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[Music] Sheriff's communication dispatcher 5538 well I've got a situation Last Night A
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friend of mine asked me to come over she said that she had possibly killed her stepdads I don't know if she really did
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this what exactly are you trying to report it sounds like she killed this guy it was the first day of a new year
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the sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said she confessed to drugging him suffocating him and
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strangling him to death Jade was very cool very popular I could not believe what they were saying
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that Jade did Tom marman is Jade's stepdad and 100% she loved Tom she took care of him they lived next door to each
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other she made him dinner she was always there for [Music] him detectives knew they had a phone
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call from her good friend that she confessed to murdering Tom marman so they got a search
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warrant we don't have to prove motive but we want to show a motive the photos the
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photos she accidentally bumped his computer and the screen saver came out the screen saver is a nude photograph of
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her in the shower she was able to find a lot more nude photos of her hundreds hundreds
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it was the most violating just awful gut-wrenching feeling ever I felt sick I I couldn't even touch my own
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skin she was beyond freaked out she's sleeping with a knife she is scared for her
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life did you love Tom Tom love you yeah I mean did you want your stepfather dead did you see stand over him with a
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plastic bag and pull tight to keep him from breathing to wrap a cord around his neck
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and did you strangle him no so you have this supposed confession of her saying she she strangled him but
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no evidence of strangulation your own strangulation expert said it's not strangulation that's right so your big
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bomb fizzled it was gone [Music] [Music] San Diego County California an idilic Place most of the
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time I stewed on this all night I apply slept and I'm scared to death I don't want to be a part of this I didn't have
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anything to do with her that frightened phone call came in New Year's Day 2021 the caller said his one-time girlfriend
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may have committed a murder the sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said my friend confessed
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to me last night that she murdered her stepfather San Diego County Deputy da Jorge Del Portillo he told deputy is hey
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I I don't know if what she's saying is true I didn't see him but this is something I had to tell the police the
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alleged victim was a 64-year-old man named Tom maramman he lived here I liked him I thought he was very nice Ramona
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Hamilton and her husband George were Tom's neighbors Ramona knew him better and she found out Tom also ran an
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unusual business more milked more milked more milked a butterfly farm I'm a gardener and I love uh
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butterflies Pat Flanigan also likes butterflies he was Tom maran's business partner out at the farm he was my best
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friend did he become kind of a butterfly expert oh he is a butterfly expert you say he
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is yeah you still talk about him in the present tense yeah I do it was right here on December
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31st 2020 that Tom maramman was last seen alive Ramona and George saw him in his stepdaughter's SUV in the driveway
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and he was sitting on this side the passenger side with his feet out and this walker out in front of him and he
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looked like hell Tom had just spent more than two weeks in the hospital and a rehab center after a bad fall he also
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had heart and liver problems he looked awful I don't even know if he knew me but at the time it just seemed like
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maybe he got sent home from the hospital heavily drugged heav that's all we knew
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that's all we knew hi sweetie and then George saw Tom's stepdaughter 37-year-old Jade jenss Tom maramman had
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come into Jade's life when she was 14 marrying her mom Jade and Tom were apparently close she lived right next
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door on this day Jade had just driven him home and he called her his daughter he called Jade his daughter right they
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seemed close and they seemed very close she was fixing dinner for him every night she seemed to take care of him
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what' you think of Jade I thought she was a very pretty woman Jade had done some work in Ramona's apartment she was
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an interior decorator that's Jade she can be a tomboy and a girly girl all in the same
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day she can get herself dirty for work carrying rocks and concrete in her pickup truck and we're dressed up ready
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to go to like a nice fancy dinner Heather Pierce grew up next door to Jade in San Diego County Jade was very cool I
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loved being around her Jade was 13 years older she's definitely a little more than a big sister and a little less than
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a mom her energy is just very strong Ling and caring and genuine and so when you're around her like you feel good she
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also knew Jade's stepdad Tom maramman I think she always just loved him and cared about him back at Tom place in
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salana Beach it was now January 1st the day after he'd gotten back from the hospital the day after George and Ramona
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had seen him looking so poorly in the driveway this time they only saw Jade in the driveway she was standing by a pile
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of trash and boxes I saw her out at the side here with the boxes and cartons a little while later there was a knock on
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the door and she come to the door to tell me that she'd made a mess down here but she cleaned it up later where was
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the pile what about right here see where that dirt is right there yeah like right
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in this area here right there it was a few hours later when law enforcement pulled into their driveway I'm scared to
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death I don't want to be a part of this they came to investigate that strange phone call the one that claimed Tom
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maramman had been murdered they were trying to find Tom where is Tom they walked by this pile of trash in the
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driveway they knocked on his door they went inside they didn't find Tom but they did see his stepdaughter when they
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saw J Jinx driving out of her driveway they pulled her over brought her in for questioning and ask that very question
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where is Tom Jade said she was cold so they gave her a blanket we're trying to find Tom do you know where Tom is no his
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family hasn't seen him for over 48 hours so he's he just got released from a hospital yesterday okay did you see him
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yesterday yeah I picked him up from in the hospital okay do you know where he went no well can you tell me other than
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he's just missing we don't know where he's at we're trying to find him eventually they let Jade go but there
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was still no sign of Tom officers spent all night combing through his apartment looking for Clues then just after the
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first morning light one of the officers was walking down the driveway toward Tom's apartment when she saw that pile
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of trash it was just about here I have a picture of it here there's a wheelbarrow
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there some boxes some bags she moved a trash bag from that trash and immediately saw the silhouette of a man
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and there he was Tom maramman Tom marman laid dead and buried [Music] [Music] never seen that I've never seen a case
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where a body was buried under a pile of trash in the driveway the apparent crime scene was
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smack in the middle of the driveway of this Lush compound just a mile from the beach he was wearing the hospital
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bracelet that he was just in the hospital the same t-shirt and the same pajamas that he was discharged as soon
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as they found that body they knew we have our suspect and they may the arrest on the morning of January 2nd
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2021 Jay Janks was arrested and charged with Tom maran's murder but things were about to get complicated she lawyered up
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and didn't want to answer any more questions so authorities continued to work the case starting with that phone
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call it sounds like she killed this guy that call had come from that friend of Jades a man named Adam zlac he told
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police she'd called him to her apartment and then she asked him for a favor and asked me to move the body with
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her I can't help you and I never saw the body Adam cipac may not have seen the body that night but
