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Nancy Grace
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Nancy Grace
Code iheart crime stories with Nancy Grace well, it's Friday night and it is special. It's the 10th anniversary of a murder that shocked not just southwest Florida, but beyond. Do you recall the name Dr. Teresa Sievers? Because I will never forget it. Her husband, Mark Seavers, and his high school buddy, who was a doppelganger, get together and murder his wife, the mother of their two little girls. She was everything, just precious. Cute as a button. A tiny, diminutive woman. The mother of the two. She was a medical doctor. Listen, she not only brought home the bacon, but fried it up and put it on the table. You see what I'm saying? She supported him. How did he repay her? By killing her. I mean. And believe it or not, Mark Sievers, the killer, now wants out of jail on appeal. Surprised? I'm not. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. He just won't go away, will he? After evidence proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, Mark Sievers now decides. Hey, I want to get out of jail. He should have thought about that before he had his wife murdered in this elaborate plan. Ridiculous. His main point of contention is Jimmy Rogers, one of the convicted killers hired by Severs to murder his wife. Now, Jimmie Rogers claimed in an interview with Wink Wink that there was no conspiracy and accused his former friend Curtis Wayne Wright, the high school doppelganger, of lying during his plea deal testimony against husband Mark Sievers. Now if you will recall, the high school friend, now convicted felon Curtis Wainwright testified in court he and Rogers the killer, were hired by husband Mark Severs and they were promised a huge payout of life insurance money to kill Teresa Sievers. High school friend Curtis Wright said Dr. Seavers arrived home earlier than expected from an out of town trip and he and Rogers used a ball peen hammer to murder her. This tiny little female doctor who had these gorgeous twin girls. Quote from high school friend, I hit her with the hammer. I actually think she thought I was Mark because she said why? Ugh. This is what happened to Dr. Teresa Sievers.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
I'm at a friend's house, he's out of town and I came here to check on his wife and she's dead on the floor. Okay, the address is.
Nancy Grace
Okay, sir, hold on.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Stand the line.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yeah. Yes.
Nancy Grace
Okay, you're doing very well.
Amanda Hall
Good job.
Nancy Grace
Just a moment. We're going to connect you. They're going to ask for the address.
Amanda Hall
Email us and fire.
Nancy Grace
What is the address of the emergency?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
21034 Jarvis.
Nancy Grace
Okay, and is that a house or an apartment, sir?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
A house.
Nancy Grace
Tell me exactly what happened My friend.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Siebers, she's a doctor, I'm a doctor. She came home last night. Her husband is in Connecticut and she was supposed to go to work. At 9 o' clock they called me and I was on my way into work, so I swung by and she's down and there's a hammer at the side and she's dashed in the back of the head.
Nancy Grace
You are hearing the 911 call from a co worker, Dr. Petrides, telling dispatch that his dear friend, a beautiful mother of two girls, a beloved doctor who practiced holistic medicine throughout that Florida region, to many, many women, is dead on the floor. First thing I noticed, not only the injuries to Dr. Teresa Sievers, a tiny woman about 4, 11 or 5ft tall. She's still wearing the shoes, the. I call them stilettos, really high heels. She'd work as she was so short that she was wearing the night before. The Sunday night before, she came home from a family vacation with relatives to Connecticut, including her husband and two little girls. That told me a lot about the timeline. Seemingly she still had on her clothes. She hadn't gone back to her bedroom to take a bath or put on PJs. She was ambushed right as she came home from the airport. Was someone following her? Did someone know her flight plan? Or was it just a burglary gone wrong? Let's start at the very beginning. Take a listen to more of that 911 call. Yes, stay on the line with me. Sheriff office, are you on the way?
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Yes, we are.
Amanda Hall
Okay.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
All right.
Nancy Grace
And so you said you're a doctor?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yes, I am.
Nancy Grace
Okay, Are you with her now?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
I'm outside of the house because I don't know if there's anybody in the house.
Nancy Grace
Okay.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
All right.
Nancy Grace
So how old is Teresa?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
She's 50s, 47ish.
Nancy Grace
All right, sir. And is she awake?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
No, she's down on the floor, she's cold back over to the gas in and there's light everywhere.
