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crime [Music] [Music] [Music] 911 when is your emergency uh I'm at a friend's house uh
he's out of town and I came here it's a check on the wife and she's dead on the floor okay the address is okay stay on
the line sir hold on stay on the line yes okay you're doing very well good job just a moment we're going to connect you
they're going to ask for the address fire what is the address of the emergency 21034
Jarvis all right repeat the address on more time for me 21034 police and uh and botom up okay
you said 21034 jar sorry 27 27034 okay and repeat that one more time 27034 Road okay and is that a house or
an apartment sir a house what's the phone number you're calling from tell me exactly what happened uh my friend uh
tra seers she's a doctor uh I'm a doctor uh she uh came home uh last night uh husband is in uh Connecticut and she was
supposed to go to work at 9:00 they called me and I was on my way into work so I swung by and she's dead on the
floor and there's a hammer at the side and she's dashed in the back of the head okay all right stand the line with
me sir okay yeah stay on the line with me um Sheriff officer you on the way yes you are okay all and so you said you're
a doctor yes I am okay are you with her now uh I'm outside of the house I don't know if there's anybody in the
house okay all right so how old is ter uh she's 50s 47 all right sir and is she awake no she's down more she's
cold dashed in and there's blood everywhere okay all right so I do have paramedics fire department also law
enforcement is on the line with us okay they're going to be going out okay okay want you to stay on the line one moment
you sure yeah I'm going to stay here I'm going to stay here till I get here because I you know I I don't know if any
still in the house okay right all right just stay on the line okay because sheriff's office has
questions and they're going to cons you on what to do next sir are you inside the residence then no I'm not I'm
standing in the driveway okay and then when you walked inside the house you said the blood was dry or what did you
say yeah half the blood is dry half is wet it she's cold she's dead cold okay and there's a the hammer
sitting next to her and you had left it and did you touch anything no I did not touch anything I touched her I shook her
a little bit all right one moment you're doing really well so the last time you had
seen her is what time uh probably two weeks 3 weeks ago two or three weeks ago okay and you said she returned
today uh I don't know when she came back but she was supposed to go back she was
supposed to go to work today at 9:00 and her husband called me from Connecticut to say she didn't St up at work and she
not answering her phone and he checked her uh uh he tried calling tried calling he he was going to call her mom and he
said if you're swinging by can you swing by and I knocked up the front door and nobody answered the lights were on I
could see her purses on the countertop and she didn't answer I pounded pounded and he gave me the key code to get into
the garage door I open the garage door and and the door leading into it was open one of the dogs ran out I don't
know if he left or not and uh and I walked in I just opened up the door walked in the door and Sh on the
floor and there's a big bash in the back of her head okay is the vehicle at her house or no
the vehicle is at her house yes in the garage the garage door was closed okay when you left did you left
the same way you entered or did you leave the front door no no no I just I I touched her and I just freaked out and I
walked outside okay when you walked outside did you walk out the front door or did you walk back out the garage door
back out the garage door and I uh I closed the door because the dogs right there so I did touch the handles that's
all right you just went through the I'm sorry I just a moment yeah so you I'm sorry
you just um went through the front door or the garage door I'm very sorry you say I went through the
garage you entered you exited the same door that's fine yeah um in all right yeah okay and so the you were there
because they asked you to take care of the house is that correct uh Mark her husband called me to say uh please can
you check on her because not like her not to show to work in be Lake okay so uh and I know you told me
before but when um after he called the Chuck and his wife because she wasn't at work correct all
right and and I only talk him one and he he gave me he gave me the code number he
sounded a little you know whatever and he received a call from work saying she wasn't
there I I I don't know okay that's fine you know he's he's her office manager oh
she's the office manager of his business no he's the office manager of her medical practice okay yeah and where is
he right now I believe he's in Connecticut that's what he told me okay and you didn't see anything else I
mean other than no I didn't I didn't go in house I didn't I'm afraid somebody's in the house I mean somebody killed her
right I mean it's a murder right it's she's bashed in the back of the head okay you know I I can't see her falling
or anything like that I just I just looked I thought my God she's like friend right exactly you're doing a
really well you're doing a fantastic job you you did a great job the I you know the deputies are R so the ambulance yeah
are you're doing a fantastic job I'm sure they're going to have a little bit further um you know more questions and
everything for you you're doing great okay okay all right I just let them know that you're outside fire guys are the
fire guys are here okay great go let go yeah she's bad okay go ahead go ahead and hang up
