Elkhorn, WI - A dead woman wanted authorities to investigate her spouse if anything happened to her, according to a letter read to jurors Monday during opening statements at her husband's murder trial.
Mark Jensen, 48, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Julie Jensen, who was found dead of poisoning in 1998 at her home in Pleasant Prairie.
"I pray that I am wrong and nothing happens, but I am suspicious of Mark's suspicious behaviors and fear for my early demise," Julie Jensen said in the letter read in court by Special Prosecutor Robert Jambois.
She had given the letter to a neighbor and told him to give it to police if anything happened to her.
Mark Jensen was charged with first-degree murder in 2002, but legal wrangling over evidence delayed the trial until now.
His lawyers were to make opening statements after Jambois. They claim the 40-year-old woman was depressed and disturbed and poisoned herself to frame her cheating husband.
Jambois said Mark Jensen planned the killing for months, searching the Internet for information on poisoning about two months before his wife's death. The defense has said she did the searches herself in preparation for her suicide.
Jambois said Jensen also failed to take his wife to a hospital, even though she was sick for three days before she died. "As Julie Jensen lay in her bed, desperately ill, her husband knew exactly why she was ill," he said.
Julie Jensen also told police, a neighbor and the teacher of one of her two sons that she suspected her husband was trying to kill her, according to court documents.
Jury hears poisoned wife's letter from the grave
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