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[Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] North Carolina sometime around 3 A.M an emergency call
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is placed to 9-1-1 [Music] the male caller is asking for help he says he has injured his son-in-law
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while defending his daughter the caller goes on to say his son-in-law is in bad shape and very
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matter-of-factly adds I may have killed him my name is Tom Martin I'm at 160 Panther
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Creek Court [Music] we need help okay what's going on there my my daughter's husband
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um my son-in-law um got in a fight with my daughter I intervened and I I think he's in bad shape we need help
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okay what do you mean he's in bad shape he's hurt he's he's bleeding all over and I may have killed him
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all right okay let's um back up for you just a minute give me your address again make sure I
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got it right 160 . Panther Creek Court what is your name my name is Tom Martin all right Tom
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give me the phone number you're calling from two times please I don't know [Music]
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I don't know I'm sorry I don't know I'm I'm the father I'm visiting uh I I don't know
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what's he drinking yes he had been drinking during the course of the day [Music]
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I mean my partner's dispatching at the ambulance in the after while I get the information okay
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all right are you right with him now I am how old is he 39. all right is he conscious at all no
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is he breathing I can't tell all right what I need for you to do is I need someone to roll him
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onto his back right on his back he's a big heavy man I can't do it all is there anyone there that can help you
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my daughter and she's in terrible shape okay felt one needs to get him on the back on his back we need to verify his
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breathing I'm trying okay just put the phone on on the speaker [Music] okay I've got him rolled over all right
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I want you to put one hand under his back the other hand on his forehead and tilt his head back put your ear next to
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his mouth and tell me if you can see or hear or feel any breathing yes [Applause]
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all right I'm sending the paramedics and amulets to help you now stay on the line
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the call lasted 14 minutes and 27 seconds [Music] for much of the duration of the call the
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911 dispatcher is instructing the father-in-law and his daughter on how to administer CPR to the injured man
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the phone is handed back and forth between the two as they can be heard performing CPR
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once EMTs arrived the caller and his daughter were told to let them do their job
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the last thing that can be heard is the caller saying Molly Molly come on out of
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there when authorities arrive at the scene it is a bloody mess and the man on the floor was Dead on
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Arrival his head bashed in with a baseball bat the father-in-law and wife of the victim
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tell the investigators that they had killed him in self-defense and the defense of another
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but authorities tell a much different Tale this True Crime garage and this is the murder of Jason Corbett
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[Music] please [Music] foreign [Music] am on August 2nd 2015 A call came into the Davidson County North Carolina 9-1-1
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call center the caller was a male who said he needed help a 39 year old man was badly injured Davidson County
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Sheriff's deputy Dave Dillard rushed to Panther Creek Court in Winston-Salem when he arrived at the home at 3 16 a.m
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he found a naked deceased male lying on his back on the floor in the master bedroom
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which is located on the main level Jason Paul Corbett was pronounced dead at the scene at 3 24 am attempts by
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paramedics to revive him were futile the man on the phone was Jason's father-in-law his name is Tom Martin and
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his daughter and the wife of the victim is Molly Corbett and we will get into these two in a bit but captain
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I want to talk about the medical examiner's report Jason was delivered to the medical
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examiner in a body bag naked save for his wedding ring the August 3rd autopsy report on Jason
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prepared by the office of the chief medical examiner in Raleigh North Carolina we have the report and it
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concluded the following blunt force head trauma which includes multiple lacerations extensive skull fractures
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abrasions and contusions of the head including two large branched full thickness lacerations of the scalp
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other blunt force injuries scattered abrasions and contusions of the Torso and extremities in other words
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Jason Corbett had been beaten to death found clutched in one of Jason's hands was a long blonde hair Jason's blood
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alcohol level was .02 percent his tax report showed ethanol levels of 20 mg not enough to be considered drunk but
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the sample was not taken until August 3rd so it's hard to know how accurate this was he also had an antidepressant
