A Deadly American Marriage: The Jason Corbett Murder Case

A Deadly American Marriage: The Jason Corbett Murder Case

When Irish businessman Jason Corbett moved to North Carolina with his wife and two children, it seemed like the start of a happy new chapter. But behind the walls of their suburban home, tensions were building—tensions that would end in brutal, deadly violence. In August 2015, Jason was found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom. His wife, Molly Martens, and her father, a former FBI agent, claimed it was self-defense. But the evidence told a very different story.

In this episode, we delve into the twisted dynamics of control, custody, and lies that led to Jason Corbett’s murder. Was it a desperate act of protection—or a calculated killing masked by a family’s cover-up? The courtroom drama that followed would raise haunting questions about justice, manipulation, and the darker side of marriage.

Listener discretion is advised — this episode contains descriptions of domestic violence and graphic content.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
In the early hours of August second, twenty fifteen, precisely
at three a m an urgent call was made to
nine one one. Tom Martins, an older gentleman, reported in
a frantic tone that his son in law, Jason Corbett,
had assaulted his daughter Molly. To protect her, Tom intervened
and struck Jason on the head with a baseball bat.

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He mentioned Jason was bleeding heavily and might already be deceased.
He urgently requested an ambulance to their location. Jason Corbett,
a thirty nine year old businessman from Limerick, Ireland, was
known for his cheerful and kind personality. He had a
twin brother named Wayne and a sister named Tracy. In
two thousand and three, at the age of twenty seven,

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Jason married Margaret Fitzpatrick. They soon welcomed a son named
Jack and a daughter named Sarah. Their family life appeared
idyllic in Ireland until tragedy struck two thousand and six.
Not long after Sarah's birth, Margaret experienced a severe asthma attack.
In the middle of the night. She woke Jason up,

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struggling to breathe. Despite Jason's efforts to help with medication
and an inhaler, her condition deteriorated. In desperation, he called
for an ambulance. However, Margaret sadly passed away en route
to the hospital. At just thirty years old and serving
as the director of a small packaging company in Ireland.

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Jason was left to raise their children, his two year
old son and three month old daughter alone. His friends
noted his profound sadness and struggle following this loss. A
year after Margaret's passing, Jason sought help with childcare and
housekeeping duties. This led him to hire Molly Martin's, a
twenty five year old American woman. Molly arrived in Ireland

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from the United States in March two thousand and eight.
A longtime friend of Jason's met her at the airport,
but immediately harboured reservations about her suitability for the role
of nanny and housekeeper. Molly appeared much younger than her
age suggested and had a rather flamboyant style, sporting a
bright coat with a fur collar along with cowboy boots

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and heavy makeup. To this friend, she seemed more like
someone out of theater than fitting for such significant responsibilities.
Molly Martins grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. She left Clemson
University and decided to start afresh in Ireland. Molly quickly
formed a strong bond with Jason's son and daughter, showing
tenderness and care. Soon, Jason's close friends noticed a change.

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He was gradually healing after the loss of his first wife,
appearing more lively and engaged. Feelings blossomed between Jason and Molly,
leading to a romantic relationship. The couple, along with Jack
and Sarah, enjoyed a vacation together. They had a wonderful
time growing closer while planning their future life. Later, on

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Valentine's Day twenty ten, Jason invited Molly to a cafe
where he proposed with a ring. Overjoyed, Molly began planning
their wedding in America. She persuaded Jason to move to
her home country, and he agreed. In twenty eleven, Jason
sold his house and relocated his job to the United States.
The family settled in Davidson County, North Carolina, where Jason

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and Molly married in a ceremony attended by many relatives
and friends from both America and Ireland. After their marriage,
Molly worked as a swimming instructor, but mainly focused on
caring for Jack and Sarah. Meanwhile, Jason held a managerial
position in the United States. Initially happy, their marital relationship

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eventually began to deteriorate. This growing tension peaked on August first,
twenty fifteen, when Molly's parents, Tom and Sharon Martin's visited
the Corbett family's home at around eleven pm. Jason welcomed
them in the driveway and helped with their luggage. Tom
brought a baseball bat as a gift for Jack, Jason's son,

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who was out at a party with friends at the time.
That evening, Jason, Molly, her parents, and Sarah had dinner together.
They opted for pizza. Jack returned home close to midnight. However,
Tom decided not to give him the baseball bat at
such an hour, but intended to present it later instead.
The following morning, after eleven pm, the family retired for

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the night. Molly and Jason slept in the master bedroom
on the first floor, with the children, Jack and Sarah
in adjacent rooms. Molly's parents were accommodated in the guest
room on the second floor. In the early of August second,
around three am, Tom Martins called nine one one. He
claimed that his son in law, Jason, had attacked Molly

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and that he had struck Jason with a baseball bat.
In response, Tom urgently requested assistance. Unsure of Jason's condition,
who lay uncom conscious and bleeding. The nine one Weaven
dispatcher guided Tom and Molly through cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures in
an effort to revive Jason before medical help arrived. When

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police and ambulance services arrived ten minutes later, they found
Molly outside near a car, appearing distraught and in shock,
but without actual tears. Inside, they discovered the lifeless body
of thirty nine year old Jason Corbett in the main bedroom,
blood spattered across the bed, walls and floor. Both Tom's

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and Molly's clothing bore bloodstains, while blood marked Jason's body.
Near Jason lay a baseball bat and a large cobblestone,
both with traces of blood, as well as an overturned lamp.
Throughout this ordeal, Jack and Sarah remained asleep in their rooms.
Tom and Molly did not deny their involvement in Jason's death,

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asserting it was self defense. They were taken to the
station for questioning. At the police station, sixty six year
old Tom Martin's, an FBI veteran with thirty years of experience,
stated that his son in law was insane and constantly
tormented his daughter. According to Tom, Jason was drunk that evening.
Everyone went to bed, but Tom woke up at night

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because he heard screams and loud voices on the first
floor of the house. He jumped out of bed, grabbed
a baseball bat, and ran downstairs. Tom entered the main
bedroom and saw Jason holding Molly by the throat with
both hands. He yelled at Jason to let her go,
to which Jason turned to him and said he would
kill her. Tom claimed his protective instincts kicked in instantly,

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so he hit Jason with the baseball bat, but noted
that their forces were unequal. Jason didn't appear to feel
the blow as he tried to drag Molly into the
bathroom and shut the door. However, Tom intervened. Jason pushed
the elderly man, making him fall and causing his glasses
to fly off. Tom confessed that at that moment he

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believed he was going to be Jason spotted the bat
on the floor and reached for it. At that point,
Molly grabbed a stone and shouted, don't touch my dad.
Then she struck her husband on the head with all
her might. Following that, Tom seized the baseball bat and
began hitting Jason until he fell to the floor. During questioning,

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thirty two year old Molly Corbett recounted the same story
to investigators. She explained that her daughter Sarah woke up
during the night screaming from night terrors. This woke Jason,
who became very angry and lashed out at his wife.
He started strangling her, threatening to kill her. Her father
came to Molly's aid. Molly admitted hitting her husband on

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the head with a heavy stone to save her father.
When asked where she got the stone, Molly replied that
it had been on her bedside table. They had planned
to paint cobblestones with their children for decorating flower beds
with colorful stones. The woman couldn't recall how many times
she hit her husband. She only mentioned it was a

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desperate fight for survival. Midway through the interrogation, Molly expressed
enduring pain from being choked by her husband. Investigators photographed
her neck, which bore a red mark in its center. Later,
police compared these photos with those taken during her arrest
and found no red marks on Molly's neck. At detention time,

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she confessed that while there had been a fight between
herself and her husband the day before the tragedy, it
was then when Jason grabbed her by the arms and neck.
Throughout questioning, she frequently complained of throat pain. Both Tom
and Molly claimed in unison that Jason Corbett had been
treating his wife brutally. However, his family provided conflicting accounts.

