A Deadly Marriage - How Molly Martens obsession with her stepchildren cost her husband,

<A story that grips Ireland

When recently widowed Jason Corbett hired a wholesome young American, Molly Martens, to care for his two young children, there was nothing to suggest she was a fantasist - and that her obsession with his children would end in his death.

In 2011, Jason and Molly married and settled in her native North Carolina. Just four years later, Jason was found beaten to death on the floor of the marital bedroom. The only others in the house were Jason''s children, his wife and his parents-in-law. In a stunning twist, Molly and her father Tom, a former senior FBI agent, admitted to killing Jason but claimed self-defence, saying he had a record of domestic abuse.

About the author

Brian Carroll is an Irish journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has covered the case of Tom and Molly Martens extensively for the Irish Times (in print and on podcast) and was co-producer of 'A Deadly American Marriage', the feature-length Netflix documentary on the story that broadcast in spring 2025.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Carroll
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.11.2026
• EAN: 9781405972376
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-7237-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, North Carolina, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / General, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, Ireland, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, True crime: serial killers and murderers