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A friend of a mother-of-three who was shot dead by her husband, who had appeared as a contestant on Family Feud years earlier joking about how he regretted marrying her, has revealed how she spent her final days living in fear.
'They seemed to be like the perfect family,' Christie Krause told Fox News. 'When we knew Tim and Becky, that was when they had gotten engaged and we're getting married. And it was a very happy time in their life. I would have never thought that Tim could do something like this.
On Wednesday, a jury found Timothy Bliefnick, 40, guilty in the February 23 shooting death of 41-year-old Becky Bliefnick.
Her body was found by her father after her family became concerned that she had not picked up her sons from school. She had been shot 14 times.
Timothy Bliefnick was arrested March 13, twelve days after his Quincy, Illinois home was searched.
The couple was separated and going through a divorce but a friend of the family said it beggars belief the relationship would end with a murder.
Becky Bliefnick (left) was found dead in her home by her father after her family became concerned that she had not picked up her sons from school
Timothy Bliefnick, 40, refused to testify in his own defense after being accused of killing his estranged wife in Quincy, Illinois
Krause said that she knew Becky had reached out to close friends and family in the days leading up to her killing as she vocalized fears her husband might harm her before their divorce was finalized.
'She had reached out so too many people that she was close to, saying that if anything happened to her that Tim would be the one that they should look at first,' Krause explained.
'That's really sad to hear, especially during the trial. It was very heartbreaking to know that she was in so much fear in the last few days of her life.'
Becky had sent a chilling message to her sister Sarah Reilly before she died, warning that if anything happened to her, 'the No.1 person of interest is Tim'.
'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 said.
Krause told how she has prayed for the family and the three young sons their mother left behind hoping that they might remember her as an 'all-around great person.'
My thoughts and prayers go out to them. These three boys have lost both of their parents. It's heartbreaking to know what they have to go through for the rest of their life, that their father killed their mother.
'All I can continue to do is pray for them and hopefully offer happy memories from the past of their wonderful mother, who was just brilliant and beautiful and caring and just an all-around great person,' Krause said.
A friend of Becky's has revealed how she spent her final days living in fear.
Bliefnick (pictured right as his home was raided in March) was 'very cooperative' with officers, and handed over his keys to the home, which he rents, and his car
In a statement following this week's verdict Becky's family said: 'We should not be living in a world where a crime like this is possible. 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 boys were robbed of a loving, devoted mother. I was robbed of my sister and best friend.
'My parents were robbed of their daughter, and as a parent myself, I cannot imagine a greater torture.
'Becky was a niece, an aunt and a cousin; a friend, a colleague and a caregiver. All those who love her carry heavy heartache in the wake of this tragedy.
'The judicial process cannot bring her back nor can it heal our wounds, but we
