1 00:00:01,034 --> 00:00:04,482 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:08,896 --> 00:00:13,724 This was different than any homicide we've ever really had. 3 00:00:13,758 --> 00:00:19,586 This was a homicide that occurred in someone's bathroom. 4 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:24,000 From the first moment when we walked in and saw Becky's body, 5 00:00:24,034 --> 00:00:25,689 it was different. 6 00:00:25,724 --> 00:00:28,275 She was shot 14 times, and there was one miss. 7 00:00:28,310 --> 00:00:31,103 So there were 15 rounds fired. 8 00:00:31,137 --> 00:00:33,137 My mom called my phone. 9 00:00:33,172 --> 00:00:36,655 She was understandably hysterical, 10 00:00:36,689 --> 00:00:39,517 and she just kept saying Becky's dead. 11 00:00:39,551 --> 00:00:45,000 You never expect to get a phone call saying your sister's dead. 12 00:00:45,034 --> 00:00:48,241 It doesn't seem possible. 13 00:00:48,275 --> 00:00:53,034 She was an incredible nurse, but she was made to be a mom. 14 00:00:53,068 --> 00:00:56,448 I can't imagine someone looking at someone 15 00:00:56,482 --> 00:01:01,413 so beautiful and kind and still thinking that you 16 00:01:01,448 --> 00:01:03,517 should take her life from her. 17 00:01:03,551 --> 00:01:06,448 She must have been so scared. 18 00:01:06,482 --> 00:01:09,241 This brutal crime has had the Quincy community 19 00:01:09,275 --> 00:01:12,551 on edge and our residents living in fear. 20 00:01:12,586 --> 00:01:14,172 How big a story was this initially? 21 00:01:14,206 --> 00:01:14,689 Huge. 22 00:01:14,724 --> 00:01:16,724 It was huge. 23 00:01:16,758 --> 00:01:20,033 Were people scared that there was a killer loose? 24 00:01:20,068 --> 00:01:21,000 Definitely. 25 00:01:21,033 --> 00:01:23,965 How is this happening in our small town? 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,620 Make sure you lock your doors. 27 00:01:25,655 --> 00:01:28,586 Turn on exterior lights. 28 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:33,586 There were prowlers in the area right next door within a week 29 00:01:33,620 --> 00:01:35,172 of her being murdered. 30 00:01:35,206 --> 00:01:36,517 They're breaking into cars. 31 00:01:36,551 --> 00:01:38,620 They're trying to break into houses. 32 00:01:38,655 --> 00:01:40,413 It wasn't a random prowler. 33 00:01:40,448 --> 00:01:41,965 It was an execution. 34 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,241 You don't kick down a door, chase them into a bathroom, 35 00:01:45,275 --> 00:01:48,206 shoot them once, and then shoot them that many more 36 00:01:48,241 --> 00:01:50,241 times in a random act. 37 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:52,586 This was somebody who was there with a purpose. 38 00:01:55,655 --> 00:01:57,965 Did you think you'd probably be a suspect? 39 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,620 I mean, you're the estranged husband 40 00:01:59,655 --> 00:02:03,862 in the middle of a very contentious divorce. 41 00:02:03,896 --> 00:02:06,448 I had to make an assumption that, yeah, I probably 42 00:02:06,482 --> 00:02:07,655 was going to be a suspect. 43 00:02:07,689 --> 00:02:09,723 We learned that he was on Family Feud. 44 00:02:09,758 --> 00:02:12,620 It's time to play Family Feud. 45 00:02:12,655 --> 00:02:15,275 He gave a silly answer to a silly question. 46 00:02:15,310 --> 00:02:18,000 The question was, what is the number 47 00:02:18,034 --> 00:02:21,931 one regret that people have from their wedding day? 48 00:02:21,965 --> 00:02:24,517 What's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding? 49 00:02:24,551 --> 00:02:26,310 Honey, I love you, but said I do. 50 00:02:29,344 --> 00:02:30,620 Not my mistake. 51 00:02:30,655 --> 00:02:31,724 Not my mistake. 52 00:02:31,758 --> 00:02:32,827 I love my wife. 53 00:02:32,862 --> 00:02:36,724 It wasn't said with any malice or bad intentions. 54 00:02:36,758 --> 00:02:38,275 It was supposed to be funny. 55 00:02:38,310 --> 00:02:41,310 It was the second most popular answer on the board. 56 00:02:41,344 --> 00:02:42,000 I do. 57 00:02:42,034 --> 00:02:44,310 [DING] 58 00:02:44,344 --> 00:02:46,310 It got attention to the case, but it 59 00:02:46,344 --> 00:02:47,620 had nothing to do with it. 60 00:02:47,655 --> 00:02:50,965 [MUSIC PLAYING] 61 00:02:53,793 --> 00:02:57,067 What's the first thing that you did looking for evidence? 62 00:02:57,103 --> 00:02:59,413 We had the detectives go around to all the neighbors 63 00:02:59,448 --> 00:03:00,931 to see if they had any video. 64 00:03:00,965 --> 00:03:02,379 That's her house over there. 65 00:03:02,413 --> 00:03:03,517 Yep, that's Becky's house. 66 00:03:03,551 --> 00:03:05,517 And this is the neighbor's driveway. 67 00:03:05,551 --> 00:03:06,862 This is the neighbor's driveway. 68 00:03:06,896 --> 00:03:09,344 You'll see this person walk across, 69 00:03:09,379 --> 00:03:11,448 looks like they have gloves on. 70 00:03:11,482 --> 00:03:12,896 Can't see a face at all. 71 00:03:12,931 --> 00:03:13,655 Can't see a face. 72 00:03:13,689 --> 00:03:14,689 You can't see hair. 73 00:03:14,724 --> 00:03:16,724 You can't really see anything else. 74 00:03:16,758 --> 00:03:18,551 That's not Tim in that video. 75 00:03:18,586 --> 00:03:20,137 You can't tell who it is. 76 00:03:20,172 --> 00:03:22,827 Can you absolutely say with certainty 77 00:03:22,862 --> 00:03:24,724 that is Tim Bliefnick? 78 00:03:24,758 --> 00:03:28,068 Based on the video evidence alone, absolutely not. 79 00:03:28,103 --> 00:03:29,827 That's one piece of the puzzle. 80 00:03:29,862 --> 00:03:34,103 He had everything to lose if that's him and nothing to gain. 81 00:03:34,137 --> 00:03:36,793 I wholeheartedly do not believe he had anything 82 00:03:36,827 --> 00:03:38,413 to do with the death of Becky. 83 00:03:38,448 --> 00:03:40,310 Did you kill your wife Becky? 84 00:03:40,344 --> 00:03:42,067 No, I did not murder Becky. 85 00:03:42,103 --> 00:03:45,275 The idea of murdering someone, let alone the mother 86 00:03:45,310 --> 00:03:48,103 of my kids, is not any part of who I am. 87 00:03:48,137 --> 00:03:51,620 [MUSIC PLAYING] 88 00:04:37,310 --> 00:04:42,206 Josh Jones and Laura Keck have prosecuted hundreds of cases. 89 00:04:42,241 --> 00:04:43,517 11 and 10 seconds. 90 00:04:43,551 --> 00:04:47,448 But no case has troubled them quite like the murder of Becky 91 00:04:47,482 --> 00:04:48,862 Bliefnick. 92 00:04:48,896 --> 00:04:51,413 You put yourself in the mind of Becky Bliefnick 93 00:04:51,448 --> 00:04:53,413 in the last moments of her life, the fear 94 00:04:53,448 --> 00:04:55,034 that she had to be feeling. 95 00:04:55,068 --> 00:04:59,206 You can't walk out of that house and not be affected by it. 96 00:04:59,241 --> 00:05:03,344 Becky was just 41 years old when on the afternoon of February 97 00:05:03,379 --> 00:05:07,655 23, 2023 her own father discovered 98 00:05:07,689 --> 00:05:11,793 her lifeless on the bathroom floor of her Quincy, Illinois 99 00:05:11,827 --> 00:05:12,965 home. 100 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,724 She'd been dead for hours, shot a total of 14 times. 101 00:05:17,758 --> 00:05:20,758 None of the wounds were immediately fatal. 102 00:05:20,793 --> 00:05:23,310 It took her minutes to die. 103 00:05:23,344 --> 00:05:25,172 It was an emotional response for both of us 104 00:05:25,206 --> 00:05:29,275 to realize not just that she had been executed 105 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:32,000 but that her last minutes were lying on a floor 106 00:05:32,034 --> 00:05:37,965 alone in the dark in extreme pain waiting to die. 107 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,482 Quincy is a quiet town along the Mississippi River 108 00:05:41,517 --> 00:05:45,862 where violent crimes are rare and unsettling. 109 00:05:45,896 --> 00:05:48,034 She was a nurse who had three children. 