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[Music] Clark welcome to honor roll rise the case starts on Monday June 29th 2015. hi I'm Dr Teresa Sievers Dr Teresa
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Sievers was due at work and she didn't arrive Teresa Seavers is found on her kitchen
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floor dead a pool of blood surrounds her head she is cold to the touch this is Dr Teresa Sievers high-profile
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doctor did a lot of holistic medicine and people uh you know said that she was just a little Spitfire just a short
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little thing and always wearing you know four inch heels clocking around so let's
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get started we got a lot of stuff to talk about ladies remember walking into a room meant turning heads
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when I got into work that day we were getting word that this 46 year old doctor was dead
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this beloved woman in our community had been brutally killed inside her own house
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Mark and Teresa have been a couple since 2003 when they got married in a Beachside ceremony in St Petersburg she
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was sort of the breadwinner and he was the office manager at her practice and he helped raise the kids
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they had a trip planned to New York and Teresa would fly home that Sunday night to be at work Monday morning
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so on Sunday night she comes back here to the Southwest Florida International Airport she calls Mark tells him she's
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safe and then gets in her car and heads back to their house 9-1-1 when is your emergency
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I'm at a friend's house Mark had a friend come and check up on her he's out of town
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he's been on the floor and there's hammer Hammer ride and she's bashed in the back of the head it will
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later be determined that there are 17 impact wounds to her skull who would possibly want this feisty Florida doctor
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dead that question LED investigators on a wild chase that ended more than a thousand miles away with a shocking
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arrest of three people a break and the case came from all places from the state of Missouri
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or electronic Footprints when you step outside your Home Folks you're always being observed
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once you started to unwrap it a little bit it was nutty it was weird and it was hard to keep track of it all this is a
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case in which 21st century technology became vital I've been told we have a verdict
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foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] I think anytime there is a beautiful
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successful woman who was murdered that's sort of what Society pays attention to For Better or For Worse
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thank you when you first start on this case would you have ever imagined it would
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end up to where it is right now no member of Dr Teresa Sievers in Bonita Springs Florida was a huge story
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especially for Jessica Lipscomb who covered crime for the Naples Daily News to think of this mother of two who was
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killed brutally inside her home was horrifying to people the doctor had cut short a family
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vacation in Upstate New York and had flown home alone on Sunday night June 28 2015. so she could see patients the next
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morning do you kind of put yourself in her shoes rolling your suitcase through the door
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and then to be attacked by someone from behind it's [Applause] it's hard to imagine
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investigators believe that as soon as Dr Sievers walked into her kitchen she was
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killed struck repeatedly with a hammer the next morning her office staff got in it's now nine o'clock
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now it's 905. now it's 9 15. I said where's doctor Sandra Hoskins was Teresa seaver's
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longtime medical assistant I was texting back and forth trying to see if you know where he at and no
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response called no answer marks out of town he says I can't get a hold of her either how unusual was it for Dr severs
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not to show up even if it was nine o'clock and three seconds after you would hear her heels coming in
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it was just so unbelievable when Connie Reese heard the tragic news she contacted her stepbrother Mark sivers
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the doctor's husband how did he react to the death of his wife he couldn't speak
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he's not the kind of guy that has been a really emotional on the outside but he couldn't speak
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Connie and Mark became family when her mother married his father I asked him what happened to Teresa and
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what did he say no idea Mark met his future wife in 2003 when he was visiting Saint Petersburg Florida
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pretty much love at first sight well I think by the time that he introduced her to mom I think he was pretty much done
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he was off the market officially yeah really he was working as a nurse while she was a recently divorced physician
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Teresa hung the moon she was a remarkable human being and very special and that's the way Mark treated it from
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the beginning it just you could hear it in his voice they were married on the beach
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surrounded by friends and family including stepmother Jenny weckelman was a sunset wedding and she had a
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beautiful gown it was very nice was he happy on that day oh my gosh he was very happy
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six months later their first daughter was born the Seavers built a large house in Bonita Springs and in 2007 welcomed
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another daughter how did Mark feel about being a dad it was everything to him they were his
