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LEE COUNTY Sievers attorneys want jury pool isolated, some evidence omitted Defense attorneys continue forward with strategic litigation to protect their clients accused in the 2015 murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers in Lee County Monday. A handful of motions focus not only on protecting the potential jury but the image of accused men Mark Sievers and Jimmy Rodgers in the much-anticipated murder trial set to happen […]
Trial date set for Teresa Sievers murder case Mark Sievers, who is charged with first-degree murder in what investigators described as a murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife, was in court this morning as a date was set for the beginning of his trial. The judge set the trial date for Sievers to be on June 3, in what attorneys estimate will be a 4-week trial. […]
(CBS News "48 Hours") “The Plot to Kill Dr. Teresa Sievers” to air on CBS’s “48 Hours” Saturday The murder of a beloved Southwest Florida doctor grabbed national headlines as her husband became the prime suspect back in 2015. Dr. Teresa Sievers was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in her home by men hired by her husband, Mark Sievers. WINK News covered three months of trials as three men were ultimately convicted […]
FORT MYERS Attorneys for Mark Sievers file an appeal with Florida Supreme Court The attorneys for Mark Sievers filed an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court last week in the case where the defendant was sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers. The files were just received into the WINK newsroom. The Supreme Court of Florida acknowledged the files on Monday, laying […]
FORT MYERS Judge sentences Mark Sievers to death for the murder of his wife A last-minute plea to prevent a death sentence. Mark Sievers fought for his life Friday before Judge Bruce Kyle sentenced him to death for orchestrating his wife Teresa’s murder. Moving forward in the worst of circumstances. “Our focus now is to go on to take care of the girls, give them the love and support […]
LEE COUNTY Sentencing at Lee County courthouse to decide severity of Sievers’ punishment On Tuesday, the jury will start deciding the fate of Mark Sievers, convicted of planning his wife’s murder. The same jury found Mark guilty of first-degree murder last week. Sievers hired two men to kill his wife, Doctor Teresa Sievers, at their Bonita Springs home in 2015. Those men are Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wayne […]
FORT MYERS Jury finds Mark Sievers guilty of first-degree murder in his wife’s brutal killing In only four hours of deliberations, the jury found Mark Sievers guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in his wife’s 2015 brutal killing. Because Sievers was found guilty of first-degree murder, he now faces the possibility of the death penalty. Judge Bruce Kyle has asked all members of the jury, prosecutors and […]
FORT MYERS Mark Sievers trial: State tries to connect all evidence to Sievers: Day 5 Prosecutors in the Mark Sievers trial now face a new challenge, they must connect all of the evidence in the case to Sievers. A lot of Monday’s testimony surrounded Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright, the two who killed Mark Sievers’ wife, Teresa. Prosecutors showed the blue jumpsuits worn during the murder and surveillance video […]
WINK NEWS A timeline in the Sievers case and remembering Dr. Teresa Sievers A lot has happened in the four years since Dr. Teresa Sievers was murdered. Most of it was torturous anticipation for her family and friends as the case came together. We looked at everything that led to a jury finding Mark Sievers guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday in his vicious killing of his wife, […]
LEE COUNTY Trial of Mark Sievers, accused of planning the murder of his wife, begins Tuesday Mark Sievers will return to court Tuesday morning, this time for the start of his trial in the 2015 murder of his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers. A jury found Jimmy Rodgers guilty of second-degree murder in Teresa Sievers’ death in October. But Peter Dennis, a trial attorney, said this case would be different. There will […]