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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. Well, it's Friday night, and

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Speaker 1: it is special. It's the tenth anniversary of a murder

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Speaker 1: that shot not just Southwest Florida, but beyond. Do you

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Speaker 1: recall the name doctor Teresa Severs, because I will never

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Speaker 1: forget it. Her husband, Mark Severs, and his high school buddy,

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Speaker 1: who was a doppelganger, get together and murder his wife,

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Speaker 1: the mother of their two little girls. She was everything,

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Speaker 1: just precious, cute as a button, a tiny, diminutive woman,

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Speaker 1: the mother of the two. She was a medical doctor. Listen.

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Speaker 1: She not only brought home the bacon, but fried it

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Speaker 1: up and put it on the table. You see what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. She supported him. How did he repay her

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Speaker 1: by killing her? And believe it or not, Mark Severs,

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Speaker 1: the killer, now wants out of jail on appeal. Surprised,

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Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for being with us. He just

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Speaker 1: won't go away, will he? After evidence proved him guilty

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Speaker 1: beyond a reasonable doubt, Mark Severs now decides, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: want to get out of jail. He should have thought

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Speaker 1: about that before he had his wife murdered. In this

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Speaker 1: elaborate plan ridiculous. His main point of contention is Jimmy Rogers,

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Speaker 1: one of the convicted killers hired by Severs to murder

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Speaker 1: his wife. Now Jimmy Rogers claimed in an interview with

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Speaker 1: week Wink that there was no conspiracy and accused his

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Speaker 1: former friend Curtis Wayne Wright, the high school doppel ganger,

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Speaker 1: of lying during his plea deal testimony against husband Mark Severs. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you will recall the high school friend, now convicted felon,

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Speaker 1: Curtis Wayne Wright testified in court he and Rogers, the killer,

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Speaker 1: were hired by husband Mark Severs, and they were promised

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Speaker 1: a huge payout of life insurance money to kill Teresa Severs.

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Speaker 1: High school friend Curtis Wright said, doctor Severs arrived home

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Speaker 1: earlier than expected from an out of town trip, and

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Speaker 1: he 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: H I at a friend's house. He's out of town

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Speaker 2: and I came here for second flight, and she's got

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Speaker 2: on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Okay, stand seraphone, stand line. Yes, okay, we're doing very well.

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Speaker 3: Good time. At the moment, we're going to connect you.

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Speaker 3: They're going to ask for the throne a fire here?

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Speaker 3: What did he addressed the emergency?

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Speaker 2: Two one zero three four Jarvis?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: And is that a house for an apartment?

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Speaker 4: Sir?

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Speaker 2: The house?

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Speaker 3: I mean, exactly what happened my.

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Speaker 2: Friend us she's a doctor. I'm a doctor. She came

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Speaker 2: home last night. Her husband is in Connecticut, and she

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Speaker 2: was to school at nine o'clock. They called me, and

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Speaker 2: I was on my way in the works. I swung

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Speaker 2: by and she's done, and the hammer at the side

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Speaker 2: 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: 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: bath or put on pj's. She was ambushed right as

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Speaker 1: she came home from the airport while 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

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Speaker 1: call weekly okay, yes.

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Speaker 3: Roy, sir, office for you on the way with you? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 6: And so you said you're a doctor, Yes I am.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Are you with her now?

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Speaker 2: I'm outside of the house. I don't know if there's

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Speaker 3: For how old?

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Speaker 7: Is all right?

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Speaker 3: Sir? And is she a week?

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Speaker 2: She's got one before? And those blood everywhere?

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Speaker 3: Also law enforcement is on the line with us. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, was right? It is the stand the

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Speaker 3: line I pick. A tariff office has questions and they're

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Speaker 3: going to conting you on what to do next. Okay, sure,

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Speaker 3: are you inside the resident instead?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm standing in the driveway.

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Speaker 3: Okay. And then when you walked in slave the house,

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Speaker 3: you 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 blast.

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Speaker 6: Is she cold dead?

