To those who happen to pass by, she appears to be just another expectant mother making her way home from work, one hand gently holding her baby bump and a roll of carpet samples clutched under her arm.

However, beneath the elegant exterior of the glamorous blonde in a light blue dress and wedges lies a dark past. She is a convicted killer, infamous for brutally ending her Irish husband’s life with a baseball bat and a concrete brick, aided by her father, a former FBI agent.

Molly Martens, now 42, is six months into her pregnancy. It’s been 11 years since she murdered the man who refused to let her adopt his children, a detail revealed by the Daily Mail.

Martens made the announcement of her pregnancy via social media, reaching out to fellow expectant mothers for guidance on interpreting her 20-week scan, indicating a due date around the end of November.

Exclusive photographs from the Daily Mail showcase Martens tenderly cradling her baby bump in Knoxville, Tennessee. This marks an astonishing development in a story intensely intertwined with themes of motherhood and her quest to have children of her own.

She has been preparing herself for motherhood, upgrading her car from an aging sedan, to a brand new Hyundai Tucson, a practical family SUV with room for a baby seat.

The exclusive pictures show Martens leaving work at an interior design firm that appears to be her first return to employment since her release in June 2024.

She has also moved in with her toyboy lover, Josh Parrott, who the Daily Mail revealed she was dating back in January.

Martens has moved out of her parents’ house to live with the engineer in Kingston, about half an hour from Knoxville.

Parrott bought the house in October 2025, before the relationship began, and her name does not appear on the deed.

It is the first home she has made for herself since the one she shared with Jason Corbett: the $390,000 house in Meadowlands, North Carolina, that he paid for with the proceeds of his Limerick home and his life savings, and where he died on the bedroom floor.

Martens first made headlines in 2015 when she and her father Tom, now 75, killed Corbett, 39, from Limerick, at their marital home in North Carolina.

The case became the basis for one of Netflix’s most successful true crime documentaries, last year’s A Deadly American Marriage.

Father-of-two Jason was beaten to death with a baseball bat and a concrete brick in the early hours of August 2, 2015, sustaining so many injuries that the coroner was unable to count them all.

Prosecutors said it was because Jason planned to move home to Ireland, taking the children Martens wanted to adopt with him.

The father and daughter served just four years and three months for the voluntary manslaughter of Corbett, after a controversial appeal overturned their second-degree murder convictions.

Both had kept a low profile since their release in June 2024, until Martens returned to social media in January and the Daily Mail revealed her romance with Parrott days later.

When the Daily Mail spoke to him in January, shortly after the romance began, he would not discuss the relationship in detail but said: ‘It’s new and I’m just doing as I’m told right now.’

He was protective of Martens even then. 

‘I just feel bad for her,’ he said. ‘She’s dealt with so much as it is, and it’s something that happened ten years ago and she’s trying to finally move on with her life. And that’s hard to do.’

He added: ‘The experience has been horrifying. I just want to do what’s best for her. I’m not worried about myself, it’s her that deserves a break from it.’

Parrott, an engineer who works for his father’s company, lives just 20 minutes from the $1.1 million Knoxville home Martens shared with her parents after her release. 

Martens attended Farragut High School in the same grade as his older sister.

Martens wed Corbett in June 2011, after meeting him in 2008 following the death of his first wife Margaret, known as Mags, from an asthma attack.

Corbett had been left widowed at 30 with a 12-week-old baby daughter, Sarah, and a two-year-old son, Jack.

Martens, then a 24-year-old former beauty queen, was hired as their nanny. The couple fell in love and moved to Meadowlands, North Carolina, for a fresh start as a family.

But tensions over Martens formally adopting the children began to simmer, with Corbett reportedly becoming increasingly unhappy and considering a move back to Europe, which would have left Martens with no access to them.

Her failure to have a baby of her own is one of the key pressures that investigators believe caused a rift between the couple.

Corbett spent $25,000 on fertility treatment for his wife. During a family trip to Ireland in August 2014, he confided in his sister Tracey that the bill had left him with money worries.

Martens did not travel with them, with Corbett telling his sister she was having treatment back in America.