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reason for being but he was also all about Teresa and her mission we talk about our physical health mental
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health that mission was to open a holistic practice where she could heal patients by blending traditional and
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alternative medicine she also spread her message in speeches and videos there's our spiritual and energetic Health we
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would have patients from all over the world they would come to us after they failed everything else
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she wouldn't take no for an answer talking about the doctor still makes Sandra emotional
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and as a patient she wouldn't allow you to say I'm never going to get better while patients love the doctor Sandra
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and her husband Frank pays who also worked at the practice admit it wasn't always easy working for Sievers she had
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a short fuse I would hear Dr screaming and yelling in back office Dr severs would yell at the
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Patients she was there to help you get better didn't have what they call the bedside manner would she yell at you
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yes yeah a wrist is a problem she expected Perfection and if it wasn't perfect she would get upset because I need to
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maintain my mental sharpness she was a big presence and sometimes that meant that she got really feisty with people
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she was the biggest figure in the room while Teresa took care of her patients Mark managed her office and took care of
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their daughters the girls were his pride and joy and according to her sister Annie Lisa Teresa was equally devoted to
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Mark Theresa always said I'll never leave Mark and we'll ever do it to my girls nevertheless within weeks Mark sivers
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became a person of interest did he cooperate initially oh yes I think he thought he was doing the right thing
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Mark spoke to investigators without a lawyer present and even handed over his cell phone and allowed them to download
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the contents was he worried he might be arrested he thought why would they what kind of evidence could they
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possibly have because I didn't do anything in fact Mark sivers had an airtight alibi
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at the time of Teresa's murder he and their two girls were with Teresa's family hundreds of miles away in New
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York foreign [Music] was murdered friends and family came together for her funeral including
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Mark's stepmother Jenny wackelman there were a lot of people yes yeah and and it
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was sad of course almost all her patients were there I was numb Mark Sievers reportedly had a gun
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strapped to his waist at his wife's funeral strange well perhaps but her killer hadn't yet been arrested and
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according to stepsister Connie Reese Mark was on edge he was very much in protective mode when you say protective
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mode what do you mean well I think you know he always keeps an eye in the ear to the ground so to speak and is aware
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of his surroundings and you know he he was concerned for their their safety I think it was in the back
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of his mind that that there might be some danger to his daughters because of what happened to their mother
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it just didn't make any sense who would want the vibrant and dedicated Dr Theresa siever's dead and white killer
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with such anger and force could have been anybody I really thought maybe it was just somebody that
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was in the area and broken or something there were signs of a forced entry primarks on a side door but Mark's
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extensive gun collection and forty thousand dollars in cash discovered inside the Seavers home hadn't been
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touched so when this happened everyone wanted to know what happened with the alarm and as
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it turns out it hadn't been activated while the family was on vacation Market asked his mother Bonnie Sievers to feed
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the family pets she had trouble setting the alarm that Sunday and told detectives her son Mark said not to
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worry about it Monday morning Dr severs was discovered dead on her kitchen floor
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[Music] this is Mark's mother speaking to investigators so I really feel that it's my fault but
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you can't you cannot blame yourself [Music] around the time of Dr seaver's murder
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the internet was buzzing with reports about The suspicious deaths of other alternative doctors in the U.S
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did Mark think that her death might be connected with that yes yes he did but with no real evidence to make that
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connection investigators turned their attention to the people who might have had an ax to
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Grime with the energetic often abrasive Dr Sievers I think the theory that I heard was that maybe it was a patient
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obviously they were interviewing all of her friends and family members so it was pretty much like a wide open
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field of suspects at that point then a surprising name emerged in her police interview Dr seaver's sister
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Annie Lisa said she heard Sandra Hoskins was a disgruntled employee that's the same Sandra who seemed so upset by Dr
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Sever's death but you may not like your boss but you don't bad-mouth them to patients that
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are coming in the doors like Dr Sievers you know she's in the phone she's a well I'm like oh my God they think I did
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it Sandra who claims she had been treated harshly by Dr severs in the past had planned to hand in a resignation
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that very Monday the doctor was found dead according to Sandra the doctor told her she was bringing bad energy to the
