Hello and welcome back to the Psychlegal Pop podcast.

This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist.

I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist.

And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney.

And we are back today.

We are covering a deadly American marriage.

This is a one part or movie that's on Netflix. And I'm going to

read the synopsis that is up on Netflix site. And then we're going to dive into sort of the themes

of this story. It is, it's a lot. It's a roller coaster. It is a roller coaster.

So here we go. When Jason Corbett, an Irish widower and father of two young children,

found love again with his American opair, Molly Martins, in 2008, their relationship seemed ripped from the pages of a storybook.

The couple, along with Jason's kids, Jack and Sarah, moved from Ireland to North Carolina to build a

new life together. But on August 2nd, 2015, their idyllic tale took a dark turn when Jason was killed

in a violent altercation at home. The perpetrators, Molly and her

father, Thomas Martens, a former FBI agent. Molly and Thomas claim self-defense, the formerly

eventually pleading no contest, and the latter guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2020,

to avoid a trial. But their release from prison in June of 2024 re-ignited questions over the

incident's true nature. Was this actually self-defense, as they argued, or a calculated killing?

For some, the intricacies of Jason and Molly's marriage at further complexity, including a long

simmering debate over the custody of Jack and Sarah, who were 10 and 8 years old,

respectively at the time of Jason's death. Brooke, your thoughts, high level. Well, I didn't know anything

about this story going into it. I was a little bit afraid. It was going to be real gruesomey, you know, but it wasn't, you know,

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