GUILTY NC - Jason Corbett, 39, murdered in his Wallburg home, 2 Aug 2015 #3

[stmarysmead]

His book is on Amazon:

Keith Maginn was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the youngest of four kids. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as an Evans Scholar. After earning a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Keith relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work for AmeriCorps (a service organization like the Peace Corps, but within the United States) and for Knoxville Habitat for Humanity. Keith recently moved back to Cincinnati after living nearly ten years in Tennessee. He likes to be around family and friends and has eight nieces and nephews that he adores. He loves playing and watching many sports and also enjoys live music, writing, meditation, yoga and reading. In February 2011, Keith self-published an inspiring self-help memoir, Turning This Thing Around (available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.com or at keithmaginn.com). He feels writing is his life's purpose and that he has a message to share that will help others. Maginn's second book, Goodwill Tour: Paying It Forward, is about a philanthropic experiment on the road. Goodwill Tour is due to be released in January of 2013 and the author hopes it will be his second book of many more to come.

 

[stephanddoody]

The first chapter from Turning This Thing Around:​

HELL​

What the hell did we do to deserve this? That question has popped into my head a few dozen times in the past several months. I’m in a ****-hole motel somewhere in Atlanta, but it might as well be a five-star hotel compared to my fiancée’s situation: Mary is in a psych ward being treated for severe bipolar/manic depression. I just got off the phone with her. She was hysterical, begging me to sneak her Coca-Cola and muscle-relaxers.
I have no idea what to do or how much longer I can take this. Tears are streaming down my face and I am asking God, once again, for help. My life has fallen apart and I see no daylight ahead.
Mary is still furious with me about check-in night at the “rehabilitation center,” as they delicately call it. She is enraged at me because I refused to give her muscle-relaxers despite strict orders to the contrary. Weaning her off the plethora of medications she was on was the whole idea of bringing her here: sixteen prescribed meds daily and another ten to be used “as needed.” Up to twenty-six different medications a day for one person (and she weighed less than 120 lbs.)!
And they were not helping; quite the opposite, actually.
I stood firm on that first night, refusing to “help her pain” by disobeying facility commands. Mary cried and told me to leave; she said I must not really love her. I stalled for a few minutes, waiting for her to change her mind. She did not.
Hadn’t I proven time after time I would always be there, that I truly loved her and would do anything I could for her? Hadn’t I talked her out of suicide multiple times, holding her on the bathroom floor or in bed as she cried uncontrollably night after night? Didn’t I lay with her in the hospital telling her things would be better someday? And now she’s saying I don’t care and she doesn’t want me around?
So I left the building.
I went to my car to think for a few minutes. I decided to go back to Mary’s room. I asked her if she really wanted me to go. She said if I wouldn’t give her the muscle-relaxers, then I should.
I left again.

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https://keithmaginn.com/sample-chapter/

 

[kittythehare]

we can conclude from today's revelations that Molly was also an addict.
During the course of her time in Ireland it is possible she was unable to obtain her drug of choice, but could on return to the USA.
This could be a possible explanation for her being able to hide her condition from Jason until they were ready to return to the USA. It is possible that the escalation began again then, possibly very soon after her return.
His interview states 'she had suffered all her life' with this manic depression.
Thats interesting and worthy of further exploration.
I recommend reading his facebook page, its a public page on his first book with many links to his interviews.

It has also struck me that on the night Molly murdered Jason, a struggle may have been a result of his attempts to prevent her taking extra drugs..
history tends to repeat itself and the odds become increasingly high as addiction progresses.

We also know that Molly is a very real suicide risk. It is possible she will choose to kill herself.

 

[stmarysmead]

And the Marten family did everything in their power to put two helpless children ALONE in her custody after they knew she snapped and killed their Father.

 

[kittythehare]

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Turning This Thing Around
~Written by Keith Maginn​

Book Synopsis

Turning This Thing Around is an inspiring memoir of overcoming personal struggles. This brutally honest, deeply personal account of redemption takes readers on a moving spiritual journey.

Confronted with a myriad of obstacles&#8211;a debilitating arthritic disease, narcolepsy, anxiety and depression&#8211;the author was outwardly happy, but inwardly miserable. Pushed to the lowest point of his life, Maginn shares how he gradually turned things around and used his experiences to grow as a person.

Supplemented by heartfelt poetry by the author and with quotes from Gandhi to Dr. Wayne Dyer to Eckhart Tolle, Turning This Thing Around has universal themes that speak to nearly everyone, as we all must face challenges as part of being human. It is a self-help memoir of sorts: the author discusses not only what he overcame, but also how he did so&#8211;and how others can, too.

