Comments on: The Letter

A Letter Written By A Suspicious Young Mother Helps Solve Her Own Murder

[swwils]

I watched this unfold on court t.v.,his trial was pretty gruesome.I mean he poisoned her with ethylene Glycol,that is radiator fluid.That is pretty horrible the way you die,it isn''t instant.A person suffers a long time before it shuts your kidneys down.She was smart,after she found some information on his computer,and day planner.He left it out in the open and she found it then got suspicious and wrote a cop a note,plus her neighbor saying she believed her husband was planning to kill her and make it look like a suicide.

[barbaraf4]

"A most frightning thought ....having to be judged by a jury of your peers." Posted by sword31
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O.J. was judged by a jury of his peers.

[sword31]

A most frightning thought ....having to be judged by a jury of your peers. How can you be found guilty of a murder and with not one shred of physical evidence ; a letter which any reasonable person would have to have doubts about it''s validity, and eight jurors who admititly believed the state got the manner of death

[gmond]

Funny how she only confided in people who didn''t know either of the couple intimately. And she was on various medications that can enhance paranoia and other bizarre behaviour in certain borderline personalities. No wonder the husband was having an affair..

[jensam17]

I would like to read more on this case? Can anyone offer any suggestions for me? I just wrote to Mr. Moriarty asking if she could provide more facts on this case on this website. Obviously, the story left us with hundreds of questions regarding the evidence.

One Point: Was the letter that the children wrote to the judge asking for leniency for their father''s sentencing read in whole duirng last night''s episode? Or did we just here a small portion? From what little I heard, I was astonished that the kids did not state that they felt their father was innocent. Rather, they merely asked for leniency because they felt he was a good father. Am I reading too much into this?

[cmp271]

If she didn''t feel well, why didn''t she let her friend help her. This woman committed suicide. She planned this to ruin her husband''s life. The letter was coldly calculated to implicate him in her "death" its called revenge. She was depressed and mentally unstable. I hope he appeals the decision and wins. There are sick people out there who would do this, take you down with them. He is innocent.

[seebothsides]

A successful MAN can ALWAYS earn more money and buy NEW material possessions and enjoy new women after divorce. Mark is not able to do so ONLY because Julie found a way, through our ignorant judicial system, to stop him from moving on. ONLY JULIE HAD MOTIVE NOT MARK!!!

[seebothsides]

Every comment here makes note of Julie''s lack of INTENT to STOP Mark from harming her. Instead, she sets it up so he can but will be caught. That''s suicide too!! One whisper in any of her brother''s ear would have prompted an immediate reaction for them to confront Mark and he would have gone another direction IF HE PLANNED TO HARM HER.

[carolcape]

Whoever said criminals were smart, that is why there is no perfect murder. He definitely did kill her and had the gall to tell what he was going to do and also how he did it to two different people. Maybe he was hoping that someone would go forward and he could say she was crazy and that way he would get her committed and be with the new woman without committing murder. I think she knew him better then anybody, she knew what he was capable of and knew he would succeed. Look what happened to Nicole Simpson, she said OJ was going to kill her and get away with it and low and behold HE DID. So if it was me, I''d get him before he got me. That maybe not right, but I wouldn''t be the one with the tombstone over my head, I would save myself come hell or high water. Why didn''t she set up some video surveillance in the home and catch him doing some of this stuff. He is right where he should be incarcerated for the rest of his life. Amen.

[roscoezzz]

My question is....Why didn''t Julie Jensen go to one of her 4 brothers and give them her suspicions? Wasn''t she close to them? Why would she go to her neighbors and a school teacher instead? She was a Mystery for sure.
But, she told the school teacher that if she ever revealed her husband Mark was trying to kill her, "He would make her out to be crazy." Interesting how Mark''s parents thought Julie was psychotic, depressed & a suicidal woman.
Did you see how stunned Mark was on that interrogation video tape? It was like "Deer in the Headlights." That "Letter" was something else though. It almost sounded like Julie Jensen met a long & slow death. Sad....

[eritnow26]

48 hour did a very poor, fragmently job on showing the murder trial of Julie Jensen. They left out so many, many things that finally confinced the whole of Kenosha that Mark was a cold hearted killer. The infamous "high five" shared between mark and his father Dan Jensen only an hour after finding Julie dead. Sounds like Dan was part of the plan. 48 hours gave much to much time to a set of parents who have been caught in numerous lies, even under oath. I used to enjoy 48 Hours Mystery, but I don''t think I can watch it again, knowing that they gave a very fragmented view of a heart-wrenching case. Very poor job. I want true reporting not fluff. You lost me Erin, you just could not pull it off.