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eventually he did tell police that Jade confessed to him that she knocked out with an overdose of medicine and then
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strangled him it was a pretty dramatic story and authorities were confident that the autopsy would confirm it that
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there'd be physical evidence that Tom maramman was strangled to death but that's not what happened I was actually
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there for the autopsy assistant DA Teresa fam who led the investigation talked to the medical examiner so what
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they found was unfortunately not a lot of physical evidence right so you have this supposed confession of her saying
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she she strangled him but no evidence of strangulation that's right the final autopsy report created even more of a
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challenge for the prosecutors it said that the cause of Tom maran's death was acute zulem in toxication zadam is the
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generic name for the sleeping pill ambian is it possible that Tom marman died by accident he was in poor health
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it's not that many pills that he took certainly it's possible but the evidence belii that notion this was no accident
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but even if the autopsy didn't point to strangulation investigators say other evidence clearly pointed to murder
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Jade's cell phone was a gold mine it was a gold mine Jade's phone was full of texts how would you categorize those
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text messages suspicious incriminating a plan according to prosecutors that plan
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was to get rid of Tom maram one way or another investigators say it all started on December 23rd that's about a week
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before Tom's body was found Tom was in the hospital after that bad fall Jade says she was cleaning up his apartment
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when she found something so she's at Tom's apartment and his laptop I guess it must have been in sleep mode or
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something like that but she knocked into it and it woke up and on the screen saver is a nude photograph of her in the
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shower and there was more much more she must have had his password so once she was able to get into his laptop with
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when she was able to find a lot more nude photos of her hundreds hundreds these were photos that she took
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willingly with her partner at the time somewhere of her in the shower naked authorities don't know how
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maramman got those pictures but Jade says she never gave them to him and prosecutors say she panicked in her
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words she was beyond freaked out that's what she wrote to a friend that she couldn't shower alone that she was
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vomiting at just the idea of looking at a shower based on what she had discovered she's sleeping with a knife
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on the nightstand just in case he comes early home from the hospital according to prosecutors that's
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when Jade launches her plan how one of her friends connects her with a guy a guy the prosecutors called the
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fixer there's a text message where he tells Jade if you have a problem I can fix it for you and that's how we came up
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with the label the fixer the so-called fixer was a man named Alan roach who is Alan
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roach Alan roach is a guy he's a security guard that's what he does but I think he makes himself out to be someone
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else that he's not we were thinking Jade views him as the character in Pulp Fiction someone that you reach out to
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when you want one of your problems fixed and that's what he was he was the fixer
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he was the fixer is Ellen a Hitman he is not a Hitman what's important is what does Jade think Allen
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is prosecutors say Jade wanted her fixer to help her get rid of Tom she had a plan that she stuck to the plan was
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murder the plan was [Music] murder it was December 2022 2 years after Tom maran's body was found under
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that pile of garbage and Jay jenss was about to stand trial for his murder and let me just ask you flat out did Jade
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jenss murder her stepfather Tom marman Jade has maintained her inocence throughout this entire uh incident
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Jade's attorney Mark Carlos he insists this was not a murder and says Jade had no reason to kill her stepfather finding
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nude photos of yourself on a stepfather's computer would make you angry you know might make you break off
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relationships with him but enough to kill somebody I don't think so he says Tom's death was an unfortunate accident
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brought on by his poor health and self-administered prescription drugs I think he took the medication himself he
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had multiple substances in his system I think he made a cocktail of the drugs that he had with him and had a bad
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reaction to it and caused his his death at trial Jade was supported by family and friends including her biological
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father Steve jenss and her longtime friend Heather Pierce Tom was a mess an absolute mess for a long time there's no
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way that she had like a plan and first degree and all of that I was like there's no way because that's not Jade
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prosecutors Jorge Del Portillo and Teresa fam were worried the jury might feel that Jade herself was the victim
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she's a sympathetic defendant she is I mean she found naked photos of herself on her stepdad's
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computer called J Js Jade takes the stand to tell the jury what happened in her own words my name is Jade JS Jade
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says that ever since she met Tom when she was a teenager they maintained a strong bond it's hard to come by
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somebody you just feel that you can trust completely and I did feel that way I referred to him as my father and he
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could call me his daughter and then which is why Jade tells the jury it was so devastating to find those photos on
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December 23rd while Tom was in the hospital and she was cleaning his apartment I bumped the mouse on his
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desktop computer and it it shook the screen awake and I looked and there's a picture of female
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breast on the screen and I look I those those are my press I I just I couldn't believe it I I
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was in complete shock Jade describes finding even more on Tom's computer after that there was a rolling
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screen like it's SL show of pictures of me that I've taken over the years what type of pictures were they um they were
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naked photos do you did you ever give naked photos to uh to your stepfather no did you ever show him make get photos of
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yourself no how did he get these photos Jade doesn't know these were photos that
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Jade had taken of herself Jade and boy various boyfriends have you ever made any uh sexual toward your stepfather no
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no did you tell him that you had uh nude photos of yourself no and you never showed him anything similar to that
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corre no he was my dad Tom was still in the hospital but Jade says she didn't feel safe and you were afraid that he
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was going to come back and find out that you had found the photos yes yes and you were worried
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about how he might react toward you yes right and he lived next door to you yes and that's why Jade says she got in
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touch with Alan roach who worked in security the day she found those photos so why did you think that you needed
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somebody like alen Rach I I was I was scared I mean when I first saw the photos I I couldn't even use the bathroom I
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just felt so disgusting I couldn't show her either um I was just I I was scared I was scared of being you know nude and
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vulnerable and um I just I wanted somebody to just look out for me and make sure that you know I
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was safe over the next few days Tom was moved from the hospital to a rehab center and Jade felt she had to
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act I can't continue just living next door to him and not feeling safe or feeling like there I me I have to do
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something when you say I needed to do something I mean you did you need to kill him no I wanted Tom to just go away
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and leave me alone according to Jade Allan was planning to come over after she brought Tom home to help her
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confront him I wanted Ellen to basically you know explain to him this this is not
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okay or I can explain it but Ellen just be there just in case your plan was to Jade says that on December 31st in spite
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of her feelings she was doing everything she could to help Tom who she says seemed preoccupied with finding medic
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he started calling at about 6:45 in the morning and he's asking me to get him Codine which I don't really understand
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he says that he hasn't nothing slept and he wants to rest Jade took Tom out of the rehab at a little after 11:00 a.m.
