Nels Jensen

Nels Jensen was a captain with the Torrance Police Department. He headed that department's investigation into the South Bay Strangler. One day he called Lt. Colin Ferguson of the San Atanasio PD to see if he had any luck going over DNA profiles in the hunt for the killer. Ferguson hadn't and Jensen admitted that the sergeant he had assigned the duty hadn't had any either.

Ferguson thought Jensen was a glory hound who was out for self publicity and was tempted to answer no regardless but he, in fact, had been unsuccessful in finding a match. After he rung off, he mentioned the call to Sgt. Gabriel Sanchez who had the same low opinion of Jensen. Sanchez thought that if the Torrance sergeant had found anything, then Jensen would take the credit for himself.