The family of Jason Corbett insist it is the responsibility of the US justice system to put Molly Martens and her father Tom back behind bars.
Remembering the dad-of-two on the sixth anniversary of his death, they said the pair need to be caged so their “evil darkness cannot inflict any more devastation on the living victims of their crime”.
In 2017, the Martens were convicted of second-degree murder for Jason’s killing on August 2, 2015.
But in April, the pair walked free from a North Carolina jail after a Supreme Court ruling ordered a retrial, which is expected to take place next year.
On Monday, the family of the tragic Limerick man vowed to continue to remember him, but insisted they need justice to be served.
Posting on his memorial page, they said: “Jason, six years have passed since your life was brutally stolen from you.
“Your future stolen from your children and from your family. As ever, the wheels of life keep turning, even in the face of death.
“But you are a constant in everyone’s lives, even those that never knew you but have shared in your journey to justice.
“No one will ever understand the evil that was put upon you that night. But it is not ours to comprehend the darkness and evil that lurks in the shadows.”
The grieving relatives said the loss was like getting a life sentence without parole and asked how the Martens were out walking free.
They said: “Jason, we will honour you by keeping your memory alive, we will honour you by loving and protecting your greatest achievements – Jack and Sarah.
“And finally we will honour you by forever holding the hands of those you loved.”
Jason’s sister Tracey Corbett Lynch previously said his children were prepared to give evidence in the retrial.
The now teenagers are from Jason’s first marriage to Margaret Fitzpatrick, who tragically died after an asthma attack in 2006.
As part of the Martens’ successful appeal, they claimed statements given by the children to social workers after their dad’s murder should have been allowed as evidence.
But Tracey, who now cares for the teenagers in Limerick, insists they had been coached and intimidated by Molly to give false information and once they came back to Ireland and away from their step-mother, they recanted those statements.