Unlike many popular memoirs on the market, this is a story that more people can relate to. Maginn was not raised in an eccentric family (Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle, memoirs by Augusten Burroughs), nor did he travel to Italy, India and Indonesia, as Elizabeth Gilbert did in Eat, Pray, Love. Rather, Turning This Thing Around is a story of a normal young man&#8217;s resiliency when battling extraordinary circumstances.​

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Book Review

Turning This Thing Around is a moving account of the author's life and his inspiring quest to overcome a combination of personal challenges.

Readers are given a first hand look into the life of Keith Maginn as he details his thoughts, feelings, and various attempts to "cure" his problems. Eventually, Keith meets Mary and they fall deeply in love. Mary struggles heavily with mental illness and although Mary and Keith believe their love will be enough to see them through, it is the ending of their relationship which starts Keith on a path to healing. http://www.beachboundbooks.com/blogging-about-books/turning-this-thing-around-book-review​

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http://www.beachboundbooks.com/blogging-about-books/turning-this-thing-around-book-review



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Keith Maginn's book "Turning this Thing Around" is available to buy on Kindle for about 3 euro.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Thi...title_sr?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1461423281&sr=8-1

 

[searchinGirl]

we can conclude from today's revelations that Molly was also an addict.
During the course of her time in Ireland it is possible she was unable to obtain her drug of choice, but could on return to the USA.
This could be a possible explanation for her being able to hide her condition from Jason until they were ready to return to the USA. It is possible that the escalation began again then, possibly very soon after her return.
His interview states 'she had suffered all her life' with this manic depression.
Thats interesting and worthy of further exploration.
I recommend reading his facebook page, its a public page on his first book with many links to his interviews.

It has also struck me that on the night Molly murdered Jason, a struggle may have been a result of his attempts to prevent her taking extra drugs..
history tends to repeat itself and the odds become increasingly high as addiction progresses.

We also know that Molly is a very real suicide risk. It is possible she will choose to kill herself.

How do you suppose she got through four years in Ireland without meds?

 

[Frizby]

Ok, here is the bones of the Daily Mail article that appeared today.

It appears that Keith Maginn met MM via an internet dating site. They corresponded a few time and eventually met up for their first date on 22nd February 2007. After about a month, Keith moved into MM condo on Berlin Drive, Knoxville, which was owned by TM & SM. Soon after he moved in, MM revealed to him that she had bipolar. He had his own struggles in the past so he understood and it was not causing a problem as she was taking her medication. After a couple of months, MM got an illness called Staph Infection. The antibiotics seemed to interfer with her other medications and immediately she changed from this outgoing person to someone who cried in bed for hours. Prior to this, MM had been working as a Nanny & swimming instructor to children. Following this illness, MM was unable to work, so it was up to Keith to pay for everything, bills, rent, food, etc. He was not earning much so they were only scraping by. Sometimes the parents would help out for bigger expenditure.

Once her depression took over, things were stressful, he says. Heartbreaking, actually. I never knew what mood Molly would be in when I got home from work. I walked on eggshells much of the time, trying my best to keep things stable. We were both going down on a sinking ship. For better or worse, mental illness has such a negative stigma and Molly didn't want people to know the truth of the situation. Worried about having a nervious breakdown, I finally swallowed my pride and sought out a therapist.

He says that her parents were "very much aware" of her mental health issues as it had been going on her entire life & they did try to help, they lived relatively close. According to Keith, MM relationship with her parents was 'tense'.

After years spent trying to deal with Molly's many problems, he says they too had become 'exasperated' by her behaviour

They were well aware of the many doctors, the medications she was taking. They knew all about it.

He goes on to say that the relationship was not all bad, they did share some very special times. However, those moments were short lived and during explosive argument MM would prevent him from leaving the room as he tried to remove himself from the situations. He tried to be nice to her but she turned things around.

I would literally say something nice about her cloths and 30 seconds later she would say "Why do you think I'm ugly". I would be thinking "How did she get there?" I don't get that connection at all.

Basically, she would push people away to see if they would come back, like she was always testing people's level of love. One time in particular I had enough and I went for a drive. She called me shortly after I left, about ten minutes later, and said she was going to kill herself if I didn't return right way, so I went back

They got engaged, Keith says it was him surrendering to Molly's pleas. He was doing it in the hope that it would help her but her high seemed to only last a day or so. It seems that they got engaged on her birthday (which I think is in September). On the morning of September 16th, Molly woke up and said she had a dream that she had a miscarriage. The hospital said that she had suffered this much earlier in the pregnancy. In February 2008, MM checked into a medical rehabilitation centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The hospital bill was paid by her parents. He speaks of this as it was her last ditch attempt to regulate her medication. He says earlier in the article that she was on 16 daily medications, plus 10 other to be used as needed. She spent four days in this facility and on release she returned to Knoxville with Keith.

