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Our case sources this week are a 48 hours episode, season 32, episode 59, AETV.com, CBSnews.com, newspress.com, naplenews.com, crimeonline.com, winknews.com, and heavy.com. So our case this week begins on Monday, June 29th, 2015 in Bonita Springs, Florida.
A very successful woman, 46-year-old Dr. Teresa Seavers and her husband, Mark Seavers, are going on a short vacation together with their two kids.
According to Dan DeLuca with the news press, Teresa was born in Connecticut and was valedictorian of her high school class. She graduated from medical school in the Caribbean nation of Dominica and completed residency at the University of Florida. Dr. Teresa and Mark had met and were married back in 2003 and they had a beach wedding, which I was extremely jealous of. He was a nurse and she was recently divorced and just six months after the wedding, their first daughter was born.
This was when the couple decided to build their beautiful home in Bonita Springs, Florida, and it was 2007 when their second daughter was born. At this point, Mark loved being a dad, and the girls were everything while also supporting Teresa in her career. Teresa was a high-profile doctor, according to Jessica Lipscomb, who reported heavily on this case.
Jessica was strong-willed and she knew what she wanted. She was running a holistic medical practice that was named Restorative Health and Healing Center. She gave many speeches and many videos about her passion on this approach and was known for her feisty temper. She could be known to raise her voice at the office. She was very passionate about what she did. Okay.
And while Teresa worked day in and day out with her patients, Mark worked for her managing the office and also taking care of their two little girls at home. Teresa and Mark were taking this summer weekend in 2015 to head up to New York for a family getaway. Teresa's family would actually be there too. Teresa would then fly back to Florida on Sunday to get back to her demanding work.
And Mark and the kids would come back later enjoying the vacation just a little bit longer. So they go on vacation. Teresa's going to fly back alone because she has to be into work on Monday. And Mark's going to stay a little longer with the girls. Got it.
So when Sunday night rolled around and Teresa landed at the Southwest Florida International Airport, she called Mark to check in. Hey, I've landed, made it safe. Everything's good. Teresa gets a ride home from a car at the airport and the night comes to an end. But in the morning, Teresa's office becomes worried when she is late for work.
Teresa is never late for work, especially without a warning. Her assistant, Sandra Haskins, begins calling and texting. It's now past 9 a.m., and Teresa is officially late.
Sandra reaches out to Mark asking if he knew where Teresa was that morning. Maybe she decided to stay on vacation a little bit longer. He says no. She called him after she landed last night and she was getting in a car heading home. He hadn't heard from her all morning and he too now was worried knowing that she didn't show up for work. Mark decides to call a friend and have him go check on the house. It was like a neighbor friend.
Maybe Teresa had just slept in, even though that's very unlike her. So the neighbor calls 911 after Teresa's husband, Mark, had called and had him check on her. When the neighbor had gone over to the Seavers' home, he found Teresa dead on the kitchen floor. Oh, my gosh. There was a hammer next to her body, and she had 17 impact wounds to the back of her skull. Holy crap.
So this was a violent beating. It was a violent death. She had been attacked in her home and was now dead on their kitchen floor after not showing up to work that morning. Okay. When Mark Seavers was contacted and told about his wife's murder, he couldn't speak. I mean, people say he was just like,
completely dumbfounded. He cooperated with police immediately and spoke to them without a lawyer. He handed over his cell phone. We know that the husband is always the first suspect and it was no different in this case. But I mean, Margo...
Mark's alibi is really strong. At the time of Teresa's murder, he was back in New York with the girls and Teresa's family. Like he was out of town. That's a really strong alibi for a husband. Doing so many of these, my first thought goes to, well, did he hire someone? I know. I mean, I know we're not there yet and I don't want to blame him, but that's just my first initial thought. It does seem like that always happens. Yeah. So as police look at Mark, they also lay out what they had found back at the crime scene. There was evidence.
sign of a forced entry. It looked like the door had been pried open, but they noted that there was $40,000 in cash inside the house, as well as Mark's extensive gun collection that was untouched. Weird. So this didn't appear to police to be a robbery gone bad. Like it didn't appear like someone had broken, accidentally found her there thinking the family was out of town and killed her. And then,
robbed them because all that stuff was still there. The family did have an alarm that was usually armed, but Mark's mother had been feeding the family pets while they were out of town and she had had trouble setting the alarm the last day that she fed the pets. She called Mark and Mark was like, oh, just don't worry about it. We'll figure it out when we get there. Mark's mother actually really struggled with this idea that she had left the house unarmed and then Teresa was murdered inside the house. Not her fault at all. Not her fault at all, but she really struggled with that. Yeah.
Eight days after the murder, there was no leads, no nothing. And so Teresa's funeral was held. A lot of her patients were there and it was a beautiful service. One thing that stood out to everyone was the visible gun that Mark Seavers had on his waistband. Family knew that Mark was on edge. His wife had been beaten to death with a hammer at their own house. And he had two little girls. I think the concern for his family's safety is like completely warranted. Yep.