don't hang up no go ahead and hang up with me okay okay goodbye all right [Music]
bye you just heard the 911 call and then later the news came out that a mother of
two identified as Dr Teresa Anne sers 46 years old was the victim of a homicide in Bonita Springs Florida this was on
the morning of June 29th 2015 in the Lee County Sheriff's Office authorities were asking for anyone who
had heard or saw anything in connection to this to call them now Teresa was found on Monday at 9:45 a.m. after the
Lee County Sheriff's Office responded to the 911 call from the neighbor employees
at her office this is the restorative health and Healing Center in Estero said that she didn't show up for work on
Monday despite having patient scheduled to see her neighbors said Teresa was a loving family woman and they wanted
answers they are now left asking who could have done this to her Kimberly Torres lives next door and said an
investigator came to her house 3 hours later and told her that her neighbor had been killed in a very gruesome Manner
and again the cops are asking for any suspicious activity to be reported at the same time authorities also Advocate
basic safety precautions to everyone in the area especially persons living in the immediate area this including
locking door doors to homes into Vehicles so now we have to wonder why was a mother of two killed and by whom
here's some background information regarding the victim now Teresa and Grace Tottenham was born November 19th
1968 in Derby Connecticut she was the daughter of John and Mary Anne she was the third of four children Teresa had a
sister and two brothers uh she would graduate twice as a Val dictorian first from high school in 1986 and then from
Fairfield University in 1990 with a masters in science and biology in 1996 she graduated with honors from Ross
University School of Medicine she completed her residency at the University of Florida in Jacksonville
where she was awarded resident of the year then became board certified to practice medicine in 2003 Teresa met
Mark sers Mark was a a nurse and at this point Teresa was a recently divorced doctor they met in 2003 and it was a
quick courtship they were married not too long after in St Petersburg Florida MH then 6 months later Mark and Teresa
had their first daughter then after the couple moved to Bonita Springs in 2006 Teresa opened her practice and was on
staff as well at the Naples Community Hospital for those of you not familiar with Bonita Springs well it's sort of
wedged between Fort Meers and Naples Florida there's a lot of 400 p.m. dinners going on if you know what I mean
in 2007 what does that mean there's a lot of old people yeah there's a lot of old people having
dinner at 4 p.m. and I thought it was like a sexual thing that I I didn't know what you're talking about a lot of 400
p.m. dinners happening you know I mean yeah that's some uh term you didn't know about not sexual at all it's just a
bunch of old people eating dinner yeah maybe that's sexual to some people in 2007 they had another child another
daughter and then Dr sers practiced um she practiced holistic medicine her motto to her patients was I'm passionate
about empowering you to tap into the doctor within you in her free time she strongly supported local charities
giving back to the community in 2008 she became directly involved with a an organization called our mother's home of
Southwest Florida MH and she was a teacher to teen mothers and their babies well her practice was interesting
because it was kind of a blending of eastern and western medicine practices now with a husband and two kids why was
Teresa Home Alone where was the rest of her family when she was attacked when the attack occurred well as we heard in
the 911 call from the neighbor the husband Mark sers called the neighbor asking him to go and check on Teresa the
neighbor says on the 911 call that Mark is in Connecticut or at least has told him that he is in Connecticut so a
little timeline of what was known early in the investigation the neighbor was correct in his statement to the 911
operator the siver's family of four Teresa Mark and the kids had been in the state of Connecticut in fact Mark and
the two daughters still were in Connecticut when it was discovered Teresa had been attacked and killed
Teresa had family in the state of Connecticut the four went there as a vacation and to visit with family some
people might think this is a little strange I do I do not think that uh it's strange that we have them traveling
separate there was some event some family event on that Sunday in Connecticut that they did not want to
miss so rather than miss this event Mark and the two daughters attended this event while Teresa prepared to leave
going to to the airport and flying home on that day on June 28th Teresa sends a text to her husband saying call me when
you're on Highway and know where are you going now at some point and I'm sure a lot of us have done this I know I have
Mark may have accidentally tried to FaceTime his wife because she texts Teresa texts back to him right I'm not
FaceTiming an airport I assume was by mistake as we just hung up and to which Mark sers then responds yes mhm so that
evening Teresa boarded a plane she flew out of Connecticut she landed at Southwest Florida International Airport
on the Sunday yes Sunday night this would have been late at night arriving at the airport around 10:30ish that
night mhm when she lands she then calls Mark to tell him that she has arrived safely Teresa is then spotted on Airport
surveillance cameras walking through the airport and rolling her bag just behind
her according to the timestamp on her parking receipt she Departed the parking garage at 10:55 p.m. now it's about a
