In part one, which we released last week, you heard about Mark and Julie Jensen's marriage,

leading up to the day Julie passed away on December 3, 1998.

Julie was just 40 years old and was a mother of two young boys.

Mark Jensen told police that Julie had been sick and that on December 3 after he had picked

up the boys from daycare, he found his wife deceased in their bed.

He told friends and family that he was convinced she had taken her own life.

Investigators concluded that ethylene glycol, a component found in antifreeze, was found

in her system and they believed that Mark had murdered her, especially after uncovering

an affair he had been having with a coworker.

It was an affair that led to a full-on evolving relationship not long after Julie's death.

Mark was charged with Julie's murder and was convicted in 2008.

However, he was granted a new trial after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a letter

Julie had written and left for investigators should not have been admissible.

And so, in January 2023, Mark Jensen was back in court.

The letter in which Julie had written implicating her husband if anything were to happen to her

would not be shown to the jury, but many things Julie had expressed to friends would be.

Would the prosecution have enough evidence to convince them that Mark murdered his wife?

Or would the defense be able to convince them of their theory that Julie had died by suicide?

That's today in Part 2.

This is Matt Stroud in Forgillian Gelali, and in partnership with Law and Crime, this

is Court Junkie Episode 241, Part 2.

Regardless of the weather outside, I tend to brew a lot of coffee.

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