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Mark Sievers Granted Death Sentence Appeal Extension in Murder of Gorgeous Mom/Doctor Found Bludgeoned Dead on Kitchen Floor · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. It's the tenth anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: a murder that shot not just Southwest Florida, but beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recall the name doctor Teresa Sievers, because I
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  Speaker 1: will never forget it. Her husband, Mark Severs, and his
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  Speaker 1: high school buddy, who was a doppelganger, get together and
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  Speaker 1: murder his wife, the mother of their two little girls.
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  Speaker 1: She was everything, just precious, cute as a button, a tiny,
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  Speaker 1: diminutive woman, the mother of the two. She was a
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  Speaker 1: medical doctor. Listen. She not only brought home the bacon,
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  Speaker 1: but fried it up and put it on the table.
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  Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. She supported him. How did
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  Speaker 1: he repay her by killing her? I mean, and believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, Mark Severs, the killer, now wants out
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  Speaker 1: of jail on appeal. Surprised, I'm not. I'm Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. He just won't go away, will he?
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  Speaker 1: After evidence proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Sievers now decides, Hey, I want to get out of jail.
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  Speaker 1: He should have thought about that before he had his
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  Speaker 1: wife murdered in this elaborate plan. Ridiculous. His main point
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  Speaker 1: of contention is Jimmy Rogers, one of the convicted killers
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  Speaker 1: hired by Severs to murder his wife. Now Jimmy Rogers
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  Speaker 1: claimed in an interview with Wee Wink that there was
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  Speaker 1: no conspiracy and accused his former friend Curtis Wayne Right,
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  Speaker 1: the high school doppel ganger, of lying during his plea
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  Speaker 1: deal testimony against husband Mark Severs. Now, if you will
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  Speaker 1: recall the high school friend, now convicted felon, Curtis Wayne Wright,
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  Speaker 1: testified in court he and Rogers, the killer, were hired
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  Speaker 1: by husband Mark Severs, and they were promised a huge
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  Speaker 1: payout of life insurance money to kill Teresa Severs. High
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  Speaker 1: school friend Curtis Wright said, doctor Severs arrived home earlier
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  Speaker 1: than expected from an out of town trip, and he
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  Speaker 1: and Rogers used a ball peen hammer to murder her,
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  Speaker 1: this tiny little female doctor who had these gorgeous twin girls.
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  Speaker 1: Quote from high school friend. I hit her with the hammer.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think she thought I was Mark because she said,
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  Speaker 1: why this is what happened to doctor Teresa Severs.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I at a friend's house. He's out of town,
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  Speaker 2: and I came here the second flight and she's got
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  Speaker 2: on the floor. The address.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sin Shonne, Yes, okay, you're doing very well.
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  Speaker 1: Good job.
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  Speaker 4: A moment, we're going to connect you.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to ask for the.
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  Speaker 2: Throat as fire. What if he addresses the emergency two
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  Speaker 2: one zero three four Jarvis? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And is that a house for an apartment?
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  Speaker 2: So the house?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: My friend us she's a doctor. I'm a doctor. She
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  Speaker 2: came home last night. Her husband is in Connecticut, and
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  Speaker 2: she was from the school nine o'clock. They called me,
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  Speaker 2: and I was on my way in the works place,
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  Speaker 2: swung by and she's done, and there's a hammer at
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  Speaker 2: the side and she's dashed in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: You are hearing the nine to one one call from
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  Speaker 1: a coworker, doctor Patrites, telling dispatch that his dear friend,
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful mother of two girls, a beloved doctor who
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  Speaker 1: practiced holistic medicine throughout that Florida region to many many women,
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  Speaker 1: is dead on the floor. First thing I noticed, not
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  Speaker 1: only the injuries to doctor Teresa Seever's a tiny woman,
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  Speaker 1: about four eleven or five feet tall. She's still wearing
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  Speaker 1: the shoes the I call them stiletto's really high heel
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  Speaker 1: she'd work as she was so short that she was
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  Speaker 1: wearing the night before, the Sunday night before, she came
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  Speaker 1: home from a family vacation with relatives to Connecticut, including
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  Speaker 1: her husband and two little girls. That told me a
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  Speaker 1: lot about the timeline. Seemingly she still had on her clothes.
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  Speaker 1: She hadn't gone back to her bedroom to take a
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  Speaker 1: bath and put on pj's. She was ambushed right as
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  Speaker 1: she came home from the airport. Was someone following her?
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  Speaker 1: Does someone know her flight plan? Or was it just
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  Speaker 1: a burglary gone wrong. Let's start at the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to more of that nine one one callely.
