Sarah Corbett Lynch
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Yeah.
Like it was herself and her father were originally, Thomas Martens were originally convicted in relation to Jason's death.
Yeah.
He had met her, as I say, when she came to Au Pair for him in Limerick.
He had just recently been widowed, having lost his first wife and the kid's mother to a very tragic asthma attack had she died from it.
And he was sort of wanting to get on with life,
without having to lean on his family so much for help with babysitting and help in the house.
So he had decided to get an au pair and Molly Martins popped up on his radar.
She looked like the perfect choice.
She was slightly older than some of the others.
She had fantastic achievements, according to herself and her CV, in...
I think swimming.
She was a kind of an all-American girl.
And she arrived over to Limerick and quickly settled in with the family, was adoring of the two children.
And soon his friends and family realized a relationship had started.
So as that relationship went on, they decided to move lock, stock and barrel to North Carolina where he got a good job and it was near her, you know, her own parents' home.
The story goes on that basically
And she was very adamant that she was going to adopt those two children.
And he obviously were, you know, were surmising Jason must have been feeling there must have been big issues within the dynamic of their relationship, because not only was he not going to allow her adopt the children, but he was actually also going to he was making arrangements to bring them home to Ireland and to split from her.
What we know is that he was beaten to death with a metal baseball bat and a concrete paving slab.