Man Shocked To Find Out His Wife Of 3-1/2 Years Is Really A Man

A missing-person report filed by a husband anxious about his wife uncovered the shocking truth: The “wife” was actually a man who is accused of taking the husband for up to $40,000 during their 3-1/2 year marriage.

Felix Urioste is in jail on $20,000 bail on fraud charges, and Bruce Jensen is confused, embarrassed and broke. Jensen told police he didn’t know his wife was a man until officers convinced him.

“I feel pretty stupid,” Jensen, 39, told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.

The deception unraveled when Urioste, 34, was arrested in Las Vegas for using 33 credit cards that were fraudulently obtained in the names of Bruce and Leasa Jensen and others. Urioste was traveling as a bearded man.

Prosecutor Bill McGuire said Jensen was “just incredibly naive.”

“You’ve got a situation where a guy didn’t have a normal marriage,” he said.

Authorities said Urioste was able to pull off the deception because he looked like a woman and because Jensen never saw him naked.

The couple got married when Urioste told Jensen he was pregnant with twins after a single sexual encounter in 1991, McGuire said.

The prosecutor said Jensen married Urioste out of a sense of responsibility, and the marriage was basically celibate.