In Jason's Name

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Tracy Lynch** (0:15)
Jason, he was an amazing human being. When he was young, he was fun, vivacious, a little bit giddy.

**Maureen Maher** (0:25)
So you're the big sister?

**Tracy Lynch** (0:26)
I'm the big sister, yeah. By about three and a half years.

**Maureen Maher** (0:30)
That's just enough to be able to tell him what to do.

**Tracy Lynch** (0:32)
Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, I don't think he always appreciated it.

**Lynn Shanahan** (0:38)
Jason was a 31-year-old widower with two tiny children.

**Tracy Lynch** (0:45)
He decided that he needed support and decided to engage the services of an au pair. That was Molly Martens.

**Mike Ernest** (0:55)
I always knew her as kind-hearted.

**Connor Martens** (0:59)
She loves other people more than she loves herself. I would describe her even growing up as remarkably altruistic.

**Tracy Lynch** (1:07)
She was good with the kids. Jason started to smile a bit more.

**Lynn Shanahan** (1:11)
There was definitely something between them. The two of them looked very happy. Jason was always the romantic type. He shouldn't have been alone for the rest of his life.

**Tracy Lynch** (1:22)
He proposed to her on Valentine's Day.

**Connor Martens** (1:26)
The wedding was beautiful. She seemed happy.

**Tracy Lynch** (1:34)
It was a lot of things changed when they moved to America. Jason started to talk about moving home. He wasn't happy.
He said she was acting strange. He would open up and say they were having difficulties, and then he would change the subject.

**Connor Martens** (1:51)
When they moved to the US, I definitely started to notice more verbal altercations and verbal abuse. Jason was yelling at Molly.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:01)
David's in County 911

**Tom Martens** (2:02)
My name is Tom Martens. My son-in-law got in a fight with my daughter. I intervened, and he's in bad shape.
We need help.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:11)
What do you mean he's in bad shape?

**Tom Martens** (2:12)
He's hurt. He's bleeding all over, and I may have killed him.
And I said, let her go.

**Mike Ernest** (2:31)
He walks in that scene, a nightmare. Without Tom Martens' heroic efforts that night, Molly would be dead.

**Tracy Lynch** (2:40)
They claimed that it was self-defense.

**Maureen Maher** (2:42)
So you're telling me you think that whole thing was staged?

**Tracy Lynch** (2:45)
Yes, 100%.

**Maureen Maher** (2:47)
And the entire story that the two of them tell about Jason choking Molly, in your mind, that is entirely a lie?

**Tracy Lynch** (2:54)
Yes. The Martens didn't just murder Jason.

**Tom Martens** (2:58)
He was very controlled and abusive.

**Tracy Lynch** (3:02)
They tried to destroy his character.

**Tom Martens** (3:04)
Tell me, that guy was crazy.

**Tracy Lynch** (3:07)
I would have done anything I needed to do to get justice for Jason.

**Tom Martens** (3:22)
The Inheritant Blood. All right, listen carefully.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:25)
I'll tell you how to do chest compression.

**SPEAKER_10** (3:27)
I'll set a pace for you.

**Maureen Maher** (3:32)
The call came in the early morning hours of August 2nd, 2015

**SPEAKER_10** (3:37)
I'm certified, I can't think.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:40)
Okay, you have to stay Come.
let your training take over. We need to try to do this to help him, okay?

**SPEAKER_10** (3:48)
Okay. All right.

**Lynn Shanahan** (3:48)
One, two, three, four.

**Maureen Maher** (3:50)
Police arrived at this Winston-Salem, North Carolina home to find Jason Corbett beaten to death and his blood on his wife, Molly.
They knew who did it, Molly and her father, Tom Martens. The question was why?

**Tom Martens** (4:07)
He's got Molly by the throat, like this.

**Maureen Maher** (4:11)
Just hours later, Tom, a 30-year FBI veteran, explains he'd been spending the night at his daughter's home. After being awakened by a commotion upstairs, he says he grabbed a little league baseball bat he brought as a gift for the kids and ran to her room.

**Tom Martens** (4:29)
He sees me coming, and he goes around her throat like this. And I said, let her go.
And he turned the blanket on. Let her go. I'm gonna kill him.

**Maureen Maher** (4:44)
Tom says his protective instincts as a father instantly kicked in.

**Tom Martens** (4:50)
I didn't put the baseball bat. And he reaches out and he grabs the bat. And he's stronger than I am.
And he pushes me down, and I'm scrambling on the floor, my glasses fall off. And now I'm thinking, he's gonna kill me.

**Maureen Maher** (5:07)
Molly told investigators the same story.

**SPEAKER_10** (5:11)
He tried to hit my dad, I think, but he might have missed. And I hit him on the head.