25-minute drive from the airport to the siver's home she drove her van home pulled into the driveway opened up the
garage door and parked the van inside the garage and we're assuming she shut the garage door yes she closed the
garage door now it was at 9:15 a.m. the following day on Monday the Dr Teresa sers she's not shown up to work by this
time she's already has patients that have supposed to have seen her right so the office calls her husband Mark they
call his cell phone and they say hey she's not at work he's he seems alarmed and he calls the neighbor the neighbor
this is his name is Mark petrites he goes over to the home and he finds Teresa sers dead on the floor and Hammer
beside her body he he calls 911 now the people living in Teresa siver's neighborhood they are all in a panic uh
after they they've been told what had happened they've been they're being asked by police if they have seen
anything heard anything you know the police were asking about any suspicious behavior in the neighborhood if anyone
had heard any dogs barking late that night and of course they're asking all these questions of of the neighbors but
they're not being told anything other than that there was a murder and it was gruesome so they're they're pretty
panicked right now they're they're wondering it was this a Breakin and if so are their homes and their lives in
danger is there some kind of madman on the loose Tuesday Morning the day after her body was found a sign was placed on
the office door of Thea's practice and the sign read attention with much sadness we are to inform our patients
that on 62915 Dr sers has passed away with all due respect we ask everyone to minimize
the questioning as it is still under investigation prayers and donations are more than welcome to her family as
anything and everything will be grateful at this time of Sorrow we appreciate your understanding and patience as the
practice is still at a standstill temporarily until further notice we are acquiring Physicians to transition all
of Dr siver's patients but at this time we have a doctor extending his professional courtesy temporarily for
emergency medication purposes only for the next 30 days Dr siver's office is open for phone calls and messages but
please allow 24 hours for a response all right so Sunday Dr sers gets back Monday
her neighbor finds her MH Tuesday the cops were there Monday the cops were there Tuesday family returned Monday
night mhm and that's pretty much where we're at right and the investigators like you had said Captain they were
there all day Monday all day Tuesday detectives returned Wednesday morning to continue the
investigation at that time they had called in the southwest Florida Criminal Justice Academy members a team of
Academy members to help them comb the area they were seen combing through a high grass in land area at a park across
from the scene then at this time the Lee County Sheriff's Office they were asking
neighbors to remain Vigilant and if they have seen any suspicious activity to please report it so this is 2 days after
the body's found they're asking the neighbors to remain vigilant you know that that's that's scary they've not
presented them any information right but as an as one of the people in the neighborhood You' start assuming that
they're the angle that they're proceeding with is that it was a Breakin right yeah because they they keep asking
the the neighbors for information the people have you seen anything have you seen anything strange since then but we
have no sign of force entry correct now also on that Wednesday employees of a home security business arrive on the
scene as well and they spoke with detectives neighbors and media had spotted these people from the home
security company not only talking with detectives but entering and exiting the seever's home from talking with people
in the area uh nearby neighbor this is what the police had gathered sorry from talking with people in the in the area a
nearby neighbor Damon leaport right uh said that he had heard arguing Monday outside he said that he noticed he also
had noticed a red car in the driveway in the siver's driveway twice last week and
he had never seen this car before there are other reports of this arguing or yelling that that this man had heard and
from what I can gather there's a there's a bit of a loose time frame on what time
this would have been for the arguing and the yelling that was heard in the area but it would have occurred between the
hours of 5 and 6: a.m. Monday morning so just about 4 to 5 hours before Teresa's
body was found seems like there's more questions than answers let's get right back to this after a quick beer
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we are back Captain you said it perfectly right before the break there a lot of questions not much answers and
I wonder you know I have to think to myself what questions I have what questions do you have when we look at
this thing just after days into the investigation when we're not being told anything well the obvious question is is
this a Breakin MH yeah yeah I I think so you know you have to wonder several things one how did the attacker gain
entry into the home and two what would be the motive you know did someone break into the house and Teresa comes home
unexpectedly startled the Intruder Intruder and then is attacked and killed but we hear our argument that
Monday morning so she comes home Sunday night that means she'd be alive the whole time when the intruder's in the
house until Monday morning well maybe a break in in the middle of the the night mhm you know so and what was the time of
death we don't know that at this point right and you also also have to wonder if you know could somebody have
followed her home saw her walking alone at the airport or driving alone there's several three four lane roads on that
