Produced by Susan Mallie and Jennifer Terker The case of a father and daughter convicted of second-degree murder stands before the North Carolina appeals court and a potential new trial hangs in the balance. In August 2015, former FBI agent Tom Martens and his daughter Molly Corbett admitted killing her Irish-born husband Jason Corbett, insisting they beat him in self-defense with a brick paver and a baseball bat because Jason was choking Molly and threatening to kill her. Prosecutors said Corbett’s death was murder. Now, Tracey Lynch is trying to set the record straight on her slain brother. “They claimed it was self-defense,” Lynch tells “48 Hours” correspondent Maureen Maher in her first American TV interview. “The Martens didn’t just murder Jason,” Lynch says. “They tried to destroy his character.” “Jason was an amazing human being,” Lynch says. Jason Corbett was a 30-year-old father of two in Ireland, who suddenly found himself a widower when his first wife died of an asthma attack. He then decided he needed help with the children and hired Molly Martens, originally from Knoxville, Tenn. Soon, their relationship turned romantic, and they were married. Shortly after, they moved to the United States. That’s where… Read full this story
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