On the late afternoon of December 3rd, 1998, Mark Jensen called 911 from his pleasant

prairie Wisconsin home to report that his wife 40-year-old Julie Jensen, was found dead in bed.

When police arrived, Mark suggested that Julie might have died from an allergic reaction to new

medication. He said she had been sick for a few days before her death. However, as the

police looked around, they grew suspicious about the circumstances surrounding

Julie's death. They called in the medical examiner's office and the district attorney's office, both of which agreed, something was off.

An investigation was opened and it was soon discovered that for weeks before her death,

Julie was deeply concerned that Mark, her husband of 14 years was deeply concerned that Mark, her husband of 14 years, was going to

murder her. Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek

Lovasser. So today we're diving into a new case and it's one that both Derek and

I really didn't have a ton of information on going in, but I think it's definitely a great case to talk about.

And it's something that I feel like happens a lot these days a lot of spouses being suspects for the murders of their

partners and we know the statistics but this case definitely illustrates this in a different way but in a very clear way and we need to talk about Julie Jensen her marriage her, and what ended up happening to her.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's definitely one of those things where you read about this case and you think, even as a former

detective myself, I think about how many other cases where it looks like on the

surface it was an overdose or an accidental overdose or something of that nature

where you don't have anything to dispute it right but in a case like this where it appears on the surface that there were

breadcrums left before Julie's death, you asked yourself, how many other cases did the person feel that way the victim feel that way but

did not leave something like this and what would have been the outcome in those

cases if they had so it definitely as an investigator makes you go back and

think about your own cases and just

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