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Speaker 8: Cult?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: I can't help but analyze that nine to one one call.

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Speaker 1: And this co worker, doctor Petreati, seems very very calm.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to doctor Bethany Marshall's psycho analyst

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Speaker 1: joining us from l A. Can find it at doctor

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Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany I was the same

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Speaker 1: way in court, no matter what happened, at least in

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Speaker 1: front of a jury. I would stay extremely calm, even

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Speaker 1: 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 5: When I was doing your HLN show, I had a patient.

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Speaker 1: Who tried to kill herself.

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Speaker 5: She overdosed on benzodiazepines.

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Speaker 9: She called me up.

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Speaker 9: A coma like state.

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Speaker 5: I called nine one one, and my biggest fear was

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Speaker 3: So I was very formal and how I reported it.

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Speaker 1: I said, this is.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Bethany Marshall, this is my license number, this is

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Speaker 5: where I got this call.

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Speaker 9: This is the woman's I.

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Speaker 5: Dress, here's her diagnosis, here are the benzodiazepines, the number

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Speaker 5: of pills she took on down the road. Because I

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Speaker 5: knew that that was a very formalized report, that this

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Speaker 5: the evening news. As I just said, so this is

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Speaker 5: the doctor who walks into a crime scene. The woman's

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Speaker 5: back of her head is bashed and she's still wearing

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Speaker 5: her stiletto shoes. He is the first one on the scene.

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Speaker 5: So yes, doctor Kim Gallagher is correct. You have to

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Speaker 5: be authoritative, you have to be calm in the midst

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Speaker 5: of the storm. But there's also this anxiety about how

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Speaker 5: you are going to come across as you report the incident.

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Speaker 5: You you are the first responder, You're the person who's

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Speaker 5: going to be questioned, So how you make that verbal

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Speaker 5: report is extremely important.

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Speaker 1: With me an all star panel today to break it down,

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Speaker 1: put it back together again, of course, in addition to

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Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall with me, judge and trial lawyer anchor

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Speaker 1: Court TV Ashley Wilcott. You can find her at Ashley

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Speaker 1: Wilcott dot com. James Shelna twenty seven years Atlanta Metro

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Speaker 1: major k SWAT officer, now lawyer. But right now to

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Speaker 1: Amanda Hall, special guest joining us, investigative reporter from wi

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Speaker 1: in KTV Fort Myers, Florida, who has been on the

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Speaker 1: story since the get go. At the beginning, Amanda, let's

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Speaker 1: just take what we know. Tell me about the crime

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Speaker 1: scene for those of you just joining us, A stunning

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Speaker 1: development in the case of a murdered mom and doctor

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Speaker 1: doctor Teresa's severs remind those listeners that don't already know,

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Speaker 1: Amanda Hall, when cops came in, what did they find

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Speaker 1: at the scene, Nancy.

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Speaker 7: When police came in in June of twenty fifteen, they

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Speaker 7: came inside the Severs home and they found blood in

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Speaker 7: the kitchen, and they found Teresa Sever's bludgeon to death

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Speaker 7: with the claw end of a hammer. Blood.

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Speaker 1: Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda Hall joining me, w I ink

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Speaker 1: when you say blood in the kitchen, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: this morning, I was chopping up green beans and I

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Speaker 1: have to chop the tips off every single one or

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Speaker 1: Lucy won't eat it, and I cut my finger.

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Speaker 7: 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 7: Thing, Amanda, Nancy, there was so much bloo in there.

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Speaker 7: You know. When we have interviewed investigators and detective who

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Speaker 7: seen anything like it. The amount of blood was stunning.

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Speaker 7: When you look at the report, seventeen crescent shaped cuts

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Speaker 1: What else did they find, Amanda.

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Speaker 7: The other thing they found was that the crime scene

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Speaker 7: was staged to make it look like a break in,

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Speaker 7: to make it look like a robbery. The thing is, Nancy.

