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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 it was the most violating just
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awful gut-wrenching feeling ever I felt sick I I couldn't even touch my own skin she was beyond freaked out she's
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sleeping with a knife she is scared for her life did you love Tom Tom love you yeah I mean did you
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want your stepfather dead did you stand over him with a plastic bag and pull tight to keep him
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from breathing to wrap a cord around his neck and strangle him no so you have this supposed confession
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of her saying she she strangled him but no evidence of strangulation your own strangulation expert said it's not
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strangulation that's right so your big bomb fizzled it was gone [Music] [Music] San Diego County
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California an idilic Place most of the time I stewed on this all night I barely slept and I'm scared to death I don't
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want to be a part of this I didn't have anything to do with her that frightened phone call came in New Year's Day 2021
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the caller said his one-time girlfriend may have committed a murder the sheriff's department received a call
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from a guy that said my friend confessed to me last night that she murdered her stepfather San Diego County Deputy da
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Jorge Del Portillo he told deputies hey I I don't know if what she's saying is true I didn't see him but this is
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something I had to tell the police the alleged victim was a 64-year-old man named Tom maramman he lived here I liked
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him I thought he was very nice Ramona Hamilton and her husband George were Tom's neighbors Ramona knew him better
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and she found out Tom also ran an unusual business miled more milked more milked a butterfly
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farm I'm a gardener and I love love uh butterflies Pat Flanigan also likes butterflies he was Tom maran's business
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partner out at the farm he was my best friend did he become kind of a butterfly expert oh he is a butterfly expert you
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say he 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 I that's all we knew that's all we knew hi sweetie and then
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George saw Tom's stepdaughter 37-year-old Jade Janks Tom maramman had come into Jade's life when she was 14
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marrying her mom Jade and Tom were apparently close she lived right next door on this day Jade had just driven
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him home and he called her his daughter he called Jade his daughter right they seemed close and they seemed very close
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she was fixing dinner for him every night she seemed to take care of him what' you think of Jade I thought she
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was a very pretty woman Jade had done some work in Ramona's apartment she was an interior
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decorator that's Jade she can be a tomboy and a girly girl all in the same day she can get herself dirty for work
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carrying rocks and concrete in her pickup truck and we're dressed up ready to go to like a nice fancy dinner
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Heather Pierce grew up next door door to Jade in San Diego County Jade was very cool I loved being around her Jade was
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13 years older she's definitely a little more than a big sister and a little less
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than a mom her energy is just very strong loving and caring and genuine and so when you're around her like you feel
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good she also knew Jade's stepdad Tom maramman I think she always just loved him and cared about him back at Tom's
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Place in salana Beach it was now January 1st the day after he'd gotten back from
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the hospital the day after George and Romona had seen him looking so poorly in the driveway this time they only saw
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Jade in the driveway she was standing by a pile of trash and boxes I saw her out
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at the side here with the boxes and cartons a little while later I was a knock on the door and she come to the
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door to tell me that she'd made a mess down here but she cleaned it up later where was the pile what about here see
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where that dirt is right there yeah like right in this area here right there it was a few hours later when law
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enforcement pulled into their driveway I'm scared to death I don't want to be a part of this they came to investigate
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that strange phone call the one that claimed Tom maramman had been murdered they were trying to find Tom where is
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Tom they walked by this pile of trash in the driveway they knocked on his door they went inside they didn't find Tom
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but they did see his stepdaughter when they saw J Jinx driving out of her driveway they pulled her over brought
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her in for questioning and asked that very question where is Tom Jade said she was cold so
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they gave her a blank it 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 J he just got released from a hospital yesterday okay did you see him
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yesterday yeah I picked him up from the hospital okay do you know where he went no well can you tell me other than he's
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just missing we don't know where he's at we're trying to find him eventually they
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let Jade go but there was still no sign of Tom officers spent all night combing through his apartment looking for Clues
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then just after the first morning light one of the officers was walking down the
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driveway toward Tom's apartment when she saw that pile of trash it was just about
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here I have a picture of it here there's a wheelbarrow there some boxes some bags
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she moved a trash bag from that trash and immediately saw the silhouette of a man and there he was Tom maramman Tom
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maramman laid dead and buried never seen that I've never seen a case where a body was buried under a pile of
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trash in the driveway the apparent crime scene was smack in the middle of the driveway of
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this Lush compound just a mile from the beach he was wearing the hospital bracelet that he was just in the
