The 39-year-old California woman who murdered her stepdad after discovering hundreds of her nude photos on his laptop was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Jade Janks, who claimed she had a close relationship with her stepfather, Thomas Merriman, killed him with a combination of strangulation, suffocation, and lethal doses of prescription pills. The Law&Crime Network’s Jesse Weber breaks down the case.
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Janks took the pics with her boyfriends. We don’t know how Tom ended up with the pics. Who cares the woman is an exhibitionist. Don’t take the pics if you don’t want others to see them. This was a bogus excuse for Jade to pretend she had some moral or ethical issues with people seeing her nude photos. Jade was a creep.
Hope her case is re evaluated. She shouldn’t do life. Maybe a few years and probation.
Her crime was far worse than his.
Shes annoying
There is more to this story. If he has all these photos that is disgusting but where or how did he get all these photos? She one day "saw" a nude photo on his laptop, followed by hundreds more then just killed him? She destroyed the evidence (laptop), she could have contacted the cops? Something is missing here.
13:45 His Brother (Tom) Was Trash 🗑︠🚮
The family’s denial is disgusting
Why does Jessie look more yellow than Bart Simpson?😂
Ya honor
Imma have to see the nude photos in question..
Because reasons
His brother’s words give me some insight into why the stepfather did what he did.
LOL@ her shocked looked. She really thought she was going to get away with murder. Female privilege 😂
And there was no proof the photos exist.
Now the inmates will see her naked😢
One last pervert
Nobody told him. To be apervert
Imagine being an absolute disgusting 304… Taking pics of yourself naked while still young… and getting mad and killing someone (that's NOT your father) when finding out he enjoyed the photos that YOU took… smh modern woman are literally the biggest walking L's on this green earth… There's literally nothing left but nasty dirty 304's…
Funny how he talks about how horrible it was that he woke up during when all anyone with a real conscious and sense of justice would be saying “great! He at least got to feel some of it†that wasn’t the gotcha he thought it was😂🤦ðŸÂ¼â€Â♀ï¸Â
In what world does it actually matter that she did that to him?? WHO CARES! The legal system cares WAY too much about predators and drops the ball on actual people who are deserving of protection🤮🤮
Is there proof these photos exist?
If I were the judge I’d drop the charges against her.
He destroyed everything she knew to be true. She viewed him as her FATHER!! Called him dad, no wonder she killed him. Her life was never going to be the same anyway.
her eyes are crazy, did they test her for psychiatric issues, or illness???
idk like she killed him but like its understandable so like life isn't deserved imo but thats just me
I BET dudes brother is a perv too.
The way the prosecution treated her made me so mad. Also, who knows how bad this could have gotten? Her stepdad was obviously obsessed with her and who knows what he could’ve done? He could’ve assaulted her or maybe killed her. The way this pr!ck was talking to her was cruel and unusual. I feel like there’s a lot of malice coming from the vitriol she got and I think it’s very unprofessional for them to allow it in court. This isn’t simply a murder, it’s very, very clearly a messed up situation all around. She was obviously very hurt and she obviously loved her stepdad. Betrayal like that naturally would end up in some kind of blowup.
Dude your makeup artist made you look really bad for this episode.
What a perverted creep, yet her actions are still very wrong.
free her
What did she do wrong?
judicial system really did great this time. so much for trying to fight the issues with predators. no help with the jury of probably perverts
It's fair. Who knows what he would've done.
If she was molested she will have a guilty conscience either way. I’m surprised they convicted her, and I hope they appeal, and go for a insanity defense, this way they have a lot more avenues to use for her defense.
Yea I don’t have a issue with it, dude was a perv, they are extremely dangerous
23:00 “I’ve lost 90 minutes of sleep in the last two yearsâ€Â. Wtf is this guy going on about?
Sick pervert got what was coming to him. The victims family is sick and perverted as well.
This is not the Purge movie people. We can't justify killing someone who we deem to have slighted us no matter how bad.
I would really like to know/debate the things people think are worthy of murder but are not illegal…
The people who are here talking about the goodness or badness of a woman who takes nude photos of herself are deliberately missing the point. She's where she deserves to because she pre-meditated the killing of the man. Not because she takes nude photos. If women didn't do that some of the commenters would not have a clue what a woman looks like naked. The point is that the photos were for someone else to enjoy and he got them through his proximity to her! He used her belief and trust in him as a "father' against her. It happens all the time abuse takes many different forms. She just came to a realization that she was duped and used her entire life and let it destroy her. I'm so sorry for her!
The amount of people on here condoning his murder is astounding. Same people will claim to be about law and order. You cannot kill someone for bad morals regardless of how bad your feelings are hurt. Doesn't mean i condone ANYTHING he did, but murder? Im sure most of you are being hypocrites…