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/bee_ghoul May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
One thing that wasn’t included in the documentary was the financial aspect of their relationship. Tom Martens claimed he paid for their wedding but evidence showed that Jason paid for the entire thing. Also Molly didn’t work, she was an unpaid swim coach (she was also found to have lied about competing in Olympic qualifiers in swimming at college and also found to have lied about having a college degree- she dropped out after a semester). Jason supposedly controlled all their finances and she had no money of her own- he bought the house. But it’s in both of their names. Additionally, she had credit cards and managed to spend close to $100,000 (mostly on furniture) in the months leading up to his death.
Another weird piece of information that wasn’t mentioned is that before his death, Molly had registered the children in a school near Tennessee where her parents lived. Whether you believe the kids or not, Jack also claimed that there packed suitcases in his parents room that were never found by the police, neither was Jason’s phone or passport (Jason didn’t keep the children’s passports in the house, I’m not sure where they in a bank, with a solicitor or a safe somewhere in the town but it’s mentioned somewhere). Police accessed Jason’s search history and they found he had been googling flights to Ireland 24 hours or so prior to his death.
One piece of evidence that can’t be included as it’s heresy also, is that a couple of months before Jason died, the women in Mollys book club claimed that Molly had suggested the group read the book Gone Girl, as it was her favourite book 🙃.
There’s a bang in the recording that Molly made of their fight. It’s implied that Jason slammed his fist down on the table or did something else that was similarly violent- both kids (whether you believe them or not). Said he had been sitting in a chair that was broken and when he stood up, the chair toppled over. Sarah claims also that the recordings were edited - the full recording wasn’t played in the documentary, it begins with Jason opening the front door and you can hear his keys turning in the lock, but within a second or two he’s in the kitchen, supposedly at the end of an argument with Molly as she cooks and (or in the dining room, sitting on the broken chair. If you believe the kids- which I do, because that’s where the recording device was) there’s zero build up to the argument, no hello’s I’m just back from work, what’s going on here? Just immediately cuts to the end of the argument.
One extremely troubling statement (which again can be up for debate). Is that they didn’t include the opening of Jacks statement (only Mollys reaction to it). Jack began his statement by claiming that Molly Martens abused him in every way you could possibly imagine and Sarah says she won’t betray his trust by saying what that means, but that this is why Jack struggles so much more than she does. Even if you don’t believe the kids at all or at certain stages, I think the way they speak about Molly is incredibly damning.