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Tracy Lynch, Jason Corbette's sister, shared insights about what she
described as an unusual relationship between them. Dynamics observed during
Jason's wedding to Molly indicated Molly exerted considerable control over Jason,
often becoming upset if things didn't align with her expectations.
Her reluctance to interact with Jason's visiting relatives raised further concerns.

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Additional alarm was added by the revelation of one of
Molly's friends. This friend stated that Molly told everyone she
had been friends with Jason's first wife, Margaret, until Margaret
died of cancer. This contradicted family reports, as everyone knew
she had died of an asthma attack. Despite these red
flags and attempts by Jason's family and friends to dissuade

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him from marrying Molly due to her odd behaviour, the
wedding preceded this event marked the beginning of a complicated
and troubled union. Initially, Molly and Jason Corbett's marriage appeared harmonious.
Molly formed a close bond with Jason's children, Jack and Sarah,
treating them as her own. However, as their first wi

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Adding anniversary approached in twenty twelve, Jason expressed a desire
to return to Ireland, his homeland, citing unhappiness in a
foreign country. This disclosure marked the beginning of a decline
in the couple's relationship. Despite Jack and Sarah referring to
Molly as their mother, Jason resisted Molly's intentions to legally

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adopt them. He wanted to preserve the memory of their
biological mother. During this period, Molly's behavior started to change noticeably.
Jason grew increasingly concerned about her mental well being, suspecting
she might have a psychological disorder. He observed a stark
contrast between her initially sweet demeanor and subsequent behaviour, which

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he perceived as more manipulative and controlling. Molly began isolating
Jason from his family, often curtailing his phone conversations with
them to mere seconds. Following the untimely death of his
first wife, Jason Corbett designated his sister, Tracy Lynch, as
the legal guardian for his children, Jack and Sarah in

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the event of his own demise. Tracy was well aware
that if something to Jason, Molly would strongly contest the
custody of the children. When Jason passed away, Tracy promptly
traveled to North Carolina to file for custody, anticipating a
legal battle with Molly, who also sought custody rights. During
their strained marriage, Molly had sought legal counsel to understand

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her rights over Jason's children in the event of a divorce.
Her lawyer advised her to document their disputes and accumulate
incriminating evidence against Jason. Consequently, Molly began secretly recording their conversations.
In these recordings, Molly appeared disengaged, often ignoring Jason's repeated

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questions while he escalated his voice. A close friend of
Molly's disclosed that although Molly rarely discussed her marital issues,
she began to express negative sentiments about Jason following his death.
Molly confided in her friend that Jason was domineering and abusive.
She accused him of forcing her into intimate acts, verbally

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abusing her, and progressively worsening in his treatment towards her.
Despite these allegations, Molly did not report these incidents to
the authorities. Four days after Jason Corbett's tragic demise, his children,
Jack and Sarah, aged ten to eight, were interviewed by
a child welfare professional. In this interview, they shared observations

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about the relationship between their parents. Notably, they mentioned their mother, Molly,
being cautious about not waking their father Jason, fearing it
might anger him. Jack specifically talked about a cobblestone kept
on the bedside table. He clarified that they had brought
the stone inside due to rain, intending to decorate it later.

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Regarding their parents interactions, both Jack and Sarah described incidents
where they witnessed physical altercations initiated by their father against Molly.
They recounted occasions where Jason physically assaulted Molly, including hitting
and pushing her, and frequently snapping at her over minor issues.

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Subsequent to these revelations, Jack and Sarah were temporarily placed
under the care of their biological relatives. Aunt Tracy Lynch,
who had traveled from Ireland, stayed in a North Carolina
hotel during the unfolding custody battle. By the time Jason
Corbette's autopsy was completed, it revealed the grim details of

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his demise. The cause of death was a traumatic brain injury.
Jason had suffered approximately twelve strikes to the head with
both a baseball bat and a brick. These blows were
concentrated on the same area, leading to his scalp being
severely torn from his skull and his skull itself being fractured. Notably,

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the medical examiner concluded that at least one of these
strikes was inflicted after Jason had already passed away. The
toxicology report provided additional insights. It indicated that Jason's blood
contained slightly higher than normal levels of alcohol. Additionally, traces
of trazodone, an antidepressant medication commonly prescribed for insomnia were

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also found in his system. Jason Corbett was laid to
rest in his hometown, Limerick Island, alongside his first wife, Margaret.
Their shared tombstone is adorned with a wedding photograph, serving
as a poignant reminder of their lives and the bond
they shared. Sixteen days after Jason Corbett's passing, his sister

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Tracy Lynch, took his children, Jack and Sarah to Ireland,
separating them from their stepmother Molly. Molly was left in
a state of shock and despair upon discovering that Jack
and Sarah had been taken to another country. She attempted
to reach out to them through phone calls and social
media posts, hoping these messages would somehow reach the children.

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Molly and Tom consistently maintained that their actions against Jason
were in self defense. However, the investigation into Jason's death
was ongoing. Tracy Lynch believed in a different motive. She
speculated that Molly was aware of Jason's plans to leave
her and take their children with him. Tracy surmised that
on the night of the incident, Jason had informed Molly

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of his decision. Out of fear and loneliness, Molly reacted
violently In Ireland, Jack and Sarah received psychological support and
gradually adapted to their new environment. Nine months after their
father's tragic demise, they admitted they had been coerced into
lying about the alleged domestic violence at home. They revealed

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that Molly had manipulated them into fabricating stories about their
father's behavior, threatening them with the loss of contact with
her if they refused to comply. Contrary to their earlier statements,
the children clar that their father had never been abusive
toward Molly. During the course of the inquiry, investigators discovered

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Molly Corbette's past connection with her ex partner, Keith Magan.
He provided several insightful details regarding her earlier life. Keith
and Molly initially connected through a dating website, quickly falling
for each other at their first meeting, They moved in
together just six weeks later. Keith acknowledged Molly's independent spirit,

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jovial nature, and unique personality. However, she eventually disclosed her
struggle with bipolar disorder to him. Keith wasn't overly worried
about this, revelation, since Molly was on medication and generally stable,
except for occasional shifts in behavior when she missed her doses.
She wasn't violent or prone to outbursts, but would insist

