Jade Janks said she woke up to find Tom Merriman, 64, dead in her car; prosecutors said she drugged and strangled him after learning he had nude photos of her
Prosecutors had accused her of drugging and strangling Merriman, 64, who died New Year’s Eve 2020, hours after Janks picked him up from a medical care facility where he’d been rehabilitating after a fall. Janks had found the nude photos about a week before picking him up, a find the prosecutor said left her “beyond freaked out.”Deputy District Attorney Jorge Del Portillo argued during the trial that Janks plotted to kill Merriman, giving him pain pills, sleeping pills and alcohol.
In court Monday, Janks said Merriman had come into her life when she was young, and that his influence “manifested itself into inappropriate touch, coercion, reckless behavior, and complete violation — what I now realize is years of psychological manipulation.” At her trial, Janks told the jury she was cleaning Merriman’s apartment in late December 2020 when she found the photos on his computer. The two were neighbors, and shared a driveway on South Nardo Avenue in Solana Beach.Solana Beach woman accused of killing stepfather says she found him dead in her car
“It was the most violating, awful, gut-punching feeling ever,” she testified last year. “I felt sick.”
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