Shortly afterwards, out of the blue, MM says that she wants to be a nanny in Europe. Keith did not take it too seriously as she had often said thing and never carried them out. However, the following day, he overheard her on the phone talking to a friend saying that she was going for a couple of weeks, and to another friend that she was going for two or three months. When he questioned her about it, she just brushed it off. MM left for Ireland on 9th March 2008. Keith could not get in contact with her, he spoke to her parents but they were not offering any information. Keith heard nothing from MM until three week later when she emailed him, saying that he was better off without her and she like it in Ireland and probably would not be coming back to the USA.

 

[kittythehare]

How do you suppose she got through four years in Ireland without meds?

Thats what I cannot figure out. When she was with keith, according to his descriptions she could not hide her acute outbreaks and they led to hospitalisations.
She left for Ireland 'for a few weeks' but never returned in the same year, 2008.
Its possible she took her prescribed meds correctly during the 4 years. It is possible the medicine he called a 'muscle relaxant' was in fact a major sedative to which she had grown addicted and it was unavailable in ireland, or a substitute with less serious side effects was prescribed instead.
Its possible her parents brought her meds or posted them..
It appears as though she was relatively stable in the course of her time in Ireland.
It would have been difficult to obtain black market drugs here too.

 

[Truthalways]

Ok, here is the bones of the Daily Mail article that appeared today.

It appears that Keith Maginn met MM via an internet dating site. They corresponded a few time and eventually met up for their first date on 22nd February 2007. After about a month, Keith moved into MM condo on Berlin Drive, Knoxville, which was owned by TM & SM. Soon after he moved in, MM revealed to him that she had bipolar. He had his own struggles in the past so he understood and it was not causing a problem as she was taking her medication. After a couple of months, MM got an illness called Staph Infection. The antibiotics seemed to interfer with her other medications and immediately she changed from this outgoing person to someone who cried in bed for hours. Prior to this, MM had been working as a Nanny & swimming instructor to children. Following this illness, MM was unable to work, so it was up to Keith to pay for everything, bills, rent, food, etc. He was not earning much so they were only scraping by. Sometimes the parents would help out for bigger expenditure.



He says that her parents were "very much aware" of her mental health issues as it had been going on her entire life & they did try to help, they lived relatively close. According to Keith, MM relationship with her parents was 'tense'.





He goes on to say that the relationship was not all bad, they did share some very special times. However, those moments were short lived and during explosive argument MM would prevent him from leaving the room as he tried to remove himself from the situations. He tried to be nice to her but she turned things around.





They got engaged, Keith says it was him surrendering to Molly's pleas. He was doing it in the hope that it would help her but her high seemed to only last a day or so. It seems that they got engaged on her birthday (which I think is in September). On the morning of September 16th, Molly woke up and said she had a dream that she had a miscarriage. The hospital said that she had suffered this much earlier in the pregnancy. In February 2008, MM checked into a medical rehabilitation centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The hospital bill was paid by her parents. He speaks of this as it was her last ditch attempt to regulate her medication. He says earlier in the article that she was on 16 daily medications, plus 10 other to be used as needed. She spent four days in this facility and on release she returned to Knoxville with Keith.

Shortly afterwards, out of the blue, MM says that she wants to be a nanny in Europe. Keith did not take it too seriously as she had often said thing and never carried them out. However, the following day, he overheard her on the phone talking to a friend saying that she was going for a couple of weeks, and to another friend that she was going for two or three months. When he questioned her about it, she just brushed it off. MM left for Ireland on 9th March 2008. Keith could not get in contact with her, he spoke to her parents but they were not offering any information. Keith heard nothing from MM until three week later when she emailed him, saying that he was better off without her and she like it in Ireland and probably would not be coming back to the USA.

Fantastic Frisby thank you.

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[MsArk]

It is pretty obvious by her FB posts she is a little 'off' but WOW on this book!

In no way am I dismissing the tragic murder of JC, but there are occasions when otherwise healthy people become so tangled in an unhealthy relationship, the unthinkable happens.

Based on the excerpts above and the fact KM was compelled to write a book based on his time with MM, I think it is safe to assume that was not the case with JC and MM.

Poor JC--- he kind of never had a chance, did he? He had misgivings from the beginning and probably thought it would get better once they moved to the US.

This is not good news on the Marten front.

 

[MsArk]

Gets very good reviews on Amazon...

