Martens and daughter, Molly, sentenced to up to 30 additional months in prison over killing of Limerick man Jason Corbett in 2015
In Davidson County, the sun was coming up on August 2nd, 2015. For Thomas Martens, it was a new day and a new life.
Children of Jason Corbett to deliver victim impact statements before sentencing of Molly and Thomas Martens Of the 12 separate points of impact on Jason’s skull, four were struck repeatedly, crushing the back left and right sides of the skull. Eight of the blows were sufficient to have rendered Jason unconscious, and four of these were individually sufficient to have killed him.
There was “puddled” blood next to the body. There was dried blood on the chest, blood spatter across the underside of the quilt cover, cast-off blood across the blinds on the small window to the right of the double bed, Molly’s side, where she kept the brick. She saw Mags come into the kitchen, struggling to breathe. She kept telling Catherine: “I’m going to die.” Her home nebuliser wasn’t helping and neither was her Albuterol inhaler. They lived in the countryside, about 20 minutes’ drive from University Hospital Limerick. Jason called an ambulance, then put Mags in the car and drove to meet the ambulance halfway.
Thomas Martens knew he had to save his only daughter. God knows it wasn’t the first time. She had struggled since early adolescence with mental health issues and was diagnosed as bipolar in her teens. She took medication, and her schoolfriends noted long, unexplained absences from Farragut High. Martens and his wife, Sharon, were not shy of influence in high places and somehow got her into Clemson University, a prestigious and expensive college, but she dropped out after less than a semester.
Sitting in the sheriff’s office, Thomas Martens knew there was only one way out. He would take the fall, and for that, Molly needed to stick to the script. Paramedics Amanda Hackworth and Barry Alphin reported that the body was cold to the touch. They declared Jason dead at 3.20am, but they were already curious about how long he’d been dead for before the 911 call was made.
Molly said Jason started choking her, but Thompson noticed the 32-year-old seemed confused about where this started.“Sitting down and standing up. Maybe he was standing up by the end of it. I don’t know. Can we stop? Please stop,” she said, sobbing.
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