Night Watch: Doctor Bludgeoned to Death: New Twist in Teresa Sievers Case

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On June 28, 2015, Dr. Sievers returned home early from a family trip with in hours.

She was dead, attacked with a hammer, struck 17 times.

Now her husband Mark Sievers is back in court in Lee County trying to get off death row.

A jury found him guilty of hiring two men, including his best friend to kill her.

Wright's story has changed every time, and it doesn't make sense.

He also claims Wright may have been wanting more than just a friendship with Sievers.

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On June 28, 2015, a 40-sexual doctor named Teresa Sievers was brutally bludgeoned to

death with a hammer at her own home in Bonita Springs, Florida.

After a frantic investigation, authorities traced the crime back to two hitmen who were hired

by Teresa's husband, Mark.

All three men ended up on trial, and Mark received the death penalty for his role in the gruesome

crime.

Now, as Mark's life hangs in the balance, one of his co-conspirators has dropped a

bomb shell, and authorities are now deciding whether or not they will give Mark a second

chance in the courtroom.

But regardless of what happens in Mark's case, the sad reality is that nothing can bring

Teresa back, and her two daughters will never be able to see or hug their mother again.

So who was Teresa, and why was her life taken in such a violent way?

Teresa Sievers was born on November 19, 1968, at the Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut.

From a young age, Teresa knew exactly what she wanted.

Her dream was to become a doctor, and she worked incredibly hard to make that dream come true.

She was valedictorian at her high school, and went on to study at Ross University School

of Medicine in Dominica.

After graduating, Teresa moved to Florida and completed her residency at the University

of Florida.

She is just under five feet tall, but is described as a spitfire who is willing to do anything

she could to help others.

While researching this case, there were a ton of interviews of people in Teresa's life,

from family to co-workers to patients, and everyone had amazing things to say about her.

She was an incredibly good mom, a great friend, and an amazing doctor who cared deeply about

her patients.

She dedicated her life to helping others, and although she has a background in Western

medicine, she is passionate about holistic treatments.

Teresa wants to spread her knowledge to as many people as possible, because she believes

that everyone should have the ability to take control of their own health.

So she starts a YouTube channel, but her ultimate goal is to get her own TV show.

Although she is focused on her career, Teresa makes some time for her personal life as

well, and she ends up meeting a man named Mark Siebers.

Mark is a registered nurse from Missouri who is vacationing in Florida, and he and Teresa

hit it off instantly, and bond over their shared passion for caring for others, and after

just a few months of dating, they end up getting married.

In 2005, when Teresa is 37 and Mark is 36, they build a house in Bonita Springs, Florida,

and they also open a holistic medical practice together.

Teresa runs things while Mark works as the office manager.

They have two daughters together and on the surface, they seem like a happy, successful

family.

But beneath this facade, trouble is brewing in the Siebers household.

The rift starts when Mark and Teresa run into some money problems.

They can't keep up with their taxes, and eventually the IRS puts a $33,000 lien on their

house.

Finances weren't the only thing causing friction.

Mark has claimed that he and Teresa were swingers, and while there aren't a lot of specific

details about their arrangement, Teresa apparently begins eyeing someone new as a potential partner.

But for Mark, her new prospect hits a little too close to home, because it's his childhood

best friend, Curtis Wayne Wright.

Mark and Curtis not only grew up together, they even lived together for a while after college,

and also look a lot alike.

Mark is not okay with the idea of Teresa sleeping with Curtis, and he starts becoming insecure

when he thinks that Curtis is Teresa's sexual fantasy, so tensions quickly escalate between

the couple.

Mark starts to become worried that Teresa will take their daughters and leave him, but

for the time being, they agree to put their marital issues on the back burner as they

focus on other things.

In early 2015, Teresa is profiled in a local woman's magazine because of her work in the

community.

Around the same time, Mark travels to Missouri to attend Curtis' wedding.

At the wedding, Mark opens up to his best friend about his marriage.

He fears that if Teresa does take the kids, he won't have enough money to fight her for

custody.

And he mentions something else about their finances.

Apparently, he and Teresa recently took out a $4.4 million life insurance policy on

her.

Mark says the life insurance policy could be his saving grace, because if Teresa dies,

he will get it all.

And apparently, Mark needs that money now.

