Naval officer charged with murdering wife in Japan

A U.S. Navy serviceman has been charged pinch sidesplitting his wife, six months aft she was recovered strangled to decease wrong a edifice room successful Japan.

Monroe, NY-native Jessica “Jesse” Arguinzoni Olsen was recovered dormant connected Oct. 27 wrong a room successful nan Hotel SOL successful Fukuoka — astir 80 miles from Sasebo Naval Base, wherever her husband, Lt. Commander Christopher Olsen, was stationed betwixt November 2022 and December 2023.

Surveillance video from nan edifice reportedly showed nan mates checking successful connected Oct. 25, and nan sailor leaving unsocial 2 days later. At nan clip of nan murder, he was stationed astatine nan Naval Surface Group Southwest successful San Diego, reported Stars and Stripes.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen and his wife, Jessica Olsen, airs together successful this undated photo. Stripes Via Arguinzoni family

Hotel unit recovered nan 37-year-old’s assemblage and called police, and Olsen was instantly questioned but not arrested. It was unclear why truthful overmuch clip had elapsed betwixt nan execution and nan filing of criminal charges.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service — which handled nan investigation, pinch assistance from constabulary successful Fukuoka — person alleged Olsen viciously hit and past strangled his woman successful nan edifice room.

The mates met astatine nan State University of New York astatine Oswego, and were joined successful August 2009.

Jesse’s sister, Dominque Arguinzoni, told Stars and Stripes nan mates seemed happy.

“We had nary thought they ever had issues,” Arguinzoni said. “None of her friends, moreover champion friend, had an inkling. However, reasoning back, my parents and I realized that she pulled distant from america by reducing communications from each week to each different period aliases so.”

Authorities judge Olsen hit his wife, injuring her head, jaw, and neck. Flynn Funeral & Cremation Memorial Center

In summation to murder, Olsen was charged pinch obstruction of justness astatine a preliminary proceeding astatine Naval Base San Diego Wednesday, according to Stars and Stripes.

Olsen enlisted successful nan Navy successful April 2014. He was promoted to aboveground serviceman past July.

He faces a imaginable tribunal martial arsenic well, according to nan site, and could look a dishonorable discharge, confinement, aliases superior punishment.

Naval spokesperson Cmdr. Paul Macapagal said nan Navy was “committed to ensuring nan subject justness strategy is adjacent and impartial, and nan accused is presumed guiltless until proven guilty.”