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Speaker 7: They stuffed cash in different parts of the home, and

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Speaker 7: there was a whole cachet of guns that were untouched.

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Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace. Do you know how when

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Speaker 1: you think a square a roach and then suddenly there

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Speaker 1: it is again? Same thing here husband Mark Severs. I

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Speaker 1: thought he was put away for life, but here he

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Speaker 1: is again. Now he wants to get out on appeal.

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Speaker 1: Let me just have a quick refresher on what happened

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Speaker 1: to the beautiful young mom of two, doctor Teresa Severs.

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Speaker 3: The hammer's sitting next to her, and you had wrapped

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Speaker 3: it and didn't touch anything.

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Speaker 2: I touched her. I showok her a little bit.

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Speaker 3: All right, one moment. You're doing really well.

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Speaker 1: So the last time.

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Speaker 3: You had seen her is what time?

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Speaker 6: Probably too three weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: When 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 back. She was supposed to go to

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Speaker 2: work today at nine o'clock and her husband called me

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Speaker 2: from Connecticut to say she didn't shut up the work

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Speaker 2: and she not answered her phone, and he checked her.

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Speaker 2: He tried to call him, try calling. He's going to

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Speaker 2: call her mom, and he said she was slinging by?

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Speaker 6: 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 1: Court TV. Ashley Wilcott dot com. Ashley, you and I

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Speaker 2: He's her office manager.

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Speaker 1: She was attacked. You know, my first thought that when

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Speaker 12: And so from everything I've researched, the indicse that Mark

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Speaker 1: Art Severs convicted and the murder of his wife, Teresa,

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Speaker 1: Severs was a popular fixture in her community. She had

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Speaker 8: We were seeing her sisters on one side, and the

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Speaker 8: I hugged him. What do you say, I said, Mark,

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Speaker 1: A look of hate at the funeral and doctor Bethany Marshall,

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Speaker 1: Why would hatred be a part of a funeral. That's

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Speaker 5: Tells me, first of all, he's worried about all the

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Speaker 5: If he's a real man, why not go home with

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Speaker 5: He's the office manager while she's out there seeing patients.

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Speaker 5: So the fact that he is glaring hatefully at one

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Speaker 1: Where did you tell me he's from Amanda To start with,

440
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Speaker 1: Mark Severs grew.

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Speaker 7: Up in a little small town in Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, I want to go to doctor Tim Gallagher

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Speaker 1: medical examiner. I want you to describe if he could,

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Speaker 1: the wounds to doctor Sever's body. And again there was

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Speaker 1: no sex attack and no or burglary from her person

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Speaker 1: or the home.

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Speaker 14: So her wounds were concentrated mostly on the back of

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Speaker 14: her head, so they were the crescent shaped impressions that

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Speaker 14: a hammer would make when they strike soft flesh. So

450
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Speaker 14: she had lacerations to the back of her head. Who

451
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Speaker 14: was extensive bleeding. There was a physical brain damage done.

452
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Speaker 14: The shards of the broken skull had penetrated into her

453
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Speaker 14: brain and there was massive bleeding.

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Speaker 1: What did you just say about charge of the skull.

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Speaker 14: Well, when the skull is broken, they're broken into very

456
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Speaker 14: sharp pieces. And as the attack continues, as the hammer

457
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Speaker 14: keeps now striking these pieces of bone, these loose pieces

458
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Speaker 14: of sharp bone are now being driven into the actual brain,

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Speaker 14: causing the tearing of the brain tissue and cutting of

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Speaker 14: the blood vessels as supply blood to the brain.

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Speaker 1: Trying to think about this massive attack on this tiny

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Speaker 1: woman and Amanda Hall, reporter w I in k TV

463
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Speaker 1: in Fort Myers, Amanda, most of the blows or to

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Speaker 1: the back of the head. Did she ever even get

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Speaker 1: a chance to fight back?

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Speaker 7: No, Nancy, she didn't. You know, she rolled her suitcase

467
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Speaker 7: into an attack and ambush, So.