110 00:05:48,068 --> 00:05:49,620 I think people were just horrified 111 00:05:49,655 --> 00:05:52,034 that a mother of three young boys 112 00:05:52,068 --> 00:05:54,344 could be shot and killed in her own home. 113 00:05:54,379 --> 00:05:58,724 Sarah Reilly is Becky's older sister and her only sibling. 114 00:05:58,758 --> 00:06:01,793 She lives in New York but was away on vacation 115 00:06:01,827 --> 00:06:04,310 with her husband Brett Reilly when they 116 00:06:04,344 --> 00:06:06,689 got that life-changing call. 117 00:06:06,724 --> 00:06:09,172 You just want to wake up and have it not be real. 118 00:06:09,206 --> 00:06:11,068 It's a living nightmare. 119 00:06:11,103 --> 00:06:15,172 How fast can we get to the airport, fly back to New York, 120 00:06:15,206 --> 00:06:18,275 unpack our swimsuits, and pack funeral clothes 121 00:06:18,310 --> 00:06:20,482 and get out to Quincy, Illinois? 122 00:06:20,517 --> 00:06:26,896 And just holding each other up in screaming grief. 123 00:06:26,931 --> 00:06:29,793 How would you both describe her? 124 00:06:29,827 --> 00:06:31,620 Selfless. 125 00:06:31,655 --> 00:06:33,034 That really captures it. 126 00:06:33,068 --> 00:06:38,862 She thought of everybody that was in her life as somebody 127 00:06:38,896 --> 00:06:41,068 important and somebody special. 128 00:06:41,103 --> 00:06:42,827 The kids were her world. 129 00:06:42,862 --> 00:06:46,862 Becky's three sons, ages 12, 10, and 5, 130 00:06:46,896 --> 00:06:49,586 were not at home at the time of the murder. 131 00:06:49,620 --> 00:06:51,586 They were staying with their father Tim 132 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:54,103 Bliefnick about a mile away. 133 00:06:54,137 --> 00:06:57,206 The couple was in the process of getting divorced. 134 00:06:57,241 --> 00:07:00,827 Tim says that when he couldn't reach Becky on the 23rd, 135 00:07:00,862 --> 00:07:02,862 he contacted her father. 136 00:07:02,896 --> 00:07:05,344 He said, hey, I haven't been able to get hold of her either. 137 00:07:05,379 --> 00:07:06,896 I'm going to go over to the house. 138 00:07:06,931 --> 00:07:10,931 What happened to Becky should have never happened. 139 00:07:10,965 --> 00:07:13,931 It still doesn't-- at times, it still just doesn't feel real. 140 00:07:13,965 --> 00:07:16,137 Police quickly determined that the killer 141 00:07:16,172 --> 00:07:20,137 had broken into Becky's home by prying open an upstairs 142 00:07:20,172 --> 00:07:22,965 window in one of the children's bedrooms. 143 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,379 This video shows a police officer later re-enacting 144 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:31,482 how investigators believe the assailant scaled the house. 145 00:07:31,517 --> 00:07:33,551 The person had climbed up on there. 146 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:36,000 There was a patio chair that was pulled over. 147 00:07:36,034 --> 00:07:39,758 They walked past Becky's windows in her bedroom, 148 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:42,413 and then they went to a room of one of the boys. 149 00:07:42,448 --> 00:07:46,448 And they pried open, broke the window open, went in. 150 00:07:46,482 --> 00:07:49,068 You could almost trace their path to Becky's room. 151 00:07:49,103 --> 00:07:53,275 They had kicked in or broken in the door violently. 152 00:07:53,310 --> 00:07:56,034 Becky then ran into the bathroom, 153 00:07:56,068 --> 00:07:58,724 turned around, and got shot. 154 00:07:58,758 --> 00:08:01,827 What time do you believe the intruder entered the house? 155 00:08:01,862 --> 00:08:05,586 So it would have been around 1:11 in the morning 156 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:09,862 because we know that at 1:11 and 10 seconds, 157 00:08:09,896 --> 00:08:13,310 Becky tried to call 911 on her cell phone. 158 00:08:13,344 --> 00:08:15,689 She dialed 91126. 159 00:08:15,724 --> 00:08:18,586 And the phone was knocked out of her hand, 160 00:08:18,620 --> 00:08:20,586 and it was found behind the door. 161 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:22,586 Nothing appeared to be stolen. 162 00:08:22,620 --> 00:08:25,586 And neighbors didn't see or hear anything. 163 00:08:25,620 --> 00:08:28,241 But there was evidence left behind, 164 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:32,379 a partial shoe print near the point of entry, eight spent 165 00:08:32,413 --> 00:08:36,000 9 millimeter shell casings, and small pieces 166 00:08:36,034 --> 00:08:39,379 of plastic on the floor around Becky's body. 167 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:43,551 We thought it was unusual when we saw that it was like, OK, 168 00:08:43,586 --> 00:08:44,896 what is this? 169 00:08:44,931 --> 00:08:47,275 Detectives canvassing the neighborhood 170 00:08:47,310 --> 00:08:51,689 looking for surveillance video didn't have to go far. 171 00:08:51,724 --> 00:08:54,517 Becky's next door neighbors, the Heimanns, 172 00:08:54,551 --> 00:08:57,689 had installed a camera on the side of their house 173 00:08:57,724 --> 00:09:01,379 after a car break in more than a year earlier. 174 00:09:01,413 --> 00:09:04,103 It pointed at their driveway, which 175 00:09:04,137 --> 00:09:07,275 ran alongside Becky's house. 176 00:09:07,310 --> 00:09:09,000 What does it record? 177 00:09:09,034 --> 00:09:10,172 It records movement. 178 00:09:10,206 --> 00:09:12,965 So anytime it senses movement, it 179 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,310 will notify us on our phones. 180 00:09:15,344 --> 00:09:17,517 The Heimann camera didn't capture anything 181 00:09:17,551 --> 00:09:20,517 on the night of the murder, but it did capture something 182 00:09:20,551 --> 00:09:23,448 unusual about 24 hours earlier. 183 00:09:23,482 --> 00:09:25,793 We've slowed down some of the videos 184 00:09:25,827 --> 00:09:27,689 so you can see them better. 185 00:09:27,724 --> 00:09:31,275 At 1:05 AM, a person was seen walking down 186 00:09:31,310 --> 00:09:34,827 the driveway towards the back of Becky's House. 187 00:09:34,862 --> 00:09:39,137 And what appeared to be that same person was seen again 188 00:09:39,172 --> 00:09:42,793 48 minutes later, this time walking 189 00:09:42,827 --> 00:09:45,034 in the opposite direction. 190 00:09:45,068 --> 00:09:48,551 The camera had also captured a similar incident 191 00:09:48,586 --> 00:09:53,827 about a week earlier on February 14, Valentine's Day. 192 00:09:53,862 --> 00:09:56,000 I saw that one in the middle of the night 193 00:09:56,034 --> 00:09:58,172 and texted Becky immediately. 194 00:09:58,206 --> 00:10:00,965 I told her we just saw somebody in the driveway. 195 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,344 And she responded not until the next morning. 196 00:10:03,379 --> 00:10:05,379 And what did she say when she responded? 197 00:10:05,413 --> 00:10:08,103 That's when she told me that she hadn't seen anything, 198 00:10:08,137 --> 00:10:10,620 but she thought she had been hearing voices in her backyard. 199 00:10:10,655 --> 00:10:12,172 And her motion light go on. 200 00:10:12,206 --> 00:10:13,827 And she was very paranoid. 201 00:10:13,862 --> 00:10:15,586 At the time, the Heimanns thought 202 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:19,517 it was a neighborhood prowler looking for something to steal. 203 00:10:19,551 --> 00:10:23,517 But now with Becky dead, they began to wonder 204 00:10:23,551 --> 00:10:26,310 and investigators did too. 205 00:10:26,344 --> 00:10:29,896 Officers went around the entire neighborhood trying 206 00:10:29,931 --> 00:10:32,517 to find more video, and we were able to find 207 00:10:32,551 --> 00:10:35,137 a video from a house. 208 00:10:35,172 --> 00:10:39,034 And we were able to find video from the Quincy bus barn. 209 00:10:39,068 --> 00:10:42,758 And those videos showed a person riding a bike 210 00:10:42,793 --> 00:10:44,758 in the direction of Becky's house. 211 00:10:44,793 --> 00:10:48,206 After analyzing the recorded times of the videos, 212 00:10:48,241 --> 00:10:51,620 authorities began to suspect that the person seen 213 00:10:51,655 --> 00:10:55,586 on the bike was the same person seen in the driveway. 