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• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Crime is not something you really think of when you
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: think of Salana Beach and I'm.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Scared to death. I don't want to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: On the screen saver, she saw a picture of a
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  Speaker 3: pair of naked new breasts. There are some pretty shocking
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  Speaker 3: videos of her involved in sexual activities.
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  Speaker 4: It's a complete betrayal of trust.
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  Speaker 5: Tom was a business partner, very much an environmentalist and
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  Speaker 5: a conservation as.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know where Tom is at, so they don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what they have. They don't know if they
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  Speaker 4: have a missing person. They don't know if they have
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  Speaker 4: a homicide.
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  Speaker 6: They look in the bedroom, they look in the living room,
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  Speaker 6: trying to find evidence of life.
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  Speaker 7: Have you seen Tom? Where is Tom?
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  Speaker 8: So we're trying to find Tom. Do you know where
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  Speaker 8: Tom is?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 8: Well called them missing.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Around seven am, they discover this pile of trash in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway, which they had ignored before.
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  Speaker 6: Detective Rosa Petron looks at the pile of trash and says, hey,
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  Speaker 6: has anyone checked this pile yet?
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  Speaker 7: Your wife that you find it.
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  Speaker 4: This is what he's going to tell you, And I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to want to need another situation.
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  Speaker 3: And I grab the gun.
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  Speaker 4: He's trying to find the first place to put a body.
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  Speaker 7: No, sir, the only thing they could do was killing.
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  Speaker 8: You want to sell you anything, lead a jury and
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  Speaker 8: to find to defend it.
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  Speaker 10: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty is finally over, much to the relief of
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  Speaker 3: most of us.
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  Speaker 6: New Year's Day, January first, twenty twenty one, at around
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  Speaker 6: one pm.
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  Speaker 2: Shares Communicators Better Fire Factory. Last night a friend of
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  Speaker 2: mine asked me to come over and she said that
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  Speaker 2: she had possibly killed or she said she killed her
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  Speaker 2: stepdad and asked me to move the body with her.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Dispatch doesn't know what to make of it, this confession,
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  Speaker 4: this murder that may or may not happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I never saw the body, and I left and
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  Speaker 2: I stowed on this all night. I know I should
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  Speaker 2: have called right then. I didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I uh about when I barely flap. I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it all night.
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  Speaker 11: Eight.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And what is your name?
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  Speaker 12: My name is Adam, Adam Siplia and his call is
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  Speaker 12: about a friend named Jay Jenks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he really did this, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if she seemed suicidal. You mean, And
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  Speaker 2: I'm scared to death. I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of this, and I don't know if she really
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  Speaker 2: killed this guy.
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  Speaker 12: The guy, according to the caller, was a man by
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  Speaker 12: the name of Tom Merriman.
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  Speaker 2: It's your stepdad that she lived in the house next door.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nervous, do you mean because she put me there
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't call you mean for twelve hours after
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  Speaker 2: what she told me? And I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: true or not. Yeah, okay, Yeah, So what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do absolutely and so because because you're not sure, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to pity contact you. Okay, tell them what happened,
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  Speaker 2: tell them your side, and they're going to go from there.
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  Speaker 12: Deputies were dispatched to the Solano Beach section of San
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  Speaker 12: Diego do a location on Narto Avenue, where both Tom
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  Speaker 12: Merriman and his stepdaughter Jay Jenks lived.
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  Speaker 4: They need to do what they needed to do, which
• 3:14
  Speaker 4: is to see what's going on, so they start reaching
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  Speaker 4: out to see where Tom is. When they go to
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  Speaker 4: Tom's apartment to prepare to do a welfare check.
• 3:24
  Speaker 6: They look in the bedroom, they look in the living room,
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  Speaker 6: try and find evidence of life. They can't find Tom.
• 3:31
  Speaker 6: They get more details and now they're starting to call numbers,
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  Speaker 6: knock on doors. Have you seen Tom? Where is Tom?
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  Speaker 1: Crime is not something you really think of when you
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  Speaker 1: think of Salana Beach. It's honestly just known as a
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  Speaker 1: really great, safe, quiet place to live.
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  Speaker 12: And Tom Merriman and Jade Jenks were known to have
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  Speaker 12: a close and loving relationship. Even after Jade's mother and
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  Speaker 12: Tom divorced.
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  Speaker 6: They continued their relationship and actually grew closer together.
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  Speaker 4: She was definitely someone that Tom relied upon as far
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  Speaker 4: as taking care of him, as far as helping him
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  Speaker 4: with his health, helping him go to the doctor, going
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  Speaker 4: to the hospital, things like that.
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  Speaker 12: Tom was well known in the area as the founder
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  Speaker 12: of a nonprofit Butterfly Farm.