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office now I know why I was not received very well at her Memorial why would anyone think that you did this
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that is shocking to me a lot of the patients did know the way she treated me and so people thought maybe you just
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had enough yeah Sandra Hoskins was cleared when nearly two months after Dr severs was murdered
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there was a stunning break in the case police made arrests and the suspects were not from Florida
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so we showed up to a press conference I believe that August and the sheriff gets up there and tells us
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simply the name of the first suspect Jimmy Rogers and he says he's from Missouri and he's
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been booked for the murder of Teresa Sievers never heard of him because I thought oh well who is he and
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what's he got to do with this and then about an hour later he calls us in again and says we've now picked up a second
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suspect Curtis Wayne Wright also from Missouri it was so shocking to solve this murder investigators would
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Travel More Than A Thousand Miles and they were in for a wild ride they would soon discover this case had as many
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twists and turns as the Missouri River foreign [Music] hours will continue [Music]
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Teresa Sievers was bludgeoned to death with a hammer neighbors are still waiting for answers said to my husband
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today the two arrests for Teresa siever's murder made 1100 miles away in Missouri
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seemed to come out of the blue Mark's stepmother Jenny weckelman why you know what's going on just seemed like such a
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disconnect no one had ever heard of the suspect Jimmy Ray Rogers but it was the mug shot of the other suspect Wayne
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Wright that struck everyone he had an uncanny resemblance to the victim's husband Mark Sievers they look alike
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yeah at least in pictures they look like twins and that's and that's that's when
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I've started to believe you know that definitely there is not something right with with Curtis Swain right
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as it turns out Curtis Wayne Wright he goes by Wayne was no stranger to Mark's family it was Mark's very good friends
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and ages and ages so I didn't believe it I didn't it just didn't make sense Wayne
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and Mark had grown up together in Missouri Wayne was a Teresa's funeral he had celebrated Mark and Teresa's wedding
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with them and just two months before the murder Mark had been Wayne's best man at
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his wedding Wayne was also a familiar face around the office did you two know Wayne Wright how did
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you know him hey who's the computer guy that was just like Mark Wayne would travel from Missouri to Florida to work
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on the computers in Dr seaver's office how would you describe Wayne he was geeky all he wanted to do was get the
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computers up and running Focus but to me he just seemed like a very geeky creepster did he make you nervous a
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little bit I can't explain it it's just a woman's intuition how would you describe Mark and Wayne's relationship
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they appear to be close friends yeah he always say he's my brother from another mother yeah that was his lingo
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back in Hillsboro Missouri Greg Bolin knew both Mark and Wayne when they both had hair this here is Hillsboro
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Elementary School this is where me and Wayne met for the very first time in third grade
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and remembers his high school classmate Wayne as a tech whiz the kid voted most dependable and as a fun guy to hang
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around with he actually ran for and became our class president smart very smart quite honestly he was one of the
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smartest people with computers that I ever met but it wasn't long before Greg suspected Wayne Wright had a dark side
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in 1996 Greg's brother Ronnie Bolin a preacher mysteriously disappeared his body has never been found and according
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to police Ronnie was last seen with Wayne do you believe Wainwright killed your brother yes I do you have no
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question about that I have no doubt in my mind Greg believes the motive was money that
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Wayne owed Ronnie reporter Jessica Lipscomb they found his car with the car keys still in the ignition in a car wash
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in St Louis Wayne has never been charged in Ronnie's disappearance but he is listed in a police report as a person of
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interest and Wayne's no stranger to the criminal justice system in 2011 he was serving time for drug possession
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when he befriended the other suspect and Dr Sever's murder a young inmate named Jimmy Ray Rogers who was doing time on a
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weapons charge you can just tell he needed a job he wanted a job you know Jimmy was released from jail I'll show
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you Tyler Juliet and Jeff Conway hired him to work at a Contracting Company he liked to tell a lot of stories a lot of
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things he told at the time nobody really believed Jimmy he liked to brag a little
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bit about the things he had done in the past a colorful criminal past he says Jimmy would brag about con jobs ranging
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from stolen merchandise to counterfeit money I never felt Jimmy was dangerous guy I
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just felt like he was blow hard honestly you know I really felt like he was just
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a talker come recalls that he had asked Jimmy to work on Monday June 29th but Jimmy texted him back and said he