214 00:10:55,620 --> 00:10:58,896 Every time you see a person at the Heimann residence, 215 00:10:58,931 --> 00:11:03,034 you see a person riding a bike down the road 216 00:11:03,068 --> 00:11:04,689 just a few minutes before you see 217 00:11:04,724 --> 00:11:06,896 a person on that Heimann video. 218 00:11:06,931 --> 00:11:08,896 And even though there was no video 219 00:11:08,931 --> 00:11:12,793 from the Heimann residence on the morning Becky was killed, 220 00:11:12,827 --> 00:11:16,724 there was video of a person on a bike riding 221 00:11:16,758 --> 00:11:20,413 in the direction of Becky's House right before the murder 222 00:11:20,448 --> 00:11:24,034 and in the opposite direction right after. 223 00:11:24,068 --> 00:11:26,172 And this is not a part of town that people ride bike 224 00:11:26,206 --> 00:11:28,172 in the middle of the night in winter. 225 00:11:28,206 --> 00:11:30,379 And so when you have this surveillance video 226 00:11:30,413 --> 00:11:34,586 and it exactly matches the timeline, that's suspicious. 227 00:11:34,620 --> 00:11:37,034 But there was one big problem. 228 00:11:37,068 --> 00:11:40,655 You can tell absolutely nothing from the videos, 229 00:11:40,689 --> 00:11:44,034 only that the bike did not appear to have reflectors 230 00:11:44,068 --> 00:11:45,344 on the wheels. 231 00:11:45,379 --> 00:11:47,689 I mean, you can't see whether it's male/female. 232 00:11:47,724 --> 00:11:48,172 No. 233 00:11:48,206 --> 00:11:48,620 It's terrible 234 00:11:48,655 --> 00:11:49,206 It's terrible. 235 00:11:49,241 --> 00:11:50,379 The video is terrible. 236 00:11:50,413 --> 00:11:53,655 Authorities needed more leads, and they would get one 237 00:11:53,689 --> 00:11:56,275 from Becky's sister that would point them 238 00:11:56,310 --> 00:11:58,551 in a very specific direction. 239 00:11:58,586 --> 00:12:01,896 [MUSIC PLAYING] 240 00:12:14,482 --> 00:12:17,344 When Becky's sister Sarah and brother-in-law 241 00:12:17,379 --> 00:12:20,896 Brett learned of her murder, they say one person 242 00:12:20,931 --> 00:12:24,827 came to mind as the prime suspect, Becky's estranged 243 00:12:24,862 --> 00:12:27,517 husband Tim Bliefnick. 244 00:12:27,551 --> 00:12:28,758 I told Brett it was Tim. 245 00:12:28,793 --> 00:12:29,586 Of course, it's Tim. 246 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:30,206 I said-- 247 00:12:30,241 --> 00:12:30,965 Right away? 248 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,034 Right away. 249 00:12:33,068 --> 00:12:37,000 Tim and Becky met when they were students at Quincy University. 250 00:12:37,034 --> 00:12:40,000 But it wasn't until two years after graduating 251 00:12:40,034 --> 00:12:42,137 that they began dating. 252 00:12:42,172 --> 00:12:45,241 And how would you describe Becky back then? 253 00:12:45,275 --> 00:12:47,344 Happy, fun. 254 00:12:47,379 --> 00:12:49,172 She was beautiful. 255 00:12:49,206 --> 00:12:51,931 The two eventually moved in together, married, 256 00:12:51,965 --> 00:12:53,689 and started a family. 257 00:12:53,724 --> 00:12:56,931 Becky quit her job in pharmaceutical sales 258 00:12:56,965 --> 00:12:59,862 to become a stay-at-home mom, while Tim 259 00:12:59,896 --> 00:13:05,137 continued his successful career in the recycling industry. 260 00:13:05,172 --> 00:13:06,896 I thought this was it. 261 00:13:06,931 --> 00:13:09,620 I'm going to be 85 and sitting on a porch in a rocking chair 262 00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:14,379 with her talking about how good life was. 263 00:13:14,413 --> 00:13:17,448 But things didn't turn out that way. 264 00:13:17,482 --> 00:13:21,689 She was very happy with their marriage for probably 265 00:13:21,724 --> 00:13:24,275 the first five years. 266 00:13:24,310 --> 00:13:28,034 And then things started to change. 267 00:13:28,068 --> 00:13:32,827 He got progressively more manipulative and controlling. 268 00:13:32,862 --> 00:13:35,827 And he didn't do any of the work ever at the house. 269 00:13:35,862 --> 00:13:39,172 Shannon Zanger is Becky's close friend. 270 00:13:39,206 --> 00:13:43,793 When she'd come over and we'd talk husbands as wives do, 271 00:13:43,827 --> 00:13:47,206 she felt like she was shouldering most of the load. 272 00:13:47,241 --> 00:13:50,482 I thought, man, I really have a partner here. 273 00:13:50,517 --> 00:13:53,724 And she doesn't seem to have that partnership. 274 00:13:53,758 --> 00:13:56,655 Shannon and Sarah say the relationship only 275 00:13:56,689 --> 00:14:00,103 became more strained when Becky decided to go back 276 00:14:00,137 --> 00:14:02,241 to school to become a nurse. 277 00:14:02,275 --> 00:14:07,482 He not only did not support her, he did not increase his time 278 00:14:07,517 --> 00:14:08,724 with the boys. 279 00:14:08,758 --> 00:14:12,103 While Tim acknowledges that he wasn't in favor of Becky 280 00:14:12,137 --> 00:14:16,965 taking on a career in nursing, he says it was out of concern 281 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,482 for her well-being. 282 00:14:19,517 --> 00:14:21,344 Because of the stress piece of it. 283 00:14:21,379 --> 00:14:23,068 Were you worried you'd have to pick up 284 00:14:23,103 --> 00:14:24,862 more of the work with the kids? 285 00:14:24,896 --> 00:14:26,310 Not at all. 286 00:14:26,344 --> 00:14:29,413 I've always been involved with the kids every day. 287 00:14:29,448 --> 00:14:33,862 In January 2021 after 11 years of marriage, 288 00:14:33,896 --> 00:14:35,931 Tim filed for divorce. 289 00:14:35,965 --> 00:14:40,034 Although he wouldn't discuss the specifics of why he filed, 290 00:14:40,068 --> 00:14:42,413 he hinted that it had to do with what 291 00:14:42,448 --> 00:14:45,862 he saw as a change in Becky's personality 292 00:14:45,896 --> 00:14:48,655 after she became a nurse. 293 00:14:48,689 --> 00:14:50,896 She struggled with patience and stress a lot, 294 00:14:50,931 --> 00:14:52,379 especially when it came to the kids. 295 00:14:52,413 --> 00:14:55,448 And it created some conflict. 296 00:14:55,482 --> 00:14:59,034 But Sarah says Tim is just making excuses. 297 00:14:59,068 --> 00:15:03,379 And she believes the reason Tim filed for divorce is because he 298 00:15:03,413 --> 00:15:05,206 couldn't control Becky. 299 00:15:05,241 --> 00:15:07,827 She says Becky was a loving mother 300 00:15:07,862 --> 00:15:11,310 and tried in vain to salvage the marriage. 301 00:15:11,344 --> 00:15:14,034 She wanted to go to marriage counseling with him. 302 00:15:14,068 --> 00:15:15,620 And he refused. 303 00:15:15,655 --> 00:15:18,758 Whatever the reason for the divorce might have been, 304 00:15:18,793 --> 00:15:22,103 one thing is certain, things between the two 305 00:15:22,137 --> 00:15:24,172 soon turned contentious. 306 00:15:24,206 --> 00:15:27,448 According to divorce documents, they fought over just 307 00:15:27,482 --> 00:15:31,413 about everything, money, the marital home, 308 00:15:31,448 --> 00:15:34,206 and custody of the kids. 309 00:15:34,241 --> 00:15:37,896 I don't understand why it got so contentious if you were 310 00:15:37,931 --> 00:15:40,000 the one who wanted to get out. 311 00:15:40,034 --> 00:15:41,862 Yeah, I was the one that wanted to get out. 312 00:15:41,896 --> 00:15:44,241 And I tried on several occasions, 313 00:15:44,275 --> 00:15:52,758 but there are details that are hard to talk about that 314 00:15:52,793 --> 00:15:54,793 happened in the divorce. 315 00:15:54,827 --> 00:15:57,551 In the months after Tim filed for divorce, 316 00:15:57,586 --> 00:16:01,517 Becky began voicing concerns about Tim's behavior. 317 00:16:01,551 --> 00:16:06,172 She sent this text to a friend, "He has screamed in my face. 318 00:16:06,206 --> 00:16:08,275 He shoved me in front of the kids 319 00:16:08,310 --> 00:16:11,034 and has thrown things across the room." 320 00:16:11,068 --> 00:16:14,241 And she texted another friend, "I truly 321 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:17,206 believe Tim has serious mental health problems, 322 00:16:17,241 --> 00:16:20,965 and he is becoming more vengeful and unpredictable." 