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  Speaker 2: Okaym naky office for you on the way, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And so you said you're a doctor, I am, okay?
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  Speaker 6: Are you with her now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm outside of the house. I don't know if there's anybody.
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  Speaker 1: In the house, okay, all right?
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  Speaker 5: For how old?
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  Speaker 2: Is all right?
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  Speaker 4: Sir? And is she awake?
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  Speaker 7: She's got one before.
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  Speaker 2: The light everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 8: So I do have paramedics, fire department, all the law
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  Speaker 8: enforcement as the line with us.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they're going to be going out Okay, Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: point you to stand the line one moment. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I don't know if this still help.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it was right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a stand the line I take.
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  Speaker 7: The criff office has questions and they're going to comping you.
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  Speaker 1: On what to do next.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sure, Are you inside the resident instead? No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm standing in the driveway.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you walked in, say the house, you
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  Speaker 2: said the blood was dryer.
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  Speaker 1: What did you say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, half the blood is dry, half the da is dead.
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  Speaker 1: Cult No, I can't help but analyze that nine to
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  Speaker 1: one one call. And this coworker, doctor PETREATI seems very
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  Speaker 1: very calm. I'm want to go to doctor Bethany Marshall's
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  Speaker 1: psycho analyst joining us from LA can find it at
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  Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany I was the
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  Speaker 1: same way in court, no matter what happened, at least
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  Speaker 1: in front of a jury, I would stay extremely calm,
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  Speaker 1: even once when a prisoner launched at me with a shank.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't make it, by the way, But long story short,
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  Speaker 1: not in other areas of my life. But I guess
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  Speaker 1: when it's your duty and you're trained a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: You just carry on. What do you make of the
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  Speaker 1: nine one one call doctor Bethany, Well, Nancy, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you a little story.
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  Speaker 4: When I was doing your HLN show, I had a
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  Speaker 4: patient who tried to kill herself.
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  Speaker 1: She overdosed on benzodiazepines.
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  Speaker 3: She called me up.
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  Speaker 4: She into like a sort of a coma like state.
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  Speaker 4: I called nine one one, and my biggest fear was
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  Speaker 4: that the nine one one call was going to be
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  Speaker 4: played on the evening news. So I was very formal
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  Speaker 4: and how I reported it. I said, this is doctor
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  Speaker 4: Bethany Marshall, this is my license number.
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  Speaker 1: This is where I got this call.
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  Speaker 4: This is the woman's I dress, here's her diagnosis. Here
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  Speaker 4: are the benzodiazepines, the number of pills she took on
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  Speaker 4: down the road. Because I knew that that was a
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  Speaker 4: very formalized report, that this could be played in court,
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  Speaker 4: this could be played on the evening news.
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  Speaker 1: As I just said, so, this.
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  Speaker 4: Is the doctor who walks into a crime scene. The
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  Speaker 4: woman's back of her head is bashed in, she's still
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  Speaker 4: wearing her siletto shoes. He is the first one on
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  Speaker 4: the scene. So yes, doctor Kim Gallagher is correct. You
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  Speaker 4: have to be authoritative, you have to be calm in
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  Speaker 4: the midst of the storm. But there's also this anxiety
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  Speaker 4: about how you are going to come across as you
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  Speaker 4: report the incident. You are the first responder, You're the
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  Speaker 4: person who's going to be questioned, So how you make
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  Speaker 4: that verbal report is extremely important.
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  Speaker 1: With me an all star panel today to break it
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  Speaker 1: down put it back together again, of course. In an
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  Speaker 1: addition to doctor Bethany Marshall with me, judge and trial
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  Speaker 1: lawyer anchor Court TV Ashley Wilcott. You can find her
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  Speaker 1: at Ashley Wilcott dot com. James Shelna twenty seven years
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Metro major k SWAT officer, now lawyer. But right
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  Speaker 1: now to Amanda Hall, special guest joining us, investigative reporter
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  Speaker 1: from wi in KTV Fort Myers, Florida, who has been
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  Speaker 1: on the story since the get go. At the beginning, Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: let's just take what we know. Tell me about the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene for those of you just joining us, a
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  Speaker 1: stunning development and the case of a murdered mom and
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  Speaker 1: doctor doctor Teresa's severs. Remind those listeners that don't already
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  Speaker 1: know Amanda Hall when cops came in. What did they
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  Speaker 1: find at the scene, Nancy.
