But why did two men drive 1,000 miles to kill a woman? "Mark called from Florida and he said, 'What happened?' Prosecutors in the murder trial of Jimmy Ray Rodgers, 29, revealed the ostensible motive behind the brutal 2015 murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers, 46. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. "We just drifted apart," she said recently from her home in Illinois. Now, here is where things stand for each convict: Wrights attorney on Monday said she hopes her clients sentencing brings some closure to Teresa Sievers family. me and my children have to move out of our home due to very horrible situation and only have 72 hours to find an new one," Shomaker wrote in the page. One of the biggest issues people are dealing with when it comes to insurance after Hurricane Ian is property damage. Hunter says this shows conspiracy. Wright was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Feb.. Would love your thoughts, please comment. At the funeral, he gave a speech and said, "I was, and still am, the luckiest man in the world. pic.twitter.com/hL4rPtem3R, Law & Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) October 16, 2019. "My granddaughters have broken hearts that will never be mended, Groves said. "I remember him saying he's a really. GPS showed they drove the 17 hours back to Missouri in the early hours of Monday morning. Curtis Wayne Wright was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison in the homicide of Dr. Teresa Sievers. Rodger's girlfriend helped police with their investigation and told them that Rodgers had admitted to killing Teresa Sievers. ", Mark Sievers gives a personal statement to the judge before being sentenced to death. He was just 30. For Bolin, Wright was the life of the party, someone who was a lot of fun to be around. "I haven't talked to him since he was engaged to my little sister (Shelly) about 24 years ago.". The process, called garnishment, is legal, and the U.S. Department of Education can order it for someones wages, tax returns and Social Security [], A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after changing to a guilty plea in court on Monday. Shes very distraught, said Karen Wideman, Angela Wrights mother. [15], On September 14, 2017, Crime Watch Daily released a video segment focusing on the murder. Sievers's husband, Mark. The bride wore the dress she planned to marry Sievers in. I wish that there was a way, anything at all I could do to change what happened, Wright said as he turned around to look at the victims mother in the gallery. He believed Teresa was planning on leaving him and would take the kids. Becker, who married Wright in November 2011, said Wright mentioned Rodgers maybe three times throughout the course of their relationship, which she said lasted less than a year. Minutes before Judge Kyle signed off on Wrights plea deal, Groves addressed the court while standing feet away from the man who committed the egregious crime. Mark attended the funeral and walked down the church aisle with his two daughters, appearing distraught. In the summer of 2010, Rodgers was out on bond in Missouri, waiting to stand trial on a federal charge of possession of a firearm by a felon. Each episode has multiple titles, referencing the simultaneous storylines contained within. I had $10 You and your wife, Deborra-Lee I'm still a little bit in you've been a week Furness, have been married shock. #winknews pic.twitter.com/XODYYWH4wo, Amanda Hall (@AmandaHallWINK) December 12, 2019. On the morning of June 27, Wright had picked up a rental car, and Rodgers, and had driven 1,100 miles to Bonita Springs they had driven all day and all night. She was the seco Heres what you should know about the murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers: 48 HOURS IN 48 SECONDS: A hammer is discovered at the crime scene, but clues to solving the murder of a Florida doctor come from a digital trail that leads investigators to the killers doorstep https://t.co/8jXoY2OiPQ pic.twitter.com/BskgiVAAqb. I just take it all in.". On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. We will be completely grateful for every donation. Bolin remembers goofing around at the mall with Wright dressed in their togas before a toga party and riding around town with him looking for women. The men arrived at Teresa's home at approximately 6:00a.m. on the morning of Sunday, June 28, 2015. Juliette said thatin the construction industry its not unusual for applicants to have a record. Investigators used the GPS system as well as data from cell phone towers and security camera footage. About eight weeks later, on June 29, Dr. Sievers was found bludgeoned to death in her home in Bonita Springs. SATURDAY AT 10 P.M. ET/PT: Did a Florida man hire a look-a-like to kill his wife? Shortly after his brother went missing, Greg Bolin said he met Wright at a Denny's in Fenton, Missouri. (The investigation is) what I deem to be successful and on-track, continues to produce positive things we can affirmand reaffirm through evidence and other things, said Lee Sheriff Mike Scott. ", The paper reports Assistant State Attorney Cynthia Ross said, "This is only the first stage and there is the second phase that is coming next week, so it's time for us to get back to work.". For the second charge, he was sentenced to 30 years, to be served concurrently. Thats still is something thats viable, Scott said. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Wright was well liked and voted senior class president. The evidence was slowly pieced together, and police believed they knew what had happened. Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wayne murdered Teresa Sievers The police were eventually pointed in the direction of two residents of Missouri, Jimmy Rodgers, and Curtis Wayne Wright. If he doesn't stop now, he's going to graduate into killing people. Rodgers pregnant girlfriend, Taylor Shomaker, started a GoFundMe page Saturday, asking for help to find a new home for her and her other two children. "It's tiny," she said. It is pretty crazy. He's like, you know, this is a chance to stop him. "Other than at night when they're locked down, the doors are left open and they can come out into the day room," Schott said. Investigators believe he hired two men to kill his wife, Teresa, 46; Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright Jr charged with murder; Teresa was found dead in her Bonita Springs, Florida, home on June 29 Mary Ann Groves, Teresa Sievers mother, stood next toAssistant State Attorneys Cynthia RossandHamidHunter and made a victim impact statement before Wright was sentenced. Bolin moved to Illinois a few years after high school and said Wright grew close to his older brother, Ronnie Bolin, in his absence. "I wasn't going to have any part of running a pregnant girl off the road," he said. 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Mark Sievers was acting very oddly for a man who had just lost his wife. Rodgersis serving a six-month federal sentence for violating his probation when he traveled out of the state, as he was seen in a south Fort Myers Wal-Mart with Wright buying itemsthe day before the murder. Wind gusts will not become as strong as yesterday. While Mark had initially been cooperative and handed over his cell phone to investigators, he later refused to cooperate. Years before he married Teresa in 2003, Mark Sievers was engaged to a woman named Shelley Fryer. "Everybody knowseverybody. 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Tyler Juliette, who operates JV Contracting in Cadet, Mo., said that he has since let Rodgers go. When word of Teresas death became public knowledge, other theories started to circulate. "I think he's a sociopath. Wright had done some work on the computers at Teresas clinic and Sievers had been best man at Wrights wedding. Im sorry.. With God as my witness, that's what that cop said to me.". "She said they're trying to railroad him," Wideman said of her daughter. According to South Trail Fire, crews from Engines 61 and Rescue 61 responded to the brutal scene of the crash. Mark also wanted Teresa killed so he could claim life insurance money. Any time youre moving an inmate, theres an escape risk.". "He saw me," Bolin said, "and he just got in his car and left. 0 HEAD 1 SOUR PAF 2 NAME Personal Ancestral File 2 VERS 4.0.4.18 2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street 4 CONT Salt Lake City, U "I think if a lot of people are honest or truthful, just knowing him or meeting him, you would probably like him," Bolin said. Police also turned their attention to patients who might have had an issue with Teresa whose focused determination could sometimes come across as abrasive but any leads came to nothing. Police charged a homeless man with first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed criminal action and attempted forcible rape in the killing. A sedan was in the left turning lane going North on Ben Hill Griffin Parkway, [], Saturday morning fires burned in Collier County for more than 12 hours and spanned more than 300 acres is only 25% contained. Sievers was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the plot to kill his wife. While Curtis Wayne Wright Jr., 47, sits in a Missouri jail on murder charges in the death of Dr. Teresa Sievers, his wife of less than four monthsis again dealing with a tragic situation. "What I didn't know was apparently in his brain, he was hatching his first murder plot.". Teresa Sievers'bodywas discovered the morning of June 29 when workers at her Esteroholistic medical practice, Restorative Health & Healing Center,became concerned when she did not arrive at the office as planned. Since the murder, information has surfaced showing Mark Sievers and Wright had a connection that predates the Sieverses' marriage. List of death row inmates in the United States, "On her birthday, friends and family remember slain Bonita doctor", "Sievers a year later: Lives that disappeared behind the headlines", "Who killed Dr. Teresa Sievers? Sievers had conspired to kill his wife and had hired his best friend to help him. Mark, her husband of over 10 years, stayed with the girls. Were they connected? Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. was 51 at the time of his sentencing. Teresa Sievers was her familys strength, inspiration and caretaker, her mother said. Just like she was for Mark Sievers sentencing and Jimmy Rodgers, too. Through a relative, Shomaker declined to be interviewed. I cant and it will be with me for the rest of my life and Im truly sorry.. I didn't believe what he said, but he was quite convincing.". In 1996, she graduated from the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica. [9] On January 3, 2020, Judge Bruce Kyle sentenced him to death. The judge told him, I judge peoples actions. She was discovered lying on the kitchen floor and investigators found a hammer next to her body. As more people start to pile into the area, and beaches reopen, the fish kill will become a bigger problem. He didn't provide any new information. Hed rented a car that weekend, and the GPS showed hed driven to Florida specifically to the Sievers house. Detectives have continued to look at Wright as a person of interest, most recently making contact with him just before he was extradited to Florida in the Sievers case. In December 2015, Teresa's husband, Mark Sievers, was arrested and accused of orchestrating the killing, with the motive being life insurance money, as well as the fact that Teresa was supposedly going to take his daughters away from him and he could not afford to fight for custody. All three men were found guilty of the murder. According to Lee County court documents, Rolando Olivarez, 31, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. ", Wideman, 60, said herfamily has known Mark Sieversfor more than 20 years. #SieversTrial Hunter shows the jury Secret Communications between Sievers and Wright about the prepaid burner phones. 'She went willingly,'' he said. They will spend their lives hoping to hold onto the memories of their mother they once knew and trying to forget the nightmare she endured in the last moments of her life.. Rodgers chose not to speak on his own behalf, and the judge called it one of the most horrific crimes he ever tried. He admitted he and Rodgers had killed Teresa. Also in attendance was Mark Sievers, who stood beside Wright as he took his new bride, Angela, to be his third wife. Becker said her only conversation with Sievers was after she left Wright around February 2012. By Jessica Lipscomb of the Naples Daily News. "Is the death penalty, is life in prison going to be enough for Teresa's family? Expect sustained winds between ten to twenty miles per hour, with wind gusts as strong as thirty [], For almost a decade, the government took hundreds of dollars each month out of the paychecks of a Florida woman named Michelle to recoup old student loans that were unpaid and overdue. A Missouri circuit judge has set a Sept. 30extradition hearing for Wright. Or to keep it anonymous, click here. It all started when the cops found a sawed-off shotgun. They were married in Missouri inMay, with Teresa Sievers' husband, Mark, presiding as the best man. Originally charged with first-degree murder, Wright admitted to helping kill Dr. Sievers, and bargained down to second-degree murder. Karen Wideman said Tuesday that her daughterAngela Wideman Wright, 42,datedWright, 47, more than 24 years ago and reconnected with him about a year and a half ago at a church function. Angela Wideman, 42, married Wright in May, two months after her 24-year-old daughter tragically died, only to have her husband jailed over his alleged role in the death of the Bonita Springs. She was last seen alive on surveillance video at the airport in Florida. Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. was 51 at the time of his sentencing. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In 2001, an Illinois inmate named Corey Lynn Fox confessed to killing a dozen people, including Bolin. However, he was found guilty of the lesser charge of second-degree murder, in addition to trespassing. I'm just so glad it's over. The state's lawyers said Sievers wanted his doctor wife dead so that he could collect on her significant life insurance policies. Bolin reconnected with Wright when his family moved back to Hillsboro in the middle of high school. Sievers plotted to have his wife murdered by recruiting his longtime friend, Curtis Wayne Wright Jr., who agreed to commit the murder with the promise by Sievers . Curtis Wright was sentenced to 25 years in prison; with time served, leaving him to 22 more years. Click here to watch a video interview with Greg Bolin on our mobile site. We're just trying to keep our acts together. My granddaughters have broken hearts that will never be mended, Mary said. Sievers, the mastermind, got the death penalty. In Naples, city council authorized the city manager to spend up to $100,000 to expedite the cleanup of dead fish within the city waterways []. "I just tell her that justice will prevail.". Theyd met while in prison together. We try to give people a second chance, he said. Court in the Act: Mark Sievers - Orchestrating the Murder of his Wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers - 2019 Trial Sex & Murder: Fatal Ambush. Teresa was hit a total of seventeen times and was bludgeoned to death. Curtis Wayne Wright, convicted in beating Dr. Teresa Sievers to death with a hammer in 2015, was sentenced on Monday at the Lee County Courthouse by Judge Bruce Kyle to 25 years in prison. Four days later, Ronnie Bolin's car was found abandoned at a car wash in St. Louis with the driver's door open and the keys still inside. That was very surprising, he said of the news of Rodgers'arrest. In 2019,Cole was arrested for selling trafficking amounts of Fentanyl on two occasions, as well as crack cocaine during another drug sale, according to the State Attorneys []. "Your lawyer did a good job for you, Kyle said. [14] Three years later in February 2020, they aired another episode that focused on the murder trials that followed her killing. On Aug. 20, 2010, Rodgers was booked into the Sainte Genevieve County jail. "I remember him saying he's a really nice kid and he was just transporting his dad's guns from the house and got caught," she recalled. It had all been his idea. [2], In 2000, she married a man named Kenny Cousins. Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. testifies, describes how Teresa Sievers' slaying was planned, Mark Sievers, sentenced to death for wife's murder, denied new trial, Mark Sievers before being sentenced: 'Our girls have tragically lost their mommy and now their daddy', Jimmy Ray Rodgers found guilty of second-degree murder in death of Teresa Sievers, 'It's bittersweet, but justice has been served,' brother of Teresa Sievers says, For Missouri man with missing brother, Teresa Sievers murder trial is of extra significance, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. More: Mark Sievers, sentenced to death for wife's murder, denied new trial, And: Mark Sievers before being sentenced: 'Our girls have tragically lost their mommy and now their daddy', Also: Jimmy Ray Rodgers found guilty of second-degree murder in death of Teresa Sievers. Wright received his 25-year sentence in February this year. All roads [], High temperatures will climb into the 80s and low 90s under mostly sunny skies. She has not gone to see her son-in-law. Mark feared she was going to take his two daughters away from him and said he could not afford to fight for custody. A Missouri court document dated Monday says a Lee County prosecutor will ask Florida Gov. A Florida man was convicted of murder and conspiracy for enlisting his best friend to kill his wife in 2015, PEOPLE confirms. High humidity will make our afternoon feels like temperatures reach the 90s in many spots. Stealing car stereos and, you know, car parts, and now he's moved into stealing cars. On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Jimmy Ray Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. rented a car and entered an address in Bonita Springs, Florida into the GPS. Juliette said he didnt know Rodgers before he hired him but did put him through the same sort of background checks anybody who applies goes through. But ever since he was a small kid, he'd had guns and was obsessed with them.". In January this year, Sievers made a statement at his sentencing saying he was innocent and heartbroken, adding that Teresa was his soulmate. [1] Her parents separated when she was one month old, and she was raised by her mother. Mark Sievers Is Implicated The entire family is in counseling after Wright's arrest,Wideman said. "I thought he was a good guy," she said. Neither Rodgers or Mark Sievers testified during Rodgers trial. Rodgers did not have permission to travel out of the state, but court records show he was in a south Fort Myers Wal-Mart on Ben C. Pratt/Six Mile Cypress Parkway the day before Sievers was killed. More probing revealed that Sievers and Teresa were having marital problems along with some serious financial issues. Jessica Lipscomb covers crime and general assignment at the Naples Daily News. Later, Shomaker told her the van was paid for through their insurance company after a tree fell on their Kia.
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