323 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,103 But Tim says it was Becky who was vengeful. 324 00:16:26,137 --> 00:16:28,793 She told people I had an affair, which is untrue. 325 00:16:28,827 --> 00:16:30,241 She tried to tell people that I was 326 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:32,586 an alcoholic, which is untrue. 327 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:37,931 She was telling people these things because she 328 00:16:37,965 --> 00:16:40,000 was angry about the divorce. 329 00:16:40,034 --> 00:16:43,068 At one point, Tim sought an order of protection 330 00:16:43,103 --> 00:16:44,241 against Becky. 331 00:16:44,275 --> 00:16:47,689 He alleged Becky stalked and harassed him. 332 00:16:47,724 --> 00:16:50,827 He also referenced an incident where 333 00:16:50,862 --> 00:16:55,034 he said Becky had become combative during a disagreement 334 00:16:55,068 --> 00:16:56,724 at a parent-teacher night. 335 00:16:56,758 --> 00:16:57,827 I'm asking for the letter. 336 00:16:57,862 --> 00:16:59,068 Stop. 337 00:16:59,103 --> 00:17:00,103 I'm asking you to stop harassing me and stop following me. 338 00:17:00,137 --> 00:17:00,931 I'm not harassing you. 339 00:17:00,965 --> 00:17:01,896 I'm asking you-- 340 00:17:01,931 --> 00:17:04,034 He offered this video of the incident as 341 00:17:04,068 --> 00:17:05,137 I will make a copy for you. 342 00:17:05,172 --> 00:17:06,310 I don't want you to tape me. 343 00:17:06,344 --> 00:17:06,896 Don't tape me. 344 00:17:06,931 --> 00:17:07,344 Then stop doing this. 345 00:17:07,378 --> 00:17:07,862 Don't tape me. 346 00:17:07,896 --> 00:17:08,448 I don't-- 347 00:17:08,482 --> 00:17:09,137 Then stop going this. 348 00:17:09,172 --> 00:17:10,034 I didn't ask you to tape me. 349 00:17:10,068 --> 00:17:11,931 Do you really think she was trying 350 00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:14,241 to hurt him in that video? 351 00:17:14,275 --> 00:17:17,034 I don't think anybody was trying to hurt anybody. 352 00:17:17,068 --> 00:17:19,689 I think you have two parents that were having a disagreement 353 00:17:19,723 --> 00:17:21,517 and didn't know how to deal with it. 354 00:17:21,550 --> 00:17:25,103 Casey Schnack was one of Tim's divorce attorneys. 355 00:17:25,137 --> 00:17:27,137 The judge didn't grant that order of protection. 356 00:17:27,172 --> 00:17:27,862 Did not grant it. 357 00:17:27,896 --> 00:17:28,931 No. 358 00:17:28,965 --> 00:17:32,068 Days after Tim filed for that order of protection 359 00:17:32,103 --> 00:17:34,551 and more than a year before her death, 360 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:37,931 Becky sent her sister Sarah this text. 361 00:17:37,965 --> 00:17:42,344 If something ever happens to me, please make sure the number one 362 00:17:42,379 --> 00:17:44,931 person of interest is Tim. 363 00:17:44,965 --> 00:17:49,000 She would later make similar statements to friends. 364 00:17:49,034 --> 00:17:50,931 I said what did he do? 365 00:17:50,965 --> 00:17:54,827 And that text was prompted by the murder 366 00:17:54,862 --> 00:17:57,137 of one of her colleagues. 367 00:17:57,172 --> 00:18:02,172 One of the nurses that she knew was murdered by her partner. 368 00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:03,448 That scared her. 369 00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:05,793 She felt like this could happen. 370 00:18:05,827 --> 00:18:06,793 This is real. 371 00:18:06,827 --> 00:18:08,620 I never understood where that came from. 372 00:18:08,655 --> 00:18:10,068 We would get into arguments. 373 00:18:10,103 --> 00:18:11,931 And sometimes we would get loud. 374 00:18:11,965 --> 00:18:13,758 But that's all it amounted to. 375 00:18:13,793 --> 00:18:18,758 Sarah says she recommended Becky seek help from a domestic abuse 376 00:18:18,793 --> 00:18:20,137 organization. 377 00:18:20,172 --> 00:18:24,000 And, eventually, Becky filed for an order of protection 378 00:18:24,034 --> 00:18:25,310 against Tim. 379 00:18:25,344 --> 00:18:29,896 In her petition, she alleged that Tim entered her residence 380 00:18:29,931 --> 00:18:31,137 without permission. 381 00:18:31,172 --> 00:18:34,517 She also said that he repeatedly falsified 382 00:18:34,551 --> 00:18:37,000 interactions between the two. 383 00:18:37,034 --> 00:18:40,413 That order of protection was not granted. 384 00:18:40,448 --> 00:18:44,896 But a judge did ultimately order Tim and Becky stay away 385 00:18:44,931 --> 00:18:48,275 from each other's residences except when 386 00:18:48,310 --> 00:18:50,068 exchanging their kids. 387 00:18:50,103 --> 00:18:53,931 And the judge also ordered Tim to return a 9 millimeter 388 00:18:53,965 --> 00:18:58,896 handgun that Becky had gifted him when they were together. 389 00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:03,103 He was into recreational shooting. 390 00:19:03,137 --> 00:19:06,172 She wanted that particular gun back 391 00:19:06,206 --> 00:19:08,241 because the gun was in her name. 392 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:10,413 But Becky never got it back. 393 00:19:10,448 --> 00:19:13,482 And it was a 9 millimeter handgun that 394 00:19:13,517 --> 00:19:15,931 was later used to kill her. 395 00:19:15,965 --> 00:19:18,172 So I had not seen that gun in three years. 396 00:19:18,206 --> 00:19:19,965 I didn't have it. 397 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,793 Becky was killed one week before the divorce 398 00:19:22,827 --> 00:19:24,931 case was set to go to trial. 399 00:19:24,965 --> 00:19:28,517 When Sarah informed law enforcement of their history, 400 00:19:28,551 --> 00:19:31,310 Tim became a person of interest. 401 00:19:31,344 --> 00:19:33,206 Authorities kept digging. 402 00:19:33,241 --> 00:19:35,896 And days later, they found a bike 403 00:19:35,931 --> 00:19:38,827 with no reflectors on the wheels just 404 00:19:38,862 --> 00:19:42,103 like the one seen on those surveillance videos. 405 00:19:42,137 --> 00:19:46,586 How close was that bike that you found to Tim's house? 406 00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:48,862 Less than half a block. 407 00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:52,896 They then executed a search warrant on Tim's house and car 408 00:19:52,931 --> 00:19:54,586 as Tim looked on. 409 00:19:54,620 --> 00:20:01,586 And on March 13, 2023, just over two weeks after Becky's death, 410 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:06,931 Tim Bliefnick was arrested and charged with her murder. 411 00:20:06,965 --> 00:20:12,758 I can't even fathom the idea of considering murdering somebody. 412 00:20:12,793 --> 00:20:15,241 Like I can't. 413 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:17,724 Tim's divorce attorney Casey Schnack 414 00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:20,034 would become his defense attorney. 415 00:20:20,068 --> 00:20:25,000 And she says she's convinced police got it wrong. 416 00:20:25,034 --> 00:20:27,551 He knew how much those kids meant to her 417 00:20:27,586 --> 00:20:29,034 and how much she meant to them. 418 00:20:29,068 --> 00:20:30,862 He wouldn't do this to them. 419 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:31,620 He wouldn't 420 00:20:31,655 --> 00:20:34,896 [MUSIC PLAYING] 421 00:20:47,551 --> 00:20:51,827 When Tim Bliefnick was arrested, it made national news. 422 00:20:51,862 --> 00:20:55,965 He competed on Family Feud as his whole town cheered him on, 423 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,896 but his local hero status is over. 424 00:20:58,931 --> 00:21:01,172 In large part because of that appearance 425 00:21:01,206 --> 00:21:03,689 he made alongside his parents and brothers 426 00:21:03,724 --> 00:21:05,724 on the game show Family Feud. 427 00:21:05,758 --> 00:21:07,965 All right, Tim, we talked to a hundred married people. 