Posted on 12/22/2022 4:08:24 PM PST by L.A.Justice
A California woman who killed her former stepfather after discovering hundreds of nude images of herself on his computer was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder.
The murderer, Jade Janks, murdered Thomas Merriman, who was one of the founders of Butterfly Farms, a research and education non-profit dedicated to the conservation of butterflies located in Encinitas, Calif., according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Janks faces life in prison
During a weeks-long trial, prosecutors argued Janks, a 39-year-old Solana Beach interior designer, drugged, strangled and suffocated Merriman, 64, with a plastic bag on New Year's Eve 2020, after she stumbled upon racy photos of herself on his computer while cleaning his bedroom following his hospitalization for a fall, The Coast News reports.
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Citing Janks' defense team, KFMB-TV reports the photos discovered on Merriman's computer were organized by body part, and included snapshots of Janks in the shower, among other instances, captured as far back as when she was a teen.
Maybe she could have gone to the cops instead? And put him in prison?
Probably the better choice.
But rare credit to her, at least she didn’t seduce and railroad some white knight boyfriend to do it for her.
She’ll be “popular” in the dykes’ prison.
I’m happy with her solution. I would not vote to convict.
She’s pretty. Probably convicted by a dyke judge
Too bad. Justifiable Homicide to me.
Maybe. I would have given her a pass if I was on the jury.
The perverted freak is dead. One less creep in the world.
“Maybe. I would have given her a pass if I was on the jury.”
Yep, me too.
Soooo.... where did the pics come from? Who took them? Who new about them?
knew...
Cops wouldn’t have done anything about it. She’d have to prove she didn’t consent to the photos.
Too bad a young lady by the name of Ashley Biden didn’t choose the same method of dealing with a pedophile in the family . . .
Agree. Just time severed.
The only question I would have as a juror would be ‘is she telling the truth’. If she is telling the truth I would vote to either acquit or sentence to time served.
“Daughter With Benefits”
spjnk......just saying....the long arm of the law would never have reacted as precisely.....
pix she took, or he took?
I wouldn’t be voting guilty of anything but stealing a conviction from the prosecutor.
He got off lightly.
The article doesn’t divulge the source of the fotos, but this bit suggests he was using hidden cameras: “. . . the photos discovered on Merriman’s computer were organized by body part, and included snapshots of Janks in the shower, among other instances, captured as far back as when she was a teen.”
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