Post Mortem | Jade Janks and the Secret Photos

48 Hours

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True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Did Jade Janks, stepdaughter and prime suspect in the death of Tom Merriman, kill her stepfather or was his death an accident? Correspondent Tracy Smith and Producer Sarah Prior discuss the hundreds of nude photos of Jade found on her stepfather’s computer, the so-called “fixer” Jade reached out to for help, and the text messages from Jade that tell a bizarre story about what might’ve actually happened to Tom.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to the 48 hours podcast, ad free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	Join me 48 hours correspondent Aaron Moriarty on my podcast My Life of Crime as I
0:16.3	take on true crime investigations like no other. This season I'm looking
0:21.3	into the secrets within families cutting straight to the evidence and talking to the people directly involved
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0:38.8	I'm going deep into my wife's family history digging up the cold case of her murdered great-grandmother.
0:45.6	And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family patriarch?
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1:03.0	Subscribe today. Welcome to 48 hours post-mortem. I'm CBS News Anchor and 48 hours correspondent, Anne Marie Green.
1:23.1	And it's time to answer your biggest questions
1:26.0	from our latest episode about stepdaughter-turned-murder,
1:30.0	Jade Jenks.
1:31.3	Joining me today, our 48 correspondent Tracy Smith and producer Sarah Pryor
1:36.1	who reported on and produced this episode.
1:38.5	Hi, thanks for having us, Anne-Marie.
1:40.4	We have a lot to discuss, but first here's a quick refresher on the case
1:45.2	It was New Year's Day 2021 when a strange call came into the San Diego Sheriff's Department
1:51.2	The caller said his friend had confessed to murder.
1:55.0	She said that she had possibly killed her stepdad.
2:00.0	The accused woman was Jade Jenks, an interior decorator.
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