Two men waited in her dark kitchen
In 2015 47-year-old Dr. Teresa Sievers had it all. She had a successful holistic medical practice in beautiful Bonita Springs, Florida. Married to her second husband Mark in 2003, she had two daughters, ages eight and eleven.
Teresa had been born in Derby, Connecticut in 1968 and was raised by a single mother. She was always interested in being a doctor and was valedictorian in her high school class. She went on to college, completing her residency at the University of Florida.
She set up her clinic holistic medical practice called Restorative Health and Healing Center in nearby Estero, Florida. Well-liked and well-respected in the local community, she’d recently been profiled in a women’s magazine.
In June 2015 the family of four vacationed in Connecticut. Teresa had to come back to Florida early because she had office hours the next day. The girls and Mark stayed in Connecticut.
It’s the last time the girls saw their mother.
The murder
When Mark couldn’t reach his wife the next day, he called a family friend, Dr. Mark Petrites, to check on her and gave him the garage code to enter the house. Petrites entered the house and found Teresa’s battered body in a pool of blood on the kitchen…
