Mark Sievers Granted Death Sentence Appeal Extension in Murder of Gorgeous Mom/Doctor Found Bludgeoned Dead on Kitchen Floor

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Episode: Mark Sievers Granted Death Sentence Appeal Extension in Murder of Gorgeous Mom/Doctor Found Bludgeoned Dead on Kitchen Floor
Date: December 7, 2025
Host: Nancy Grace
Featured Guests:

• Dr. Bethany Marshall (Psychoanalyst)
• Ashley Wilcott (Judge & Trial Lawyer, Court TV Anchor)
• James Shelnutt (Former SWAT, Metro Major Case, Attorney)
• Amanda Hall (Investigative Reporter, WINK-TV, Fort Myers)
• Dr. Tim Gallagher (Medical Examiner)

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode delves into the horrifying murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers—doctor, mother, and beloved community member—bludgeoned to death in her Florida home in 2015, and the recent developments in her killer husband Mark Sievers’ death sentence appeal. Nancy Grace and her expert guests scrutinize key aspects of the crime, conspiracy, investigation, and the emotional fallout for Sievers’ family and friends, while unpacking the disturbing details of the case and reflecting on the failures and betrayals that contributed to the tragedy.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Murder and Crime Scene

• Timeline & Discovery:

  • Dr. Teresa Sievers was found dead on her kitchen floor after flying home alone from a family trip, with her husband and daughters still in Connecticut.
  • A coworker, Dr. Petrides, discovered her body after being asked by Mark Sievers (her husband) to do a welfare check when Teresa didn’t show up for work.
    • “She was still wearing the shoes... she was wearing the night before... She came home from a family vacation... That told me a lot about the timeline.” – Nancy Grace (06:21)

• Crime Scene Details:

  • Dr. Sievers was bludgeoned with a hammer, suffering at least 17 crescent-shaped wounds to the back of her head, the attack so severe that skull fragments penetrated her brain.
    • “She had lacerations to the back of her head... shards of the broken skull had penetrated into her brain and there was massive bleeding.” – Dr. Tim Gallagher (29:37, 30:07)
  • The scene had been staged to look like a burglary: cash was left in hidden places, guns were untouched, nothing was stolen, and there was no evidence of sexual assault.
    • “The other thing they found was... the crime scene was staged to make it look like a break in, to make it look like a robbery.” – Amanda Hall (12:34)

The Conspiracy Unfolds

• Motive:

  • Mark Sievers, facing marital discord and fearful he’d lose custody of his daughters, orchestrated his wife’s murder to claim her $4.43 million life insurance.
    • “He wanted the payout on her $4.43 million dollar life insurance policy.” – Nancy Grace (35:08)

• The Killers:

  • Mark Sievers recruited his high school best friend, Curtis Wayne Wright—often described as his “doppelganger”—who then involved Jimmy Ray Rogers (“The Hammer”), a violent ex-con.
  • The plan was hatched while Sievers attended Wright’s wedding in Missouri.
    • “Mark is saying... his only option is for Teresa to die. And so he hires Wayne to do the job. Says he’ll pay him a hundred thousand dollars 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.” – Amanda Hall (38:05)
  • Both Wright and Rogers were ultimately convicted; Wright took a plea deal and testified against his co-conspirators.
  • GPS and electronic trails placed the killers driving back to Missouri within hours of the murder.

Behavioral Red Flags & Aftermath

• Suspicious Actions & Behavior:

  • Mark Sievers manipulated the household details before the murder—significantly, he requested the burglar alarm remain disarmed “for the pets.”
    • “Mark Sievers had actually told... not to set the burglar alarm because he was afraid that the pets may set the alarm off.” – James Shelnutt (24:16)
  • At Dr. Sievers’ funeral, attendees noticed Mark exhibiting coldness and even hatred toward family and guests instead of grief.
    • “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...” – Erin Moriarty via Nancy Grace (25:58)

• Failure to Divorce Rather Than Kill:

  • The panel questions, as in many domestic homicide cases, why murder seemed preferable to separation or custody battles.
    • “Why not just have joint custody...? Defendant after defendant chooses to kill someone instead of getting a divorce or having joint custody.” – Nancy Grace & Ashley Wilcott (41:01)

• Victim’s Impact:

  • Dr. Sievers was renowned for her compassionate, holistic medical practice and devotion to her daughters and community. Community members compared her to “Mother Teresa.”
    • “She had the quality like a Mother Teresa... If she had nothing else to offer, it would be her care and her love for the patient.” – ABC’s Rena Neenan (25:15)

Appeal Developments

• Mark Sievers’ Appeal:

  • Despite overwhelming evidence and a conviction for first-degree murder, Mark Sievers recently secured a court extension to file closing arguments for his appeal, citing complex legal workloads on his attorneys.
    • “A judge has granted an extension for closing arguments in Mark Seaver’s latest appeal...” – Nancy Grace (44:48)
  • His accomplice, Jimmy Ray Rogers, also maintains Sievers’ innocence in recent legal filings.