Route M you could pull up to a stoplight look over to your right or left and see
a pretty woman driving beside by herself follow her home right and all we know from the 911 call is that her body is
cold MH this is coming from a doctor so we don't know how you know I don't know how long it takes for a body to become
cold he says that her head is bashed in mhm um does he mention the hammer in the
911 call yeah he does and and I'm glad you bring this up because this is where I think we have to go from here when we
don't have any information I think we can look to this 911 call and see what we can gather and piece together so as
you said he finds her the neighbor finds her dead on the floor right he he's calling from the driveway uh by this
point he has fled the house right uh he states that he did see the hammer laying
next to her and he he says that half the blood was wet and half the blood was dry
okay in his opinion this is interesting too because we have you know an ex kind of an expert opinion it's not the same
as you know myself running into this scene and discovering the body this is a person that kind of knows what to look
for and probably can Des these things he knows what to look for as far as you the
medical side of things but he doesn't do autopsies and stuff no I'd argue that um
we'd have a little more knowledge of looking at a crime scene than maybe this individual would yeah he he does but
question for you go ahead he leaves the house would you would you leave the house yes and he States specifically
that he left the house because he wasn't certain if whoever had done this was still in the house well he's clear that
she's dead so I don't fault him for you know she's dead there's no point of him staying there in the house if the
Intruder is still there or Intruders well and I think we can assume this that we know he touched her right because he
says that the body was cold right so we know that by his own admission he touched her so there's a chance that he
he saw her L lying there his first reaction as a doctor somebody that's able to help is probably let me check
her pulse if she's still alive I'm going to stay here and try to rescue this person you're right he touches her she's
cold no pulse get out of there yeah one thing that was smart by this uh that this poor guy that happened to stumble
upon the scene uh he exits the home the same way that he came into the home yeah
so he's not going to contaminate the area anymore well everything he touched he was able to tell the 911 reporter
even though she wasn't really paying attention to anything he was saying mhm now he states that he he had started by
going to the front door knocking several times this was after he was contacted by
Mark who had told Mark or had told the neighbor that he had tried calling Teresa's phone several times and nobody
answered he says that through a window he could see Teresa's purse on a countertop mhm Mark then gives the
neighbor the garage code he gets into the garage and he says that the van their van is parked in the garage as he
would expect the door to the house is unlocked and he went when he went in there he States something about one of
the dogs got out right so she's attacked in the home and they have what sounds to
be two dogs or maybe more dogs because he says one of the dogs ran out so one big thing that that tells me it just
personally here I'm going to kind of eliminate the break-in Theory I find that the break-in Theory to be very
unlikely after applying what is gained from the information provided in the 911 call you know the thought that maybe
there was a Breakin and is interrupted when Teresa comes home and then she's attacked uh the the break the Intruder
attacks the homeowner my first thought would be what I would consider to to be an
obvious problem with that theory first off if you're an intruder in the home after dark and Teresa comes home you
have you have fight or flight right I would think that flight would be the most likely by far for several reasons
one it takes a special kind of lwi life to kill someone so just in choosing fight instead of flight would be a
smaller percentage then we know that she parked her vehicle in the garage so unless this Intruder is making a lot of
noise in the home they would have heard the garage door this giving them some kind of extra time to flee and you would
also you would also know what entrance the person or person's returning to the home would be entering so you could flee
through a different exit if you heard the garage door or you know someone is arriving at the home but you don't know
how many people you know this all seems more reasons to run rather than to stick
around and hold your ground yeah you don't know if you know it's a group of football players that live there unless
you case the house the other thing that seems strange captain and I don't know anything about these dogs so I'm not
going to pretend to know if they're giant dogs or little dogs or if they're the most friendly dogs in the world I
have no clue but there's what we believe to be two or more dogs in the home because we can get this from the 911
call the dogs don't they weren't attacked um they weren't locked up up right so the Intruder seems to just be
chilling at the house with the dogs it's just it seems very unlikely to me that she returned home to startle somebody
and then they're startled to the point where they attack her yeah more plausible that somebody followed her
home I mean somebody could have been just at the airport sees this um she's small I think she's only 5 foot
something like maybe just 5 foot yeah like I think she uh some some had stated she was 411 yeah so she's small she's