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and sleep aid in his system at less than 0.5 milligrams the manner of death was ruled a homicide
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but we heard his father-in-law say that he was drinking all day so do we think that the delay of the testing had an
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effect on that as far as alcohol level was concerned well I threw that in there for clarity purposes but not being you
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know a doctor I don't know if it actually has an effect on that talks reading or not but I wanted to be clear
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that it was not conducted immediately but we also know that that sleep aids and depression medicine are not a good
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mix with any alcohol correct correct and I and I actually just from a lay term you know from from a lay perspective I
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don't think that that it would have much of an effect on the accuracy of the test
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but I wanted to throw that out there for clarification purposes let's examine the lives of this homicide
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Triad shall we first we have our victim who is Jason Corbett he was born on December 2nd 1976 in Ireland he grew up
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in the janesboro area of Limerick city he loved beer soccer and his native land I can get behind all that right there
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interviews with his co-workers indicate that he was a very well-liked guy who was very friendly and easy going Jason
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had been married twice his first wife was Margaret Corbett who had died in 2006 from Cardiac Arrest this triggered
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by an asthma attack she left behind the couple's two very small children at the time this is Sarah and Jack
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after her death Jason had hired several nannies to come into the home and help with the children
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this was before finding Molly Martens who was from Tennessee he found her through a nanny service
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Molly moved all the way to Ireland to take up her new position as the caretaker for the Corbett children this
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was in 2008 captain and it's my understanding that Molly's situation and I'm I'm guessing that it was the same
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with the other nannies as well but this was like a live-in nanny type situation yeah
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so Molly was born in September of 1983 and grew up in Knoxville Tennessee with her parents Tom and Sharon and her three
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brothers the family lived a very nice lifestyle living in an exclusive neighborhood and belonging to a yacht
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club Molly was a competitive swimmer in high school she attended Clemson University
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this for a period of time but it doesn't appear that that she graduated from the
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University according to her online profile she did do some modeling she also reportedly
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worked a couple of jobs and nannied and taught kids swimming lessons in her early 20s she lived in a condo
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owned by her parents and was engaged at that time in her life Molly told 2020 you know the news magazine show
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that she suffered from migraines and depressive episodes she wanted to change she wanted to
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change in her life so in 2008 now at the age of 24 Molly quite suddenly ended things with
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her fiance and moved to Ireland this of course to work for Jason Corbett by 2010
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Jason and Molly were engaged Molly's father is retired FBI agent Thomas Martens Yes you heard us
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correctly Tom the man who called 9-1-1 and admitted to killing his son-in-law by hitting him in the head with a
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baseball bat was an FBI agent for 31 years he worked as a supervisor for 19 years
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and as a special agent in charge of the Knoxville office at the time that Jason was killed Tom was retired but still
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worked as a Counter Intelligence officer for the Department of energy he had top secret clearance Molly's
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mother Sharon was quite impressive as well she had an undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta and was
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a doctor of mathematics in 2011 Molly convinced Jason to move with her to the states reportedly she
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was homesick she told 2020 that Jason was excited for the kids to experience life in the U.S well he's a big fan of
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America their family moved to a luxury development in Wallburg North Carolina a neighborhood of Winston-Salem they
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purchased a large brick home in the Meadowlands an upscale Golf Community for 390 thousand dollars
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they were married on June 4th with the two children serving as the ring bearer and flower girl
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Jason assumed a position as the manager of multi-packing solutions receiving a U.S work visa to allow him
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to live and work in this country the packaging plant was owned by the company that employed him in Ireland so it was
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kind of a smooth transition for the family to the states and his company arranged for him to transfer into that
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position let's skip ahead four years now we're at 2015. to the afternoon of Jason's death
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Jason mowed the lawn and then sat outside with his neighbor the two men drank about seven or eight beers each
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and then split a 32-ounce can into glasses Molly's parents arrived from Knoxville