Readers are given a first hand look into the life of Keith Maginn as he details his thoughts, feelings, and various attempts to "cure" his problems. Eventually, Keith meets Mary and they fall deeply in love. Mary struggles heavily with mental illness and although Mary and Keith believe their love will be enough to see them through, it is the ending of their relationship which starts Keith on a path to healing.

Yes, I ordered. [emoji4]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/14812...ing+around&dpPl=1&dpID=41f0lFI0SFL&ref=plSrch

ETA- IMO, MM is way to narcissistic to use mental illness as a defense. She is in too deep with the DV thing at this point.

2nd and last ETA- from another reviewer...

I would love to see a sequel where we learn more about Mary

Well, reviewer, you are in luck! Mary has written her own sequel.

https://keithmaginn.com/testimonials/

 

[fido]

I'm confused. Did nt Jason marry Molly in June 2011? I thought she was in Ireland for 4 years at that point? Mags died in Nov 06 or so I thought. Sarah was only a few months old when Molly arrived or soI thought. Can somebody clear up the dates/timeline for me maybe Stephen? Tks.

 

[emmalpage81]

I think for many of us it was clear that there were some issues with MM. I buy what her ex fiance says completely. What did he have to gain? I found the most interesting part of the article the statement from MM that she has not taken medication for bipolar for a number of years. I can only wonder if this is what the judge was referring to when he said he would have sided with the Lynch's regardless of a will. It is pretty evident that one does not simply recover from bipolar..

 

[kittythehare]

I'm confused. Did nt Jason marry Molly in June 2011? I thought she was in Ireland for 4 years at that point? Mags died in Nov 06 or so I thought. Sarah was only a few months old when Molly arrived or soI thought. Can somebody clear up the dates/timeline for me maybe Stephen? Tks.

Mags died Nov 22 (think) 2006.
The youngest child was 2 when molly came to be nanny.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...o-ireland-that-never-took-place-31470861.html

 

[emmalpage81]

From what I have read MM arrived in Ireland in 2008 and the marriage occurred, as you state, in 2011.

 

[Frizby]

The article in the Daily Mail today is quite extensive, in fact it covers five pages (with a lot of pictures of course). Another segment that they do within the article is covering what MM told the courts about her medication. Rather than paraphrase it (particularly as it is based on court transcript), I will just type it as it says.

Molly Martens claims she has not been prescribed drugs for bipolar or depression in 'over eight years' according to court documents.

In a transcript of her testimony during a guardianship hearing on August 14th last year, the 32-year old told the court that she was diagnosed as bipolar at the age of 15.

Her testimony was given in response to evidence from her sister-in-law Tracey Lynch, who claimed that Ms Martens had left 'her lithium out on a shelf' in the bathroom while staying in Ms Lynch's home. The claims were made in court while both parties battled for custody of Mr Corbett's two young children.

While being examined under oath, Molly's attorney Kelley Gondring asked her what happened after she was diagnosed as bipolar. In reply she said "I underwent therapy and a psychiatrist for medications".

Mr Gondring then asked: "and today, what, if any, medications do you take for being bipolar?"

Ms Martens replied: "I don't"

Q - When is the last time you saw anyone about being bipolar?

A - The last time I saw anyone for bipolar depression was around age 17. And probably the last time I say anyone for depression was eight or nine years ago.

Q - Why haven't you seen anybody for bipolar since you were 17?

A - I feel that I probably wasn't bipolar. I was given anti-depressants and they reacted physiologically with my body. So later on the diagnosis changed to depression.

Q - Okay, when have you been prescribed lithium?

A - Not for over..... It's been over eight years since I have been prescribed anything.

Q - When, if ever, would you have had a box of lithium?

A - I have never had a box of lithium

 

[kittythehare]

The article in the Daily Mail today is quite extensive, in fact it covers five pages (with a lot of pictures of course). Another segment that they do within the article is covering what MM told the courts about her medication. Rather than paraphrase it (particularly as it is based on court transcript), I will just type it as it says.

Good God!

 

[stephanddoody]

Fantastic effort being put in Frizby well done

 

[emmalpage81]

Okay my head is starting to hurt after reading the article, I do have it and can scan it on Monday (when in the office) if anyone needs it. What I gather from it is that MM has suffered from bipolar since she was 15. I would think this is much earlier than any of us anticipated. She further stated in the custody hearing that she was last prescribed medication when she was 17 for this and was last prescribed medication for depression some 8 years ago. This completely contradicts he ex-fiance who stated that just 5 months prior to her travelling to Ireland she has a mental breakdown which resulted in her being hospitalised to 'regulate her medication'.