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on not letting Keith leave. During disputes, Molly often spent
extended periods in the bathtub, then sat on the cold
floor weeping. Despite these challenges, they continued their lives together
without plans for children. Molly informed Keith she was on contraceptives,
but unexpectedly declared they were expecting a child. At this point, Keith,

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the family's sole earner, faced financial strain and felt unprepared
for parenthood. His discovery of an unopened pack of contraceptives
in Molly's wardrobe led him to realize her deceit. Yet, Keith,
being an honorable man, proposed to Molly, who accepted joyfully.
Undeterred by her health issues, she maintained her regimen of

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antidepressants and other medications, sometimes taking up to sixteen pills daily,
which caused Keith concern for their unborn child's well being.
Molly once dreamt of losing the baby, and tragically the
following day, the hospital confirmed the fetus's demise. This incident
further strained their relationship. Molly plunged into profound mourning and

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was diagnosed with severe depression, as documented in her medical records.
Her parents began supporting her more fervently and simultaneously developed
a disdainful view of Keith, casting him as the antagonist.
In early two thousand eight, Molly informed her fiancee of
her plan to go to Europe to find work as
a nanny or house assistant. By March, she packed her

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belongings and left the apartment she had been renting with
her fiancee. Ten days later, Molly called Keith to tell
him she was in Ireland, had found a job, and
everything was fine. From that point on, they never spoke
or saw each other again. Keith Magan first heard from
a North Carolina detective in October twenty fifteen via e mail.

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Through this communication, he discovered the unfortunate events that had unfolded.
It was revealed that Molly had kept her significant relationship,
engagement and subsequent departure to another country a secret from everyone.
Keith admitted that upon viewing an interview featuring Tom and
Molly in which they portrayed the late Justin Corbett as

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malevolent and dreadful. He found their story unconvincing and moreover,
perceived their expressions as merely facades. In January twenty sixteen,
half a year following Jason's demise, Tom and Molly were
unexpectedly indicted for second degree murder. By July twenty and seventeen,

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two years since the incident, the father and daughter duo
faced their trial together. They maintained their stance of having
acted in self defense in Jason's killing. During the trial,
Tom Martin claimed his actions were what any true father
would do protect his daughter. He believed it was a
life or death situation and did all he could to

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safeguard both Molly and himself. Tom confessed he was the
one who struck Jason with a bat, ceasing only when
he felt sure Jason no longer posed a threat. The
prosecution contended in court that the severity of the blows
indicated deep seated animosity, not mere self defense. An expert

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analyzing the bloodstains deduced that some strikes were dealt when
Jason's head was thirty to fifty centimetres off the ground,
strongly suggesting Tom continued to strike him even when he
was down and noa threat. Bloodstains on Molly's pajama bottom
suggested she was close to Jason during these blows. A long,

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light colored hair, possibly Molly's, was found in John's hand,
but it wasn't tested. The autopsy revealed defensive wounds on
John's left hand, but none on his right. This is
significant because he might have used his right hand to
grab Molly by the throat. During the trial, Lieutenant Frank Young,
assigned to document injuries on Tom and Molly the night

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of the incident, took the stand. He recalled noticing self
inflicted marks on Molly's neck. Lieutenant Young repeatedly told her
to stop, and noted that except for dried blood on
her cheek, forehead, and hair, she had no other injuries. Similarly,
Tom had no injuries on the front of his shirt,
but blood was found on his watch dial and under

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his finger nails. His glasses remained intact. Paramedic Mamander Hackworth
also testified. When she arrived at the scene and examined
Jason's body, she found his torso already cold with patches
of dried blood. This contradicted Molly's claim that they had
immediately called nine one, one after Jason lost consciousness and collapsed.

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The trial further revealed that Jason Corbett had a life
insurance policy naming Molly as the beneficiary. It was also
disclosed that Jason often sent money to Molly's parents during
his lifetime. For instance, in twenty eleven, he sent fifty
thousand dollars to Tom, supposedly for wedding expenses. A neighbor
came forward during the trial recounting how he and Jason

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spent an evening together drinking beer from about three thirty
p m. To eight thirty p m. The neighbor described
Jason as very relaxed and noted Jason's calm interactions with
his in laws when they arrived at the Corbett residence.
He witnessed Tom and his wife arriving, with Jason welcoming
them and helping carry heavy bags from their car into

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the house. Finally, a nurse testified about her observations of
the couple before this incident occurred. The tragic event unfolded
when it was reported that trazodone had been prescribed to
Molly a few days before the incident. On July thirtieth,
twenty fifteen, Jason had visited the hospital two weeks prior
to his passing, expressing concerns about frequent dizziness, tension, and

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unprovoked anger. After nine days filled with witness accounts, debates,
and distressing crime scene photographs, the jury reached a verdict
in merely three hours. Molly Corbett and her father, Tom
Martin's were convicted of second degree murder and received sentences
of twenty and twenty five years in sis in prison, respectively.

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Upon hearing the verdict, Molly turned to her mother with
regret in her voice, stating, I'm so sorry, but I
shouldn't have let him kill me. While it seemed justice
had been served for the convicted individuals, the case was
far from over. Just an hour after the jury delivered
their verdict, a juror disclosed outside the court house that

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discussions about Jason Corbett's case occurred prior to the formal
deliberation period. This was a significant breach of legal protocol.
In light of this revelation, the defense swiftly submitted a
request to overturn the conviction due to dura misconduct. However,
this motion was dismissed by the trial court judge. A

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year later, the defense approached the appellate court, highlighting several
investigative errors. One issue raised concerned blood stains on Tom
Martin's shorts. The prosecution had suggested these stains belonged to
Jason's blood flying Tom stood over Jason during the assault,
but they were never actually tested. The prosecutor argued it

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was impractical and unnecessary to test every single blood spot.
The defense also underscored initial statements made by Jack and Sarah.
They initially claimed their father was abusive towards them Molly
and expressed fear of him. The defense argued that the
siblings later a tractions where they to lying, were influenced

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by professionals shuring them to change their testimony. On fourth
twenty twenty, the North Carolina Court of Appeals determined Tom
Martins and Molly Corbett should be granted a new trial.
This decision was later upheld by the Supreme Court of
North Carolina. Subsequently, both were released on a two hundred
thousand dollars bond While awaiting the retrial. They were required

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to hand over their passports and were forbidden from making
any contact with Jack and Sarah. Currently, Jason Corbett's case
has been moved to Forsyth County, North Carolina for additional
legal proceedings, marking a minor triumph for Tom and Molly.
Jason's children, Jack and Sarah are now residing with their
biological aunt in Ireland. Sarah, aged sixteen, has authored a

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series of books aimed at helping others deal with the
loss of parents. Tracy Lynch, Jason's sister, has also penned
a book about her brother. During these years of legal battles,
She aims to share the kindness and decency of Jason
Corbett with the world. A notable excerpt from Tracy's book reads,
deep down, I smile when I realize that Jason has

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finally returned to the only place on this earth he
ever wanted to be, in the arms of his beloved Margaret.
Kelly Clayton had everything going for her. First of all,
she was quite smart and bright. Since high school. She
was a role model for other students. Active in school,
excelled in tests and passed exams just as well. At

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the same time. Outwardly, she never looked like a girl
who spent days and nights sitting over text books, cramming
lessons and writing out something from additional literature no. On
the contrary, her looks were considered model like and if
her grades had left much to be desired, she could
have built a modeling career. She could have, but she didn't.

