you can't breathe
38:25
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time. You know, you think, oh, well,
38:30
Speaker 1: you know his first wife died at three o'clock in
38:32
Speaker 1: the morning, and maybe that's going to happen to me.
38:36
Speaker 1: Whoa wait a minute, His first wife died and there
38:39
Speaker 1: is no doubt about it by complications after an asthma attack,
38:45
Speaker 1: and throwing that in there makes me question her entire statement.
38:51
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what haunts me, And that is Jason's
38:55
Speaker 1: sister speaking when I believe that Monty Martin's planned to
38:58
Speaker 1: kill just and um and that all the evidence pointed
39:03
Speaker 1: towards that. I was disappointed there wasn't a first degree charge.
39:07
Speaker 1: That he had been drugged and the toxicology report shows
39:10
Speaker 1: the drugs in his system, and those drugs come from
39:14
Speaker 1: they were they were prescribed to Molly Martin's on the
39:17
Speaker 1: Friday before Jason was murder Do you think he might
39:19
Speaker 1: if she might have spiked his dream? Absolutely, that's what
39:22
Speaker 1: I believe, and that he was asleep, that he was asleep,
39:26
Speaker 1: and that he was hitting hit in bed while he
39:29
Speaker 1: was asleep, and that Molly Martins hit him. You are
39:34
Speaker 1: hearing Jason's sister speaking out. That's Tracy Corbett Lynch, the
39:38
Speaker 1: sister of Jason Corbett. Jason Corbett a Limerick man in
39:43
Speaker 1: the US who marries the nanny after his first wife
39:47
Speaker 1: passes away. That nanny, Molly Martin's Corbett and her father,
39:52
Speaker 1: Thomas Martin accused of murdering Jason. But why was it
39:59
Speaker 1: because he was planning to leave her. We know that
40:03
Speaker 1: he had his bag packed with his children's clothes. He
40:07
Speaker 1: had been looking up flights just for three. The toxicology
40:12
Speaker 1: report shows drugs in Jason's system. The sister says she
40:18
Speaker 1: believes they left him to die now. Molly Martin's Corbett
40:23
Speaker 1: first met her Irish husband after she moved to Limerick
40:27
Speaker 1: to work as a nanny for his children after the
40:30
Speaker 1: death of his first wife, Margaret. They later became sexually
40:35
Speaker 1: involved and they were then married. What happened what we
40:41
Speaker 1: know right now is that he had refused to allow
40:47
Speaker 1: Molly to adopt his children, and at this hour, Molly
40:51
Speaker 1: Martin's Corbett insisting her conviction beat reversed. We wait as
40:57
Speaker 1: justice unfolds. Nancy Gray Crime Stories signing off Goodbye friend,