Interview with Martens took place less than four hours after she and her father killed her husband, Jason Corbett
rushed from the court, heaving in tears. Casting aside her uncle Mike Earnest’s attempts to calm her, she ran off down a hallway outside Courtroom No 6 to be alone with her thoughts.
On Wednesday, the full interview was played before a hushed courtroom, which included Jason Corbett’s children, Jack and Sarah , and their guardians, Jason’s older sister, Tracey, and her husband David Lynch. Molly was severely agitated, repeatedly crossing her arms and wrapping them around herself, alternatively hugging herself or hunching forward and back in apparent discomfort. She kept rubbing her neck, wringing her hands and clasping her throat. Wearing a black fleece top over her blue pyjamas, she had brought a brown fur blanket from home and draped it over her legs, but still, she seemed cold sitting in the austere white-brick walled surroundings of the windowless interview room.
She did not tell the doctors about the alleged domestic abuse but said she had been experiencing headaches and thought she might have “swelling of the brain” and might need an MRI. The assistant district attorney, Kaitlyn Jones, said the doctors found no injuries on her head, refused her an MRI and sent her home.
Lt Thompson sought more specifics on where she was in the master bedroom when Jason started to choke her. She appeared confused, at one point saying she was lying on the bed, at another point that she was sitting up in the bed, and on another occasion, that she was standing at the end of the bed. She kept rubbing her neck furiously, and Lt Thompson had to tell her to stop. Molly said she could not remember when her father entered the room, but he hit Jason on the head with the bat, and then Jason managed to get the bat.She explained that the brick was on her nightstand because she and the children intended to paint brick as a garden decoration.
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