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he had a bag of medication with him including ambian and remember the autopsy says Ambien is what killed him
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Jade says almost as soon as Tom got into her car he also helped himself to her prescription medicines he kept saying
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like did you have any pain colors like is this it oh here and then he just kind of took it Jade says Tom seemed fine
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when she stopped at this shopping plaza and texted Alan roach to come meet her she went into a couple of stores while
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she waited to hear back I was just getting started on um a house project so I just went to go figure get supplies
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and kind of shop around Jade bought gloves towels and a nylon cord and some spray paint she says these items were
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for a painting project typically I lay plastic down and kind of enclose it so that I'm not getting pains
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on all the the foliage Jade still hadn't heard back from Allan and took Tom home
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she says Tom was now too groggy to walk on his own and she couldn't get him out of her car I parked in the parking lot
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but she says she was worried about him and drove him back to the rehab for help I just explained you know my dad's just
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been released and something's wrong you need to bring him back um they wouldn't they wouldn't let me inside though
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they're pretty adamant with Co I couldn't go inside Jade returned home with Tom but says she was still not able
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to get him out of her car Allan had finally texted back to say he couldn't make it over after all but sent his
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friend a man named Brian Solomon to help her get Tom inside have you ever met Brian Solomon before no Jade says Brian
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wouldn't help her with Tom and left right away so Jade reached out to her friend Adam zlac and asked him to come
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over Adam arrived later that evening I had just said um I mean I I was just in tears I had said that you know I I want
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to get him into my house or into his house Jade says Adam quickly got upset and left without helping her and this is
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where Jade's story doesn't line up with Adam's remember Adam was the person who called police on New Year's Day
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she said that she had possibly killed her stepdad Jade says she didn't confess to anything she says Adam was distressed
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by how sick Tom looked and that's why he wouldn't help her after he left Jade says she didn't know what else to do and
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tried to get Tom situated in her car for the night so he could sleep off whatever
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he had taken I made sure he was comfortable yeah he had pillows and I'm trying to
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remember yeah I mean he had a blank in the next morning in The Cold Light of New Year's Day Jade says Tom was still
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still in her car when she realized the worst had happened did you touch Mr marman
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yes what did you feel I I tried to pull his leg and his pajama pant lifted and his leg was
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cold Jinx did you did you think Tom marman was dead at that point I knew he was how do you think Tom died chat now on
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Facebook and X after Jade told the jury how she found Tom's body her own attorney challenged
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her did you think about calling 911 um I was scared too why were you scared I don't want to get bled I mean I
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just I was someing that picked him up and I didn't want to get blamed for for killing
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him and she tried to explain what she did with his body I continued to to fall out I still wanted to get him into his
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house I I mean I didn't I didn't know what else to do Bic so I put the blanket over room and I got um empty boxes and
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just kind of stacked it made it look like just like a pile of debris Jade may have left Tom's body in
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the driveway but she says she never meant him harm I mean did you want your stepfather
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dead shank did you grab him with your own two hands and did you strangle him would you would you ever done that to
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Tom I do and then the prosecutors told their version of the story We lied to the
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police about where Tom was I didn't I just asked for an attorney and I kept asking for one you didn't want the
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police to know that Tom died in your car I wasn't trying to hide it but I didn't
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want to go alone and tell them that prosecutors said Jade was lying to cover up her plan the plan was to drug
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him suffocate him and steg it to look like an overdose Del Portillo says after she picked Tom up from the rehab Jade
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used his own prescription sleeping pills to knock him out and he says he has proof Jade's DNA is on those packs of
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pills the package of zulam which is the ambient sleeping pills that had the defendant's DNA on it but not Tom's and
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I think it's a important that the jury heard that that it was Jay jinx's DNA on that Z impack and according to
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prosecutors there's much more evidence too Jade they say left a realtime trail of clues that day remember her cell
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phone the one they called a gold mine turns out it was packed with texts messages that they say outlined her plan
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to kill we're talking 11 12 minutes after being discharged she sends a text message to Allan the fixer saying I just
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dosed the hell out of him if someone says I dose the hell out of them you would agree with me that
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that means someone gave another person a whole lot of drugs right I guess it's a
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poor phrasing Del portio thinks Jade's explanation is nonsense he says first she drugged Tom and then she needed to
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St for a bit and her texts even say that stopping at Dixie Land to stall so she was stalling for the drugs to really
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kick in and make him asleep and unaware of what she was about to do she's stalling to see if this guy Allan roach
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can come by and help her commit the murder and remember those supplies Jade said she'd picked up for a painting
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project according to the prosecutors they were actually Jade's murder kit she go goes to the store and buys this
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murder kit zip ties gloves rope and towels prosecutors say up to that point Jade's plan was on track but by a little
