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Speaker 1: My one one. What is your emergency? Uh? I had

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Speaker 1: Fort Myers. Amanda most of the blows or to the

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

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Speaker 1: chance to fight back? No, Nancy, she didn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: she rolled her suitcase into an attack and ambush, so

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Speaker 1: her suitcase was still sitting there. A suitcase was still

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Speaker 1: in the garage. She had just walked in the door,

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Speaker 1: hadn't had a chance to unpack anything, hadn't even had

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Speaker 1: a chance to change your clothes or do anything. This

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

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

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Speaker 1: now lawyer, James shell Nutt. Somebody, I mean, it's no

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Speaker 1: coincidence that somebody is right there in the kitchen as

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

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

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Speaker 1: sitting there in the garage, she walks in the kitchen

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Speaker 1: and bam, She's attacked. Nothing stolen nothing taken from her,

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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. Yeah, all of this adds up to

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Speaker 1: the fact that you need to start looking at someone

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Speaker 1: who is closely connected to this victim. This is not

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Speaker 1: something random. There's too many coincidences. The coincidence about the husband,

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Speaker 1: you know, not flying back, the coincidence about the alarm

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Speaker 1: not being set, she walks into a house, there's no

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Speaker 1: other motive evidence at that point. You start where you

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Speaker 1: traditionally start, which is at the circle of people closest

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Speaker 1: to the victim, and that often starts with a spouse.

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Speaker 1: Rick smile, you're not kidding. Crime stories. With Nancy Grace,

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Speaker 1: they bought, among other things, trash bags, flushable web wipes,

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Speaker 1: black towels, black shoes, and a lock picking kit. They

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Speaker 1: paid cash for their purchase with a one hundred dollars bill.

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Speaker 1: After shopping of Walmart, Jimmy and Wayne continued using the

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Speaker 1: navigation system to find the beach. After soaking in some

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Speaker 1: sun at the beach, according to police, Affidavid's Wayne and

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00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy returned the Sever's home, where they hung out for

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Speaker 1: hours in the garage, lying in wait for an unsuspecting

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Speaker 1: doctor Severs to arrive. Who in the hey are these

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Speaker 1: two you're hearing CBS Aeron Moriarty describing two guys, Curtis

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Speaker 1: Wainwright and Jimmy Ray Rogers coincidentally Curtis Wainwright, longtime friend

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Speaker 1: of doctor Severs husband Mark. Not only that, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the two of them side to side, and

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Speaker 1: you can see them at crime online dot com, they

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Speaker 1: look like twin brothers that often joked that they're brothers

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Speaker 1: from another mother. They look identical to each other, and

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Speaker 1: they grew up together and went to high school together.

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Speaker 1: What were they doing in town? What were they doing

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Speaker 1: near Teresa Severs home? A real red flag as then raised,

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Speaker 1: Listen to Aaron Moriarty, When investigators uncovered five life insurance

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Speaker 1: policies for Teresa totally more than four million dollars, it

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Speaker 1: was a red flag. So was that trip Mark made

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Speaker 1: to Missouri to be Wainewright's best man. And as it

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Speaker 1: turns out the other suspect, Jimmy Ray Rogers, was also

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Speaker 1: a wedding guest. Investigators wondered if that's where Mark hatched

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00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: a plan with the two men. Taylor's shoemaker. Jimmy's girlfriend

483
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Speaker 1: claimed this was a murder for hire and that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be paid ten thousand dollars. And then

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Speaker 1: I said I wasn't made money and it was murdering

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Speaker 1: Mark's fife. He said, m hired Wayne, Yes, and Wayne

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Speaker 1: hired him. Marked didn't know anything about jim Maybe and

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Speaker 1: hired supposed to come from entrance from her death. Okay?

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Speaker 1: Did he alread? No? Detectives still didn't have the proof

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Speaker 1: they needed to connect Mark to his wife Teresa's murder.

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Speaker 1: And then, almost eight months after Teresa Sivers was killed,

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Speaker 1: Wayne Wright, facing a possible death sentence, only turned on

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Speaker 1: his brother from another mother and he took a deal.

