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Episode 1345: Jason Corbett’s daughter vows to not stay silent after killer Molly Martens revealed to have new boyfriend
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What happened after Molly Martens was released from prison?
Molly Martens, despite all of her media appearances, and there were many, despite all of the court evidence, and there was much of it, and despite all her social media posts, she's never in all that time taken any degree of responsibility for any of her actions. And this is, I suppose, the sign of her true underlying personality.
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Images of killer Molly Martins getting on with life after her release from prison and showing off a new look and a new boyfriend sparked a reaction from tragic Jason Corbett's daughter, Sarah, who says her dad was cheated of an opportunity to do similar.
Sarah Corbett Lynch took to social media to describe the effects of her father's death on her and the effects of coercive control on a young child. This is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
people talk all the time about closure when it comes to cases of a loved one being murdered and you know if somebody is brought to justice or sentenced that may be closure if a body is found after a person has been missing that might be closure for others but in the case of Jason Corbett and it's his daughter Sarah Corbett Lynch an author a musician and a young woman who has been very impressive I think in the face of such tragedy
has spoken about the kind of that there isn't really an end to any of this. So Molly Martens, who's her father's killer and his former wife, who had been Sarah's au pair, and that's how she'd met her father. Of course, they moved to the US. We'll go into the detail of it in a little minute. And Jason was beaten to death, but she is moving on.
And there's been an article in a UK edition of the Mail where they've spoken about her meeting a new lover and kind of moving on with her life. And there's these very romantic pictures there. posted and Molly Martins is also posing for photographs looking well.
But for Sarah Corbett Lynch, she said that while the world moves on and the truth gets softened, my dad, Jason Corbett, doesn't get to start over. And she's really pointing out that, you know, how he was murdered with a paving slab and a metal baseball bat in his home in North Carolina in 2015. and how, you know, her life, I suppose, was turned upside down.
Read about Molly Martin, she says, if you choose. But please, she says, I'm asking you, don't reduce my father's life or my childhood to gossip. This is an important conversation. If you comment here, do it with respect.
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Chapter 2: How does Sarah Corbett Lynch express her feelings about her father's death?
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.
Yeah, I think what happened was she was getting the feeling that he was, you know, he'd had enough and that these children would now ultimately, she would no longer have control of them. And I think that's what drove her to commit this terrible act.
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Chapter 3: What are the effects of coercive control on children?
She'd kind of seeded this notion that he was abusive, even though, and she'd been secretly recording him. And, you know, and all the recordings ever showed were people, you know, a bit of tension at the home that I suppose... Happens everywhere. Yeah, it could have happened anywhere, really. So she'd obviously sort of pre-prepared this kind of narrative.
Her father, who was a retired FBI agent, they seem to have also fallen to a degree under her control as well. And ultimately what her plan was, was to take him out and to then have full control of the children. You know, extraordinary sinister and manipulative act. And that was put into effect one night when, you know, he was effectively beaten to death in his bed.
The circumstances of it, you know, we only have the markings, of course, to rely on.
What we know is that he was beaten to death with a metal baseball bat and a concrete paving slab. And they admitted that they did that from the offset. And they were initially jailed.
for murder but they later agreed a plea bargain deal that was two years ago with US prosecutors after there was an appeal and they admitted the voluntary manslaughter of Jason Corbett and served that last short period of time in prison and then they were released and that's really where it's at for Sarah and her brother and the rest of the family, they have done their time, they're out.
They've certainly shown no remorse since, neither Molly nor her father.
And obviously she continues to, you know, to blacken Jason's name. I mean, that's one part of what that family have had to go through was... because Jason is dead he can't defend himself and she had basically had free rein to paint Jason not only as an abusive person but paint him as having killed his first wife which was routinely rejected by the medical experts.
So in her post Sarah does kind of address some of that and she talks about how it took her years to find her voice and having lived through coercive control and abuse as a child talking about her treatment at the hands of Molly Martins. She says, I know exactly what it does to a child, how it steals your voice, your safety, your sense of reality. Finding my voice again has taken years, she said.
And that is why I wrote A Time for Truth, which is her the book she wrote, her memoir, not for attention, but to shine a light on injustice, to tell the story from the child's perspective and to stand with every victim who has been silenced, manipulated or disbelieved. So that's, I suppose, she's obviously seen this story in the mail and decided again.
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Chapter 4: How did Molly Martens and Jason Corbett's relationship evolve?
Molly Martin's, despite all of her media appearances, and there were many, despite all of the court evidence and there was much of it, and despite all her social media posts, she's never in all that time taken any degree of responsibility for any of her actions. And this is, I suppose, the sign of her true underlying personality.
No matter what, you know, she could take responsibility for part of what she did, even if she was in denial or whatever about some of it. But to take no responsibility for anything, it must be very hard for the Corbett Lynch family to continue to hear that. And, you know, as we can see with Sarah, she seems really strong, but it must be a burden.
to see you know when you know that your father is never coming back and to see a new picture of somebody glammed up basically absolutely yeah oh anyway no doubt we'll be talking about this again okay thanks
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