Authorities in southwest Florida are trying to determine who is responsible for the slaying of Teresa Sievers, a prominent doctor and married mother of two who was found dead in her upscale home in Bonita Springs.
Sievers failed to show up for work Monday morning, the Lee County Sheriff's Office said, prompting someone to check on her welfare. That individual, who has not been identified, found Sievers' body inside her home and called police at 9:45 a.m.
Authorities have confirmed Sievers' death is a homicide, but have yet to comment on the cause or manner of death.
"The investigation is ongoing and there is nothing else we're able to release," Lee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Tony Schall told The Huffington Post on Thursday.
Sievers' husband and their two young children were not home at the time of the slaying. The family visited relatives in Connecticut over the weekend and Sievers flew home alone on Sunday night. Her husband and children were planning to join her later in the week, HLN host Nancy Grace reported Wednesday.
Sievers called her husband after her plane landed and told him she had arrived safely, according to WINK News, a CBS affiliate in southwest Florida. That was reportedly the last time her family heard from her.
An unidentified neighbor said that she heard screams coming from Sievers' home early Monday morning.
"I got up and I heard what was like a shrill ... like they got hurt," the neighbor said.
Sievers' website says she operated the Restorative Health and Healing Center in Estero, Florida. According to the website:
In 1996 Dr. Sievers graduated with honors from Ross University School of Medicine. After completing her residency at the University of Florida in Jacksonville, where she was awarded resident of the year, she became board certified in Internal Medicine.
Sievers later obtained a master's degree in metabolic and nutritional medicine from the University of South Florida and began taking a holistic approach to health.
"We should all be really grateful that we had the opportunity to know her," Sievers' colleague, Jo Vaccarino, told WINK News. "[She was] Just such a warm hearted individual. From the very beginning, from the moment I met her, [I] just felt she was really in it to help people."
The Lee County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information about the case to contact them at (239) 477-1000 or to call Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-8477. Tips can also be submitted online at Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers.
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