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after noon things started to go wrong you could see from the text messages that she was in a panic she
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writes he's waking up Jade's texting her so-called fixer Alan roach and she adds
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can you come over but the fixer is not responding this plot was a total mess and it fell apart right away finally the
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fixer texts her back he says he can't come but he's sending someone he knows that guy named Brian
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Solomon okay so the plan is Brian will bring Tom into the house Brian Solomon later told us that
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when he went over to help Jade that she told him something that he'll never forget I want you to bring him inside
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strangle him and I'll take care of the rest Brian Solomon quickly left the house without doing anything and soon
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Jade is back texting the missing fixer again at 300 p.m. you texted Allan he's waking up and I'm not sure how much
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longer I could control my temper that right yes us to Allan you texted Allan he's waking up and getting way more
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aggressive so it's way more real true true I think again I was just panicking and trying to urge Alan to come over you
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would agree with me that this looks very suspicious this text message oh yeah Jade texts Allan again I can't keep
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a kicking body in my truck now that we know Tom was found dead in his driveway under a pile
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of trash that you put together that this text message looks very suspicious you'd
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agree with me right I mean no yes it's now around 400 p.m. Allan has disappeared at 4:08 p.m. you texted Alan
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he's up I guess I'm on my own true true how do you think she killed Tom we believe that the evidence shows that she
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put a bag over his head when the bag's not working fast enough she has to strangle him and she has no other choice
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it's too late to back out now investigators even found a plastic bag in Jade's car it had her DNA on the
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outside and Tom's on the inside but there's a huge problem with the prosecution's case and that's the
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autopsy the autopsy never said Tom was strangled there weren't any marks on his neck so what happened how could Jade
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possibly have strangled him to death that presented a big difficulty for us strategically of going forward in trial
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right so you have this supposed confession of her saying she she strangled him but no evidence of
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strangulation right right turns out the prosecutors had an answer for that they say it's totally possible to strangle
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someone to death without leaving marks if the victim is already knocked out I think that is part of the plan is to
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dose him just enough to where he incapacitated so if you're unconscious your breathing is already depressed when
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someone is already unconscious it does not require that much pressure and would not leave bruising it would not leave
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breakage of the cartilage that's inside the throat we will not leave physical evidence it only takes 4 lbs of pressure
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to kill to cut off the blood supply to your head and when you and I shook hands earlier today that was about 11 lbs of
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pressure pressure so it's less than a handshake to kill after she murdered Tom prosecutors say she left his body in her
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car overnight and the next morning Jade had to do something about it in a story full of strange twists this may be the
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oddest prosecutors say Tom's body was still in Jade's car and she wanted to make his death look like an accident
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like he'd overdosed on his own medicine but she couldn't get his 180 lb body out
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of her car and into his apartment and no one would help her so they say she drove
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to a hospital with Tom dead in the back of her car picked up a wheelchair put it
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in her car and drove back to Tom's Place how'd you get the wheelchair in your car if Tom was still in there um
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it's it's big U the trunk was uh Tom was kind of you know his legs were a Kimbo when he was laying down and I kind of
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hoisted it up into the back window of the Forerunner can roll down when you were doing this at this point did you
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know Tom was dead I did but I didn't want to know it yet so you suspected Tom was dead and you're at scrips
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hospital and you don't tell anyone at the hospital that Tom might need some help and there was just one more thing
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on the day the cops came by looking for Tom they didn't know anything yet just that Tom might be missing Jade jumped
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into her car 4:30 when she was pulling out of her driveway when they were getting ready to do the welfare check
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she was pulling out of her driveway and she was getting detained after being pulled over the very last text message
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on her cell phone was to Alan roach saying lose my number what does that say to you get rid of the
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evidence what do you make of Jade's text messages see more evidence from the case
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at 48 hours hour.com that was the biggest hurdle in our case we feel was the jury might
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dislike Tom irman so much that they would vote to either acquit or reduce the murder to something else as Jade's
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trial is drawing to a close prosecutor Jorge Del Portillo wants to make sure the jury's attention is on what Jade
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jenss has done and not on Tom Tom was not on trial this wasn't his trial he didn't get a trial she was his judge
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jury and executioner and so it all comes back to Jad Mr Carlos you wish make in his closing argument to the jury Mark
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Carlos emphasizes what he says are the weaknesses of the prosecution's case what type of evidence do we have we have
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a lot of speculation it's speculation upon speculation upon speculation he argues Adam cac's story that Jade
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confessed is a lie mrl no credibility he wants to get out of something that he thinks might have happened and he says
00:35:35
Brian Soloman who also claimed Jade confessed to him that day can't be telling the truth he claims that
00:35:41
immediately and this was his testimony immediately upon entering she says he's in the car go strangle him this is
00:35:49
somebody that JS had never met before neither Adam zlac Brian Solomon nor Alan roach was charged with any crime in this
