Mark Sievers returns to Lee Co. seeking appeal in wife’s murder-for-hire case

A Bonita Springs man who has sat on death row for the last six years for the murder-for-hire of his wife is back in Lee County to appeal his death sentence.

Mark Sievers Appeals Death Sentence in Wife’s Murder Case

Mark Sievers will be inside a Lee County courtroom Monday morning to challenge his conviction and try to get his death sentence vacated.

Sievers was convicted of orchestrating the murder of his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers.

According to prosecutors, in 2015, Sievers hired his friend Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. to kill his wife in exchange for $100,000 in life insurance money…

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