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Speaker 1: Mister Wright, why are you pleading guilty today to second

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Speaker 1: dree murder? Wayne admitted killing Teresa. I'm I'm pleading guilty

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Speaker 1: because of my role in the planning and participating of

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Speaker 1: the murders Teresa Severs, and he accused Mark Severs of

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Speaker 1: being the mastermind. That's all police needed. Mark. Did you

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Speaker 1: hire Wayne Wright to kill your wife? Mark Severs was

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Speaker 1: charged with the murder of his wife. Did you hire

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Speaker 1: anyone to kill your wife? You're hearing our friend Erin

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Speaker 1: Moriarty straight out to Amanda Hall, reporter w ian K

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Speaker 1: TV Fort Myers. How did these three hook up? Tell

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Speaker 1: me the whole thing, Amanda Hall? Okay, Wayne Wright is

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Speaker 1: a childhood friend. As you heard of Mark Severs. They

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Speaker 1: called themselves brothers from another mother, but they really looked

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Speaker 1: like real brothers. They looked like twins. So Waynewright is

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00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: getting married and Mark Sievers is his best man, and

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Speaker 1: they started planning this while he was there for the wedding.

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Speaker 1: Market is saying that his wife is going to leave him,

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Speaker 1: and he's worried that he can't pay to battle her

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Speaker 1: for custody of their two daughters, and that his only

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Speaker 1: option is for Teresa to die, and so he hires

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Speaker 1: Wayne to do the job. Says he'll pay him one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars from the insurance money, and then Wayne

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Speaker 1: brings in Jimmy the Rogers Hammer, a man that he

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Speaker 1: met while they were both serving time in prison for

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Speaker 1: other crimes. So Mark hires Wayne, and Wayne brings in

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Speaker 1: the Hammer. Okay, now that's a heck of a nickname.

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Speaker 1: You know. I gotta go to a shrink on that.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall the Hammer. Well, it's interesting he called

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Speaker 1: himself the hammer because that's what he used to bludch

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Speaker 1: a the victim to death. And he did it quite aggressively,

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Speaker 1: quite maliciously. And Nancy, this was overkilled. When when doctor

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Speaker 1: Gallagher was talking about shards of the skull in the brain,

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Speaker 1: I realized they could have hit her once and killed her.

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Speaker 1: They killed They hit her multiple times. So Jimmy the

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Speaker 1: Hammer has this fetishized interest in using a hammer on

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Speaker 1: a woman. Imagine what you want from that. But this

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Speaker 1: is an extremely aggressive man. Amanda to backtrack, how many

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Speaker 1: times is she bludging with the hammer? Doesn't at least seventeen?

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Speaker 1: We know from the autopsy report that there were seventeen

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Speaker 1: crescent shape wounds to the back of her head. To

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Speaker 1: doctor Tim Gallagher, the medical examiner for the state of Florida,

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Speaker 1: is that right seventeen? I thought they were eighteen. Well,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's difficult to say exactly how many there are

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Speaker 1: when there when the number is so high, a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are intersecting, and a lot of them obscure

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Speaker 1: the one underneath it. So seventeen is probably a very

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00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 1: conservative number that they could definitively say, but often it's

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Speaker 1: quite more than that. I'm just so repelled at this

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Speaker 1: seventeen at least seventeen blows to the back of her

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00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: head with what I understand as a claw hammer on

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Speaker 1: this tiny, tiny little lady. To Ashley Willcott, judge and

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00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: trial lawyer anchor Court TV, Ashley, did you hear what

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00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: Amanda Hall said that? According to these two co defendants,

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00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: of course, who knows if they're telling the truth. They're

548
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: shifting all the blame to somebody else and off themselves.

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00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: Look at him, not at me. They say that. At

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00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: one of their weddings, he basically said, we're gonna split,

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00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: We're gonna battle for custody. I have to kill her.

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00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: Why not just have joint custody? Asked me, We've not

553
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: a great question that we continue to entertain and on

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00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: this show because they're defendant. After defendant chooses to kill

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00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: someone instead of getting a divorce or having joint custody.