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  Speaker 8: When police came in in June of twenty fifteen, they
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  Speaker 8: came inside the Severs home and they found blood in
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  Speaker 8: the kitchen, and they found Teresa Sever's bludgeon to death
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  Speaker 8: with the claw end of a hammer.
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  Speaker 1: Blood. Adams, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda Hall joining me. W
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  Speaker 1: I ink when you say blood in the kitchen, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this morning, I was chopping up green beans
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  Speaker 1: and I have to chop the tips off every single
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  Speaker 1: one or Lucy won't eat it, and I cut my finger.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, we're not talking about that kind of blood, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean by blood just a tiny drop?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me the whole.
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  Speaker 8: Thing, Amanda, Nancy, there was so much blood in there.
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  Speaker 8: You know. When we have interviewed investigators and detective who
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  Speaker 8: were in Anie on this case, some of them had
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  Speaker 8: never seen anything like it. The amount of blood was stunning.
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  Speaker 8: When you look at the report, seventeen crescent shaped cuts
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  Speaker 8: to her head. I mean, she was bludgeoned over and
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  Speaker 8: over and over and over. So you can just imagine
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  Speaker 8: the amount of blood inside of that home.
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  Speaker 1: What else did they find, Amanda?
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  Speaker 8: The other thing they found was that the crime scene
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  Speaker 8: was staged to make it look like a break in,
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  Speaker 8: to make it look like a robbery. The thing is Nancy.
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  Speaker 8: They stuffed cash in different parts of the home, and
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  Speaker 8: there was a whole cachet of guns that were untouched.
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  Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace. You know how when you
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  Speaker 1: think a squash approach and then suddenly there it is again.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing here husband, Mark Severs, I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: put away for life, but here he is again. Now
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  Speaker 1: he wants to get out on appeal. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: have a quick refresher on what happened to the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: young mom of two, doctor Teresa Severs.
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  Speaker 4: Brahamm's sitting next to her, and you had wrapped it
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  Speaker 4: and didn't touch anything.
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  Speaker 2: No, I did not touch anything. I touched her. I
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  Speaker 2: shook her a little bit, all right, one moment.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing really well.
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  Speaker 6: So the last time you.
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  Speaker 4: Had seen her, what time?
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  Speaker 2: Probably too we sleeings go, can we?
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  Speaker 4: And you said she returned today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when she came back, but she was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go. She was supposed to go to work
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  Speaker 2: today at nine o'clock and her husband called me from
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  Speaker 2: Connecticut to say she didn't shut up the work and
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  Speaker 2: she not answered her phone, and he checked her. He
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  Speaker 2: tried call him, try calling, He's going to call her mom,
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  Speaker 2: and he said she was swinging by? Can you sling by?
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  Speaker 2: And I knocked on the front door and nobody answered,
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  Speaker 2: and the lights were on. I could see your persons
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  Speaker 2: on the countertop and she didn't answer. I poundered, powdered,
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  Speaker 2: and he gave me the key code to get into
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  Speaker 2: the gloves oil for the glass door, and the doors
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  Speaker 2: leading into it was opened that and I walked in.
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  Speaker 2: I just opened up the door, walked in the door,
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  Speaker 2: and she've been on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. I'm Nancy Gray's. That is a nine
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  Speaker 1: one one call of a coworker doctor patritis, who shows
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  Speaker 1: up when this gorgeous young mom of two little girls.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Teresa's severs very well known in the Bonita Springs area.
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  Speaker 1: Practiced mostly with women and had a very holistic method
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  Speaker 1: toward medicine, very closely to the whole community. Never turned
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  Speaker 1: a person away. Tiny, diminutive woman. I think she was
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  Speaker 1: about four to eleven, and that's important because she always
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  Speaker 1: wore high heels. Okay, and to you know, give her
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  Speaker 1: a little height, and she still had on her heels,
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  Speaker 1: or at least one of them when she was found. Dad.
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  Speaker 1: She just flown in from Connecticut. Her husband and children
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  Speaker 1: still in Connecticut. Now normally you look at the husband, first, husband, lover,
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend X. He's in Connecticut with the children, on a
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  Speaker 1: vacation with her family. It was only when she didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up to work that morning that coworkers became concerned
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  Speaker 1: and went to her home again. I'm Nancy Grace. This
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  Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Ashley Wilcot, judge and trial lawyer, anchor Court TV,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Wilcott dot com. Ashley, you and I both have
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  Speaker 1: a girl, and imagine two of them. You've got two
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  Speaker 1: boys and a girl. I have a boy and a girl.