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for a somewhat last minute visit this is around 8 30 p.m at night captain they had pizza with Molly Jason and
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Sarah and then later Molly picked up Jack from a birthday party this was at 11 o'clock
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that night they all went to bed Tom and Sharon taking the room in the basement now the next thing that we know 9-1-1 is
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called Jason is dead and Molly and Tom appear to have killed him so let's try to dissect this whole mess shall we as
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we heard in the 9-1-1 call Molly and Tom told authorities that Jason attacked Molly choking her and threatening to
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kill her and separate initial interviews Molly and Tom told investigators this story
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between the two of them Tom and Sharon were sleeping in the basement guest room and Tom woke up because he heard loud
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thumps coming from the floor above he grabbed the baseball bat which that will be a big part of this case and you
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heard that a little bit of that in the 9-1-1 call This Bat apparently is a gift that the
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grandparents brought along with them for young Jack but they had not give they hadn't given the bat to the kid yet
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right so he grabs this bat and he runs upstairs Sharon stayed in the guest room this
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with the dogs this was per his instructions per Tom's instructions to his wife Tom says he heard a scream from the
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master bedroom he opened the door and found Jason choking Molly he ordered Jason to Let Her Go Jason said that he
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was going to kill her and started dragging her toward the bathroom down the short hallway right when he opens
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the door though Jason's hands are out like think of a 8th grader's dancing but instead of his hands being around her
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hips his hands are around her neck think of the old Simpsons episodes when you can see Homer choking Bart
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that's what I picture yeah and then when he said when Tom says hey you gotta stop
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choking my daughter he turns her around and almost puts her in like a weird naked choke you know like where
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his arm is now around her throat and she is now facing her father but she is now
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in between her father in her husband and according to this story he starts to drag her toward
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the bathroom which is down a short hallway and I think that people should look at the pictures available online of
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the crime scene to have a better understanding it sounds like he would have to leave
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the room to do this but keep in mind this is the master bedroom the master suite yeah so there's a little there's a
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little like tiny hallway that is a part of the bedroom that goes to this bathroom he they don't have to leave the
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room for him to drag her in this direction yeah basically this is three to five feet but it's the fact that once
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he gets her into the bathroom he could then separate himself and and his wife from Tom by shutting the door and Tom's
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going to do his best to make sure that they do not make it into that bathroom behind that closed door so he hits Jason
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on the head with the bat he says to protect his daughter and this is an act of self-defense he then says a full-on
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fight ensued which Tom referred to as a Donnie Brook which I had to look that up that seems
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like an old school term but from what I found it Webster Webster's Dictionary defines it as an
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uncontrolled fight so this Donnie Brook breaks out we have Molly and her father both trying to
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protect each other and fend off in a raged Jason the fight migrated from the bedroom into
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the hallway and back into the bedroom again but let's start with this first hit though as Jason is moving him and
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his wife backwards you can't just take a baseball bat and conk him on the front of the head
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because you then could conk your daughter on the front of the head right so this initial hit
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he's kind of coming from the side swinging the bat from the side so when he actually makes contact with Jason's
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head it's like to the side or more towards the back of the head yeah this from the injuries that we talked about
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briefly in the medical examiner's report this looks more toward the uh the the scalp area the side of the head
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but toward the scalp area as well if that that's a whole thing though that we got to get into as well so Molly tells
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the investigators I'm just going based off of what Tom said the hit and how he swung it towards Jason was so Molly
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tells investigators that Jason grabbed the bat from her father and then she tried to help her father by hitting her
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husband in the head with a concrete Paving Stone which was in the bedroom because she and the kids had planned on
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painting it for a garden that they were making now our friend Jess was able to locate a copy of the written statement
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to police by Molly this was conducted right after they found the body and here's what it says now bear with me