Nancy Grace
Okay. All right, so I do have paramedic, the fire department also law enforcement is on the line with us. Okay. They're going to be going out. Okay. Okay, I want you to stay on the line. One moment.
Amanda Hall
Be sure.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yeah, I'm gonna stay here until I get here because, you know, I say I don't know if you're able to still help. Okay, was right.
Nancy Grace
All right, just stay on the line.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Okay.
Nancy Grace
The sheriff's office has questions and they're going to continue on what to do next. Okay, sir, are you inside the residence then?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
No, I'm not. I'm standing in the driveway.
Nancy Grace
Okay. And then when you walked inside the house, you said the blood was dry or what did you say?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yeah, half the blood is dry, half the sweat. She's cold. She's dead cold.
Nancy Grace
You know, I can't help but analyze that 911 call. And this co worker, Dr. Petridi, seems very, very calm. I want to go to Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst joining us from LA. You can find her at Dr.bethany marshall.com. Dr. Bethany I was the same way in court. No matter what happened, at least in front of a jury, I would stay extremely calm. Even once when a prisoner lunged at me with a shank. Didn't make it, by the way. But long story short, not in other areas of my life. But I guess when it's your duty and you're trained a certain way, you just carry on. What do you make of the 911 call?
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Dr. Bethany well, Nancy, let me tell you a little story. When I was doing your HLN show, I had a patient who tried to kill herself. She overdosed on benzodiazepines. She called me up, she into like a sort of a coma like state. I called 911 and my biggest fear was that the 911 call was going to be played on the evening news. So I was very formal in how I reported it. I said, this is Dr. Bethany Marshall. This is my license number. This is where I got this call. This is the woman's address. Here's her diagnosis. Here are the benzodiazepines, the number of pills she took on down the road. Because I knew that that was a very formalized report that this could be played in court, this could be played on the evening news, as I just said. So this is a doctor who walks into a crime scene. The woman's back of her head is bashed in. She's still wearing her stiletto shoes. He is the first one on the scene. So yes, Dr. Kim Gallagher is correct. You have to be authoritative. You have to be calm in the midst of the storm. But there's also this anxiety about how you are going to come across as you report the incident. You are the first responder, you're the person who's going to be questioned. So how you make that verbal report is extremely important.
Nancy Grace
With me, an all star panel today to break it down, put it back together again, of course, in to Dr. Bethany Marshall with me, judge and trial Lawyer anchor, Court TV, Ashley Wilcott. You can find her@ashleywilcott.com. james Shellner, 27 years, Atlanta metro major case SWAT officer, now lawyer. But right now to Amanda hall, special guest. Joining us, investigative reporter from Wink tv, Fort Myers, Florida, who has been on the story since the get go at the beginning. Amanda let's just take what we know. Tell me about the crime scene. For those of you just joining us, a stunning development in the case of a murdered mom and doctor, Dr. Teresa Sievers. Remind those listeners that don't already know Amanda Hall. When cops came in, what did they find at the scene?
Amanda Hall
NANCY when police came in In June of 2015, they came inside the Seaver's home and they found blood in the kitchen and they found Teresa Severs bl to death with the claw end of a hammer. Blood.
Nancy Grace
Amanda, Amanda, AMANDA Amanda hall joining me W I N K when you say blood in the kitchen, I mean, you know, this morning I was chopping up green beans and I have to chop the tips off every single one or Lucy won't eat it. And I cut my finger.
Amanda Hall
Okay, we're not talking about that kind of blood.
Nancy Grace
NANCY what do you mean by blood? Just a tiny drop. Tell me the whole thing, Amanda.
Amanda Hall
NANCY there was so much blood in there. You know, when we have interviewed investigators and detectives who were initially on this case, some of them had never seen anything like it. The amount of blood was stunning. When you look at the report, 17 crescent shaped cuts to her head. I mean she was bludgeoned over and over and over and over. So you can just imagine the amount of blood inside of that home.
Nancy Grace
What else did they find?
Amanda Hall
AMANDA the other thing they found was that the crime scene was staged to make it look like a break in, to make it look like a robbery. The thing is, Nancy, they stuffed cash in different parts of the home and there was a whole cache of guns that were untouched.