428 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,551 What's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding? 429 00:21:10,586 --> 00:21:13,965 Honey, I love you, but said I do. 430 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,172 The episode was filmed in 2019, nearly two years 431 00:21:18,206 --> 00:21:20,413 before Tim filed for divorce. 432 00:21:20,448 --> 00:21:23,103 But because of the charges he now face, 433 00:21:23,137 --> 00:21:24,931 it had people talking. 434 00:21:24,965 --> 00:21:28,068 And there was also chatter about Tim's appearance 435 00:21:28,103 --> 00:21:33,724 in his mugshot, although it was no surprise to Becky's family. 436 00:21:33,758 --> 00:21:38,000 We had seen through social media the deterioration 437 00:21:38,034 --> 00:21:40,137 of his appearance. 438 00:21:40,172 --> 00:21:44,758 And that went hand in hand with the deterioration 439 00:21:44,793 --> 00:21:49,034 of his mental state over the course of the divorce. 440 00:21:49,068 --> 00:21:52,275 But Tim says that's not the case and that he 441 00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:55,827 had been growing out his hair for a fundraiser for cancer 442 00:21:55,862 --> 00:21:57,034 research. 443 00:21:57,068 --> 00:21:58,310 I'm not a violent person. 444 00:21:58,344 --> 00:21:59,413 I'm not an angry person. 445 00:21:59,448 --> 00:22:01,137 I've never been that way. 446 00:22:01,172 --> 00:22:03,965 Tim's attorney Casey Schnack was determined 447 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,448 to prove his innocence. 448 00:22:05,482 --> 00:22:07,620 She says, just because Tim and Becky 449 00:22:07,655 --> 00:22:09,896 were going through a messy divorce, 450 00:22:09,931 --> 00:22:12,655 it doesn't mean he killed her. 451 00:22:12,689 --> 00:22:15,758 It wasn't pretty, but the things that they were fighting over 452 00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:17,827 were not monumental things. 453 00:22:17,862 --> 00:22:21,965 You know, there were a number of friends, Becky's friends, 454 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,620 who said that she expressed great fear of Tim. 455 00:22:24,655 --> 00:22:25,931 Mm-hmm, yeah. 456 00:22:25,965 --> 00:22:27,724 That's a lot of girl talk. 457 00:22:27,758 --> 00:22:29,793 I've never seen any pictures of her 458 00:22:29,827 --> 00:22:32,586 with bruises, of marks, any allegations 459 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:36,000 of him beating on her, nothing. 460 00:22:36,034 --> 00:22:40,172 But Adams County prosecutors Josh Jones and Laura Keck 461 00:22:40,206 --> 00:22:44,000 say even though there may not have been physical abuse, 462 00:22:44,034 --> 00:22:48,482 there was emotional abuse evident in Tim's texts 463 00:22:48,517 --> 00:22:49,655 to Becky. 464 00:22:49,689 --> 00:22:53,103 What do his text messages reveal? 465 00:22:53,137 --> 00:22:55,793 So I would say what they reveal is somebody 466 00:22:55,827 --> 00:22:57,620 who wants power and control. 467 00:22:57,655 --> 00:23:00,172 He wants to control the relationship. 468 00:23:00,206 --> 00:23:03,068 He wants to control how people perceive him. 469 00:23:03,103 --> 00:23:04,896 Tim denies that. 470 00:23:04,931 --> 00:23:07,379 She wasn't the one that was emotionally abused. 471 00:23:07,413 --> 00:23:09,137 I tried to create space. 472 00:23:09,172 --> 00:23:11,448 I tried to stay out of her life. 473 00:23:11,482 --> 00:23:15,206 And Tim says he has an alibi for the time of the murder. 474 00:23:15,241 --> 00:23:18,413 He says he was home with their three kids. 475 00:23:18,448 --> 00:23:20,172 They were sleeping over that night 476 00:23:20,206 --> 00:23:24,724 because Becky had asked him to keep them an extra night. 477 00:23:24,758 --> 00:23:27,172 She told him that she wasn't feeling well, 478 00:23:27,206 --> 00:23:29,137 and he said that's fine. 479 00:23:29,172 --> 00:23:32,931 That's how you want to see two people in a divorcing situation 480 00:23:32,965 --> 00:23:34,034 act with kids. 481 00:23:34,068 --> 00:23:39,034 But Jones and Keck believe Tim saw an opportunity. 482 00:23:39,068 --> 00:23:40,965 She showed weakness to a predator. 483 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,241 And that's what predators do. 484 00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:45,620 When they see a weakness, they attack. 485 00:23:45,655 --> 00:23:49,206 And they also say that explains the intruder's point 486 00:23:49,241 --> 00:23:54,206 of entry, an upstairs window in one of the kids' bedrooms. 487 00:23:54,241 --> 00:23:56,310 If you're a random intruder, why do you 488 00:23:56,344 --> 00:23:57,862 go to the second floor window? 489 00:23:57,896 --> 00:24:02,275 You go past not just one window but three windows that 490 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:04,689 are possible entrance points. 491 00:24:04,724 --> 00:24:08,413 And you just happen to get lucky that it's a little boys room 492 00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:11,241 that's not there that night. 493 00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:13,896 But Schnack points to what she says 494 00:24:13,931 --> 00:24:19,034 is a lack of physical evidence tying him to the crime. 495 00:24:19,068 --> 00:24:22,793 No murder weapon or bloody clothing was found. 496 00:24:22,827 --> 00:24:26,689 And while police did seize pairs of Tim's shoes, 497 00:24:26,724 --> 00:24:29,724 they weren't able to match them to that partial shoe 498 00:24:29,758 --> 00:24:32,517 print found at the scene. 499 00:24:32,551 --> 00:24:34,862 They took every single pair of athletic shoes 500 00:24:34,896 --> 00:24:36,379 that they thought would be a match. 501 00:24:36,413 --> 00:24:39,551 They didn't find any that were a suitable match. 502 00:24:39,586 --> 00:24:42,689 Schnack also points out that Tim's DNA 503 00:24:42,724 --> 00:24:46,724 wasn't found on that patio chair that investigators 504 00:24:46,758 --> 00:24:51,275 believe was used by the killer to climb onto Becky's roof. 505 00:24:51,310 --> 00:24:54,448 Nothing on that was connected to Tim. 506 00:24:54,482 --> 00:24:58,137 They took every pair of gloves from Tim's car, house 507 00:24:58,172 --> 00:24:59,206 that they could find. 508 00:24:59,241 --> 00:25:01,413 And none of those gloves had anything 509 00:25:01,448 --> 00:25:04,413 that linked him to this crime. 510 00:25:04,448 --> 00:25:09,000 But if Tim didn't kill Becky, who did? 511 00:25:09,034 --> 00:25:12,034 If I knew that answer, I would have given that name or whoever 512 00:25:12,068 --> 00:25:13,931 it was a long time ago. 513 00:25:13,965 --> 00:25:17,310 Tim's attorney says that she believes investigators should 514 00:25:17,344 --> 00:25:19,379 have given more weight to the idea 515 00:25:19,413 --> 00:25:22,758 that it could have been a random prowler who killed 516 00:25:22,793 --> 00:25:25,862 Becky in a break-in gone wrong. 517 00:25:25,896 --> 00:25:29,379 Remember, police found those videos of a person 518 00:25:29,413 --> 00:25:32,103 on a bike and a person walking down 519 00:25:32,137 --> 00:25:34,448 Becky's neighbor's driveway. 520 00:25:34,482 --> 00:25:39,000 Tim insists it's not him in those videos. 521 00:25:39,034 --> 00:25:43,241 You cannot say with any degree of certainty who that person is 522 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:46,034 on any of those videos. 523 00:25:46,068 --> 00:25:48,793 All you see is a bike without reflectors. 524 00:25:48,827 --> 00:25:52,034 And even though a bike with no reflectors on the wheels 525 00:25:52,068 --> 00:25:55,655 was found less than half a block from Tim's house, 526 00:25:55,689 --> 00:25:59,172 Schnack says that doesn't mean anything. 527 00:25:59,206 --> 00:26:01,655 His DNA was not found on that bike. 528 00:26:01,689 --> 00:26:03,896 And we don't even know that the bike that was found 529 00:26:03,931 --> 00:26:06,275 is the same bike that was in the video. 