Spin Cycle: Wife Bashes Hubby w Bat, Tries to Wash Away Bloody Evidence| Crime Alert 6AM 10.16.2025
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
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A wife is cuffed, accused of bashing her husband's head in with a Billy club. She's then caught red-handed literally trying to clean up the crime scene, in the washing machine.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News Now. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Jennifer Gould. A grotesque domestic tragedy unfolded in Fort Pierce, Florida, |
| 0:09.6 | leaving a 64-year-old man dead from blunt force trauma and his wife in custody after an alleged attempt to destroy the evidence in a washing machine. |
| 0:19.7 | Bonnie Teetkin, 60 faces charges of second-degree murder |
| 0:23.1 | and tampering with evidence in the savage, bludgeoning death of her husband, William Teetkin. |
| 0:29.4 | Neighbors say the couple who'd been married for 40 years had a rocky relationship. Sue Roseman |
| 0:34.1 | spoke to the media. You really don't think something's going to go that far. You know, that it's as much as they drank and all their whole history, it finally came to that. And it's, I just don't think that's going to happen. St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies swarmed a couple's bird's drive home around 10.30 p.m. After a welfare check was called in by the couple's shocked adult children. Upon arrival, the scene was |
| 0:56.3 | damning. Deputies found Bonnie in the garage, standing near a washing machine. A blood-soaked blanket |
| 1:03.4 | lay on the concrete floor and inside the appliance were blood-drenched clothing and towels. Teetkins |
| 1:10.6 | was reportedly in the process of pressing the start cycle on the machine, |
| 1:14.6 | attempting a clumsy cover-up of the brutal crime. |
| 1:19.0 | A trail of blood droplets led from the garage through the living room to a bedroom, |
| 1:24.3 | where deputies discovered William Teetkins lying face down on the floor. |
| 1:28.9 | He had suffered multiple severe head wounds consistent with being beaten with a billy club or a bat, |
| 1:35.4 | a weapon she later admitted using. The severity of the trauma confirmed he was beyond saving. |
| 1:43.1 | The horror first came to light, though, earlier that evening. |
| 1:46.5 | After trying to reach out to her adult son by phone, Teetkins returned his call around 9 p.m., delivering a |
| 1:53.1 | bone-chilling confession. She allegedly told him, quote, dad's dead, end quote, and admitted to striking him |
| 2:00.7 | with the wooden club. |
| 2:02.7 | The traumatized children rushed to the scene and contacted authorities. |
| 2:07.3 | In custody, Teetkins appeared intoxicated and offered vague statements, claiming she had, quote, |
| 2:13.2 | unquote, snapped and couldn't take it anymore, end quote. |
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