Jade Janks and the Secret Nude Photos

Summary

48 Hours - “Jade Janks and the Secret Nude Photos”

CBS News | September 15, 2025

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Overview of the Episode

This “48 Hours” episode explores the disturbing and complex case of Jade Jenks, accused and ultimately convicted of murdering her stepfather, Tom Merriman. Through investigative reporting, trial excerpts, and interviews with key players, the episode delves into themes of betrayal, hidden trauma, digital evidence, and the legal strategies on both sides. The heart of the case: the discovery of hundreds of nude photographs of Jade on Tom’s computer, Jade’s subsequent fear and actions, and whether his death was murder or a tragic accident.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Crime & Initial Discovery

• The 911 Call and Jade’s State
  • New Year’s Day, 2021: Jade’s friend Adam Siplak calls the sheriff, claiming Jade confessed to killing her stepfather (01:41).
• Tom Merriman’s Background
  • Tom was a respected member of the community, known for running a butterfly farm. He and Jade shared a close relationship, with many friends and neighbors attesting to her care for him (06:02, 06:12).

2. The Motive: Secret Nude Photos

• Disturbing Discovery
  • Jade finds a nude photo of herself as Tom's computer screensaver, uncovering “hundreds” more on his device (03:12, 03:20, 15:09).
    • “It was the most violating, just awful gut wrenching feeling ever. I felt sick. I Couldn't even touch my own skin.” — Jade Jenks (03:24)
• Emotional Fallout
  • Jade’s panic and fear upon discovery: sleeping with a knife, unable to shower, feeling sick (03:34, 15:57).

3. The Day of the Crime & The Timeline

• Tom’s Discharge and Declining Health
  • Tom had been released from hospital and seemed physically frail (06:19, 06:31).
• Jade’s Movements & Purchase of Supplies
  • After picking Tom up, Jade buys gloves, towels, a nylon cord, and spray paint, claiming they were for a painting project (23:43).
    • Prosecutors call these items a “murder kit” (31:25).

4. Conflicting Stories & Key Testimonies

• Jade’s Version
  • Claims she only wanted someone (Alan Roach, “the Fixer”) to protect her or confront Tom, not kill him (21:29).
  • Describes trying to get help moving Tom, her fear, and ultimately finding Tom dead in her car the next morning (25:53).
    • “I made sure he was comfortable. He had pillows, and... he had a blanket.” — Jade Jenks (25:38)
• Prosecution’s Theory
  • Argue that Jade drugged Tom intentionally (via Ambien), staged an overdose, and possibly suffocated/strangled him (29:35, 35:23).
  • Point to incriminating texts (e.g., “I just dosed the hell out of him” at 30:30) and DNA evidence on Ambien packaging (29:55).

5. Legal Battle in the Courtroom

• Evidence Debate
  • The autopsy found no strangulation signs—Tom died from acute zolpidem intoxication (13:57).
  • The prosecution argues a sedated victim could be suffocated with minimal force and little physical evidence (34:59).
    • “When someone is already unconscious, it does not require that much pressure and would not leave bruising...” — ADA Teresa Pham (34:59)
  • Defense insists evidence is purely circumstantial and that Tom could have overdosed accidentally (18:25, 39:22).
    • “Finding nude photos... would make you angry... but enough to kill? I don’t think so.” — Mark Carlos, Defense Attorney (18:09)

6. Verdict and Aftermath

• Jury Deliberations
  • Quick verdict: Jade is found guilty of first degree murder (41:20).
• Sentencing & Reflections
  • Jade receives 25 years to life; both sides reflect on the challenges and the emotional impact (45:04).
  • Even prosecution confirms the nude photos existed, corroborating Jade’s claims about that trauma (42:56).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Jade’s Horror at the Discovery:

• “It was the most violating, just awful gut wrenching feeling ever. I felt sick. I Couldn't even touch my own skin.” — Jade Jenks (03:24)

Prosecutors Outline Their Theory:

• “The plan was to drug him, suffocate him, and stage it to look like an overdose.” — Lead Investigator / Prosecutor (29:35)
• “I just dosed the hell out of him.” — Jade Jenks (Text message cited at 30:30)

Motivation & Impact:

• “He was my dad.” — Jade Jenks (20:58)
• “She was his judge, jury and executioner.” — Lead Investigator / Prosecutor (39:03)

On the Jury’s Verdict:

• “We the jury... find the defendant guilty of the crime of murder... guilty of first degree murder.” — Narrator / Host reading verdict (41:20)

Jade’s Statement at Sentencing:

• “All this came crashing down on me when I found hundreds of naked photos of myself. And his computer felt shattered.” — Jade Jenks (44:16)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|----------------------------------------------| | 01:41 | 911 call reporting alleged murder/confession | | 03:04–03:24 | Discovery of nude photos/motivation | | 06:19–07:36 | Tom’s background & relationship with Jade | | 10:29 | Discovery of Tom’s body | | 13:37–14:19 | Autopsy findings & debate over cause of death | | 15:09–16:17 | Jade’s discovery of photos & emotional fallout| | 17:40 | Start of trial, defense position | | 21:29–22:23 | Jade explains decision to involve “Fixer” | | 23:02–25:38 | Timeline of Tom’s last day & Jade’s actions | | 29:35–31:33 | Prosecution’s murder theory and evidence | | 34:59 | Medical examiner on drug/strangulation interplay| | 39:03 | Prosecution’s closing argument | | 41:20 | Verdict delivered in court | | 44:16 | Jade’s statement at sentencing | | 45:04 | Sentence pronounced: 25 to life |

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Flow of the Episode

The story is woven through opposing viewpoints—police, prosecution, defense, and Jade herself. Listeners are confronted with the tangible trauma of being violated by someone trusted; the evidence and ambiguities surrounding Tom’s death; and the emotions and consequences in the aftermath. The trial scenes, family and friend interviews, and the documented electronic trails (texts, DNA, etc.) all contribute to painting a detailed, unsettling picture of events.

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Final Thoughts

Through immersive reportage and firsthand accounts, this “48 Hours” episode lays out the tangled interplay of trauma, trust, and suspicion. While the prosecution built a case of premeditated murder, the defense paints Jade as a victim of her stepfather’s betrayal and her own panic. Ultimately, the jury convicts, leaving listeners to reflect on how digital footprints and hidden trauma can tip the scales of justice—and what might lie beneath the surface of any family tragedy.

Transcript

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[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

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[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Sheriff's Communication Dispatcher 5538. Well, I've got a situation. Last night a friend of mine asked me to come over. She said that she had possibly killed her stepdad. I don't know if she really did this. What exactly are you trying to report? It sounds like she killed this guy. It was the first day of a new year. The sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said she confessed to drugging him, suffocating him and strangling him to death.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

Jade was very cool, very popular. I could not believe what they were saying that Jade did. Tom Merriman is Jade's stepdad. And 100% she loved Tom. She took care of him. They lived next door to each other. She made him dinner. She was always there for him.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Detectives knew they had a phone call from her good friend that she confessed to murdering Tom Merriman. So they got a search warrant. We don't have to prove motive, but we want to show a motive.

[Narrator / Host]

The photos.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The photos.

[Narrator / Host]

She accidentally bumped his computer and the. The screensaver came out.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

The screensaver is a nude photograph of her in the shower. She was able to find a lot more nude photos of her.

[Narrator / Host]

Hundreds.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

Hundreds.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

It was the most violating, just awful gut wrenching feeling ever. I felt sick. I Couldn't even touch my own skin.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She was beyond freaked out. She's sleeping with a knife. She is scared for her life.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you love Tom?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did Tom love you?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

I mean, did you want your stepfather dead? Did you stand over him with a plastic bag and pull tight to keep him from breathing?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you wrap a cord around his neck?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

And did you strangle him?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Narrator / Host]

So you have this supposed confession of her saying she strangled him, but no evidence of strangulation. Your own strangulation expert said it's not strangulation.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

That's right.

[Narrator / Host]

So your big bomb fizzled.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It was gone.

[Narrator / Host]

San Diego County, California. An idyllic place most of the time.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I stewed on this all night. I barely slept. And I'm scared to death. I don't want to be a part of this. I didn't have anything to do with her.

[Narrator / Host]

That frightened phone call came in New Year's Day, 2021. The caller said his one time girlfriend may have committed a murder.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said, my friend confessed to me last night that she murdered her stepfather.

[Narrator / Host]

San Diego County Deputy DA Jorge Del Portillo.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

He told deputies, hey, I don't know if what she's saying is true. I didn't see him. But this is something I had to tell the police.

[Narrator / Host]

The alleged Victim was a 64 year old man named Tom Merriman. He lived here. I liked him. I thought he was very nice. Ramona Hamilton and her husband George were Tom's neighbors. Ramona knew him better and she found out Tom also ran an unusual business.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

More milkweed. More milkweed, more milkweed.

[Narrator / Host]

A butterfly farm. I'm a gardener and I love butterflies. Pat Flanagan also likes butterflies. He was Tom Merriman's business partner out at the farm.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

He was my best friend.