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Nancy Grace
You know how when you think you squash a roach and then suddenly there it is again? Same thing here. Husband Mark Sievers. I thought he was put away for life, but here he is again. Now he wants to get out on appeal. Let me just have a quick refresher on what happened to the beautiful young mom of two, Dr. Teresa Sievers. The hammer sitting next to her. And you had left it. And did you touch anything?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
No, I did not touch anything. I touched her. I shook her a little bit.
Nancy Grace
All right, one moment. You're doing really well. So the last time you had seen her is what time?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Probably two weeks, three weeks ago.
Nancy Grace
Two or three weeks ago.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Okay.
Nancy Grace
And you said she returned today?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
I don't know when she came back, but she was supposed to go back. She was supposed to go to work today at 9:00 and her husband called me from Connecticut to say she didn't show up at work and she's not answering her phone. And he checked her. He tried calling, tried calling. He was going to call her mom. And he said, if you're swinging by, can you swing by? And I knocked on the front door and nobody answered. The lights were on. I could see her purse on the countertop and she didn't answer. I pounded, pounded. And he gave me the key code to get into the garage door. I opened the garage door and the door leading into it Was open and I walked and I just opened up the door, walked in the door and she did on the floor.
Nancy Grace
Welcome back, everybody. I'm Nancy Graves. That is the 911 call of a co worker, Dr. Petridis, who shows up when this gorgeous young mom of Two little girls, Dr. Teresa Sievers, very well known in the Bonita Springs area, practiced mostly with women and had a very holistic method toward medicine. Very inclusive to the whole community, Never turned a person away. Tiny, diminutive woman. I think she was about 4:11. And that's important because she always wore high heels, okay? And, you know, give her a little height. And she still had on her heels or at least one of them when she was found. Dad, she just flown in from Connecticut. Her husband and children still in Connecticut. Normally you look at the husband first. Husband, lover, boyfriend, ex. He's in Connecticut with the children on a vacation with her family. It was only when she didn't show up to work that morning that co workers became concerned and went to her home again. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. And you know Ashley Wolcott, judge and trial Lawyer anchor, Court TV. Ashleywilcott.com Ashley, you and I both have a girl. And imagine two of them. You've got two boys and a girl. I have a boy and a girl. And John David is always just, you know, happy, go lucky, carefree, you know, he just wants to go outside and jump on the trampoline. He wants to play with his friends on the computer, you know, nothing. He'll eat whatever I fix. He'll wear whatever I lay out. He doesn't care if his hair is combed. Nothing. He's just perfect. Girls are a whole nother ball. And you need your mother. You need a loving, guiding hand, somebody that can say, stand up, don't walk like a field hand. And they don't get hurt. You're loving them. You're helping them through all life's curveballs. These two little girls are with dad at a Connecticut vacation with extended family. Their mom is gone. I mean, how do you break something like that to two little girls? Ashley?
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Yeah, I, you know, I don't know, Nancy. You can't even imagine because depending on the age, they don't even necessarily understand what that means. And so every day they're going to still look for their mom and wonder where their mom is and try to grasp what it means that she's literally gone forever. But the other thing that bothers me is, of course it happens. That one spouse is somewhere with the kids and the other spouse has to travel back to work. But this, to me was the beginning of the story. To say he's in Connecticut with the kids, she's here at home and happens to then get killed the first night. Does this mean anything or not?
Nancy Grace
Take a listen to the questions the 911 operator poses to Dr. Patridis. Okay, and so you were there because they asked you to take care of the house, is that correct?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Mark, her husband called me to say, please can you check on her, because not like her not to show up to work and be late.
Nancy Grace
Okay, so. And I know you told me before, but when? After he called the truck and his wife because she wasn't at work.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Correct.
Nancy Grace
All right, in, in.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
I only talked to him once, and he, he gave me, he gave me the code number. He sounded a little, you know, whatever.
Nancy Grace
And he received the car from work saying she wasn't there.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
I. I don't know.
Nancy Grace
Okay, that's fine.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
You know, he's. He's her office manager.
Nancy Grace
Oh, she's the office manager of his business?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
No, he's the office manager of her medical practice.