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Speaker 1: Her suitcase was still sitting there.

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Speaker 7: Her suitcase was still in the garage. She had just

470
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Speaker 7: you know, walked in the door. Hadn't had a chance

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Speaker 7: to unpack anything, hadn't even had a chance to change

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Speaker 7: your clothes or do anything.

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Speaker 1: This is telling me so much about the attack. James

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Speaker 1: shell Nutt twenty seven years Atlanta Metro major case swat

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Speaker 1: officer now lawyer James shell Nutt. Somebody. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: no coincidence that somebody is right there in the kitchen

477
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Speaker 1: as she walks in from the garage, parts her car

478
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Speaker 1: in the garage, gets your suitcase out of the car,

479
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Speaker 1: still sitting there in the garage. She walks in the

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Speaker 1: kitchen in bam attack. Nothing stolen, nothing taken from her,

481
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Speaker 1: and on her pocketbook and on her cell phone, nothing

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Speaker 1: all that money they had hidden in various spots, the

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Speaker 1: guns that the husband kept, nothing taken, no sex attack.

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Speaker 1: But someone is lurking right there. She can't even get

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Speaker 1: past the kitchen. They're waiting for her to come through

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Speaker 1: that garage door.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, all of this adds up to the fact that

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Speaker 12: you need to start looking at someone who is closely

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Speaker 12: connected to this victim. This is not something random. There's

490
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Speaker 12: too many coincidences. The coincidence about the husband, you know,

491
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Speaker 12: not flying back, the coincidence about the alarm not being set,

492
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Speaker 12: she walks into a house. There's no other motive evident

493
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Speaker 12: at that point. You start where you traditionally.

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Speaker 1: Start crime stories with Nancy Grace, husband turned killer. Mark

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Speaker 1: Severs Legal team is continuing their death sentence appeal as

496
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Speaker 1: a new hearing approaches. I thought he was gone. I

497
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: thought he would be in jail the rest of his

498
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: life until he got the death penalty. But no, he's back,

499
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: causing a stink recall. Severs was found guilty of hiring

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Speaker 1: two men, his high school buddy Curtis Wright aka doppel

501
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: Ganger they look exactly alike, and Jimmy Rogers, a neer Dowell,

502
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Speaker 1: to carry out a savage killing of his wife. They're

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Speaker 1: at the couple's homes and home in Benita Springs, Florida.

504
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: Why he didn't want to work like all of us

505
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Speaker 1: have to do. He wanted to pay out on her

506
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Speaker 1: four point four to three million dollar life insurance policy.

507
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Speaker 1: Wright was a longtime friend of Severs, as I mentioned before,

508
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Speaker 1: and Rogers. The two of them carried out the attack

509
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Speaker 1: while the husband, Mark Severs, made himself scared and gave

510
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: himself an alibi. M Well, I don't care what those

511
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: killers are planning behind bars. This is what I know

512
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: happened at trial.

513
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 13: Crash bags, flushable web wipes, black towels, black shoes, and

514
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 13: a lock picking kit. They paid cash for their purchase

515
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 13: with a one hundred dollars bill.

516
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: Who in the hey are these two you're hearing CBS

517
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Moriarty describing two guys, Curtis Wainwright and Jimmy Ray

518
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: Rogers coincidentally Curtis Wainwright, longtime friend of doctor Severs husband Mark.

519
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: Not only that, if you look at the two of

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00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: them side to side, they look like twin brothers. That

521
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: often joke that they're brothers from another mother. They look

522
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: identical to each other, and they grew up together and

523
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Speaker 1: went to high school together. What were they doing in town?

524
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: What were they doing near Teresa Sever's home? A real

525
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: red flag? As then raised Listen to Aaron Moriarty.

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Speaker 13: When investigators uncovered five life insurance policies for Teresa totally

527
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 13: more than four million dollars, it was a red flag.

528
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 13: So was that trip Mark made to Missouri to be

529
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Speaker 13: Wainwright's best man. And as it turns out, the other suspect,

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Speaker 13: Jimmy Ray Rogers, was also a wedding guest. Taylor's shoemaker.