• Procedural Updates:

  • The new deadline for closing arguments in the appeal is set for January 13.
  • Details from court documents surfaced during the podcast, including accomplice Rogers’ statements attempting to lessen his own involvement.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Mark Sievers:
  • “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.” – Nancy Grace (02:24)
• On the Attack:
  • “I hit her with the hammer. I actually think she thought I was Mark because she said, why?” – Curtis Wayne Wright (quoted) (04:19)
• Crime Scene Staging:
  • “They stuffed cash in different parts of the home and there was a whole cache of guns that were untouched.” – Amanda Hall (12:34)
• At the Funeral:
  • “You expect him to be crying and grieving, and instead he’s looking at a former employee with hatred... He’s been worried about all the wrong things all along... If he’s a real man, why not go home with your wife and help facilitate her going back to work?” – Dr. Bethany Marshall (27:14)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:24] Nancy recaps the crime, the life of Dr. Sievers, and the husband’s betrayal.
• [04:19] Key testimony: Curtis Wayne Wright describes the attack.
• [05:22–08:41] Playback and breakdown of the chilling 911 call.
• [11:23] Amanda Hall describes the crime scene and excessive violence.
• [12:34] Details on how the crime scene was staged as a burglary.
• [15:32] Recap and emotional resonance: the impact on Dr. Sievers’ daughters.
• [25:15] Community remembers Dr. Sievers as “Mother Teresa.”
• [25:45] Family and friends discuss Mark Sievers’ disturbing behavior at the funeral.
• [29:37] Dr. Gallagher explains the nature of the wounds.
• [38:05] How the murder-for-hire plot was arranged among friends and criminals.
• [44:38] Reading of the court verdict and latest updates on the appeal process.
• [46:08] Rogers’ latest claims about the events and his alleged limited role.

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Tone and Language

The episode maintains Nancy Grace’s signature blend of intensity, determination for justice, and empathy for victims. The panel mixes clinical analysis, procedural expertise, and emotional reflection—making the horror and heartbreak of the crime palpable, while never letting go of the search for answers in the aftermath.

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Conclusion

This episode offers a comprehensive breakdown of the brutal murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers, exposes the chilling dynamics of the conspiracy to kill, and explains why the case continues to grip Florida and the nation—especially as Mark Sievers, “the husband that won’t go away,” continues to fight his death sentence despite overwhelming evidence. Listeners are left with a vivid sense of both the facts and the emotional resonance of the case, as well as the unanswered questions about evil, betrayal, and the price of justice.

Transcript

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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 Severs, 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 Seavers 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.

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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. Okay, stay on the line, sir. Hold on. Stand the line. Yeah. Yes.

[A]

Okay, you're doing very well.

[B]

Good job. Just a moment, we're going to connect you. They're going to ask for the address.

What is the address of the emergency? 21034 Jarvis Road. Okay, and is that a house or an apartment, sir? A house. Tell me exactly what happened. My friend Sievers, 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 she called me and I was on my way into work so I swung by and she's dead on the floor and there's a hammer at the side and she's bashed in the back of the head.

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You are hearing the 911 call from a coworker, 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 was 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. Okay.

[B]

Yes.

Sheriff office, are you on the way?

[A]

Yes, we are.

[B]

Okay. All right.

[A]

And so you said you're a doctor?

[B]

Yes, I am. Okay, are you with her now? I'm outside of the house because I don't know if there's anybody in the house.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All right.

[A]

So how old is Theresa?

[B]

She's 50s, 47ish. All right, sir, and is she awake? No, she's gathered on the floor. She's cold. Back of her head is Bastion, and there's blood everywhere.

Okay. All right, so I do have paramedics, 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. Be sure. Yeah, I'm gonna stay here till I get here because, you know, I say I don't know if anyone help. Okay, was right.

[A]

All right, just stay on the line.

[B]

Okay. The sheriff's office has questions and they're going to continue on what to do next. Okay. Sir, are you inside the residence fence? No, I'm not. I'm standing in the driveway.