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  Speaker 1: And John David is always just you know, happy, go lucky,
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  Speaker 1: care free. You know, he just wants to go outside
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  Speaker 1: and jump on the trampoline. He wants to play with
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  Speaker 1: his friends on the computer. You know nothing. Fail'll eat
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  Speaker 1: whatever I fix, so where wouldever I lay out? Didn't
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  Speaker 1: care if his heir's comb nothing. He's just perfect. Girls
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  Speaker 1: are a whole nother ballgame, and you need your mother.
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  Speaker 1: You need a loving guiding hand, somebody that can say
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  Speaker 1: stand up, don't walk like a field hand, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't get hurt. You're loving them, You're helping them through
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  Speaker 1: all life's curveballs. These two little girls are with dad
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  Speaker 1: at a Connecticut vacation with extended family. Their mom is gone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you break something like that to
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  Speaker 1: two little girls, Ashley, Yeah, you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, I don't know, Nancy, you can't even imagine because
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  Speaker 9: depending on the age, they don't even necessarily understand what
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  Speaker 9: that means. And so every day they're going to still
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  Speaker 9: look for their mom and wonder where their mom is
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  Speaker 9: and try to grasp what it means that she's literally
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  Speaker 9: gone forever. But the other thing that bothers me is,
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  Speaker 9: of course it happens that one spouse is somewhere with
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  Speaker 9: the kids and the other spouse has to travel back
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  Speaker 9: to work. But this, to me was the beginning of
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  Speaker 9: the story, to say, she's in Connecticut with the kids.
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  Speaker 7: She's here it home, and.
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  Speaker 9: It happens to then get killed the first night. Does
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  Speaker 9: this mean anything or not?
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to the questions the nine one one
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  Speaker 1: operator poses to doctor Petredes.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, and so you were there because.
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  Speaker 1: They asked you to take care of the house.
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  Speaker 8: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Mark? Her husband called me to say, please can you
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  Speaker 2: check on her because it's not like her not to
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  Speaker 2: show up to work in you late?
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  Speaker 7: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So, and I know you told him before.
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  Speaker 4: But when after he called the chuck and his wife because.
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  Speaker 3: She wasn't at work.
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  Speaker 2: In parently talking one okay, he gave me the code number.
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  Speaker 2: He sounded a little, you know.
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  Speaker 7: And you see the call from work saying she wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that's playing. You know he's her
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  Speaker 2: office manager.
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  Speaker 4: Why she's the office manager of his business.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's the office manager of her medical practis okay?
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  Speaker 1: Right there, We're getting a lot of clarification. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that? To Amanda Hall, our special guest joining us
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  Speaker 1: from w I in k Wink TV Fort Myers, this
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  Speaker 1: is in her backyard. So this is a common misconception.
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  Speaker 1: The nine one one operators trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: this calm, cool, collected coworker, a male coworker happens to
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  Speaker 1: show up at the home to find a dead body,
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  Speaker 1: and he says that the husband, Mark severs out of
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  Speaker 1: town far away, calls and says he found out she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't at work and had him go over and check
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  Speaker 1: on doctor Severs. His wife gives him the burglary code,
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  Speaker 1: the burglar alarm code. Why would he know that because
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  Speaker 1: he's the office manager. And at first you hear the
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  Speaker 1: nine one call operators say oh, she's his office manager,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, no, Amanda Hall, tell me, what's your
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  Speaker 1: understanding is how did doctor Patriti's end up on the
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  Speaker 1: same to find a dead body? Because I always look
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  Speaker 1: at who finds the body and who calls nine on one,
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  Speaker 1: because that tells me a lot circumstantially.
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  Speaker 5: She guess it does Nancy.
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  Speaker 8: And the reason that he was there is because he
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  Speaker 8: was called by her husband, Mark. Mark was alerted that
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  Speaker 8: she hadn't shown up for work, which is very unlike her.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Teresa flew home a day ahead of the
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  Speaker 8: rest of the family just so that she could be
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  Speaker 8: at work Monday morning. She had a late flight in
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  Speaker 8: Sunday night and was to see patients Monday morning. So
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  Speaker 8: when Monday morning rolled around and she wasn't there, the
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  Speaker 8: staff called Mark, who ran the office, and said, hey,
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  Speaker 8: we haven't we haven't heard from doctor Severs. She's not here.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to what our
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  Speaker 1: friends at ABC News says.
