Sandy (58:38)
Well, ironically, this does have to do with a couple. It has to do with Mark and Julie Jensen. They're from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, a small little town. They met in the 80s. They actually ended up getting married in 1984. And then, you know, let's speed up time to 1998. Right. So by then they had their first son in 1990 and then their second son in 1995. Well, in the beginning of 1998, Julie started to get these really pornographic photos. Getting mail emailed to her. They were being left on her car and she wasn't. She didn't know what was going on because at that time she was a stay at home mom. It's like she was working somewhere. You know, Mark was a stockbroker. He was providing for them. And she knew that somebody was going to her house because she would find them, not just at her doorsteps, but on her car. But also her patio furniture would be rearranged. And she knew it wasn't her kids because they were too young, and her. Her husband wouldn't do that. And so her and Mark went to the police to report it. The police went ahead and questioned them, like if they knew somebody that would be able, you know, that would want to do this. And Julie confessed that in 1991, she was going through really bad postpartum. She was really depressed, and her and Mark were having, like, a really rough patch. And she said that she ended up having an affair with a co worker at the time named Perry. And so the cops went ahead and investigated it, and they realized that they just didn't have enough evidence to charge Perry or anyone else. So they unfortunately dropped the case. And it continued to happen. If anything, she got even more pornographic photos. And so they ended up hiring a private investigator. And she was just really scared because she would go outside with her kids, and there would be somebody in a car, and then they would take off the moment she would go out outside. So then private investigators said, listen, why don't we do this? Why don't we track the phone? Why don't we have somebody stake out your house? So that way, when they drop something off or when they call, we'll be able to find out who this is. Well, magically, it all stopped. They stopped getting all of these photos, and so they went back to normal life. But the neighbors described that it wasn't the same. They before, they used to be outside playing with the boys and, you know, doing yard work, Just being very loving together. But now when they would see Mark and Julie, Mark was just really mean to her, really cold. He would tell her that she was a bad mom, that she was a bad influence on their kids. That was around August of 1998. Well, by early November, Julie started to feel sick. She started to get depressed again. She went to the doctors and told him, you know, I'm not having a lot of energy. So the doctor prescribed her some antidepressants and then just some sleeping medication to help her get some rest at night. Well, Fast forward to December 3, 1998. Mark got home after picking up the boys from school, and we went to go check on her. He realized that she was dead, and he called the cops. The cops came, and he told the cops, you know, she hadn't been feeling really well, and she's been taking this medication. I don't know, maybe that has something to do with it. And so they Said, okay, thank you for the information. We're gonna go ahead and just search your home and grab evidence as well as the family computer. He said, okay, fine. About four months later, Mark is with her kid, his kids, and he ends up going to the police station and he says, you know what? I want to figure out where you guys at are in this investigation, like, what's happened? And so they took Mark back to their interview room and they told Mark, listen, we went ahead and ran the toxology report. No drugs in her system. And he's like. They're like, Ann, what we found was when we did an X ray, her nose was like bent in as if it was like smashed up against something. And he was like, wow, that's weird. He's like. What we also found in the. In the computer was emails to. To Mark's co worker, Kelly. I guess Mark had been having an affair with this woman, Kelly, and just expressing how he wanted to be with her and he didn't want to be married anymore. And then they also found searches for antifreeze and how to poison someone. They also told Mark that the neighbor had submitted a letter that Julie had given them back in September. And so the letter stated, if anything were to ever happen to her, question her husband, like, her husband did it. And she's. She literally gave out a routine like what multivitamins she was taking. She said she would never kill herself because she would never do that to the boys. Explaining everything. So with all of that information, they ended up actually charging Mark. But because he was wealthy, had savings, because he was on bail for 500,000, he actually posted Bailey. And after months, there just wasn't enough evidence to charge him. And so that was it, right? They went back to life, to normal life, I guess. And it wasn't until eight years later, this gentleman by his name was Ed flung, was Mark's old co worker, went to the cops and finally expressed to them, or confessed to them that him and Mark in August of 1998, went out to for drinks after work and that Mark got a little drunk and told Ed that he hated his wife, that he hated her, and that he wanted to kill her, and that the way he would do it would be through antifreeze and poisoning her. And so with everything together now with the witness, they charged him.