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hospital the same t-shirt and the same pajamas that he was discharged as soon as they found the body they knew we have
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our suspect and they may the arrest on the morning of January 2nd 2021 Jay Janks was arrested and charged
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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 and I can't help you and I never saw the body Adam cipac may not have seen the
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body that night but eventually he did tell police that Jade confessed to him that she knocked Tom
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out with an overdose of medicine and then strangled him it was a pretty dramatic story and authorities were
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confident that the autopsy would confirm it that there'd be physical evidence that Tom maramman was strangled to death
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but that's not what happened I was actually there for the autopsy assistant DA Teresa fam who led the investigation
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talked to the medical examiner so what they found was unfortunately not a lot of physical evidence right so you have
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this supposed conf confession of her saying she she strangled him but no evidence of strangulation that's right
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the final autopsy report created even more of a challenge for the prosecutors it said that the cause of Tom maran's
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death was acute zulem intoxication zadam is the generic name for the sleeping pill ambian is it possible that Tom
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marman died by accident he was in poor health it's not that many pills that he took certainly it's possible but the
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evidence lii that notion this was no accident but even if the autopsy didn't point to strangulation investigators say
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other evidence clearly pointed to murder Jade's cell phone was a gold mine it was
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a gold mine Jade's phone was full of texts how would you categorize those text messages suspicious incriminating a
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plan according to prosecutors that plan was to get rid of Tom maramman one way or
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another investigators say it all started on December 23rd that's about a week before Tom's body was found Tom was in
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the hospital after that bad fall Jade says she was cleaning up his apartment when she found something so she's at
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Tom's apartment and his laptop I guess it must have been in sleep mode or something like that but she knocked into
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it and it woke up and on the screen saver is a nude photograph of her in the shower and there was more much more she
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must have had his password so once she was able to get into his laptop was when she was able to find a lot more nude
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photos of her hundreds hundreds these were photos that she took willingly with her partner at the time somewhere of her
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in the shower naked authorities don't know how maramman got those pictures but but Jade
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says she never gave them to him and prosecutors say she panicked in her words she was beyond freaked out that's
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what she wrote to a friend that she couldn't shower alone and she was vomiting at just the idea of looking at
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a shower based on what she had discovered she's sleeping with a knife on the nightstand just in case he comes
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early home from the hospital according to prosecutors that's when Jade launches her plan how one of
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her friends connects her with a guy a guy the prosecutors called the fixer there's a text message where he tells
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Jade if you have a problem I can fix it for you and that's how we came up with the label the fixer the so-called fixer
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was a man named Alan roach who is Alan roach Alan roach is a guy he's a security guard that's what he does but I
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think he makes himself out to be someone else that he's not we were thinking Jade
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views him as the character in Pulp Fiction someone that you reach out to when you want one of your problems fixed
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and that's what he was he was the fixer he was the fixer is Ellen a Hitman he is
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not a Hitman what's important is what does Jade think Allen is prosecutors say Jade wanted her fixer
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to help her get rid of Tom she had a plan that she stuck to the plan was murder the plan was
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[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 ABS absolute mess for a long time
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there's no 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
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Jade 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 Jade 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 away and I looked and there's a picture of female
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breast on the screen and I look I thought 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 a slesh of pictures of me that I've taken over the years what type of pictures were they um they were naked
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photos do you did you ever give Ved photos to uh to your stepfather no did you ever show him may 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 overtures for your
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stepfather no no did you tell him that you had uh new photos of yourself no and you never showed him anything similar to
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those corre no he was my dad Tom was still in the hospital but Jade says she didn't feel safe and you were afraid
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that he 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 you yes and
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that's why Jade says she got in touch with Alan roach who worked in security the day she found those photos so why
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did you think that you needed somebody like Alan rud I I was I was scared I mean when I
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first saw the photos I I couldn't even use the bathroom I just felt so disgusting I couldn't show
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her either um I was just I was I was scared I was scared of being you know nude and vulnerable and
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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 does mean that 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 time to just go
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away and leave me alone according to Jade Alan 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 ellan 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
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medication he started calling at about 6:45 in the morning and he asking me to get him coding which I don't really
