Jason Corbett’s Marriage Becomes True Crime Tragedy
Jason Corbett’s death remains a deeply painful true-crime case, and Brian Carroll’s account promises both narrative force and human consequence. What makes it compelling is not shock alone, but the way obsession and family rupture become devastating. Its restraint makes it stronger.
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Jason Corbett’s Marriage Becomes True Crime Tragedy
Jason Corbett’s death remains a deeply painful true-crime case, and Brian Carroll’s account promises both narrative force and human consequence. What makes it compelling is not shock alone, but the way obsession and family rupture become devastating. Its restraint makes it stronger.
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THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE SHOCKING TRUE CRIME THAT SHOCKED IRELAND
From a producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, A Deadly American Marriage
'Extraordinary and compelling' Pat Kenny, Newstalk
'There is quite a twist in this' Martin King, Ireland AM
How Molly Martens' obsession with her stepchildren cost her husband Jason his life and legacy, from the producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, A Deadly American Marriage When Limerick widower Jason Corbett hired a wholesome young American, Molly Martens, to care for his eighteen-month-old daughter and three and-a-half-year-old son, he could not have known that she was a troubled woman whose obsession with his children would end in his death. Three years after meeting, Jason and Molly married and settled in North Carolina. Four years later, Jason was beaten to death in their marital bedroom.
Molly and her father, Tom, a former FBI agent, admitted to killing Jason but claimed self-defence.
A Deadly Marriage reveals new information about this shocking case including the strange text Molly sent to Jason's brother less than two hours after his death, how Jason told a friend he was planning to return to Ireland for good just two weeks before he died and Tom Martens' pattern of cleaning up Molly's mess. This is the story of how a wealthy and well-connected American family framed the victim as the aggressor in a horrific killing, blackened his name and served minimal jail time.
Journalist Brian Carroll reported on the Martens' court hearings for the Irish Times and is a co-producer of the Netflix documentary A Deadly American Marriage. He has thoroughly investigated the case, including conducting fresh reporting in North Carolina, to write the definitive account of a shattering story. --- 'Goes into the case in far more detail in a much more illuminating way' Matt Cooper, Today FM 'Read this and you'll get quite the education' Elaine Crowley, Ireland AM
Ideal for readers who:
- Read true crime where family, obsession and loss collide.
- Look beyond the headlines of the Jason Corbett case.
- Follow Irish cases where documentary detail meets legal aftermath.
- Value crime non-fiction that keeps human consequence at the centre.
- About The Author
- Brian Carroll is an Irish journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has covered the case of Tom and Molly Martens extensively for the Irish Times (in print and on podcast) and was co-producer of 'A Deadly American Marriage', the feature-length Netflix documentary on the story that broadcast in spring 2025.
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- ISBN
- 9781405972376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (25 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 284 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 25 mm
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