A U.S. Navy officer has been charged with killing his wife, six months after she was found strangled to death inside a hotel room in Japan.
Monroe, NY-native Jessica “Jesse” Arguinzoni Olsen was found dead on Oct. 27 inside a room in the Hotel SOL in Fukuoka — about 80 miles from Sasebo Naval Base, where her husband, Lt. Commander Christopher Olsen, was stationed between November 2022 and December 2023.
Surveillance video from the hotel reportedly showed the couple checking in on Oct. 25, and the sailor leaving alone two days later. At the time of the murder, he was stationed at the Naval Surface Group Southwest in San Diego, reported Stars and Stripes.
Hotel staff found the 37-year-old’s body and called police, and Olsen was immediately questioned but not arrested. It was unclear why so much time had elapsed between the murder and the filing of criminal charges.