So while looking into Mark, police were also interviewing friends and family, and this led them to the assumption that they would need to look into Teresa's patients as well. It was during these interviews that Teresa's sister, Annie, mentioned that Teresa's medical assistant, Sandra Haskins, who had called her husband, she was a disgruntled employee, according to Teresa's sister. Apparently, she was bad-mouthing Dr. Teresa to her own patients.
So police reach out to Sandra and she was in fact going to resign that week. She claimed Teresa talked down to her, but that shouldn't make her a suspect. She's like, I had nothing to do with this. And doesn't mean she go hit someone 17 times in the head. Yeah. So police still had so many options to narrow down. So they let her go and they go pretty silent about the investigation into this case because
Media isn't told much. No one really knows who killed Teresa Seaver and time just kind of keeps going on without any updates.
until two months after the murder in August when police announced that they will be holding a press conference on this case. Everyone shows up. Like, obviously everyone's intrigued. Had they found a clue in the case? Like, they're dead silent and now all of a sudden they're like, we're holding a press conference. Is the family back living at the house? Do you know? I don't know. I never actually came across that. Yeah, I don't know. I do know that the girls were put into like,
protective custody at first just because they don't know if Mark's a suspect or not. So I do know that, but yeah, I don't know where Mark is living. I don't know if he's at the house. I would assume probably not because it's probably still a crime scene. I was going to say if it's an ongoing investigation. Yes, it's probably still an active crime scene. So police are having this press conference. Everyone shows up.
They are eagerly waiting to hear the update, but they were stunned to hear that police had more than just a little clue or a little update. Police had arrested a suspect named Jimmy Rogers from Missouri for the murder of Teresa Seaver.
So there's like no word. And then all of a sudden they're like, hey, we've arrested someone for the murder. And some random guy. From around there. This is in Florida. And this guy's in Missouri. Okay. And about an hour later, police also announced once again that they have now picked up a second suspect. What the heck? Named Curtis Wayne Wright from Missouri as well.
So they have arrested two people in Missouri for the murder of Dr. Seavers in Florida. And this is all in two months. It makes no sense. She was murdered two months ago. And these guys are 1100 miles away. Like how how did they even make this connection? What's going on? No one had actually heard of Jimmy Rogers. The first suspect they were like family was like, we don't know who that is. We don't know.
But everyone in the public was shocked when police released the photo of Wainwright. His name's Curtis Wainwright, but he goes by Wayne.
They were shocked because Wayne looked identical to Teresa's husband, Mark. No way. We will be posting the pictures on YouTube and on our social media. But if I looked at the photos of both of them, like I would say it was the same person, just different times they were captured. They looked that much identical? That's how identical they looked. They're both bald. They both have the same glasses. They both have their beards cut in the same exact way. Like it's crazy. Weird. And the even weirder part, Wayne...
was Mark's best friend.
for a long time so these two guys that look identical like they they they post the picture and wait so he was actually his best friend yes so the the public's like what the heck this guy looks identical to him and then mark's family and uh and dr siever's family is like no this is her husband's best friend like we know this guy we know holy crap and her husband mark our best friends have been for a very long time all right well here like i mentioned earlier it
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So Wayne and Mark had grown up together in Missouri. Wayne had gone to Mark and Teresa's wedding and even to Teresa's funeral. And two months before Teresa's murder, Mark had actually been Wayne's best man at his wedding. So that's how close these guys are.
And Wayne was still involved in their lives. He was actually the tech guy at Teresa's doctor's office. So he would drive from Missouri to Florida to work on her office computers and stuff like that. So as police dug deeper into Wayne, after receiving a tip from someone in Missouri that he had confessed to the crime of killing Teresa,
They discovered that back in 1996, a preacher mysteriously disappeared and he was last seen with none other than Wayne Wright. Okay. Apparently, Wayne owed the preacher money, but he has never been charged for the disappearance, but he is listed as a person of interest in that case.
In 2011, Wayne was also serving time in prison for drug possession, and this is when he met the other suspect in this case, Jimmy Rogers. Jimmy was doing time on a weapons charge, and he was released before Wayne. Jimmy missed work on the day of Teresa's murder, and he told his boss he was in Florida.
Which is where she was murdered. The other weird part, Jimmy's self-given nickname was The Hammer. Oh my gosh. Like he on Facebook, it says Jimmy Rogers and underneath for nickname The Hammer. And did these guys not, and I'm glad they're getting caught, but did they not like think of this ahead of time? Like my name's The Hammer and I'm going to keep it. And I used The Hammer. Yeah.