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After high school, she went to teach her training university
to become a chemistry teacher, the insane pride of her parents,
but only for the first few years of university. It
is not known what turning point happened to her then,
but one day Kelly took her documents from the institution and,
calling her parents, said that she no longer wanted to study,

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that she was too young to spend the rest of
her life checking note books and raising ungrateful children. If
she wants to, she will definitely return to her educational endeavors.
In the meantime, she wants to travel and live life
to her heart's content. Not the best idea according to
her parents, who were so upset that they didn't communicate

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with their daughter for six months. But perhaps if it
wasn't for this desperate act, Kelly would never have met
Tom Clayton. They met at a party of mutual friends,
and the young man really liked the girl. Firstly, he
from the first minutes of acquaintance began to court Kelly
and show signs of attention. And secondly, Tom had a
beautiful appearance and athletic physique and all because the guy

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was a hockey star. For four consecutive seasons, he played
for the semi professional team Jackals, and in it he
was considered a strong man, a player who was able
to break the opponent's ribs only if he did not
approach the gate. But only a sports career and especially
built on strength and aggression, will someday fail, and Tom

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had to put the stick in the far corner and
enjoy hockey only from the stands or from the couch
watching his favorite team on the TV screen. The couple
had to move on with their lives, and first they
returned to New York where they got married, then moved
to North Carolina, and then moved to the tiny town
of Cato, numbering only a few thousand people. There, Tom

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franchised a company to rebuild houses after fires or disasters
and worked in a related profession for a friend's company.
As for Kelly, after dropping out of university, she worked
as a waitress, only changing places and now she had
two children. However, Tom was earning well enough, and Kelly
could quit her job at any time and take care

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of her beautiful daughters. But she still believed that extra
money would never be superfluous. Besides, she could use it
to blue toys for her children and spoil them in
every possible way. On September twenty eighth, twenty fifteen, Tom,
as usual, went to play poker with his friends, the Millers.
He never took his wife to such events. Playing for

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money implied certain skills and experience in the game. Besides,
someone had to stay at home with the children, and
a family trip would have turned such gatherings into a
noisy buffoonery and would not have brought any pleasure from gambling.
That evening, Tom was not lucky in the game, but
he did not get up from the table, but on
the contrary, tried to win back and offered anyone who

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wanted to stay to play until morning, but no one
supported him, and he went home. At home, however, a
terrible picture opened before him. His beloved wife was lying
in her own pool of blood, badly beaten and at
first glance, was not breathing. Tom panicked and ran through

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the rooms looking for his children, and luckily they were fine,
but very frightened. He grabbed his daughters and headed to
his neighbor Derrick's house, trying to make sure the children
didn't see their mother's mutilated body. And already from the
neighbor's house, he dialed the police number. The officer who
arrived on the scene found Tom sitting on his knees
in front of his wife's body, trying to give her

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artificial respiration. Only the e m ts were able to
pull the man away, who voiced the terrible and unpleasant
information Kelly had been dead for a long time, and
neither they nor he could do anything to help her.
All two floors of the house were drenched in blood.
A major mess was in the bedroom. Apparently there had

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been a struggle between Kelly and the perpetrator who had
committed his atrocity, despite the fact that there were children
in the house at the time. Kelly was pushed down
the stairs, evidenced by the knocked down banister, and beaten
on the head with a blunt object until they were
sure she was dead. There were no hints of knife

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or gunshot wounds. The policeman who filmid the crime seen
noted to himself that Tom was shocked by what had
happened and seemed lost in space. He walked from one
corner of the room to another, entered the room for
a split second, and immediately left it. And he could
not tell the policeman where the children's room was or

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where the emergency exit from the house was. But when
asked where Tom himself was at the time of the murder,
he answered calmly that he had been at a friend's
house all evening where they were playing poker. Then the policeman,
who did not get any clear information from Tom, went
to the neighbors to ask some questions of the children.

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Tom's eldest daughter, Charlie, referred to the perpetrator as a robber.
According to the words of the eldest daughter, she and
her sister were almost asleep, but they heard their mother
start screaming loudly from the next room. Charlie run run
away from here, and then the whole place shook like
an earthquake. The girls, after listening to their mother, cautiously

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went out of their room, but saw the criminal leaning
over their mother and beating her with what appear to
them to be a hammer. The girls ran back into
the nursery, closed the door with a small nightstand and
hid under the bed. It was a good thing the
criminal wasn't looking for them, because that nightstand, as the
policeman pointed out, was so small that it would hardly

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have apprehended a burglar. Say what did this burglar look like? Well?
He was a big one, like a bear, that big. Wow.
What was he wearing? Blue jeans and a black shirt.
He was also wearing a mask, you know, like the
one daddy wears when he goes hunting with mister Bourne
to shoot ducks. So your daddy has a mask like

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that too? Will you show me? I'd have to ask
him where it is. I don't know what else. Did
you notice when you saw the robber? He had eyes
like dad's And I don't remember anything else. I saw
him literally just a little bit, got scared and we
quickly ran back inside. Police officers checking the house were

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unable to confirm the girl's account that the perpetrator was
a burglar. There were no signs of forced entry at
either the front or back door, although on the other hand,
the gate to the garage was open and the perpetrator
could have entered the house through the garage. Another thing
that the police noted is that nothing was stolen from
the house. Jewelry was left untouched lying in a jewelry box,

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and the safe where Tom kept the cash was not
even touched. The doors of the cabinets in the house
were also all closed. Usually burglars check every little cabinet,
every shelf, but here the whole mess was the aftermath
of a fight. Experienced officers, it would seem understood everything
at once. Tom pretends to be a heart broken husband,

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and it was he who killed his beloved wife and
the mother of his children in order to further receive
insurance payments. If Kelly's life was insured and husband's murderers
developing a crime plan always insure the life of their wives,
than in case of her death, he could get up
to a million dollars. All that's needed is to gather
evidence in the case will be solved, especially since even

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her own daughter said that the mask on the robber
was like her father's and eyes like her father. However,
the police did not find the hunting mask in the house.
After finding out where Tom had spent his time that night,
the police questioned the other poker players, is Tom the killer?
Do you really suspect him, wondered one of his friends.