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  Speaker 10: Severs return to Florida alone, calling her husband to let
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  Speaker 10: him know she'd arrived safely. When she didn't show up
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  Speaker 10: for work Monday morning, worried colleagues called police, who discovered
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  Speaker 10: her body.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing our friends there at local ABC, the crime scene overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: But as Amanda Hall just told you, the crime scene
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  Speaker 1: seemed staged because no money was taken. There was a
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  Speaker 1: cash of guns there as well, Amanda Hall, I've never
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  Speaker 1: known there to have been alleged any type of sex attack.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: So she's bludgeoned dead in the kitchen and is my
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  Speaker 1: understanding her pocket book was there too, righte, Amanda?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 8: She came home, pulled into the garage and went from
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  Speaker 8: the garage into the house and that's where she was attacked.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my first thought that when this happened was
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  Speaker 1: the burglar alarm. James Shelnutt And James, I'm this is
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  Speaker 1: not a plug. But I'm coming out with a book
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: in June called Don't Be a Victim, And I had
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to research and I included this case case after case
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: after case after case regarding burglar alarms locking your doors.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: That night, that day I heard about doctor Teresa Severs
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: being murdered. My first question was, what about a burglar alarm.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It's hard for me to believe that a medical doctor
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: with an office manager, husband, and two little babies to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: take care of doesn't have a burglar alarm. I mean,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you can get a burglar alarm for ninety nine dollars
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that covers your whole house, and why wouldn't they have
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a burglar alarm? Then I found out, James, they did
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: have a burglar alarm, and that was a brain twister
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 7: James, Yeah, absolutely, And so from everything I've researched, the
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: indicse that Mark Severs had actually told, I believe it
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: was either his mother or her mother not to set
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: the burglar alarm because he was afraid that the pets
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: may set the alarm off.
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  Speaker 1: Husband, Mark Severs convicted and the murder of his wife, Teresa,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the mother of his childre wants Rogers Curtis Rogers to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: testify for him and his attempt to get off death row. Hmmm,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: did anybody think these two might be helping each other?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Has that dawned on anyone well, those two can plot
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and plan and scheme all they want, gnashing their teeth
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and twitching their tails. But this is what we learned
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in court as to the death the murder of doctor Severs.
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  Speaker 10: Severs was a popular fixture in her community.
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  Speaker 3: She had the quality like a mother Teresa.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: She cared and she had nothing more than love.
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  Speaker 8: If she had nothing else to offer, it would be
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: her care and her love for the patient.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Thinking about doctor Teresa Severs, and you were just hearing
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: about how she was often called mother Teresa because of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the way that she treated her patients in the community.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That was ABC News reporter Rina, But I want you
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to take a listen to something very odd that happened
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at the funeral.
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  Speaker 11: We were seeing her sisters on one side, and the
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: look that we were getting wasn't a look of sadness.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: It was a look of hatred.
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  Speaker 3: Frank Pays and his wife Sandra say, the look didn't
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: just come from doctor Sever's sisters. They were getting the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: same look from the grieving widower.
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  Speaker 11: I hugged him, What do you say, I said, Mark,
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: I am so sorry. I don't have words to say
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: to you. And he squeezed me so tight, and nothing
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: came out of his mouth. Then Sandra hugged him. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: when Mark hugged Sandra, his teeth grinted. And it wasn't
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: nothing of sorrow or sadness. The look was hatred. I
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: stepped back.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I said, Holy, you are hearing our friend. I know
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you recognize that voice. Aaron Moriarty CBS forty eight hours.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: A look of hate at the funeral and doctor Bethany
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Marshall psychologists joining me out of la Doctor Bethany, it's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: not that looking back, he concocted this at the time,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: he said he recoiled and was shot at the look
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: on the husband's face. Why did he somehow blame her family? Why?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Why would hatred be a part of a funeral. That's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the first thing after a death that's unsolved. You start
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: looking at the crime scene, then at the funeral.
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  Speaker 4: Nancy, can you imagine going to a funeral Teresa Severs's dad,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: her husband's there. You expect him to be crying and grieving,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and instead he's looking at a former employee with hatred.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It tells me, first of all, he's worried about all
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the wrong things. But he's been worried about all the
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: wrong things all along, he disarms the alarm because of
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the pets. His wife's coming home alone, he stays behind
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: with the girls. If he's a real man, why not
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: go home with your wife and help facilitate her going
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: back to work. He's the office manager while she's out
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: there seeing patients. I mean, on the face of it,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: nothing wrong with that. But he's sending her out to
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: work while he's doing the easy work behind the desk.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, all along this whole story, this husband has never.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Acted like a husband.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: So the fact that he is glaring hatefully at one
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: of the attendees of the funeral tells me that he's
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: actually trying. If he indeed is the one who did it,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: he's trying to shift the blame onto somebody else.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Let me go to Amanda Hall, special guest joining us
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  Speaker 1: from wi KTV Fort Myers, Florida. Amanda, what do we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: know about the husband? And yes, I know he was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in Connecticut at the time. What do we know about
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Mark Severs? Where's he from? What's his deal?
