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After filing a missing persons report in April on his wife, Leasa, Bruce Jensen, 39, learned that Leasa was really a feminine-looking man named Felix Urioste, 34, who had convinced Jensen to marry him in 1991 after a single sexual encounter during which Urioste remained clothed. Jensen, a devout Mormon, said to the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah, “There’s no way to describe this feeling” of learning he’d been married to a man for almost four years.
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In December accused murderer Lewis Elwood Jordan urinated on his attorney, Jake Waldrop, with whom he’d been feuding, as Waldrop stood before Atlanta federal judge Robert Vining Jr. After the judge instructed Waldrop to resume his argument, Waldrop said, “I have made my point, judge, in writing. I guess Mr. Jordan has made his point–not verbally–by urinating on my leg.”
In February, according to police in El Paso, Texas, James Patrick Bradley, 47, murdered his artist wife, Susy, and dismembered her body. Then he allegedly spray painted the body parts and left them at various locations around town and in southern New Mexico. Police, who had no leads on her identification, released a photo of her severed head to local TV stations to broadcast, and some of the woman’s friends called to identify her.