And also, I think Jimmy Rogers giving himself the nickname The Hammer really tells us all we need to know about Jimmy in my personal opinion. But that's just my personal opinion. Wayne had also gone to Florida with Jimmy at the time of Teresa's murder. So now at least this arrest makes a little bit more sense. Like these two were in Florida at the time. And also Wayne has told someone who's come forward to police that he did it.
So to the public, this is making a little bit more sense.
But still, we don't have like police haven't released any concrete evidence as to why these two are specifically arrested other than the fact that they were in Florida. And also why they did it. Exactly. So Jimmy told multiple people different reasons for why he was going to Florida that weekend. And so police began investigating this Florida trip with Jimmy and Wayne. And this is when they found the rental car that Jimmy and Wayne had used to drive to Florida.
The GPS system showed everything the police needed. It showed that on the morning of June 27th, 2015, Wayne picked up the car and then picked up Jimmy. They put in the address 27034 Jarvis Road, Bonita Springs, which you guessed it is the Seavers house. Oh my gosh.
And I will be putting in our episode notes, in our case sources, there is a very well written out timeline of everywhere this GPS went. So if you want a more detailed of like all the gas stations they stopped at and whatever, I will. That's in our episode notes if you want to check it out.
So police now have physical evidence that Jimmy Rogers and Wayne Wright made their way at some point to the crime scene the weekend that Dr. Seavers was murdered. After driving all day and all night, they arrived at the Seavers home Sunday morning the same day Teresa came home.
Police think they then turned off the Seavers alarm, which in record shows was disarmed at 6.09 a.m., which would then explain why Mark's mother had a hard time with the alarm that day because she went expecting it to be armed, but it was already disarmed. And so when she tried to like when she tried to disarm it, she actually armed it. And so it got all messed up and she was like, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to work this.
The GPS then shows that after disarming the alarm, which police think they did, that the GPS left the Seavers home and went to a nearby Walmart. So police go check security footage from the Walmart and they spot both Jimmy and Wayne together making a little shopping trip in Florida that day. They bought trash bags, flushable wipes, black towels, black shoes, and a lock picking kit. I don't understand what they thought.
They left a trail. Yeah. That's so suspicious. Yeah. I don't know what they were thinking. Exactly. And they paid cash to purchase all of these things. Then they typed in the beach on the GPS and they spent some time there. So after they go to Walmart and buy a kill kit, they go to the beach in Florida and they hang out for a little bit.
After the beach, they returned back to the Seavers house and wait. The GPS didn't leave again until early morning Monday, where it directly made the 17 hour drive back to Missouri. So all of this is pretty strong evidence. I mean, this is basically a digital footprint outlining the murder. How could they have been at the house? Like the GPS is at the house at the time of the murder and not done it. Like, so obviously this is very concrete evidence.
what you were saying, why? And this is what I'm curious about. So like what, we still don't have a why. Yep. Jimmy and Wayne aren't talking like they don't, they lawyer up. They don't talk to police. So police are once again, like we'll have to investigate to find out. And all of this is happening during those two months.
So all this investigating and everything is happening while they're dead silent. And I think this happens because if police have like strong enough evidence and strong enough leads, they don't need the public's help. So they don't need to include the public into the investigation. Most of the time, they'll only talk to the public if they're like, has anyone seen this man? We need help with this. You know what I mean?
Police decide to bring Jimmy's girlfriend, Taylor, in and question her. Maybe she knows something. Maybe Jimmy had told her something. Taylor tells police that Jimmy took her for a ride after making that trip to Florida with Wayne. And during the ride, along the way, he made her throw out pieces of his cell phone that he had smashed up, gloves, and a jumpsuit.
Taylor said she threw them all out because she was too scared to ask why he would need to be like discarding of these things.
Um, but after she asked him, Hey, like, I'm not going to tell anyone what happened in Florida. And he told her everything that he had used a hammer to kill a woman. And that that woman was Mark's wife. Holy crap. I actually can't believe he told her both of them told people like they're dumb. And at this point, police know what Mark knew. And at this point, after hearing this, police are like, okay,
the husband mark siever he's in on this 100 he 100 his best friend doesn't kill his wife he has to be with another criminal and not know about it there's no reason for wayne also to be able to get into their house and unarm their alarm like put the code in if mark doesn't know about it they begin sweeping through mark's phone that they had collected and they discovered that although from the outside
Mark and Teresa's marriage looked pretty stable. The Seavers were in serious financial trouble. Like even though they had 40,000 in cash at their house, they were really struggling with money. It's a lot of money in cash though. Oh, I agree. I think it's weird, but they were struggling with money. Yeah.