00:35:57
case and Mar Carlos urges the jury to stick to what he calls the truth and the truth is they have zero zero evidence to
00:36:07
support a murder her DNA was on the blister P but Jorge Del Portillo gets to make the last argument the jury will
00:36:16
hear it starts with I just dose the hell out of him the plan is starting and with
00:36:23
Allen it ends with lose my number I'm getting pulled over and buried in between all of those text messages is a
00:36:33
murder plot finder guilty of murder because the evidence proves it the law requires it
00:36:41
and Justice demands it the jury went out that afternoon and was back the next morning to continue their
00:36:49
deliberations jury comes in at 9:00 a.m. we get the call at 9:30 a.m. we have a verdict we were shocked we were a little
00:36:56
bit nervous the quickest verdict I've ever had was 15 minutes and it was a not guilty so I don't put a lot of stock in
00:37:03
quick verdicts Tom's business partner Pat Flanigan got a text about it I was very anxious my hands were sweating I
00:37:11
was nervous we have your own we the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant Jade Sasha Jinx guilty of the
00:37:20
crime of murder in violation of Penal Code SE guilty of first deegree murder subsection a a felony as Char Jade
00:37:31
appears J number one yes number two yes number three yes number four yes number five yes number six yes number seven yes
00:37:42
number eight yes it was a huge relief Rel it was an absolute relief and when you heard that word
00:37:49
guilty um it it it felt right guilty of the crime Pat Flanigan says he saw Jade's
00:37:57
reaction to the verdict later online I still go back and watch that sometimes why cuz I feel bad for Tom he died
00:38:06
buried in trash now she gets to feel a little of that pain that we've all been feeling for years but there's still the
00:38:13
matter of those photos Jade said that she found nude photos of herself on Tom's computer do you believe that I I
00:38:23
can't disprove it I find it I I don't want to believe it it's interesting you say you don't want to
00:38:31
believe it yeah Tom's hard drive was not recovered after his body was found but prosecutors who spent two years
00:38:40
investigating this case believe Jade is telling the truth at least about this did you have any doubt that these photos
00:38:48
actually existed we talked about that but we had no doubt we found that photo on Tom's
00:38:54
laptop showing that it had been used used as a wallpaper showing that it had been on his laptop since August of 2019
00:39:03
so we had no doubt that these photos existed in March of 2023 3 months after she was convicted of Tom's murder Jade
00:39:12
was in court for her sentencing and listened as a local Pastor shared his memories of Tom and the Butterfly farm I
00:39:20
still remember Tom and wish I could drop by for a smile to ask a question about plants or
00:39:27
butter flies or just to recharge those batteries that keep seeming to to wear down as I get
00:39:32
older I believe my Life is Richer because I knew Tom Steven DRS Jade's biological father who had not spoken
00:39:43
publicly since she was charged put the focus back on Tom's betrayal firstly I can only imagine what she went through
00:39:51
when she found out that Tom her stepfather a person she trusted that she called Dad was a sick perverted
00:40:00
individual all I can say is this fight is not over I truly believe that an injustice has taken place Jay JS spoke
00:40:08
that day too t came into my life when I was just a little girl and exerted influence during that early stage of
00:40:15
development when I was still figuring things out unfortunately that influence manifested itself into appropriate touch
00:40:20
coercion Reckless Behavior and complete violation of what I now realize is years
00:40:25
of psychological manipulation all of this came crashing down on me when I found hundreds of naked photos of
00:40:31
myself and his computer felt chattered Jade did not tell this story during trial and we can't verify it Jade still
00:40:39
insists she didn't kill Tom and only admits to covering up his dead body I'm still picking up the pieces and it's my
00:40:46
sincere fa that over the next few years I can put the pieces back and heal from this trauma I'm sorry I didn't act the
00:40:52
way I was supposed to that day I think about it every day then she will be committed to the Department Corrections
00:40:58
the judge sentenced Jade to serve 25 years to life and as the prosecution looks back
00:41:05
on a difficult and emotional case they say it could have easily turned out very differently she could have gone away
00:41:13
with murder had she carried out her plan and the police did a welfare check and found Tom laying in his in his bed she
00:41:20
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00:42:18
an marie green and it's time to answer your biggest questions from our latest episode about stepdaughter turned
00:42:26
murderer J Janks joining me today are 48 Hours correspondent Tracy Smith and producer Sarah PRI who reported on and
00:42:34
produced this episode hi thanks for having us Amar we have a lot to discuss but first here's a quick refresher on
00:42:40
the case it was New Year's Day 2021 when a strange call came into the San Diego Sheriff's Department the caller said his
00:42:49
friend had confessed to Murder She said that she had possibly killed her stepdad
00:42:56
the accused woman was Jade jenss an interior decorator she lived next door to the alleged victim Tom maramman her
00:43:04
stepfather assistant district attorney Jorge Del Portillo said detectives learned more from the caller he told
00:43:11
sheriff's deputies she confessed to drugging him suffocating him and strangling him to death maran's dead
00:43:20
body was found and Janks was arrested and charged with his murder she said she was innocent and in December 2022 when
00:43:28
the case went to trial there was a surprise it turns out that just 10 days before maran's death jenss had
00:43:36
discovered hundreds of her private explicit photos on his computer it was the most violating just awful
00:43:45
gut-wrenching feeling ever jenss still insisted she didn't kill maramman but prosecutors said they
00:43:54
discovered textt messages that revealed a plot a plot to murder okay so we're going to discuss
00:44:02
the crime scene that pile of trash the so-called fixer who didn't fix didn't show up um we're going to talk about
00:44:09
Jade and Tom and of course those those nude photos those naked photos but I want to ask you what was the most asked
00:44:16
question that you got about this episode Tracy how do you strangle someone and leave no marks yeah the way that Jorge
00:44:23
the prosecutor explained it to me is hey I just shook your hand that 11 pound of
00:44:28
pressure to strangle someone you only need pound of pressure it's that light yeah that was a great sort of moment in
00:44:36
the piece that really sort of indicated how easy it is for someone to be strangled to death and I thought a drug
00:44:42
overdose could be reasonable but can people overdose on Ambien there was some dispute about that um and I don't think
00:44:50
even any of the states Witnesses were confident that you could really die from ambient
00:44:57
um you know it certainly can be toxic like a lot of drugs but it it's actually kind of hard to kill someone um whether
00:45:04
it's drugs or otherwise so that was I think the reason we were so stuck on this idea of a gentle strangling because
00:45:10
we've Tracy and I I think have both done stories where you really get emphasized
00:45:15
with how difficult it is to take someone's life right the body wants to stay alive it does it does and so I
00:45:22
think what what they explained to us in the interview is that it was one mechanism it wasn't just that she
00:45:29
lightly you know strangled him he was not doing so well because of all the drugs in his system Ambien was the
00:45:37
predominant one but there were others a number of others in varying you know degrees and so it was the combination so
00:45:44
we know from the episode that Tom is Jade's stepfather but they're unusually close to me what more can you guys tell
00:45:50
us about their relationship what did you learn yeah it's interesting Tom calls Jade his daughter um and she moved in
00:45:57
next door to him so they had this really close but clearly complicated relationship one of the things she
