Teresa Sievers’ ex-husband opens up about loss of beloved doctor

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Days before prosecutors released stacks of disturbing new evidence in her murder, WINK News sat down with Teresa Siever’s ex-husband Kenny Cousins.

The two were married from 2000 to 2003, but remained lifelong friends. In fact, he and Teresa played phone tag two weeks before she was killed. Cousins says he found out about her tragic passing, of all places, through a fundraising page on social media.

Detectives say Sievers was bludgeoned to death with a hammer inside her Bonita Springs home on June 28. Curtis Wayne Wright, a childhood friend of Teresa’s husband Mark Sievers, and Jimmy Rodgers face charges in her murder. In court documents, detectives reveal their theory that Mark Sievers hired them to kill his wife. Both of the suspects attended Teresa Sievers’ funeral in July. That’s where Cousins says he came face to face with one of the men without even knowing it.

“My thought was well he’s [Mark] got a family member here, and I noticed this person with him was very paranoid, was turning around as he was walking. I later find out that was Curtis [Wayne] Wright,” Cousins said.

Detectives not only think Mark Sievers arranged his wife’s murder, they believe he was motivated by money and a broken relationship.

“I mean, my God, she’s 4’11” and by herself and defenseless,” Cousins said. “If there were problems in their marriage, why couldn’t they just get a divorce?”

Now, as a New Year is about to begin, Cousins asks those who knew her to think of Teresa Sievers not by the way she died, but by the way she lived.

“I really believe that she’s someone who was born to be a physician, and more importantly a physician in the sense of using her talents, skills, passions, gifts, to help others.”