Nancy Grace
Okay, right there, we're getting a lot of clarification. Did you hear that? To Amanda hall, our special guest joining us from WIK tv, Fort Myers. This is in her backyard. So this is a common misconception. The 911 operator is trying to figure out how this calm, cool, collected co worker, a male co worker, happens to show up at the home to find a dead body. And he says that the husband, Mark Seavers, out of town, far away, calls and says he found out she wasn't at work and had him go over and check on Dr. Seavers. His wife gives him the burglary code, the burglar alarm code. Why would he know that? Because he's the office manager. And at first you hear the 911 call operator say, oh, she's his office manager. And he says, no. Amanda hall, tell me what's your understanding is how did Dr. Petridis end up on the scene to find a dead body? Because I always look at who finds the body and who calls 911. Because that tells me a lot, circumstantially.
Amanda Hall
Yes, it does, Nancy. And the reason that he was there is because he was called by her husband, Mark. Mark was alerted that she hadn't shown up for work, which is very unlike her. You know, Teresa flew home a day ahead of the rest of the family just so that she could be at work. Monday morning. She had a late flight in Sunday night and was to see patients Monday morning. So when Monday morning rolled around and she wasn't there, the staff called Mark, who ran the office and said, hey, we haven't, we haven't heard from Dr. Sievers. She's not here.
Nancy Grace
I want you to take a listen to what our friends at ABC News says. Seavers returned to Florida alone, calling her husband to let him know she'd arrived safely. When she didn't show up for work.
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Nancy Grace
Hearing or hearing our friends there at local abc, the crime scene overwhelming. But as Amanda hall just told you, the crime scene seemed staged because no money was taken. There was a cache of guns there as well. Amanda Hall, I've never known there to have been alleged any type of sex attack, is that correct? Correct. So she's bludgeoned dead in the kitchen. And it's my understanding her pocketbook was there too. Right, Amanda?
Amanda Hall
Right. She came home, pulled into the garage, and went from the garage into the house, and that's where she was attacked.
Nancy Grace
You know, my first thought when this happened was the burglar alarm. James Shelnutt. And James, this is not a plug, but I'm coming out with a book in June called Don't Be a Victim. And I had to research and I included this case, case after case after case after case regarding burglar alarms locking your doors that night, that day I heard about Dr. Teresa Sievers being murdered. My first question was, what about a burglar alarm? It's hard for me to believe that a medical doctor with an office manager, husband and two little babies to take care of doesn't have a burglar alarm. I mean, you can get a burglar alarm for $99. It covers your whole house. And why wouldn't they have a burglar alarm? Then I found out, James, they did have a burglar alarm. And that was a brain twister for me. James.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yeah, absolutely. And so from everything I've researched, it indic Mark Sievers had actually told, I believe it was either his mother or her mother not to set the burglar alarm because he was afraid that the pets may set the alarm off.
Nancy Grace
Husband Mark Severs, convicted in the murder of his wife Teresa. The mother of his children, wants Rogers, Curtis Rogers, to testify for him and his attempt to get off death row. Hmm. Did anybody think these two might be helping each other? Has that dawned on anyone? Well, those two can plot and plan and scheme all they want, gnashing their teeth and twitching their tails. But this is what we learned in court as to the death, the murder of Dr. Sievers. Severs was a popular figure in her community. She had the quality like a Mother Teresa. She cared and she had nothing more than love.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
If she had nothing else to offer.
Nancy Grace
It would be her care and her love for the patient. Thinking about Dr. Teresa Sievers, and you were just hearing about how she was often called Mother Teresa because of the way that she treated her patients in the community. That was ABC News reporter Rena Neenan. But I want you to take a listen to something very odd that happened at the funeral. We were seeing her sisters on one side, and the look that we were getting wasn't a look of sadness, it was a look of hatred.
Ali Egan
Frank Paes and his wife Sandra say the look didn't just come from Dr. Seaver's sisters. They were getting the same look from the grieving widower.
