An Irish widower hires a nanny to help him raise his two children. They fall in love and get married, then move to America as one big, happy family. Sounds like a modern-day fairy tale, right? But this story ended in Jason Corbett’s violent death at the hands of his second wife, Molly Martens, and her father, Tom Martens.
The father and daughter allege that Molly was defending herself from Jason, who was abusing her. But in this docuseries, the filmmakers investigate these claims in hopes of figuring out what really happened on that bloody night. A Deadly American Marriage features interviews with Jason’s children as well as the professionals involved with the case.