attractive woman and so somebody could have been following her home and she's obvious obviously alone and what I mean
by that is if you view the footage of her walking in the airport it's not even like you there's nobody even walking
anywhere around her that you could mistakenly think they were with her she's she's alone alone right A lot of
people would assume that this uh lady is going to be picked up you know somebody's going to pick her up from the
airport that's normally what happens but her car was parked there so they could have followed the car home from the
airport mhm yeah and then you have to risk it if you if you do follow her is she returning to a home where there's
somebody waiting for her yeah you know but it's as simple she opens the garage door you see no other cars you know
there's your in mhm now the neighbor says that this is murder he says you know this was a murder on the 911 call
so obvious to him she was bashed in the back of the head as he States the autopsy findings that was released would
reflect what the neighbor had told the 911 operator now the autopsy is long graphic and frankly when I can find them
I I do read them but they are always very hard to get through uh we don't need to go through everything here but
I'll give you a summarized version uh with only the necessary details um th was found in the kitchen of the home on
the kitchen floor now the neighbor says in the call she was hit in the back of the head so I kind of assumed from the
call that we were looking at maybe a possibly a sneak attack maybe she was hit from behind and she goes down and
it's a a one deadly hit type situation or the hit from behind she goes down and then more hits to complete the job no
from from my eye here and you got to keep in mind my my eye has only been trained here in the garage it's an
untrained eye and it's infected and it's he has pink eye d double pink eye double
pink eye from what I read in the autopsy Captain Teresa saw the attacker coming at her um because she was struck many
times and it doesn't appear to me that the attacker was able to hit their Mark so to say um she was
she was moving uhh is what I believe and she also attempted to block these strikes at her there was bruising and
marks on her left shoulder and even more bruising and marks to her right forearm
like she put her arm up to kind of guard herself or Shield herself right while the scalp area would appear to have been
the attended Target from the autopsy but due to the struggle she was hit in the face and near the ear
a couple of times eventually the damage was done to the scalp though the the medical examiner uh also received the
hammer that was found lying next to her it was described in the autopsy as a black hammer with a red handle there was
a good deal of Blood on the hammer and there was dark blonde hair found wrapped around the handle just under the head of
the hammer right she was hit 17 times and judging by the size of the hits and the Damage Done in comparison to the
flat side of the hammer head it was the hammer that was found next to her that was used in the the attack yeah which is
not likely all the time to to find the the murder weapon right beside the victim yeah and left at the scene you
know um very strange that this item wasn't taken with them and now police were able to determine that the hammer
did not come from it didn't belong to the Seer family wasn't like a disorganized killer showed up unprepared
and grabbed the first thing he could find when she returned home well that I think shows premeditation we have to I
want to give a lot of credit to the Lee County Sheriff's Department for several reasons and and and you know I don't
want anybody to be weird about this because I know it's sad that you have to give praise to people for doing their
job but we have we have to because we have certainly seen plenty of cases Captain where for whatever reason a law
enforcement agency didn't follow procedure they botched the investigation or this is the one that really bothers
me the most they just did a lazy sloppy job and I my feeling is Captain is that's not the situation here my friends
what I what I see early in this investigation is is lots of thorough work being conducted by a smart and
organized law enforcement out mhm they roped off the scene and they remained there searching and processing
the crime scene for over a week this producing evidence coming from inside the home obviously at one point they
were spotted carrying out a door from the home the door appeared to have been covered in possible uh possibly
fingerprinting dust right it was reported to the local newspapers and TV stations people having witnessed
technicians arriving and taking saliva and hair samples from the receivers dogs at one point they had the whole
entire neighborhood blocked off no one gets in no one gets out they brought in teams to comb the area in a grid search
they went door too conducting interviews thus getting the possible tip about the
red car and then the noises or the argument heard coming in the 5 to 6:00 a.m. hour Lee County was also
questioning members of both Mark's family and Teresa's family during this weeks time trying to ter trying to
determine who had done this there was also they were also questioning people at Teresa's medical practice and people
in her profession so other doctors people that had worked for Dr sver and this included patients as well now some
things started to stand out from these interviews the first is while Teresa was extremely smart hardworking dedicated to
her job and her patience right she was uh I want to try to put this politely she was a pistol there you go yeah she
was a tough cookie she was she was known to yell and get loud with some of her staff from time to time it sounds like
