Jade Janks and the Secret Photos
48 Hours
CBS News
3.9 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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" correspondent Tracy Smith reports.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going deep into my wife's family history, digging up the cold case of her murdered |
| 0:06.2 | great-grandmother. |
| 0:07.2 | And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family |
| 0:11.4 | patriarch, binge all episodes of Ghost Story, and free right now on OneDrew Plus. |
| 0:35.4 | Sheriff's communicator, dispatch your 5538. |
| 0:37.4 | Well, I've got a situation last night, a friend of mine asked me to come over. |
| 0:43.4 | She said that she had a pot to be killed for stepdad. |
| 0:50.4 | I don't know if she really did this. |
| 0:53.4 | What exactly are your reports? |
| 0:55.4 | It sounds like she killed this guy. |
| 1:01.4 | It was the first day of a new year. |
| 1:04.4 | Sheriff's Department received a call from a guy that said she confessed to drugging him, |
| 1:10.4 | suffocating him, and strangling him to death. |
| 1:16.4 | Jade was very cool, very popular. |
| 1:20.4 | They could not believe what they were saying that Jade did. |
| 1:26.4 | Tom Meriman is Jade's stepdad. |
| 1:30.4 | And 100% she loved Tom. She took care of him. |
| 1:34.4 | They lived next door to each other. |
| 1:36.4 | She made him dinner. |
| 1:38.4 | She was always there for him. |
| 1:44.4 | Detectives knew they had a phone call from her good friend that she confessed to murdering Tom Meriman |
| 1:50.4 | so they got her search warrant. |
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