Wife’s Secret ‘Slave Contract’ Exposes Husband’s Horrific Murder

Murder Files Unsealed · Sep 12, 2026 · 41m · transcript

This episode details the chilling investigation into Julene Simco, who was ultimately convicted of murdering her husband, Jeremy Simco, in their Ohio home in 2009. Although Julene initially reported a fictitious intruder, law enforcement spent years uncovering a web of inconsistencies, including the suspicious lack of foreign DNA and the discovery of a "slave contract" that revealed a deeply toxic and controlling marriage. Prosecutors successfully argued that Julene’s history of childhood trauma and her husband’s abusive behavior provided a motive for the point-blank shooting. Despite her…