00:46:03
talked about in her testimony was when they came to know each other obviously Jade's mother was married to Tom
00:46:09
maramman that's how he became her stepfather and she became his stepdaughter she was 14 or 15 and Tom
00:46:17
and Jade's mom had a baby together around that time so Jade is a teenager there is now a baby in the house and
00:46:25
this marriage does not last so the Mom leaves I think Tom left the mom that's how Jade told it we don't know for sure
00:46:32
but they formed a bond then and Jade sort of became you know stepmom to her half brother and helped raise him so
00:46:40
that's something she talked about in her testimony that they sort of went through
00:46:44
this experience together and formed a bond there so then I guess I can imagine just how shocking it must have been for
00:46:51
Jade to then knock his computer and see a nude photo of herself as his screen saver
00:46:57
can you imagine right your dad essentially right she thought of him as as her father right to find that yeah um
00:47:05
and she's so horrified that it almost sort of shifts the way she views the world in a way so Tom kept these photos
00:47:12
in a couple of places on his uh his computer desktop and on his laptop but Jay destroyed the desktop hard drive
00:47:21
that's right yeah so he had two different computers um her story is that she bumped the mouse on his desktop
00:47:27
while she was cleaning when he was out in the you know sick in the hospital um and then her story is also that she
00:47:33
destroyed that hard drive she took pictures of the Monitor and documented what she found and so police police
00:47:41
never found that hard drive and in those pictures you can see the desktop and the
00:47:46
photos exactly you see the monitor you see the folder names you see the pictures now I am characterizing what I
00:47:53
understand happened at trial we never saw these they were shown in court and a redacted version and not released
00:47:58
publicly because obviously these you know compromised J privacy yeah they are I mean I know it's not their job as a
00:48:04
prosecution to figure out how he got access to these but did anybody kind of dig into
00:48:11
that well one thing to clarify is that Tom didn't take these photos these were photos taken by Jade or by her you know
00:48:18
old boyfriends or her old Partners consensually taken photographs yeah that Tom got a hold of exactly and the
00:48:25
defense the defense says that he blew up these pictures he had files of these pictures according to her body parts uh
00:48:32
it's incredibly disturbing I mean she was rocked by this she said that she was vomiting she said you know she couldn't
00:48:39
shower because she had those images in her head she devised this plan where she would actually sleep on a tarp so that
00:48:46
if someone stepped into the room in the middle of the night stepped on that tarp
00:48:50
it would wake her up the noise of it would wake her up uh you know it it it clearly rocked her world let us talk
00:48:57
about the crime scene now uh Tom Tom's remains they're found in a pile of trash Tracy you were actually in the
00:49:05
neighborhood we saw you there you're walking around you're on the driveway can you kind of describe the area sure
00:49:12
it's an idic little place this is a beautiful the driveway kind of goes back through these trees into this little
00:49:18
open spot the neighbor has this gorgeous little garden back there it's just a pristine little spot and that's why it's
00:49:27
shocking that in the middle of this there was a pile of trash that the police didn't notice because it wasn't
00:49:34
like this place was you know overrun with junk and trash it was very beautifully manicured and kept and the
00:49:42
other thing was when I looked at that pile of trash you know the shopping bags and I thought to myself this looks like
00:49:48
me like a bad day at the mall when I come home and I just like dump a bunch of stuff at the front door how is a
00:49:54
whole body in there that no one notices when the undercover detective she you know is off camera when she testifies
00:50:04
but when she noticed this pile of garbage and said did anyone check this let me look she picks up literally one
00:50:11
item and then she can tell it wasn't it it's an entire human body is not so small he's a grown man yeah in their
00:50:19
defense it was it was night um it was dark um they were looking inside the house initially in you know looking for
00:50:27
blood you know those things that you would typically look for if someone's missing um so I think it didn't it
00:50:33
didn't necessarily cross their radar until the sun came up and when the sun came up
00:50:38
then she discovered it so you know Tom's remains are found out out in the open obviously you know something's gone
00:50:44
terribly wrong here I couldn't help but to think that if Jade was able to get Tom back in that bed which is what she
00:50:51
was you know trying to do she didn't really plan it out all that well perhaps she could have gotten away with murder
00:50:57
the prosecutors in the hour say yeah if he had gotten in that bed the assumption
00:51:02
would have been like oh he fell asleep he had a bad reaction and that would have been it remember he was just
00:51:07
released from the medical facility the day prior yeah or that day um depending yeah and then I guess with no physical
00:51:15
proof of any sort of strangulation if she had never even mentioned strangulation and was successful in
00:51:21
moving him that might have been sort of Case Closed Tracy oh yeah they would chances are they would have seen it as
00:51:29
an overdose and she almost I mean even think about where he was in where he where his body was in the driveway there
00:51:35
I mean she got him to that point she just couldn't get him past that point and I think she covered him up thinking
00:51:42
she could maybe come back and move him you know I don't think the plan was to leave him in the driveway I think the
00:51:48
plan was still to get him in the house so according to Jade's ex-boyfriend Adam she calls him to help her move Tom's
00:51:55
body and then he calls 9911 take a listen Sheriff's communication dispatcher 5538 well I've got a
00:52:03
situation Last Night A friend of mine asked me to come over she said that she had possibly killed
00:52:14
her stepdad I don't know if she really did this what exactly are you trying to reports it sounds like she killed this
00:52:22
guy so he is me like when I listen to to this call he sounds genuinely frightened
00:52:30
but also a little uncertain you know sometimes people second guess whether they should be calling the police or not
00:52:36
but none of this and you can hear all of that coming out in his voice and he actually starts the ball rolling because
00:52:42
I don't even think you know no one would have been looking for him if if the ex-boyfriend did not call was this kind
00:52:51
of one of the strongest bits of evidence oh you're so right and think about you were just saying she could have gotten
00:52:56
away with murder if Adam didn't make that call that brought on the welfare check mhm she could have gotten away
00:53:03
with it and he's the one that sort of I don't think we played this but he he's the one that says listen she
00:53:10
confessed yeah it's not all in the 911 call he then goes and talks to police and comes to testify at trial but um
00:53:18
that's his story yeah yeah exactly that she had told him everything or enough that he you know felt compelled and you
00:53:25
know this remember this was New Year's Eve that he saw Jade of 2020 so it's you know the evening after dark he'd been
00:53:33
getting a tattoo all day and he goes over um hears this story and then he doesn't call police until the next
00:53:40
morning and so he was sitting with this you know kind of tossing and turning you
00:53:45
know uh talking to his friend talking to you know other people before he makes a
00:53:52
decision to call I'm just curious because he sounded so authentically concerned earned in that 9911 call um
00:53:58
you could but and it didn't even sound like officers were really taking him all that seriously it took a minute for it
00:54:04
to escalate because he calls at let's say 9 maybe it's 9:30 on the morning of New Year's Day and the police um are
00:54:12
calling around trying to figure out if Tom maran's alive where he may be they go to his house eventually by the
