Paving Brick Self-Defense? | Tom and Molly Martens Case Analysis 

​@@ricksomething lol. There seems to be something very wrong with you. Maybe you should get a mental health assessment and treatment

​@@ricksomethingwhat a moronic comment!

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Such strong kids. May Jason get justice he deserves. Ireland is behind you Jason🇮🇪❤️🙏🌹

​@@ricksomething😂😂😂😂 gobshite! As we say here in IRELAND 🇮🇪 we've all followed this story

I can’t imagine. What a terrible story. Sad people like this really do exist.

qlimybp...l8u .

Exactly!! Just go have your OWN children, crazy lady. Stop trying to steal someone else's!

Because she believed their dad's cash should be hers. If they were not her legal children, no alimony.

​@@missylee1539Bad not sad people.

Bingo. I always say, if you’re going to leave someone, make sure you are safe, and your assets, never be alone with them again, and get away, physically. THEN break up with them via phone. If you have kids together, then I don’t know what, that would be terribly complicated.

@@Mandrake591 Thats a cowards way to break up. Take everything, run away and call to break up? Pathetic, and you are man too.

His mistake was telling her!

​@davidbeckey8188 that's why in Japan the first person who kidnap the children automatically gets complete 100% custody of them. Downside: many good parents, who never did anything wrong, are forever 100% separated from their children. No right whatsoever to see them again. Enforced by the government. Including many foreigners married to Japanese people. It's crazy. Google it.

Brick, pistol,...

You have a point- she could get children too! 😄

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funny!😏

Hey, it wasn't that bad! Made me chuckle. :-)

Ok .... Seriously? Nobody!?

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Man, who thinks a true crime channel is the best place to pick up women? SSDGM

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Jason's sister wrote a book, My Brother Jason. It tells of Jason's life and unfortunate, cold- blooded death caused by the Martens. It's a very good read. The Martens are guilty. My husband and I attended the trial. Tom Martens took the stand to attempt to take the fall for his murdering daughter. God Bless Jason's children and his family. ❤️

@ Rita Haddad I wonder does Mr Martens realise how badly he was olayed bt his daughter? This was all over the news in Ireland. It was a very sad case. Those poor children, losing their father because their stepmother decided to kill their father so she could get custody.

@Mary Kavanagh the whole Martens family lives a lie! They employed the uncle to spin all their lies too. Her father-- Tom-- knew good and well what his daughter was capable of as he saw all her failures and all her demands. She left a fiance to go to be a nanny in Ireland; she leaves a path of destruction wherever she goes. I believe her dad was more than ready to have his problem become Jason's. They've been keeping her issues a secret for so long. She had just left Emory Hospital before she flew to Ireland.

@Rita Haddad I may not be incredibly familiar with this case, however, it sounds like Jason was a complete narcissistic asshole. While striking someone to death is definitely not the appropriate means to resolve the situation, if you think strangling a woman over an altercation was acceptable; you’re a very dangerous person.

@Sorrow I never said the strangling was okay. As far as the case is concerned, I attended the trial and it seemed molly hit poor Jason while he was in the bed and agitated him awake. A fight insued. Research the case more than the fabricated reality I'm sure the Martens shared with you.

Loved your comment . Thank you for the laugh.

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Me too! However, I am concerned that they aren't waterproof and given that we live in a rainforest it might prove problematic. The thought of waking up and seeing all my hard work washed away would be very frustrating!

@@brigidspencer5123 Just be SURE you read the labels, or even ask someone at the store to make sure you don't get the cheap-o "Self Defense" paving bricks... They need to be "exterior grade water-proof" for life in the rainforest. Even "water resistant" probably isn't quite good enough... Alternatively, you could "go natural" and get a couple nice polished "Marble Flag-stones" adequate for nearly any table-surface... slick enough the water just BEADS off like plastic... ...If that proves a tad too much for your budget (understandable in renovations), it's feasible to "laminate" the marble (or any other stone) for nearly the same effect at a significant reduction in cost.It's really all the polishing stages and different grades of diamond-grit required that makes it so expensive for the "wet look". ;o)

A single brick?