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: Well, we know that the two met while he was
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: a nurse and she was a new doctor practicing in
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Saint Petersburg, Florida. Know that they married very quickly had
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: their first daughter shortly after they were married on the beach.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: They had two girls, eleven and eight years old at
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: the time, and he became the office manager of her practice,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: propping her up to do what she did best, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: that was treating people with a blend of traditional medicine
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: and holistic medicine. And he was really the more of
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: the caregiver for the two girls. Neighbors said that they
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: always saw him, you know, outside playing with them and
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: attending to the two daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you tell me he's from Amanda.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: To start with, Mark Severs grew up in a little
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: small town in Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, I want to go to doctor Tim Gallagher
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: medical examiner. I want you to describe, if you could,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the wounds to doctor Sever's body. And again there was
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: no sex attack and no theft or burglary from her
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: person or the home.
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  Speaker 6: So her wound were concentrated mostly on the back of
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: her head, so they were the crescent shaped impressions that
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: a hammer would make when they strike soft flesh. So
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: she had lacerations to the back of her head. Who
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: was extensive bleeding. There was a physical brain damage done
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: the shards of the broken skull had penetrated into her
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: brain and there was massive bleeding.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: What did you just say about sharge of the skull.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Well, when the skull is broken, they're broken into very
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: sharp pieces. And as the attack continues, as the hammer
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: keeps now striking these pieces of bone, these loose pieces
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: of sharp bone are now being driven into the actual brain,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: causing the tearing of the brain tissue and cutting of
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: the blood vessels as supply blood to the brain.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think about this massive attack on
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: this tiny woman and Amanda Hall reporter w I and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: k TV in Fort Myer's Amanda most of the blows
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: or to the back of the head. Did she ever
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: even get a chance to fight back?
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: No, Nancy, she didn't. You know, she rolled her suitcase
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: into an attack and ambush.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So her suitcase was still sitting there.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: Her suitcase was still in the garage. She had just
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: you know, walked in the door, hadn't had a chance
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: to unpack anything, hadn't even had a chance to change
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: your clothes or do anything.
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  Speaker 1: This is telling me so much about the attack. James
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: shell Nutt twenty seven years Atlanta Metro Major case swat
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: officer now lawyer James shell Nutt. Somebody. I mean, it's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: no coincidence that somebody is right there in the kitchen
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: as she walks in from the garage, parts her car
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: in the garage, gets your suitcase out of the car,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: still sitting there in the garage. She walks in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: kitchen and bam, she's attacked. Nothing stolen, nothing taken from her,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: not her pocketbook, her selfhe nothing, all that money they
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: had hidden in various spots, the guns that the husband kept,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: nothing taken, no sex attack. But someone is lurking right there.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: She can't even get past the kitchen. They're waiting for
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: her to come through that garage door.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, all of this adds up to the fact that
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: you need to start looking at someone who is closely
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: connected to this victim.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: This is not something random.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: There's too many coincidences. The coincidence about the husband, you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: not flying back, the coincidence about the alarm not being set,
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: she walks into a house. There's no other motive evident
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: at that point. You start where you traditionally start.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, husband turned killer. Mark Saver's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: legal team is can you their death sentence appeal as
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a new hearing approaches. I thought he was gone. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: thought he would be in jail the rest of his
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: life until he got the death penalty. But no, he's back,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: causing a stink recall. Severs was found guilty of hiring
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: two men, his high school buddy Curtis Right aka doppel
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Ganger they look exactly alike, and Jimmy Rogers, a neer Dowell,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to carry out a savage killing of his wife there
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: at the couple's homes and home in Benita Springs, Florida.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Why he didn't want to work like all of us
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: have to do. He wanted to pay out on her
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: four point four to three million dollar life insurance policy.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Wright was a longtime friend of Severs, as I mentioned before,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and Rogers. The two of them carried out the attack
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: while the husband, Mark Severs, made himself scarce and gave
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: himself an alibire. What those killers are planning behind bars?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: This is what I know happened at trial.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Crash bags, flushable web wipes, black towels, black shoes, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: a lock picking kit. They paid cash for their purchase
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: with the one hundred dollars bill.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Who in the Hey, are these two you're hearing CBS
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Aaron Moriarty describing two guys, Curtis Wainwright and Jimmy Ray
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Rogers coincidentally Curtis Wainwright, longtime friend of doctor Severs husband Mark.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Not only that, if you look at the two of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: them side to side, they look like twin brothers. That
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: often joke that they're brothers from another mother. They look
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: identical to each other. And they grew up together and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: went to high school together. What were they doing in town?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: What were they doing near Teresa Sever's home? A real
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: red flag? As then raised listened to Aaron Moriarty.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: When investigators uncovered five life insurance Paula's for Teresa totally
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: more than four million dollars, it was a red flag.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: So was that trip Mark made to Missouri to be
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Wainwright's best man. And as it turns out, the other suspect,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Ray Rogers, was also a wedding guest. Taylor's shoemaker.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Jimmy's girlfriend claimed this was a murder for hire and
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: that Jimmy was supposed to be paid ten thousand dollars.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Eight months after Teresa Severs was killed, Wayne Wright facing
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: a possible death sentence, suddenly turned on his brother from
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: another mother, and he took a deal.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You were hearing our friend Aaron Moriarty straight out to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Amanda Hale, reporter w I in KTV Fort Myers. How
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: did these three hook up? Tell me the whole thing,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Amanda Hall.