[Narrator / Host]

Did he become kind of a butterfly expert?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Oh, he is a butterfly expert.

[Narrator / Host]

You say he is.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Host]

You still talk about him in the present tense?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Yeah, I do.

[Narrator / Host]

It was right here on December 31, 2020, that Tom Merriman was last seen alive. Ramona and George saw him in his stage stepdaughter's SUV in the driveway.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

And he was sitting on this side, the passenger side, with his feet out and this walker out in front of him. And he looked like hell.

[Narrator / Host]

Tom had just spent more than two weeks in the hospital and a rehab center after a bad fall. He also had heart and liver problems. He looked awful. I don't even know if he knew me, but at the time it just seemed like maybe he got sent home from the hospital heavily drugged. Heavily.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

That's all we knew. That's all we knew.

[Narrator / Host]

And then George saw Tom's stepdaughter, 37 year old Jade Jenks. Tom Merriman had come into Jade's life when she was 14, marrying her mom. Jade and Tom were apparently close. She lived right next door. On this day, Jade had just driven him home and he called her his daughter. He called Jade his daughter? Yes. Right. They seemed close and they seemed very close. She was fixing dinner for him every night. She seemed to take care of him. What'd you think of Jade? I thought she was a very pretty woman. Jade had done some work in Ramona's apartment. She was an interior decorator.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

That's Jade. She can be a tomboy and a girly girl all in the same day. She can get herself dirty for work, carrying rocks and concrete in her pickup truck. And we're dressed up, ready to go to like a nice fancy dinner.

[Narrator / Host]

Heather Pierce grew up next door to Jade in San Diego County.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

Jade was very cool. I loved being around her.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade was 13 years older.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

She's definitely a little more than a big sister and a little less than a mom. Her energy is just very strong, loving and caring and genuine. And so when you're around her, like, you feel good.

[Narrator / Host]

She also knew Jade's stepdad, Tom Merriman.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

I think she always just loved him and cared about him.

[Narrator / Host]

Back at Tom's place in Solana beach, It was now January 1st. The day after he'd gotten back from the hospital. The day after George and Ramona had seen him looking so poorly in the driveway. This time they only saw Jade in the driveway. She was standing by a pile of trash and boxes.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I saw her out at the side here with the boxes and cartons. A little while later, there was a knock on the door. And she come to the door to tell me that she'd made a mess down here. But she cleaned it up later.

[Narrator / Host]

Where was the pile?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Right about right here. See where that dirt is right there?

[Narrator / Host]

Yeah. Like right in this area here. It was a few hours later when law enforcement pulled into their driveway.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I'm scared to death. I don't want to be a part of this.

[Narrator / Host]

They came to investigate that strange phone call, the one that claimed Tom Merriman had been murdered.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

They were trying to find Tom. Where is Tom? They walked by this pile of trash in the driveway. They knocked on his door. They went inside.

[Narrator / Host]

They didn't find Tom, but they did see his stepdaughter.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

When they saw Jade Jinks driving out of her driveway, they pulled her over, brought her in for questioning and asked that very question. Where is Tom?

[Narrator / Host]

Jade said she was cold, so they gave her a blanket. We're trying to find Tom. Do you know where Tom is?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No. His family hasn't seen him for over 48 hours, though. He just got released from hospital yesterday. Okay. Did you see him yesterday? Yeah, I picked him up from the hospital.

[Narrator / Host]

Okay.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Do you know where he went? No. Well, can you tell me? Other than he's just missing, we don't know where he's at.

[Narrator / Host]

Were trying to find him. Eventually they let Jade go, but there was still no sign of Tom. Officers spent all night combing through his apartment looking for clues. Then, just after the first morning light, one of the officers was walking down the driveway toward Tom's apartment when she saw that pile of trash. It was just about here. I have a picture of it here. There's a wheelbarrow there, some boxes, some bags.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She moved a trash bag from that trash and immediately saw the silhouette of a man.

[Narrator / Host]

And there he was. Tom Merriman.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Tom Merriman laid dead and buried.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

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[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Never seen that. I've never seen a case where a body was buried under a pile of trash in the driveway.

[Narrator / Host]

The apparent crime scene was smack in the middle of the driveway of this lush compound just a mile from the beach.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

He was wearing the Hospital bracelet that he was just in the hospital, the same T shirt and the same pajamas that he was discharged. As soon as they found the body, they knew, we have our suspect, and they made the arrest.

[Narrator / Host]

On the morning of January 2, 2021, Jade Jenks was arrested and charged with Tom Merriman's murder. But things were about to get complicated.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She lawyered up and didn't want to answer any more questions.

