Sarah Corbett Lynch; 'Molly had a new lease of life at memorial service'
Molly Martens, who, along with her ex-FBI father, bludgeoned her husband Jason Corbett to death, hired 'off-duty' police officers because she believed that the late Limerick man's sister planned to 'kidnap' his two children.
Tracey Corbett-Lynch yesterday said Martens thought she and her husband, David, would 'kidnap' Jason's children – Sarah, then aged eight, and Jack, aged 10 – and bring them back to Ireland.
Speaking after the airing of a new Netflix documentary, A Deadly American Marriage, about the killing of Mr Corbett and its aftermath, Tracey told the Brendan O'Connor on RTÉ One show: 'Molly had hired a team of offduty police officers from an adjacent county for that memorial service so that we couldn't attend. She felt that we were going to kidnap the children.' Jason Corbett, Molly Martens, Jack Corbett and Sarah Corbett-Lynch in A Deadly American Marriage. Pic: Netflix
The Limerick native said that she did want to bring the children home 'as Jason wanted', but stressed that this would be done 'through the courts'.
Jason's daughter Sarah described the memorial service in North Carolina that followed her father's killing in August 2015 as 'absolutely bizarre'. She recalled that the Martens family had 'acted like nothing had happened'.
She told the programme: 'Molly was acting like she had a new lease of life. So there was a memorial service for my Dad. And I remember standing in the middle of this room with [my brother] Jack, and there were a load of people we had never met. Jason Corbett. Pic: Jason's Journey/Facebook
'There were no pictures of my Dad. My Dad's body wasn't there. My Dad's family wasn't there.
'And it was kind of like a popularity thing for Molly, because everyone was going up to her. But nobody, none of the Martenses ever said, 'I'm sorry your dad is gone.''
Tracey and her husband were subsequently granted custody of the children by the US courts.
Jason Corbett met Martens, who was originally from Tennessee, when she worked for him as an au pair after the sudden death from asthma of his first wife and the children's mother, Margaret 'Mags' Fitzpatrick, in 2006. Molly Martens. Pic: Michael Chester
They developed a romantic relationship and relocated from Ireland to North Carolina, where they subsequently married.
In November 2023, Molly Martens and her father, Thomas Martens, were sentenced to serve between seven months and 30 months in prison for the manslaughter of Jason Corbett on August 2, 2015.
They received credit for the 44 months they had already spent in jail after a trial in 2017 for second-degree murder before those convictions were quashed by a court of appeal. Following a plea agreement with prosecutors, Molly Martens did not contest a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Her father pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Sarah Corbett Lynch. Pic: Tom Honan
Sarah said they felt 'compelled' to participate in the Netflix documentary, where, for the first time, her brother Jack publicly spoke about the death of their father.
While Tracey said they found the documentary 'extremely difficult to watch', adding that they had agreed to view it together.
'It was very raw. We had to pause it a good few times.'
Sarah said that since she was very young, Molly Martens used to 'pit' her and her brother against each other.
'One day Jack would be her favourite and I could be the worst child in the world – and then she'd swap,' she said.
Tracey said it was only after they gained custody of Sarah and Jack and brought them home that they realised the extent of the damage Martens had inflicted on them over the years.
'We didn't realise, we didn't know the depth of the abuse. We didn't understand it, and it unfolded over a period of time. You've two children with very different personalities as well as being different ages, and while they may have been in the same household, with somewhat different experiences.'
She notes they were also 'Grieving the loss of their father, and the loss of another parental figure as well in their life.'
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