Nancy Grace
I hugged him. What do you say? I said, mark, I am so sorry. I don't have words to say to you. And he squeezed me so tight, and nothing came out of his mouth. Then Sandra hugged him. And when Mark hugged Sandra, his teeth grinned. And it wasn't nothing of sorrow or sadness. The look was hatred. I stepped back. I said, holy. You are hearing our friend. I know you recognize that voice. Aaron Moriarty at CBS 48 Hours. A look of hate at the funeral. And Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychologist, joining me out of LA. Dr. Bethany, it's not that looking back, he concocted this at the time. He said he recoiled and was shocked at the look on the husband's face. Why did he somehow blame her family? Why? Why would hatred be a part of a funeral? That's the first thing after a death that's unsolved. You start looking at the crime scene, then at the funeral.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Nancy, can you imagine going to a funeral? Teresa Sievers is dead. Her husband's there. You expect him to be crying and grieving, and instead he's looking at a former employee with hatred. Tells me, first of all, he's worried about all the wrong things, but he's been worried about all the wrong things all along. He disarms the alarm because of the pets. His wife's coming home alone. He stays behind with the girls. If he's a real man, why not go home with your wife and help facilitate her going back to work? He's the office manager while she's out there seeing patients. I mean, on the face of it, Nothing wrong with that. But he's sending her out to work while he's doing the easy work behind the desk. I mean, all along, this whole story, this husband has never acted like a husband. So the fact that he is glaring hatefully at one of the attendees of the funeral tells me that he's actually trying. If he indeed is the one who did it, he's trying to shift the blame onto somebody else.
Nancy Grace
Let me go to Amanda hall, special guest joining us from Wink tv, Fort Myers, Florida. Amanda, what do we know about the husband? And yes, I know he was in Connecticut at the time. What do we know about Mark Sievers? Where is he from? What's his deal?
Amanda Hall
Well, we know that the two met while he was a nurse and she was a new doctor practicing in St. Petersburg, Florida. We know that they married very quickly, had their first daughter shortly after they were married on the beach. They had two girls, 11 and 8 years old at the time. And he became the office manager of her practice, propping her up to do what she did best. And that was treating people with a blend of traditional medicine and holistic medicine. And he was really the more of the caregiver for the two girls. Neighbors said that they always saw him, you know, outside playing with them and attending to the two daughters.
Nancy Grace
Where did you tell me he's from, Amanda, to start with, Mark Sievers grew.
Amanda Hall
Up in a little small town in Missouri.
Nancy Grace
Okay, I want to go to Dr. Tim Gallagher, medical examiner. I want you to describe, if you could, the wounds to Dr. Seaver's body. And again, there was no sex attack and no theft or burglary from her person or the home.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
So her wounds were concentrated mostly on the back of her head. So they were the crescent shaped impressions that a hammer would make when they strike soft flesh. So she had lacerations to the back of her head. There was extensive bleeding. There was physical brain damage done. The shards of the broken skull had penetrated into her brain, and there was massive bleeding.
Nancy Grace
What did you just say about shards of the skull?
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Well, when the skull is broken, they are broken into very sharp pieces. And as the attack continues, as the hammer keeps now striking, these pieces of bone, these loose pieces of sharp bone are now being driven into the actual brain, causing the tearing of the brain tissue and cutting of the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain.
Nancy Grace
I'm just trying to think about this massive attack on this tiny woman. And Amanda hall, reporter, Wienk TV in Fort Myers. Amanda, most of the blows were to the back of the head. Did she ever Even get a chance to fight back.
Amanda Hall
No, Nancy, she didn't. You know, she rolled her suitcase into an attack, an ambush.
Nancy Grace
So her suitcase was still sitting there.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Her suitcase was.
Amanda Hall
Was still in the garage. She had just, you know, walked in the door. Hadn't had a chance to unpack anything. Hadn't even had a chance to change her clothes or do anything.
Nancy Grace
This is telling me so much about the attack. James Shell nut, 27 years, Atlanta metro SWAT officer. Now lawyer. James Shelnutt. Somebody. I mean, it's no coincidence that somebody is right there in the kitchen as she walks in from the garage, parks her car in the garage, gets her suitcase out of the car, still sitting there in the garage. She walks in the kitchen and bam, she's attacked. Nothing stolen, nothing taken from her. Not her pocketbook, not her cell phone, nothing. All that money they had hidden in various spots, the guns that the husband kept, nothing taken, no sex attack. But someone is lurking right there. She can't even get past the kitchen. They're waiting for her to come through that garage door.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Yeah, all of this adds up to the fact that you need to start looking at someone who is closely connected to this victim. This is not something random. This. There's too many coincidences. The coincidence about the husband, you know, not flying back. The coincidence about the alarm not being set. She walks into a house. There's no other motive evident at that point. You start where you traditionally start.