[Narrator / Host]

So authorities continued to work the case, starting with that phone call.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It sounds like she killed this guy.

[Narrator / Host]

That call had come from that friend of Jade's, a man named Adam Siplak. He told police she'd called him to her apartment, and then she asked him.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

For a favor and asked me to move the body with her. And I said, I can't help you. And I never saw the body.

[Narrator / Host]

Adam Siplak may not have seen the body that night, but eventually he did tell police that Jade confessed to him that she knocked Tom out with an overdose of medicine and then strangled him. It was a pretty dramatic story, and authorities were confident that the autopsy would confirm it, that there'd be physical evidence that Tom Merriman was strangled to death. But that's not what happened.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

I was actually there for the autopsy.

[Narrator / Host]

Assistant DA Teresa Pham, who led the investigation, talked to the medical examiner.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

So what they found was, unfortunately, not a lot of physical evidence.

[Narrator / Host]

Right. So you have this supposed confession of her saying she strangled him, but no evidence of strangulation.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

That's right.

[Narrator / Host]

The final autopsy report created even more of a challenge for the prosecutors. It said that the cause of Tom Merriman's death was acute zolpidem intoxication. Zolpidem is the generic name for the sleeping pill Ambien. Is it possible that Tom Merriman died by accident? He was in poor health. It's not that many pills that he took.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Certainly it's possible, but the evidence belied that notion. This was no accident.

[Narrator / Host]

But even if the autopsy didn't point to strangulation, investigators say other evidence clearly pointed to murder. Jade's cell phone was a gold mine.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It was a gold mine.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade's phone was full of text. How would you categorize those text messages?

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

Suspicious, incriminating, a plan.

[Narrator / Host]

According to prosecutors, that plan was to get rid of Tom Merriman one way or another. Investigators say it all started on December 23rd. That's about a week before Tom's body was found. Tom was in the hospital after that bad fall. Jade says she was cleaning up his apartment when she found something.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

So she's at Tom's apartment and his laptop. I guess it must have been in sleep mode or something like that, but she knocked into it and it woke up. And on the screensaver is a nude photograph of her in the shower.

[Narrator / Host]

And there was more, much more.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

He must have had his password. So once she was able to get into his laptop was when she was able to find a lot more nude photos of her.

[Narrator / Host]

Hundreds.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

Hundreds.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

These were photos that she took willingly with her partner at the time. Some were of her in the shower, naked.

[Narrator / Host]

Authorities don't know how Merriman got those pictures, but Jade says she never gave them to him. And prosecutors say she panicked.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

In her words, she was beyond freaked out. That's what she wrote to a friend, that she couldn't shower alone. She was vomiting at just the idea of looking at a shower based on what she had discovered. She's sleeping with a knife on the nightstand just in case he comes early home from the hospital.

[Narrator / Host]

According to prosecutors, that's when Jade launches her plan. How? One of her friends connects her with a guy. A guy the prosecutors called the Fixer.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

There's a text message where he tells Jade, if you have a problem, I can fix it for you. And that's how we came up with the label the Fixer.

[Narrator / Host]

The so called Fixer was a man named Alan Roach. Who is Alan Roach?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Alan Roach is a guy. He's a security guard. That's what he does. But I think he makes himself out to be someone else that he's not. We were thinking Jade views him as the character in Pulp Fiction, someone that you reach out to when you want one of your problems fixed. And that's what he was. He was the Fixer.

[Narrator / Host]

He was the fixer. Is Allen a hitman?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

He is not a hitman. What's important is what does Jade think Alan is?

[Narrator / Host]

Prosecutors say Jade wanted her Fixer to help her get rid of Tom.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She had a plan that she stuck to.

[Narrator / Host]

The plan was murder.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The plan was murder.

[Narrator / Host]

It was December 2022, two years after Tom Merriman's body was found under that pile of garbage. And Jade Jenks was about to stand trial for his murder. And let me just ask you flat out, did Jade Jenks murder her stepfather, Tom Merriman?

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Jade has maintained her innocence throughout this entire incident.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade's attorney, Mark Carlos, he insists this was not a murder and says Jade had no reason to kill her stepfather.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Finding nude photos of yourself on a stepfather's computer would make you angry, you know, might make you break off relationships with them. But enough to kill Somebody? I don't think so.

[Narrator / Host]

He says Tom's death was an unfortunate accident brought on by his poor health and self administered prescription drugs.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

I think he took the medication himself. He had multiple substances in his system. I think he made a cocktail of the drugs that he had with him and had a bad reaction to it and caused his death.

