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Husband is found guilty AGAIN of 1998 murder of his wife at retrial – Mark Jensen faces life sentence after second found he poisoned her with anti-freeze, drugged her and smothered her to death, before staging it like a suicide

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Mark Jensen&comma; 63&comma; of Pleasant Prairie&comma; was found guilty of first degree homicide on Wednesday in the killing of his wife&comma; Julie&comma; who was poisoned and smothered to death in 1998 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>At his first trial&comma; Mark Jensen was found guilty of killing his wife in 2008 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He won appeals against his conviction and faced a retrial <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Julie Jensen&&num;8217&semi;s body was found in 1998 at the Pleasant Prairie home the couple shared with their two sons <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Defense said Julie was depressed and killed herself after framing Jensen <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Prosecution said Jensen poisoned his wife with anti-freeze and made the death look like a suicide <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Jensen was the prime suspect after police found a self-panned letter from Julie stating that her husband had been behaving suspiciously following a brief affair she&&num;8217&semi;d had <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She added a plea to authorities that her husband should be the first suspect if anything happens to her <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>While the letter was ruled out in but trials&comma; jury at second retrial reached the same verdict from the first trial in 2008 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332325&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Jensen faces&nbsp&semi;life in prison without parole at a sentencing hearing in April&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Mark-Jensen-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429649" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"709"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Mark Jensen&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; faces life without parole after he was found guilty of first-degree homicide Wednesday&comma; in the killing of his wife&comma; Julie&comma; who was poisoned and smothered to death in 1998<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A man who was found guilty of poisoning his wife in 1998 was found guilty again by a jury in his in Kenosha&comma; Wisconsin&comma; during a retrial&period;<br>A Kenosha County jury found Mark Jensen&comma; 63&comma; guilty of first degree homicide on Wednesday in the killing of his wife&comma; Julie Jensen&comma; nearly 15 years after he was first found guilty&period; <br>He had been accused of poisoning the mother of his two children with antifreeze and smothering her in an effort to make her death look like a suicide so he could move his mistress into their home&period;<br>In 2008&comma; Jensen was convicted and sentenced to life in prison&comma; but he recently won appeals that set up a retrial in Kenosha County&period; <br>In April 2021&comma; a judge overturned his conviction after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled he deserved a retrial&comma; and a letter his wife wrote incriminating him in the event something happened to her could not be used by the prosecution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Julie-Jensen-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429650" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"655"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Victim&colon; Although Julie Jensen&&num;8217&semi;s death was thought to be a suicide&comma; letters revealed her suspicions against her husband&comma; including her plea that police should investigate him if anything should happens to her<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Mark-Jensen-in-court-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429666" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"674"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Mark Jensen &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; the prosecution said&comma; murdered his wife Julie Jensen in 1998&comma; by poisoning her with anti-freeze then making it look like suicide&comma; because he wanted to bring his mistress into the home<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Jensen was the prime suspect in the 1998 murder of Julie Jensen after police found a self-panned letter from Julie stating that her husband had been acting suspiciously following a brief affair she&&num;8217&semi;d had&period; She added a plea to authorities that Mark should be the first suspect if anything happens to her&period;<br>While the letter was not allowed into the court during the retrial&comma; the jury still came to the same conclusion it did in 2008 after the three-and-a-half week trial&period;<br>Although Julie&&num;8217&semi;s death was thought to be a suicide&comma; the letters revealed her suspicions against her husband&period; She clearly was pleading with police that he should be investigated if she was harmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"02Fkny6WP90&quest;rel&equals;0&amp&semi;showinfo&equals;1&amp&semi;start&equals;66&amp&semi;hl&equals;en-US" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;02Fkny6WP90rel0showinfo1start66hlen-US" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;02Fkny6WP90rel0showinfo1start66hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;02Fkny6WP90rel0showinfo1start66hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;image-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429676" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"536"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Mark Jensen was the prime suspect after police found a self-panned letter from Julie stating that her husband had been behaving suspiciously following a brief affair she&&num;8217&semi;d had <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Special prosecutor