Ep 235: The Stepfather (Jade Janks Trial) - Part 2

Court Junkie

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In January 2021, the body of 64-year-old Tom Merriman was discovered in his driveway. Later, a jury would have to decide - Did he die of an overdose, or was he murdered? Please subscribe to our new podcast, CIVIL, which covers civil cases and trials. Listen to the trailer here - https://link.chtbl.com/CivilPodcast Sponsors in this episode: Progressive Insurance - Visit Progressive.com to get a quote with all the coverages you want, so you can easily compare and choose. Pluto TV - Download the free Pluto TV app for Android, iPhone, Roku, and Fire TV and start streaming now. Post-Production for the show is provided by Jon Keur of Wayfare Recording Co. This episode was researched and written by Gabrielle Russon. Please consider supporting Court Junkie with as little as $3 a month via Patreon.com/CourtJunkie to receive ad-free episodes. Help support Court Junkie with $6 a month and get access to bonus monthly episodes. Follow me on Twitter @CourtJunkiePod or Instagram at CourtJunkie

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0:00.0	Jade Janks, a 39-year-old interior decorator from California, was accused of murdering
0:07.2	her stepfather, Tom Marimen, in 2020.
0:11.8	The motive, according to the prosecution, was that Jade discovered her stepfather's
0:16.8	obsession with her.
0:18.7	She had found a giant collection of naked photographs of herself on his computer.
0:24.4	These were intimate pictures she had taken since she was underage through her adulthood,
0:29.6	but had never been meant for her stepfather's eyes.
0:33.1	Somehow he had stolen them, cropping them and cataloging them in a most demeaning way.
0:39.4	She was horrified, shocked, and angry when she realized her stepfather's betrayal.
0:46.5	In last week's episode, you heard about the damning text messages Jade sent.
0:51.7	According to prosecutors, she was trying to recruit help to kill her stepfather, and
0:57.1	one witness, her friend Adam Cipliak, testified that she had admitted to killing him.
1:05.1	According to the deputy medical examiner, however, Tom's cause of death was from a drug
1:10.0	overdose, although he had also ruled the manner of death as homicide.
1:16.4	The prosecution's theory was that Jade drugged her stepfather and then suffocated him
1:21.8	when he was too incapacitated to fight back.
1:25.5	But Jade insisted she was innocent, and she was willing to take the stand to testify
1:30.9	until what happened during her 2022 murder trial.
1:35.5	I'm going to cover that today, Jade's testimony, as well as the conclusion of this trial.
1:41.7	Would the jury decide that Jade killed her stepfather, or that he died of an overdose
1:47.1	by his own doing?
1:49.5	This is Jillian and in partnership with Law and Crime, you are listening to Court Junkie,
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