Interior designer killed stepdad for keeping nude photos of her: prosecutors
Thomas Merriman’s body was found in January 2021, under a pile of trash at the Solana Beach, Calif., home he shared with stepdaughter Jade Janks.
The murder trial of Janks, 39, an interior designer who co-founded the research nonprofit Butterfly Farms, began this week in Vista Superior Court.
She has pleaded not guilty to killing the 64-year-old Merriman, who prosecutors said died of an overdose of sleeping pills Janks gave him after she discovered the photos — one of which he reportedly used as his screensaver.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 12, 2022 1:36 AM
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I guess she....designed the perfect murder *takes sunglasses off*
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 11, 2022 4:29 AM
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40 years old and living with stepdad?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 11, 2022 4:35 AM
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Jade Janks really isn’t the best name to brand.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 11, 2022 6:30 AM
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Something else was going on here. Maybe an affair that soured. How did he even have access to the photo?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 11, 2022 7:28 AM
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[quote]r4 How did he even have access to the photo?
She says the pics were 10 years old and sent to her boyfriend. Dad probably snooped in her room or accessed her phone.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 11, 2022 7:35 AM
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This would make for a very good fucked up foreign language film.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 11, 2022 7:36 AM
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So which Law & Oder show will knock off this story?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 11, 2022 7:39 AM
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R7 even if he stole them something feels off about the story. I can see her flying into a rage ( understandably) but not enough to off him in such a pre planned way. Thus essentially ruining her own life.That's the type of thing you hear people do if they find a obscene photo of their underage child, not of themselves as an adult .
R8 definitely French.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 11, 2022 7:43 AM
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R10 Probably law and order bad touch. Complete with some bizarre and lurid twist that makes no sense to anyone with a working knowledge of human nature.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 11, 2022 7:44 AM
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R11, as she's a she, I can't imagine much interest in that here.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 11, 2022 7:45 AM
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Will any of her designs be featured on tasteful friends?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 11, 2022 7:49 AM
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It's too planned out for a normal manslaughter based on rage. But if I were the prosecutor, I'd offer her a manslaughter charge and be done with it.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 11, 2022 7:53 AM
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More than a few stepdads like to keep a few snatchshots of their stepdaughters.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 11, 2022 8:57 AM
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Why was she living with her mother's ex husband?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 11, 2022 1:44 PM
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The takeaway from this: Boomers do NOT let your Millenial children return home!
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 11, 2022 1:49 PM
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That whole set-up was pretty janky.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 11, 2022 1:53 PM
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Yeah it’s weird they were living together. This woman is successful enough to start a butterfly foundation but can’t afford her own place? And why is she living with her ex stepdad? Does she hate her mom?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 11, 2022 9:24 PM
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I wonder what the photos were? I am too cynical to believe people anymore.
As Whoopi would say: were they nude-nude or just nudish like a bikini on vacation.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 11, 2022 9:36 PM
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Excuse me, the pic of her interior design looks like an ad from Raymour and Flannigan. Uninspired
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 12, 2022 1:06 AM
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Maybe step-dad helped Jade financially when she started her business? And she was living rent-free, possibly? It doesn't make sense for her to be "helping him out" otherwise.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 12, 2022 1:07 AM
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[quote] So which Law & Oder show will knock off this story?
And how soon will Men.com do a gay porn version?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 12, 2022 1:36 AM
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