[Narrator / Host]

At trial, Jade was supported by family and friends, including her biological father, Steve Jenks, and her longtime friend, Heather Pierce.

[Friend / Neighbor (Heather Pierce)]

Tom was a mess, an absolute mess for a long time. There's no way that she had, like a plan and first degree and all of that. I was like, there's no way because that's not Jade.

[Narrator / Host]

Prosecutors Jorge Del Portillo and Teresa Pham were worried the jury might feel that Jade herself was the victim.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

She's a sympathetic defendant.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She is.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

I mean, she found naked photos of herself on her stepdad's computer.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Call Jade Jenks.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade takes the stand to tell the jury what happened in her own words.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

My name's Jade Jenks.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says that ever since she met Tom when she was a teenager, they maintained a strong bond.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

It's hard to come by somebody you just feel that you can trust completely. And I did feel that way. I referred to him as my father, and he called me his daughter.

[Narrator / Host]

Which is why Jade tells the jury, it was so devastating to find those photos. On December 23rd, while Tom was in the hospital and she was cleaning his.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Apartment, I bumped the mouse on his desktop computer and it shook the screen awake. And I looked, and there's a picture of female breasts on the screen. And I look, those are my breasts. I just. I couldn't believe it. I was in complete shock.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade describes finding even more on Tom's computer after that.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

There was a rolling screen, like a slideshow of pictures of me that I've taken over the years.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

What type of pictures were they?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

They were naked photos.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you ever give naked photos to your stepfather?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you ever show him naked photos of yourself?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Narrator / Host]

How did he get these photos?

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Jade doesn't know.

[Narrator / Host]

These were photos that Jade had taken.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Of herself, Jade and various boyfriends. Have you ever made any sexual overtures toward your stepfather?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No. No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you tell him that you had nude photos of yourself?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

And you never showed him anything similar to those, correct?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No. He was my dad.

[Narrator / Host]

Tom was still in the hospital, but Jade says she didn't feel safe.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

And you were afraid that he was going to come back and find out that you had found the photos? Yes.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

And you were worried about how he might react toward you?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Right. And he live next door to you?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

And that's why Jade says she got in touch with Alan Roach, who worked in security the day she found those photos.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

So why did you think that you needed somebody like Alan Roach?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I. I was, I was scared. I mean, when I first saw the photos, I. I couldn't even use the bathroom. I just felt so disgusting. I couldn't shower either. I was just scared. I was scared of being nude and vulnerable and I wanted somebody to just look out for me and make sure that, you know, I was safe.

[Narrator / Host]

Over the next few days, Tom was moved from the hospital to a rehab center and Jade felt she had to act.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I can't continue just living next door to him and not feeling safe or feeling like this. I mean, I have to do something.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

When you say I needed to do something, I mean, did you need to kill him?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No. I wanted Tom to just go away and leave me alone.

[Narrator / Host]

According to Jade, Allen was planning to come over after she brought Tom home to help her confront him.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I wanted Allen to basically, you know, explain to him this is not okay, or I could explain it, but Alan.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Just be there just in case your plan was to.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says that on December 31, in spite of her feelings, she was doing everything she could to help Tom, who she says seemed preoccupied with finding medication.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

He started calling at about 6:45 in the morning and he's asking me to get him codeine, which I don't really understand. He says that he hasn't nothing, slept and he wants to rest.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade took Tom out of the the rehab at a little after 11am he had a bag of medication with him, including Ambien. And remember, the autopsy says Ambien is what killed him. Jade says almost as soon as Tom got into her car, he also helped himself to her prescription medicines.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

He kept saying, did you get me any painkillers? Is this it? Oh, here. And then he just kind of took it.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says Top seemed fine when she stopped at this shopping plaza and texted Alan Roach to come meet her. She went into a couple of stores while she waited to hear back.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I was just getting started on a house project, so I just went to go get supplies and kind of shop around.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade bought gloves, towels, and a nylon cord and some spray paint. She says these items were for a painting project.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Typically I lay plastic down and kind of enclose it so that I'm not getting paint on all the, the foliage.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade still hadn't heard back from Alan and took Tom home. She says Tom was now too groggy to walk on his own, and she couldn't get him out of her car.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I parked in the parking lot.

