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A jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial for a woman accused of killing her stepfather, a Solana Beach butterfly keeper, after coming across nude photos of herself on his computer.
Jade Sasha Janks was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Merriman, the co-founder of the Encinitas Butterfly Farms, a nonprofit organization focused on the conservation & study of native butterflies. She faces life in prison.
Prosecutors say Janks drugged, suffocated & ultimately choked Merriman on New Year's Eve in 2020 at a home in Solana Beach. Janks was arrested the next day.
During the trial, the prosecution argued Janks, Merriman's stepdaughter, was cleaning his apartment while he was in the hospital & came across nude photos of herself on his computer. She then came up with a plan to drug her stepfather after the upsetting discovery, prosecutor Jorge Del Portillo said.
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Source: NBC San Diego
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