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That poor guy had his wife murdered for crying out loud,
and instead of looking for the bastard, you want to
pin everything on him. How could you think of such
a thing. No, Tom certainly couldn't have done it. I've
known him a long time, replied another less emotional friend.
He worked two jobs around the clock because he loved

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both Kelly and his kids. There's just no way that
could happen. Plus, he was with us all night. We
played poker, and even when every one was tired, he
kept insisting on continuing to play. Tom really was suspicious
that evening, said his acquaintance Laura. During a break in
the game, he took me into the next room and

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asked me to give him my phone to call his wife.
He supposedly forgot his phone in the car and didn't
want to go get it. I was first surprised that
the car was ten meters away from the house go
to it and get the phone, but still gave him
a call. He stepped back to make the call outside.
I didn't hear who or what he was talking to,
but when I decided to check the outgoing calls, there

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were no numbers in the call history, so he just
deleted the call, wouldn't you agree? That's odd? I told
my husband about it, and he was as surprised as
I was. My husband was sitting at the playing table
next to Tom and noticed that Tom was not watching
the process of dealing cards or watching the people around him,

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which is very im portent in poker, but was sitting
with his head bowed over the surface of the table
where the cards were hiding the screen of his phone.
He had his phone on him. Why had he tricked me? Then?
Where was he calling? Who couldn't he call from his phone?
After Laura's testimony, the police once again questioned Charlie, Tom's daughter,

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and the girl repeated what she had told the policeman
the first time. The robber looked a lot like her father.
The next testimony was given by the niece of the
murdered already after Tom was behind bars. I didn't tell
aunt Kelly. I just didn't want to upset her. She
was very fond of Tom. She literally loved him, and besides,

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she has two children by him. They are my sisters.
Who needs my truth? Tom was not the man he
appeared to be. At first glance, yes, he occasionally spoiled
my aunt with attention and flowers. He could easily babysit,
which other fathers rarely do, but that was all at home,
and at work he was a completely different person. I've

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Kelly decided to help me one day and arranged for
Tom to take me to work for him. She was
too young to be on her own, so she understood
me as well as anyone and wanted the best for me.
I worked for Tom all last summer, doing correspondence registration
and document management. I didn't know him well before that,

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so at first we had a strictly working relationship. Then
he got drunk somewhere and came to the office in
that state. There was no one there but me and him,
and for some reason he started to tell me that
his family was fictitious. He loves his daughters very much,
but he doesn't care about his wife, and he hasn't
had any feelings for her for a long time. He's

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even had a few affairs on the side during their marriage,
and even considered leaving Aunt Kelly, but he didn't simply
because he was afraid that a divorce might leave him
without a house and without money looking ahead. It is
important to note that some of the interviewed female participants
of that evening's poker game confirmed the words of Kelly's

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niece that Tom was not such a faithful husband and
had a sexual relationship with two women who were also
playing poker that night. In addition to the information about
Tom's promiscuous life, Kelly's sixteen year old niece also told
about another employee of Tom's firm, Michael Beard. Michael was

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doing repair work on houses after the fire, and he
was doing a good job, but there was one moment
in those houses where Bird worked constantly missing things, and
if the first few times, Tom did not believe his customers,
referring to the fact that during the fire the owners
could lose something. Then when the accusations of theft began

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to be repeated for the third and fourth time, there
was no doubt Michael Byrd not only restores the floor
and walls, but also steals. Plus in addition to stealing,
there were complaints that Michael was allowing himself to come
to work drunk. I was in the office when Michael
stealing came to like Tom could yell at his employee

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and kick him out on the street. He was upset
with his subordinate's behavior like that. He kept asking him,
how could you or haven't you thought about your family?
Where are you going to work now? After the incident,
Tom fired Bird, but still called companies he knew and
offered them to hire his former employee. Tom recommended Michael,

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and when all his options were exhausted, Tom took Bird
in to help with the household, cutting the grass, watering
the plants, doing minor repairs around the house. The detective
called Michael Beard in for questioning. He said he only
stole because he and his family needed the money. Tom
was very good to me, defended me to the end,

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but I know it was my own fault. He has
a very good wife. She fed me when I worked
for them, even though she really shouldn't have. She also
gave my children clothes that her daughters had grown out of.
I am very grateful for all they have done for me.
I feel so bad for Kelly. When I heard about
her death, I couldn't believe my ears. I felt so bad.

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I even went to church and prayed for her to
go to the best of all worlds. The police did
not find anything strange in Michael's story and let him go,
but the interrogation of his wife, Missus Bird, made the
police doubt his words. According to his wife Holly, Tom
offered Michael some work, which he did not say, and

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for this work he promised to pay him ten thousand dollars.
Now that was interesting. Michael was called back to the
station and had a lie detector hooked up to him.
All questions were failed. Bird was lying and therefore failed
the test. Realizing he couldn't get away with it, he
began to testify. Indeed, Tom promised Bird ten thousand dollars

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if Michael on the day when Tom will play poker,
sneak into his house, kill his wife, and set a
fire in his house. The plan was to strangle Kelly
and then make it look like she just burned to
death in an accidental fire. Plus, the family home was
insured for a very large sum of money. As the
police checked, it was true. Kelly's home and life were

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insured at the highest rate. Two cans of gasolene were
waiting for Michael and the garage through which the house
was to be entered. Everything was fine here. Bird entered
the house when everyone was already asleep. He quietly began
to climb the stairs and reach the bedroom where Kelly
was supposed to be sleeping. But the young woman was

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either awake or awakened by the sound of the open door,
and when she saw a strange man in the doorway,
she began to scream in fright. Mike Ale was just
as frightened and pounce it on Kelly, trying to his
huge hands around her neck. But it wasn't that easy.
Kelly began to fight back. I had no idea that

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a seemingly fragile Kelly had so much strength in her,
says Michael. A heck of a fight ensued, which spilled
over from the second floor bedroom to the first floor kitchen. Michael,
because of the shock and panic, could not concentrate on
the fight, but only waved his arms in all directions
or just grabbed Kelly's clothes, while Kelly, defending her life,

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aimed very accurately at Michael's face, and if the police
had come to Bird earlier, they would have seen the
marks from the beatings on him. But everything turned out
as it did. After a long struggle, Michael hit Kelly's
head against the wall with all his might. She fell
and for a while couldn't find the strength to get up.

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Michael took out a hammer and began hitting the young
woman's head with it until she stopped showing signs of life.
Michael Madden, by what had happened, just ran out of
the house, even forgetting that Tom asked him not only
to kill Kelly, but also to set the house on
fire to cover up the crime. Michael had an accomplice,

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Mark Blantford, who in fact served only as a driver.
The day before it happened, I got a call from Michael.
I had worked with him on a construction site for
a long time, and I had stayed with him for
a couple weeks last year, so I knew him well.
I knew Michael was into petty theft, so when he
called me and asked me to drive while he broke

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into someone's house, I wasn't surprised. I wanted to turn
him down, but he offered me five hundred dollars. I
thought long and hard at first, but he talked me
into it. He said he just wanted to rob a
business man and he needed help to get out of
there before the cops got there. He said he'd help
with the car I gave in to his entreaties, but

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on the condition that I parked somewhere far away from
the house. He agreed that evening. I waited for him
in that car in a dark alley, and he came
back quickly enough, breathing heavily and telling me to move
as fast as possible. He didn't have any bag or
sack on him, which didn't look much like a robbery.
I didn't ask him any questions along the way, simply

