KING — Three months after a Winston-Salem man took responsibility for his role in the death of her 32-year-old son, Donna Faye Kiger held the box-shaped urn containing her son’s
Their attorneys asked for bond to be set at $200,000 or even lower, saying that they posed no threat to the community and did not pose a flight risk.
Assistant District Attorney Alan Martin recited the graphic details of what Molly Corbett and Martens were accused of doing to Jason Corbett and argued that the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and their financial resources called for a bond of $1 million each for the father and daughter.
Jason Corbett, 39, was found beaten to death in the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 2015 in the Davidson County home he shared with his wife, Molly Corbett, and his two children, Jack and Sarah, from his first marriage. Molly Corbett had been hired as an au pair for Jasonâs children while Jason lived in Ireland, and they began dating. They married in 2011 and moved to the Meadowlands, a golf community in Davidson County. Prosecutors said Molly Corbett and Martens beat Jason to death with a baseball bat and a paving brick. They said
When did the jury of nine women and three men swing towards a second-degree murder conviction rather than believing the story of self-defence? Was it the dramatic forensic evidence of blood spatter expert Dr Stuart James?
The Florida-based expert, one of the world s leading authorities on blood spatter analysis, effectively recreated the last moments of the Limerick father-of-two s life in the early hours of August 2, 2015 in the bedroom of his luxury home.
He determined that Mr Corbett may very well have suffered the first of at least 12 horrific blows to his head while in or by his bed.
He also determined that Mr Corbett s head was repeatedly struck in a descending motion - in other words as he fell to the ground.