Molly Martens and Thomas Martens having lunch at a Mexican Restaurant on January 6th, 2016 - a day after they were charged with the murder of Jason Corbett, Molly's husband.
Molly's husband, 39-year-old Jason Corbett suffered fatal head injuries on August 2 at his house near Winston-Salem in North Carolina.
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Molly Martens and her father Thomas have formally pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the ‘heinous, atrocious and cruel’ murder of Jason Corbett.
The pair entered pleas of not guilty to second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of the Limerick man at his home near Winston-Salem in North Carolina last August.
A beleaguered-looking Ms Martens wore two braids in her blonde hair, which she wore down.
Mr Corbett, a 39-year-old father of two, suffered fatal head injuries at his luxury suburban home in Panther Creek Court.
The father of two’s autopsy showed he died from blunt force trauma to his head.
The description of the ‘means of death’ is a ‘ball bat and landscaping stone’.
Ms Martens’s father, Thomas, made a 911 call from Mr Corbett’s family home at 3.05am on the night the Limerick man was killed and claimed to the operator there had been an argument between Jason and Molly.
‘He was choking my daughter, he said he was going to kill her,’ Mr Martens alleged in the recorded call.
The defence maintains the actions of the accused were ‘reasonable and necessary in self-defence’ of Ms Martens’s life and that of her father.
In addition to questions about the use of the baseball bat, detectives are expected to focus on the time of death and blood spatter patterns at the home.
After his death, his Limerick-based family successfully fought Ms Martens for custody of Mr Corbett’s two children from his first marriage.
Jack and Sarah Corbett are now living in Ireland with his sister-in-law Tracey Lynch and her husband David.
Ms Martens, a 31-year-old former model and her ex-FBI agent father, 65, presented themselves to the Davidson County district attorney by appointment on January 5 and surrendered themselves to answer the charges.
After being arrested, photographed and fingerprinted last month the pair were taken in handcuffs before the Superior Court.
Both applied for bail, which was not opposed, and was granted on the condition that $200,000 is lodged with the court for each defendant, that they surrender their passports and agree to cease all contact with Mr Corbett’s immediate family, specifically his children Jack and Sarah.
At the hearing yesterday, Mr Brown said both the prosecutors and defence have tried to get copies of the personnel file of Mr Martens, a former FBI agent, but could not obtain copies without a court order, which the judge granted.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441698/Former-model-ex-FBI-agent-father-plead-not-guilty-murder.html
‘Heinous, atrocious and cruel’: Former model and her ex-FBI agent father appear in court to deny murdering her Irish husband with a 'baseball bat and landscaping stone'
Molly Martens, 31, and her father Thomas Martens, 65, were taken to jail
They are charged with second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter
Their family insist the pair acted in self-defense and will be exonerated
Father-of-two Jason Corbett, 39, originally from Limerick, Ireland, suffered fatal head injuries on August 2 at his home in North Carolina
By DARREN HASSET FOR THE IRISH DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 22:04 EST, 10 February 2016 | UPDATED: 05:50 EST, 11 February 2016
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