A Deadly American Marriage on Netflix is the latest true-crime documentary from the streamer, because if there’s one thing you can rely on in this crazy, mixed-up world, it’s that Netflix will never tire of investigating grisly murders.
Directed by Jenny Popplewell and Jessica Burgess, A Deadly American Marriage tells the true story of Jason Corbett, an Irish-born man who was killed in his North Carolina home nearly a decade ago, in 2015. The question at the center of the documentary, and the nearly 10-year legal case that followed, was not a matter of who killed Jason Corbett. Both Corbett’s wife, Molly Martens Corbett, and Molly’s father, Thomas Martens, told the police that Thomas beat Jason to death with a baseball bat. The question is whether Jason was beating his wife and threatening to kill her, and whether Molly and Tom were acting in self-defense.
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