Family Feud Contestant Makes Haunting Joke Before Murdering His Wife
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Who was Rebecca Bleifnick and what was her background as a nurse and mother?
Rebecca Bernadette Postel-Bleifneck was born in Quincy, Illinois, where she attended Payson Seymour Elementary School and then at Quincy Notre Dame High School, where she was named valedictorian. She then went on to Quincy University, where she got her bachelor's degree in biological science and a minor in chemistry. She went on to work for Sanofi Adventist as one of their top performing pharmaceutical sales reps. But after that, she decided that she wanted to work in a more hands-on position where she could make a direct difference in others' lives. So Rebecca started school at Blessing-Riemann College of Nursing and Health Sciences and started working as a nurse. After getting her nursing degree, she went on to get two other credentials, one as a certified trauma nurse specialist and a sexual assault nurse examiner.
Those who Rebecca took care of during her time as a nurse described her as exceptional. She worked as a travel nurse during the COVID pandemic, and during that time, she was nominated for the International Daisy Award, which gives honor to exceptional care given by outstanding nurses. One of her patients stated about her quote, I got to kiss my husband and tell him how much I loved him all because of Becky. There are no words to express how grateful I am for what she did. By 2009, Rebecca got married to a man named Tim Bleafneck. He attended Quincy University as well, and he was known for being a star football player. He's believed to have worked for Quincy Farm Products and Business Development at some point, and at the time of Rebecca's murder, he was working as a sales executive.
After that, the couple went on to have three children, all sons named Deacon, Grayson, and Arlen. Those who knew Rebecca described that her three sons were her greatest gifts. She was such a devoted mother, creating her son's Transformers costumes on Halloween, making their first day of school posters every school year, and she got down and dirty with her boys with fishing and frog hunting and anything sports related. At the same time, Rebecca was also known for her service to her community. She volunteered for five years at the St. Peter's Grade School Association. Those who she volunteered with considered her a tremendous asset who was always willing to help or pitch in. She helped coordinate mother-son events, she helped plan teacher conference luncheons and other school-related events.
She also loved animals and worked at a non-profit all-volunteer animal rescue group in her hometown. Rebecca was also known to be a devout Catholic. Both her high school and her college were Catholic schools, and she tried to raise her children in the Catholic Church to try and instill her love for God in those boys. Now, as most of you may have anticipated with a case like this, the marriage between Rebecca and Tim was not very good, to say the least. It turned out that for the prior two years, the couple was going through divorce proceedings. Because of Rebecca's faith, she wanted to stay in the marriage with Tim for as long as she could. She wanted the couple to go to marriage counseling and try to mend things between them for the sake of their children.
She wanted to be a united nuclear family for her children. But that didn't end up working as Tim had filed for divorce in January of 2021. and things were pretty turbulent that entire time. At the time, the two were living separately. Rebecca lived in the home that she and Tim had once lived in, their marriage home, which was located at 2528 Kentucky Road. and Tim lived about a mile away at 1641 Hampshire Street in a house that he rented. The other big part of this case that made the headlines is that Tim and his family were actually on an episode of Family Feud, which aired in 2020. On that episode, he made a joke which a lot of people see as being a bit of foreshadowing for this horrible crime, When he asked what his biggest mistake you made at your wedding was, he said, honey, I love you, but I do.
When people looked surprised at him saying this, he said, not my mistake, I love my wife.
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