‘Family Feud’ Contestant Accused of Killing Vital other Joked on Point to that Most fascinating Mistake Modified into Pronouncing ‘I Attain’

A former Family Feud contestant who’s accused of killing his estranged wife joked on the point out that his biggest mistake modified into as soon as marrying her.

Timothy W. Bliefnick, 39, and about a of his household had been contestants on the sport point out Family Feud in an episode that aired in 2020.

“What’s your biggest mistake you made at your wedding?” host Steve Harvey requested Bliefnick within the center of the point out, FOX Data first reported.

“Honey, I esteem you, nonetheless, ‘Mentioned I attain,'” Bliefnick answered. “No longer my mistake, no longer my mistake — I esteem my wife. I’m gonna derive in disaster for that, will now not be I?”

The episode modified into as soon as before all the things attach taped within the descend of 2019, constant with FOX Data.

Bliefnick modified into as soon as charged Monday with two counts of first-level homicide and residential invasion within the loss of life of his 41-year-weak estranged wife Rebecca Bliefnick, who modified into as soon as realized ineffective in her Quincy, Sick., dwelling on Feb. 23 after she didn’t assign pack up her children from college, WGEM reported.

The couple modified into as soon as going through a divorce on the time of the slaying.

“They’ve been separated for two years,” Bliefnick’s attorney Casey Schnack instructed PEOPLE.

Rebecca Bliefnick.
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Schnack acknowledged her client, a sales executive who starred in football at Quincy College in Illinois, maintains his innocence.

“He’s by no diagram been arrested for battery, domestic battery, anything violent, anything ever,” she acknowledged. “He modified into as soon as fully employed…There modified into as soon as spacious tension from the community for an arrest to be made. And naturally the estranged valuable other goes to be the no 1 suspect no subject different instances.”

“He modified into as soon as active within the neighborhood,” she acknowledged. “He modified into as soon as a formative years football coach. He modified into as soon as actively thinking about his church here. Somewhat about a folks knew him. It be very surprising that this is where the household is at appropriate now. He’s your long-established, all-American, Midwestern dad.”

Schnack acknowledged there modified into as soon as proof of a damage-in at Rebecca’s dwelling.

“And that is the reason an allegation that [police] are quiet having a glimpse into, basically based thoroughly mostly upon proof that they’ve sent to the crime lab and different proof that they’ve restful alongside the manner,” Schnack acknowledged.

She added: “There modified into as soon as a window that modified into as soon as broken, nonetheless I attain no longer know if the window modified into as soon as broken from the interior or the out of doorways.”

Tim Bliefnick.
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Meanwhile, household and company are mourning the shortcoming of the beloved nurse. In accordance with an on-line obituary, Rebecca modified into as soon as nominated for the global Daisy Award that honors noteworthy care in 2020. She modified into as soon as additionally a certified trauma nurse, sexual assault nurse examiner and within the center of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she labored as a traveling nurse.

She additionally volunteered for an animal rescue team and dedicated her life to her three boys.

“Her boys had been her world, her life’s biggest items,” the obituary acknowledged. “She modified into as soon as the quintessential ‘boy mom,’ aptly illustrated by building, for Halloween, Transformers costumes that truly remodeled, constructing custom ‘first day of faculty’ posters per annum, and leaping all-in with fishing and frog hunting and anything sports.”

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“Becky cherished to chortle, and that chortle modified into as soon as contagious,” the obituary endured. “Every person that knew her remembers her random humor. She made the mundane fun.”

A GoFundMe online page has been space as a lot as abet with funeral charges and to abet pay for the education of her formative years.

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