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because I didn't want to know anything. I just wanted
my five hundred dollars, which, by the way, I didn't
end up getting. On the way out, he asked me
to stop at a bridge over a creek a couple
blocks south of here. I stopped there. He hastily stripped
off his outer garments and threw them off the bridge.
If you need to be shown the place, I'll show you. Indeed,

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police officers who arrived on the scene at Mark's Behest
found parts of Michael's outer clothing near the creek, as
well as the hammer used to kill Kelly. Michael, already
in custody on suspicion of first degree murder, began to
change his testimony. According to him. He was indeed hired
by Tom, indeed for ten thousand dollars, but only to

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commit arson at the house and nothing more. There was
no question of murder. When he went into the house, however,
Kelly was already dead. And who killed her? The detective asked,
I think it was Tom. He offered me money for
murder and arson from the beginning, but I refused the
first offer. I'm not willing to kill a man for
any money, he said. I had nothing to fear, but

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he never could talk me into it. You may not
believe me, but I almost lost my mind when I
saw Kelly's body. I knew right then and there that
he was setting me up, so I ran out of
the house. He's the killer, Michael insisted. Michael spent a
very long time assuring the police of his innocence at all,
because he did not know that Mark had shown the

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place where Bird had thrown out his things, and that
his clothes, as well as the murder weapon, had already
been submitted for examination, and the experts found both on
his clothes and on the hammer the blood of Kelly Clay,
and that was the most direct proof that it was
him who killed Kelly. Not someone else. In turn, Tom

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also did not admit that it was he who ordered
the massacre of his wife from a former problem employee
of his company. According to him, Michael knew that he
had money, knew that he was not poor, and because
Byrd lost his job, as well as because of resentment
associated with the dismissal, he decided to rob his house.
But Kelly was at home that night, for which he

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paid with his life. It might have been difficult to
prove Tom's guilt and his conspiracy with Michael if Laura,
the woman who had been playing poker that night, had
not told the police that Tom had called from her
cell phone. The detective requested a transcript of her calls,
and expectations were confirmed. Then, on the night of September

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twenty eighth, twenty nine, Tom Clayton called Michael Beard. Michael
was the first to go to trial. He continued to
insist that he had been hired to set fire to
the house in order to collect the insurance payout. He
didn't kill Kelly, and as for the blood on his clothes,
it was just because he was touching a dead and
mutilated body. That's why he got dirty. He'd thrown his

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stuff away so no one would think he'd been at
Clayton's house that night. His speech sounded convincing. The jury
had been deliberating for seven hours. In the end they
concluded that Michael Beard was guilty on all counts. He
was facing life in prison. As for Tom, his lawyers
were able to obtain records of conversations and correspondence between

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him and Michael, and none of the conversations clearly discussed
their devious plan. The prosecution's requests for billing transcripts of
his movements yielded no concrete results either. All the evidence
was circumstantial if it weren't for one nuance. The car
in which Mark had given Michael a ride was registered

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to Tom's company, and Tom, coming to the office on
his personal Toyota left it in the parking lot, where
for some reason moved to the company pickup truck, which
later drove to Michael's house and left there and took
back the day after the tragedy. That is, in fact,
he gave Michael the car on which he and Mark
went to the crime. It was this fact that was

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testified to at the trial by the jury. The trial
lasted six days, and the jury concluded that Tom had
hired Michael to commit this horrible crime after all. Michael,
in turn filed an appeal. In his defense. He used
the words of little Charlie, who said that the eyes
in the slit of the mask belonged to her father. However,

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the court rejected the appeal because the description of the
clothes matched the one found under the bridge. As a result,
Tom Clayton and Michael Beard received life sentences. As from Mark,
he was charged with manslaughter, for which he received four
years in prison. Tom and Kelly's children were given custody
to Kelly's sister, Kim. After some time, Charlie has moved

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on from the tragedy. She occasionally remembers her mom, but
absolutely won't talk about her father, who she will never
see again. Corpus Christi resident Kevin Davis strangled his mother
before hitting her in the head with a hammer, splitting
her skull. Davis then swirled her brain around before sexually
assaulting her corpse. Davis was sentenced to life in prison

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for the crime of a mom who he described as
the best. In twenty fourteen, Kevin Jasrell Davis argued with
his mother fifty year old Kimberly Hill in the Corpus Christie,
TX apartment he shared with her and his sister Destiny.
On May twenty sixth Davis called nine one one, reporting
that he'd just murdered his mother. Once at the police station,

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an eighteen year old Davis vividly detailed the day's events,
sometimes with a smirk on his face. What he told
detectives was crusome and shocking. Kevin admitted bashing in Hill's
head with a hammer, swirling her brain around, and then
sexually assaulting her corpse. On the morning of March twenty seventh,
twenty fourteen, Davis, bored and frustrated with life, told his

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mother he did not like people and that he wanted
to commit suicide. Obviously caught off guard by the statement,
He'll allegedly told her son that she could not stop
him if that was what he wanted to do. Kevin
later told police hearing this from his mother enraged him.
It was then he decided to take her life. As
Hill sat on the couch in the living room, Davis

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came up behind her, attempting to strangle her with a cord.
He'll began screaming. Kevin panicked, retreat a hammer and began
bashing in his mother's skull. Davis struck his mother in
the head with the hammer at least twenty times, splitting
her skull in the process. Davis then retreat a kitchen
knife that he inserted inside his mother's head wound. He

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swirled her brain around to make sure she was dead.
Kevin cl and then inserted his hand inside the wound.
He would tell detectives during a taped interrogation that his
mother's brain felt like putty. Kevin then dragged his mother's
lifeless body to her bedroom and raped her corpse. When
he finished the statistic act, he went to a neighbor's house,

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saying he just killed someone and needed help. The neighbor
dialed nine one one. Police arrested Davis without incident. At
the police station, he made a full confession of the crime,
giving details that even Cease and detectives found highly disturbing.
Watch part of Tevin Davis's confession. During the interrogation, Davis

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told detectives that he originally planned on killing his sister two,
but changed his mind. He further admitted that he often
fantasized about having sex with dead bodies with a smirk
on his face. Kevin also told the detective that he
was a virgin before he raped his mother. He stated,
I guess I've lost my virginity to a corpse, as

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he gently laughed. What did Kimberly Hill do to warrant
such a violent death? Nothing more inso son murdering than
sexually assaulting his mother, of course, and Kevin could not
give detectives one good reason for the crime. According to Kevin,
she was a great mom that did not deserve what
he had done to her. He said that she was

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the best mother in the world and went on to say,
I am a terrible, disgusting person. Kevin admitted that he
had the best mother in the world, telling detectives that
she did nothing to deserve what was done to her.
He went on to say that he was a terrible,
disgusting person. In reality, Kevin was a serial tiller in

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the making, a psychopath who took sadistic pleasure in hurting
other people. Although diagnosed by a psychologist with antisocial personality disorder,
the doctor said he knew right for moheme. When he
provely murdered and raped his mother, he readily admitted that
he would till again, if ever least from prison. He
also confessed to then fleeing the crime scene on his bicycle.