Yes im sure she's great at observing herself

ironically, she was probably meaning to snag her father at the same time-- too. I mean, if she is what she is then my guess would be she blames dad, blames men in general for how she doesn't seem to work out unless she's pouring on the charm because she's has insane expectations like, "give me your kids, let me gaslight them against you before murdering you, their last parent on Earth..." and do you think papa was home a lot for a girl like that, who lies about having a sister with cancer to gain sympathy? 30 years in the FBI, not much time for the family, eh? hmmm, Paging Dr. Freud!

What I don't get, is why didn't she have her own biological child?

I totally agree that it was a premediated and planned killing of a man who realised that for both his own sake and for the good of his children he needed to return to Ireland. Molly Marten is a troubled person which probably can be traced back to her family upbringing.

Excellent summing up .We Irish are united in grief at the horrendous way Jason had his life taken from him . The facts of the case are beyond shocking and will justice prevail !!! The American legal system has been a total nightmare also for Jason's family .

Is nt it disgraceful Jason's kids and family are having to sit through all this shite again. They should have been done for 1st degree murder and locked up for life

Yes yes yes and it goes to prove that THE most dangerous time to leave your abuser is when they discover you are going to reject or abandon them. Ms martens is a malignant narc and her father is her enabler.

It's a real head scratcher

Yeah in the U.K. in family court the woman gets the kids every time so this would never happen. Feminists aren’t currently campaigning for equality on this issue, the reasons for this are currently unknown

@Soviet Panda Molly, is that you?

Thank GOD those children didn’t wind up being raised orphans in America, in that awful family. While there’s nothing good here, at least the wee ones were returned home to their people and family. They have a chance of having a good life.

Wait... You don't use paving bricks as paperweights?

As an abused women, I always had a hidden baseball bat. Something is missing from this story.

Oisin Flynn ~ thank you for sharing the information that the children are with Jason’s sister. ❤️ edit: I was perusing the comments to find where they are. Xx

Well ! sadly we now know that by means of a plea deal and using the defense of manslaughter they will be free in no time at all . Everything about that verdict screams miscarriage of justice .Next stage will be an episode in one of the many crime drama series on t.v.

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It's like a house from the Sims.

Okay... Admittedly, I found an antique building brick and used my angle-grinder and a diamond blade to carve it into an ashtray for a buddy's dad... The old man was a mason, and it seemed like the perfect Father's Day thing, since the old guy loved an occasional (remarkably expensive) cigar... BUT it was not a paver... and not even a cobblestone. I found out later (from the old man) that it would've been worth some real money if I hadn't done the carving... BUT he actually really liked the thing... ...I kind of think he was voicing being impressed that I hadn't just decided to find out its worth and get the cash, instead... It was my buddy (his son) who'd pointed out that it was an antique at the time... ;o)

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 All right… that was unexpected. But why not. Why ya: Another brick on an epic mission, but no superhero costume on a ridiculously overblown industry standard budget, and no virtue signalling which, there can be no shadow of doubt about it, is always a plus. And it's a fit in the absurd department. So! Looks like we got a a win-win here. Thank you for sharing!

@@Bl4cknightingale Thanks... Glad you liked it. I might even go as far as to say, "You seem to like the story about as much as the old man liked his ashtray"... haha... Anyways... It was a better gift than ridiculous socks or another tie. ;o)

† smiles † raises one eyebrow † …for all i know, when you make comments on RU-vid it’s not easy to run into any surprises. Whatsoever. In over 90% of all cases you get ignored. By everybody. Sometimes you get trash a.k.a. The Lip. Now, The Lip can be mildly entertaining but it’s not surprising. Whereas you sir, managed to stay out of standard procedures. You earned a thumbs up. So i give you a thumbs up. Well, horns in this case 🤘🏼 because of purrsonal preference. And, let me express my solidarity on the thoughtless/generic gifts thing: this is, an ordeal. May you be spared from being bothered with too many more ridiculous socks and/or ties. May we we be spared both [ although it’s less likely to be socks or ties in my case ].