[seebothsides]

- Does anyone see a pattern here with Julie''s mom, her brother and Julie BAILING OUT WHEN THINGS GET TRAUMATIC IN THEIR LIVES. "GENETICS???" Julie quit college when the reality of her career in "CARING FOR OTHERS BESIDE HERSELF WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN", Julie''s mom bailed anytime she had to "GIVE OF HERSELF TO JULIE FOR ANY SPECIAL EVENT...COLLAPSING PRIOR TO HER REALITY OF HER DAUGHTERS WEDDING HAPPINESS", Julie''s brother "CLOSE CALL ENDING IT ALL WHEN TRAMA WAS TOO OVERBEARING FOR HIM".....

[seebothsides]

How many girls/women in this country would not confide in at least ONE of her brothers to help her and what brother wouldn''t come charging to the rescue with threats to Mark and advice for Julie. ex.NOT TAKING ANY DRUGS HE OFFERS TO YOU,NOT DRINKING ANYTHING YOU HAVE NOT POURED AND KEPT AN EYE ON YOURSELF AND "WHY DON''T YOU GET A SEPERATION UNTIL YOU FEEL CONFIDENT THAT MARK IS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU."

[seebothsides]

What did Julie have to lose that brought her to such desperation. ex-nothing. What did Julie have to gain by taking "AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ANTI-FREEZE" and causing her husband to go to jail. ex. The man she committed her life to for 20yrs would not be able to enjoy his new wife and life for leaving her.

[seebothsides]

Could someone advise as to how I can have a few questions answered about this case? #1- Where are all the prints on bottles/containers of poison ,phone log to Mark''s cell phone from Julie asking him to pick up those things on his way home, computer print out with shopping list for poisins(why would he need to write in dayplanner when doing research at home), hard drive files at Mark''s work, was research on home computer ever at a time when Mark has a GROUP OF WITNESS'' STATE THAT HE WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN JULIE WAS LOOKING AT THE COMPUTER RESEARCHING POISON DOSAGES.

Final statement. Julie had an unfortunate bad gene which made her suceptable to suicide and thought she had invested enough research to have a non-fatal suicide attempt and punish Mark for daring to LEAVE HER. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE CUT HER EDUCATION SHORT ON POISON LIKE COLLEGE AND FAILED TO ADVANCE IN LIFE. THIS IS GOING TO BE PROVEN AN INCORRECT VERDICT ONE DAY AND SHAME ON THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY. THE PROSECUTION ATTORNEY AFTER 9YRS OF WORK WANTED TO WIN THE CASE BY ANY MEANS INCLUDING SOLICITING MARK''S FORMER (NON-CLOSE BLOOD FRIEND WHO NO ONE WOULD CONFIDE "MURDER" PLANS) TO TESTIFY BOGUS REHEARSED INFO TO SEAL MARK''S FATE.
NEXT TIME JUST DROWN THE HUSBAND AND WHEN HE DIES WE''LL SAY HE MUST NOT HAVE BEEN A WITCH OR GUILTY. GREAT JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND "SUPREME COURT JUDGE" WHO ALLOWS A JURY TO MAKE SUCH AN UNINFORMED DECISION AND BE DECEIVED???????

[drdavedmd]

Mark Jensen is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. This was a no-brainer, and I wouldn''t even need "the letter" to convict him.

first of all, his wife did die of suffocation. Her face is NOT going to be squished to the side if it was a suicide. The forensics makes the jailhouse snitch credible. Mark was an idiot to divulge his murderess mind. He is evil, and he deserved to go to jail without any possibility of parole.

Also, it is totally unbelievable that someone would like to purposely drink ethylene glycol to kill themselves... this is the stupidest defence I have ever heard of.... well, besides OJ Simpson''s.... the police set him up as part of a grand conspiracy!

You''re a cold calculating killer Mark.... too bad you could not get the death penalty.

Have a nice life in jail... you do the crime, you do the time....

[debdon26]

It seems that someone should look at the list of poisons and the letter together. It is very obvious that she wrote both of them. The letters are alike. I believe Julie may have set Erin up for her death.

[debdon26]

It seems that someone should look at the list of poisons and the letter together. It is very obvious that she wrote both of them. The letters are alike. I believe Julie may have set Erin up for her death.