530 00:26:06,310 --> 00:26:08,931 But prosecutors Jones and Keck say 531 00:26:08,965 --> 00:26:12,551 they did find evidence tying Tim to that bike. 532 00:26:12,586 --> 00:26:15,586 We were able to download information off his phone. 533 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:17,551 And we found that Mr. Bliefnick had 534 00:26:17,586 --> 00:26:21,551 a what I'll call burner or fake Facebook account with the name 535 00:26:21,586 --> 00:26:22,931 John Smith. 536 00:26:22,965 --> 00:26:25,724 And they say that John Smith Facebook 537 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:29,758 account appeared to have been looking at this bike for sale. 538 00:26:29,793 --> 00:26:33,655 It's a blue Schwinn with no reflectors on the wheels, 539 00:26:33,689 --> 00:26:36,724 just like that bike that was found. 540 00:26:36,758 --> 00:26:38,965 You know, I have a fake Facebook account. 541 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,793 I'm not proud of it, but people do it. 542 00:26:40,827 --> 00:26:43,827 Isn't it a bit of a problem, though, that on his phone 543 00:26:43,862 --> 00:26:46,448 he gets an alert for that blue bike? 544 00:26:46,482 --> 00:26:47,172 Sure. 545 00:26:47,206 --> 00:26:48,344 Are there similarities? 546 00:26:48,379 --> 00:26:50,379 Sure, but that's not the only abandoned bike 547 00:26:50,413 --> 00:26:52,034 that's been found around town. 548 00:26:52,068 --> 00:26:54,344 Jones and Keck say they're confident they 549 00:26:54,379 --> 00:26:56,379 got the right guy. 550 00:26:56,413 --> 00:26:58,482 The detectives followed the evidence 551 00:26:58,517 --> 00:27:00,413 exactly where it took them. 552 00:27:00,448 --> 00:27:03,034 And there was one inescapable conclusion 553 00:27:03,068 --> 00:27:04,827 that it was Mr. Bliefnick. 554 00:27:04,862 --> 00:27:07,344 But despite their confidence, they soon 555 00:27:07,379 --> 00:27:09,206 faced quite a challenge. 556 00:27:09,241 --> 00:27:13,620 When Tim was arrested, he was ordered held without bond. 557 00:27:13,655 --> 00:27:17,379 He had a right to a speedy trial, which he took, 558 00:27:17,413 --> 00:27:20,034 meaning prosecutors would be required 559 00:27:20,068 --> 00:27:24,620 to try the case within 90 days of Tim's arrest. 560 00:27:24,655 --> 00:27:27,517 We were going to be ready come hell or high water. 561 00:27:27,551 --> 00:27:30,034 But did they have enough to prove their case 562 00:27:30,068 --> 00:27:32,931 beyond a reasonable doubt? 563 00:27:32,965 --> 00:27:35,034 Juries expect a confession. 564 00:27:35,068 --> 00:27:39,517 They expect that DNA evidence that says 1 in 500 million. 565 00:27:39,551 --> 00:27:41,517 We're going to have to show them that that's not 566 00:27:41,551 --> 00:27:42,517 what we have here. 567 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,586 What do you make of Tim Bliefnick's answer 568 00:27:47,620 --> 00:27:48,758 on Family Feud? 569 00:27:48,793 --> 00:27:51,448 Take a look at the case evidence at 48hours.com. 570 00:27:54,586 --> 00:27:57,793 [MUSIC PLAYING] 571 00:27:57,827 --> 00:28:03,172 On May 23, 2023, exactly three months after Becky Bliefnick 572 00:28:03,206 --> 00:28:06,517 was gunned down in her home, Tim Bliefnick 573 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:08,482 went on trial for her murder. 574 00:28:08,517 --> 00:28:10,310 The defendant looked down at Becky, 575 00:28:10,344 --> 00:28:12,137 and he pointed a gun at her. 576 00:28:12,172 --> 00:28:13,862 And he pulled the trigger. 577 00:28:13,896 --> 00:28:16,379 Prosecutors Josh Jones and Laura Keck 578 00:28:16,413 --> 00:28:20,344 began by methodically laying out the evidence they say points 579 00:28:20,379 --> 00:28:25,034 directly to Tim, starting with those odd pieces of plastic 580 00:28:25,068 --> 00:28:27,586 that were found around Becky's body. 581 00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:29,931 They say investigators determined 582 00:28:29,965 --> 00:28:34,103 that they were shreds from an ALDI grocery store bag. 583 00:28:34,137 --> 00:28:36,413 And then in the defendant's house, 584 00:28:36,448 --> 00:28:38,724 we found stacks of ALDI bags. 585 00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:41,241 He had fired through an ALDI bag either in an attempt 586 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:45,103 to muffle the sound or to catch his shell casings. 587 00:28:45,137 --> 00:28:47,758 And prosecutors say that in the process, 588 00:28:47,793 --> 00:28:51,448 DNA was left behind on a piece of that plastic. 589 00:28:51,482 --> 00:28:55,482 An expert testified that it was more likely than not 590 00:28:55,517 --> 00:28:58,068 that Tim was a contributor. 591 00:28:58,103 --> 00:29:00,482 And Tim also couldn't be excluded 592 00:29:00,517 --> 00:29:04,517 from DNA that was found under Becky's fingernails. 593 00:29:04,551 --> 00:29:06,586 That was three times more likely to have 594 00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:11,034 come from the defendant or a male relative 595 00:29:11,068 --> 00:29:12,931 from the lineage of the defendant. 596 00:29:12,965 --> 00:29:16,000 And this case is dripping with reasonable doubt. 597 00:29:16,034 --> 00:29:18,206 But defense attorney Casey Schnack 598 00:29:18,241 --> 00:29:22,034 says that evidence is far from definitive. 599 00:29:22,068 --> 00:29:25,000 Everybody in town has ALDI bags that they're hoarding. 600 00:29:25,034 --> 00:29:27,068 They could have came from Becky's house. 601 00:29:27,103 --> 00:29:29,000 With DNA from him? 602 00:29:29,034 --> 00:29:31,068 Well, because they transferred stuff back and forth 603 00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:32,655 for the boys in ALDI bags. 604 00:29:32,689 --> 00:29:36,551 There was DNA found under Becky's fingernails. 605 00:29:36,586 --> 00:29:37,862 Yeah. 606 00:29:37,896 --> 00:29:40,793 And it was just as likely to be Tim's as any one of the boys. 607 00:29:40,827 --> 00:29:44,724 Prosecutors also told the jury that police found this crowbar 608 00:29:44,758 --> 00:29:48,551 in Tim's basement, and they called an expert to the stand 609 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:52,482 who testified that she compared it to tool marks left 610 00:29:52,517 --> 00:29:55,689 on the window that was pried open at Becky's. 611 00:29:55,724 --> 00:29:59,344 While there were microscopic consistencies, 612 00:29:59,379 --> 00:30:02,517 she couldn't say with scientific certainty 613 00:30:02,551 --> 00:30:06,068 that that crowbar made those marks. 614 00:30:06,103 --> 00:30:09,034 The expert said that that was inconclusive. 615 00:30:09,068 --> 00:30:12,275 Inconclusive leaves a jury guessing and speculating, 616 00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:14,344 which they are not allowed to do. 617 00:30:14,379 --> 00:30:17,586 The jury heard about the couple's acrimonious divorce 618 00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:20,862 and from Becky's sister and several friends who 619 00:30:20,896 --> 00:30:24,448 testified about those fears Becky had raised about Tim. 620 00:30:24,482 --> 00:30:27,413 Several of them acknowledged that they regretfully 621 00:30:27,448 --> 00:30:29,448 didn't take steps to help her. 622 00:30:29,482 --> 00:30:30,827 How could Tim do that? 623 00:30:30,862 --> 00:30:32,206 I've known him forever. 624 00:30:32,241 --> 00:30:35,034 When she reached out to people, that's what they said. 625 00:30:35,068 --> 00:30:39,206 In hindsight, of course, like we should have done more. 626 00:30:39,241 --> 00:30:43,862 There's only one person that believed it was true, 627 00:30:43,896 --> 00:30:46,275 and that was Becky herself. 628 00:30:46,310 --> 00:30:49,793 And the prosecution argued that the timing of the murder 629 00:30:49,827 --> 00:30:51,034 is significant. 