{"id":33615,"date":"2022-12-13T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/woman-allegedly-killed-stepfather-after-finding-her-nude-photos-on-his-computer\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:02:07","slug":"woman-allegedly-killed-stepfather-after-finding-her-nude-photos-on-his-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/woman-allegedly-killed-stepfather-after-finding-her-nude-photos-on-his-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Allegedly Killed Stepfather After Finding Her Nude Photos On His Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em>San Diego Union Tribune<\/em>, <strong>Jade Janks<\/strong>\u2018 (pictured above) 2020 holidays were completely turned into shock when she was cleaning up her stepfather <strong>Thomas Merriman<\/strong>\u2018s 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\u2019s pc. Yeah, tremendous creepy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The stepdaughter was reportedly \u201cbeyond freaked out\u201d by her discovery \u2014 however as a substitute of confronting him or telling anybody about it, she allegedly started to plot his homicide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/world-cup-qatar-second-journalist-dies-khalid-al-misslam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Related: A Second Journalist Has \u2018Died Suddenly\u2019 While Covering The World Cup In Qatar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s telephone alleging she was planning to kill her stepfather by poisoning him with sleeping capsules:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018I just dosed the hell out of him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s waking up. I actually don\u2019t wish to be the one to do that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I can\u2019t carry him alone and I can\u2019t maintain a kicking physique in my trunk.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am about to club him on the head as he is waking up.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sends a chill down the backbone\u2026<\/p>\n<p>One of the folks she allegedly texted was known as a \u201cfixer of sorts\u201d 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, <strong>Adam Siplyak<\/strong>. Upon the police\u2019s arrival to the scene, they discovered a ugly scene of the older man\u2019s physique mendacity beneath a pile of trash in his driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Siplyak testified in courtroom on Thursday that Janks requested him for assist shifting the physique, however he declined based on <em>The Coast News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2018I killed him, and he\u2019s in the back of my [<strong>Toyota<\/strong>] 4Runner. I said, \u2018I can\u2019t help you \u2026 no way, I\u2019m out of here. I have a son to raise\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a pretrial he additionally said that the 39-year-old beforehand requested him for assist to make her stepdad\u2019s demise appear like an unintentional overdose, to which he refused once more. Janks\u2019 staff denied this and plead responsible, claiming he was a recovering drug addict who was focused on her romantically \u2014 and the denials haven\u2019t stopped there.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant\u2019s lawyer claimed through the <em>SDUT<\/em> it was Merriman\u2019s \u201cown cocktail\u201d of capsules and poor well being that killed him:<\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-81126df82d8cfb03be8bea3e68398098\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another witness, a pal of Janks, testified sooner or later she did say her stepfather had \u201cscantily clad\u201d photos of her on his pc, however by no means talked about any form of revenge or retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_cite\"><em>[Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jadejanksinteriors\/photos\/pb.100062930156201.-2207520000.\/346338742977461\/?type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jade Janks Interiors<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\/Facebook\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V0HkHIv2V5U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX 5 San Diego<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\/YouTube<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 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\u00a0San Diego Union Tribune, Jade Janks\u2018 (pictured above) 2020 holidays were completely turned into shock when she was cleaning up her stepfather Thomas Merriman\u2018s apartment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}