MURDER accused Molly Martens has been ordered to return the items that she had taken from the home where Jason Corbett was murdered last August.
Molly, (32) who together with her father Thomas Martens, (65) have been indicted in the US courts with the manslaughter and second degree murder of Jason on August 2 last when he was bludgeoned to death.
Mr Corbett was found dead in the bedroom of his North Carolina home that he shared with his children, his second wife and former nanny Molly Martens.
Follwoing an extensive investigation and the compilation of a large amount of evidence, the father and daughter pair were charged and released on bail bonds of $200,000 each.
They are to appear before the courts again in april for arraignment.
Last September, a court order was put in place preventing Ms Martens from removing anything from the home at Panther Creek, Wallburg, North Carolina.
However, on January 21 last, Ms Martens is understood to have taken the “majority of the tangible personal property located in the home and placed that property storage” according to court documents filed.
Ms Martens removed a large amount of items except for Mr Corbett’s clothes that he brought with him from Ireland when he moved there some four years before his murder and some of the Jack and Sarah’s clothes.
Ms Martens had argued in court that she only took items that she had paid for with a credit card in her sole name.
However papers filed in court showed that the card was financed from the couple’s joint account which contained mostly money earned by Mr Corbett
The estate of Mr Corbett, has now enforced the order preventing Ms Martens from taking any more items, selling what was taken and the US courts have ordered that Ms Martens has 30 days to return all the items.