He also told his sister something more disturbing: that he doubted her repeated claims of miscarriage were real, and that he was not sure she had ever been pregnant at all.

In the year prior to Corbett’s death, Martens was allegedly shopping around for ‘superior sperm’ on Craigslist to have a child behind her husband’s back.

The Irish Independent, which obtained documents from prosecutors, reported that friends of Martens claimed she wanted ‘upper crust’ sperm, a plan funded by her parents.

According to Brian Carroll, author of A Deadly Marriage, which is based on his four-year investigation into the case, police records show Martens told neighbors her parents had given her $10,000 to buy fertility drugs. 

One neighbor she asked to store them cut off contact with her.

Her father had reportedly been encouraging his daughter to divorce Corbett for some time.

Emails released as part of the investigation show Martens mocked her husband over his ‘loser sperm,’ as well as tormenting him over his weight.

She also admitted placing recording devices around the family home and car, in an attempt to document Corbett’s alleged psychological and physical abuse.

At the time his body was discovered, paramedics said Corbett was cool to the touch, which prosecutors argued suggested the Martenses had delayed contacting emergency services to ensure he could not be saved.

In their closing statements, the prosecution claimed Martens ‘bashed Jason’s skull’ after learning he wanted to take the children back to Ireland.

Alan Martin, the assistant district attorney in Davidson County, told her 2023 sentencing hearing that she had married Corbett ‘in full and open contemplation of divorce’ in order to secure custody.

The marriage, he said, was ‘loveless’ and ‘a lie.’ For Martens it was ‘all about the kids’ and the ‘clock was running out.’

Within two weeks of the killing she withdrew $17,500 to pay lawyers to fight for the children, separately from her criminal defense team. She had been preparing that application for at least eight months.

Judge Brian Shipwash, who stripped her of the children 15 days after the killing and sent them home to Ireland, later said he believed Martens felt a ‘deranged entitlement’ to them.

Martens has always maintained the killing was an act of self-defense, and that Corbett was physically and emotionally abusive during their marriage.

The former nanny and her father were convicted of second-degree murder at their first trial in 2017 and sentenced to 20 to 25 years. The convictions were overturned on appeal in 2021.

In October 2023, they accepted a plea deal for voluntary manslaughter on the theory of imperfect self-defense or defense of another, and were sentenced to four years and three months.

Martens pleaded no contest and Tom pleaded guilty, with both walking free in June 2024.

Martens initially rented a basement apartment near the family home because parole conditions barred father and daughter from living together.

But after a year of supervision, both were released from the system, allowing her to move back in and travel internationally again.

Corbett’s daughter Sarah Corbett Lynch, now 19, told the Daily Mail in January that she took comfort from the fact Martens had no children in her life.

‘I was a child victim of coercive control and abuse, so it is genuinely a relief to know there are no children involved now, because I know what that kind of control can do to a child,’ she said.

‘While she may be free to rebuild her life, our family is left living with the permanent consequences of what happened.’

Sarah, who won Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards for her memoir A Time for Truth, added: ‘Wherever she goes, the truth will always find her.’

The Corbett family have never accepted the sentences, describing the plea deal as an injustice that left them with no room for closure or peace. 

In a post on the Justice for Jason Corbett page in January, after Martens returned to social media, they wrote that she was ‘still the same killer in 2026 as you were in 2015.’

Marking the anniversary of his death this month, Corbett’s family wrote that 11 years had passed since he was ‘cruelly taken,’ but that time had ‘done nothing to dim the bright light he left behind.’

His greatest legacy, they said, lived on in Jack and Sarah, who carry ‘his strength, his spirit and his smile’ with them, and who he would have been proud of.

They signed off: ‘Forever loved, forever missed and never forgotten.’

Sarah herself posted: ‘People often ask me what you were like and I always tell them you were my biggest cheerleader,’ she wrote. 

‘I think about all the times you stood at the side of the pool cheering me on even when I was doing the wrong stroke. You never cared about getting first place, you just wanted me to know you were proud of me.’

She added: ‘I will forever be proud to be Jason Corbett’s daughter.’