When Curtis hears this evil plan, he is totally on board, and he's actually more than

just okay with it.

He wants in.

Together the two hatch a plan.

Mark and Teresa are going on a family vacation to New York soon, and Teresa is planning

on leaving early so she can be back and ready for her clients on Monday.

Mark stays behind with the girls to create a rock-solid alibi, while Curtis drives 1100

miles from Missouri to Southern Florida to murder Teresa.

And Curtis thinks no one will have any reason to suspect him since he lives so far away.

In exchange, Mark will pay Curtis $100,000 once he catches out Teresa's policy.

Curtis agrees and they shake hands.

When Mark returns home to Florida, he shows no signs of what he's just set in motion.

He continues to play the role of the perfect family man, so when the family travels to

upstate New York for their trip, nobody suspects anything.

While they're away, Mark's mom Bonnie is looking after their pets, and she would typically

set their house alarm when she would leave.

But Mark tells her that it's been on the fritz, and that she shouldn't bother with it.

But in reality, he disables the alarm before the family heads out for the weekend.

And as Curtis is preparing for his side of the plot, there's something he's keeping

for Mark.

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In June 2015, Curtis Wright is preparing to kill his best friend, Mark Siever's wife,

Teresa.

Mark has taken out a $4.4 million life insurance policy on his wife and has offered Curtis

$100,000 to help with his plan to kill his wife.

But Curtis hasn't told Mark that he not only told another person about the plan, but he

actually hired him to help.

It's a guy Curtis met in prison named Jimmy Ray Rogers.

Jimmy isn't new to violent crimes, and he has even given himself the nickname, the hammer.

On June 27, 2015, Curtis and Jimmy begin their drive from Missouri to Florida, and

drive in Bonita Springs around 6 a.m. the next day.

Once there, they stop at Walmart where they purchase garbage bags, wet wipes, black towels,

black shoes, and a lockpicking kit.

Then after a quick stop at a local beach, Curtis and Jimmy make their way to the Siever's

household.

Since the alarm is disabled, they are able to open the side door without a problem.

They enter the house through a small entryway, and then they wait in the kitchen for Teresa

to return home.

Unfortunately, Teresa is about to head right into their trap.

On Sunday, June 28, Mark drives Teresa to the airport, and she flies home.

But when she gets home that evening, Curtis right, and Jimmy Rogers, are silently waiting

for her, and Curtis is holding a hammer.

As they approach her, Teresa asks her husband's best friend one simple question.

Why?

Curtis doesn't reply.

Instead, he hits Teresa in the head three times, and then Jimmy steps in to finish the

brutal attack.

In total, Teresa is bledged 17 times, and her school is completely destroyed.

When they're done, they get into the car, drive back to Missouri, and believe they've

gotten away with murder.

The next day, when Teresa doesn't show up to work, a nurse from her practice named Sandra

Hoskins calls her to check in, but Teresa doesn't answer her phone.

So Sandra texts Mark to tell him what's going on.

Teresa never misses work, and Sandra knows Mark is out of town, so she offers to go swing

by their house, but Mark says no.

Instead, he contacts another employee, a doctor named Mark Petrites, and asks him to go

inside.

Petrites agrees, and when he gets there, he's met with a gruesome scene.

Teresa is lying in a pool of blood on the floor, and as a doctor, Petrites can already

tell she's dead.

Not only that, but there's a bloody hammer lying next to her.

Petrites thinks Teresa was not only attacked, but that her killer would be inside the house

so he rushes outside and dials 911.

The police arrive quickly, perform a sweep of the house, and determine that no one else

is inside.

But they also notice something extremely bizarre.

None of their valuables were stolen.

There is $40,000 in cash and a large gun collection that are both untouched.

Makes you wonder if their financial problems were actually as bad as Mark said.

Crime scene analysts comb through the kitchen, and they find a few blue fibers on Teresa's

dress that come from a different piece of clothing.

When authorities contact Mark and share the tragic news, you rush his home and goes into

the station for questioning.

Mark is not only sobbing uncontrollably, but he's crying out for Teresa and hitting himself

in the face.

To the detectives, it all seems a little over-dramatic.

It's giving bad acting.

Investigators become suspicious of Mark, but they need more evidence.