[A]

Okay, and then when you walked inside the house, you said the blood was dry or what did you say?

[B]

Yeah, half the blood is dry. Half the blood. She was cold. She was dead cold.

[A]

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?

[B]

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 benzodiazepine. She called me up 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 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 with me, an all star.

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Panel today to break it down, put it back together again. Of course, in addition to Dr. Bethany Marshall, with me, judge and trial Lawyer Anchor Court TV Ashley Wilcott. You can find her at ashleywilcott.com James Shellnut, 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?

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NANCY when police came in In June of 2015, they came inside the Seaver's home and they found blood in the kitch and they found Teresa Sievers bludgeoned to death with the claw end of a hammer. Blood.

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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.

[B]

Okay, we're not talking about that kind of blood.

[A]

Nancy, what do you mean by blood? Just a tiny drop. Tell me the whole thing, Amanda.

[B]

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.

[A]

What else did they find, Amanda?

[B]

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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Crime Stories with 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 Savers.

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The hammer sitting next to her. And you had left it. And did you touch anything? No, I did not touch anything. I touched her. I shook her a little bit.

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All right, one moment.

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You're doing really well.

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So the last time you had seen her is what time?

[B]

Probably two weeks, three weeks ago. Two or three weeks ago. Okay.

[A]

And you said she returned today?

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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 o'. Clock. 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 purses on the countertop and she didn't answer. I pounded, pounded. And he gave me the key code to get into the glass 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.

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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 to, 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. And 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 Wilcott, 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?

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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?

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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?

[B]

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.

[A]

Okay, so. And I know you told me before, but when?

[B]

After he called the truck on his wife because.

She wasn't at work. Correct.

[A]

All right, in, in.

[B]

I only talked to him once, and he, he gave me. He gave me the code number. He sounded a little, you know.

Whatever.

[A]

He received a call from work saying she wasn't there.

[B]

I. I don't know.

[A]

Okay, that's fine.

[B]

You know, he's. He's her office manager.

[A]

Oh, she's the office manager of his business?

[B]

No, he's the office manager of her medical practice.

[A]

Okay, right there, we're getting a lot of clarification. Did you hear that? To Amanda hall, our special guest, joining us from W I N K, Wink 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.

[B]

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.

[A]

I want you to take a listen to what our friends at ABC News says.

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Seavers returned to Florida alone, calling her husband to let him know she'd arrived safely. When she didn't show up for work Monday morning, worried colleagues called police who discovered her body.

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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?

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Correct.

[A]

So she's bludgeoned dead in the kitchen. And it's my understanding her pocketbook was there too. Right, Amanda?

[B]

Right. She came home, pulled into the garage and went from the garage into the house and that's where she was attacked.

[A]

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. Theresa 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.

[B]

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.

[A]

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. 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. Sievers was a popular fixture in her community.

[B]

She had the quality like a Mother Teresa she cared and she had nothing more than love. If she had nothing else to offer, it would be her care and her love for the patient.

[A]

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.

[B]

We were seeing her sisters on one, and the look that we were getting.

[A]

Wasn'T a look of sadness, it was look of hatred.

[B]

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.

[A]

I hugged him.

[B]

What do you say?

[A]

I said, mark, I am so sorry. I don't have words to say to you.

[B]

And he squeezed me so tight and.

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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?

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Why?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

[A]

Where did you tell me he's from.

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Amanda, to start with, Mark Sievers grew up in a little small town in Missouri.

[A]

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.

[B]

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.

[A]

What did you just say about shards of the skull?

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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.

[A]

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?

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No, Nancy, she didn't. You know, she rolled her suitcase into an attack, an ambush.

[A]

So her suitcase was still sitting there.

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Her suitcase was. 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.

[A]

This is telling me so much about the attack. James Shell nut, 27 years, Atlanta metro major SWAT officer, now lawyer. James shelnut 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.

[B]

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 a 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 ne' er do well to carry out a savage killing of his wife there at the couple's homes and home in Bonita Springs, Florida. Why? 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 Seavers, 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.

Well, I don't care what those killers are planning behind bars. This is what I know happened at trial.

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Trash bags, flushable, wet wipes, black towels, black shoes and a lock picking kit. They paid cash for their purchase with a $100 bill.

[A]

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 they're brothers 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 Teresa Sievers home. A real red flag as then raised. Listen to Erin Moriarty.