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Captain because I'm trying to read through Molly's cursive here it says my husband Jason Corbett was
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upset that he woke up and an argument ensued with him telling me to shut up Etc and he applied pressure to my throat
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neck she says throat slash neck and started choking me at some point I screamed as loud as possible he
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covered my mouth and then started choking me again with his arm my father Tom Martin's came in the room and I
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cannot remember if he said something or just hit Jason to get him off me Jason grabbed the bat from him and I
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tried to hit him with a brick and then she says garden decor I had on my nightstand I do not remember
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and then here's a word that I cannot I cannot decipher what it is I do not remember blank after that at first I
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thought it was much I do not remember much after that or I I don't think much would be good
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though because I think you'd be you'd be pushed to you can't just tell police oh
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I don't remember much after that it will tell us what you do remember you know uh
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so it's got to be some other word I think that's a pretty common thing when when uh
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fight breaks out or even like sometimes you're in a bar and it's that that's a common phrase that I've heard my friends
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say well and then we're at the bar and then and then he said this to this next thing you know he smacks him and I don't
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remember much after that no I get that it's a common phrase I mean that you in this situation you're not allowed to get
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away with that common phrase you you would be you would be pushed by investigators to clarify what much means
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well that's much implies that you still know something that's debatable and we'll get into why that's debatable
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later but you have individuals that are taken in in question and they're not interrogated it's it's very
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loose if anything and then they're sat on their way there's not much of an interrogation
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drinks on me at the bar today you know since we're allowed to go to the bars before we move on I want to
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point out uh not only that it's your birthday the Beloved Captain's birthday but there are and were many sources of
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information for this case this is actually a bigger case than most would think some of the information we have
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comes from the Irish Times from the Irish independent but truly my main source of information was the extensive
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coverage of the case by the Winston-Salem Journal particularly the reporting of Michael Hewlett
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so I wanted to pass that along in a kudos to Michael Hewlett for his great coverage of the case now officials
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were very tight-lipped about what went down that night but two weeks later the sheriff told the Irish Daily Mail
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newspaper that Molly and her father were quote Persons of Interest in Jason's death he told the news outlet that Jason
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had been bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and the investigators were not seeking suspects outside of the home
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and look there are really no two ways around it it the crime scene well I actually I think what we should
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in all fairness is call it something different let's say the death scene because there's a decent argument that
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this was not in fact a crime but was self-defense well there was a crime happening it's called abuse
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and if you're being choked and somebody's saying that they're going to kill you you have the right to defend
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yourself and then with or defend somebody else and then and that action somebody then dies so self-defense again
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if those stories are true that's that's the whole importance of this case right is it self-defense or is it not is it
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murder so what is so important is the death scene because to me I look at all these
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photos and it just does not make sense with the stories that are told to investigators by the only two people
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that survived the fight right this is when you have to let your forensic people put together the scientific facts
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of the death scene the facts of the body the injury sustained by the decedent and
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now the detectives well they need to start to go to work on some type of paper trail if you in fact do think that
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this was murder or if you do in fact have evidence that suggests this they are suspects and here are some of the
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reasons that are listed for why they become Suspects at 3 13 a.m the morning of the death two
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Emergency Medical Service officers arrived at the scene followed by a second unit of two more
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one of these officers described the room as real bad a horrible scene they said that they moved Jason
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Corbett's blood-soaked body from the master bedroom to an ambulance outside no heart rhythm was ever detected two of
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the paramedics commented on how cold or how cool was their actual word how cool the body was and questioned if there