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Husband turned killer Mark Seaver's legal team is continuing their death sentence appeal as a new hearing approaches. I thought he was gone. I thought he would be in jail the rest of his life until he got the death penalty. But no, he's back causing stink recall. Sievers was found guilty of hiring two men, his high school buddy, Curtis Wright, AKA Doppelganger. They look exactly alike. And Jimmy Rogers, a near do well to carry out a savage killing of his wife there at the couple's homes and home in Bonita Springs, Florida.
Ali Egan
Why?
Nancy Grace
He didn't want to work like all of us have to do. He wanted the payout on her 4.43 million dollar life insurance policy. Wright was a longtime friend of Sievers, as I mentioned before, and Rogers. The two of them carried out the attack while the husband, Mark Severs, made himself scarce and gave himself an alibi. Mmm.
Amanda Hall
Mmm.
Nancy Grace
Well, I don't care what those killers are planning behind bars. This is what I know happened at trial.
Ali Egan
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Who in the hay are these two? You're hearing CBS Aaron Moriarty describing two guys, Curtis Wainwright and Jimmy Ray Rogers. Coincidentally, Curtis Wainwright, longtime friend of Dr. Seaver's husband, Mark. Not only that, if you look at the two of them side to side, they look like twin brothers that often joke that their brother's from another mother. They look identical to each other and they grew up together and went to high school together. What were they doing in town? What were they doing near Theresa Seaver's home? A real red flag is then raised. Listen to Erin Moriarty.
Ali Egan
When investigators uncovered five life insurance policies for Teresa totaling more than $4 million, it was a red flag. So was that trip Mark made to Missouri to be Wainwright's best man. And as it turns out, the other suspect, Jimmy Ray Rogers, was also a wedding guest. Taylor Shoemaker, Jimmy's girlfriend claimed this was a murder for hire and that Jimmy was supposed to to be paid $10,000. Eight months after Teresa Sievers was killed, Wainwright, facing a possible death sentence, suddenly turned on his brother from another mother. And he took a deal.
Nancy Grace
You are hearing our friend Erin Moriarty straight out to Amanda hall, reporter, Wink tv, Fort Myers. How did these three hook up? Tell me the whole thing. Amanda Hall.
Amanda Hall
Okay. Wayne Wright is a childhood friend, as you heard of Mark Stevers. They called themselves brothers from another mother, but they really looked like real brothers. They looked like twins. So Wainwright is getting married and Mark Sievers is his best man. And they started planning this while he was there for the wedding. Mark is saying that his wife is going to leave him and he's worried that he can't pay to battle her for custody of their two daughters and that his only option is for Teresa to die. And so he hires Wayne to do the job. Says he'll pay him $100,000 from the insurance money. And then Wayne brings in Jimmy the Rogers Hammer, A man that he met while they were both serving time in prison for other crimes. So Mark hires Wayne and Wayne brings in the Hammer.
Nancy Grace
Okay, now that's a heck of a nickname. You know, I gotta go to shrink on that. Dr. Bethany Marshall, the Hammer.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
Well, it's interesting he called himself the Hammer because that's what he used to bludgeon the victim to death. And he did it quite aggressively, quite maliciously. And Nancy, this was overkill. When Dr. Gallagher was talking about Char's of the skull and the brain, I realized they could have hit her once and killed her. They hit her multiple times. So Jimmy the Hammer has this fetishized interest in using a hammer on a woman. Imagine what you want from that. But this is an extremely aggressive man.
Nancy Grace
Amanda, to backtrack. How many times was she bludgeoned with the hammer?
Amanda Hall
Dozens. At least.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Least.
Amanda Hall
17. We know from the autopsy report that there were 17 crescent shaped wounds to.
Nancy Grace
The back of her head to Dr. Tim Gallagher. 17? I thought there were 18.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
Well, sometimes it's difficult to say exactly.
Dr. Bethany Marshall
How many there are when they're.
Dr. Tim Gallagher
When the number is so high a lot of them are intersecting and a lot of them obscure the one underneath it. So 17 is probably a very conservative number that they could definitively say. But often it's Quite more than that.