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY. She was a predator. As an attorney I can tell you they will be acquitted. For the state to offer such an enticing compromise, tells me they don't have enough beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt. It's a risk. I would tend to think if they admit to the crime, they would be precluded from collecting that 600k life insurance policy.

David Gonzalez - there IS enough evidence. All the prosecution has to do is question Tom Martens about his police statement, where he says he woke up, jumped out of bed, retrieved the baseball and ran upstairs and he is immediately guilty. His is photographed in the police pictures fully dressed with his shoes on. Who jumps out of bed fully dressed? Tom Martens should’ve been in his pyjamas or at least some under garments to make his story somewhat credible. All those years in the FBI taught him nothing about staging a crime scene 🤦🏾‍♀️

@@elainespall5677 I agree with you based on the testimony of Tom, however , do you know what the state's offer was. Dr.G said minimal prison time. I'm not certain what that offer actually was, as minimal to one may be draconian to another. I do absolutely think that they were guilty. It concerns me as to why the state would extend such an offer, and not for one but for both of them. It's difficult enough to get a guilty verdict for one of the accused but for both, seems a tedious undertaking for a prosecutor. I guess we shall see, as they will be retried. Let's keep a close watch. Let's wager a Pepsi...lol

@@DavidGonzalez-ov5dx Diet Pepsi & it’s a deal lol 😂

@@DavidGonzalez-ov5dx My thoughts exactly. When I heard they had offered a deal I knew it meant the case wasn't good. The American justice system is very harsh compared to other western countries, so they don't just offer a deal for the sake of it. If Molly had any sense she would have waited to commit the crime here on holiday in Ireland. She probably would have got 20 years and our one female prison has very good conditions. If you are a lifer you can even apply to live in an apartment on the prison grounds. Not so in North Carolina. She is an idiot for not taking the deal or waiting to commit the crime in Ireland.

💯 everything you said!!

I am sorry but Tom is not a father that got caught up in his daughters lies. He is guilty and should be held to a higher standard. As a former FBI agent he knew what he was doing and went about to murder this man. He is using his experience and network to evade proper prosecution.

@@toddyurk9289 I agree 💯 This case sickens me!

Never once did I say he wasn’t guilty. I never once said he didn’t deserve his punishment. He deserves to rot in prison just like his daughter. But it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that a fathers love for his daughter (no matter how psycho the daughter may be) did play a part in this. He loved his daughter so much that he literally threw away all common sense and rationality out the damn window. In his fucked up mind he truly thought he was above the law and he believed that being above the law was enough to excuse his and his daughters actions. He was an idiot who chose to murder his son in law because he thought in some fucked up way that “it was saving his daughter”…which we know is a crock of shit…But he never murdered anyone before this (that we know of), so to say that his being a father played no role in his actions would be ignorant. But let’s get down to the nitty gritty here…here…in his warped and sick mind he saw his daughter as the victim, no matter how many red flags there were throughout his daughters lifetime that would lead a normal person to get the daughter some sort of psychiatric care (she was a proven pathological liar among other things). Some parents can do some really fucked up shit if they believe it’s in the best interest of their child.

As a north Carolinian myself no you don't speak for me, but I do agree with you on this

FBI agents have shown themselves to be some of the most corrupt people...look at head of fbi James comey and the agents under him,Wray the man that took comey place isn't any better...

Yeah, except this time the dad is going down with the daughter, unlike Casey.

@@cht2162 and neither do you deserve a reply. so i do not reply to you either.

@@sarakennedy1385 don't be absurd.

@@sarakennedy1385 ah, two month old troll account.

You never know when the urge will strike.