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Before he did that, though, he left several handwritten notes
for the police, one of which read, chase me, sorry
for the mass KD. But after a while he decided
against leaving town and called nine one one to report
his mother's killing and his crimes. Despite admitting to the
murder and making a videotape confession, Kevin Davis pleaded not

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guilty to the charges in court. He later changed the plea.
Davis smiled at the jury as they sentenced him to
life in prison. He serves his time that the Jester
for facility in Richmond, Texas, and is eligible for parole.
In March twenty forty four. Story number two, Story of

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the Killer Priest. We will be exploring the story of
a killer, a priest that seemed to be normal, nothing
strange or nothing weird about him. However, he did have
a dark side. It turns out that not only was
he a pervert, but he was manipulating people as he
saw fit, especially women. And now, without further ado, let's

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dive into the story of Gore we're going back in
time in the fifties in France, and we need to
take note that the church at that time had a
very important place in people's lives, especially in the countryside.
The priests were almost as important as the mayors because
they were representing a type of moral authority that many
people listened to. And this was the case in the

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small village of Europe where this story took place, a
town that had about four hundred villagers. Gore was born
on the countryside and his family was very Catholic. They
raised him so that he can have a career in
religion as a priest, and even if that was not
his first choice, that is exactly what he became. It
is in nineteen fifty that guy became a priest at

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the Church of Europe. In appearance, this young man looked
like the ideal priest. He was nice, friendly, kind and
very dynamic. Anything linked to religion he did it very
very well. He had a lot of great ideas to
help the village grow. He created a choir, a group
to play in a theater piece. He did organize multiple

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excursions for the kids, and he was known to have
created a soccer team for the boys of the village.
The older people thought that it was very modern for
him to bring all these items to the village, and
the younger generation thought it was pretty amazing and appreciated
the modern aspect that he brought to the town and
to the religion. Doer was apparently also a beautiful man,

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and the ladies found him very charming. Now, as I
have mentioned at the beginning, underneath this whole angelic disguise,
Guy was actually hiding a dark secret his personality. He
had a thirst for kole l pleasure and he was
using his charm to get closer to the ladies. After
a lot of perversity and manipulation, a lot of the

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women actually gave in, and none of the women spoke
as they were afraid that no one would believe them
and did not want to be seen as the shame
of the village. It is in nineteen fifty three that
things took a different turn for Guy Dyer and an
incident happened that changed the plan of the priest. A
girl fell for his charm and guess what happened She

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became pregnant. Now, of course, the priest denies everything, and
he says that he is not the father. He threatens
the girl and says that if she does not stop,
he will file a complaint for defamation. Now, having an
eye influence in the village, Guy says that this is
nonsense and it is impossible for him to be the father,
and of course, having such an high influence, his followers

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believed him. He was even summoned in front of his superior,
the bishop, to which he lied to you and denied
the whole thing, And of course this whole situation was
shut down. In reality, he was actually the father, and
he actually took the earl to another village to give birth,
where he convinced her to give away the child. And

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of course that story was never heard of or told
to the villagers, or we could say, maybe presume that
if people knew, they decided not to say anything because
the priests had such a high influence on the villagers
that they did not want to go against him. Once
the story died, Guy went back to his normal ways
and kept manipulating the people like he did before. But

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there was another incident. In nineteen fifty six, Reeen Phase
nineteen years of age got pregnant, and again by Guy Dyer.
Contrary to the other women. Reen did not want to
give away her child for adoption. Not only that, but
she wanted to raise him in the village of the
Juraf where the priest was. Guy was terrified and he

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was afraid that eventually the child would grow up and
resemble him. He was also afraid that this woman would
actually speak eventually. Speaking of which, in nineteen fifty six,
rumors started to make surface. A lot of parishioners were
becoming pregnant in mysterious ways, and no one knew who
the father was. The priest then starts to think about

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a plan and ask a military man from another village
to come to town and pretend that he was the father. Unfortunately,
that strategy did not work out, and no one believed
the soldier was the father. That only made things worse
for the mysterious pregnancies. December third, nineteen fifty six is
a date that chang changed everything for the priest. Kai

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brings Rain in on a deserted road to try and
convince her one more time to give up the child.
She refuses again, and she was tired of the priest's request.
So you know what she did. She got out of
the car and started to walk back the opposite way
back to the village. At night, guy Deer got out
of the car and pulled out a six point threty

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five caliber pistol and fired three shots. The three shot
hit Regiene in the back of the neck and she
died on the spot. Once the crime committed, the priests
walked to the victim and dressed her and took out
a knife and started to open Rigine's stomach. From her stomach,
he removed the baby curl that was still alive. The
priest remitted again an act that cannot be forgiven. He

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strangled the baby, stabbed and disfigured it, and he did
all the thinking to himself that if the baby is
massacre that way, there would be no way, no DNA,
if you want to call it that way, no d
I need to trace the baby back to him. The
disappearance of Regine was actually reported in the evening and
the weird part is that the priest joined the search
party to find a Regiene. Can you imagine that situation?

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I mean, the killer is with you and the search
party trying to find the person that he just murdered.
Is it just me or that is just like twisted.
The body was found very quickly, and because the priest
was not an assassin, he didn't, you know, think about
cleaning up the crime scene. So it didn't take long
for the cops to find the murder weapon and they
found the weapon casing that lin back to the priest.

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So the priest is now a suspect and when asked
during the interrogation, the priest denied everything. However, because of
all the pressure he was getting, he just cracked and
admitted everything. Now that story came out and everyone was
devastated in France because he is now a criminal, and
the church asked for Guy to be locked up with
a false name so that it would not affect the
church and also the main reason was to make sure

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that the crime was not associated to the church. The
court addressed the case of Guy de Noir on chaining
were twenty fourth, nineteen fifty eight. Of course, the villagers
and the public opinion wanted the priests to be sentenced
to death. The life of Guy was defined as a
person that did enjoy luxury sexual relations and admired his
own authority. And on his side, the priest was asking

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forgiveness because he had no clue what he did wrong.
The jury did provide their verdict and for most they
said that he was guilty of double murder. Of course
there was Regine and the baby. However, they did not
want a sentence into death. The jury did not one
to send someone associated to the church to the scaffold.
The priest Guy Denyer was therefore sentenced to perpetrated work. Now,

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that situation raised a lot of questions regarding the responsibility
of the Catholic Church, and this is still a question
that is being asked nowadays, especially for the priests who
like other kids, if you know what I mean. There
was an investigation that was done and the report came
up saying that the church need the dark side that
he was hiding. Before he was pronounced priest, his superiors

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noticed that he did not have a lot of faith
and he was not really a believer in Catholic religion.
The investigation did show that before being priest in a Europe,
he was sent to Blemout. While he was there, he
did have a sexual relation with his parishioner, and instead
of removing his status, they just transferred him to another city.
Even there, his weakness for women did not stop as

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he did have multiple sexual relations. You would think that
the Church would revoke his status, but instead he was
just transferred to Europe by the Church, was isolated and
his temptations might be lower, but as we have seen,
this was not the case. De Noyer was released in
nineteen seventy two after being detained for twenty two years.
He was the oldest prisoner of France. Once again, the

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Church came to his help. After he was released from prison,
he was welcome in a monastery in Britney, where he
stayed there until he died on April twenty first, twenty ten,
at ninety years of age. Now we go to story
number three. Family slaughtered at Wells Greade Provincial Park. The
tiller stoked the family while he let his violin fantasies

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for a mild Three generations of a family left to
go camping. On August second, nineteen eighty two. They set
up camp in the Wells Great Provincial Park, located roughly
one hundred and twenty kilometers north of Kamloops in central
British Columbia. They enjoyed several days of cloudy family time,

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picking berries during the day and gathering around the fire
at night, having no idea that they were being stalked
by a killer. Among the campers was grandparents ed Of
fifty nine and George Bentley, aged sixty six, their daughter
Jackie forty one, and son in law Bob Johnson forty four,
also the Johnson's daughters, jan at thirteen and Karen just eleven.

