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Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP34 "Dead In Her Car"
Jade Janks had more to say on the stand. During a long direct examination, she told jurors her side of the story of events that led to Tom Merriman's overdose. Was he asleep or was he dead? That's what the defendant recalled when she came across the body of Tom Merriman lying there in her car. Janks tried to convince the jury on her side story on what led to her stepdad's death.
S1, EP35 "Jade Janks Under Cross-Examination"
Jade Janks faced cross-examination on the witness stand. She admitted that she didn't tell any close friends or relatives about finding those nude photos on her stepdad, Tom Merriman's computer. Instead, she reached out to a complete stranger she met on Facebook about the whole ordeal. Janks recalled her emotional and mental state in the eight days of the discovery of the nude photos and the victim's death.
S1, EP36 "Walk Us Through On What Happened"
The lead prosecutor was not done probing Jade Janks on the stand. She was testifying for her own defense. She admitted to the jury that she did cover up stepfather's remains after he died. After going over the timeline of events leading up to Tom Merriman's death, the state had Janks go through and explain her text messages. Jurors listened to the defendant while weighing her credibility.
S1, EP33 "In The Eight Days To Murder"
Jade Janks was emotional as she told the jury that she saw more than 100 nude photos of herself on her stepdad's computer. She claimed that Tom Merriman even cropped some of the pictures of her and divided them up into different folders based on her different body parts. Eight days after she discovered the nude photos on her stepdad's computer Merriman died. During her long testimony to jurors, Janks' defense team wanted her to narrate the days and hours leading up to Tom Merriman's death.
