The Murder of Jason Corbett | Murder or Self Defense?

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In 2008, Irish man Jason Corbett placed an ad for an au-pair to assist him in raising his two young children Sarah and Jack. Jason’s first wife Margaret had passed suddenly in 2006, leaving him widowed with two small children.

American woman Molly Martens answered the ad. She moved from her Tennessee home to Limerick, Ireland to live with the Corbett family.

Molly and Jason fell in love and decided to move back to America to get married and settle.

Their marriage soon soured - Jason was resistant to Molly adopting his children. Molly would regularly make comments about Jason’s weight.

One night in August 2015, Molly’s father Tom was staying with the family in the Corbett home. He called 911 and reported that there had been an altercation at the home and he had acted in self-defense. When authorities arrived, Jason was pronounced dead.

In 2017, Molly and Tom ended up being convicted of Jason’s murder. In 2023, they both took plea deals in the case and were resentenced. They were freed from prison in 2024.

This case is in the media again due to the new Netflix documentary titled ‘ A Deadly American Marriage.’

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1:14.1	Thank you. What's up, guys. Welcome back to another episode of True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia. It is May 15th, 2025 here.
1:21.9	The weather is fab for New York in May. It's a little rainy. It's a little humid, but, you know, we'll get through it.
1:30.8	I don't have much to talk about still pregnant, still surviving, getting through.
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1:41.2	But we're just saying, this is going to be a long episode, probably.
1:48.2	And we're talking about Jason Corbett and Molly Martins the big Netflix documentary just came out about them and we're going to go into a lot of detail about some of
1:52.1	their background and all that so it's definitely going to be a bit of a longer episode so we're
1:57.9	going to just like get right into it, which is rare for us.
2:01.6	Yeah.
2:01.8	But it's already 745 here.
2:05.7	I got to edit after this.
2:07.3	I got to get to bed.
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