A life sentence was handed down last week for the murder of a man who had competed on the popular TV show “Family Feud” and trashed his marriage there.
After entering into Rebecca “Becky” Postle Bliefnick’s home and shooting her 14 times, Timothy Bliefnick, 40, was found guilty in May.
The accused, who appeared on a “Family Feud” episode in 2019 and got divorced two years later, allegedly even used Google to investigate how to commit the murder, including how to pry open a window with a crowbar and the response time of the police.
“Mr. Bliefnick, you researched this murder. You planned this murder,” Adams County, Ill., Judge Robert Adrian said as he sentenced the convicted killer on Friday, August 11 Fox News reported.
“You practiced this murder,” the judge said. “You broke into her house, and you shot her one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 times.
“I don’t know how long it took you to do that, but some of those shots were fired while she was lying on the ground,” the judge said. “And you did all of that while you’re children were upstairs at your house, lying snug in their beds.”
Her father discovered the victim’s bullet-riddled body on February 23.
After being detained and facing trial in May, Bliefnick was found guilty of first-degree murder by the jur
The couple have three children. They got married in 2009 but divorced in 2021, with Postle Bliefnick telling her sister shortly before her death that she feared her ex.
“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,” she texted her sister.
“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,” she told sibling Sarah Reilly.
Bliefnick was a contestant on “Family Feud” in an episode that aired in 2020 and called his marriage a mistake. His wife wasn’t on his family panel at the time.
“What’s the biggest mistake you made at your wedding,” host Steve Harvey asked him on the show.
“Honey, I love you, but said, ‘I do,’” Bliefnick answered. “Not my mistake. Not my mistake. I love my wife.
“I’m gonna get in trouble for that, aren’t I?” he added