Court documents released in December in the murder of Ansonia native Dr. Teresa Ann Sievers, 46, accuse her husband, Mark, of planning to kill her. Dr. Sievers originally hails from Ansonia, Connecticut.
FOX4 reports that the documents revealed Mark Sievers hired Jimmy Rodgers to kill his wife so that he could get money from her $4.5 million life insurance policy. Another person, Curtis Wayne Wright, was also charged in connection to the murder.
Dr. Sievers was found dead in her Bonita Springs, Florida home on Monday, June 29, 2015, by a friend and fellow doctor after she didn’t show up to work, according to FOX4. She died of blunt force trauma to the back of her head in her house after she came home early from a family vacation with her husband and two daughters. She was killed with a hammer.
Dr. Sievers’ sister told FOX4 that one of the men charged with second-degree murder, Wright, is best friends with Mark Sievers, and that the two list each other as brothers on Facebook.
Wright originally pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Lee County, Florida in December, but FOX4 reports that last week he agreed to a plea deal of 25 years in prison in exchange for testifying against Mark Sievers. Rodgers was also arrested and is at the Lee County Jail awaiting trial for second-degree murder charges.
