- This is quite the story coming from something as little as a marriage joke.
Have you read Marriage Joke on ‘Family Feud’ Turned to Murder: Part One? Follow the link if not because this is part two.
Nick Eddy, Quincy Police Detective, testified that a “surveillance video that showed a person riding a bike near Becky Bliefnick’s house after midnight on Feb. 23, the night she was killed, and on two previous occasions, on Feb. 14 and Feb. 21, pointing to the fact that Tim’s cellphone, laptop internet and fitness tracker were inactive during these times.”
He also said that Cowick used a Facebook account with the name “John Smith” to by a bicycle on Marketplace found abandoned about half a mile from Tim’s house after Becky was killed. 
Casey Schnack, defense attorney, emphasized that Investigators didn’t find fingerprint, hair or fiber evidence that could link Tim Bliefnick to the crime. They also didn’t find a weapon and the ballistics evidence was not necessarily reliable.
Schnack also said that investigators couldn’t confirm when the Google searches were made and stated that they could have happened at a later time due to his curiosity about the investigation.
And all after what seemed link an innocent marriage joke.
The prosecutor made an analogy regarding the game show “Wheel of Fortune” in his closing argument to show each piece of circumstantial evidence, like the letter that spelled out a phrase on the game show, that added up to show that Tim had murdered his estranged wife.
Schnack pointed to lack of evidence in response.
“I also think the fact that Mr. Jones wants to turn this [trial] into a game show should tell you what he thinks about his evidence and that it is lacking substance,” she said.
Jones told jurors that, “He shot her 14 times, one time for every year that they were married, and he left her for dead to slowly bleed to death, unable to move from the waist down, unable to breathe because a bullet pierced her lung.”
When Becky was dying, Jones continued, “she wasn’t thinking, ‘How did I get here?’ She wasn’t thinking, ‘How could my husband do this to me?’ She wasn’t thinking that because she predicted it. She was scared of the defendant. She was scared that he was going to hurt her, that he was going to kill her.”
It started with a marriage joke but no one listened to her or helped her.
“We should not have to suffer a life without Becky who was robbed of her life in the most hateful, cowardly and cruel way,” her family said in a statement after the verdict, expressing their “eternal gratitude for the tenacity, professionalism and compassion” shown by the police, prosecutors and jury.”
“The judicial process cannot bring her back nor can it heal our wounds,” the family said, “but we are relieved that the verdict delivers justice, and we are thankful for all who made it a reality.”
From a marriage joke to murder, what a sad story. RIP Becky.
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