Welcome to 48 hours post-mortem. I'm CBS News Anchor and 48 hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green.

And it's time to answer your biggest questions from our latest episode about

stepdaughter turned murderer, Jade Janks. Joining me today, our 48 hours correspondent Tracy Smith

and producer Sarah Pryor, who reported on and produced this episode. Hi, thanks for having us,

Anne-Marie. We have a lot to discuss, but first, here's a quick

refresher on the case. It was New Year's Day, 2021, when a strange call came into the San Diego

Sheriff's Department. The caller said his friend had confessed to murder. She said that she had

possibly killed her stepdad.

The accused woman was Jade Janks, an interior decorator.

She lived next door to the alleged victim, Tom Merriman, her stepfather.

Assistant District Attorney Jorge Del Portillo said detectives learned more from the caller.

He told sheriff's deputies she confessed to drugging him,

suffocating him, and strangling him to death.

Merriman's dead body was found,

and Janks was arrested and charged with his murder.

She said she was innocent,

and in December 2022, when the case went to trial, there was a surprise.

It turns out that just 10 days before Merriman's death, Janks had discovered hundreds of her

private, explicit photos on his computer.

It was the most violating, just awful, gut-wrenching feeling ever.

Jenks still insisted she didn't kill Merriman,

but prosecutors said they'd discovered text messages that revealed a plot,

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