00:54:18
afternoon to find him and they don't and they don't get the warrant to investigate um I think until midnight so
00:54:27
it's it's quite a bit of time passes you know really that whole day of New Year's
00:54:31
Day and do we know anything about the nature of the relationship that he had with Jade I mean she felt confident
00:54:36
enough to call him there was a bit in a trial about a jealous girlfriend that he
00:54:42
had after he and Jade he and Jade were Exes from a long time past and then I think he had a more recent relationship
00:54:48
and there was a lot of jealousy and so Jade was not actively in his life until you know pretty close to the time of Tom
00:54:54
maran's death and I think it to her desperation that she's just trying to get someone to help her move Tom to help
00:55:01
her continue this plan carry out this plan so it seems like Jade was very close to getting away with the murder of
00:55:09
her stepfather but when it came to actually executing her plan just everything sort of fell
00:55:16
apart when we get back we're going to talk about Jade's side of the story when she takes the stand in her defense
00:55:25
[Music] [Music] all right welcome back everyone so Jade's plan was unraveling she couldn't
00:55:38
move Tom's body she called her ex-boyfriend and then the guy prosecutors have called the fixer and I
00:55:45
got it in like quotation marks who is the fixer Tracy okay so if you're a fan of Quenton Tarantino as I
00:55:53
am uh in the movie Pulp Fiction there's the fixer played by Harvey kitel and he's kind of the guy who comes in and
00:56:01
cleans up the messes fixes your problems so that's why I think the prosecutors dubbed this guy Allan roach the fixer um
00:56:11
he was going to come in and fix Jade's problem now Jade will tell you that the problem was simply that she wanted to
00:56:17
keep Tom at Bay she wanted a big guy to protect her and to help her confront Tom
00:56:22
with these naked photos that she' discovered uh of course course the prosecutors say that the fixer was there
00:56:29
for another purpose I mean fixers don't typically you know list themselves on the internet how did she even meet this
00:56:37
guy through Facebook some friend of hers I think from high school and so the first couple of messages actually
00:56:42
between Alan roach and Jay jenx are on Facebook and I think that's where he says if you have a problem I can fix it
00:56:48
for you um so it was yeah he sort of almost named himself so she meets him through a friend of a friend y i isumi
00:56:56
doesn't come with references how does she know she can trust this guy or why does she trust this guy she doesn't I
00:57:03
mean she doesn't know that she can trust him yeah and she's desperate she's desperate and remember we talked about
00:57:09
her state of mind after finding these photos you know this drove her a little bit around the bend um so she's I think
00:57:16
she's just trying to figure out what to do next um but then you know she says listen as you guys point out I just
00:57:23
needed someone to protect myself from Tom um but there's a series of text messages that suggest otherwise and they
00:57:31
become really important evidence I want to play some of the sound from the hour at 300 p.m. you texted Alan he's
00:57:40
waking up and I'm not sure how much longer I could control my temper that right yes L to Allan you texted Allan
00:57:48
he's waking up and getting way more aggressive so it's way more real true true I think again I was just
00:57:55
panicking and trying to urge Alan to come over you would agree with me that this looks very suspicious this text
00:58:00
message oh yeah so she says oh yeah like pretty casually right so what is her side of the story Jade's story is that
00:58:07
she's totally innocent um that she you know all of these texts were innocent they were taken out of context she says
00:58:17
you know Tom was you know incapacitated she tried to get him home she couldn't do it she let him sleep it off overnight
00:58:24
in her car she goes goes there on New Year's Day morning and finds his body she can't quite accept the truth she
00:58:31
realizes he's probably dead and when she does in fact you know come to that understanding she panics that's her
00:58:38
story that she absolutely panicked and covered him up thinking she would be blamed cuz she'd been the one who picked
00:58:44
him up the day before so the fixer Alan roach never came to help Jade but did he
00:58:50
ever come to trial did he ever testify he did not no Alan roach he was I think what the prosecutors told us was that
00:58:58
they the jury heard that he was legally unavailable did you guys try to get in contact with him our best information
00:59:04
showed him in Mexico and I actually sent him a text through Facebook just like how Jade met him and he just said I
00:59:12
don't want to talk about it I only knew her for a week which is accurate she was
00:59:15
introduced to him on December 23rd on that first Facebook exchange and Tom marman died on December 31st so so who
00:59:23
does show up though is the second guy the the fixer friend or the fixer fixer so so to speak he that person goes to
00:59:31
trial uh Solomon Brian Solomon Y and I just want to point out that Alan roach and Brian Solomon were never charged in
00:59:39
connection with Tom's murder but what does Brian Solomon say at trial his story is basically that he shows up and
00:59:47
Jade says help me strangle this dude and he's like I don't know you and I'll be right back I have to make a phone call
00:59:54
and he is not right back he is gone mhm and his girlfriend came to testify and corroborated that story she dropped him
01:00:00
off at salana beach she drove it's a block literally from the ocean it's such a lovely space she basically gets to the
01:00:07
water and has to turn back around and get him so he he goes right out completely freaked out of course by what
01:00:13
is just transpired right and remember these two guys don't know each other right going back to the ex-boyfriend
01:00:18
Adam yeah so that same term comes from Brian Solomon who only knows Alan roach who doesn't know Jade and Adam zlac who
01:00:25
does Jade and is there at a totally different time and yet they have similar stories you know she wanted me to
01:00:31
strangle him she told me she strangled him so how does that happen as I was watching it periodically I would say but
01:00:38
this is a secondhand confession why would they pin so much to this but I guess if you hear it over and over again
01:00:46
well at least twice then it starts to peque your interest if you're a prosecutor well and I think you know my
01:00:53
impression of the prosecutors you know it's they will often tell you this we've met many prosecutors over the years that
01:00:59
their mission is to find the truth whatever it is I think they believe this is really what happened MH I think it is
01:01:04
a complicated and not ideal story for them but I think they thought it was true yeah so you guys you're talking a
01:01:10
little bit about uh the prosecutors they had kind of an interesting dynamic between the two of them what was it like
01:01:14
talking to them oh wow they they really did they they really uh played to each other's strengths and knew each other
01:01:21
really well I mean so much so that um Jorge kind of said you know know I'm a little aggressive at times and Teresa
01:01:28
has to reain me in and she jumped in and said well actually what I do is I I pass
01:01:34
him Post-it notes and say hey tone it down or hey move on uh when he starts to get a little OV excited to the point
01:01:42
where he can get a little um physical he gets a little fidgety when he gets really excited about something and they
01:01:47
did not want him to be that way when he was uh talking to Jade on the stand and so the detective and and Teresa sat on
01:01:57
either side of Jorge and kind of pinned him in they they called it boxing him in
01:02:02
so that he couldn't get too fidgety and too aggressive with her and clearly it worked because they didn't want to make
01:02:10
her look like more of a victim because the weird thing about this case is both are victims in some way or another ex
01:02:17
yeah they said outright they said she's a sympathetic defendant you know they understood that about Jade about her
01:02:23
situation and and it's really when you go into into a courtroom it's about a story and the jury is getting impression
