MOLLY ‘WAITED AN HOUR TO GET HELP’
‘We never believed her,’ say jurors
MOLLY Martens and her father waited ‘at least an hour’ before calling an ambulance, investigators have told the Irish Daily Mail.
The latest revelation in the Jason Corbett murder case comes as jurors tell how they never believed his wife’s claim that she was defending herself. One said they realised early
on that Jason had been attacked while he slept in his bed.
Ms Martens is now known as Prisoner Number 1551729 as she serves her sentence at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh.
Investigating officers became suspicious as soon as they saw the condition of Jason’s body when they arrived at the scene, a police source has told the Mail.
‘They waited at least an hour to make that 911 call,’ said the insider, adding: ‘There is considerable reason to believe that while they waited, they got their story straight and arranged the scene to match that story.’
Officers noted that blood on Jason’s face was ‘congealed’ and not fresh, and that his body was cool to the touch.
‘It was obvious to trained officers from the beginning that something didn’t add up,’ said the source. ‘The scene wasn’t consistent with the struggle that was described. ‘We estimate an hour, but it may have been longer.’
Ms Martens and her father Tom were found guilty of the seconddegree murder of Jason, on Wednesday, by a unanimous decision of the jury of three men and nine women.
They were sentenced to terms of 20 to 25 years in prison, and then taken from Davidson County Courthouse in cuffs and shackles.
But the father and daughter were given some time with their family members before they were taken for processing.
‘Tom was quite cold,’ said one witness to the scene.
‘They all hugged but he didn’t kiss anyone or really say anything.
‘They had to wait while someone went to get his medication.
‘Tom and Molly were together on their own for a while and she was still saying, “I’m not a murderer”, for the benefit of anyone who would listen to her.’
She was temporarily placed in a cell next to a female inmate at the courthouse jail until a van arrived to transfer her to prison.
‘Molly found a pal straight away,’ said the witness. ‘They were both exchanging their tales of woe.’
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women is the state’s primary prison for women. It houses the largest inmate population in the state and serves as the support facility for the state’s other female prisons.
The campus-style facility sits on 30 acres of a 190-acre tract of state land in southeast Raleigh.
It houses inmates of all custody levels and control statuses, including death row, maximum, medium, minimum security prisoners.
It provides the primary medical, mental, and alcohol and chemical dependency treatment for female inmates, and operates a centre that serves as the point of entry into the prison system for women.
Upon arrival, inmates undergo a series of diagnostic evaluations that will determine future prison assignments.
Some of the programmes that are available include make-up studies, horticulture and culinary arts.
The prison also has a factory where women work making car licence plates.
A fully functional call centre is also run from inside the prison and phonecalls to the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Information Centre are patched through to those inmates who are lucky enough to get jobs answering calls and helping tourists with their travel queries.
Prisoners can attend church services in the Chapel of the Nameless Woman and participate in Bible studies or other religious programmes offered by prison chaplains, Prison Fellowship and other religious volunteers and organisations.
Meanwhile Tom, who is now Prisoner Number T643182, is serving his sentence in Central Prison, Raleigh. He has initially been segregated from the general prison population because of his ex-FBI agent status.
He is believed to be in an area of the prison where former police officers are housed.
The prison has been used to
They hugged... but Tom kissed no-one Prison has factory and a call centre
house inmates since 1884.
It serves as the admission point into prison for adult male felons sentenced to 20 years or more, and is the main medical and mental health centre for male inmates.
It also houses special prisoners, including those on death row.
While security requires that certain inmates remain in their cells, there are more than 260 inmate job assignments that include working in the kitchen, laundry or canteen.
Inmates also work as barbers, janitors and clerks.
They can attend substance abuse group therapy meetings, Bible studies or church services.
Neither Molly or her father will be permitted visits for the first three to four months of incarceration.