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might have been a delay in calling 9-1-1 right at 4 AM the crime scene examiner at the Corbett home arrived on the scene
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within the next hour both Tom Martins and His Daughter Molly Martin's Corbett are transported by officers to the
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Davidson County Sheriff's Office where they are interviewed photographed in their Blood Stained clothing is taken
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for forensic analysis both at barely a scratch on their person you know we talked about that quote Donnie Brook
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broke out or as Cosmo Kramer would say a real brouhaha and seemingly no marks on
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these two people yeah okay I'm going to stop you right there that is the speculation the problem we have
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is we have one man getting confrontation with another man protecting his daughter
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he then calls 9-1-1 they bring him down to the station and they talk to him not that long there's not much of an
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interrogation they basically take a statement take a couple pictures and send you on your way they didn't do they
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could have done more of an extensive investigation of the persons at that moment
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I don't believe there was extensive investigation of the persons of were there injuries were their bruising and
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on top of that if you think that it's a possibility that this wasn't self-defense you call the individuals in
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a day later two days later see if there was bruising see if there's any injuries
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after that see their demeanor take more pictures to to see we we only have one set of pictures again I I just don't
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think they did enough I will I'm going to disagree with that I I I'm I'm with you there there does
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not seem to be any interrogation that night I probably I agree with you on that end
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I would have pushed for that immediately where I do I I don't think that there's
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look there's just no injuries to these people that whether whether you took a significant amount of pictures that
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night or the next day or what have you they're just there is not injuries to either one of these individuals again
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that's where I'd argue because if somebody was choked sometimes they they have a redness around their neck she
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does not but that doesn't mean that two days later there wasn't some kind of bruising around her neck but she was
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interviewed during the course of those two days so she was interviewed initially right
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after the attack happened correct but I don't think they were ever interviewed after that there was no
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second follow-up interview that that does not seem to be the case these people were talked to quite a bit
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and that's that's not what that's not what Tom Martin says the the thing is though I I just don't want I don't see
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any injuries on these two and two on top of that we don't have either them claiming to have any injuries other than
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the one of the of being choked but I I really don't think that that where where the media or where the
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public points out that that's such a big issue I don't know that I find that to be that
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big of an issue because the story that they told to investigators does not imply that there should be significant
00:37:11
injuries to either one of these individuals right you know we we don't have either one of them saying that that
00:37:18
Jason hit Tom with the bat we have one of them saying I thought he was going to hit Tom with the bat right not that he
00:37:26
did so them not having injuries doesn't doesn't really point to any sign of guilt to me or that their story is is a
00:37:35
fabrication but I we we would be remiss if we didn't point that out because every story you
00:37:41
go to that's the the key thing that they want to point out in this situation I would think that there'd be some kind of
00:37:47
bruisings or one around her neck or around her arms where he would grab her to pull her in I'd also like to see I
00:37:56
would assume that there would be bruising on Tom as far as like maybe his back when he talks about I mean we're
00:38:02
talking about an individual that he's wrestling with that's almost 300 pounds and Tommy is an older man and I would
00:38:10
just I would also just think as him being an older man that he'd be more likely to bruise again I think if there
00:38:17
was follow-up were you in where you're investigating of the person and you're taking more photos that maybe you would
00:38:24
see some bruising on on Tom's back or something the problem that no injuries really points out is that at some point
00:38:33
during during the course of this fight this Donnie Brook this bruha whatever you want to label it
00:38:40
is that the aggressor you know if we are to believe the stories of Tom and Molly the
00:38:47
aggressor would be Jason at some point he is no longer the aggressor and he just continues to get beaten to death
00:38:55
that's the problem with them having no injuries so we have Dr Craig Nelson who conducted the post-mortem examination he
00:39:03
says that the victim's head is so badly damaged that when the doc attempts to adjust the scalp pieces of skull fall
00:39:12
out onto his his surgical table the blows to his skull were so violent and repeated that the doctor said it was
00:39:21
impossible to make an accurate count beyond that Jason suffered a minimum of 12 hits to the skull well we have what
00:39:31
Tom's saying that it's at least three or four yeah but but you have a doctor saying
00:39:38
that that that's more than that right it's it's a minimum of 12 and past 12. we can't even it's impossible for us to
00:39:45
