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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

Family Feud star faces trial for allegedly shooting wife to death years after joking about marriage on show

ABC/Beccky Bliefnick Facebook/ QPD

A Family Feud participant is facing trial in Illinois for allegedly breaking into his estranged wife’s home and fatally shooting her in a vicious attack.

Tim Bliefnick, 39, is charged with first-degree murder and home invasion in connection with the violent death of his 41-year-old wife Becky Bliefnick. Investigators say the couple was going through a contentious divorce that was in its final stages at the time of Bliefnick’s fatal shooting on 23 February.

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