‘Molly Martens used me to get pregnant’
■ Couple who dated in 2007 had ‘explosive’ arguments ■ Killer was ‘bipolar and on 16 different medications’
A MAN who was in a relationship with convicted murderer Molly MartensCorbett claims she “got pregnant on purpose” when they were together.
Keith Maginn (39) dated the former model for a year in 2007 – just before she moved to Ireland to work as a nanny for Limerick father-oftwo Jason Corbett, who she later became romantically involved with.
Martens-Corbett (33) and her father Thomas Martens (67) were convicted in August of the murder of Mr Corbett (39) at the couple’s North Carolina home in 2015.
They are now challenging the verdict after they alleged juror misconduct and have appealed their convictions to the State’s highest appeal court.
Mr Maginn, who works as a flight attendant in the United States, decided to speak out about their relationship as he is “shocked” that the father and daughter are still trying to maintain they are innocent.
He revealed that she had a habit of “squirming out of lies” and that her retired FBI agent father “looked down on everybody else”.
Mr Maginn met MartensCorbett through a dating website and said they fell in love “really fast”, moving in together after just six weeks.
“She was extremely free-spirited; I had never met someone like her before. She was just really fun and seemed special,” he said.
“Early on, she told me she was bipolar. I hadn’t experienced it first-hand so I didn’t think much of it because she was so fun and happy.
“But that was only because she was balanced by her medications at that point. When it wasn’t balanced, she was a completely different person.”
He said she never showed violence towards him, but they did have “explosive” arguments.
“If we were having a
conversation and it started to get heated, I would say ‘I’m going to go for a walk and clear my head’, but she wouldn’t let me leave. Other than some yelling and door-slamming, there was no violence or anything like that.”
He revealed how she suffered a miscarriage while they were together, and how that brought her to a “whole new level of sadness”.
“What happened showed her character quite well. She swore to me she was using birth control and then I would find her birth control laying around our place very sporadically used. When I would confront her she would come up with an excuse. She ended up getting pregnant.
“I was still believing she was an honest, decent person. Now I think she got pregnant on purpose because she always said kids were what would make her happy. I believe she was using me to get pregnant and I was horrified because she was taking 16 different medications in one day, which is astounding, and I knew that if the baby was going to be born, it would be severely damaged from all those powerful medications.
“We were in no position to raise a kid in a healthy, stable home. We were struggling financially, I was struggling physically, she was struggling mentally. I was terrified.”
Mr Maginn, who is a native of Ohio, was also critical of the interview the father and daughter gave to the popular ‘20/20’ show on ABC News that aired after their conviction.
“From all accounts, he [Jason Corbett] was a nice guy, a gentle giant and fun-loving guy who everyone loved. It only showed the alibi that Molly and her dad were going with, that he was this violent, angry person, when I don’t believe that.”