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The Johnsons drove up with their daughters and pitched a
tent for the girls. The grandparents brought a truck in
camper where the adults would stay. The last anyone heard
from the family was on August sixth, when Edith called
another daughter. It would not be until August twenty third
that the family would first be reported missing. Bob Johnson

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was due back at work on August sixteenth, but didn't show.
After a week with no word from him, his company
filed a missing person's tanks with the police. In spite
of an extensive search, it didn't result in finding any
of the family members. The biggest problems were the tiller
had a head start, with plenty of time to kill,

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get rid of the victim's bodies, and cover his tracks.
The other, maybe even bigger obstacle was no one knew
exactly where the family was camping at. All anyone knew
was that the family was camping in the Wells Gray area,
which is massive. They had no idea where to even start,
but alone being able to follow a trail to find

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the family, it would take three more weeks and a
mushroom picker to find the family. On September thirteenth, the
crim discovery of the Johnson's nineteen seventy nine Plymouth was found.
It had been burned beyond recognition as it set off
to the side of a mountain side logging road. The
car held the bodies of the four adults in the

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back seat and the two young girls in the trunk.
The bodies were burnt so thoroughly that when it came
time to bury the family, they were all placed together
in one child sized casket. Through a forensic examination of
the remains, it was determined they had been shot with
a point two two caliber firearm. Locals were able to

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tell investigators where they had seen the family camped at.
An examination of the area would turn a point to
two casings, which helped identify the weapon used as a
Rumington pump action lifefull. What wasn't at the camp site
was the truck and camper, the boat and camping gear
brought with the family, or any trace of the family

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at all. With no suspecting custody or even in sight,
the media was pushing for answers. A tip came in
at the family's truck and camper had been spotted. The
witnesses said it was being driven by two French Canadians
in Central Canada. The media sprang into action, throwing this
up as their headline and demanding the killers to be caught.

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In April, with still no leave, the investigators knew they
needed to get creative. They re enacted what they believed
was the crime scene for TV cameras and arided across Canada.
The next month, the police drove a replica Ford camper
truck to Ontario in Quebec in an attempt to draw
awareness for what people should be looking in a fore.

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What it did instead was flood the investigators with over
thirteen thousand tips and sightings of the replica vehicle. The
reward was raised from seven five hundred dollars to ten
thousand dollars for information leading to the truck. None of
the tips led to the discovery of the camper. And truck.
It would be found by sheer luck. Two forestry employees

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were working on a logging road and stumbled across it.
The camper had sat there on Trophy Mountain for fourteen months,
only a few kilometers away from the crime scene. The
camper was burned out like the car holding the family's bodies.
This left the authorities to believe they were looking for
someone local to the Wells Gray area and not two

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French Canadians as they had been searching for, since it
was more likely that a vocal would know about the
locking roads and the area in general. Taking a closer
look at the person who lived closest to the crime
scene led them back to David William Shearing twenty four.
They have received a tip about him earlier in the investigation.

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When they followed up, the tipster had quite a bit
to tell them, I hear earlier Shearing had asked him
about reregistering a four truck and how to repair a
hole in its door. This was a tip that the
police had never divulged. After finding the truck, it had
a bullet hole in the door. After an interrogation by
the Royal Canadian Mode of Police, Sharing confessed he went

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so far as re enacting the murders for the detectives.
He turned over evidence that he had stolen from the
family and the murder weapon, the point to two caliber
Remington lifele. The ballistic test would prove that this was
the weapon used to kill the family, the same weapon
that had been hanging on his walk the very first
time the authorities went to ask him about the family

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right after they had been reported missing. Maybe it was
because his father was a prison guard while his brother
was a sheriff, but Shearing wasn't suspected when first interviewed.
In his confession, he gave details of how it all happened.
He had first noticed the family when he set up camp,
fixating on the two young girls. Then over the next

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few days, he watched their every move. On the night
of August tenth, Shearing watched as the adults sat around
the campfire and had seen the girls go into their
tent for the night. From a distance, he took out
the four adults with sniper shots, he said. He then
killed the two girls from their tent as they slept. After,

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he said, he loaded all the bodies into the car
and moved it to the logging road, then set it
on fire with five gallons of gasoline. He then cleaned
up the campground, removing the family's possessions, including the camper
and truck. It would only be later that he'd burned
these as he was unable to transfer them into his name.

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He claimed that he killed the family because he wanted
to rob them of their possessions. It wouldn't be until
after Shearing was convicted that he gave his full confession
of how when he had been stalking the family, it
was the girls that he fantasized about having sex with
that kept him interested. That's why, after telling the adults,
he kidnapped the girls and took them to his property nearby.

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There he raped and terrorized them for over a week.
On August sixteenth, the day their father was due back
at work, Shearing took Terran away from her big sister.
Once alone, he shot the girl in the back of
the head. Janet would be left alive for one more
day of torture before she would be killed like her sister.

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With the girls now dead, he took their bodies to
the Johnson's car, where the other family members had been placed.
He had actually only hidden the car in some bush.
He put the girl in the trunk and got into
the driver's seat with the four decomposing adult bodies in
the back seat, driving it to its final resting place
where it would be found by that mushroom pick for

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burnt out. David S. Shearing pled guilty to six counts
of murder. Sharing was sentenced to life in prison with
no eligibility for parole for twenty five years, the maximum
penalty for second degree murder. This would be the first
time that this sentence was handed out in Canadian history.
David Shearing, who changed his last name to his mother's

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maiden name of Ennis, was first eligible for parole in
two thousand and eight. The National Parole Board ruled against
his release, citing that he was still having violent sexual
fantasies and had not completed a sex offender treatment program,
so he was not ready to be released. Again. In

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twenty twelve, he was turned down for parole, applying again
in twenty fourteen, but before his hearing, he withdrew his request.
The National Parole Board has also been given a petition
which has over fifteen thousand signatures advocating for the violent
offender to never be released in his own words. At

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one of his parole hearings, David tries to plea for freedom,
saying this about himself, I was very selfish. He is
supported by his wife that he narrate while in prison
ether