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  Speaker 5: Tom was as a business partner and working together seven
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  Speaker 5: days a week for over ten years. Very much an
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  Speaker 5: environmentalist and a conservationist. He was a smart guy, incredibly intelligent.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely a gentle soul, someone who was very very focused
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  Speaker 4: on conservation and educating the community about butterflies.
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  Speaker 5: I literally was expecting him back to work that day
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  Speaker 5: or the next day.
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  Speaker 12: And Jay Jenks was known for her thriving interior design business.
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  Speaker 3: Jade was a very dynamic individual and as a really
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  Speaker 3: good personality and was developing a pretty niche practice there
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  Speaker 3: in the Slana Beach area.
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  Speaker 12: The search for Tom continued all of New Year's Day.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe it's just a misunderstanding because they don't know
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  Speaker 6: if this is actually true. They can't find Tom, and
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  Speaker 6: they see Jay Jenks leaving her driveway and they pull
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  Speaker 6: her over and they want to question Jade to see
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  Speaker 6: if she knew where Tom was.
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  Speaker 13: So today is Friday, January first, twenty twenty one, and
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  Speaker 13: we're at the North Coastal Sheriff Station here in Encinitas.
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  Speaker 14: It is nine zero one pos for twenty.
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  Speaker 15: One over, okay, and we're about to interview with j
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  Speaker 15: Jenks in regards to case number two one one zero
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  Speaker 15: zero one owner.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Rosa and this is my partner, Noah.
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  Speaker 8: We work with the Santue Sheriff's Department.
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  Speaker 15: If we're assigning to the homicide E did Okay, we're
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  Speaker 15: here to talk to you about why you're here. But
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  Speaker 15: obviously before we can't do that, we'd like t we
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  Speaker 15: wanna hear your set in the story. You wanna know
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  Speaker 15: what's going on while you're here today, okay, and so
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  Speaker 15: but before we can do that we need to read
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  Speaker 15: you your rights.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: So, now having in mind and understanding everything that I
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  Speaker 13: have told you, we're gonna talk to you about what
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  Speaker 13: happened last night, okay. And so we're just gonna have
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  Speaker 13: a conversation. We're gonna take it slow.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, and we'll we're gonna just talk to you.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: So you're an interior designer, you've been you said you've
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  Speaker 13: been doing it for eighteen years, and you have your
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  Speaker 13: business for a.
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  Speaker 8: Little over a year.
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  Speaker 6: They got some background information about her, her relationship with.
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  Speaker 16: Tom, and so Tom is who it's my stepchild once
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  Speaker 16: you're removed, mkay?
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  Speaker 8: Married to your mother?
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  Speaker 17: Was was?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: How long ago were they married?
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  Speaker 14: About twenty years ago?
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  Speaker 17: Oh wow?
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  Speaker 14: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: So you said you haven't spoken to her in.
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  Speaker 18: Twelve years at least maybe thirteen.
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  Speaker 8: Any reason why she's nuts?
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  Speaker 14: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: And are you married?
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  Speaker 18: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: Ever been married?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 8: So tell me about Tom? Where does he t like?
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  Speaker 8: What relationship do you.
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  Speaker 14: Have to with him?
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  Speaker 19: Can you tell me what I'm being event I'm just
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  Speaker 19: really nervous what to answer. This seems like a really
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  Speaker 19: big deal and I don't want to say something wrong.
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  Speaker 14: Can you tell me, but.
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  Speaker 8: We're trying to find Tom. Do you know where Tom is?
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  Speaker 20: No?
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  Speaker 8: Who called him missing? This family hasn't seen him for
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  Speaker 8: over forty eight hours. So his stream he just got
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  Speaker 8: released from a hospital yesterday. Okay, did you see him yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I picked him up from the hospital. Okay, do you
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  Speaker 8: know where he went?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 8: Well, can you tell me better than he's just missing?
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  Speaker 8: That's all we we We don't know where he's at.
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  Speaker 8: We're trying to find him.
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  Speaker 15: Okay, and so you were the last one to see
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  Speaker 15: him because you picked him up from the hospital.
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  Speaker 8: So that's why we want to talk to.
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  Speaker 4: You about him.
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  Speaker 6: And then she asked for her lawyer. At that point
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  Speaker 6: in time, legally you're prohibited from asking her.
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  Speaker 7: Any question.
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  Speaker 6: During the interview. The police are searching for Tom. They
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  Speaker 6: haven't found him yet. They have no evidence to booker
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  Speaker 6: for murder or anything else, so they release her.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know where Tom is at, so they don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what they have. They don't know if they
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  Speaker 4: have a missing person, they don't know if they have
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  Speaker 4: a homicide. They're just trying to figure out what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: We're now talking probably midnight. It is dark outside, so
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  Speaker 4: they write up the search warmth, they contact a judge.
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  Speaker 6: They searched Tom's apartment high and low, Jay Jenks's apartment
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  Speaker 6: high and Low, waited for daylight to search the driveway
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  Speaker 6: and other areas outside.
