Wisconsin man gets life in prison for wife’s 1998 slaying

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — 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.

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

Prosecutors alleged he poisoned Julie Jensen with antifreeze, and likewise drugged her with a sleeping medicine earlier than later suffocating her to loss of life of their Nice Prairie dwelling.

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

Kenosha County Circuit Court docket Decide Anthony Milisauskas stated throughout Friday’s sentencing, “There’s little 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 try this. What he selected to do was torture her for a very long time,” Milisauskas stated, in response to 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.