Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1979-07-11
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Stille dime c 1979 Student Publications Inc. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper Wednesday, July 11, 1979 Document tells earlier Jensen murder plot By KEVIN WYMORE LATER, according to the document, know and shot twice with a .410 shotgun, S/s" Wrltsr Kern and the unknown accomplice at the exhibit states. tempted to rig the bomb. The night before, the man had forced Three persons cha rged in connection On April 9 the Iowa City police depart his way into the Jensen home, tied up the with Ady Jensen's Aprll14 murder plot ment received a report, reportedly from elder Jensens, and told them he was go ted to blow up Jensen's truck five days Ady Jensen, of the attempt to blow up ing to wait for their son. before the shotgun slaying, according to his 1!n9 Ford pickup truck. About 11 hours later, Ady Jensen ap Johnson County District Court records Iowa City police officers Steve Duffy peared, apparently prompted by a re released to The Dally Iowan Tuesday. and Dan Sellers responded to the call, quest from his wife to pick up lumber, An exhibit filed to get a search and observed that electrical wire had Cedar County court documents show . warrant June 29 states that on April 9, been run from the vehicle's coil wire to Through a system of telephone signals, Judy Kern, Robert Kern and an uniden its gas tanks, the exhibit shows. the intruder was reportedly notified of tified man - the man who later killed "It was a very amateurish effort," Ady's approach the next morning. Kern , according to the exhibit - came remarked Iowa City Police Chief Harvey In the exhibit released Tuesday, Judy to the Jensen residence at 1007 N. Dodge Miller. Kern states that her husband had given St. to rig the bomb. Miller termed investigation of the inci the killer a ride to the elder Jensens' The Kerns have been charged with dent " thorough," and added he wasn't home in West Branch the night before first degree murder in the case. sure if the investigating officers had the murder. questioned Jensen's wife about the inci The search warrant exhibit states that THE EXHIBIT'S information on the dent. the killer was wearing a dark stocking failed bomb attempt came from Jeanne "She was aware of it, but I don't know cap, bandana mask and rubber gloves Jensen, who testified against the Kerns if she was talked to," Miller said. then . as part of a plea-bargain in which she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a MILLER SAID that death threats are YELLOW RUBBER gloves, a black forCible felony in connection with the not rare in Iowa City, and he said the stocking cap, a blue and white bandana murder. polil-!\! investigation would be carried out mask and a length of electrical wiring United Press International April 10 , the day after the bomb failed exactly the same again. were among the items seized from the ' Mtmbe,. of the Senate Fore/gn ReJetlonl Comml"" before the panel again to pull! for ratification of the SALT to go off, the exhibit quotes Jensen as "Everybody is a good Monday morn Kern home at 47 Amber Lane the even IUrround Cyrul Vance a. the Secretary of State went II agreement. The treaty underwent he..,y crillcllltJ from ing quarterback, but damn few call the ing of their arrest June 28. Senate member •• saying that she and the Kerns "discussed the reasons why it did not shots on Saturday morning, " Miller said. About two weeks before the Kerns' work." Another police officer, Bob Stika, who arrest, on June 14, the document stated said he had known Ally Jensen "quite a that a Iowa Bureau of Criminal In According to tbe exhibit, which had few years," talked with Jensen the night vestigation special agent observed SALT II criticized in hearing been held confidential by County Attor before he was killed . yellow gloves in garbage taken from the WASHINGTON (UP!) -TheSALT amendments of the treaty package. was the best possible. ney Jack Dooley until Tuesday after "I knew Ady real well," Stika said, Kern 's residence "which appeared II treaty ran into heavy criticism One, inSisting that Soviet limita But he conceded under questioning noon , the attempt had been the culmina "and from my conversation with him, similar in visual appearance to frag Tuesday, some of it from liberal tions on the Backfi re bomber be that both sides, under the treaty, tion of days of planning by the Kerns, I'd say he was really scared." ments found at the scene of the crime." senators who told Secretary of State "considered integral" to the trea ty, would have more warheads and more Jeanne Jensen and the unidentified