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Speaker 13: Jimmy's girlfriend claimed this was a murder for hire and

532
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Speaker 13: that Jimmy was supposed to be paid ten thousand dollars

533
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 13: eight months after Teresa Sivers was killed, Wayne Wright, facing

534
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Speaker 13: a possible death sentence, suddenly turned on his brother from

535
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Speaker 13: another mother.

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Speaker 1: And he took a deal. You were hearing our friend

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00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Moriarty straight out to Amanda Hall, reporter w I

538
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: in KTV Fort Myers. How did these three hook up?

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00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: Tell me the whole thing, Amanda Hall?

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Speaker 7: Okay, Wayne Wright is a childhod friend. As you heard

541
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Speaker 7: of Mark Severs. They called themselves brothers from another mother,

542
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 7: but they really looked like real brothers. They looked like twins.

543
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 7: So Wainwright is getting married and Mark Severs is his

544
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 7: best man, and they started planning this while he was

545
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 7: there for the wedding. Mark is saying that his wife

546
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 7: is going to leave him and he's worried that he

547
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Speaker 7: can't pay to battle her for custody of their two daughters,

548
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 7: and that his only option is for Teresa to die,

549
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Speaker 7: and so he hires Wayne to do the job, says

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Speaker 7: he'll pay him one hundred thousand dollars from the insurance money,

551
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 7: and then Wayne brings in Jimmy the Rogers Hammer, a

552
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 7: man that he met while they were both serving time

553
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 7: in prison for other crimes. So Mark hires Wayne and

554
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Speaker 7: Wayne brings in the hammer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now that's a heck of a nickname. You know.

556
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: I got to go to a shrink on that. Bethany

557
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: Marshall the Hammer.

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00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 7: Well, it's interesting he.

559
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Speaker 5: Called himself the hammer because that's what he used to

560
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 5: bludgeon the victim to death, and he did it quite aggressively,

561
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 5: quite maliciously. And Nancy, this was overkilled. When doctor Gallagher

562
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 5: was talking about shards of the skull in the brain,

563
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 5: I realized they could have hit her once and killed her.

564
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 5: They hit her multiple times. So Jimmy the Hammer has

565
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 5: this setishized interest in using a hammer on a woman.

566
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 5: Imagine what you want from that. But this is an

567
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Speaker 5: extremely aggressive man.

568
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: Amanda to backtrack, how many times does she bludgeon with

569
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Speaker 1: the hammer?

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Speaker 7: Doesn't at least seventeen? We know from the autopsy report

571
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Speaker 7: that there were seventeen crescent shaped wounds to the back

572
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Speaker 7: of her head.

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Speaker 1: To doctor Tim Gallagher, seventeen, I thought there were eighteen.

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Speaker 14: Well, sometimes it's difficult to say exactly how many there

575
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 14: are when they're when the number is so high. A

576
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 14: lot of them are intersecting, and a lot of them

577
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 14: obscure the one underneath it so seventeen is probably a

578
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 14: very conservative number that they could definitively say, but often

579
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Speaker 14: it's quite more than that.

580
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: I'm just just so repelled at this seventeen at least

581
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: seventeen blows to the back of her head with what

582
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Speaker 1: I understand is a claw hammer on this tiny, tiny

583
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Speaker 1: little lady. To Ashley Wilcott, judge and trial lawyer anchor

584
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Speaker 1: Court TV, Ashley, did you hear what Amanda Hall said that?

585
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Speaker 1: According to these two co defendants, of course, who knows

586
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Speaker 1: if they're telling the truth. They're shifting all the blame

587
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: to somebody else and off themselves. Look at him, not

588
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: at me. They say that at one of their weddings,

589
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: he basically said, we're going to split, We're going to

590
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: battle for custody. I have to kill her. Why not

591
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: just have joint custody, Ashley.