01:02:31
of people and a story you know so if they see a story where Jade's the victim that that goes against their conclusion
01:02:38
which they want a conviction you know and I don't think again they told us straight out they believe that Tom had
01:02:44
these pictures so they they understand that and they have some sympathy for Jade too but I think they also believed
01:02:50
she murdered Tom marman so talk about a sympathetic character I wondered if that
01:02:56
was part of the reason her defense attorney put her on the stand this sort of a shocking decision yeah although she
01:03:03
had to explain those texts she the prosecutor said they weren't surprised at all that she took the stand because
01:03:09
she had to explain those texts and I think you're right I think he was he was looking to make her sympathetic and
01:03:15
maybe that's why her own attorney was so tough on her that that was his strategy
01:03:21
was that would somehow make her look more sympathetic but it seemed like he was on her than the prosecutor was on
01:03:28
her okay because there were times as I'm watching the hour and because of the way
01:03:33
the video is set up you don't actually see who's asking her the question that I had to rewind because I wasn't sure if
01:03:40
she was being grilled by the prosecution or asked a question by the defense and you're right it seemed like her own
01:03:47
attorney was much harder on her and she was falling apart on the on the stand under his questioning yeah we tried to
01:03:53
leave Clues when we were putting together the broadcast for exactly that reason cuz we had that impression too
01:03:58
like he you know he's like did you kill him and she's like no you know that's that's her attorney he does need to ask
01:04:04
her that question right so that I mean I think as a defense attorney it makes sense to me better to say that that he
01:04:10
would ask her that question so it would come from you know friendly fire but it was it was aggressive and the other
01:04:16
thing that I observed maybe no one else observed this you know we see all these like gorgeous pictures of her she's
01:04:23
beautiful but in court she looks nothing like that that she sort of like you know came from a cell and she was
01:04:32
going back to a cell I don't know did anybody else observe that it's just she was not in jail at the time of trial
01:04:39
right she was out on bond until she was convicted but she did have kind of a wretched demeanor I think that's a word
01:04:46
that came to mind as you were talking and I was remembering that the tape of her testimony see I didn't even know she
01:04:52
was I assumed that she had been behind bars because she just looks so much different in her sort of social media
01:04:58
posts did you guys try to talk to Jade we AB how did that go we did not have success now she has appealed the verdict
01:05:06
you know um and probably wants to protect that legal process um everyone is free to decline but we worked so hard
01:05:15
to talk to her or friends family members you know we had a lot of casual conversations and in the end weren't
01:05:22
able to get anyone uh well yeah that's not fair uh we had a friend of hers who did talk to us but you know there were a
01:05:28
lot of people in court supporting her but wouldn't talk to 48 you know they might have had their reasons um that
01:05:35
they didn't share with us it's always you always want to talk to everyone um you know because I think you know part
01:05:42
of this conversation I think what we're bringing out about this case and it's true of many of them is that the truth
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is just multifaceted you know there's not one right and wrong um it's there's a lot of layers to it and there's a a
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lot more to Jade and her life that I think we would be really curious about and to hear from her just period to hear
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from her and that kind of comes to almost sort of the Crux of this case and we talked about this earlier that we
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have two victims and two perpetrators sort of neither of them are easy to like once you hear about their behavior um
01:06:19
they're easy to like sort of on the surface you know this beautiful girl successful creative he raised is
01:06:25
butterflies I mean who couldn't like that and then this underbelly this other behavior that makes them unlikable um
01:06:35
that's got to be a challenge when it comes to storytelling yeah it's true I mean when you hear about those photos
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finding those naked photos on on his computer how could you not sympathize with her I mean of course we all put
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ourselves in her shoes and say oh my goodness that would be horrifying uh yeah yes so she she is a
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victim you feel for her but as the prosecutor said to us no matter what Tom did Jade can't be the judge jury and
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executioner yeah yeah you don't get to do that right so and yeah Tom's friend talked to Tracy about this Tom was
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buried under garbage I think that stings you know that's you know there is there is sympathy for Tom I think you
01:07:25
know we all felt it at the same time no one has disputed what he did um with those pictures and to his family member
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so it's it's a complicated case hey you know just you guess you just said that I
01:07:37
want to Circle back to Tom's friends Tracy I want to play a clip from your conversation with Tom's friend Pat
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Flanigan Jade said that she found nude photos of herself on Tom's computer do you believe that I I can't disprove it I
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find it I I don't want to believe it it's interesting you say you don't want to believe it yeah Pat really kind of
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refuses to believe it at this point he just yeah he can't reconcile at least that's what he seemed when we spoke with
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him perhaps he's changed his mind since then but he just couldn't couldn't he was in denial about that actually being
01:08:18
a fact I think he we're talking about complications Pat Flanigan is grieving the loss of his friend and business
01:08:26
partner he had to shut down the Butterfly farm um but at the same time you know he's got this set of facts
01:08:33
about Tom's actions that I think are really hard to reconcile and maybe he just can't yeah um you do so many of
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these was there anything that was a takeaway from this episode you know I I think the thing that comes up you know
01:08:50
every set of facts is different but at the end I think what the viewers are responding to and the reason that I'm so
01:08:58
interested and engaged with my job is it's The Human Condition and it's not a simple story of this innocent person and
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you know this guilty one it's we want that I think we all as humans want nice binary right and wrong and and we also
01:09:13
know as grown-ups it's not true for me it just this is something where the the justice system could have worked so well
01:09:24
if she just would have reached out to the to the right people gone to the police you know talked to somebody about
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this instead of trying to take action you know take it into her own hands I mean it's just it it's this is vigilante
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justice I guess you could say at its worse and it just shows you that you know you can't take it into your own
01:09:47
hands like this is how it works out you know no matter what this guy did no one deserves to be murdered and thrown away
01:09:55
like crash uh Tracy Sarah this has been great so glad you guys made time to talk to us
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about this uh hour another spectacular hour of 48 hours thank you so much thanks for having us thank
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