Jason murder home price cut by $50k
THE former family home where Irishman Jason Corbett was brutally murdered by his wife and her father is still for sale – and the price has been reduced by as much as $50,000 in an attempt to sell it.
The five-bed house in a prestigious neighbourhood in North Carolina is on the market for nearly a year and has failed to attract a buyer due to its violent history.
It was originally for sale for $396,800 (€340,390), but it has been reduced to $349,900 (€296,227). Controversially, sources have told the Irish Mail on Sunday that Jason’s second wife Molly Martens will receive half of the proceeds of the sale, if it’s sold. She was convicted of his murder, on a second degree charge, alongside her father Thomas, an ex-FBI agent.
The rest of the money will go to the Corbett family in Limerick, specifically for Jason’s children, Jack and Sarah.
The sales brochure boasts: ‘This spacious five-bedroom, three bath brick traditional sits beautifully on .58 acres, bordered in back by trees.’ Father-of-two Jason Corbett, 39, was beaten to death with a brick and an aluminium baseball bat in the upstairs master bedroom of 160 Panther Creek Court in Winston Salem, Davidson County, on August 2, 2015. Martens, who will serve up to 25 years behind bars, has recently been moved to another prison, the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women, after breaches of prison rules. Jason’s sister Tracey Lynch has written a best-selling book, My Brother Jason, about his life and how the family have coped with his death. Proceeds will go to Jack and Sarah’s future. Jason was so badly beaten pathologists could not determine how many blows he got, in a crime described by the prosecution as ‘heinous, atrocious and cruel’.
Meanwhile, Ms Lynch has appealed to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to remove photos of Jason’s children from Martens’ Facebook page, after a ‘heartbreaking, cruel and exhausting process’ saw only some taken down.
She told how the social network giant demanded dates of birth, guardianship documentation, evidence of the conviction and individual links for each photo. But when she sent them the information they said it was too much and if she continued they would block her.
Facebook said it is inquiring into the matter.