They speak with Mark's mother, who was pet sitting for the severs while they were out

of town.

And she says that Mark told her that the alarm system was glitching and to not worry about

turning it on before she left the house on the evening of the 27th, which would have

been just hours before Curtis and Jimmy arrived.

Investigators are beginning to think that Mark was somehow behind his own wife's brutal

murder.

For now, though, Mark wasn't even in the same state when this happened, so he's got

a solid alibi, which also means authorities don't have enough concrete evidence to hold

him.

So they let him go and begin looking into other leads, including employees at their medical

practice, their grounds keeping team, and even their AC repairmen.

But everything's a dead end.

These go by, and investigators are starting to worry that Teresa's case is going cold.

But on July 9th, over a week since Teresa's death, they receive a chilling tip from an

anonymous caller.

The caller says that they live in the Midwest, and that the day before Teresa severs murder,

they overheard a conversation involving a woman named Angela Wright.

They overheard her ranting about how her husband, Curtis Wright, had gone on an unplanned

last-minute trip to Florida, that weekend, and that his excuse was that he was going to

fix a computer at Mark and Teresa's house.

And what made her even more mad was that she had asked Curtis if she could come along,

but he said no.

Not only that, but apparently, he forgot to bring his cell phone with him.

So Angela couldn't even get in touch with him while he was gone.

Investigators quickly realize that the evidence they need to solve Teresa's murder might

be located at Curtis's home in Missouri.

As soon as they arrive at Curtis's house, they find a silver, Hyundai rental car parked

out front.

There's a separate GPS device inside the car, and when they check that car's GPS history,

they see Mark and Teresa's address, and curiously, the GPS device isn't registered under Curtis's

name.

It's registered to a man named Jimmy Rogers.

Investigators start looking into Jimmy, and they question his girlfriend Taylor Shoemaker.

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In the summer of 2015, a few weeks after Teresa Severs' murder, investigators speak with

Jimmy Rogers' girlfriend, Taylor Showmaker.

Taylor says that shortly after the murder, Jimmy returned home and smashed up his cell phone.

Then, he grabbed all of the pieces and asked Taylor to get in the car with him.

As Jimmy drove along the highway, he told Taylor to throw the pieces out the window, making

sure to scatter them all over a large distance.

Jimmy also tossed a blue jumpsuit out of the window.

Taylor says she became suspicious of him after that, and tells police that she confronted

Jimmy directly, and asked him if he had gone out of state to murder someone.

According to Taylor, Jimmy proudly admitted to the crime.

He even laughed when he told Taylor that the murder weapon was a hammer to match the

nickname he had given himself.

After speaking with Taylor, investigators trace the same path along the highway that she

described.

Along the road, they find the blue jumpsuit, and bag it for analysis for when they returned

to Florida.

But they still need more evidence to build a solid case, so they collect security footage

from around Bonita Springs and end up finding videos of the two men at a local gas station.

From there, they trace the men's path to a nearby Walmart, where footage from inside

the store shows them purchasing the supplies they used to carry out to Reese's murder.

Now that there are certain these two men are their culprits, they just need to get them

into custody.

Jimmy was on probation at the time and wasn't allowed to leave the state, so this security

footage showing him in Florida isn't enough to bring him in.

So on August 25, 2015, Jimmy is arrested in Missouri for violating the terms of his

probation.

Let's just say very few people in his neighborhood are surprised to see him in handcuffs.

People say he was even ragging about the murder for hire ever since he got back.

Once Jimmy is behind bars, police begin building their murder case against Curtis Wright.

In Taylor's interview, she had told police that Curtis was involved in Teresa's murder

as well.

And two days later, on August 27, Curtis Wright is taken into custody, but immediately

denies any involvement.

This doesn't solve the investigation though, because outside the interrogation room,

evidence is piling up.

Forensic analysts realize the blue jumpsuit that Jimmy allegedly discarded on the highway

is a match for the fibers found on the dress Teresa was wearing when she died.

From there, investigators obtain Mark's cell phone records and find a ton of messages

between him and Curtis.

They'd been in touch almost daily since 2011, but the messages stop abruptly on June 27,

the day before the murder.

And Mark's final text reads, no need to call me, hope you're having a nice day.

Curtis eventually breaks his silence and confesses to killing Teresa, but that's not all.