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  Speaker 1: Around seven am, they discover this pile of trash in
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  Speaker 1: the dry which they had ignored.
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  Speaker 6: Before, gifts and boxes and things like that. It didn't
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  Speaker 6: look so out of the ordinary. Detective Rosa, Patron the
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  Speaker 6: San Diego Sheriff's Department, looks at the pile of trash
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  Speaker 6: and says, hey, has anyone checked this pile yet.
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  Speaker 7: She removes a couple of items.
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  Speaker 6: And sees the silhouette of a man in a blanket
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  Speaker 6: that was buried under the pile of trash.
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  Speaker 7: That was Tom Merriman.
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  Speaker 6: He still had his hospital bracelet on, still had socks on,
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  Speaker 6: but there he was dead, and it was clear he
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  Speaker 6: had been dead for some time.
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  Speaker 12: It had been just a few hours earlier that Jay
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  Speaker 12: Jenks denied knowing anything about it.
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  Speaker 21: A San Diego woman, Jane Jenks, has been charged with
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  Speaker 21: first degree murder in the death of her ex stepfather,
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  Speaker 21: Thomas Merriman, whose body was discovered by deputies with the
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  Speaker 21: San Diego County Sheriffs.
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  Speaker 7: Jenks was arrested.
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  Speaker 21: At the scene and has entered a plea of not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: People were completely shocked. There were a lot of unanswered questions,
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  Speaker 1: and people just really wanted to know how this could happen.
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  Speaker 12: And what had gone wrong between Jade and her stepfather.
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  Speaker 6: We were able to gather the extent of the relationship
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  Speaker 6: from looking at the text messages and chat history from
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  Speaker 6: both Jade's phone and Tom's phone.
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  Speaker 7: Do you want to grab dinner?
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  Speaker 22: Hey?
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  Speaker 7: Can I come over? Would you like to go on
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  Speaker 7: a walk?
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  Speaker 3: He'd been intoxicated and he'd taken a fall and was bloody.
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  Speaker 12: Jade had called nine to one one and helped get
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  Speaker 12: Tom to the hospital and then to a rehab center.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, it's an alcoholic and so they then had the detox.
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  Speaker 3: Jade was doing a good thing by cleaning out his apartment,
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  Speaker 3: which was a mess. She was cleaning and she bumped
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  Speaker 3: the computer on the screen saver. She saw a picture
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  Speaker 3: of a pair of naked nude breasts and she recognized
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  Speaker 3: in the breast because there was a beauty mark that
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  Speaker 3: was above the I think the left breast, and it
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  Speaker 3: was hers and she knew it. And then she then
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  Speaker 3: hit the space bar again. So there are multiple pictures
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  Speaker 3: of her in various stages of undress and at different ages.
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  Speaker 6: Some were explicit, some were scantily clad, and some were
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  Speaker 6: fully nude. There were all photographs that Jade and her
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  Speaker 6: partner at the time took consensually, so there was no
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  Speaker 6: hidden camera or anything like that that Tom set up.
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  Speaker 6: Somehow he got access to these nude photos and we
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  Speaker 6: will never know how.
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  Speaker 4: It's an absolute invasion in regard to this is her
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  Speaker 4: stepfather that has these photographs. Her stepfather that she has
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  Speaker 4: a great relationship with, a stepfather that she does things for.
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  Speaker 4: She takes care of him and he takes care of her.
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  Speaker 4: So is a complete betrayal of trust. So after discovering that,
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  Speaker 4: she reached out to a few friends of hers to
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  Speaker 4: tell him what she found.
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  Speaker 7: She sent to one friend a copy of the photos.
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  Speaker 7: Look what I found. I can't believe this.
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  Speaker 12: And one friend referred Jade to someone who did private security.
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  Speaker 6: And that person's name was Alan Roach. That the person
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  Speaker 6: who she thought of as a fixer, she actually paid
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  Speaker 6: him to stand guard while she showered. Why is that
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: she felt so uncomfortable showering by herself?
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  Speaker 7: She lived by herself that Tom could come home at
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  Speaker 7: any time.
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  Speaker 3: She also had at some point put a tarp out,
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  Speaker 3: like a plastic tarp by her bed with a knife,
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  Speaker 3: so that if somebody came in, you know, they'd have
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  Speaker 3: to walk on the tarp.
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  Speaker 7: So she started freaking out pretty bad.
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  Speaker 12: She was set to pick up her stepfather from the
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  Speaker 12: rehab facility on New Year's Eve Day.
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  Speaker 6: From what we could tell from the text messages, she
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  Speaker 6: was formulating a plan.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't explicitly say in any of the messages, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the murder of my stepfather, anything like that. But all
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  Speaker 1: these messages really raised a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 6: She was thinking and deliberating and premeditating what to do.
