
Following the completion of their sentences for pleas to voluntary manslaughter, the wife of an Irish businessman who was beaten to death in 2015 and the woman's father were released from separate North Carolina prisons on Thursday. Molly Martens Corbett and her father, Thomas Martens, were released from the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh and the Caldwell Correctional Center in Lenoir, respectively.
After serving about seven more months behind bars, Molly Corbett and Martens were released following additional sentencing in November. They had been facing a new trial after their 2017 second-degree murder convictions were reversed by the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2021.