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: Okay, Wayne Wright is a childhood friend. As you heard
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: of Mark Seavers. They called themselves brothers from another mother,
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: but they really looked like real brothers. They looked like twins.
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: So wain Wright is getting married and Mark Severs is
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: his best man, and they started planning this while he was.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: There for the wedding.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: Mark is saying that his wife is going to leave
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: him and he's worried that he can't pay to battle
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: her for custody of their two daughters, and that his
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: only option is for Teresa to die, and so he
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: hires Wayne to do the job, says he'll pay him
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: one hundred thousand dollars from the insurance money, and then
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: Wayne brings in Jimmy the Rogers Hammer, a man that
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: he met while they were both serving time in prison
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: for other crimes. So Mark hires Wayne and Wayne brings
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: in the Hammer.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, now, that's a heck of a nickname, you know.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I got to go to a shrink on that. Doctor
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall the Hammer.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting he called himself the hammer because what
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: he used to bludgeon the victim to death, and he
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: did it quite aggressively, quite maliciously. And Nancy, this was overkilled.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: When doctor Gallagher was talking about shards of the skull
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: in the brain, I realized they could have hit her
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: once and killed her. They hit her multiple times. So
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Jimmy the Hammer has this setishized interest in using a
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: hammer on a woman. Imagine what you want from that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: But this is an extremely aggressive man.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Amanda to backtrack, how many times does she bludgeon with
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the hammer?
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: Doesn't at least seventeen? We know from the autopsy report
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: that there were seventeen crescent shaped wounds to the back
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: of her head.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: To doctor Tim Gallagher, seventeen, I thought they were eighteen.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: Well, sometimes it's difficult to say exactly how many there
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: are when they're when the number is so high. A
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: lot of them are intersecting, and a lot of them
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: obscure the one underneath it. So seventeen is probably a
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: very conservative number. That they could definitively say, but often
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: it's quite more than that.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just just so repelled at this seventeen at least
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: seventeen blows to the back of her head with what
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I understand as a claw hammer on this tiny, tiny
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: little lady. To Ashley Wilcott, judge and trial lawyer anchor
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Court TV, Ashley, did you hear what Amanda Hall said
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that according to these two co defendants, of course, who
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: knows if they're telling the truth. They're shifting all the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: blame to somebody else and off themselves. Look at him,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: not at me. They say that at one of their weddings,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: he basically said, we're gonna split, We're going to battle
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: for custody. I have to kill her. Why not just
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: have joint custody? Ashley, you know, not.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: A great question that we continue to entertain and on
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: this show, because they're defendant after defendant chooses to.
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: Kill someone instead of getting a divorce or having joint custody.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: You know, who knows why? You can't answer the why
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you can own?
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: We look at what is the evidence show and going
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: after the person that the evidence show did such a
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: terrible thing, you know.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Just thinking through all of the evidence. To Amanda Hall,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: reporter w in KTV. As a former prosecutor, you have
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to assess the witnesses and see their faults. And here
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: these two Curtis Wayne Wright, the childhood friend of the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: husband Mark Sivers all the way through school together, is
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: an identical twin to Sivers and Jimmy Ray Rogers, nicknamed
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the Hammer, just twenty nine years old. They're POC's pieces
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: of crap okay technical legal term. So why should I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: believe them? What can you tell me about these two?
