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Thank you. The Minds of Madness podcast. Listener discretion is advised. Just days before Christmas, 20-year-year-old interior designer Jade Janks decided to surprise her stepfather by cleaning his home before he was discharged from the hospital. But what Jade found in her stepfather's San Diego home set off a series of events that meant

that Tom Merriman wouldn't live to see the New Year. Join me now as we delve into this baffling

case involving a complicated relationship between a stepfather and a stepdaughter, uncovering

a trail of trauma that led to Tom Merriman's

body being found at the end of his driveway. You'll hear a story of shocking text confessions

and a scandalized stepdaughter who compared the case to a real-life weekend at Bernice.

We've all gotten some unhinged texts late at night from friends, from drunked-out confessions to all caps' rage rants. They're the reason many of us switch our phones to silent after

9 p.m. But when Adam Sibblax started getting disturbing texts on New Year's Eve 2020,

it was the middle of the afternoon, and they were from his drop-dead gorgeous friend, Jade Janks.

Jade had just picked up her stepfather Tom Merriman that day from the hospital.

In general, Tom had been in poor health, but recently had been recuperating from his injuries

due to a fallen eye surgery earlier that month.

Since moving next door to her stepfather, Jade had been taking good care of him,

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