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Jason’s eldest child, Jack, expressed concern over Martens having a baby of her own.

‘I have zero interest in Molly Martens’ life,’ the 21-year-old said. ‘But where there is a child involved – I can only hope they are born healthy and grows up safe, protected from ever experiencing the kind of harm Sarah and I lived through. 

‘Given what I experienced growing up with Molly, I am deeply concerned for that child. I cannot pretend otherwise.

‘I am still recovering, 11 years on, from the abuse my sister and I endured for years. It broke me. I will never fully heal. 

‘I have already stood before a court and spoken about my fear that another innocent child or another family could potentially endure the pain and trauma that my family has endured. That fear comes directly from what I lived through myself. 

‘I can’t predict what will happen in the future, but I know what I experienced. My fear is that another child could one day find themselves living through something similar. I can only hope that this child is safe and that if concerns are raised, they are listened to and acted upon.’ 

Neither Martens nor Parrott responded to the Daily Mail’s request for comment. 

A fresh court filing has surfaced, shedding new light on the defense strategy of Alex Murdaugh, who stands accused of having previously murdered his wife and son. This document suggests the defense might have misrepresented the results of his lie detector test.

Released on Wednesday in Colleton County, South Carolina, the filing accuses Murdaugh’s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, of potentially misleading practices, as detailed by state prosecutors.

In 2023, Murdaugh was initially found guilty and condemned to two consecutive life sentences for these homicides. However, in a twist this past May, those verdicts were vacated after evidence emerged that court clerk Becky Hill had improperly swayed jury members.

In an August 14 hearing, Harpootlian asserted, “Mr. Murdaugh passed a polygraph with flying colors, using the same examiner. It might become relevant in this upcoming trial.”

Prosecutors argue that when Murdaugh was initially tried in 2023, he never took a polygraph, or lie-detector, test.

The time that he did in fact take a lie-detector test was after the trial in the fall of 2023. He took the test with the FBI when he was under investigation for serious financial crimes.

The new document says:

“Defense council’s claim on the record at the hearing that defendant Alex Murdaugh passed a SLED [South Carolina Law Enforcement Division] polygraph as to the murders, much less than any governmental polygraph on any subject, is categorically false, and clearly said for no other reason that an attempt to prejudice this court and the public.”

Read the filing below.

In response to the state’s filing, Harpootlian emailed a letter to Judge Debra McCaslin on Thursday saying that he incorrectly stated in court that Murdaugh had taken a polygraph and passed “with flying colors, saying he had mistakenly conflated several facts. 

Harpootlian said, “I want to offer my apology to both the court and state for any confusion I may have caused.”

Here is the letter:

Murdaugh is scheduled for his new trial in April of next year. That trial will not take place in Colleton County.

On Friday, McCaslin ruled the retrial must move out of Colleton County, but she did not yet mention a new location.

It’s possible the retrial could be in Richland County, as Murdaugh’s defense recently pressed to move it – arguing the possibility of a larger jury pool in a new location.

In a significant legal defeat, The New York Times has been ordered to compensate a former college basketball player for defamation, with damages amounting to millions, as decided on Thursday.

An Alabama jury concluded that the Times had defamed Kai Spears, who was just an 18-year-old freshman walk-on for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide when he was wrongly implicated in a 2023 investigative piece regarding a fatal shooting incident.

After deliberating for nine days, the eight-person jury awarded Spears $9.25 million in damages, recognizing the significant impact of the fallacious report on his life.

In the contentious March 2023 article, authored by New York Times sports journalist Billy Witz, Spears was erroneously named.

The report inaccurately alleged that Spears had been a passenger in a vehicle at the scene of a January 2023 shooting, which tragically resulted in the death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.

The Times issued a lengthy editor’s note to the report in June 2023, but only after Spears filed the defamation lawsuit at the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

“The original version of this article, published March 15, misidentified the person who was in the car with [Crimson Tide star player] Brandon Miller when the shooting occurred,” the note began. 

“Based on information from a person familiar with the case, the article erroneously identified that person as Kai Spears, a freshman basketball player. After the article was initially published, Alabama’s athletic director and Spears’s father denied that Spears was present. The Times included those responses and reviewed its reporting, but did not conclude that any other change to the article was warranted at that time.