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Wayne Wright and Jimmy Rodgers are both eleven hundred miles
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: away from Benita Springs in a small town in the
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: middle of Missouri. And the way those two are connected
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: was from a stint in prison, So that tells you
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: a little bit about the character and the kind of
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: people that they are. Jimmy Rodgers is rumored to have
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: been a hit man before. It's in fact, it's something
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: that he regularly bragged about, and that's why Wayne ultimately
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: brought him in because he was afraid he wouldn't be
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: able to go through with it. So he needed a
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: guy who has done it before and would do it again,
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: and he knew that he'd be the one to actually
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: kill her and go through with it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So fifty one year old Curtis Wayne Wright went to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: school all the way through with Mark Severs childhood friends
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: in Missouri, and Savers moves to Florida, meets Teresa. They marry. Then,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: when Mark Severs decides he needs a murder done and
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: he needs a hit man, Curtis Wayne Wright contacts Jimmy
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Ray Rogers, who he met in jail, twenty nine year
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: old Rogers aka the Hammer. Now it would be it's
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: so easy for these two to blame Mark Severs to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: take the heat off of them, but then enter another witness.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Less than an hour later, in the early morning hours
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: of Monday, June twenty ninth, the GPS shows Jimmy and
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Wayne on the highway headed northbound for the seventeen.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Hour drive back to Missouri.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: The electronic trail would eventually lead detectives to Jimmy Ray Rogers' door.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Just like Wayne, he denied being involved, but when they
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: pulled in Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor, what a story she had
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: to tell. He has her to throw out parts of
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: his cell phone in a jumpsuit.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: What a couple of demons. You know, if the killer
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: is the devil, these two are his minions. Now we
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: know that Curtis Wayne Right, the childhood friend, pleads guilty
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: to second degree murder. Then Rogers, so called the Hammer,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: goes to trial and is convicted of second degree murder.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: But the case against Mark Savers take a listen.
• 37:11
  Speaker 12: In the Circuit Court of the twentieth Judicial Circuit in
• 37:14
  Speaker 12: for Lee County, Florida, Criminal Action State of Florida versus
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: Mark D. Sivers, Case Number fifteen CF. Six seven to
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: three B verdict, Will the jury find as follows as
• 37:26
  Speaker 12: to the defendant in this case count one first degree murder.
• 37:30
  Speaker 12: The defendant is guilty of first degree.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Murder Mark Savers challenging his death sentence.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: A judge is granted an extension for closing arguments. In
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Mark Savers's latest appeal, State prosecutors and Mark severs defense
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: had forty five days to file written closing arguments. It
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: was due a week from Monday, December fifteenth. Mark seivers
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: mother and stepmother testified in court at his October thirteenth
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: appeal hearing. Jimmy Ray Rogers, one of Sever's conveyed accomplices,
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: also maintains sever is innocent. November nineteenth, Sever's post conviction
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: attorneys filed emotion seeking the time extension. They cited the
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: impending execution of another death row inmate. They represented. Lee
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: Circuit Judge Bruce Kyle granted the extension. January thirteenth is
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: the new thirty day deadline. Jimmy Ray Rogers is also
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: appealing his conviction. According to Jimmy Ray Rogers, Curtis Wayne
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Wright worked in the Severs Benita Springs home doing computer
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: work as well as painting jobs. According to Rogers, Wright
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: asked him if he wanted to drive to Florida, speaking
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: of the trip for weeks, Rogers said after a nineteen
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: hour drive, they parked in the Severs driveway, but no
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: one was home. Rogers says Wright had a traumatic brain
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: injury years before, which causes him to get dates and
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: times mixed, so they drove to the beach. When they
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: came back, Teresa Severs was home. Rogers said, Wayne explained
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: he messed up the times, but they argued as Teresa
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: told them they were a week early. All three walked
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  Speaker 5: into the garage, which Teresa Severs closed behind them. The
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: argument continued as she unloaded a van with Right, becoming frustrated,
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: trying to hold his temper, Rogers says, then Teresa's Severs
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: said she would fire right. Right, then grabbed a hammer
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: and hit her. He says she survived the initial attack
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: near their deep freezer and ran into the kitchen. Right
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: chased her. Rogers says he chased two, yelling for Right
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: to stop. He says in the kitchen he saw Right
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: swinging Teresa Severs to the ground, holding her by her hair.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Then Wright struck Teresa Severs with the hammer over and over.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: Right then said the pair needed to make the murder
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: look like a burglary gone wrong. Rogers said he feared
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: for his life and did not alert authorities.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: We wait as just as unfals. Goodbye friend
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  Speaker 3: Zero.