[B]

When investigators uncovered five life insurance policies for Theresa totaling more than $4 million, it was a red flag. So was that trip Mark made to.

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Missouri to be Wainwright's best man.

[B]

And as it turns out, the other suspect, Jimmy Ray Rogers, was also a wedding guest. Taylor, another 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.

[A]

And he took a deal. 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.

[B]

Okay. Wainwright is a childhood friend, as you heard of Mark Sievers. 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 Seavers 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.

[A]

Okay, now that's a heck of a nickname. You know, I gotta go to shrink on that. Dr. Bethany Marshall, the Hammer.

[B]

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 sharks of the skull and the brain, I realized they could have hit her once and killed her. They killed. 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.

[A]

Amanda, to backtrack. How many times is she bludgeoned with the hammer?

[B]

Dozens. At least. At least 17. We know from the autopsy report that there were 17 crescent shaped wounds to.

[A]

The back of her head to Dr. Tim Gallagher. 17. I thought there were 18.

[B]

Well, sometimes it's difficult to say exactly how many there are when they're. 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.

[A]

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, 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 going to split, we're going to 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?

[B]

Because their defendant after defendant chooses to.

[A]

Kill someone instead of getting a divorce or having joint custody.

[B]

You know, who knows why?

[A]

You can't answer the why. You can only look at what does the evidence show.

[B]

And going after the person that the.

[A]

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 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?

[B]

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.

[A]

So 51 year old Curtis Wayne Wright went to school all the way through with Mark Seavers. Childhood friends in Missouri. And Sievers 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 Sievers to take the heat off of them. But then enter another witness. Less than an hour later in the early morning hours of Monday, June 29th.

[B]

Ninth the GPS shows Jimmy and Wayne on the highway headed northbound for the.

[A]

17 hour drive back to Missouri.

[B]

The electronic trail would eventually lead detectives to Jimmy Ray Rogers door.

[A]

Just like Wayne, he denied being involved.

[B]

But when they pulled in Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor, what a story she had to tell. He asked her to throw up parts.

[A]

Of his cell phone and a jumpsuit. 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.

[B]

As to the defendant in this case.

[A]

Count one first degree murder. The defendant defendant is guilty of first degree murder. Mark se challenging his death sentence.

[B]

A judge has granted an extension for.

[A]

Closing arguments in Mark Seaver's latest appeal.

[B]

State prosecutors and Mark Seaver's defense had.

[A]

45 days to file written closing arguments.

[B]

It was due a week from Monday, December 15th.

[A]

Mark Seaver's mother and stepmother testified in court at his October 13th appeal hearing.

[B]

Jimmy Ray Rogers, one of Seaver's convicted.

[A]

Accomplices also maintains seaver is innocent. November 19, seaver's post conviction attorneys filed.

[B]

A motion seeking the time extension. They cited the impending execution of another.

[A]

Death row inmate they represented. Lee Circuit Judge Bruce Kyle granted the extension.

[B]

January 13th is the new 30 day deadline.

[A]

Jimmy Ray Rogers is also appealing his conviction. According to Jimmy Ray Rogers, Curtis Wayne.

[B]

Wright worked in the Sievers Bonita Springs.

[A]

Home doing computer work as well as painting jobs.

[B]

According to Rogers, Wright asked him if he wanted to drive to Florida. Speaking of the trip for weeks, Rogers said after a 19 hour drive they.

[A]

Parked in the Siebers driveway but no one was home.

[B]

Rogers says Wright had a traumatic brain.

[A]

Injury years before which causes him to get dates and times mixed. So they drove to the beach.

[B]

When they came back, Teresa Sievers was home. Rogers said Wayne explained he messed up the times but they argued as Teresa told them they were a week early.

[A]

All three walked into the garage, which.

[B]

Teresa Savers closed behind them. The argument continued as she unloaded a.

[A]

Van, with Wright becoming frustrated trying to hold his temper. Roger says then Teresa Seaver said she would fire Wright.

[B]

Wright then grabbed a hammer and hit her. He says she survived the initial attack near their deep freezer and ran into the kitchen.

[A]

Wright chased her.

[B]

Rogers says he chased two yelling for Wright to stop.

[A]

He says in the kitchen he saw.

[B]

Wright swinging Teresa Sievers to the ground, holding her by her hair.

[A]

Then Wright struck Teresa Sievers with the hammer over and over. Wright then said the pair needed to make the murder look like a burglary gone wrong.

[B]

Rogers said he feared for his life.

[A]

And did not alert authorities. We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye, friend.

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