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wasn't available all it said was I can't do that I'm still in Florida it was on June 29th the Dr Teresa
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Sievers was discovered bludgeoned to death with a hammer inside her Florida home
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and it didn't go unnoticed to investigators that Jimmy Ray Rogers had a unique nickname supposedly Jimmy
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Rogers nickname was the hammer but I think that was more of like a self-given nickname if you talk to some of his
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friends from high school they say nobody really called him that but I think maybe
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going to jail for the first time you know trying to make a name for himself maybe that's something he sort of
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assigned himself to fit in why was Jimmy the hammer Rogers in Florida that fateful weekend was Wainwright with him
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and what led authorities to believe they were involved in a doctor's murder why would Wayne try to look like Mark
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see more evidence from the case on Facebook at 48 hours tonight's 48 hours will continue
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back in June 2015 practically everyone in Hillsboro Missouri knew that Wainwright was planning a weekend trip
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out of town he let it slip to lots of people that he was going down to Florida told some
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people he was even going to visit the seabirds and it wasn't long before police got a tip that Wayne had been in
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Florida at the time of Dr Sever's murder and he hadn't gone there alone he went with his jailhouse pal Jimmy the hammer
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Rogers Jimmy's boss Jeff Conway he told me a story that his brother had graduated
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from law school and that he had invited Jimmy down to Florida for the weekend all expenses paid
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but he told his pregnant girlfriend Taylor's showmaker another story he was going out of town for a few days to work
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with Wayne he had told her that he was going down to Florida to make some money weeks after Jimmy and Wayne returned
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detectives from Florida showed up in Hillsboro Missouri they confronted Wayne about that tip placing him in Florida
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but he refused to talk he didn't need to a rental car GPS gave the cops what they
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needed to know on the morning of June 27 2015 Wainwright got into a rental car here in
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Hillsboro Missouri and then went to pick up Jimmy Ray Rogers at some point this address was put into the GPS and then
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the two men took off for the 1100 mile ride to Bonita Springs Florida after driving all day and all night on
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Sunday June 28th Wayne and Jimmy arrived at the Sievers home the Bonita Springs address it's all right there in the GPS
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a digital footprint for investigators when Jimmy and Wayne arrived around 6 a.m authorities believe they turned off
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the house alarm that may explain why Mark's mother Bonnie was so confused about the alarm system
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I was not there at 609 in the morning he was 10 for 609 that's what we're trying to work oh my
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God then according to the GPS Jimmy and Wayne left the Sievers home and typed in
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another address for a Walmart to do some shopping obviously looking at that security
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footage from the Walmart they're able to pretty quickly determine that that's who
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who was with Wayne they made no effort to cover their faces disguise themselves they just Waltz
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through like they were anyone else they bought among other things trash bags flushable wet wipes black towels
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black shoes and a lock picking kit they paid cash for their purchase with a hundred dollar bill after shopping at
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Walmart Jimmy and Wayne continued using the navigation system even to find the beach and soak up some sun
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does it make any sense that this guy who was so good with computers would have left such a trail it does but it doesn't
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uh to a lot of people looking at it it kind of makes it look like you know these guys were just dumb and dumber but
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that's a lot of how he operated after their beach trip according to police affidavits Wayne and Jimmy returned to
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the Sievers home where they hung out for hours in the garage waiting for an unsuspecting Dr sivers to
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arrive in the early morning hours of Monday June 29th the GPS again shows Jimmy and
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Wayne on the highway headed Northbound for the 17-hour drive back to Missouri the electronic Trail would eventually
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lead detectives to Jimmy Ray Rogers door but like Wayne he denied he had anything
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to do with the murder but when police brought in Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor's showmaker during the sort of told truth
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the whole truth and nothing but the truth correct yes what a story she had to tell
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Jimmy Ray Rogers took his girlfriend Taylor for a ride right along here Route 47 in rural Missouri
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[Applause] and along this road he asked her to throw out parts of his cell phone which
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he had smashed earlier some gloves and a jumpsuit he said throw this in the river and it
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took me a minute to cook in and then I threw a little gloves out and then I threw out the toes
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did you ask why or you just did it well I just did it I was scared Taylor told police that's when she
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pushed Jimmy to tell her exactly what happened in Florida and he told me about using a hammer on her
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okay and he said that he killed Teresa Seaver Mark's wife yes with a hammer yes Florida detectives now thought they knew