she was quite bossy with her husband Mark right uh and this was a little surprising she was even she was even
known to have raised her voice from time to time at some of her patients yeah but
okay so you know she is uh a businesswoman she has her own practice right so she is a driven individual so
my point is is that if it was a man doing that he would just be considered driven right but sometimes people paint
her in a light of that she's a little [ __ ] right but yeah that word was thrown around a little bit and like I
said if if she was a man running a business they wouldn't call her [ __ ] they would say that they wouldn't call
the guy [ __ ] they would say he's driven and he was a go get her that's what she was you know well here's the
other thing too and I I I think we have to weigh this against her let's say bossiness or or how direct she was from
time to time right I think direct is the right word that I want I weigh this against it she's she's in the medical
profession she's dealing with serious business with serious issues people's lives could be on the line maybe not in
this hour or this day but eventually half those people are probably you're either seeing her because of one of two
reason either a you want to remain healthy or B you are currently unhealthy in in need of attention right so I think
there's no there's no mincing of words with her I think she's just saying hey look we can keep you healthy we or we
can make you healthy but you need to do this and you need to do this and this if
you don't do these things I I can't help you I can't make you do these things you
know you the old you lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink thing and same thing with with her the
the people that worked for her you know they they said that she was they didn't say she was a bad person they just said
she was a fire cracker you know that she wanted things done right she wanted things done her way and in a timely
manner and if but that's also why she's number one in high school number one in college and she has her own practice
right yeah so I I think these are all traits that can be uh where some people might say they would be harmful and you
know that maybe she didn't have a good bedside manner about her I would also argue that maybe when you're dealing
with this type of business uh life or death situations sometimes people need a little tough love they need direct Stern
people to guide them and direct them and hopefully it works and keeps them healthy now one strange
coincidence that they came up with and one thing that kind of stood out regarding
these these investigations and interviewing some of of the people that had worked for her worked in her field
and her family uhhuh and this this is sandre Hoskins she worked for Teresa and Sandra had been described by Teresa at
times as a disgruntled employee Dr Teresa sers and SRE didn't always see eye to eye and they weren't really
getting along at work and Sandra's husband this is Frank his name is Frank had worked for Teresa as well he had
actually been let go just months before the attack mhm Sandra and Dr Teresa in fact having such a rough time of it
getting along in the office Sandra was planning to turn in her resignation on the very same day on that Monday that
the doctor that Dr Teresa sers was found dead ah yeah that's a little suspicious very
strange well and so if it's not a Breakin right right we have to look at who was she close to was there any
motive again like you said investigating the patients there could be a disgruntle
patient there could be a disgruntle employee maybe it's this Sandra she was going to turn in her notice and also the
husband now the issue with the husband is we have Alibi after Alibi because he's with his kids and family in
Connecticut that's like 13,400 miles away well right but on top of that you have
all these eyewitnesses right so Sandra the employee and Dr Teresa they're actually not getting along to the point
where this was brought to the attention of the police by patience so PA patients
going into the office could recognize that these two were not getting along right so that's when the police they
decide to bring in Sandra and her husband friend Frank they're brought in for questioning this is on July 3rd so
less than a week after the murder now her husband Frank when he was questioned by police they wanted to know if he had
ever had a sexual relationship inside or even outside of the office with Dr Teresa sers his boss right now we do
have to mention that both Sandra and Frank they were cooperating with police they weren't you know standoffish they
didn't even hire an attorney uh they went in there and they answered their questions as are Mark sers and his
family and Teresa's family you know Mark even gave the police his cell phone and
his computer turned him over to the police Upon returning from uh the trip to Connecticut well one of the reasons
why they asked Frank that which used to be like um office manager mhm for Teresa
did did you have a sexual relationship with her you know we have two married couples right but when they get the when
they get the phone records and they get the um computer records from Teresa's husband mark it comes out pretty quickly
that they don't have the traditional marriage it's kind of open yeah they're also kind of swingers so they yeah
they're uh kinky individuals uh by all signs and at that point I think you know the cops are probably going well this
opens up a lot more possibilities yeah for motive yeah well obviously an affair any
type of Affair going on is going to bring up the possibility of motive you know and what the motive would be
whether would it be the the boyfriend attacking Teresa or would it be the husband the jealous husband finding out