Domestic abuse victims try to protect their families including any tyrants within. This causes a huge resentment buildup and I can see how her father was ready at any given moment to protect his daughter when he heard the commotion. He obviously knew what was going on in his daughter’s marriage and him being a cop didn’t hesitate to protect her in an instant.

Molly Martens was NOT a Domestic Abuse Survivor. SHE was the Abuser. Verbally belittling Jason Corbett at every turn in front of their friends, calling him Fat etc. You think that shows she was afraid of him? She never reported any abuse to Police or to her Doctor and never showed any physical signs of abuse. Her friends that testified all said they heard about the abuse from HER. They never really witnessed any abuse. She filled her sleeping pill prescription just 2 days before the murder and HER prescription medication was found in his body during the autopsy. Given that neither Molly Martens nor her father had a defensive mark on either of them, I think it would be fair to surmise that Jason Corbett was attacked when he was sleeping. He probably literally didn’t know what hit him. Jason Corbett confessed to a friend shortly before the wedding that he realised Molly Martens had mental health issues but felt he couldn’t back out of the wedding as it was too close to happening. Given her lies about losing a non existent baby sister, about being friends with the children’s biological Mother, about her delivery complications in the birth of the daughter, Molly Martens had a very complicated relationship with the truth about anything. Molly Martens visited a Divorce Attorney within weeks of the marriage to ask what her custody rights to the children would be in the event of a divorce. She was told ‘none’. The only way was if she adopted the children then she would have the same legal rights to the children as their Dad. Jason Corbett refused to allow Molly Martens to adopt the children going so far as to keep the children’s passports in his work office. The day after the murder, Molly Martens paternal Uncle (also ex FBI) showed up at the Company where Jason had worked demanding the keys to his office and retrieved the passports. It looks from an impartial viewpoint that this was a premeditated murder motivated by Molly Martens desire to keep the children since Jason Corbett had planned on leaving her and moving back to Ireland with his children. She knew this was her last chance.

Same, and I also worked in a domestic violence charity, and I never believed her.

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The ornamental teaspoons sounds so chic, keep the collection small so it won't look too bougie 🤗🤙

@@catherinefisher8534 gotta keep the teaspoons there, if they weren’t that whole bricks/tarp/shovel/bleach thing might look weird 😱

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Sadly molly the monster and her freak of a father have got away with munder!

What penalty??

@@zenamen5221 Ian, thanks. Their whole lives have been tied up and complicated by relentless pursuit and harassment by the public, the law, ongoing investigations, endless interrogations, legal fees, hatred from the public and family members, etc, etc,: there is nowhere for them to go to find rest and solitude, and it will forever be that way as an ongoing blemish on their existence, and they will be besieged until Karma has expended the full brunt of its wrath against them. No rest.

@@kennethkunz2449 i most certainly hope so..

who's Todd? & why would you keep saying his name like that online, twice??👀😒🤔🙄

@@gigiarmany4332 Todd is Dr. Grande'a first name.

Hello. I'm very Sorry for your Loss 💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐

@@renee1961 thank you, it means a lot 🙏

@@shelleydunkle7867 thank you ♥️. I’m sorry for your loss too. It never gets easier…sending healing, light & blessings to you as well ✨🙏✨

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Did you eventually find the zip-ties?

He did a year ago

Already did

Yes pls?

He did?? ::begins search::

I will say I had more compassion for killdozer dude until I saw that vid.

Right? It took me out for about a week or so…*shrugs*

I was in the hospital for nearly 2 months straight and then in out and regularly for a long time after I had mono. It can mess your life up

In a really bad case like mine (took me an extra year to finish high school), it sets you back. I can’t see quitting entirely over it, though.

You clearly don't know how bad mono can be then.

Apparently the severity of mono cases can vary. Just because you nearly died doesn't mean others did.

With a name like that I sure hope that she has a degree in psychology...

HBD....

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They're not well thought of in my community either!