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Dateline NBC

Secrets in Pleasant Prairie

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The investigation into the poisoning death of a Wisconsin mother takes a surprising turn when detectives learn she wrote a letter just days before her death pointing to a possible suspect. Andrea Canning reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline. This was a very cold calculating plan. This innocent, kind loving woman. Those two boys were everything to her. Just imagine all that Julie lost.

0:15.0

Julie Justin was found covered with a blanket on the bed.

0:18.0

You've got a suspicious death. Is it a homicide? Is it a suicide? We just didn't know.

0:23.0

One of the things that police learned, Julie had an affair.

0:26.0

Correct.

0:27.3

She reported having pornographic pictures

0:29.7

that left outside the home like on the car or in the garage.

0:32.8

These photos are showing up at the office,

0:35.4

their phone calls, heavy breathing.

0:38.0

Somebody was stalking her, harassing her.

0:41.0

Who would harass a couple like this?

0:43.2

We had talked about potential suspects.

0:46.0

Nobody.

0:47.2

Nobody deserves what she went through.

0:49.2

She wrote a letter.

0:50.5

She said if something happens to me me please hand this to the police she

0:55.2

predicted her own death she did essentially talking from her grave I want Julie's

1:02.0

voice to be heard.

1:03.0

A young mother, dead in her bedroom.

1:06.0

Was it murder?

1:07.0

The biggest clue of all was one she left for investigators.

1:12.0

I'm Lester Holt, and this is Date Live.

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