Evidence in the murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers
A look at the physical and digital evidence that led to the arrests and convictions of Jimmy Ray Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright in the Florida doctor's 2015 murder.
Dr. Teresa Sievers is seen on surveillance video after landing at Southwest Florida International Airport on Sunday night, June 28, 2015.
The 46-year-old doctor had cut short a family vacation in upstate New York and flown home alone on Sunday night, June 28, 2015, so she could see patients the next morning.
The crime scene
Teresa Sievers never made it to work the next morning. Investigators believe that as soon as she walked into the kitchen of her Bonita Springs, Florida, home, she was killed. She was found dead in a pool of blood on the floor.
The murder weapon
Investigators found a hammer left behind in the kitchen where Teresa Sievers' body was found. Police say she was bludgeoned to death - struck with the hammer 17 times.
The crime scene
Physical evidence was collected from Teresa Sievers' kitchen.
Alarm disabled
The Sievers family had set their home's security alarm before leaving on their trip, but police suspect the alarm was disabled by the intruders on the morning of the day she was attacked in her home.
A break-in?
There were signs of a forced entry -- pry marks on a side door.
Not a robbery
Inside the home, investigators discovered $40,000 and a large gun collection stored inside a safe in the Sievers' home had not been touched.
Suspects arrested
Two arrests for Teresa Sievers' Florida murder, made 1,100 miles away in Missouri, seemed to come out of the blue two months later.
Jimmy Ray Rodgers, left, and Curtis Wayne Wright were charged. Wright was a childhood friend of the victim's husband -- and the two men looked eerily alike.
Roadmap to murder
Investigators say on the morning of June 27, 2015, Curtis Wayne Wright got into a rental car in Hillsboro, Missouri, and then went to pick up Jimmy Ray Rodgers. At some point, an address was put into the GPS and then the two men took off for the 1,100 mile ride to Bonita Springs, Florida.
[ A GPS system log, shown in court, tracked the route of Wright and Rodgers from Missouri to Florida..]
Caught on tape
Surveillance camera shows Curtis Wayne Wright at a gas station.
Caught on tape
Surveillance camera shows Jimmy Ray Rodgers at a gas station.
The GPS
Investigators estimate the suspected killers arrived at the Sievers home in Florida at around 6 a.m. on Sunday, June 28, 2015. Police believe the two men entered the house, disabled the security alarm, and then got back in to the car for another ride.
[GPS locations in the Bonita Beach, Florida area shown in court.]
Shopping at Walmart
The next address entered into the GPS was a local Walmart. Security footage from the store shows Jimmy Ray Rodgers, left, and Curtis Wayne Wright shopping with seemingly no concerns about hiding their identities.
Shopping at Walmart
Investigators say the men bought, among other things, trash bags, flushable wet wipes, black towels, black shoes and a lock picking kit. They paid cash for their purchase with a $100 bill.
Following the shopping trip, the GPS recorded a drive to a local beach. Then, Jimmy Ray Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright returned to the Sievers' house in Bonita Springs. There, investigators say, they sat for hours waiting for Dr. Sievers to come home.
Blue jumpsuit
A blue jumpsuit was discovered on the side of Highway 47 in Missouri. Fibers from the jumpsuit matched the fibers found on Teresa Sievers' dress.
Jimmy Ray Rodgers' girlfriend Taylor Shomaker would later tell investigators he took her for a ride along route 47 in rural Missouri. And along the road, he asked Shomaker to throw out parts of his cellphone, which he had smashed earlier, some gloves and the blue jumpsuit.