but but the thing is yeah but you could be swinging with another couple that somebody got mad mhm that the wife got
mad or I mean it just opens up a lot of possibilities so where I can't say for certain that this this question through
Frank for a loop um I think it was very well orchestrated by the police this was
something they were probably intending to ask anyone any man that had a close relationship with Teresa whether it be
working or just friends maybe but I I also think because he was fired and they trying to get down to the bottom of why
he was fired mhm and also Frank is a handsome man and he was also uh in really good physical shape so maybe that
they just assumed like here you got these two Attractive people she is an open marriage mhm so you know this
wouldn't put it um wouldn't put it past her because as far as the rules of her marriage go that's not out of bounds so
it just might be out of bounds to his and now now that gives double motive for S Sandra right right she wanted to quit
the job she's going to turn in her notice and all by the way her husband slept with her boss and here's the thing
Captain you bring up a you present a very interesting angle that I wasn't thinking about when you said that he had
been fired when Frank had been let go I believe one report I read stated that he
was fired by Mark sers right uh just so we should probably clear this up here just in case anybody's wondering Dr
Teresa sever she's obviously the doctor she's she's the practicing medicine right Mark sers her husband was a office
manager he kind of ran the office for her uh so this would have made him you know you office manager as far as uh the
building probably security of people but not like running records and stuff like
that back and forth yeah so you have other people working there sandre you have uh Frank working there as well but
these P these people would have also been working under Mark sers as well right um so the thing here is we and we
should also be clear that because we're kind of dancing around this and and talking through it at the same time but
just so everybody is clear Frank was not sleeping with Dr Teresa right they they
did not have any type of relationship other than a working relationship well Frank and his wife which both worked for
the sers didn't know that they had an open marriage right or that they did any kind of swinging mhm at all so I think
that's pretty interesting MH um and before we get a bunch of letters about open marriages and Swinging look every
couple that every couple in their relationship has kind of different set of rules and guidelines mhm that the
relationship creates so I'm not going to try to speculate at all what what was in bounds and out of
bounds right you know what I mean uh because obviously close people that worked with him didn't even know that
they had this uh type of relationship so it'd be tough for us to uh because there's a lot of rumors and we can get
to this a little bit later but there was also rumors that Mark had multiple girlfriends yes he did right and you
there's a lot of texts have evidence of this the problem I have with them saying
that therefore that is motive for the husband which we know is MH so far away my problem with it is was that in
bounds or out of bounds as far his as far as his relationship went so they have released I mean they the State of
Florida they have released like 10,000 text messages back and forth between uh Teresa and Mark and we're going to read
them all tomorrow yes it's going to be 3 hours of texting I'll be reading the part of Dr Teresa sers and the captain
will be reading the part of Mark sers so tune in I can't bet you can't wait it's
going to be hot no steamy no we're not going to do that I only I only brought that up because uh while you say that he
had other relationships now keep in mind this appears to be an open marriage at at points of this marriage I want to be
clear about that it doesn't appear that this was going on throughout the entirety of the marriage right but at
portions of their marriage they had what appears to be an open marriage meaning that they both had other relationships
and not only did they both have other relationships and the captain brings up Mark having possible other girlfriends
or other encounters with women let's say right um it appears through those text messages and it's it's actually quite
obvious that Teresa knew about these other women that that Mark communicated to her about them and about things that
were going on and not only did she know about them it also appears from her text
that she was not only just okay with it but at times may have encouraged it yeah
which this whole situation is is a little odd cuz again I've never been in a open relationship it's not for me not
something that every time I'm single I'm in an open relationship and I'm single I'm in open relationships the door is
open um but I've had friends I've had friends uh a good friend of mine out in La of course it has to be La thing there
you go um but they were together for a long time and then it was like we are going to try this open relationship MH
and it seemed very I still remember him saying well we can do this because we're so mature and
I thought okay well let's see how well this goes um but it went well for a while but they did end up having a
Fallout and so just because okay so on two sides one just because you have girlfriends doesn't mean that you have
motive or there is motive to get rid of your wife but that also doesn't mean that there isn't motive just because she
knows about the relationship what if you fall in love with one of them and then you're like well I love her now I got to