man Stika said, "He'd told me he'd found The special agent, J.D. Smith, found Cyrus Vance they would vote for the has already been rejected by destructive capability in 1985 than suspected of the actual murder. his truck has been messed with and "fragments of yellow gloves left by the pact only if it is revised . Moscow. they have now . Prior to April 9, the Kerns discussed somebody had tried to kill him by bomb killer" at the elder Jensen's home, the On the second day of the treaty The Soviet assurance to limit The secretary came under close with Jeanne Jensen the possibility of ing his truck." exhibit states. hearings, Vance warned the Senate production and deployment of the questioning about the Soviet killing Ady Jensen by blowing up his The alleged murder plot began with Foreign Relations Committee that bomber is contained in a written adherence to past treaties. pickup truck, the exhibit alleges. The ex THE NEXT MORNING, Ady Jensen Jeanne Jensen's complaint against her rejection of the arms limitation statement from Soviet President Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N .Y., said the hibit says Kern then asked Jeanne Jen was murdered. Called to the home of his husband about a month before Jensen's agreement would cast a "chilling Leonid Brezhnev, and is signed only Soviets have violated every provision sen to give him $50, a description of parents, Ferdinand and Olga Jensen in death , according to testimony filed witb shadow" over U.S. .soviet relations by Vance for the U.S. side. of a 1972 Moscow agreement in which Ady's truck, and a photograph of Ady . rural West Branch, he was confronted by her charges in Cedar County District and make the superpower rivalry However, Vance said President the United States and the Soviet Un The exhibit said Jensen's wife complied. a male who the elder Jensens did not Court. "more dangerous and difficult." Carter considers the Soviet ion agreed not to seek strategic ad Asked if NATO would survive if assurances to be equivalent to the vantage anywhere in the world at the SALT II were not ratified, Vance rest of the agreement, adding, "the expense of the other. Ki , dna~ing ~. ~d sex~al abus~ paused and then s;lid slowly, "I don't Pr~ident would consid r viclation of Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla " asked know." the assurance to be grounds for Vance if the Soviets ha ve adhered to Sen. Charles Percy, R-m., has (American) repudiation of the the 1962 agreement that ended the already submitted reservations to the treaty." Cuban missile crisis. cfiarges filed against man treaty that would ensure the U.S. Vance replied , "The Soviet actions mili tary re la tion shi p wi th NATO VANCE repeatedly told the (in Cuba) are not a threat to the Un By TOM DRURY the woman came to her house and said the Van Buren Street apartment. Smith would not be affected by SALT II. senators that the United States would ited States." CllyEd/tor she'd been raped, according to the police gave that apartment as his address when have preferred deeper cuts in the Without specifying publicly what is report. ' placed in the county jail, a spokesperson SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN, D-Del ., strategic arms of both sides, but he in the still-secret 1962 agreement, he George Smith, Jr. has been charged The woman told officers that Smith there said. presented a list of eight "un said. " We live in a real world" and said, "There are no Soviet nuclear with the first degree kidnaping and first took her from Waterloo to Iowa City Magistrate Joseph Thornton set bond derstandings" that would amount to the agreement that was negotiated weapons in Cuba ." degree sexual abuse of a Waterloo against her will and that somewhere at $25,000 for each charge and scheduled woman who was allegedly brought along the way she attempted to jump a preliminary hearing for July 17 at 8 against her will to Iowl! City and sex from the car, police said. But Smitb was a.m. ually assaulted. able to hold her and drag her alongside Kidnaping in the first degree is defined the car for a "brief period of time," as a kidnaping in which the victim, as a 'Disturbing' su.rge in violent Smith, who is ~eing held on $50,000 bond in the Johnson County Jail, was court records state. consequence of the act, suffers serious arrested at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday by Iowa The charges against Smith state that injury or is "intentionally subjected to City police after officers responded to a he sexually assaulted the woman in an torture or sexual abuse." crime rate tops 1 7 percent 1:03 a.m. report from a Bowery Street apartment on Van Buren Street.