Mark Jensen sentenced to life in prison in 1998 antifreeze murder of his wife Julie Jensen

A Wisconsin man convicted for a second time of killing his spouse with antifreeze and by suffocation in 1998 was sentenced Friday to life in jail with out parole. The sentencing of Mark Jensen comes 1 / 4 century after police confirmed him a letter his spouse left behind indicating she thought he would kill her.

A Kenosha County decide sentenced Jensen, 63, who was convicted by a jury in February of first-degree intentional murder within the dying of his spouse, Julie Jensen.

Prosecutors alleged he poisoned Julie Jensen with antifreeze, and in addition drugged her with a sleeping treatment earlier than later suffocating her to dying of their Nice Prairie house.

Jensen has maintained his innocence, along with his attorneys arguing that Julie Jensen was depressed and killed herself after framing her husband.

On the sentencing listening to, Julie Jensen’s household requested the decide to present Mark Jensen a most penalty of life in jail with out parole, CBS affiliate WDJT-TV reported.

“I respectfully ask the court docket at this time to indicate no mercy for Mark Jensen,” Paul Griffin, one in all Julie Jensen’s brothers, mentioned throughout his witness assertion. “Why you would possibly ask? As a result of he confirmed no mercy to his spouse, my sister, Julie Jensen.”

Kenosha County Circuit Court docket Decide Anthony Milisauskas mentioned throughout Friday’s sentencing, “There is not any doubt in my thoughts Julie Jensen suffered for a very long time.”

“He may have divorced her, separated, no matter, however he selected not to do this. What he selected to do was torture her for a very long time,” Milisauskas mentioned, in keeping with WISN-TV.

Jensen was first was convicted in 2008 in his spouse’s slaying and sentenced to life with out parole.

However a Kenosha County decide vacated Jensen’s first conviction in April 2021 after the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket dominated he deserved a brand new trial. The court docket discovered {that a} letter his spouse wrote incriminating him ought to one thing occur to her couldn’t be utilized by the prosecution.

In 2008 , “48 Hours” coated the case. The episode included dramatic video of police questioning Jensen a couple of letter Julie wrote two weeks earlier than her dying saying she suspected he was going to kill her. Watch the video beneath.