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Police Discover Woman Secretly Recorded Gruesome Fight With Husband Before Her Death

NewsPublished Jun 5, 2019
By Genny Glassman
Allissa Martin and Bradley JenkinsKMOV

Police are investigating a violent case of domestic assault after a St. Louis, Missouri, woman was found dead on a parking garage's ramp hours after a baseball game. Allissa Martin allegedly was fighting with her husband, Bradley Jenkins, in the parking garage leading up to her fall from the seventh floor and landing with a thud on the ramp below. After finding her cellphone and discovering what Martin had captured in her final moments, police arrested Jenkins on charges of third-degree domestic assault as they continue to investigate the tragic event.

The newly married couple went to a St. Louis Cardinals game over the weekend, but things turned ugly when they began to argue.-placeholder
The newly married couple went to a St. Louis Cardinals game over the weekend, but things turned ugly when they began to argue.
KMOV

The newly married couple went to a St. Louis Cardinals game over the weekend, but things turned ugly when they began to argue.

Police found Martin's body in the early morning hours Monday, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. About 1:45 a.m., they arrived on the scene to find her body on a ramp in the Stadium East parking garage -- she was bloody and injured.

Her husband was still at the scene when police arrived. They said the 30-year-old man was straddling his dead wife's body when they found him and was "agitated and appeared to be intoxicated" at the time. 

They tracked down Martin's cellphone, which was above the couple on the seventh floor of the parking garage; its video camera was still rolling when they found it.

Video footage showed a violent fight between Martins and Jenkins, and she can be heard yelling at him to stop punching her in the face.-placeholder
Video footage showed a violent fight between Martins and Jenkins, and she can be heard yelling at him to stop punching her in the face.
KMOV

Video footage showed a violent fight between Martins and Jenkins, and she can be heard yelling at him to stop punching her in the face.

In a probable cause statement, Detective Mark West explained that the video recording on Martin's phone revealed how the whole ugly fight went down. "The recording showed her pointing the camera toward herself," he said. "She then turned the camera toward this defendant and he was shown on camera. They were arguing."

She can be heard yelling at her husband to stop punching her in the face, but then she dropped her phone.

 "Shortly after that, you hear her scream as she falls," West said. KMOV added that the sound of her hitting the ground below is also audible in the recording.

During police interviews, Jenkins apparently lied several times and told them that he and his wife hadn't been physical during their altercation.

The couple married May 22 in Las Vegas, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted. Jenkins allegedly told police that their coworkers had gone with them to the Cardinals-Cubs game and that they had argued during the game.

He also initially lied about being on the rooftop with Martins, police said, and told them the fight never become physical. But police are arguing that Martin's video refutes both of these claims.

Jenkins was arrested and charged with third-degree domestic assault. Both Jenkins and Martin were employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections. Jenkin was hired in June 2010 and Martin in March 2017.

Police are still investigating Martin's gruesome death, and Jenkin's bail has been set at $100,000 cash.

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