tell because the the skulls in such bad shape that we can't determine anything after
00:39:51
which isn't consistent with their story no not at all and then as far as a paper
00:39:57
trail you know we're talking about your forensic guys got to come up with the scientific evidence now we got our our
00:40:03
detectives trying to come up with some type of paper trail or circumstantial evidence
00:40:07
let's get into some of that we have Molly's parents Tom and Sharon who lived four hours away
00:40:13
apparently they had dinner plans that night for that Saturday night that fell through according to the reports Tom
00:40:20
made the decision that the two should make a spontaneous visit to see Molly and the kids
00:40:26
for whatever reason investigators viewed this impromptu visit as very suspicious
00:40:32
saying it's quite out of character for her parents now Jason may have been planning a trip
00:40:39
to Ireland this is a a hotly debated issue inside this this case that Jason was planning a trip to Ireland to that
00:40:48
was going to take place around August 21st according to an affidavit the trip was allegedly for the purpose of him
00:40:55
moving back to Ireland with his children but they had no intention of taking Molly with them right the argument
00:41:03
against this though against this thought is that Jason's father was turning 80 years old and there was going to be a
00:41:11
big party for his birthday that the trip was simply for that party obviously they're having problems within their
00:41:17
marriage but one of the problems was Molly wanted to have custody of the children she's raising these kids
00:41:23
she's now their mother she wants to legally adopt them and Jason's not having this go through he keeps saying
00:41:32
he's going to but because they're having problems in the marriage he's not doing
00:41:36
it so in regards to this trip and what it's actually for you know we have Molly and her family
00:41:44
saying that it was just for Jason to attend this party we have Jason's family who's saying no he intended to move back
00:41:50
with the children without her and that's why if this went down if it was premeditated murder that's why it had to
00:41:57
happen before the 21st the problem with us trying to decipher what exactly was going on there is at the end of the day
00:42:05
no one knows for sure because the man planning the trip is is dead he's not here to tell us what his intentions were
00:42:12
right and there are the financials you know we see reports of Jason possibly moving large sums of money from his bank
00:42:20
account here in the states to his home Bank in Ireland and there's talk of quote large sums of
00:42:28
money end quote having been removed from some of his and Molly's joint bank accounts now the thought on that on
00:42:37
those large sums of money from the joint bank account was she possibly moving some money in advance
00:42:45
well because if this is premeditation one you're gonna kill this guy that doesn't
00:42:54
give you the rights to stay their mother stay the mother of the children so you're taking a risk on that level
00:43:02
but also this money that money might not go to you at all that money might go to towards the kids
00:43:08
depending on how the will is set up correct correct so I want to go back to the the scene of the crime because to to
00:43:18
me or the death scene whatever we want to call it because to me I think that's a big big
00:43:25
aspect of this case the the scene inside the bedroom as one would expect was a bloody one the crime
00:43:33
scene photos which are available again available online show blood spatter on the bed floor and walls there are
00:43:42
multiple sprays of Blood on the carpeted floor near the doorway there are large blotches of blood about 12 to 18 inches
00:43:51
off the ground on the wall also near this doorway and the blood spatter and smears on the walls of the hallway
00:44:01
there is even blood spatter behind the door on the wall also on the electrical outlet and on the
00:44:10
AC great there there's some on the the bed as well a concrete paver lay on the carpeted bedroom floor covered in blood
00:44:19
an aluminum 28 inch Louisville Slugger baseball bat was leaning up against an ornate wooden dresser
00:44:28
an upright vacuum cleaner sat on top of some of the blood stains on the carpet behind the spattered door area
00:44:39
later an affidavit stated quote the struggle described was not consistent with the evidence at the scene
00:44:46
particularly the master bedroom end quote and to tell you what Captain I cannot agree with that statement more
00:44:55
yeah you can actually see these pictures online and at first you go here here's this retired FBI agent of 19 years
00:45:04
there's a couple of things that start making you question this initially is he tells his wife to stay downstairs while
00:45:11
they have some dogs there so that somewhat makes sense but initially the sound scares him and Spooks him enough
00:45:17
that he'd grab a baseball bat if it was just an argument that he's hearing between his son-in-law and the
00:45:24
daughter there is no need to grab the baseball bat but the initial sounds he doesn't
00:45:30
recognize so that's why he grabs the baseball bat but if you're that nervous tell your wife to call 9-1-1 or at some
00:45:39
point you say hey if things get out of hand call 9-1-1 she never calls 9-1-1 so we don't know how long the delay was
00:45:47
so the the story that I used earlier Captain was a was of my choosing because in the two accounts that I saw that that
00:45:57
are on public record that he gave of that night what woke him up to want to venture upstairs in one story he says
00:46:06
that he's hearing thumping or thuds on the floor above and here's a scream grabs the back goes upstairs right and
00:46:13
the other story and I I don't I want to be clear here I don't think that he I don't think that this is any uh
00:46:21
admission of guilt here omission of guilt the other story he says that he hears the thumps or the thuds but never
00:46:28
mentions a scream and goes upstairs right so I'm with you Captain I think that if
00:46:36
you're just if you knew that it was to be your daughter or you were hearing an argument between husband and wife you
00:46:44
don't grab the bat I'm I'm fully on board with that it regardless though it seems a bit
00:46:52
weird so under this scenario I'm guessing he according to him or the story he's presenting he goes upstairs
00:46:59
to investigate these suspicious sounds and does not decipher that it's coming from husband
00:47:05
and wife until he's already at the top floor at the main floor right with bat in hand and what Molly is stating
00:47:12
because we have to have this argument that takes place well the argument takes place and what Molly says is that the
00:47:19
the daughter woke up should go to the door because if she went into the door she'd get yelled at so she's at the door
00:47:26
