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It's time to answer your biggest questions from our latest episode about step-daughter turn

murderer Jade Janks. Joining me today are 48 hours correspondent Tracy Smith and producer

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

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.

Her caller said his friend had confessed to murder. The accused woman was Jade Janks,

an interior decorator. She lived next door to the alleged victim, Tom Mariman, her stepfather.

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

He told Sheriff deputies she confessed to drugging him, suffocating him, and strangling him

to death. Mariman'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 Mariman's death, Janks had discovered

hundreds of her private explicit photos on his computer.

Janks still insisted she didn't kill Mariman, but prosecutors said they'd discovered text messages

that revealed a plot. A plot to murder.

Okay, so we're going to discuss the crime scene, that pile of trash, the so-called fixer

who didn't fix, didn't show up. We're going to talk about Jade and Tom, and of course

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