630 00:30:51,068 --> 00:30:54,275 Remember, Becky was killed one week 631 00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:58,000 before the couple's divorce case was set to go to trial. 632 00:30:58,034 --> 00:31:02,310 And prosecutors told the jury there was something even bigger 633 00:31:02,344 --> 00:31:06,551 than money and custody that was going to come into play. 634 00:31:06,586 --> 00:31:08,793 Becky didn't want their three children 635 00:31:08,827 --> 00:31:11,551 to be around the defendant's father unsupervised. 636 00:31:11,586 --> 00:31:15,655 They didn't tell the jury why, but we uncovered these court 637 00:31:15,689 --> 00:31:19,758 documents that reveal Becky had gathered witnesses who she said 638 00:31:19,793 --> 00:31:23,689 planned to testify about Tim's father Ray Bliefnick 639 00:31:23,724 --> 00:31:27,344 and would allege that he had a history of perversion 640 00:31:27,379 --> 00:31:31,827 and abusing minor children many years earlier. 641 00:31:31,862 --> 00:31:35,482 The alleged victims were not Becky and Tim's children. 642 00:31:35,517 --> 00:31:38,793 Becky sought an order of protection against Ray, 643 00:31:38,827 --> 00:31:41,482 but a judge denied her request. 644 00:31:41,517 --> 00:31:45,034 In a letter, Ray's lawyer wrote that Ray vehemently 645 00:31:45,068 --> 00:31:47,758 denies the claims and that he has never 646 00:31:47,793 --> 00:31:50,965 been charged with any criminal offense stemming 647 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,758 from the allegations. 648 00:31:52,793 --> 00:31:54,413 Information was going to come out 649 00:31:54,448 --> 00:31:56,827 that he didn't want to come out, and he 650 00:31:56,862 --> 00:31:59,206 started to feel like he was losing control. 651 00:31:59,241 --> 00:32:03,068 The prosecution pointed out that on the day of Becky's murder, 652 00:32:03,103 --> 00:32:07,724 hours before anyone except her killer knew that she was dead, 653 00:32:07,758 --> 00:32:12,413 Tim brought a kids basketball hoop to his father's house. 654 00:32:12,448 --> 00:32:14,482 He's doing that because he knows Becky is not 655 00:32:14,517 --> 00:32:16,034 going to be a problem anymore. 656 00:32:16,068 --> 00:32:18,413 Becky didn't want those boys around Ray. 657 00:32:18,448 --> 00:32:20,793 And in Tim's mind, that problem was 658 00:32:20,827 --> 00:32:23,241 solved because Becky was dead. 659 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:25,482 I really don't buy that. 660 00:32:25,517 --> 00:32:26,482 Why not? 661 00:32:26,517 --> 00:32:28,620 Because the boys weren't restricted 662 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:30,448 from seeing Ray to begin with. 663 00:32:30,482 --> 00:32:32,758 They just couldn't see him without supervision. 664 00:32:32,793 --> 00:32:36,103 And Schnack says those allegations were old news. 665 00:32:36,137 --> 00:32:38,827 So all of those allegations were in pleadings 666 00:32:38,862 --> 00:32:42,000 that her attorneys had filed and at that point were already 667 00:32:42,034 --> 00:32:43,344 a matter of public record. 668 00:32:43,379 --> 00:32:46,862 It doesn't make sense that he would throw his life away 669 00:32:46,896 --> 00:32:50,137 over a divorce and keeping information out 670 00:32:50,172 --> 00:32:53,448 of the public eye that quite frankly was already out. 671 00:32:53,482 --> 00:32:56,103 But the prosecutors wasn't done. 672 00:32:56,137 --> 00:32:59,586 The jury was also shown numerous damaging searches 673 00:32:59,620 --> 00:33:02,931 found on Tim's phone like how to open 674 00:33:02,965 --> 00:33:06,620 my door with a crowbar, how to make a homemade pistol 675 00:33:06,655 --> 00:33:11,379 silencer, and how to clean gunpowder off your hands. 676 00:33:11,413 --> 00:33:12,482 It was mind boggling. 677 00:33:12,517 --> 00:33:13,517 It was mind boggling. 678 00:33:13,551 --> 00:33:14,827 Yeah. 679 00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:18,103 And remember that person caught on camera in Becky's neighbor's 680 00:33:18,137 --> 00:33:22,724 driveway on Valentine's Day about a week before the murder? 681 00:33:22,758 --> 00:33:26,793 Well, prosecutors say that right after that sighting, 682 00:33:26,827 --> 00:33:32,379 Tim made more than 200 searches online for a specific license 683 00:33:32,413 --> 00:33:34,655 plate and a car VIN number. 684 00:33:34,689 --> 00:33:39,034 It turns out that that license plate and VIN number belonged 685 00:33:39,068 --> 00:33:41,344 to a man whom Becky was dating. 686 00:33:41,379 --> 00:33:45,793 And his truck was parked in Becky's driveway at the time. 687 00:33:45,827 --> 00:33:48,068 And for somebody with power and control issues, 688 00:33:48,103 --> 00:33:50,206 you realize that your prior significant other 689 00:33:50,241 --> 00:33:51,862 is now in a relationship with somebody, 690 00:33:51,896 --> 00:33:54,034 that they're spending the night on Valentine's Day. 691 00:33:54,068 --> 00:33:56,724 And then the minute you get back to your home 692 00:33:56,758 --> 00:34:00,103 at 1:10 in the morning, you're searching their license plate 693 00:34:00,137 --> 00:34:01,896 number and their VIN number. 694 00:34:01,931 --> 00:34:03,724 That's somebody who's lost control. 695 00:34:03,758 --> 00:34:07,931 Tim insists he had learned about Becky's new relationship months 696 00:34:07,965 --> 00:34:08,931 earlier. 697 00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:10,724 I actually didn't care. 698 00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:14,068 It sounds like you were kind of obsessed because-- 699 00:34:14,103 --> 00:34:15,310 No. 700 00:34:15,344 --> 00:34:18,516 He declined to go into more detail about specific trial 701 00:34:18,551 --> 00:34:21,206 evidence citing legal proceedings. 702 00:34:21,241 --> 00:34:23,620 But his lawyer spoke for him. 703 00:34:23,655 --> 00:34:26,620 I mean, if I'm going to be checking out my husband's 704 00:34:26,655 --> 00:34:28,965 new girlfriend, I'm going to be doing it late at night 705 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,585 after my kids are asleep. 706 00:34:30,620 --> 00:34:32,724 So it's just a coincidence that the night you 707 00:34:32,757 --> 00:34:36,585 see that prowler at the next door neighbor's driveway 708 00:34:36,620 --> 00:34:38,241 and his truck is there-- it's just 709 00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:42,206 a coincidence that just minutes later, Tim 710 00:34:42,241 --> 00:34:45,862 is doing research on the VIN number and the license tags. 711 00:34:45,896 --> 00:34:47,206 That's not Tim in that video. 712 00:34:47,241 --> 00:34:51,000 What about the searches that were found on Tim's phone? 713 00:34:51,034 --> 00:34:55,344 There's no date or time as to when those searches were done. 714 00:34:55,379 --> 00:34:58,034 So we don't know if they were done before the murder, 715 00:34:58,068 --> 00:35:00,965 and we don't know if they were done after the murder. 716 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Before they rested the case, prosecutors 717 00:35:04,034 --> 00:35:06,310 dropped one more piece of evidence. 718 00:35:06,344 --> 00:35:10,551 These spent shell casings that were found in Tim's home. 719 00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:13,517 An expert testified that she compared them 720 00:35:13,551 --> 00:35:16,379 to the shell casings found at the crime scene 721 00:35:16,413 --> 00:35:19,275 and determined that 27 of them had 722 00:35:19,310 --> 00:35:23,448 been fired from the exact same gun used in the murder. 723 00:35:23,482 --> 00:35:27,034 Each firearm leaves its own fingerprint 724 00:35:27,068 --> 00:35:29,034 on every shell casing that it fires. 725 00:35:29,068 --> 00:35:33,068 It was the same gun that killed Becky Bliefnick that 726 00:35:33,103 --> 00:35:35,931 fired the shell casings that were found in Tim Bliefnick's 727 00:35:35,965 --> 00:35:36,620 residence. 728 00:35:36,655 --> 00:35:38,379 That's the expert's opinion. 