Tim Bliefnick, left, was a college football star and contestant on the "Family Feud" game show. Now, he's accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife, an award-winning nurse named Becky Bliefnick. (Adams County Sheriff's Office, Becky Bliefnick/Fa Rebecca "Becky" Bliefnick, the 41-year-old Illinois nurse found murdered in her own home Feb.
23, told her sister via text message, "If something ever happens to me, make sure the No. 1 person of interest is Tim," testimony at her husband Timothy's murder trial revealed this week."I am putting this in writing that I'm fearful he will somehow harm me, come after me, or will try to [do] something to me that takes me away from the kids or the kids away from me," Becky Bliefnick texted her sister, Sarah Reilly, who testified in pool video of the proceedings. "He already has lied multiple times to paint himself as a victim and me as the perpetrator when it is absolutely the other way around." The couple was going through a bitter divorce and fighting for custody of their three children.
Timothy Bliefnick, 39, a former "Family Feud" contestant, is now accused of breaking into his wife's house and shooting her.Becky Bliefnick's attorney also testified Wednesday that her estranged husband took her gun and refused to give it back prior to the shooting.BECKY BLIEFNICK MURDER: ILLINOIS POLICE ARREST ESTRANGED HUSBAND IN NURSE'S SHOOTING DEATHVideo of the proceedings provided by WGEM-TV and Muddy River News reveals harrowing details of the case that had been under seal before the start of the trial.Prosecutors allege Timothy Bliefnick shot his wife 14 times after breaking in through a second-story window.