The trial of Molly Martens

I pointed that our earlier in the thread.

Considering the lack of physical evidence, lets just discuss what has been established. There are a lot of things claimed by the defence that do not add up.

One of the murder weapons was a paving slab. Im a pretty strong guy but I would need two hands to lift a paving slab. If you are being strangled by your husband, how exactly do you pick up a paving slab?

What was the paving slab doing in the bedroom to begin with?

Lol.

I'm beginning to thing that father did it with mollys blessing. I think the bat was the first object and a struggle ensued which they both overpowered him.

The paving slab was the final weapon and there to obliterate the work of the bat.

Some people are easily fooled.

Afaik it was said to for an art project or something like that? wonder could the children corroborate that now?

its obvious what “side” I have been championing here on this thread over the last week, but yeah, that’s probably the one piece of “evidence” that has struck a chord with me.

but since this whole thread is mainly conjecture anyway, I guess you can look at it a few ways:

1. an over reaction by the parents (was it the mother in law that set this up) to something molly said , the kids were coached in what to do and the father (Jason) obviously never told - “our little secret”

1. A carefully planned method of setting Jason up to look bad dreamed up by Molly and executed by grandma - hoping someday the kids would make that call and bam, evidence that Jason was abusive - they never made such a call

1. a totally genuine system to try and rescue kids from a dangerous situation based on the regular events taking place in that house

The kids themselves have rejected the claims relating to this “system” and now claim they were manipulated - notice even the wording they use in the interviews below at the time of the murder- it doesn’t sound natural to me.

However, the system does appear to have been in place - the police found the phone/code words etc

so I would like to hear more from the now adults on this matter - it does raise questions and in fairness it’s probably the one piece of evidence that doesn’t really have a clear response from the prosecution other than the kids now rejecting it - that to me does need more detail and probing.

It (the system) may well have been set up, but by whom, when, why ?

“Jack told the interviewer that in the event of a really bad emergency, which he defined as ‘hitting or cussing that would be going on and on and on without stopping for an hour or two, maybe more,’ the kids knew to call their maternal grandparents and say a ‘key word’ which would summon the grandparents to their home and then hang up the phone.

Jack’s ‘key word’ was ‘galaxy’.

Sarah’s was ‘peacock’, the supreme court noted.”

Wonder away.

I couldn't give a fook about nationalities. We are all human beings....and for two human beings to do what they did to that man is vile, absolutely vile. You bringing in nationalities to try make out how people here would react is your issue.

And you can wonder all you want about mitigation. I think, like plenty others that it is nothing but a crock a sh1t.

Beat the man to a pulp, even after he was was clearly not any type of threat, and folks are talking about the "chance" of mitigation.

Phones/code words could have been placed after the murder

As I said That’s where all sorts of theories could be put forward- it’s the motivation behind this system being set up that needs to be placed under the spotlight - I reckon the Martens know full well the real reason but don’t now wish to admit it as it wouldn’t do their case any good 🤪

I guess people who wish to put a “race” slant on this whole case just to muddy the waters even further - you couldn’t make it up - ignore

But he shouted in an argument with his wife? Also, I want to hear from people who have never raised their voice in a family argument.

This is telling though, after all that effort from the Martens the sum total of their evidence of domestic abuse is that Jason yelled at Molly. Once. Must have driven them mad that they couldn't get anything more. I've read her ex boyfriends account and if she was the same to Jason I hereby nominate Jason as a saint.

Tom Martens taking full responsibility for the death of Jason according to defence today- “Molly didn’t kill Jason”

So you can see the ploy- Molly shouldn’t do more time coz she didn’t kill Jason

And Tom shouldn’t get more time because it was “extraordinary” circumstances and besides Tom is former FBI and stuff

So there ye have it- neither should do any more time but Tom is obviously putting himself out there as a fall guy if one is needed.

Molly definitely wont serve another second behind bars

Can you share, please?

The theory is Molly staged the strangulation so her parents would witness domestic abuse and she would get the kids.

It got out of hand and Tom beat him to death.

He said Molly Martens Corbett, realising that the clock was running out on her time to get custody of the children, Jack and Sarah, manufactured a situation in which she would have witnesses in the house to an episode of domestic violence, which would lead to a court awarding her custody of the children.

Those witnesses were to be Tom Martens and his wife Sharon. But he said the situation developed far beyond that and led to the killing of Mr Corbett.

I didn't see that one coming.

So she arranged to have her parents in the house to witness the "abuse" and when when she couldn't provoke Jason to retaliate she flipped. He was most likely aware of her plan and wouldn't play along.