592
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 9: Is not a great question that we continue to entertain

593
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 9: and on this show, because they're defendant after defendant chooses

594
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 9: to kill someone instead of getting a divorce or having

595
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 9: joint customer.

596
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: You know, who knows why? You can't answer the why.

597
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 9: You can only look at what is the evidence show

598
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 9: and going after the person that the evidence show did

599
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 9: such a terrible thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just thinking through all of the evidence

601
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: to Amanda Hall, reporter wie K TV. As a former prosecutor,

602
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: you have to assess the witnesses and see their faults.

603
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: And here these two Curtis Wayne Wright, the childhood friend

604
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: of the husband Mark Sivers all the way through school together,

605
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: is an identical twin to Sivers and Jimmy Ray Rogers,

606
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Speaker 1: nicknamed the Hammer, just twenty nine years old. They're POC's

607
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: pieces of crap okay technical legal term. So why should

608
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: I believe them? What can you tell me about these two?

609
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 7: Wayne Wright and Jimmy Rodgers are both eleven hundred miles

610
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 7: away from Benita Springs in a small town in the

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Speaker 7: middle of Missouri.

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Speaker 1: And the way those two are.

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Speaker 7: Connected was from a stint in prison, So that tells

614
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 7: you a little bit about the character and the kind

615
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 7: of people that they are. Jimmy Rodgers is rumored to

616
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 7: have been a hit man before. It's in fact, it's

617
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 7: something that he regularly bragged about, and that's why Wayne

618
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 7: ultimately brought him in because he was afraid he wouldn't

619
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Speaker 7: be able to go through with it, so he needed

620
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Speaker 7: a guy who has done it. Before and would do

621
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Speaker 7: it again, and he knew that he'd be the one

622
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Speaker 7: to actually kill her and go through with it.

623
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Speaker 1: So fifty one year old Curtis Wayne Wright went to

624
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Speaker 1: school all the way through with Mark Savers childhood friends

625
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: in Missouri, and Savers moves to Florida, meets Teresa, they marry. Then,

626
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Speaker 1: when Mark Savers decides he needs a murder done and

627
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: he needs a hit man, Curtis Wayne Wright contacts Jimmy

628
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Speaker 1: Ray Rogers, who he met in jail twenty nine year

629
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Speaker 1: od Rogers aka the Hammer. Now, he would be so

630
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: easy for these two to blame Mark Severs to take

631
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Speaker 1: the heat off of them, But then enter another witness.

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Speaker 13: Less than an hour later, in the early morning hours

633
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Speaker 13: of Monday, June twenty ninth, the GPS shows Jimmy and

634
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 13: Wayne on the highway headed northbound for the seventeen hour

635
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 13: drive back to Missouri. The electronic trail would eventually lead

636
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 13: detectives to Jimmy Ray Rogers' door. Just like Wayne, he

637
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 13: denied being involved, but when they pulled in, Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor,

638
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 13: what a story she had to tell.

639
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: He hasd her to throw out parts of his cell

640
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: phone in a jumpsuit. What a couple of demons.

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Speaker 10: You know.

642
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: If the killer is the devil, these two are his minions.

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00:36:54,760 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: Now we know that Curtis Wayne Right, the Childhood Brand,

644
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: pleads guilty to second degree murder. Then Rogers, so called

645
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: the Hammer, goes to trial and is convicted of second

646
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: degree murder. But the case against Mark Savers take a listen.

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Speaker 11: In the Circuit Court of the twentieth Judicial Circuit in

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Speaker 11: and for Lee County, Florida, Criminal Action, State of Florida

649
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 11: versus Mark D. Sivers, Case Number fifteen cf. Six seven

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Speaker 11: to three b verdict. We the jury find as follows

651
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 11: as to the defendant in this case count one first

652
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Speaker 11: degree murder. The defendant is guilty of first degree.

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00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: Murder, Mark Savers challenging his death sentence. Who do think it?

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00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 7: Well?

655
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 5: Me?

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00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 12: For one?

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Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye friend,