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  Speaker 6: And she sent a text message to a friend. His
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  Speaker 6: name is Mike Liebird. It might look like it could
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  Speaker 6: mean anything. You know, what does I just made the
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  Speaker 6: call mean? Maybe it means I made the call to
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  Speaker 6: confront him about it. I made the call to move
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  Speaker 6: away and tell his landlord and tell his whole family.
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  Speaker 6: But that's not the call that she made.
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  Speaker 12: Tom Merriman was released from the AVR Rehab Center at
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  Speaker 12: eleven nineteen am on New Year's Eve Day.
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  Speaker 3: He had hundreds and hundreds of pills because they gave
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  Speaker 3: him a bag full of his on medications.
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  Speaker 6: So she doses Tom with the medication that he was
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  Speaker 6: discharged with. The key text message that we knew that
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  Speaker 6: this was her plan was I just dosed the hell
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  Speaker 6: out of us. And she sent that to the fixer,
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  Speaker 6: Alan Roach. That text message was sent after she picked
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  Speaker 6: up Tom after eleven am.
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  Speaker 7: That told us everything that this was.
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  Speaker 6: Not something that was an accident, that she had a
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  Speaker 6: plan to murder Tom.
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  Speaker 7: That was our smoking gun.
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  Speaker 12: Moments after picking up her stepfather, Jay Jenks is seen
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  Speaker 12: on a drug storees a surveillance camera.
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  Speaker 3: Tom still wanted his additional medication.
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  Speaker 12: And then to a nearby liquor store.
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  Speaker 4: She bought Tom his favorite alcohol. She picked up some
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: chocolates because those were his favorites and wanted to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that Tom got his favorite chocolate since he was
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: just out of the hospital, and.
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  Speaker 12: A final stop at a lumber store with Tom waiting
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  Speaker 12: in the car heavily dosed.
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  Speaker 7: She bought some rope. She bought some towels.
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  Speaker 6: She bought two sets of gloves, niitrol gloves and nail
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  Speaker 6: dipped gloves. We called it a murder kit, because that's
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  Speaker 6: what it was.
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  Speaker 4: She eventually ends up back at their residence. She tries again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm out of the car, so he falls in the driveway,
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  Speaker 4: just falls.
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  Speaker 6: And she is not strong enough to pick him up
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  Speaker 6: into the back of her car or to carry him
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  Speaker 6: down these stairs and into his apartment.
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  Speaker 3: Jade is starting to panic because Alan was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: get in contact with her about being back at the house.
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  Speaker 12: Roach does not respond, so Jade texts a girlfriend, Sarah.
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  Speaker 6: And Sarah's boyfriend helps Tom get back into Jay Jinks's
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  Speaker 6: Toyota four Runner into the back. Now she's still reaching
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: out to the fixer. Coach says, I could send my partner,
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: my friend, Brian Solomon to go and help you.
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  Speaker 12: Solomon is seen on surveillance footage at a store buying
• 17:09
  Speaker 12: some surgical gloves before heading to meet Jade.
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  Speaker 7: Brian Solomon has no idea what is about to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Jay goes he strugged.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to strangle him, bring him to the apartment,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: and I'll take care of the rest. Those were the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: words that Brian Solomon said that she said to him,
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  Speaker 4: strangle them, And we asked him, are you certain? Those
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  Speaker 4: were the words that those are verbatim the exact words
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  Speaker 4: that she said. I want you to strangle him, bring
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  Speaker 4: him inside, and I'll take care of the rest.
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  Speaker 7: And he gets out of there as fast as he can.
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  Speaker 6: He wanted no part of this murder. Nobody saw what
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: was going on. No one could see up this long
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: driveway and into that car, and she decides that she
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: has to go through with the murder on her own.
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  Speaker 6: That's when we believe that she puts on the gloves,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: strangled Tom around his neck as lightly as she could
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: as soon as she was done strangling him. As soon
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  Speaker 6: as she confirmed that Tom was dead at five twenty
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: three pm, she sends a text message to her Tom
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  Speaker 6: saying checking in on you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: How you doing. She wanted to cover her tracks.
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: It was around seven pm when Jade's grand Adam showed.
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  Speaker 7: Up at her home.
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  Speaker 6: She knew Adam was going to be the type of
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: person not to go to the police, so.
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  Speaker 4: She thought she tells Adam, I drugged him. I suffocated him.
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  Speaker 4: I strangled him with a bag. I need you to help.
