Jade Janks and the Secret Nude Photos

48 Hours

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A woman discovers explicit photos of herself on her stepfather’s computer. Soon after, he’s found dead. Jade is a likely suspect, but did she do it? "48 Hours" contributor Tracy Smith reports. This episode last aired on 10/15/2023. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sheriff's Communicate.
0:18.0	Sheriff's communicate.
0:19.0	Well, I've got a situation.
0:21.6	Last night, a friend of mine asked me to come over.
0:25.6	She said that she had possibly killed her stepdad.
0:32.6	I don't know if she really did this.
0:35.6	What exactly your report? It sounds like she killed this guy.
0:40.3	It was the first day of a new year.
0:45.3	The Sheriff's Department received a call from a guy that said
0:49.3	she confessed to drugging him, suffocating him,
0:53.3	and strangling him to death.
0:58.0	Jade was very cool, very popular.
1:02.5	I could not believe what they were saying that Jade did.
1:08.4	Tom Merriman is Jade's stepdad. And 100% she loved Tom. She took care of him. They
1:16.9	lived next door to each other. She made him dinner. She was always there for him.
1:26.2	Detectives knew they had a phone call from her good friend that she confessed to murdering Tom Merriman so they got a search warrant.
1:36.3	We don't have to prove motive, but we want to show a motive.
1:39.3	The photos.
1:41.3	She accidentally bumped his computer and the screensaver came out.
1:48.0	The screensaver is a nude photograph of her in the shower.
1:52.3	She was able to find a lot more nude photos of her.
1:56.2	Hundreds.
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