Highlights from statements. Somehow, News-press got a hold of CWW's statement
that was redacted for us. :happydance:
The 33-page arrest affidavit for Curtis Wayne Wright and Jimmy Rodgers lists statements from 27 people. These are highlights from the statements.
Mark Petites
He discovered Teresa Sievers’ body after Mark Sievers called him to ask him to check why his wife hadn’t arrived at work. Petites told authorities he had been friends with the victim since 1995 and had not noted anything out of the ordinary within her lifestyle to give rise to concern.
Neighbors
Investigators interview six neighbors. One of the neighbors said she heard a scream between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. that "stirred her from her sleep." Other neighbors said they had heard the Sieverses argue over the years but never saw physical abuse.
Mark Sievers
He gave two statements, one on Monday, June 29 and the other on Wednesday, July 1. He declined further interviews on July 7. In his initial statements he said his last contact with his wife was at 10:53 p.m. Sunday, June 28. He said they had a good marriage but often “got on each other’s nerves.” He said he had a $2.5 million insurance policy on himself and one on his wife. He said they had $40,000 in cash in safes in the house, but commonly lived month to month and did not have much financial stability. He gave his cell phone to authorities during the second interview.
Bonnie Sievers
Mark Sievers’ mother Bonnie was interviewed three times. She was tasked with stopping by to feed the two dogs and the cat. She said she came to the house at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, June 28 and realized the alarm was disarmed. She said she had set it the night before. She also stated that she didn’t reset it the afternoon of June 28 because she was having trouble entering the code. She said her son told her that was OK because Teresa would be home later that night.
Cooperating Testifying Witness
She helped focus the case to Missouri when she contacted Chief Jeff Hamilton of theSouthern Illinois Airport Authority that she might have information about a homicide in Florida. The witness said on Saturday, June 27 she was at the residence of Kathy
Moran, the mother-in-law of Wright. She said Moran’s daughter, Angela, told Moran that Wright had left on an unplanned trip to Florida to fix a computer of Mark Sievers at his residence. She said Moran expressed concern that Wright was involved with the murder because Wright was destitute and did not have the funds to make one trip to let alone a second to attend the funeral.
Angela Wright
Curtis Wright’s wife, she told investigators on July 12 that her husband left for Florida on Saturday, June 27. She said he told her weeks ago he might go on a trip toTitusville, Florida to help a friend with an auction business. She denied telling anyone that she was upset about Curtis going to Florida without her and him leaving his phone in Missouri. She later tried to convince her mom that Curtis had been in Missouri the entire weekend.
Curtis Wright
On July 12 he told investigators he was home from Friday, June 26 through Monday, June 29. He said on June 26 he worked on a friend’s car. He said that the friend, Chris Taylor, helped him on Saturday. He said the work made him ill and he rested in bed from that afternoon through Monday evening. He also said he only owned one cell phone. When investigators confronted him about numerous text messages between Mark Sievers and himself he denied knowing about a secret phone. He then told investigators he no longer wanted to answer questions.
Edward Moran
Husband of Kathy Moran, he told investigators he knew Wright was in Florida during the time frame of Sievers’ death because of what his wife told him.
Kathy Moran
Angela Wright’s mother on July 12 told authorities her daughter came to her house on Saturday, June 27 and told that that Curtis Wright rented a vehicle and drove to Florida. Angela told her that he left his phone in Missouri. Moran said on Monday, June 29 Angela became defensive and denied she ever told her mom that Curtis went to Florida to fix computers. She said he was at an antique auction.
In a second interview on July 14, she told investigators that her daughter was trying to convince her that Wright had never gone to Florida and he and Angela had a misunderstanding.
Carrier Mertz
Angela Wright’s sister, who worked at Mertz Auto Body. She confirmed that Wright brought in his damaged Kia and she recommended he rent a car from Enterprise. She said he told her he was about to go out of town but didn’t elaborate.
Jerry Lubinski/Sundaye Harrison
Lubinski told investigators on July 14 that Wright assisted him with computers and his auction business. He said that Wright did not have access to his condominium in Titusville, Florida since March 2014. Lubinski said he loaned a camera and Garmin GPS unit to Wright, which hadn’t been returned. The GPS was found in Wright’s rental car he took to Florida for the funeral.
Robert Wideman
He met with investigators on July 15 and told them in May he was drinking with Wright when Wright told him he had killed a woman whom he blamed for his incarceration for a meth lab arrest. He said several weeks later on Friday, June 26 Curtis stopped by wanting Adderall medication because he was driving to Florida to work on a doctor’s computer server and had trouble driving for long distances.
Christian Taylor
On July 19 he told investigators that Wright did work on his vehicles, but he did not see him the weekend of June 26 and no work had been done on his vehicle. Video of Taylor’s facility showed that Wright had not entered over the weekend.
Michael Fraser
The son of Curtis Wright, he told investigators on July 19 that he received a call from Angela Wright on Curtis Wright's phone. The phone call, Monday, June 28, was to tell him that Curtis couldn't babysit because he was not feeling well.
Taylor Shomaker
Jimmy Rodger’s girlfriend, she made a long statement saying he left for work at an unknown location from Saturday, June 27 to Tuesday, June 30. She stayed at her mom’s house until his return. She saw a white cooler with a cardboard box filled with blue, latex surgical gloves, one ball-peen hammer and a black pair of shoes when she returned to their home. She identified the shoes as the same ones bought by Rodgers at the Fort Myers Wal-Mart.
She said that Wright later called Rodgers panicked, telling him he had been served a warrant. Rodgers then retrieved some items he bought in Fort Myers and tossed them in a community Dumpster. He destroyed his cell phone that he told Shoemaker had photos of him and Wright in Florida. He then had her toss the gloves and jumpsuit while they were driving along a Missouri highway.
Later he told her that Wright had been hired by Mark Sievers to kill his wife for the insurance money and Sievers did not know Wright had hired him for $10,000 to help. When asked how she was killed, he told her with a hammer.
Jeffrey Conway
Rodgers’ supervisor at Doe Run Recycling Plant, he told investigators that Rodgers said he was going to Florida to visit his brother who was graduating from law school that weekend.
Tyler Juliette
Rodgers' employer at Doe Run, he told investigators Rodgers was on a four-day vacation from June 26-30. Later Rodgers told him his brother paid for his trip to his law school graduation and bought him new clothes.
Jimmy Rodgers
He refused to provide statements. His only comment when charged with murder. “In the state of Missouri, second degree murder is punishable by 15 to 20 years and I’m okay with that.”
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