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understand he says it he hasn't eing slept and he wants to rest Jade took Tom out of the rehab at a little after 11:00
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a.m. he had a bag of medication with him including ambian and remember the autopsy says ambient 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 kept saying like
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did you have any paint colors like is this it oh here and then he just kind of took it Jade says Tom seemed fine when
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she stopped at this shopping plaza and texted Alan roach to come meet her she went into a couple of stores while she
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waited to hear back I was just getting started on um a house project so I just went to go fig get supplies and kind of
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shop around Jade bought gloves towels and a nylon cord and some spray paint she says these items were for a painting
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project typically I lay plastic down and kind of enclose it so that I'm not getting pains on all the the foliage
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Jade still hadn't heard back from Allan and took Tom home she says Tom was now too groggy to walk on his own and she
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couldn't get him out of her car I parked in the parking lot but she says she was
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worried about him and drove him back to the rehab for help I just explained you know my dad's just been released and
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something's wrong you need to bring him back um this wouldn't they wouldn't let me inside though they're pretty adamant
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with Co I couldn't go inside Jade returned home with Tom but says she was still not able to get him out of her car
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Allan had finally texted back to say he couldn't make it over after all but sent
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his friend a man named Brian Soloman to help her get Tom inside have you ever met Brian Solomon before no Jade says
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Brian wouldn't help her with Tom and left right away so Jade reached out to her friend Adam sylac and asked him to
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come over Adam arrived later that evening I had just said um I mean I I was just in tears I had said that you
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know I I want to get him into my house or into his house Jade says Adam quickly got upset and left without helping her
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and this is where Jade's story doesn't line up with Adams remember Adam was the person who called police on New Year's
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Day she said that she had possibly killed her stepdad J says she didn't confess to
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anything she says Adam was distressed by how sick Tom looked and that's why he wouldn't help her after he left Jade
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says she didn't know what else to do and tried to get Tom situated in her car for
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the night so he could sleep off whatever he had taken I made sure he was comfortable you he had pillows and I'm
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trying to remember yeah I mean he had a BL to the next morning in The Cold Light of New
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Year's Day Jade says Tom was still in her car when she realized the worst had happened did you touch Mr
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marman 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 Shinx did you did you think Tom marman was dead at that point I knew he [Music]
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was how do you think Tom died chat now with the 48 Hours team on Facebook and X after Jade told the jury how she found
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Tom's body her own attorney challenged her did you think about calling 911 um I was scared too why were you
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scared I knew want to get pled I mean I just I was theone that picked him up and
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I didn't want to get blamed for for killing him and she tried to explain what she
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did with his body I continued to to fall out I still wanted to get him into his house I I mean I didn't I didn't know
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what else to do gr it so I put the blanket over and I got um empty boxes and just kind of stacked it made it look
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like just like a pile of debris Jade may have left Tom's body in the driveway but she says she never
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meant him harm I mean did you want your stepfather dead shank did you grab him with your
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own two hands and did you strangle him no would you would you ever done that to Tom I
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do and then the prosecutors told their version of the story We lied to the police about where Tom was I didn't I
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just asked for an attorney and I kept asking for one you didn't want the police to know that Tom died in your car
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I wasn't trying to hide it but I didn't want to go alone and tell them that prosecutors said Jade was lying to
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cover up her plan the plan was to drug him suffocate him and Stage it to look like an overdose Del Portillo says after
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she picked Tom up from the rehab Jade used his own prescription sleeping pills to knock him out and he says he has
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proof Jade's DNA is on those packs of pills the package of zulum which is the ambient sleeping pills that had the
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defendant's DNA on it but not Tom's and I think it's a that the jury heard that that it was Jay
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jinx's DNA on that open imp pack and according to prosecutors there's much more evidence too Jade they say left a
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realtime trail of clues that day remember her cell phone the one they called a gold mine turns out it was
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packed with texts messages that they say outlined her plan to kill we're talking
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11 12 minutes after being discharged she sends a text message to Allan the fixer
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saying I just dosed the hell out of him someone says I dose the hell out of them you would agree with me that that
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means someone gave another person a whole lot of drugs right I guess it's a poor
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phrasing Del portio thinks Jade's explanation is nonsense he says first she drugged Tom and then she needed to
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stall 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 picked up for a painting
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project according to the prosecutors they were actually Jade's murder kit she goes to the store and buys this murder
