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S1, EP3 "Reasonable Doubt To A Murder"
The Defense gave its opening statement to jurors. Jade Janks lead attorney dismissed the State's assertion that she plotted the murder of her stepfather, Tom Merriman. Instead, the Defense argued that he died of drug abuse. No evidence of strangulation and plenty of evidence of drug abuse. The Defense wanted to raise doubt in the prosecution's case against her.
S1, EP4 "Brian Salomon"
Prosecutors wanted to show how far they believed the former interior designer went to kill her stepfather, Tom Merriman, and dispose of his body. They called to the stand one of the men she was accused of asking to help her. Brian Salomon claimed that Jade Janks wanted to put a pillowcase over her stepfather's head and a rope around his neck. Salomon testified that he ran away from her at one point on the day prosecutors said she killed her stepfather.
S1, EP5 "An Almost Hitman"
The Defense tried to discredit the man who claimed he was asked to help her kill her stepdad, Tom Merriman. On the stand, Brian Salomon admitted that he did not go to police after his encounter with the defendant because he was afraid it would incriminate him. Jurors would decide later what was the actual involvement of the man who Jade Janks allegedly tried to recruit in a murder plot. Was he an accomplice and culprit in Merriman's death?
S1, EP6 "The Welfare Check"
The man who found himself in the middle of an alleged murder plot wrapped up his testimony. Nex, the deputy who received the initial call about Merriman took the stand. He told jurors how police did a welfare check to look for him, but they did not find him. Jurors in the taboo photos murder trial heard about the initial stages of the investigation into Tom Merriman's death. It began with claims that Jade Janks was responsible for drugging and suffocating him.
S1, EP2 "Staging An Overdose Death"
Staging the murder to look like a drug overdose. The State claimed that was Jade Janks' plan for the death of her stepfather, Tom Merriman. During opening statements, the State wanted to lay out what they believed was Jade Janks' elaborate murder plot to kill Thomas Merriman. It included allegations that she sought out the help of a fixer to help her drug, suffocate, and strangle her stepfather.
S1, EP1 "Murder Over Explicit Photos"
Opening statements began with graphic details of how the victim, Tom Merriman, lost his life. The lead prosecutor told jurors that Jade Janks ambushed, drugged, suffocated and strangled her stepfather. The state alleged it began with the defendant buying supplies which included gloves, towels and nylon cords all for the purposes of murder.
