Pile of bricks from which Molly chose her deadly weapon
THIS is the pile of bricks from which detectives believe Molly Martens took a paver to beat her husband’s head in.
The crime scene photo, taken on the back porch of the Corbett family home at 160 Panther Creek Court, shows a pile of bricks near the back door.
How the paver ended up on the nightstand in the master bedroom was a key reason put forward by jury foreman Tom Aamland for the guilty verdict.
Although Ms Martens didn’t take the stand, in a statement given to police on August 2 after the killing, she admitted using the brick to ‘try to hit’ Jason.
‘Jason grabbed the bat from [my father] and I tried to hit him with a brick garden paver I had on my nightstand,’ she said in the statement.
When Tom Martens took the stand, however, he made no reference to the brick. When asked specifically about it, he said he had ‘no knowledge’ of it.
During the trial, the prosecution said it could prove that Ms Martens was ‘successful’ in her attempts to strike her husband with the brick. Officers who recovered it from the scene said it was ‘saturated with blood on all sides’.
In evidence, the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on Jason, was asked if any injuries were consistent with him being struck with a brick.
Dr Craig Nelson said that at least one injury to Mr Corbett’s head had a ‘sharp linear component’ that he would not expect to see with a bat.’.
Analysis of the brick by two different forensic scientists showed it had been used to bludgeon Jason Corbett.