He says Mark put him up to it.

He lays out their entire plot, and on February 26, 2016, Mark is arrested.

All three men are charged with first-degree murder and prosecutors aim to have Mark sentenced

to death for being at the center of it all.

As they're staring down the consequences of their actions, the men start turning on

each other.

Jimmy is the first to face trial, and in October of 2019, he pleads not guilty to first-degree

murder.

Curtis testifies against him, and the jury finds Jimmy guilty on lesser charges of second-degree

murder and trespassing, but it's still enough for him to be sentenced to life in prison.

Curtis is up next, and he's facing the same fate as Jimmy.

However, prosecutors soon give him a way out.

They offer him a plea deal.

If he testifies against Mark and pleads guilty to second-degree murder, he'll face a maximum

of 25 years.

Curtis agrees, and when Mark's trial begins in December 2019, Curtis testifies against

him.

Once again, says the entire plot was Mark's idea, and lays out all of the details of

the plan.

The jury takes Curtis at his word, and they find Mark Sievers guilty of first-degree murder.

At his sentencing hearing in January 2020, Mark claims his innocence and says Theresa was

his soulmate, and that he's heartbroken over her death.

But his words do little to sway Judge Bruce Kyle, who hands down the death sentence.

Sievers requests a new trial later that year, and in 2022, he seeks to have his sentence

and conviction overturned.

The appeal makes it all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, but in the end, they uphold

both the ruling and sentencing.

For a while, this seems like the end of the story, and Theresa's loved ones start trying

their best to move on.

That is, until October 2025, when the entire case is flipped on its head.

Mark Sievers returns to the courtroom for a post-conviction relief hearing, which is basically

a last-ditch effort after an appeal is denied.

And on October 14th, Jimmy Ray Rogers takes the stand, and what he says shocks everyone.

Jimmy completely flips the narrative surrounding Theresa's murder.

He says there was no pre-meditated plan to kill her, and that Mark is totally innocent.

Jimmy claims that back in 2015, Curtis asked him to go to Florida to do some painting,

and computer work at Mark and Theresa's home.

As Jimmy's story goes, he agreed, but when Curtis picked him up, he had a ton of

Adderall in his system.

They drove through the night, and when they got to Florida, they realized that they were

too early, because the Sievers were still out of town.

So Jimmy and Curtis visited the beach before returning to the house later that night.

When Theresa returned home from the airport, she was angry that they were there on the

wrong day.

She and Curtis started arguing, and as things got more heated, they moved into the garage,

but it only kept escalating from there.

Eventually, Theresa told Curtis he was fired, and in a fit of rage, Curtis grabbed hammer

and hit Theresa once in the head.

She ran into the kitchen to try and escape, but he followed her and continued hitting her.

Jimmy watched as the entire attack played out.

He says it lasted about 30 seconds total, before Theresa was completely unresponsive.

Then Curtis turned to Jimmy with tears in his eyes.

He became frantic and said that they had to make it look like a robbery gone wrong.

So they scattered Theresa's luggage around the living room, and wiped their fingerprints

off anything they may have touched.

Jimmy concludes his testimony by saying that during the car ride back to Missouri, Curtis

threatened to kill him and his girlfriend if he ever told anyone what happened.

Jimmy also says there's a reason why Curtis wanted Theresa dead, because he was jealous.

He alleges that Mark and Curtis had been having an affair for years.

Now Mark's lawyers are fighting to use Jimmy's new testimony to have a new trial granted.

They believe it shows that Mark is innocent after all.

Personally, with the timing of this all, it's sounding to me like Mark maybe paid someone

off.

I wouldn't be surprised if parts of the story are true, but I definitely don't believe

they drove all the way from Missouri to fix a computer, and that she knew that they

had an appointment.

When telling his mom not to set the security alarm, telling Curtis about the $4 million

life insurance policy, and his cryptic text after seems a little sus.

Also, I highly doubt Curtis is going to threaten to kill a guy who calls himself the hammer,

and that a guy who calls himself the hammer would respond well to that or even be intimidated

by that threat at all.

In the meantime, Theresa's family has been caring for her two daughters.

Angela's sister has also aimed to channel her grief into something positive by writing

a book in her memory, titled What My Sister Told Me After She Was Murdered.

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