basically she's scared Molly Gets up puts her back to bed when she's coming back to bed it's it's
00:47:32
pretty late so Jason wakes up with the attitude what are you going why are you coming to bed
00:47:38
so late who were you talking to and she's like I'm just putting the daughter back to bed this is what she
00:47:46
claims that's when the fight broke out but that's not how investigators think that this went down
00:47:52
well the baseball bat is collected into evidence obviously and according to a police affidavit quote it appeared to be
00:47:59
covered in wet and dried blood the baseball bat also had what appeared to be human hair attached to the barrel of
00:48:07
the bat the baseball bat was black and red in color with black rubber hand grips on
00:48:14
the base a concrete paver with blood on it was collected as well the police photos of Molly Martin's
00:48:24
Corbett taken that night show a distraught looking young blonde woman with blood on her forehead and in her
00:48:31
hair she is clothed in a multi-colored pajama tank top and pants a little blood is
00:48:38
evident on her close she appears in photos to have virtually no marks on her as we said
00:48:46
earlier save one tiny red mark on her throat and others have pointed out that she is wearing a delicate looking
00:48:53
bracelet on one wrist which many have questioned why did that not break during this struggle right
00:49:02
Tom Martins Molly's father was photographed looking sheepish he has ample blood smears on his shirt
00:49:10
but his arms and hands look uh they're they're significantly less bloody than the shirt
00:49:18
he was not photographed in the boxer shorts so he was wearing boxer shorts when this whole thing went down
00:49:26
neither had any visible scrapes Cuts bruises or swelling at that time which again
00:49:34
seems unlikely but it also doesn't go completely against their their story of how it went down I question where it
00:49:42
goes to at some point was the self-defense and turned into like could you have stopped
00:49:49
beating this man at some point and as you pointed out Captain uh Jason was a large man as far as weight goes
00:49:57
I have him upwards of 260 pounds now both Tom and Molly were interviewed by police I mean you hear on the 9-1-1
00:50:06
call hey this guy's a large man it's hard for me to to turn him over right uh both were interviewed by police and
00:50:15
released as you said this within seven hours of the time that they were taken to the Sheriff's Office
00:50:22
I do want to go a little more into some of these crime scene photos because these things are
00:50:31
there's a lot to look at in these there's a lot to to look at and try to put your own
00:50:37
I don't want to say spin but put your own opinion on what you think that you're seeing right
00:50:43
when I first look at the the photo that I think is of the most interest to me immediately is the one and anybody
00:50:52
that's seen these online will know immediately which one I'm talking about there's a picture of the master bedroom
00:50:57
door and it's open it's about halfway open and there's a vacuum cleaner with the
00:51:05
cord kind of strung out along the floor and it's wedged between the wall and this uh master bedroom door
00:51:15
you see blood on the carpet you see blood on the vacuum cleaner you see blood on the walls behind the vacuum
00:51:24
cleaner behind the door so there's some there's immediately there's some puzzling things about that
00:51:31
portion of the scene we can decipher that the vacuum cleaner during the course of the bloodied attack
00:51:42
was lying on its side because the blood that is on the wall behind it could not have physically got
00:51:48
there with the vacuum cleaner sitting upright the other thing too is if you look real
00:51:54
close at the vacuum cleaner the blood was dripping from side to side on the vacuum cleaner which is
00:52:02
scientifically not possible if the vacuum cleaner was in the upright position when it when this blood is
00:52:09
spraying on it during the attack right so somebody took the time to put the vacuum upright
00:52:16
um or put it upright and in this location in the room prior to these photos being taken
00:52:26
which seems a little strange to me unless it's paramedics just simply getting it out of the way when they try
00:52:33
to save this individual's life who by all accounts is is dead by the time they arrive on the scene
00:52:41
the other puzzling thing too is that when you see the blood on the wall again behind the vacuum cleaner
00:52:50
it's also in a location where you question the position of the door during this attack
00:52:59
because if the door would have been fully open or even in its half open position as we now see it in the photo
00:53:08
it does not appear to me that some of that blood would have made its way to where it did on those walls having the
00:53:14
door being in the open position the other troubling thing too is if you look at the door jamb and if you look at
00:53:21
the floor there's and this is just outside of the master bedroom there's blood on the door
00:53:28
jam there's blood on the floor there's blood on the the back side of both sides of the door
00:53:35
but that could have been who knows I mean the door could have been open at some point and the door
00:53:42
shuts you know everybody has doors in their house that they don't like to stay open they swing shut so that's a
00:53:50
possibility or they use the stopper to open up the door because they know that the the EMTs are coming
00:53:57
I don't know I just I question why there's blood on both sides of the door I think the bigger thing is is where the
00:54:04
blood splatter is happening it's happening mainly three feet and down and so this guy that's almost six foot
00:54:13
tall and you're talking about smacking them in the head a couple times with a baseball bat you'd expect to see more of
00:54:19
this splatter coming you know in that six foot range um and then think about where the
00:54:26
baseball bat would be hitting this individual and where you'd be you know the the back swing would be happening he
00:54:33
has several portions of the of the the big batches of blood that we see on the wall
00:54:39
are 18 to 12 inches off of the off of the floor and I think this is the initial reason why investigators went
00:54:46
okay their story you know he's a FBI agent of 19 years we want to believe him self-defense of your daughter
00:54:54
but the majority and big big amounts of blood are happening 12 inches off the ground show that two people were beating
00:55:04
a man in the head while he's on the floor right that I mean that's what it looks like to me
00:55:10
well not only that and I know you don't love my blood on both sides of the door speculation or suspicions
00:55:17
well I'm just saying I don't I don't know how great uh unless you're looking at the images it's kind of hard to
00:55:24
understand I understand what you're saying but what I'm pointing out is it it looks to me like the majority of the
