Jade Janks | Motive, Murder & Life Sentence
March 8, 2023
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as posted by the channelOn Monday March 7th, 2023, 39 year old Jade Janks was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for the murder of her former stepfather, Tom Merriman.
Jade's mother had divorced him over multiple domestic ab*se incidents, but Jade stayed in contact with him and her half-brother, Cash, and took care of Tom, who was struggling with alcoholism and an addiction to sleeping pills.
The crime took place on December 31st, 2020 in Solana Beach, California. Jade had stumbled on a stash of photographs that her stepdad kept on his laptop and when she realized they were of her, she felt dirty, humiliated, violated and enraged.
Jurors convicted Jade of murder in the first degree in December 2022. Her defense attorney said: “There is a lot of trauma in Jade Janks’ early life – we have outlined that in our sentencing memorandum to the court. There was some conduct between the victim and Ms. Janks in her teens – early teens. As well as some incidents that occurred after that. And those were the factors that basically went into play on the evening that Mr. Merriman died.”
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