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He had it coming. When I was a kid, my friend's stepfather was a pedophile.
Here are the cliffs notes.
He had nude pictures of her on his computer.
She drugged him and then suffocated him to death.
The official cause of death was originally listed as an over does of sleeping pills, which he apparently abused.
She texted a friend, "I just dosed the hell out of him."
She pled not guilty throughout the entire hearing.
The jury returned a first degree murder verdict, which meant the judge was not able to consider mitigating circumstances.
She was sentenced to 25 years in prison. >

Unless you need help burying the body, don't text your friends about your murdering >

If you're going to murder someone and are going to bury a body, train for that shit for a month or three. Don't bring ANYONE into that. >

This guy murders. >

I am merely a consultant. >

Motherfucker Jones? >

Why do they call you Mother Fucker Jones? >

When I was a kid I snuck into my mother’s bedroom. She was laying there, naked, she had been drinking all night. I snuck up behind her and put my fingers into her purse and took her whole weeks pay. I really fucked her over and that’s how I got the name Motherfucker Jones! >

lol what is this reference please?  it had me cracking up >

Horrible Bosses. Jamie Fox plays the character. >

i feel its important to add, theres no evidence of the photos existed

No one has seen the alleged photos other than Janks because she said that she destroyed the hard drive after seeing the images. >

The photos existing or not isn't what's relevant here.  What I'm struggling to understand is why she offered any information about the photos in the first place.  
She pled not guilty, so why would she need to present mitigating circumstances?  Wasn't her entire defense that a man who was known to abuse a certain prescription drug, took too much and overdosed?  Nobody trying to convince a jury of that story would derail the logic train to start talking about horrible things the man had done to her.  It's just not relevant.  She gave them a motive.  
IMO if she could present real evidence of his pattern of drug abuse and simply said she gave him pills he asked for, then he got a hold of more, and never mentioned a reason to kill him at all, there would have been enough reasonable doubt for 99/100 juries, even with the text.  Seriously.  
Mentioning these pictures at all with the plea she chose to seek just creates more evidence against her.  She would have done well to mention them if her plea was instead guilty or guilty by insanity (which never works, but it's an option). >

Pleading not guilty isn’t always about directly opposing actions taken actually were committed by you, many cases you are admitting to doing something but arguing that it was warranted. 
For example if someone attacks you with a knife and you defend yourself and end up killing the assailant you would plead not guilty when charged with murder, you aren’t denying you defended yourself you are asserting that it was self defense and not murder.
Now in this case it’s stupid and obviously not self defense but that’s probably what they were attempting to get at considering how dumb the individual was. >


A California interior designer was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday after prosecutors said she killed her butterfly conservationist stepfather when she found nude photos of herself on his computer.
As the San Diego County jury read its verdict against Jade Sasha Janks, the 39-year-old Solana Beach resident's eyes widened and she appeared to be in stunned disbelief as she turned toward her defense lawyer.

If she really expected to be let off for 1st degree murder because of nude photos, she needs a new attorney. >

Was poor defense. Denied everything, said he overdosed himself. Should have just owned the situation. Likely would have gotten a lesser charge, more sympathy and mitigating circumstances. >

Whether to take a plea or go to trial is strictly a client decision, and based on the fact she fucking texted someone that she killed the guy it's pretty safe to say she's not the brightest bulb. The fact she made a bad choice is not evidence she got bad advice >

Defense is the general term for her and her counsel. We have no idea how much they tried to persuade her. And a good lawyer absolutely should be frank about your chances in any given strategy. It's quite possible they told her that she had much better chances to do one thing but she completely refused, and you are right. That would be her call to make and all on her. It's still a bad defense. >

Is anyone else scratching their head about the career trajectory information right at the beginning?  Does a deceased man’s time spent as a butterfly conservationist somehow weigh in on the case at hand? >

He loves butterflies so… he would never do anything to be murdered about? >

Big Butterfly got to the jury. >

She was so perplexed when they read the verdict, like murder was the logical thing to do. Nuts. >

Lots of terrible people tell themselves everyone thinks and sees things like they do >

Those eyes when she hears the verdict read...yeah, there is something going on with her to say the least.  
There is a lot more backstory hiding here in the details it seems, I suppose she did not want to admit to the murder period even as a form of self-defense, and it ended up costing her a 1st degree murder conviction.  Like, the guy was credibly accused of rape back when her mom married him almost thirty years ago, and there seems to be meth involved in the past, so it could be possible that she had her reasons even outside of the pictures. Who knows, it is a wild case to say the least. >

Those texts to her friends, tho.  Saying it’s like “Weekend at Bernies” while she was disposing of him was just disgusting. IDK if she was in some mania, or what, but she showed no remorse for taking a human life. >

Interesting.  I had not read before that they were living together. 
She’s a walking Red Flag: “Jade Janks has been arrested multiple times for drug charges and possession of stolen goods. In 2007, Janks was charged with possessing stolen IDs of more than ten different persons, those taken during multiple burglary incidents. A loaded, silver .25 caliber Derringer was also reportedly found in Janks’ possession.” The reporting that her mother was an unstable alcoholic, possibly meth head, is making me wonder if she killed him for financial gain.  Her mother is a washout, and she’s a criminal.  So. . .
What’s most vexing in the coverage, however, is that people are reading into this case, saying he deserved it because he was a pedophile. (?) She never made that claim.  She didn’t even claim he took any of the inappropriate pictures, if they even existed. Republicans & FoxNews has convinced a certain segment of the population that basically anyone not them is a pedophile. That certain segment keeps pushing delusional claims she’s his abuse victim, despite nobody claiming she was. They claim he deserved it. She claimed they had a loving and supportive relationship, even after the divorce when she was 19.
She’s legit shady. >