get rid of this one well and I think what you and I can agree on here over beers is that regardless of what their
relationship was don't look at me in the eyes when you say regardless of what their relationship was and what the
rules of their you know engagement was right that however they choose to live their lives doesn't make them good or
bad based off of that they're not you can't throw them in the good person or bad person category just because of this
oh definitely not so I I I think here's what I want to do though so I do want to
bring up too that there was also something else that was go ahead my point though was that you can't uh you
know if it seems in this open relationship that if people are mature enough then there wouldn't be jealousy
issues I'm just saying that that kind of stuff can stop on a dime MH where it's like oh it's really not that big of a
deal and then one day it becomes a big deal I get you okay all right but the the one thing I wanted to bring up here
as I see that we're running out of time and out of well now that we're uh liquid
encouragement well now that we're open marriage experts and swinger experts Dr Laura Manning the phones well I did meet
a couple one time in the hot tub you know there you go at one point uh there was something that was learned during
police questioning and remember the members of a local Security Service having been seen
talking to the police outside the siver's home yeah and even entering the home well they had a security system yes
yes you're ex they had the sers owned and which if you can afford it I I recommend this to everyone get a
security not a paid sponsor they own a home security system the police found the system to be in good working and
operating fashion the home was being monitored by the security company so why and how did the attacker or attackers
get into the good doctor's home and attack her right the the police had the security monitoring company out at the
crime scene because they wanted them to they wanted them to be able to decipher something very important the police
wondered could the attacker could could they have somehow tricked the security system mhm or did
they know the code right and and the other thing you do have to wonder obviously or maybe Teresa had just
disarmed the alarm when she got there and did not set it uh when the attacker decided to enter the home or get into
the home which is possible the other possibility is that the family was gone on vacation the whole family uh and they
were having Teresa's mother Mark's mother Mark's mother my bad Mark's mother come into the house and walk uh
look after the dogs yeah so they have dogs uh Mark's mother Bonnie sers they here here's we should be clear
the monitoring company emphatically told the police they this system has not been interfered
with right nobody tricked this system so then they have to figure out okay was the system on and off and they can get
these records and they got them from the monitoring company what they were able to conclude from talking to Bonnie sers
Mark's mother as well as going to the rec records of the times that the monitoring system was armed or disarmed
well I'm also talking with Mark as well yeah that the dogs were to be let out and fed a few times each day and Bonnie
sers would come over two or three times a day usually in the morning and then again in the evening and she would
collect the mail she would feed the dogs she would let them out these sorts of things according to the monitoring
records on Sunday morning Bonnie sers just after 8:00 a.m. she reactivated the alarm system then later that day this is
around 400 p.m. mark sers from all the way in Connecticut spoke on the phone with his mother MH she had had some she
said that she had had some trouble with the Sever's alarm system it wasn't working or operating the way she thought
it should and Mark at that point instructed his mother that since this was on Sunday that since she was having
trouble with it it wouldn't be necessary for her to set the alarm when she left for the last time that day because
Teresa would be home later that night right so at 4:13 p.m. Bonnie seers went to the home tended to the dogs and left
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One of Southwest Florida’s most well known and captivating cases has been the murder of a successful, well liked Doctor from Bonita Springs. Doctor Teresa Sievers was found dead inside her home on the morning of June 29th, 2015. She was home alone when she was attacked. Her husband and daughters were out of town visiting family. Some suspected the murderer was a former employee. The neighbors feared a madman was on the loose. Today we know most of the story and as usual, the truth is stranger than fiction. This week we discuss the murder of the good Doctor and the painstaking investigation that followed. Beer of the Week - Bone Hook Pilsner Garage Garage - 3 and 1/2 bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

Dr. Teresa Sers was murdered in her home, sparking an investigation into possible motives and suspects.

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911 Call Reveals Gruesome Discovery. A frantic 911 call reveals the shocking discovery of Dr. Sers' body.
Dr. Teresa Anne Sers Homicide. A mother of two, Dr. Teresa Anne Sers, was found murdered in her home.
Community in Panic After Murder. Neighbors are left in fear as police investigate the gruesome murder of Dr. Sers.
The Struggles of the Season. It's common to feel down during the holidays, but therapy can help.
The Investigation Begins. Questions arise about the circumstances surrounding the attack on Teresa.
The Murder Weapon. A hammer was found next to Teresa, used in the attack.

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