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  Speaker 4: He's in my car. I need you to help me
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: get him back into his apartment. I needed to look
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  Speaker 4: like an overdose.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: He said, I don't want anything to do with this.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I love you, but I gotta go.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: It is now nine pm on New Year's Eve and
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: all of Jade's other friends are off celebrating.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: So from what the evidence that we discovered was, Jay
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Jenks was still trying to get Tom's body into his
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: bed to make it look like an overdose. When she
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: pulls him out of her car, he goes down like
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: a bag of rocks. He's too heavy to pick up,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: and she realizes, oh no, Tom's body is here on
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the driveway.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: I have to cover it up. Install.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: That's when she starts going into her Tom's apartment, grabbing
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: boxes and different things blankets to cover up Tom's body
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: and just leaves him there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: It was a short while later that police located Jay.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: If you can even imagine what a murderer looks like,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: it would not be Jay Jenks. She looks like a
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: girl next door. She looks like a regular person.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: She discovers something very disturbing. A lot of people would
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: sympathize with her and would dislike the victim.
• 20:54
  Speaker 23: Oftentimes the victim gets lost in all of this.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Tom Merriman four years old.
• 21:00
  Speaker 24: He was a real person, a living breathing person that
• 21:06
  Speaker 24: she took away.
• 21:07
  Speaker 25: And we know that he has his issues his conduct,
• 21:11
  Speaker 25: but this trial is not about his conduct.
• 21:13
  Speaker 14: She was his.
• 21:14
  Speaker 23: Judge, jury, an executioner, and she buried him under.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: That pile of trash.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: From the beginning, I told the jury, how do we
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: know that she murdered him? I showed the jury almost
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: every single text message that was going to come out
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: during the trial in opening statement.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Those text messages were Jade's own words as she planned,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: premeditated this murder, so they were absolutely crucial.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: I just dosed the hell out of him.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: We brought it up in every single witness that we could,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: and then brought it up in closing and in rebuttal.
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: For the defense, Jay Jenks's family was able to hire
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: one of the states leaving criminal defense attorneys, Mark Carlos.
• 22:03
  Speaker 22: She loved tom Merriman, and tom Merriman loved her just
• 22:09
  Speaker 22: like a stepfather would for a stepdaughter, and just like
• 22:12
  Speaker 22: a stepdaughter would for her stepfather.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: And I needed to put Jade in a place where
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: she's relatable.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: All of this life led.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Up to one moment was when she found those photos,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: and she had that degree of betrayal from her stepfather,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: which nobody can quantify, and then everything cascaded from there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 22: Yeah, she had a motive screaming out and a motive
• 22:38
  Speaker 22: to call.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Him out for what he was.
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: But he kills.
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: Somebody, to kill your stepfather, somebody you love, somebody you're
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: there for all day, all day long.
• 22:46
  Speaker 26: No, it doesn't work that way.
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: As prosecutors began their case, they knew they had to
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: deal with the issue of cause.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Of death, no signs, forensics whatsoever of strangulation. If what
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Adam and Brian were saying were true, you would one
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: would think they would see some forensic signs of that,
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: and we didn't have that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: So the medical examiner became a key witness.
• 23:16
  Speaker 24: Have you seen in either in the cases you've handled
• 23:21
  Speaker 24: or in the medical literature cases where there's a strangulation
• 23:27
  Speaker 24: but no injuries are present to the.
• 23:30
  Speaker 22: Net, Yes, fatal strangulation can be caused and not leave
• 23:39
  Speaker 22: an injury that we can see.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: What defense lawyer Carlos is known for his skill at
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: cross examination.
• 23:46
  Speaker 17: And you can't say to any degree of medical certainty
• 23:49
  Speaker 17: that suffocation occurred in this case, correct, Yes, And likewise
• 23:53
  Speaker 17: you can't say to any degree of medical certainty as
• 23:55
  Speaker 17: an expert that asphyxia was the cause of doubt in
• 23:59
  Speaker 17: this case.
• 23:59
  Speaker 18: Is that?
• 24:01
  Speaker 24: Yes?
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: The official cause of death of Tom Merriman was listed
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: as an overdose a zopodem am theen zero.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Point thirty nine milligrams per leader, which is nothing. It's
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: like four pills or five pills. How is it that
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: this small amount of drugs could have killed him? How
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: did this guy die?
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: It was a central question the prosecution would struggle to
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: answer throughout the trial.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I've been doing this for a long time, and I
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: specialized in very, very serious cases. I've tried a lot
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: of murder cases, and she did not appear to me
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: as somebody who is very capable of doing what they said.
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: The prosecution closed out its case by showing the video
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: of Jay Jenks being interrogated about Tom Merriman.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Do you know where Tom is now? It's called him missing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: When you watched the interview with Jay Jenks, and she
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: knows the entire time where Tom was, that he's buried
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: under that pile of track. She's lying to the police.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: She thinks that she could still get away with it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: As criminal defense warriors and cases like this, you have
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: what's called bad facts and you need to deal with them.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: So Jade needed to explain what she meant.
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: That it's called j James.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: You know, you've got to explain the elephant in the room,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: and there's no way around it. In Jade's case, she
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: just wanted to clear her name because she didn't kill tom.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: My name's Jade Jenks.