Yeah, my best guess at the *real* motive for murder was that she had stolen all his savings over a period of years, he had recently found out and told her he was going to the cops if she didn't get the money back somehow.
So killing him was the sociopath's easiest way to completely fix the whole problem in one fell swoop.
That would be a believable reason for her to concoct the story about the photos, assuming it wasn't true. >

You're not gonna believe this. She killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The lady was an interior decorator. >

Really? the house looked like shit >

You’ve had tic tacs this entire time? Give me some I’m fuckin dying here >

What about the little ketchups? >

I’ll leave you here you one shoe cock sucka >

Is feeding people to pigs out of style now? >

Nobody can afford pigs now. >

Or a pig >

Problem with her defence is that, photos or not, she tried to argue them as the reason why he deserved to die. Instead of photos were the reason that she got angry and killed him in a crime of passion.
Basically she was saying "I didn't kill him, but if I did, he deserved it cause he had nude photos of me." Tell me the last time anything like that held up in court.
Ladies, next time you want to kill your alleged abuser, make sure you get evidence of their abuse, plead guilty, and add as many environmental factors as possible. (being on your period, medication you were taking or didn't take that would make you more irritable, health conditions etc.) Justify it as a crime of passion, and go to jail for a lesser sentence.
Or better yet, act like a rational human being and report them and let them rot in jail, don't stoop to their level and fuck up your life. >


Instead of photos were the reason that she got angry and killed him in a crime of passion.

Not a good defense if you look at the chain of events. It was all premeditated. Can't claim crime of passion if you planned the whole thing. >

Obviously that's horrible of the step father(assuming her claim is true) but as they say two wrongs don't make a right.
She should have just deleted the pics, cut contact with the dude and moved on from him.
Being morally right doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you want in vengence. >

Or at least keep proof of what he did and use that as a mitigating factor in sentencing. >

lol, wait, there's no actual proof to back up he had these pictures? Glad she is going to prison. >

Wow, what an amateur move. >

When I read the headline I assumed she was a teenager or just into her 20s and wasn't thinking clearly or felt trapped. This woman was damn near 40 and had tons of choices and options. Given that there is no proof the nudes existed it seems like she just killed her stepfather and tried to get out of trouble in the most asine way. >

I think she overreacted a little bit. >

"Prosecutors say."  
I agree. Idiots like you are why we never seem to get justice in this world. >

This article doesn't mention it but when I saw the article on /r/WatchPeopleDieInside it said that she had to pick up her stepfather from the hospital. Sounded like she was his caregiver since he was already very ill.
I get that murdering him wasn't the solution, but it really must have sucked to be in the position where she had to give care to a bedridden stepfather who was a creep toward her. >

Considering she's a murderer I don't believe her. >

I get your viewpoint, but what part comes across as a possible lie? Having nude photos on the computer is verifiable, and so is her picking up her dad from the hospital and who the primary caregiver was. 
I agree that we don't know the rest of her character, but what is known seems to be likely factual. >

The nude photos were never verified. That is simply her claim. She says she took/destroyed the hard drive after finding the photos. So there was never any verification that is what actually happened. >

Well, in that case, no wonder she got the sentence. Now I wonder what the actual motive was. >

I’ll need to see the evidence. >

The Big question is how did he get those pics? I assumed they were hidden cam pics, but those look posed like she took them for someone. >

Apparently she took the pics and sent them to her boyfriend. So not hidden cam, though I assumed the same until I read a few articles about it. Still begs the question how he got them. >

Since she was his caregiver, he may have accessed her phone without her knowledge.  That seems the most likely way. >

It does seem most likely. But to stal the pics and make one your screen saver while she is your caregiver? Seems kinda sus to me. >

It wasn't his screensaver.  There's a picture in an article that shows a couple of pictures of her open on his desktop. He probably didn't close them before he had his medical emergency or she looked through his computer and found them. >

I'm sorry but what article did you find? None I'm finding have any pictures. Not that I want to see them but it seems that she never provided any evidence he had them and that she claims she destroyed all copies. Kinda a big deal if she can't provide any evidence that he did what she killed him for. >

The article in the post has a link to another article in it.  At the end of the video in that one, its shows a picture of his computer desktop with pictures of her on it. The pictures are censored, but you can tell what they were. >


of course he deserves it if he did what he did

Even if he had pics of her it is still 100% unjustified to murder him. It is crazy to me you would think it is remotely justifiable. I could even understand more if it was CP or something but she is a 39 year old woman. >

Hope the Jurors know about Jury Nullification >

She shoulda consulted OJ, author of “IF I DID IT, CONFESSIONS OF A KILLER”, for tips on how to get away with it. >

That moment when you wake up in the court room with a guilty verdict and you realize you’re no longer on the internet. 
Same like talking smack and getting your mouth punched in real life.