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who killed Teresa Sievers but they still didn't know the why why would Wayne Wright want to kill his best friend's
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wife did everyone then say oh my gosh Mark had to be involved definitely I mean there was really no putting Wayne in
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Florida in Bonita Springs inside their house without Mark knowing about it did it occur to either one of you that
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Mark might be involved no not even a thought in the back of your mind no no absolutely not
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but when investigators downloaded Mark's cell phone they discovered the Sievers marriage was more troubled than anyone
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guessed despite having forty thousand dollars in cash around the house they had serious financial problems and when
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investigators discovered five insurance policies on Teresa totally more than four million dollars it was a big red
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flag foreign had told police that Teresa's death was a murder for hire and that Jimmy was
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supposed to be paid ten thousand dollars and then asked him how to make money and
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it was murdering Mark's life he said that Mark hired Wayne yes and Wayne hired him Mark didn't know anything
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about Jimmy being hired where's the money supposed to come from insurance from her death okay and did you ever get
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paid no then almost eight months after Teresa siever's murder Wayne Wright Marx look-alike best friend suddenly turned
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on him and took a deal Mr Wright why are you pleading guilty today to second-degree murder
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Wainwright admitted killing Teresa I'm I'm pleading guilty because of my role in the planning and participating of the
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murders tree receivers he said the murder was all Mark's idea and that's what police needed
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Mark did you hire Wayne Wright to kill your wife Mark Sievers was charged with the murder of his wife did you hire
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anyone to kill your wife but siever's stepsister says he would never risk losing his children she believes Wayne
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Wright had long envied his best friend's life and he's the one who killed Teresa
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on his own why would Wayne kill Teresa because he's a sick man do you think Wayne was jealous of Mark
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I think it's possible whether he's jealous of Mark or wanted to be Mark I don't I don't have any clue family and
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friends point to how Wayne Wright began to model himself after Sievers even shaving his own head when Sievers
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started to go bald Greg Bolin they didn't look alike when we were younger how much they they morphed into each
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other over the years thank you if it was by chance or by their plan I don't know
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[Music] more than four years after Curtis Wainwright cut that deal to testify against Mark sivers and ex-con Jimmy
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Rogers the two men go on trial but separately Roger's case went first October 2019.
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Teresa siever's mother and siblings were in the courtroom this case was about the perfect marriage
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the perfect friendship the perfect alibi the perfect murder assistant State Attorney Hameed Hunter
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told the jury that Teresa siever's death was a classic case of murder For Hire Mark Sievers was miles away while Curtis
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Wayne Wright and Jimmy Ray Rogers killed his wife Mr Wright hit her with the hammer
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hit her again [Music] Mr Rogers came out of nowhere Mr Rogers engages with his hammer and he starts
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hitting her hitting her hitting her Rogers defense attorney Kathleen fitzgeorge what you heard from the state
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attorney is what they believe or expect or hope the evidence will show but it's a bumpy road because they
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haven't told you everything foreign [Music] [Music] State actually believes Teresa Sievers
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was killed with two hammers but only one was discovered on the siever's kitchen floor they showed the jury that weapon
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and the damaging video evidence of the two men near the crime scene is this how you found this jumpsuit when
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you took it into your custody on the side of the road in Cadet Missouri yes a fiber from the jumpsuit worn by Rogers
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was found on Teresa's body [Music] this time the state calls Taylor showmaker Roger's former girlfriend Taylor
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showmaker appeared shaken when she entered the courtroom she identified that blue jumpsuit
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says jumpsuit and told the jury Rogers confessed to her and then asked them how well how and
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he said with a hammer then the state called their star Witness State calls Curtis right in exchange for
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his testimony at both trials Wright was allowed to plead guilty to second-degree
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murder and will spend 25 years in prison Mr Wright who killed Dr Teresa Sievers uh
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I did Jimmy Rogers how many times did you hit Dr Seavers with that hammer and three Mr Rogers came from somewhere and
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he started hitting her what did he do just just started hitting her over and over how would you describe how I was
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hitting her and a frenzy [Music] Rogers did not testify and his attorney Donald McFarland called No Witnesses but
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told jurors they should not believe Curtis Wayne Wright Curtis Wright's the only one who ever hit that woman
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and he's lying to you to save his own worthless skin Jimmy didn't have a hammer the jury was out nearly two days and
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then I've been told we have a verdict is the state ready the defendant is guilty of second-degree