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00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: You know, who knows? Why you can't answer why. You

557
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: can only look at what is the evidence show and

558
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: going after the person that the evidence show did such

559
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: a terrible thing, you know, just thinking through all of

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00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: the evidence. To Amanda Hall, reporter w i n K TV,

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Speaker 1: as a former prosecutor, you have to assess the witnesses

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Speaker 1: and see their faults. And here these two Curtis Wayne Wright,

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: the childhood friend of the husband Mark Sivers all the

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: way through school together is an identical twin Deceivers and

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00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,959
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ray Rogers, nicknamed the Hammer, just twenty nine years old.

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Speaker 1: They're POC's pieces of crap okay technical legal term. So

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00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: why should I believe them? What can you tell me

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00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: about these two? Wayne Wright and Jimmy Rogers are both

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Speaker 1: eleven hundred miles away from Benita Springs in a small

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00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: town in the middle of Missouri. And the way those

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00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: two are connected was from a stint in prison. So

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00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: that tells you a little bit about the character and

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00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: the kind of people that they are. Jimmy Rogers is

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00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: rumored to have been a hitman before. It's in fact,

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00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: it's something that he regularly bragged about, and that's why

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00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: Wayne ultimately brought him in because he was afraid he

577
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to go through with it, so he

578
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: needed a guy who has done it before and would

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00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: do it again, and he knew that he'd be the

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Speaker 1: one to actually kill her and go through with it.

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

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

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: in Missouri, and Savers moves to Florida, meets Teresa, They marry. Then,

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

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00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: he needs a hitman, Curtis Wayne Wright contacts Jimmy Ray Rogers,

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

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00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: aka the Hammer. Now, it would be so easy for

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00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: these two to blame Mark Severs to take the heat

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: off of them, but then enter another witness. Less than

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Speaker 1: an hour later, in the early morning hours of Monday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty ninth, the GPS shows Jimmy and Wayne on

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Speaker 1: the highway headed northbound for the seventeen hour drive back

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Speaker 1: to Missouri. The electronic trail would eventually lead detectives to

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Ray Rogers door. Just like Wayne, he denied being involved,

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00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: but when they pulled in Jimmy's girlfriend Taylor. Yes, what

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00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: a story she had to tell. Jimmy Ray Rogers took

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Speaker 1: his girlfriend Taylor for a ride right along Route forty

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Speaker 1: seven and Rule, Missouri. And along this road he asked

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Speaker 1: her to throw out parts of his cell phone, which

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00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: he is in a jumpsuit, he said, and then I

601
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: threw the bloods out, and then I threw out the

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00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: h did you ask Taylor Tall police. That's when she

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00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: pushed Jimmy to tell her exactly what happened in Florida. Wow,

604
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: what a couple of demons. You know. If the killer

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: is the devil, these two are his minions. Now we

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00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 1: know that Curtis Wayne Wright, the childhood friend, please guilty

607
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: to second degree murder. Then Rogers, so called the Hammer,

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00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 1: goes to trial and is convicted of second degree murder.

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Speaker 1: But in the last hours a major development in the

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Speaker 1: case against Mark Sievers. Take a listen in the Circuit

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Speaker 1: Court of the twentieth Judicial Circuit in in for Lee County, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Criminal Action Data Florida versus Mark D. Sivers, case number

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Speaker 1: fifteen CF. Six seven three B verdict. We the jury

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Speaker 1: find as follows as to the defendant in this case,

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Speaker 1: Count one first degree murder. The defendant is guilty of

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Speaker 1: first degree murder two. Amanda Hall, reporter w I e KTV.

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Speaker 1: The husband, Mark Sievers, has been found guilty in the

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Speaker 1: murder of his wife, doctor Teresa Severs. Her mother has

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Speaker 1: the two little girls. Now what's next, Amanda Hall. Now

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Speaker 1: we move into sentencing, we move into the penalty phase.

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Speaker 1: So Mark sievers defense team will fight to spare his

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Speaker 1: life and prosecutors will go for the death penalty, and

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Speaker 1: that begins today. We wait as justice unfolds. Ancy Gray's

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Speaker 1: crime story, signing off, goodbye friend,