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Jan 21, 2022 · The night of the murder, he claimed that he was home all night drinking with his buddy, Mark Serrano, a sanitation worker. Narcotics investigators tracked the man who supplied Tony with cocaine and other drugs.
- Overview
- ILLINOIS MOM GUNNED DOWN IN HER HOME
- "IF SOMETHING EVER HAPPENS TO ME …"
- REVEALING TEXTS
- THE CASE AGAINST TIM BLIEFNICK
- A VERDICT
- "48 Hours" Post Mortem
Josh Jones and Laura Keck have prosecuted hundreds of cases, but no case has troubled them quite like the murder of Becky Bliefnick.
Josh Jones: You put yourself in the mind of Becky Bliefnick in the last moments of her life, the fear that she had to be feeling … You can't walk out of that house and not be affected by it.
Becky was just 41 years old when, on the afternoon of Feb. 23, 2023, her own father discovered her lifeless on the bathroom floor of her Quincy, Illinois, home. She had been dead for hours — shot a total of 14 times. None of the wounds were immediately fatal.
Josh Jones: It took her minutes to die. … It was an emotional response for both of us to realize not just that she had been executed … but that her last minutes were lying on a floor alone, in the dark, in extreme pain, waiting to die.
Quincy is a quiet town along the Mississippi River where violent crimes are rare and unsettling.
Laura Keck: She was a nurse … who had three children. … I think people were just horrified that a mother of three young boys could be shot and killed in her own home.
Sarah Reilly is Becky's older sister and her only sibling. She lives in New York, but was away on vacation with her husband, Bret Reilly, when they got that life-changing call.
Sarah Reilly: You just wanna wake up and have it not be real.
Bret Reilly: It's a living nightmare. … How fast can we get to the airport, fly back to New York, unpack our swimsuits and pack funeral clothes, and get out to Quincy, Illinois, and just holding each other up in screaming grief.
Erin Moriarty: How would you both describe her?
When Becky's sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bret learned of her murder, they say one person came to mind as the prime suspect: Becky's estranged husband Tim Bliefnick.
Sarah Reilly: I told Bret it was Tim.
Bret Reilly: Of course, it was Tim.
Sarah Reilly: I said —
Erin Moriarty: Right away?
Bret Reilly: Right away.
When Tim Bliefnick was arrested, it made national news in large part because of an appearance he made alongside his parents and brothers on the game show "Family Feud."
STEVE HARVEY | "Family Feud" host: Alright Tim, we talked to 100 married people. What's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?
TIM BLIEFNICK: Honey, I love you but, said "I do."
The episode was filmed in 2019, nearly two years before Tim filed for divorce, but because of the charges he now faced, it had people talking. And there was also chatter about Tim's appearance in his mug shot, although it was no surprise to Becky's family.
Sarah Reilly: We had seen through social media … the deterioration of his appearance and that went hand in hand with the deterioration of his mental state over the course of the divorce.
But Tim says that's not the case and that he had been growing out his hair for a fundraiser for cancer research.
On May 23, 2023, exactly three months after Becky Bliefnick was gunned down in her home, Tim Bliefnick went on trial for her murder.
JOSH JONES (trial opening statements): The defendant looked down at Becky and he pointed a gun at her. And he pulled the trigger.
Prosecutors Josh Jones and Laura Keck began by methodically laying out the evidence they say points directly to Tim, starting with those odd pieces of plastic that were found around Becky's body. They say investigators determined that they were shreds from an ALDI grocery store bag.
Josh Jones: And then in the defendant's house, we found stacks of ALDI bags. He had fired through an ALDI bag, either in an attempt to muffle the sound or to catch his shell casings.
And prosecutors say that in the process, DNA was left behind on a piece of that plastic. An expert testified that it was more likely than not that Tim was a contributor. And Tim also couldn't be excluded from DNA that was found under Becky's fingernails.
Josh Jones: That was three times more likely to have come from the defendant or a male relative from the lineage of the defendant.
When the jury began deliberating after a six-day trial, Tim Bliefnick was on edge.
Tim Bliefnick: it was miserable, because I was essentially waiting for them to decide my fate.
Inside that jury room, one juror was undecided.
Laura Keck: Our stomachs were in knots. We were beyond stressed.
But four hours later, a verdict.
Sarah Reilly: When they passed the paper from the jury box to the clerk … that was … very difficult to know that there's a possibility that he could get away with it.
"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty and producer Stephanie Slifer discuss the case and share additional details with "48 Hours" contributor and CBS New streaming network anchor Anne-Marie Green in the "48 Hours: Post Mortem" podcast.
Produced by Stephanie Slifer and Gabriella Demirdjian. Elena DiFiore and Marc Goldbaum are the development producers. Ken Blum, George Baluzy and Jason Schmidt are the editors. Lourdes Aguiar is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.
- 48 Hours" Correspondent
- 42 min
- CBS News
Jan 18, 2022 · Three young brothers Manuel, 13, Adam, 10, and Ryan Morey, 6 were beaten and stabbed to death and their parents Manuel, 33, Tina Morey, 30, were shot execution-style. Their Fishkill home was then set on fire in an attempt to cover up the brutal crime according to a Fox News report.
Nov 2, 2023 · Tim Bliefnick, 40, who joked as a contestant on "Family Feud" that marriage was a mistake, was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting his ex-wife this year.
Mar 1, 2008 · Gilleo and 30-year-old Mark Serrano were charged with multiple counts of murder, arson, burglary, perjury and conspiracy after the deaths of Tina and Tony Morey and their three sons on...
Apr 8, 2008 · Tina and Tony Morey were shot, and their sons - 13-year-old Manuel, 10-year-old Adam and 6-year-old Ryan - were stabbed multiple times. Serrano was convicted by a Dutchess County jury on 41 of 42...
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Jan 21, 2007 · Five members of the Morey family were killed: Manuel A. Morey, 33, a fence builder known as Tony; his wife, Tina, 30; and their three sons.