729 00:35:38,413 --> 00:35:40,896 At the end of the day, it's subject to human error 730 00:35:40,931 --> 00:35:42,620 like anything else. 731 00:35:42,655 --> 00:35:46,206 But when it was the defense's turn to call witnesses, 732 00:35:46,241 --> 00:35:48,758 it chose to call none. 733 00:35:48,793 --> 00:35:50,862 You could have brought in your own expert 734 00:35:50,896 --> 00:35:52,758 to say those did not match. 735 00:35:52,793 --> 00:35:54,172 I guess we could have, but we were 736 00:35:54,206 --> 00:35:56,000 strapped on time and funds. 737 00:35:56,034 --> 00:35:59,103 You've got a man's life on the line. 738 00:35:59,137 --> 00:36:02,034 And he didn't want us to do that. 739 00:36:02,068 --> 00:36:05,000 It was a risky move, but one that 740 00:36:05,034 --> 00:36:07,172 may have paid off for the defense 741 00:36:07,206 --> 00:36:11,379 because when the jury began deliberating, they took a vote. 742 00:36:11,413 --> 00:36:13,551 And there was a holdout. 743 00:36:13,586 --> 00:36:14,896 Sometimes you just need one. 744 00:36:14,931 --> 00:36:18,103 [MUSIC PLAYING] 745 00:36:26,862 --> 00:36:30,931 When the jury began deliberating after a six-day trial, 746 00:36:30,965 --> 00:36:33,620 Tim Bliefnick was on edge. 747 00:36:33,655 --> 00:36:37,896 It was miserable because I was essentially waiting for them 748 00:36:37,931 --> 00:36:39,206 to decide my fate. 749 00:36:39,241 --> 00:36:43,655 Inside that jury room, one juror was undecided. 750 00:36:43,689 --> 00:36:44,827 Our stomachs were in knots. 751 00:36:44,862 --> 00:36:47,862 We were beyond stressed. 752 00:36:47,896 --> 00:36:51,206 But four hours later, a verdict. 753 00:36:51,241 --> 00:36:55,827 When they passed the paper from the jury box-- 754 00:36:55,862 --> 00:36:57,068 Give it to the clerk. 755 00:36:57,103 --> 00:37:00,793 --to the clerk, that was very difficult to know 756 00:37:00,827 --> 00:37:05,310 that there's a possibility that he could get away with it. 757 00:37:05,344 --> 00:37:09,103 Would the clerk read the verdicts please? 758 00:37:09,137 --> 00:37:11,724 We the jury find the defendant Timothy Bliefnick 759 00:37:11,758 --> 00:37:13,896 guilty of first degree murder. 760 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:14,413 Guilty. 761 00:37:17,137 --> 00:37:20,068 It was a sense of relief that they had found him guilty. 762 00:37:20,103 --> 00:37:22,310 But it was also a sense of these three little boys 763 00:37:22,344 --> 00:37:23,827 have now lost both parents. 764 00:37:23,862 --> 00:37:25,413 It's not a celebration. 765 00:37:28,586 --> 00:37:30,724 When we sat down with Tim Bliefnick, 766 00:37:30,758 --> 00:37:34,000 it was just over a month after his conviction. 767 00:37:34,034 --> 00:37:37,137 He was still awaiting sentencing. 768 00:37:37,172 --> 00:37:39,931 Did you ever imagine you would be here? 769 00:37:39,965 --> 00:37:42,275 No, no, never. 770 00:37:42,310 --> 00:37:45,413 At times, it's felt like I'm watching somebody else's 771 00:37:45,448 --> 00:37:47,241 life from the outside. 772 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:49,482 Like it can't be me. 773 00:37:49,517 --> 00:37:51,103 But the only thing I can do right now 774 00:37:51,137 --> 00:37:53,413 is what we are doing, filing an appeal. 775 00:37:53,448 --> 00:37:57,068 I have to believe in that process because if not-- 776 00:38:05,551 --> 00:38:07,482 Tell me what you're thinking right now. 777 00:38:07,517 --> 00:38:08,000 My kids. 778 00:38:11,137 --> 00:38:13,931 I just want them to know that I love them, and I miss them. 779 00:38:13,965 --> 00:38:15,586 I'm innocent. 780 00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:16,827 I didn't kill Becky. 781 00:38:16,862 --> 00:38:21,482 But Becky's sister says Tim is right where he belongs. 782 00:38:21,517 --> 00:38:24,586 He called my dad to set him up to find her. 783 00:38:24,620 --> 00:38:29,896 That alone shows how cruel he really is. 784 00:38:29,931 --> 00:38:37,034 As agonizing as our pain is, I want 785 00:38:37,068 --> 00:38:45,448 him to understand his worst crime was against his children. 786 00:38:45,482 --> 00:38:49,413 And that's the message Sarah delivered directly to Tim 787 00:38:49,448 --> 00:38:52,379 during her victim impact statement right 788 00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:57,000 before he was sentenced on August 11, 2023. 789 00:38:57,034 --> 00:39:01,896 Your children's future will be forever impacted by your crime. 790 00:39:01,931 --> 00:39:03,413 They are already suffering. 791 00:39:03,448 --> 00:39:06,724 Maybe you should have googled childhood PTSD 792 00:39:06,758 --> 00:39:11,068 in between your internet searches for homemade silencers 793 00:39:11,103 --> 00:39:12,758 and VIN numbers. 794 00:39:12,793 --> 00:39:16,275 Judge Robert Adrian had the option of sentencing Tim 795 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:20,275 to anywhere between 45 years to life. 796 00:39:20,310 --> 00:39:26,034 Mr. Bliefnick, you researched this murder. 797 00:39:26,068 --> 00:39:28,206 You planned this murder. 798 00:39:28,241 --> 00:39:30,724 You broke into her house. 799 00:39:30,758 --> 00:39:37,241 And you shot her 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 800 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:40,241 14 times. 801 00:39:40,275 --> 00:39:45,103 The court believes that the appropriate sentence would 802 00:39:45,137 --> 00:39:49,620 be natural life in prison. 803 00:39:49,655 --> 00:39:54,034 Life in prison without the possibility of parole. 804 00:39:54,068 --> 00:39:59,103 Prosecutors Jones and Keck say the punishment fits the crime, 805 00:39:59,137 --> 00:40:02,379 but even they don't consider it justice. 806 00:40:02,413 --> 00:40:06,344 If I had a magic wand, I would bring Becky back to life. 807 00:40:06,379 --> 00:40:09,137 Tim can spend the rest of his life out of prison. 808 00:40:09,172 --> 00:40:11,655 That would be justice, but I can't. 809 00:40:11,689 --> 00:40:14,448 What we can do is we can hold her killer accountable, 810 00:40:14,482 --> 00:40:16,034 and that's all we can do. 811 00:40:16,068 --> 00:40:18,655 Now Becky's family is left to focus 812 00:40:18,689 --> 00:40:21,896 on all they have left of her, memories 813 00:40:21,931 --> 00:40:25,793 and the loves of her life, her three boys, who are now 814 00:40:25,827 --> 00:40:27,413 living with her parents. 815 00:40:27,448 --> 00:40:31,241 We will all work together to make sure those boys have 816 00:40:31,275 --> 00:40:32,862 the life they deserved. 817 00:40:32,896 --> 00:40:38,172 And we started a GoFundMe to support the boys. 818 00:40:38,206 --> 00:40:40,379 And Becky's family and friends hope 819 00:40:40,413 --> 00:40:46,034 that Becky's mission in life will now become her legacy. 820 00:40:46,068 --> 00:40:51,241 Becky would have wanted positive change to happen. 821 00:40:51,275 --> 00:40:54,655 She would want somebody else's life to be saved. 822 00:40:54,689 --> 00:40:58,620 If we can learn anything, if somebody reaches out to you 823 00:40:58,655 --> 00:41:01,068 and says that they're scared, they 824 00:41:01,103 --> 00:41:03,827 believe that they're partner or whoever 825 00:41:03,862 --> 00:41:10,034 it is is capable of violence, need 826 00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:16,586 to believe them and make an active effort 827 00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:17,896 to make sure they're safe. 828 00:41:17,931 --> 00:41:21,172 [MUSIC PLAYING] 829 00:41:40,413 --> 00:41:43,689 An attempted murder caught on video and a crime scene 830 00:41:43,724 --> 00:41:45,275 investigator is the victim. 831 00:41:45,310 --> 00:41:46,724 It's a miracle she's alive. 832 00:41:46,758 --> 00:41:48,379 My life changed forever. 833 00:41:48,413 --> 00:41:51,413 But the number one suspect has a bulletproof alibi. 834 00:41:51,448 --> 00:41:53,793 Someone wanted me dead. 835 00:41:53,827 --> 00:41:56,758 Next Saturday on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. 836 00:41:56,793 --> 00:41:58,000 [MUSIC PLAYING]