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Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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?
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
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.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP7 "Homicide Detective Explains"The deputy on the stand claimed police got a tip that Tom Merriman had been killed. So, they decided to do a welfare check but couldn't find him. After a search warrant was executed, they found his body in the driveway of his home in a pile of trash. Another investigator who looked into Merriman's overdose death was next to the stand. Prosecutors played back jailhouse phone calls after Jade Janks was arrested for murder.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP8 "Putting Together The Murder Timeline"Jurors listened to more testimony from an investigator who worked the homicide of Tom Merriman. His body was found in his driveway in a pile of trash. This was the same driveway where police arrested the defendant for first-degree murder. What did Jade Janks allegedly buy just hours before police say she killed her stepdad, Tom Merriman? This was part of the state's timeline of events presented during her murder trial.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S2, EP202 "Murder And Missing"When the bodies of Ruby Joyner and Halima Jones were discovered beaten, strangled and shot, police turned to someone they both knew; but Lewis Joyner was nowhere to be found.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S2, EP203 "Safe At Home"When Atlanta homemaker Sara Tokars is kidnapped, shot and killed in front of her two young children, police are baffled; the answer may lie in the home safe of her husband Fred.
CA vs Menendez
S1, EP418 "Malice Murder"The State tries to explain the legal concept of malice murder; during the closing arguments for Erik's jury, prosecutors contend that Erik and Lyle Menendez have committed the murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose.
CA vs Menendez
S1 "Traumatizing Fear Leads To Double Murder"Erik Menendez's lawyer asked the jury to vote for manslaughter. She claimed traumatizing fear was what led Erik and his brother to shoot and kill their mom and dad - Kitty and Jose.
CA vs Menendez
S1 "Leslie Abramson Speaks"Leslie Abramson, Erik Menendez's lead attorney, was well-known at the time of the Menendez brothers' murder trial; She began her closing argument and kept going for an entire day.
CA vs Menendez
S1 "Last Pitch For Erik's Innocence"Defense attorney Leslie Abramson was still going with her final pitch to Erik Menendez's jury. She focused on how she said he was mistreated growing up while living with his parents - Kitty and Jose.
CA vs Menendez
S1 "Defense Lawyer Attacks State Witnesses"Erik Menendez's defense team ripped the State's witnesses during closing arguments. She claimed they lied and even committed perjury. Erik faced the death penalty if convicted of intentionally killing his Parrents-Kitty and Jose.
CA vs Menendez
S1 "Blame The Parents"Erik Menendez's defense portrayed him as an abused and bullied child who lacked proper development. During closing arguments, his attorney claimed Kitty and Jose played a negative role in his growth over the years.