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Julene Simko was found guilty on all six counts in the killing of her husband, Jeremy Simko, who was shot in the back of the head while sleeping at their rural home outside Vermilion, Ohio, on November 18, 2009. She was sentenced to 28 years to life.

Jeremy Simko was 36 and Julene Simko was 31. Married about 10 years, they lived in Lorain County and owned and ran a tree service business. After earlier barn break-ins, the property had a gated driveway, a driveway sensor wired to speakers, front and back cameras, first-floor door chimes and four dogs chained up at night. The alarm system was not monitored. Both had concealed-carry permits and kept loaded guns in the house.

At about 6 a.m. that Wednesday, Jeremy was shot once at point-blank range in the second-floor bedroom. Julene called 911 minutes later, screaming that someone had shot him. She said she had slept in the third-floor loft, awakened to a loud bang and assumed Jeremy had fired at an animal from the window, as he had before. She said she went downstairs minutes later, felt blood, heard a noise in the house, took a 9mm from the nightstand and fired twice into the hallway before calling 911. Officers entered through the kitchen and found a .357 magnum on the floor. Upstairs, Julene knelt beside Jeremy, whom she had moved from the bed to the floor at the dispatcher's instruction.

Investigators found no forced entry. Every door and window was locked except the kitchen door, whose interior door stood open. A first-floor china cabinet was ajar, and the holster for the .357 magnum inside it was empty. Camera footage showed no activity after about 10 p.m., and neighbors did not hear the dogs. Examiners found no foreign DNA and matched the hallway shots to Julene's 9mm. Bullet jacketing in the bedroom was consistent with the .357 magnum, but the bullet was never recovered and no usable DNA was found on it. At the hospital, a nurse thought she heard Julene say she had shot her husband. When asked what she had said, Julene replied that someone shot him.

Police interviewed Julene four times on the day of the killing, at the scene, at the hospital and twice at her mother's house. Investigators interviewed her again before she was charged, in a recording placed in November 2013 and attributed to Lorain County Prosecutor's Office investigators. She denied shooting Jeremy. Police also found a handwritten master-slave agreement and sexual images. The State used those items and a recently denied bank loan to argue motive.

The appellate court records Julene as charged in October 2014. A December 19, 2014 Lorain County indictment charged her with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and tampering, and she surrendered on $500,000 bond. A multi-day bench trial began in September 2017 before Judge Mark Betleski. The State called more than a dozen witnesses, while the defense called none. On October 20, 2017, Betleski found her guilty on all six counts with firearm specifications. He said the State had failed to establish a motive, but that the evidence ruled out two of the three possible killers, a stranger-robber or an assassin, leaving Ms. Simko. He sentenced her on October 27, 2017, to 28 years to life.

On April 26, 2021, the Ninth District affirmed in State v. Simko, 2021-Ohio-1447, overruling all five assignments of error. She asked the Ohio Supreme Court to take the case on June 8, 2021, case 2021-0731. The outcome has not been publicly confirmed. Corrections records list her at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, admitted November 7, 2017, and eligible for parole October 11, 2045.

The video is a police interview-room recording that runs about 114 minutes and shows the pre-indictment interview itself. It opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved. The narration is the uploader's commentary rather than a neutral setup: it presumes guilt, includes a sarcastic aside about detectives investigating the killing, and states scene details the court record does not support.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.