And Mark had more than four or five, it kind of depended on the source, life insurance policies out on Teresa that totaled more than $4.4 million. - Wow. - So if she died, he would get that much money. They also discover Mark's journal, which documents the problems in the marriage, discussing multiple affairs on both parts,
lack of attraction and lack of sex in their marriage and a fear of divorce and kind of who would get custody. This was all things he was talking about in his journal. Okay. Taylor told police, which is Jimmy's girlfriend, that Jimmy told her he would be paid $10,000 for murdering Mark's wife and that that money would come from insurance money. So,
Police are like, it was a murder for hire. Mark had hired, according to police, his best friend, Wayne, who then hired Jimmy, his friend that he had met in prison for help. Eight months after Teresa's murder, Wayne Wright turned on Mark and Jimmy.
He took a deal. He admitted to killing Teresa with Jimmy at the hands of Mark Seavers, his best friend, and pled guilty to second degree murder sentenced to 25 years. So second degree murder. Because he took a plea deal. He agreed to testify against the other two in court as long as he would get 25 years, which is a good deal for killing someone, might I say.
This was the testimony that police needed to charge Mark for the murder of his wife. But Mark says that Wayne envied him and killed her on her own. He had no part in this, that he had somehow turned into Mark.
wayne had shaved his head when mark started to go bald he trimmed his beard the same way and mark's like no wayne my best friend was jealous of me and so he murdered my wife that's what that's what mark is saying okay and people kind of like people come forward are like mark and wayne didn't look like when they were younger like when they're in high school and friends they didn't look like each other it was like kind of the older they got they kind of just like morphed into each other
Four years after the deal to testify against Mark and Jimmy, both Jimmy and Mark go to trial. Jimmy Rogers goes on trial first and the state says like, okay, at trial, this is what they present. Both Jimmy and Wayne each had individual hammers and they ended up finding the jumpsuit that Taylor disposed of. And so they had proof of this and a fiber from the jumpsuit was found on Teresa's body, which like,
is strong evidence that connects Jimmy to the murder. Yeah. During his testimony, Wayne says that he and Jimmy killed her together. And after two days of deliberation, Jimmy Rogers was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Teresa Seavers. Okay. And so what did, what did Mark get? So, cause that's what I'm, that's what you're curious about. In November, 2019, uh,
So this is pretty recent. Mark Seavers went on trial facing the death penalty after spending the last three years basically in jail.
His family still stood behind him saying he didn't do this. Like Wayne was just jealous of him and killed her on his own. But the evidence of Mark and Wayne actually using burner phones to communicate the like weeks before the murder was pretty solid evidence enough that there was a secret going on between them. They were having to use burner phones to communicate. This is like this is red flag numbers 72. You know what I mean?
The jury was out for four hours deliberating on a death penalty case, which is nothing. Four hours is so fast for a death penalty case. And they found Mark Seavers guilty of first degree murder and encouraged the death penalty.
On January 3rd, 2020, Mark Seavers pled for his life in front of the judge saying he was innocent. The judge ruled that Mark would be sentenced to death. Wow. Teresa's family had to wait five years for justice. Teresa lived a life of helping people. She was a doctor and she left two beautiful girls behind to grow up without a mom and a dad.
They are being raised by Teresa's family. According to news press, a year after her sister's killing, Annie described Teresa Seavers as a paradox. She was this incredibly gifted, brilliant doctor and this incredibly Christ-like person. She just lived that way, Lisa said.
She'd give you the shirt off her back. She helped strangers. She'd get up at two in the morning to do like an evaluation on anyone. But yet she'd put on her five inch heels and curl her hair and she'd be swearing like a sailor and drinking while doing this. Mark's request for a new trial has been denied and Jimmy Rogers appeal has not been decided yet. So we will be waiting for an update on that. I can't believe I feel so bad for the kids too. Yeah.
Talk about these innocent victims. What in the world? Their dad tried to kill their mom. And they now have a life full of pain without a mom and a dad. Just two innocent victims along with Teresa in this. The thing about these cases is there is always so many more victims than just the victim itself. You're leaving family, friends, people who cared. It's a huge ripple domino effect. And it's awful. Like Teresa Seavers,
obviously was this amazing go-getter achiever. Like look at what she had achieved in her life. For what? Just for him to kill her. Like it's unfair, but I do want to remember the legacy that she left of healing people, spending all of her time working for people as a doctor. And I do want to think about her whole family and everyone else who was affected by this. But that is the case of Teresa Seavers. Yeah.
another murder for hire which we always see those are insane to me insane yeah because it's like it's the same red flags over and over in every single case where you're like how has someone not done this better like in a roundabout way it's just like you left a breadcrumb and you hired someone who knew her who was a part of your life how did you think you weren't going to get caught
Yeah. Like, and they solved it pretty fast. I mean, it was under a year. Yeah. I'm glad they got it. Me too. Okay. Thank you guys so much for supporting the show. A reminder that if you want bonus content, we have that over on our Patreon. You can just go to patreon.com slash murder with my husband and check that out. And we will see you guys next week with another episode. I love it. And I hate it. Goodbye. Bye.