[Narrator / Host]

She says she was worried about him and drove him back to the rehab for help.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I just explained, you know, my dad's just been released and something's wrong. He need to bring him back. They wouldn't let me inside, though. They're pretty adamant with me. I couldn't go inside.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade returned home with Tom, but says she was still not able to get him out of her car. Allen had finally texted back to say he couldn't make it over after all, but sent his friend, a man named Brian Solomon, to help her get Tom inside.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Have you ever met Brian Solomon before?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says Brian wouldn't help her with Tom and left right away. So Jade reached out to her friend Adam Siplak and asked him to come over. Adam arrived later that evening.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I just said. I mean, I was just in tears. I had said that, you know, I want to get him into my house or into his house.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says Adam quickly got upset and left without helping her. And this is where Jade's story doesn't line up with Adam's. Remember, Adam was the person who called police on New Year's Day.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She said that she had possibly killed her stepdad.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade says she didn't confess to anything. She says Adam was distressed by how sick Tom looked and that's why he wouldn't help her after he left. Jade says she didn't know what else to do and tried to get Tom situated in her car for the night so he could sleep off whatever he had taken.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I made sure he was comfortable. He had pillows, and I'm trying to remember it. Yeah, I mean, he had a blanket.

[Narrator / Host]

The next morning, in the cold light of New Year's Day, Jade says Tom was still in her car when she realized the worst had happened.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you touch Ms. Merriman?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

What did you feel?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I tried to pull his leg and his pajama pant lifted and his leg was cold.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Ms. Jenks, did you think Tom Merriman was dead at that point?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I knew he was.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

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[Narrator / Host]

After Jade told the jury how she found Tom's body, her own attorney challenged her.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you think about calling 91 1?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I was scared, too.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Why were you scared?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I didn't want to get blamed. I mean, I just. I was the one that picked him up, and I didn't want to get blamed for killing him.

[Narrator / Host]

And she tried to explain what she did with his body.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I continued to fall out. I still wanted to get him into his house. I mean, I didn't. I didn't know what else to do. I panicked. So I put the blanket over him and I got empty boxes and just kind of stacked. It made it look like. Just like a pile of debris.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade may have left Tom's body in the driveway, but she says she'd never meant him harm.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

I mean, did you want your stepfather dead.

[Narrator / Host]

Shanks?

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Did you grab him with your own two hands and did you strangle him?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

No.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Would you. Would you ever done that, Tom?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I don't even do anything.

[Narrator / Host]

And then the prosecutors told their version of the story.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

We lied to the police about where Tom was.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I didn't. I just asked for an attorney, and I kept asking for one.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

You didn't want the police to know that Tom died in your car?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I wasn't trying to hide it, but I didn't want to go alone and tell them that.

[Narrator / Host]

Prosecutors said Jade was lying to cover up her plan.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The plan was to drug him, suffocate him, and stage it to look like an overdose.

[Narrator / Host]

Del Portillo says after she picked Tom up from the rehab, Jade used his own prescription sleeping pills to knock him out. And he says he has proof. Jade's DNA is on those packs of pills.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The package of Zolpidem, which is the Ambien sleeping pills that had the defendant's DNA on it, but not Tom's. And I think it's important that the jury heard that, that it was Jay Jenks DNA on that Zolpidem pack.

[Narrator / Host]

And according to prosecutors, there's much more evidence too. Jade, they say, left a real time trail of clues that day. Remember her cell phone, the one they called a gold mine? Turns out it was packed with texts, messages that they say outlined her plan to kill.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

We're talking 11, 12 minutes after being discharged, she sends a text message to Alan the fixer saying, I just dosed the hell out of him.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

When someone says I dose the hell out of them, you would agree with me that that means someone gave another person a whole lot of drugs. Right?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I guess it's a poor phrasing.

[Narrator / Host]

Del Portillo thinks Jade's explanation is nonsense. He says first she drugged Tom and then she needed to stall for a bit. And her texts even say that stopping at Dixieland to stall.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

So she was stalling for the drugs to really kick in and make him asleep. And unaware of what she was about to do, she's stalling to see if this guy Alan Roach can come by and help her commit the murder.

[Narrator / Host]

And remember those supplies Jade said she'd picked up for a painting project? According to the prosecutors, they were out actually Jade's murder kit.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She goes to the store and buys this murder kit. Zip ties, gloves, rope and towels.

[Narrator / Host]

Prosecutors say up to that point, Jade's plan was on track. But by a little after noon, things started to go wrong.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

You could see from the text messages that she was in a panic.

[Narrator / Host]

She writes, he's waking up Jade. Jade's texting her so called fixer, Alan Roach. And she adds, can you come over? But the fixer is not responding.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

This plot was a total mess and it fell apart right away.

[Narrator / Host]

Finally, the fixer texts her back. He says he can't come, but he's sending someone he knows, that guy named Brian Solomon. Okay, so the plan is Brian will bring Tom into the house.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Brian Solomon later told us that when he went over to help Jade that she told him something that he'll never forget. I want you to bring him inside, strangle him, and I'll take care of the rest.

