Now, it has emerged that wife Molly Martens – one of two ‘persons of interest’ in his killing – has been posting emotional Facebook messages about 10-year-old Jack and eight-year-old Sarah.
“I miss you with every single heartbeat. Wherever you are, my love will find you,” she wrote, on the day that the siblings returned home to Ireland.
The children’s mother, Margaret, passed away in 2006, and Mr Corbett later wed the kids’ former nanny, Molly. Mr Corbett died during what police are referring to as a ‘domestic disturbance’, and Molly and her 65-year-old father Thomas have been named as persons of interest in the case.
Martens had appealed Mr Corbett’s family’s plea to have the children returned to Ireland, and she took to social media over the past week to given her own emotional insight into life with young Jack and Sarah.
“I was never the mom who was happy it was time for school again. I savoured my summers with you, my kids, my best friends. I would do anything right now to be getting you ready for third and fifth grade today; to be brushing out the tangles and making back to school gluten-free pancakes, to be packing your lunches with note of love and hope, and waiting all day to see how it went. I miss you munchkins,” she added.
The children were placed under the guardianship of Mr Corbett’s sister, Tracey Lynch, by a US court last week.