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murder Rogers showed no emotion he was sentenced to life in prison and then in November 2019 Mark Sievers
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went on trial for the murder of his wife he spent much of the prior three years in jail still denying he had any
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involvement and his family was still behind him just haven't seen any evidence that makes any sense as far as Mark
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being involved both his stepmother Jenny and stepsister Connie vowed to support him through the
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trial I will do everything that I can to be there are you nervous about it yeah yeah please be seated Mark Sievers
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charged with first-degree murder of his wife appeared unfazed even though he faced the death penalty the same
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prosecutors who tried Jimmy Rogers will use much of the same evidence in front of a different jury this is in case case
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in which 21st century technology became vital cell towers cell tower dumps call detail records that allowed massive
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amounts of data to be sorted organized and searched but siever's defense attorney Michael Mummert says
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all that evidence only points to Curtis Wright and Jimmy Rogers as The Killers heard of swings that hammer
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right on the side of the head followed by another one across the bridge of the nose
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Curtis says I struck Teresa three times in the head with a hammer but Jimmy did the rest
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testifying again is Jimmy Rogers former girlfriend Taylor showmaker now with a new look she says her ex was promised a
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Payday but she can't connect Sievers to it and did he tell you how much money he
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expected to be making from this yes and what did he tell you I think it was ten thousand
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the case again comes down to that star witness Curtis Wayne Wright who will now come face to face with his mirror image
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and once closest friend [Music] Mr Wright who killed Dr Teresa Sievers hi Jimmy Rogers and I physically did it
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at uh Mark Sievers was also involved in the planning for several hours Wright testified against Sievers the man he
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affectionately called his brother from another mother why did you do it [Music] um I was asked to do it
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bye home Mr Sievers Wright told the jury that Sievers and his wife were having marital and money
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problems and that Sievers believe Teresa was planning to leave him and take the kids
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the only option that he had was for her to die and he said that he needed to have her
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killed when the judge asked Mark Sievers if he wanted to testify okay foreign this time the jury was out just four
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hours the families gathered in the court for the verdict the jury find as follows as to the
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defendant in this case count one first degree murder the defendant is guilty of first-degree murder
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first began to cry in addition to the guilty verdict the jury asked the judge to sentence Sievers to death
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[Music] this is how former employee Frank pays felt before the trial what should happen
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to Mark sivers he's facing the death penalty I I think the death penalty is the easy way out
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think the the pain and torture that he deserves is to sit in jail to the rest of his life
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thinking about his true pride and joy daughters that should be his punishment [Music]
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on January 3rd 2020 Mark Sievers now a convicted killer returned to court to find out if he will get life in prison
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or be sentenced to death is it okay if I refer to my notes yes sir absolutely this time he agreed to speak to plead
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for his life although a jury found me guilty and innocent of all charges as I've
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maintained since his heinous crime took place our girls have tragically lost their
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mommy and now they're about to lose their daddy as well it didn't long for the judge to rule I judge uh
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people's actions I don't judge people's Souls that's for somebody else to do sir I'm going to go ahead and adjudicate
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to guilty on each count on the first count first degree murder and it's the order of the court that you be sentenced
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to death sir [Music] for Teresa's family it's the end of an agonizing nearly five-year wait for
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justice this has been an incredible nightmare from the beginning Teresa took down three guys
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it took her from us he was my Modern Day Mother Teresa I always call her that [Music]
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because she always was trying to help people our Focus now you should go on to take care take care
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of the girls and uh give them the love and support that they need and we're glad
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that it's over justice has been served [Music] the Sievers children are being raised by
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Teresa's family [Music] the judge denied Mark siever's request for a new trial there's some questions that have to be
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asked and need to be answered you're rolling okay this is the building let's move quickly Peter Van Sant with CBS
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News here we go do it you flunked a polygraph test I'm innocent do you still believe in your husband's innocence did
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you murder Yvonne bald eagle what do you have to say to that do you believe that
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no I don't why didn't you help the police why did you buy that Sledgehammer we're going to
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do some Home Improvement or were you buying a murder weapon foreign [Music]