• 25:36
  Speaker 27: Jay Jenks on the witness stand, testifying about the day
• 25:40
  Speaker 27: in December twenty twenty that she found more than one
• 25:43
  Speaker 27: hundred nude photos of herself on her sixty four year
• 25:47
  Speaker 27: old stepfather's computer.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Quena, I went to clean and he's office, Avery. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: was kind of wiping things down and I bumped the
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: house on his desktop computer and it shook the screen awake,
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: and I looked and there's.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: A picture of female breasts on the screen, and I
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: love it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: I have a beauty mark on my chest and I
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: love it. Those are my breasts.
• 26:17
  Speaker 16: So it was the most violating, just awful, gut wrenching
• 26:27
  Speaker 16: feeling ever.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: I felt. I felt sick.
• 26:30
  Speaker 16: I felt.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: I couldn't.
• 26:36
  Speaker 18: I couldn't, like I couldn't even touch my own skin.
• 26:45
  Speaker 18: I don't even know if there's words. And we're not
• 26:47
  Speaker 18: even in a movie. By seeing something so just sick.
• 26:52
  Speaker 14: I need you to take a look through these, yea.
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: And then the jury was handed a packet of the
• 27:15
  Speaker 12: same photos.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: One juror, a female jury, kind of shook her head,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: briefly looked at it, and passed it on to the
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: next juror. So clearly a defining moment in this case
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: But then it was time for Jay Jenks to explain
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: that nine to one one call made by her friend
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: Adam Sipliac last night.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: A friend of mine asked me to come over and
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: she said that she had possibly killed or she said
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: she killed her stepdad and asked me to move the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: body with her.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Did you tell mister sip Black that you killed Tom Merriman.
• 27:49
  Speaker 28: No.
• 27:50
  Speaker 22: Did you tell mister sid Black that you put a bag.
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: Over his head?
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: No? Did you tell me that you strangled him? No,
• 27:57
  Speaker 14: to tell him.
• 27:58
  Speaker 25: That that that you put a bag over his head
• 28:00
  Speaker 25: and that wasn't doing it fast enough so you had
• 28:02
  Speaker 25: to strangle him.
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: No personal No, Jake said she left Tom in her
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: car in the driveway overnight to sleep off the effects
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: of the pills and whiskey he had taken on his own.
• 28:16
  Speaker 18: As I woke up, I got up and I went
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: to the car to see if he.
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: Was still there if you had gone home.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Was he there?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 28:26
  Speaker 22: Was he?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Did he appear to be sleeping?
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Did you think he was dead?
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: I didn't want to think that?
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Okay, why not?
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: I didn't.
• 28:42
  Speaker 18: I didn't want to be dead.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Did you touch Miss Merriman?
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: Yes? What did you?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: What did you feel?
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: I tried to pull his leg and his pajama pant lifted.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: His leg was cold?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Janks? Did you did you think Tom Merriman was dead?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: At that point?
• 29:27
  Speaker 17: I knew he was.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Again, Miss Jenks, you had a cell phone? Did you
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: think about calling nine one one?
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: I was scared too?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Why were you scared?
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: I k don't want to get blamed? I mean, I
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: just I was on that picture up I had sent.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: I mean people knew about the photos and I didn't
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: want to it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 14: Blame for you're killing you?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Did you kill him?
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: No?
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: It's a picture of Tom Merriman. Is it? Is this
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: the Tom?
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: You remember? The same Tom?
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: They had his laws? Yeah, has some weaknesses.
• 30:27
  Speaker 22: Yes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: Did you love Tom?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Tom?
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: Love you?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I think it would have been hard to not feel
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a bit of sympathy. I think anyone can imagine that
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that experience is just extremely violating. I don't think you
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: would look at her and think that she might be
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: capable of something like that.
• 30:53
  Speaker 24: When Sol says I dosed the hell out of him,
• 30:57
  Speaker 24: you would agree with me that that means someone gave
• 31:01
  Speaker 24: another person a whole lot of drugs.
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Phrase?
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: I guess it's a poor phrasing.
• 31:09
  Speaker 25: So my question was you would agree with me that
• 31:12
  Speaker 25: the phrase I just dosed the hell out of them
• 31:16
  Speaker 25: implies that you gave Tom a whole lot of drugs.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: It doesn't sound like that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Not only could she not explain I just dosed the
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: hell out of them and try to say that was
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: just poor phrasing, she couldn't explain anything else.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: When they were asking you questions about.
• 31:33
  Speaker 24: Tom, you responded, Oh, that's weird.
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: He took got release from the hospital.
• 31:40
  Speaker 16: You remember making that staement?
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: I remember, I do remember that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 24: Yes, you didn't want the police to know that Tom
• 31:48
  Speaker 24: died in your car.
• 31:54
  Speaker 19: I wasn't trying to hide it, but I didn't want
• 31:57
  Speaker 19: to go alone and tell them that I didn't.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you weren't.