Nancy Grace
I'm just, just so repelled at this 17, at least 17 blows to the back of her head with what I understand is a claw hammer on this tiny, tiny little lady. To Ashley Wilcott Judge and trial lawyer Anchor, Court TV Ashley, did you hear what Amanda hall said? That according to these two co defendants, of course they, who knows if they're telling the truth, they're shifting all the blame to somebody else and off themselves. Look at him, not at me. They say that at one of their weddings he basically said we're gonna split, we're gonna battle for custody, I have to kill her. Why not just have joint custody? Ashley, isn't that a great question that we continue to entertain on this show? Because their defendant after defendant chooses to kill someone instead of getting a divorce or having joint custody. You know, who knows why? You can't answer the why. You can only look at what is the evidence show. And going after the person that the evidence showed did such a terrible thing. You know, just thinking through all of the evidence. To Amanda Hall Reporter, WIKTV As a former prosecutor, you have to assess the witnesses and see their faults. And here these two, Curtis Wainwright, the childhood friend of the husband, Mark Severs all the way through high school, together as an identical twin deceivers. And Jimmy Ray Rogers, nicknamed the hammer, just 29 years old. They're POCs, pieces of crap, okay? Technical legal term. So why should I believe them? What can you tell me about these two?
Amanda Hall
Wainwright and Jimmie Rogers are both 1100 miles away from Bonita Springs in a small town in the middle of Missouri. And the way those two are connected was from a stint in prison. So that tells you a little bit about the character and the kind of people that they are. Jimmie Rogers is rumored to have been a hitman before. In fact it's something that he regularly bragged about. And that's why Wayne ultimately brought him in, because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to go through with it. So he needed a guy who has done it before and would do it again. And he knew that he'd be the one to actually kill her and go through with it.
Nancy Grace
So 51 year old Curtis Wayne Wright went to school all the way through with Mark Seavers, childhood friends in Missouri. And Severs moves to Florida, meets Teresa, they marry. Then when Mark Sievers decides he needs a murder done and he needs a hitman, Curtis Wainwright contacts Jimmy Ray Rogers who he met in jail. 29 year old Rogers, aka the Hammer. Now it would be so easy for these two to blame Mark Seavers to take the heat off of them. But then enter another witness.
Ali Egan
Less than an hour later in the.
Nancy Grace
Early morning hours of Monday, June 29.
Ali Egan
The GPS shows Jimmy and Wayne on the highway headed northbound for the 17 hour drive back to Missouri. The electronic trail would eventually lead detectives to Jimmy Ray Rogers door. Just like Wayne, he denied being involved. But when they pulled in Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor, what a story she had to tell. He had asked her to throw out parts of his cell phone and a jumpsuit.
Nancy Grace
What a couple of demons you know. If the killer is the devil, these two are his minions. Now we know that Curtis Wainwright, the childhood friend, pleads guilty to second degree murder. Then Rogers, so called the Hammer, goes to trial and is convicted of second degree murder. But the case against Mark Seavers take a listen in the Circuit Court of the 20th Judicial Circuit in and for Lee County, Florida Criminal Action State of Florida vs Mark D. Sivers case number 15 cf 673B. Verdict we the jury find as follows as to the defendant in this case. Count one First Degree Murder. The defense defendant is guilty of first degree murder. Mark Seavers challenging his death sentence. Who'd have thunk it? Well, me for one. We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye friend.
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Friday Night Special: Gorgeous Mom/Doctor Found Bludgeoned Dead on Kitchen Floor. Hubby Appeals Death Sentence
Date: November 1, 2025
Host: Nancy Grace
Guests: Dr. Bethany Marshall (psychoanalyst), Amanda Hall (investigative reporter, WINK TV), Dr. Tim Gallagher (medical examiner), Ashley Wilcott (judge/trial lawyer), James Shelnutt (former SWAT officer, now lawyer)
This episode marks the 10th anniversary of the shocking murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers—a respected holistic physician, devoted mother of two, and wife. Nancy Grace revisits the gruesome details and unraveling of the investigation that led to the conviction and death sentence of Dr. Sievers’ husband, Mark Sievers, who orchestrated her murder with the assistance of his close friend and an accomplice. As Mark Sievers now appeals his sentence, the discussion explores the timeline, forensic discoveries, character insights, and the devastating impact on Sievers’ children. The episode analyzes key evidence, the flawed staging of the crime, and the psychological motives behind the crime.
