S3 Ep216: Julie Jensen: The Letter (Part 2)

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

On the late afternoon of December 3, 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 the police arrived, Mark suggested 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 that 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 going to murder her.

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0:16.0	Hello everybody welcome back to crime weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek Levaser so today we're diving into part two of the Julie Jensen case and
0:20.6	this case already has me livid. So I really I can't wait to see what
0:27.1	today brings us but as a little recap in November of 1998 40 year old Julie Jensen confided in several people about her fear
0:35.0	that her husband of 14 years Mark was planning to poison and kill her. She
0:40.0	mentioned that he had been buying syringes, researching poisons, and potentially
0:44.5	tampering with her food.
0:46.6	She was so frightened that she told her friend, a police officer named Officer Kossman, that if anything
0:52.4	happened to her, the police should look into Mark.
0:54.5	Despite her obvious terror her concerns were not taken seriously until December 3rd
1:00.3	when Mark called 911 and claimed he had found Julie dead in their bed.
1:05.0	When Detective Ratsburg arrived, Mark suggested Julie might have died from an allergic reaction to new medication.
1:11.0	He said she'd been sick for a few days before her death.
1:13.8	However, Detective Ratsburg and the district attorney's office found this
1:17.4	explanation suspicious and they decided to launch an investigation.
1:22.2	And thank God they did.
1:24.0	Thank God they did because I mean obviously the circumstances surrounding this are definitely
1:28.7	suspicious and not just on the surface that's before diving in to some of the other things that that come up in this case.
1:34.8	Yeah I mean obviously from part one we know Mark's not a good guy. I mean he literally
1:39.9	tortured his wife for years with these pornographic images putting them all around trying to
1:45.0	convince her that somebody else was doing it trying to convince her that she couldn't trust anybody
1:48.6	yeah no he's a bad dude he's a bad dude so this this is definitely something where on the surface as a detective you could come in or as a patrolman come in there and say okay yeah, you know, let's just take the you know the husband at face value. He's probably he knows his wife better than us and I'm not saying
2:04.0	that sarcastically that that has happened where you come into a situation and the
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