• 32:06
  Speaker 24: Trying to hide where Tom was When the police were
• 32:09
  Speaker 24: asking you, Is that what you're saying?
• 32:12
  Speaker 19: No, I'm saying my intention at that time, I just
• 32:18
  Speaker 19: wanted an attorney. But before that, well, it's to say
• 32:22
  Speaker 19: I didn't think I could just leave him out there
• 32:26
  Speaker 19: and like the police would never find him or anything
• 32:28
  Speaker 19: like that.
• 32:29
  Speaker 14: That answer.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: After Tom died, you covered up Tom's day.
• 32:35
  Speaker 24: Yes, you didn't call nine one one when you realized
• 32:38
  Speaker 24: Tom died.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: No, you didn't call the cops.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Isn't that the same?
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: No, you didn't call Albarra.
• 32:52
  Speaker 14: After after you realized Tom is dead after you, No,
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: I did not.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: You didn't call your dad. No, I didn't call your
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: brother Cash. No you didn't call Carol Marx, No Ingrid,
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: no Russ, no Rula Alexis.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: We knew after Jade Jenks testified that she was not credible.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: We knew going into closing argument that we had a solid,
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: strong case.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Closing arguments today in the case against a salon of
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: each woman charged with murdering her stepfather.
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: Prosecutor Jorge de Partillo began by playing a clip of
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: Jay Jenks's police interrogation.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: Do you know where he went?
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: The entire time she was speaking to the police.
• 33:54
  Speaker 24: She knew where Tom was.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: She buried him under that pile of trash. She knew
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: she is dead.
• 34:01
  Speaker 24: His family was looking for him.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: And she lied to the police.
• 34:06
  Speaker 24: And she would have gotten away with it if she
• 34:09
  Speaker 24: just got him into his bed.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: That's the scariest part.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: Is it reasonable that she didn't dose them? When she
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: said I dosed him?
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: She never called nine one one, She had a all
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: of those incriminating text.
• 34:24
  Speaker 12: Messages, ending with a dramatic presentation of the prosecution's theory
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: of how Tom Merriman died.
• 34:31
  Speaker 23: Tom realizes his head. He's been gagged, pillcase in a
• 34:37
  Speaker 23: plastic bag over his head. Horrifying death. Is it about
• 34:42
  Speaker 23: to help? Tom is waking up? The plastic bag is
• 34:46
  Speaker 23: not working. She puts on a glove on her left hand, glove.
• 34:50
  Speaker 24: On her right hand, hands on Tom's neck, just squeezes
• 34:56
  Speaker 24: the life.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: Out of him, holds until he stops breathing. His head
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: is no longer moving. He's dead.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: Finder guilty of murder because the evidence proves it, the
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: law requires it, and justice demands it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: things without evidence. What do we have here? You know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: what type of evidence do we have? We have a
• 35:27
  Speaker 11: lot of speculation, We have a lot of ideas that
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: mister Devar two has floated to you, and we're talking
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: zero evidence of that other than you're the prosecutor asked
• 35:39
  Speaker 11: me to you speculate if this was the case.
• 35:42
  Speaker 26: We don't know what it's like for j Right one day,
• 35:46
  Speaker 26: bump a computer screen and all of a sudden, your
• 35:49
  Speaker 26: urle crashes because the man that you love, the man
• 35:52
  Speaker 26: that you looked up to, the man that you cared
• 35:54
  Speaker 26: about so much that you clean.
• 35:55
  Speaker 14: Up after him, has this.
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: And it's not just that I provided evidence of just
• 36:01
  Speaker 11: a small number of pictures.
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: There were hundreds.
• 36:05
  Speaker 28: They were cashing in body parts, jade, shower.
• 36:09
  Speaker 17: Jade, and then the body part.
• 36:11
  Speaker 28: So imagine just for a second what that's like. Imagine
• 36:14
  Speaker 28: what is going through your mind when you see that,
• 36:18
  Speaker 28: The devastation, the betrayal, fear.
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: Jay James loved her stepfather, would have never hurt him
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: and never.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: Killed him, and she.
• 36:32
  Speaker 14: Just panicked instead of calling.
• 36:34
  Speaker 17: I don't why she panicked, but panicking is not a crime.
• 36:40
  Speaker 21: The faith by Slona Beach, woman accused of murdering her stepfather,
• 36:44
  Speaker 21: is now in the hands of a jury.
• 36:45
  Speaker 27: Jurors got the case this morning. They deliberated all day
• 36:48
  Speaker 27: and now they've gone home for the night.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Whenever you have a jury out, you're always worried.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: Sometimes jurors decide, well, we can't think it's a murder.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: We can say for sure it's a murder. Maybe she
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: did it under a heat of passion or something like that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I argue that involuntary manslaughter was an alternative. So if
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: she gave medication to him, knowing that he's a drug user,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: prescription pill abuser, and she gave him enough that he
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: can kill himself with, that could have been involuntary manslaughter.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: It was a real possibility that they could have come
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: back with a not guilty.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: They came back at nine o'clock and then we get
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: a call at nine point thirty that they got a verdict.
