Jason Corbett - 447
The Generation Why Podcast
Wondery
4.6 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Davidson County, North Carolina. August 2nd, 2015. Molly Martens and her father, Tom Martens, killed Jason Corbett, Molly’s Irish Husband, in what they claim was an act of self-defense. Tom, and his wife Sharon, had stayed over at Molly & Jason's house that night, awoke to shouting and a scuffle upstairs. He grabbed an aluminum little league baseball bat that he had purchased for his grandson, Jack, and made his way upstairs to the source of the noise; Molly and Jason’s bedroom. There he claims he found Jason Corbett strangling Molly. A scuffle ensued that left Jason Corbett dead and naked on the floor of his bedroom with a caved in skull. Was this self-defense? Or was there another reason for them to kill Jason?
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| 0:00.0 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app to listen ad-free from Wondry. |
| 0:30.0 | How you doing tonight, Irne? |
| 0:47.0 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:48.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:49.0 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:50.8 | Anything in the news lately? |
| 0:52.3 | Well there was one bit of news that it seemed like a lot of people were following. |
| 0:56.3 | There was a young four-year-old girl named Cleo Smith that was camping with her mom and |
| 1:01.9 | step-dad, her family. |
| 1:04.0 | This was in Western Australia. |
| 1:06.6 | And about one in the morning or so, it was one thirty. |
| 1:11.4 | She had to go to the potty. |
| 1:13.3 | So her mom took her and made sure that got taken care of and then they went back to the |
| 1:18.6 | tent and went to sleep. |
| 1:20.0 | But sometime later that morning, probably around six, the mother awoke and noticed that |
| 1:25.8 | that little Cleo was gone. |
| 1:27.3 | Now you might say kids can wander off, who knows, but it seemed like that wasn't very |
| 1:34.1 | likely given her age and that it'd be kind of scary for her to go out on her own. |
| 1:38.5 | Not to mention the fact that the zipper on the tent was raised high enough that it really |
| 1:43.1 | seemed unlikely that she had let herself out. |
| 1:46.3 | So for eighteen days there was this massive search. |
| 1:50.8 | There's a whole story here. |
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