BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - Two boxes of documents containing details of the murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers were released by the State Attorney's Office Tuesday. They contained thousands and thousands of pages revealing details and clues surrounding the days leading up to and after the doctor's murder.
This includes Facebook posts, life insurance policies, cell phone messages and sworn statements from those connected to both suspects Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright, as well as the Sievers' family. We're now learning what happened the moments after Dr. Sievers was discovered dead inside her Bonita Springs home.
Documents reveal that while her husband and their two daughters were still on vacation up north, Mark Sievers called a friend, who's also a doctor, to check on his wife, saying she didn't show up for work that morning. After repeatedly calling Teresa Sievers, the friend went to the house and began banging on the doors. When no one answered he went inside, saw her body and called 911.
He told the dispatcher "I'm at a friend's house, he's out of town, I came here to check on his wife and she's dead on the floor.” He stated there was a hammer at her side and her head was bashed in and there was blood everywhere.
He stated "half the blood is dry .. half is wet and she's cold .. dead cold." The friend went on to tell the dispatcher that he went outside the house in fear that someone could be inside. Terrified by the horrific tragedy he stated "jeez somebody killed her ... I mean this is a murder .. she's bashed in the back of the head."
During a sworn statement, Jimmy Rodgers' girlfriend told detectives that Rodgers may have owed Wright a favor and that's why he agreed to help with the murder.
The documents also list specific evidence collected throughout the investigation; evidence the suspects never intended anyone to see.
The documents reveal that the same day friends and loved ones said their final goodbyes to beloved Teresa Sievers, her husband Mark was at her medical office throwing away computers and computer-related items.
Though he's never been charged, a witness says Mark Sievers helped plan his wife's murder. Investigators collected several different pay-as-you-go, or "burner", phones from his best friend Curtis Wayne Wright's home, as well as at Mark Sievers' condo and storage unit in Missouri. We don't know what was found on those phones, but documents reveal the two used code words when they wanted to talk on them.
After Teresa's murder, investigators made their way to rural Missouri, where both Wright and his accused accomplice Jimmy Rodgers lived. There, they interviewed those closest to the suspects. Rodger's pregnant girlfriend told detectives she believed the two were heading to Florida to commit burglaries and steal high-end antiques. She stated later that Rodgers admitted to killing Sievers with a hammer for $10,000.
She says Rodgers agreed to help with the murder because he may have owed Wright a favor. She went on to say that Rodgers and Mark Sievers didn't get along. They even got into an altercation at Wright's wedding.
Rodgers' girlfriend then led detectives to where she says Rodgers dumped evidence used in the crime.
When Wright's wife gave her sworn statement, she repeatedly told detectives her husband was a good man. And when asked about Mark Sievers, she began talking about the couple's open relationships.
When detectives asked Wright's wife if she had ever slept with Mark Sievers, she answered "not that I know of" and went on to explain she was drunk the night before her wedding and her husband and Sievers look an awful lot alike.
When detectives interviewed Curtis Wright's mother-in-law she said she had her suspicions right off the bat. At first, her daughter admitted Wright went to Florida, but recanted a short time later.
She stated the Wrights struggled financially and could never afford a trip to Florida or two rental cars.
Documents state DNA and animal hair matching that of Sievers' pets was found on one of those cars.