• 37:34
  Speaker 14: We have your own.
• 37:46
  Speaker 29: Superior Court of the State of California for the County
• 37:50
  Speaker 29: of San Diego, the People of the State of California,
• 37:53
  Speaker 29: Plaintiff versus Jade sa Jenks, Defendant Case number SCN four
• 38:00
  Speaker 29: two zero seven seven two, Verdict Count one first agree murder.
• 38:06
  Speaker 30: We the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant,
• 38:10
  Speaker 30: Jade Sasha James, guilty of the crime of murdered in
• 38:15
  Speaker 30: violation of penal coat Section one eight seven Subsection A.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: I looked over to her to see her reaction and
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: saw her eyes wide and looking at her lawyer.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: She looks like she was in abs absolute shock.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: She expected for the jury to to understand why she
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: acted the way she did and for her to be
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: able to walk home that day.
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: How's Jade doing?
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Uh, she's not doing well. She's uh.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: Jade is in the back. I went and saw her.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: She's she's very emotional, afraid about what e Liza had.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: The sentence for murder is twenty five to life. This
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: was a planned, premeditated murder.
• 39:13
  Speaker 20: My name is Steve Jayings some Jay's father.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:15
  Speaker 20: I can only imagine what she went through when she
• 39:18
  Speaker 20: found out that Tom, her stepfather, a person she trusted
• 39:23
  Speaker 20: that she called dad, was a sick, perverted individual. All
• 39:27
  Speaker 20: I can say is this fight is not over. I
• 39:30
  Speaker 20: truly believe that an injustice has taken place. This case
• 39:34
  Speaker 20: was not one on its merit. It was one based
• 39:38
  Speaker 20: on an Oscar winning performance by the da mis James.
• 39:43
  Speaker 14: She can be here at this time, jus Listenshire, you
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: can remain seate.
• 40:00
  Speaker 19: Tom came into my life when I was just a
• 40:02
  Speaker 19: little girl, and I started influence during that early stage development.
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: I'm not still figuring things out.
• 40:09
  Speaker 18: Unfortunately, that influence manifested itself into appropriate touch, person.
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: Reckless behavior, and complete violation, when I now realize is
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: years of psychological manipulation.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: She alluded to Tom being inappropriate with her when she
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: was a kid. That was the first time I heard
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: of it. There was no evidence of it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: I don't think they judge liked that too much because
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: that's not what this is about. This is about the
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: murder that she committed and that she was convicted of.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: All of this came crashing.
• 40:38
  Speaker 31: Down on me when I found hundreds of night gid
• 40:40
  Speaker 31: photos of myself and his computer dot chatter. I'm still
• 40:44
  Speaker 31: picking up the pieces, and since youreus Folt, but over
• 40:46
  Speaker 31: than in two years, I can put the pieces back.
• 40:48
  Speaker 31: I can help from this trauma. I'm sorry I didn't
• 40:51
  Speaker 31: That's the way I was supposed to do that day.
• 40:53
  Speaker 31: I think about it every day since into Tom's family.
• 40:56
  Speaker 31: I understand you gave me through what you believe I
• 40:58
  Speaker 31: did to Tom. For there's a lot more than a miscounctory.
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: I want the court to know the killer gave my
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: brother an undignified death. I want a court to know
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: that the only person that only a person Tom trusted,
• 41:15
  Speaker 10: would have been able to do this to him. Jade
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: Sasha Jenks deserves the punishment the state will impose on her.
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: She won't be missed. Thank you.
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: The judge said he considered the naked photos when he
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: made his decision about sentencing.
• 41:36
  Speaker 32: I think that the jury ultimately determined they didn't justify
• 41:41
  Speaker 32: Miss Shank's actions. Therefore, they found her guilty of first
• 41:45
  Speaker 32: degree murder, and I do believe that the evidence supported
• 41:48
  Speaker 32: their conclusion. She will be committed to the Department of
• 41:51
  Speaker 32: Corrections for the term of the rest of her life
• 41:55
  Speaker 32: in prison with the minimum eligibility of parle date for
• 41:59
  Speaker 32: twenty five years now.
• 42:01
  Speaker 14: So in essence, twenty five years to life small after.
• 42:06
  Speaker 16: Oh yeah, your treat.
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: I love.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: You as a woman. I understood her point of view
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: that that is an absolute violation. However, Tom, he did
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: not deserve what happened to him, or he did not
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: deserve to be killed the way that he was killed.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: He did not deserve to be left out in the
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: cold and be treated and discarded like trash.