[Narrator / Host]

Brian Solomon quickly left the house without doing anything. And soon Jade is back texting the missing Fixer again at 3pm you texted.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Alan, he's waking up. And I'm not sure how much longer I can control my temper.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Right, yes, we lost to Alan.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

He texted Alan. He's waking up and getting way more aggressive. So it's way more real. True, true.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I think, again, I was just panicking and trying to urge Alan to come over.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

You would agree with me that this looks very suspicious, this text message.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Oh, yeah.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade texts Allen again, I can't keep a kicking body in my truck.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Now that we know Tom was found dead in his driveway under a pile of trash that you put together, but this text message looks very suspicious. You'd agree with me, right?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I mean, I would, yes.

[Narrator / Host]

It's now around 4pm Alan has disappeared.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

At 4.08pm, you texted Allen. He's up. I guess I'm on my own. True, True.

[Narrator / Host]

How do you think she killed Tom?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

We believe that the evidence shows that she put a bag over his head. When the bag's not working fast enough, she has to strangle him and she has no other choice. It's too late to back out now.

[Narrator / Host]

Investigators even found a plastic bag in Jade's car. It had her DNA on the outside and Tom's on the inside. But there's a huge problem with the prosecution's case, and that's the autopsy. The autopsy never said Tom was strangled. There weren't any marks on his neck. So what happened? How could Jade possibly have strangled him to death?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

That presented a big difficulty for us, strategically, of going forward in trial.

[Narrator / Host]

Right, so you have this supposed confession of her saying she strangled him, but no evidence of strangulation.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Right.

[Narrator / Host]

Turns out the prosecutors had an answer for that. They say it's totally possible to strangle someone to death without leaving marks if the victim is already knocked.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

I think that is part of the plan is to dose him just enough to where he's incapacitated. So if you're unconscious, your breathing is already depressed. When someone is already unconscious, it does not require that much pressure and would not leave bruising, it would not leave breakage of the cartilage that's inside the throat. It would not leave physical evidence.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It only takes four pounds of pressure to kill, to cut off the blood supply to your head. And when you and I shook hands earlier today, that was about 11 pounds of pressure. So it's less than a handshake to kill.

[Narrator / Host]

After she murdered Tom, prosecutors say she left his body in her car overnight, and the next morning, Jade had to do something about it. In a story full of strange twists, this may be the oddest. Prosecutors say Tom's body was still in Jade's car and she wanted to make his death look like an accident, like he'd overdosed on his own medicine. But she couldn't get his 180 pound body out of her car and into his apartment and no one would help her. So they say she drove to a hospital with Tom dead in the back of her car, picked up a wheelchair, put it in her car and drove back to Tom's place.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

How'd you get the wheelchair in your car if Tom was still in there?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

It's big. The trunk was up. Tom was kind of, you know, his legs were akimbo. He was laying down and I kind of hoisted it up into the back window of the Forerunner, then rolled down.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

When you were doing this at this point, did you know Tom was dead?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I did, but I didn't want to know it yet.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

So you suspected Tom was dead and you're at Scripps Hospital and you don't tell anyone at the hospital that Tom might need some help.

[Narrator / Host]

And there was just one more thing. On the day the cops came by looking for Tom, they didn't know anything yet, just that Tom might be missing. Jade jumped into her car 4:30 when.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

She was pulling out of her driveway. When they were getting ready to do the welfare check, she was pulling out of her driveway and she was getting detained after being pulled over. The very last text message on her cell phone was to Alan Roach saying, lose my number.

[Narrator / Host]

What does that say to you?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

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[Narrator / Host]

As Jade's trial is drawing to a close, prosecutor Jorge Del Portillo wants to make sure the jury's attention is on what Jade Jenks has done and not on Tom.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Tom was not on trial. This wasn't his trial. He didn't get a trial. She was his judge, jury and executioner. And so it all comes Back to Jade.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Mr. Carlos, you wish you made a court hold hard.

[Narrator / Host]

In his closing argument to the jury, Mark Carlos emphasizes what he says are the weaknesses of the prosecution's case.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

What type of evidence do we have? We have a lot of speculation. It's speculation upon speculation upon speculation.

[Narrator / Host]

He argues Adam Siplak's story that Jade confessed is a lie.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Mr. Siplak, no credibility. He wants to get out of something that he thinks might have happened.

[Narrator / Host]

Andy says Brian Solomon, who also claimed Jade confessed to him that day, can't be telling the truth.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

He claims that immediately. And this was his testimony. Immediately upon entering, she says, he's in the car. Go strangle. This is somebody that Jenks had never met before.