“Her husband, Mark Sievers, and his high school buddy, who was a doppelganger, get together and murder his wife, the mother of their two little girls... How did he repay her? By killing her.”
— Nancy Grace [02:56]
“This is a doctor who walks into a crime scene. The woman’s back of her head is bashed in. She’s still wearing her stiletto shoes. He is the first one on the scene. So yes, you have to be authoritative. You have to be calm in the midst of the storm. But there’s also this anxiety about how you are going to come across as you report the incident.”
— Dr. Bethany Marshall [10:00]
“When police came in... they found blood in the kitchen and they found Teresa Severs bludgeoned to death with the claw end of a hammer...17 crescent-shaped cuts to her head.”
— Amanda Hall [12:04]
“The crime scene was staged to make it look like a break in, to make it look like a robbery. They stuffed cash in different parts of the home and there was a whole cache of guns that were untouched.”
— Amanda Hall [13:14]
“She was ambushed right as she came home from the airport. Was someone following her? Did someone know her flight plan? Or was it just a burglary gone wrong?... she still had on her clothes, hadn’t gone back to change.”
— Nancy Grace [07:02]
“He disarms the alarm because of the pets. His wife’s coming home alone. He stays behind with the girls. If he’s a real man, why not go home with your wife and help facilitate her going back to work?”
— Dr. Bethany Marshall [30:19]
“I hugged him. What do you say? I said, Mark, I am so sorry. I don’t have words to say to you. And he squeezed me so tight, and nothing came out of his mouth... When Mark hugged Sandra, his teeth grinned. And it wasn’t nothing of sorrow or sadness. The look was hatred.”
— Nancy Grace (quoting Aaron Moriarty, CBS 48 Hours) [29:13]
“He wanted the payout on her 4.43 million dollar life insurance policy. Wright was a longtime friend of Sievers, as I mentioned before, and Rogers. The two of them carried out the attack while the husband, Mark Sievers, made himself scarce and gave himself an alibi.”
— Nancy Grace [41:12]
“Taylor Shoemaker, Jimmy’s girlfriend, claimed this was a murder for hire and that Jimmy was supposed to be paid $10,000... Eight months after Teresa Sievers was killed, Wainwright, facing a possible death sentence, suddenly turned on his brother from another mother. And he took a deal.”
— Nancy Grace [42:33]
“Says he’ll pay him $100,000 from the insurance money. And then Wayne brings in Jimmy the Rogers Hammer, a man that he met while they were both serving time in prison for other crimes.”
— Amanda Hall [43:30]
“They hit her multiple times. So Jimmy the Hammer has this fetishized interest in using a hammer on a woman. Imagine what you want from that. But this is an extremely aggressive man.”
— Dr. Bethany Marshall [44:34]
“Who’d have thunk it? Well, me for one. We wait as justice unfolds.”
— Nancy Grace [49:19]
On the devastation of loss for Sievers’ children:
“These two little girls are with dad at a Connecticut vacation with extended family. Their mom is gone. I mean, how do you break something like that to two little girls?”
— Nancy Grace [21:41]
On the aftermath for the community:
“Sievers was a popular figure in her community. She had the quality like a Mother Teresa. She cared and she had nothing more than love… her care and her love for the patient.”
— Nancy Grace [28:25]
On the investigation and trust in witnesses (the killers):
“As a former prosecutor, you have to assess the witnesses and see their faults. And here these two, Curtis Wainwright... and Jimmy Ray Rogers, nicknamed the hammer... they’re POCs, pieces of crap, okay? Technical legal term. So why should I believe them?”
— Nancy Grace [46:46]
Consistent with Nancy Grace’s signature approach—direct, emotional, justice-driven, and personally invested. The tone is urgent, compassionate to the victim, scathing towards the perpetrators, and elastic between technical forensic detail and heartfelt commentary on family and justice.
The episode weaves together the facts with emotional depth—remembering Dr. Teresa Sievers as both a victim and a devoted mother, highlighting the cold calculation of her killers, and emphasizing the enduring toll on those left behind. The podcast underscores the importance of not letting such crimes fade from memory, while scrutinizing the legal maneuvers that threaten to reopen old wounds.
"We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye friend."
— Nancy Grace [49:19]