Suspect in Sievers murder fights extradition, drops bond request

Author: WINK News/ AP
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HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) – One of two Missouri men accused of killing Doctor Teresa Sievers has agreed to remain jailed without bond.

During a five-minute court hearing Tuesday in Jefferson County, south of St. Louis, an attorney for Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. withdrew a request for a judge to set bond, pending Wright’s scheduled extradition hearing Sept. 30. Wright is challenging efforts to return him to Florida.

Wright is the childhood friend of Sievers’ husband, Mark Sievers. He was arrested in connection to the doctor’s murder more than two weeks ago.

Last week, Governor Rick Scott signed an extradition warrant asking him to be returned to Lee County. Wright’s attorney tells the News-Press, Wright has 10 days to file a petition that would fight the extradition.

Wright and 25-year-old Jimmy Ray Rodgers of Cadet, Missouri, are charged in the killing of the 46-year-old doctor. Her body was found in her Bonita Springs home on June 29.

Rodgers was sentenced this month to six months in prison for violating probation in a 2011 case in which he pleaded guilty to being a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm.

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