Friday Night Special: Gorgeous Mom/Doctor Found Bludgeoned Dead on Kitchen Floor. Hubby Appeals Death Sentence

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A beautiful and brilliant medical doctor, Dr. Teresa Sievers, takes her family on a vacation trip to visit extended relatives with her husband and her two little girls.

Teresa comes home early, leaving family behind in Connecticut so she can go to work the next morning. Mark Sievers calls a co-worker of his wife to go to the home and check on her when she doesn't show up.

Dr. Teresa Sievers was found brutally bludgeoned, still wearing the outfit, complete with high-heeled shoes, she wore home from the airport Sunday night. The kitchen is covered in blood, a hammer by her side.

Husband Mark Sievers is ultimately charged with murder, accused of arranging for his childhood friend, Curtis Wayne Wright, to murder his wife.

Wright pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder, cooperating with prosecutors in Mark Sievers's trial. Sievers is convicted and now is appealing his death sentence.

Joining Nancy Grace to discuss the case:

Ashley Willcott: Judge and trial attorney, Anchor on Court TV, www.ashleywillcott.com
James Shelnutt: Attorney, served 27 years as Atlanta Metro Major Case Detective, SWAT Officer
Bethany Marshall: Psychologist
Dr. Tim Gallagher: Medical Examiner
Amanda Hall: Reporter, WINK TV, Ft Myers, Florida

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:11.2	Well, it's Friday night, and it is special.
0:15.6	It's the 10th anniversary of a murder that shocked not just Southwest Florida, but beyond. Do you recall the name
0:25.2	Dr. Teresa Severs because I will never forget it? Her husband, Mark Severs, and his high school
0:33.0	buddy who was a doppelganger, get together and murder his wife, the mother of their two little
0:39.4	girls. She was everything, just precious, cute as a button, a tiny diminutive woman. The mother
0:49.5	of the two, she was a medical doctor. Listen, she not only brought home the bacon, but fried it up and put it on the table.
0:57.9	You see what I'm saying?
0:58.7	She supported him.
0:59.7	How did he repay her by killing her?
1:04.0	I mean, and believe it or not, Mark Severs, the killer now now wants out of jail on appeal.
1:15.6	Surprised?
1:16.6	I'm not.
1:18.6	I'm Nancy Grace.
1:19.6	This is crime stories.
1:20.6	I want to thank you for being with us.
1:24.6	He just won't go away, will he? After evidence proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, Mark Severs now decides, hey,
1:33.3	I want to get out of jail.
1:35.3	He should have thought about that before he had his wife murdered in this elaborate plan.
1:40.3	Ridiculous.
1:42.3	His main point of contention is Jimmy Rogers, one of the convicted killers
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