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January 22, 2008
Posted: 09:50 AM ET
OVER MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – “I want to keep you all updated,” the pilot announced over the airplane’s intercom system. “The Milwaukee airport has been closed.” My producer and I were flying back to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after spending a long weekend in New York with our families, and the snowfall was so fast and furious the airport was no longer allowing planes to land. So that gave me time to keep thinking about the Mark Jensen case in Elkhorn. Read about the case Aaron Dillard is still on the stand and is one of the state’s star witnesses. The prosecution brought out (and the defense re-emphasized) that he is a self-admitted con man with a list of convictions as long as your arm. He also has been in the construction industry and has taken part in home improvement scams (just like what you hear about on TV). But according to Dillard that is what led him to bond with Mark Jensen just a few months ago at the Kenosha County jail. Jensen had opened up a construction company after he was charged with murder and lost his stockbroker position. See a video update This jailhouse informant testified that Jensen confessed that he killed his wife Julie. Is this another con just like all the other ones? The curious thing that cannot be ignored is that Dillard testified that when Julie wasn’t dying fast enough, Mark said he rolled her over, sat on her back and pushed her face and neck into the pillow and suffocated her. Although the detective who interviewed Mark in April 1999 asked him that very same question, none of it had become public, nor had pictures of Julie’s face shortly after death where her nose and mouth are pushed over to one side. This information is what the jury will have to weigh as they decide Dillard’s credibility — information that had not gotten to the media but according to the prosecution is corroborated by the evidence. “We have been cleared for landing,” the pilot announced. “They have re-opened the airport and we are third in line to land”. I put away my Mark Jensen notes and began to focus on my snowy ride to the hotel. I will look for you all on-air from Elkhorn, Wisconsin! – Jean Casarez, In Session correspondent Filed under: Jean Casarez Trials |
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