Cause of death changed in murder trial
ELKHORN, Wis. (AP) - Prosecutors in Mark Jensen's murder trial have changed their theory on what caused the death of his wife.
A convicted criminal who spent time in jail with Jensen says Jensen told him that he sat on his wife and shoved her head in a pillow to suffocate her because she wasn't dying quickly enough.
The prosecution has long contended Jensen poisoned his wife, Julie, with antifreeze.
Forensic pathologist Michael Chambliss testified in the Walworth County trial that based on the allegations from the jail inmate, Julie Jensen was likely smothered after she ingested antifreeze.
Chambliss says the relatively low amount of antifreeze in Jensen's body is more consistent with a homicide, rather than suicide, as the defense contends.
Prosecutors say Mark Jensen killed his wife at their Kenosha County home so he could be with his girlfriend. But, the defense says Julie Jensen killed herself and wrote a letter implicating her husband.
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