00:55:30
and I keep calling it attack which is is probably not the proper word especially
00:55:35
for those that believe it was in fact self-defense but for a lack of a better term let's just say attack it looks to
00:55:41
me like the majority of the attack once the victim is bleeding because we know that neither of the other two
00:55:49
individuals suffered injuries that caused them to bleed so this is all victims blood here
00:55:55
all Jason's blood the majority of the bloodied portion of the attack appears to have taken place to me while the door
00:56:03
was closed that I have a bit of an issue with that when in Tom's statements he says I went
00:56:11
upstairs and I opened the door or you have Molly's statement my father opened the door
00:56:19
that gets a little tricky for me when I see that the majority of the blood takes place and it's coming out when the
00:56:27
while the door is closed right but my again I don't know the door and I don't know the room but I know of
00:56:35
several rooms my house that if you open up the door step through it and don't touch the door it's going to shut right
00:56:42
I'm not saying it's impossible I'm just saying that it would be it's very suspicious to me when you have stories
00:56:48
of the person open the door there's no blood in this story until the door is open
00:56:54
and now we have crime scene photos that tell us that the door was closed when most of the blood took place yeah I just
00:57:01
wish there was more questioning done uh I wish there was more photos taken again
00:57:07
there's there's also more photos taken that we're just not we don't have the privilege of seeing
00:57:12
again I mean we can go round and round as much as as you want I'm just I'm just stating saying there's very logical
00:57:19
reasons there's why the door would be there's probably 10 10 logical reasons the problem is it doesn't fit The
00:57:26
Narrative of the story and that's what we have to go off of we have to be able to look at their story we have to be
00:57:33
able to look at what the scene presents us with and then then we can decide we don't have to decide what is true and
00:57:40
what is false what is 100 what is zero percent it's not that black and white but we can decide what is suspicious and
00:57:48
that is very suspicious and that's just my opinion the other thing that you can see too is that if you mark up where the
00:57:56
blood is dripping on the door on the inside of the master bedroom door you can mark it up with the marks on the
00:58:03
blood stains on the carpet that would be where the where the door position would
00:58:08
be when it was closed again it it doesn't prove anything but to me it's highly suspicious it almost
00:58:18
presents a different scene that does not go along with the story it presents to me that there was already blood in the
00:58:27
attack going down by before this door is even opened therefore if that is the case then we
00:58:37
have a scenario where Tom according to Tom and Molly stories Tom could not have been the first person to hit this man in
00:58:44
the head yeah maybe or maybe there's again a million logical reasons why the door ends up being shut before the
00:58:52
attack happens I think the more damning evidence or what the investigators were looking into is
00:58:58
like we talked about before the the blood splatter being on the lower half of the walls
00:59:04
oh 100 that's what they're honing in on I'm just telling you what I see when I look at this and now another photo this
00:59:12
one is of Thomas Martens that was taken when they were photographing him for the injuries uh or just photographing
00:59:20
his person for uh the purpose of evidence for later right one thing I noticed on on one of
00:59:27
his photos is there's dried blood on his watch which I find to be suspicious as well
00:59:34
why might well you wear a watch do you sleep with your watch on yeah but was he asleep I wear watch I
00:59:45
don't sleep with my watch on I know what I'm saying is I don't know when he he claiming that he was asleep and woke up
00:59:52
yes okay every every statement he gives he what the noises woke him up in the middle of the night and he Ventures
00:59:59
upstairs with the bat look again maybe he sleeps with his watch on I I don't I can't think of
01:00:06
somebody that I know that does neither do I what I'm possible that because he was tired maybe you fell asleep maybe he
01:00:13
fell asleep with his watch on it's the same as the door there's there's many reasons to to explain it away
01:00:20
however if he is if he is somebody that does not sleep with his watch on then that means for there to be blood on his
01:00:27
watch one of two things took place either he woke up and he was so startled and he had to go upstairs and
01:00:32
investigate this this noise but he stopped to take the time to put on his watch which does not make sense no or he
01:00:40
killed the man and then before calling 9-1-1 he puts on his watch which why would you delay the 9-1-1 call if you're
01:00:49
if you're calling for help which that's the first thing he says on the call we need help so again it's not any proof of
01:00:59
guilt or any proof of murder but to me looking at it it would be suspicious it would be I would question why go on
01:01:07
that's why why that's the scenario that's why I have a big issue with the fact that they should have been
01:01:11
questioned multiple times and because it could be a simple explanation well I fell asleep we we sit up in bed and
01:01:21
watch a little TV before we go to bed and and a lot of people do this and you're fully clothed that you have your
01:01:28
watch on and at some point you wake up take your watch off take your you know I mean like get ready for bed maybe he
01:01:36
maybe that's the simple explanation um but again we don't have more than one statement from him so that that's all we
01:01:47
can go off of we don't have more than one statement from him from that night but and then the other thing that I
01:01:53
think is a little weird too and this this not as weird as the other two things to me but the the paver
01:02:01
the garden paver stone appears to me to have a lot more blood on it than the bat
01:02:10
which yes if we go by their story would make some sense because Jason his head would already be bleeding he would
01:02:18
already been bleeding from the head by the time he was struck in the head with the paver
01:02:24
so there's already more blood flow going on at that time or it could suggest a different story where the stories we
01:02:34
have from Molly and from Tom State he was hit by the bat many more times than he was hit with the paver stone you
01:02:41
could also take it the other way and say well maybe all of this blood and hair on
01:02:46
the paver stone actually suggests that he was hit more with the paver stone than the back
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