Sadly, Irish Martin, many Americans truly believe that our system of justice is no longer...”about the truth.” The Elle article made it clear that there were powerful political narratives at risk here if another trial ensued. How the author had to twist, omit and spin...to beg her readers to believe a pathological liar...and ignore Maginn’s book and the horrific autopsy report.
The huge 6ft4...280 pound raging maniac...could not land one blow, one scratch on the old man and his pathetic daughter. Her thin bracelet unbroken...and Elle believes they were only trying to stop him, not hurt him. The crushed, shattered skull...the battered and broken body...slammed by their bats and bricks over and over...Elle just placed no importance on that. We MUST believe “victims” now or be cancelled or crushed ourselves. “Victims” never lie if the narrative is in vogue and of use to the powerful.
‘Molly Martens...abused wife” ..expect her to be given lectures at Universities and on certain narrative driven media shows.
But there can be a way for the Corbett Lynch family to get a different form of justice.
Know your enemy.
I do not know the Martens family...so this is all just opinion....based on following this case, the custody hearing, the trial, and reading their former FB pages and Keith Maginn and Tracey’s books.
Tom was a middle manager in the FBI... nowhere near as successful as Jason. But with a working wife they had assembled many of the trappings of a successful American family. The only flaw in the family social facade IMO...was their chaotic and troubled, failure of a daughter, Molly.
Maginn’s book, in particular, reveals MM desperately cycling through bipolar episodes while her family seems strangely uncaring and uninvolved. This is a key part of the family history to me. Why the distance? It just didn’t fit with the way Tom styled himself at the trial.
After a hospital stay, incredibly, this struggling daughter of theirs...somehow has the funds and the resume to present herself as the perfect nanny for two infants to an unsuspecting Irish widower....far, far away...far, far away... from Mom and Dad. Just out of the hospital...really?
When MM returned to America, backed by a successful husband, she finally attains an acceptable status in her family’s eyes. Jason supplied the beautiful home, the expensive clothes, the luxurious vacations, and best of all, the two beautiful children. Finally Molly can now be pointed to with family pride, not through her own efforts...but because of Jason. Tom tells a coworker (trial testimony) that he hates Jason...but IMO he loves the vacations, the basement suite, the fact the Molly is now Jason’s to deal with.
imagine the call...that this is all crumbling down. By his own testimony, they had never had any word about abuse...none. But they flew down there on a moments notice cancelling plans.
In my opinion, the rage inflicted on Jason that night was so fierce for two very different reasons..which varied from MM to TM. Yes, Molly was enraged that the children might be taken from her...but she had more to lose. Without Jason, she was about to resume her old place in the family as the chaotic, unsuccessful family loser again. Any status she had was tied to Jason’s success. With no degree and a job history of babysitting, she had little prospect of continuing in the ‘manner to which she had become accustomed.”.
But for Tom, dealing with a cancer stricken wife, he now was about to have his troubled daughter, the frequently unemployed overspender with mood swings...back as his responsibility again.
Her rage IMO was that Jason might take the children...Tom’s rage IMO was that Jason was returning Molly and all her baggage TO HIM.
If they are released...take comfort that they both face those same onerous situations with a tremendous new burden as celebrity murderers and Ex-cons. No matter what “friends” tell them, that stench will never wear off. Every show of anger, any mood of Molly’s will now be placed in the context of the horrific, heinous crime they committed. People will say nice words but watch closely and sniff the stink. That will be a life sentence for this vain, proud, once pompous family.
And if the Lynches think the children can emotionally handle it, they should consider having them put their experiences into book form. Maginn’s book before the murder, the autopsy, your book, and finally, the story of the children’s ordeal....could be a literary life sentence from which the Martens could never be freed.
All conjecture and my opinion only.