A 39-year-old lady is dealing with life in jail for allegedly murdering her stepfather as a result of he had her nude pictures on his pc.
According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Jade Janks‘ (pictured above) 2020 holidays were completely turned into shock when she was cleaning up her stepfather Thomas Merriman‘s apartment in Solana Beach, California. Allegedly she bumped into his computer and discovered a nude photo of herself set as the screensaver. Upon further inspection, Jade claims she found multiple nude photos she took with a boyfriend 10 years prior on the butterfly farmer’s pc. Yeah, tremendous creepy…
The stepdaughter was reportedly “beyond freaked out” by her discovery — however as a substitute of confronting him or telling anybody about it, she allegedly started to plot his homicide.
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In January 2021 Janks reportedly went to go choose up Merriman from a care facility from which he had been recovering from a nasty fall. Presented as proof in courtroom per the outlet, a number of textual content messages have been despatched from the 39-year-old’s telephone alleging she was planning to kill her stepfather by poisoning him with sleeping capsules:
‘I just dosed the hell out of him.’
‘He’s waking up. I actually don’t wish to be the one to do that.’
‘I can’t carry him alone and I can’t maintain a kicking physique in my trunk.’
‘I am about to club him on the head as he is waking up.’
Sends a chill down the backbone…
One of the folks she allegedly texted was known as a “fixer of sorts” who refused to assist her. Another man who acquired the messages was the one who ultimately referred to as in a welfare test for the 64-year-old Merriman, Adam Siplyak. Upon the police’s arrival to the scene, they discovered a ugly scene of the older man’s physique mendacity beneath a pile of trash in his driveway.
Siplyak testified in courtroom on Thursday that Janks requested him for assist shifting the physique, however he declined based on The Coast News:
“She said, ‘I killed him, and he’s in the back of my [Toyota] 4Runner. I said, ‘I can’t help you … no way, I’m out of here. I have a son to raise”
In a pretrial he additionally said that the 39-year-old beforehand requested him for assist to make her stepdad’s demise appear like an unintentional overdose, to which he refused once more. Janks’ staff denied this and plead responsible, claiming he was a recovering drug addict who was focused on her romantically — and the denials haven’t stopped there.
The defendant’s lawyer claimed through the SDUT it was Merriman’s “own cocktail” of capsules and poor well being that killed him:
“The medical examiner will not tell you it was strangulation. The science does not support strangulation. Jade Janks loved her stepfather. Tom Merriman loved Jade Janks. Unfortunately, Tom Merriman was a troubled individual, and he loved her in different ways.”
Another witness, a pal of Janks, testified sooner or later she did say her stepfather had “scantily clad” photos of her on his pc, however by no means talked about any form of revenge or retaliation.
The trial remains to be ongoing and if convicted Janks may spend life in jail for the homicide. What do U suppose, Perezcious readers? Let us know your ideas within the feedback (beneath).
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