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kit zip ties gloves rope and towels prosecutors say up to that point Jade's plan was on track but by a little after
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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 L to Allan he 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 of trash that you put
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together that this text message looks very suspicious you'd agree with me right I mean oh
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yes it's now around 400 p.m. Allan has disappeared at 4:08 p.m. you texted Alan he's up I guess I'm on my own
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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 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 he's 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 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 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 and no one would help her so they say she drove to a hospital with Tom dead in
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the back of her car picked up a wheelchair put it in her car and drove back to Tom's
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Place how'd you get the wheelchair in your car if Tom was still in there um it's it's big U the trunk was uh Tom was
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kind of you know his legs were a Kimbo when he was laying down and I kind of hoisted it up into the back window of
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the Forerunner can roll down when you were doing this at this point did you know Tom was dead
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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.com that was the biggest hurdle in our case we feel was the jury might
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dislike Tom marman 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 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 made 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 sleck story that Jade
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confessed is a lie Mr siac no credibility he wants to get out of something that he thinks might have
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happened and he says Brian Solan who also claimed Jade confessed to him that day can't be telling the truth he claims
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that immediately and this was his testimony immediately upon entering she says who's in the car go strangle this
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is somebody that JS had never met before neither Adam zlac Brian Solomon nor Alan
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roach was charged with any crime in the this case and Mark Carlos urges the jury
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to stick to what he calls the truth and the truth is they have zero zero evidence to support a murder her DNA was
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on the blister pth but Jorge Del Portillo gets to make the last argument the jury will hear it starts with I just
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dose the hell out of him the plan is starting and with Allen it ends with lose my number I'm getting pulled over
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and buried in between all of those text messages is a murder plot find her guilty of murder because
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the evidence proves it the law requires it and Justice demands it the jury went out that afternoon and was back the next
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morning to continue their deliberations jury comes in at 9:00 a.m. we get the call at 9:30 a.m. we have a
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verdict we were shocked we were a little bit nervous the quickest verdict I've ever had was 15 minutes and it was a not
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guilty so I don't put a lot of stock in quick verdicts Tom's business partner Pat Flanigan got a text about it I was
00:37:07
very anxious my hands were sweating I was nervous we have your own we the jury in
00:37:14
the above entitled cause find the defendant Jade Sasha jensx guilty of the crime of murder in violation of Penal
00:37:22
Code SE guilty of first degree murder subsection a a felony as Char Jade appears stunned J number one yes number
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two yes number three yes number four yes number five yes number six yes number seven yes number eight yes it was a huge
00:37:43
relief it was an absolute relief and when you heard that word guilty um it it it felt right guilty of the
00:37:54
crime Pat Flanigan says he saw Jade reaction to the verdict later online I still go back and watch that sometimes
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why cuz I feel bad for Tom he died buried in trash now she gets to feel a little of that pain that we've all been
00:38:09
feeling for years but there's still the matter of those photos Jade said that she found nude photos of herself on
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Tom's computer do you believe that I I can't disprove it I find it I I don't want to believe it it's
00:38:29
interesting you say you don't want to believe it yeah Tom's hard drive was not recovered after his body was found but
00:38:37
prosecutors who spent two years investigating this case believe Jade is telling the truth at least about this
00:38:45
did you have any doubt that these photos actually existed we talked about that but we had
00:38:50
no doubt we found that photo on Tom's laptop showing that it had been used as a wallpaper showing that he had been on
00:38:59
his laptop since August of 2019 so we had no doubt that these photos existed in March of 2023 3 months after
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she was convicted of Tom's murder Jade was in court for her sentencing and listened as a local Pastor shared his
00:39:16
memories of Tom and the Butterfly farm I still remember Tom and wish I could drop
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by for a smile to ask a question about plants or but flies or just to recharge those
00:39:28
batteries that keep seeming to to wear down as I get older I believe my Life is Richer
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because I knew Tom Steven JS Jade's biological father who had not spoken publicly since she was charged put the
00:39:45
focus back on Tom's betrayal firstly I can only imagine what she went through when she found out that Tom her
00:39:52
stepfather a person she trusted that she called d bad was a sick perverted individual all I can say is this fight
00:40:02
is not over I truly believe that an injustice has taken place Jay JS spoke that day too Tom came into my life when
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I was just a little girl and exerted influence during that early stage of development when I was still figuring
00:40:15
things out unfortunately that influence manifested itself into appropriate touch
00:40:20
Reckless Behavior and complete violation of what I now realize is years of psychological manipulation
00:40:26
all this came crashing down on me when I found hundreds of naked photos of myself
00:40:30
and his computer without ched Jade did not tell this story during trial and we can't verify it Jade still
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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
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sincer 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
00:40:51
way I was supposed to that day I think about it every day then she will be committed to the Department of
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Corrections the judge sentenced Jade to serve 25 years to life and as the prosecution looks back
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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
00:41:19
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