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48 hours is investigating a bizarre murder and how a stash of explicit photos may be the key to solving the
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case a San Diego area woman named Jade jenss says she discovered hundreds of photos of herself on her stepfather's
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computer soon after her stepfather was found dead the evidence points to an overdose but as Tracy Smith reports for
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this week's 48 Hours the case far from clear it was New Year's Day 2021 when a strange call came in to the San Diego
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Sheriff's Department Last Night A friend of mine asked me to come over she said that she had possibly killed her stepdad
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the accused woman was Jade jenss an interior decorator she lived next door to the alleged victim Tom maramman her
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stepfather assistant district attorney Jorge Del portio says the CER had more to say he told sheriff's deputies she
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confessed to drugging him suffocating him and strangling him to death the call triggered a search for maramman his body
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was soon discovered in his own driveway hidden under this pile of trash jenss was arrested and charged with his murder
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but she said she was innocent maramman had been in poor health Janks said he'd fallen asleep in her car and the next
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morning she'd found him dead she says she panicked and tried to hide his body when the autopsy came back it seemed to
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support js's story prosecutors had expected evidence of murder instead it said maramman died of a prescription
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drug overdose in December 2022 the case went to trial I mean did you want your stepfather
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dead it turns out that just 10 days before maran's death jenss had discovered hundreds of her private
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explicit photos on his computer it was the most violating just awful gutr wring feeling
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ever but jenss insisted she didn't kill maramman did you stand over him with a plastic bag and pull tight to keep them
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from breathing but prosecutors Dell Portillo and Teresa fam said they discovered text messages that told a
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different story how would you categorize those text messages suspicious incriminating a
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plan you can see Tracy Smith's four report Jade Janks and the secret photos tomorrow night at 109 Central here on
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