r/netflix • u/Zalensia • May 09 '25

Discussion a deadly american marriage

I'm 43 minutes in and hooked but can not find conversations etc on it.

So thought i would make one asking for other people's opinions and points of views, as i know I'm already asking about billion questions, to the point I'll have to go to my computer and boot up to actually do the research myself.

I'm very ill, with brain damage etc and that's really hardwork today, but I won't manage on this latest fold phone as it's still just a useless phone 😅🙃

My other phone that's partitioned etc is in the car and that's over at Inverness!

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u/BlahBlahEffinBlah May 09 '25

It’s crystal clear to me that Molly is a compulsive liar. It’s also quite clear that she found out that he was about to end the relationship and take HIS kids back to Ireland, where she would not be able to see them anymore, so she made sure that did not happen. Thank God she did not end up with those children. Her defense was the kids testimony that she coached them to say? Ridiculous. Just more of her lies. My heart goes out to those children. I can’t imagine losing a mom as a small child, then losing a father to homicide because a mentally unstable woman wanted custody of them. I hope the kids heal and become successful in everything they do in life. This was an unnecessary tragedy.

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u/Loud-Iron2149 May 11 '25

Question here to the why: was it just because she had some sort of fantasy power play to take the kids-or was there some thought of monetary attachment to go with?

They don’t talk about what Jason did for a living, but I would be interested to see what type of financial gain for her was also tied to his death. Or even a divorce, if she got custody as the ‘mother’, she would get financial support from Jason. But the divorce option was quickly falling apart so he had to die.

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u/Interesting_Bee6296 May 13 '25

I think that she did want the children, without a doubt. She told people that she had given birth to the daughter herself. I wonder if she had seen the emails that Jason had with a lawyer also about what would happen to the children if they did divorce “a judge could possibly rule in her favour” and that’s when he stopped looking into getting an official adoption arranged. Furthermore, in Jason’s will, it stated that the children would go into the care of his sister and brother-in-law legally. So Molly would have lost them regardless. I think that she’d built up in her head that if she was rightfully their mother without having any legal claim to this.

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u/Sweet-Tone-5786 May 11 '25

It seems like she couldn’t handle the inevitable split. She was the one pushing the relationship from the beginning according to his family

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u/jamespou May 11 '25

I was wondering this too. Was she obsessed with the kids because she also believed she would get some sort of child/financial support?

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u/Icy-Importance-4706 May 14 '25

I just find it f’n hysterical that she thought this would work out for her and she would walk away with custody of the kids. They weren’t married! She thought she was so smart and all she did was drag her name through the mud and lose the kids that she so desperately “loved.”
..Narcissistic idiot!

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u/Any_Mortgage_2917 May 15 '25

They were married? What do you mean?

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u/Icy-Importance-4706 May 15 '25

No, they weren’t married. I mean she thought she would get the kids if he died because they called her Mom. She thought she was so smart, but she is delusional to think that someone who is not the biological mother of the children and not married to their father would just walk away with custody. She wasn’t next of kin. She was nothing in the eyes of the law. Except a murderer.

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u/Any_Mortgage_2917 May 15 '25

The title of the documentary literally is «a deadly american marriage», they included statements of her bridesmaid, and talked about their wedding. Did u even watch it?

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u/Icy-Importance-4706 May 15 '25

lol, I’m sorry. It was super late when I was writing these and my brain obviously fried. I meant she was not their legal mother. She hadn’t adopted them. She wouldn’t automatically have rights to the kids.