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<b>Jensen Trial:</b> Neighbor Who Got Julie's Letter Testifies

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Jensen Trial: Neighbor Who Got Julie's Letter Testifies

By Katie DeLong

ELKHORN - Chilling testimony Thursday in the wife poisoning trial in Walworth County. Julie Jensen told several people she was scared her husband was trying to kill her. Thursday, a neighbor testified that Julie Jensen gave him a letter to give to police in case she was killed. The neighbor says Julie Jensen was afraid to eat or drink anything her husband gave her, and believed he was trying to poison her. Tad Wojt lived next door to Mark and Julie Jensen, and over the years, became good friends with Julie Jensen. He says just before she died, she talked about problems in her marriage, and her fears that her husband was trying to kill her. “She wasn't even sure she would make it through the weekend," Wojt said. "What did she say?" "That he was going to poison her, and that she wouldn't make it to Monday," Wojt said. Wojt told her to hide at his lake cottage so she would be safe. “I told her get the hell out of that house and leave, and she said no, she won't leave the kids. She would never leave the kids," Wojt said. Wojt testified Julie Jensen found syringes in her bedroom and poison Web sites on the family computer. Then, shortly before she died, she gave him a sealed letter. “She said, if anything happened, I should give this to the police," Wojt said. In the letter, Julie Jensen wrote to police that her husband should be their first suspect if she died, but the defense says, she wrote the letter before she committed suicide to frame her husband for her murder.