“On Wednesday, Spears filed a defamation suit against The Times that included new details about the incident. Based on that information, editors assigned further reporting, which determined that the other person at the scene was not Spears but Cooper Lee, a student manager for the team. The Times regrets the error in the initial report.”

Witz, who began reporting for The Times in 2008, relied on one anonymous source who claimed Spears was at the site of the shooting.

Witz testified the source was a “high-level person, professional.”

“I think the way I was looking at it, Source A, by their job title and by virtue of their access to the transcript, videos and impound photos, was somebody who knew a lot about this case,” Witz said, according to a report from The Tuscaloosa Patch. 

“In my mind, the story had a focus, and this tragedy, as bad as it was, could have been much worse.”

A separate anonymous source had told Witz, “I can tell you it’s a White guy on the basketball team, I just don’t remember his name,” according to Witz’s testimony.

According to The Patch, Witz ultimately conceded from the witness stand, “Yes, [the story] had a mistake, no question.”

The Times noted in its own report about the verdict that it had not lost a defamation lawsuit brought in the United States over one of its articles in more than 50 years.

“We’re disappointed the jury found The Times liable for an honest mistake,” a Times spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “We thank the jury for its service, but believe the verdict and award of damages are contrary to law and not supported by the evidence. We are reviewing our legal options.”

Spears’ legal team did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Reports suggest Canadian taxpayers might be footing the bill for Justin Trudeau’s security detail as he travels internationally with pop sensation Katy Perry.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau is reportedly accompanied by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on his recent adventures with Perry, according to the Journal de Montréal.

A source claims that Trudeau, now 54, continues to utilize the RCMP for both personal and political journeys, treating them as a personal security team.

Although Trudeau stepped down from his role last March, his high-profile romance with Perry has kept him in the public eye this year.

Trudeau and Perry have been spotted enjoying themselves at Coachella and on multiple excursions across Europe, including stops in Greece, Italy, and Switzerland.

He would have been accompanied by the RCMP while spending time with the famous musician, according to the report.

The RCMP has not disclosed Trudeau’s security provisions, including the cost or their nature.

The agency stated that this was because of ‘the evolving threat environment and operational and security considerations related to police protection services,’ as information could ‘reveal or facilitate inferences about the protective measures taken for an individual,’ according to Le Journal.

Trudeau requires three or four federal officers at once, according to the outlet.

Taxpayers would cover their travel, lodging, meals, salaries and overtime pay as they ensure the former prime minister’s safety.

Former RCMP deputy commissioner Pierre-Yves Bourduas told the outlet that Trudeau’s ‘hectic love life’ could cause ‘headaches’ for the officers.

Bourduas added that the RCMP has ‘limited personnel,’ which meant that Trudeau’s needs could be putting a strain on the police force.

Perry has her own team of bodyguards, who have previously stepped in during potentially concerning situations at concerts.

However, Trudeau cannot be expected to rely on his girlfriend’s detail, according to Bourduas.

He explained that this was because Perry’s bodyguards had ‘a different mandate than that of the former prime minister’ and were not fully responsible for him.

Trudeau and Perry went public with their relationship on Instagram in December after the Daily Mail published exclusive photos of the couple embracing on a yacht two months before.

The former Canadian prime minister was married to Sophie Grégoire before they separated in August 2023 and he later started dating Perry.

Since then, the pair have been spotted on ritzy trips all over the world, sometimes sharing snaps of their time together.

Trudeau’s security cost Canadian taxpayers more than $30 million while he was prime minister, CBC previously reported.

That marked the highest of any leader in the country’s history, according to the outlet.

Trudeau’s father, former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first former leader of his country to be offered protective services after his time in office.

The elder Trudeau was offered security because his track record as prime minister could invite future threats against him, according to The Globe and Mail.

However, he did not face any ongoing threats at the time he left office, per the outlet.

Other Canadian PMs, such as Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper, have also accepted RCMP protection after departing their position.

The Daily Mail has reached out to the RCMP and representatives for Perry and Trudeau for comment.