[Narrator / Host]

Neither Adam Siplak, Brian Solomon nor Alan Roach was charged with any crime in this case. And Mark Carlos urges the jury to stick to what he calls the truth.

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

And the truth is they have zero, zero evidence to support a murder.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Her DNA was on the blister path.

[Narrator / Host]

But Jorge Del Portillo gets to make the last argument the jury will hear.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It starts with, I just dosed the hell out of him. The plan is starting. And with Allen it ends with lose my number. I'm getting pulled over. And buried in between all of those text messages is a murder plot. Find her guilty of murder because the evidence proves it, the law requires it and justice demands it.

[Narrator / Host]

The jury went out that afternoon and was back the next morning to continue their deliberations.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Jury comes in at 9am, we get the call at 9:30, we have a verdict. We were shocked.

[Assistant DA Teresa Pham / Medical Examiner]

We were a little bit nervous.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

The quickest verdict I've ever had was 15 minutes and it was a not guilty. So I don't put a lot of stock in quick verdicts.

[Narrator / Host]

Tom's business partner, Pat Flanagan got a text about it.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I was very anxious. My hands were sweating. I was nervous.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

We have, your honor.

[Narrator / Host]

We the jury, in the above entitled cause, find the defendant J Software, guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code, guilty of first degree murder, a felony, as charged. Jade appears stunned. Jury number one.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

Number two?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

Number three?

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

Number four?

[Mark Carlos (Defense Attorney)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

Number five?

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Narrator / Host]

Number six? Yes. Number seven? Yes. Number eight.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yes.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It was a huge release Relief. It was an absolute relief.

[Narrator / Host]

And when you heard that word guilty.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

It felt right.

[Narrator / Host]

Pat Flanagan says he saw Jade's reaction to the verdict later online.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I still go back and watch that sometimes.

[Narrator / Host]

Why?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Because I feel bad for Tom. He died buried in trash. Now she gets to feel a little of that pain that we've all been been feeling for years.

[Narrator / Host]

But there's still the matter of those photos. Jade said that she found nude photos of herself on Tom's computer. Do you believe that?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I. I can't disprove it. I find it. I. I don't want to believe it.

[Narrator / Host]

It's interesting you say you don't want to believe it.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Host]

Tom's hard drive was not recovered after his body was found. But prosecutors who spent two years investigating this case believe Jade is telling the truth, at least about this. Did you have any doubt that these photos actually existed?

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

We talked about that, but we had no doubt. We found that photo on Tom's laptop showing that it had been used as a wallpaper, showing that it had been on his laptop since August of 2019. So we had no doubt that these photos existed.

[Narrator / Host]

In March of 2023, three months after she was convicted of Tom's murder, Jade was in court for her sentencing and listened as a local pastor shared his memories of Tom and the butterfly farm.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

I still remember Tom and wish I could drop by for a smile, to ask a question about plants or butterflies or just to reach those batteries that keep seeming to wear down as I get older. I believe my life is richer because I knew Tom.

[Narrator / Host]

Steven Jenks, Jade's biological father, who had not spoken publicly since she was charged, put the focus back on Tom's betrayal.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Firstly, I can only imagine what she.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Went through when she found out that.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Tom, her stepfather, a person she trusted, that she called dad, was a sick, perverted individual. All I can say is this fight is not over. I truly believe that an injustice has taken place.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade Jenks spoke that day, too.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

Tom came into my life when I was just a little girl and exerted influence during that early stage of development when I was still figuring things out. Unfortunately, that influence manifested itself into appropriate touch, coercion, reckless behavior, and complete violation. What I now realize is years of psychological manipulation. All this came crashing down on me when I found hundreds of naked photos of myself. And his computer felt shattered.

[Narrator / Host]

Jade did not tell this story during trial, and we can't verify it. Jade still insists she didn't kill Tom and only admits to covering up his dead body.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

I'm still picking up the papers. It's yours. Fault that over the next few years, I can put the pieces back and heal from this trauma. I'm sorry I didn't act the way I was supposed to that day. I think about it every day.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

Since she will be committed to the Department of Corrections.

[Narrator / Host]

The judge sentenced jade to serve 25 years to life. And as the prosecution looks back on a difficult and emotional case, they say it could have easily turned out very differently.

[Lead Investigator / Prosecutor]

She could have gotten away with murder. Had she carried out her plan and the police did a welfare check and found Tom laying in his. In his bed, she would have got away with murder.

[Jade Jenks (Defendant)]

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