Robert Jambois&comma; who was at the Jensen home on the night of Julie&&num;8217&semi;s murder&comma; led the prosecution in the original trial&period; On Wednesday he read the victim&&num;8217&semi;s letter that led investigators to her husband&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I pray I&&num;8217&semi;m wrong and nothing happens&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m suspicious of Mark&&num;8217&semi;s suspicious behaviors&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Jambois said reading the November 1998 letter&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;If anything happens to me&comma; he would be my first suspect&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Our relationship has deteriorated to the plight&semi; superficial&period; I know he&&num;8217&semi;s never forgiven me for the brief affair I had with that creep seven years ago&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Julie-Jensen-and-her-kids-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429673" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"474"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Police found mother-of-two&comma; Julie Jensen dead in her home in Pleasant Prairie&comma; where she lived with husband Jensen and their two sons&period; Prosecutors said Jensen poisoned her with anti-freeze&comma; drugged her&comma; and then killed her through asphyxiation<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutors argued that Jensen killed his wife to make room for his mistress and that he searched the Internet for ways to make her death look like a suicide&period; <br>The prosecution case states that Mark Jensen poisoned his wife with anti-freeze&comma; drugged her&comma; and then killed her through asphyxiation inside their Pleasant Prairie home&period;  <br>Jambois characterized Jensen as a &&num;8216&semi;blabbermouth&&num;8217&semi; and commended the jury for its decision&comma; adding that he was proud to have worked on both trials&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know at that time it was going to take a third of my life to put Mark Jensen away&period; But it was worth it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Jambois told reporters&period; &&num;8216&semi;And I would do it again if the opportunity or necessity arose&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Following the verdict&comma; Kenosha County Deputy District Attorney Carli McNeil said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;The defendant stole Julie away from her children&comma; and her children away from her&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Jensen&&num;8217&semi;s defense opted not to speak with reporters after the retrial&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Mark-Jensen-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429654" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"980"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Mark Jensen did not have much of a reaction &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; when the jury found him guilty of murder on Wednesday in the Kenosha County court<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Police found Julie dead in her home in Pleasant Prairie&comma; where she lived with husband Mark Jensen and their two sons&period; <br>Prosecutors said Jensen poisoned her with anti-freeze&comma; drugged her&comma; and then killed her through asphyxiation&period; <br>As the judge read the jury&&num;8217&semi;s verdict on Wednesday&comma; Jensen kept a straight face and reacted with little emotion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Larry-Griffin-shows-his-sisters-photo-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429679" width&equals;"846" height&equals;"475"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Julie&&num;8217&semi;s brother&comma; Larry Griffin&comma; shared photographs of his sister and said his family is seeking justice for her and the letter sharing her final thoughts <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">in contrast it was quite emotional for Julie&&num;8217&semi;s family&comma; including brother Larry Griffin who said they wanted to make sure his sister&&num;8217&semi;s killer remained behind bars&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re following through on Julie&&num;8217&semi;s words&comma; desperate words that she wrote on November 21st&comma; 1998&period; If anything happens to me&comma; he would be my first suspect&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fox6now&period;com&sol;news&sol;mark-jensen-kenosha-murder-trial-jury-verdict-02012023">Fox 6<&sol;a>&comma; adding he hopes that Julie&&num;8217&semi;s story could help victims of domestic abuse seek help&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"YTamogu0BzE&quest;rel&equals;0&amp&semi;showinfo&equals;1&amp&semi;hl&equals;en-US" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;YTamogu0BzErel0showinfo1hlen-US" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;YTamogu0BzErel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;YTamogu0BzErel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Julie-Jensen-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-429658" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"607"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Larry Griffin hoped that his sister Julie&&num;8217&semi;s story could inspire victims of domestic abuse to seek help<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Jambois said all the family wanted was Julie back and to tell their story&comma; which was muddied when Jensen and the defense argued that she was suicidal and tried to frame him for murder&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;The tragedy of Julie Jensen is she can&&num;8217&semi;t escape gaslighting even in death&comma; even after all this time&comma;&&num;8217&semi; McNeill told reporters&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Jensen is scheduled to appear at a sentencing hearing on April 14&period; He faces life in prison without parole&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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