In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: Though Dr. Teresa Sievers was renowned for her organic remedies, Teresa’s death would be anything but natural.
On June 28, 2015, Teresa flew back to Florida from Connecticut, where she and her husband and their two daughters were visiting family. The next morning, Teresa failed to show up to work. One of her friends spoke with Teresa’s husband, Mark, and went to their home to conduct a welfare check. When the friend walked inside, he found Teresa beaten to death on the kitchen floor. The killer even left a hammer next to her body with a clump of hair on it.
Detectives interviewed Mark Sievers, but he had a rock-solid alibi: he was still in Connecticut when his wife was killed. He told detectives their marriage was fine, but they argued from time to time.
Mark also revealed he and Teresa experimented with a swinger’s lifestyle and that he took out a $4.4 million life insurance policy on her. Friends of Teresa, however, told investigators she wanted to divorce Mark.
The investigation took a turn in July 2015 when detectives received a tip from another law enforcement official from Illinois, who said a friend told him she believed a man named Curtis Wayne Wright could be involved in Teresa’s death. Curtis was Mark’s childhood friend.
Detectives honed in on Curtis and found mountains of evidence that connected him to Teresa’s death, even though he lived in Missouri. A GPS used in the rental car that Curtis drove to Florida was registered to a man named Jimmy Rodgers. And get this: the GPS had the exact route from Curtis’ home in Missouri to Teresa’s in Florida.
Jimmy and Curtis were eventually arrested, and investigators learned Mark paid the two men to drive down south and kill his wife. Mark soon got taken into custody as well.
Curtis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges and testified against Mark and Jimmy during their respective trials. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Jimmy was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He has appealed his conviction.
In 2019, a jury found Mark guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and a judge sentenced him to death. He has appealed his death sentence, which made its way to the Florida Supreme Court. However, he remains on death row. In January 2022, he asked for a new trial, claiming he has evidence.
Let’s look back at the case of a popular doctor who worked on healing others but couldn’t save herself.
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