More Than A Family Feud

Rebecca Bernadette Postel, who went by Becky, was born and raised in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of Bill and Bernadette and the sister of Sarah. She attended Payson Seymour Elementary School and then Quincy Notre Dame High School, where she was named valedictorian, and went on to Quincy University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in biological science and a minor in chemistry. She became a pharmaceutical sales representative for Sanofi Aventis. this part of the story is covered for now About two years after graduation they began dating, and in 2009 they married. Their first son was born in 2010, a second son in 2012 and a third in 2017, the last during spring break of Becky's final year at the Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, where she graduated summa cum laude and won the Faculty Outstanding Senior Award. She worked first in gastrointestinal surgery at Quincy Medical Group and then in the emergency room at Blessing Hospital, becoming a registered nurse, a certified trauma nurse specialist and a sexual assault nurse examiner. She also volunteered at St Peter's Grade School and at the Homeward Bound Wagon animal rescue. Tim worked in the recycling industry and from 2019 for Quincy Farm Products, often from home.

The marriage began to fail after the second child. Becky's sister Sarah said Tim became manipulative and controlling, did no work in the house and was unsupportive of her nursing career; Tim said he was concerned about the stress of the job. In 2019 Tim appeared on Family Feud with his parents and brothers and, asked to name the biggest mistake made at a wedding, answered 'I do', then quickly said he loved his wife. In January 2021 Tim filed for divorce. The proceedings were contentious over money, the house and custody, with about half a million dollars of marital assets in dispute. Becky told friends and her sister that Tim had screamed in her face, shoved her in front of the children, punched a wall and thrown things, that he was hiding money and that she feared he would harm her. In September 2021 she texted Sarah that if anything happened to her the number one person of interest was Tim. She sought an order of protection, which was not granted; the judge ordered the couple to stay away from each other's homes except when exchanging the children and ordered Tim to return the 9mm handgun she had bought, which he never did. Becky also planned to testify that Tim's father Ray had a history of abusing minor girls, which Ray denied through his lawyer; that allegation became part of the divorce fight. In January 2022 she met Ted Johnson, and they became romantically involved that summer.

On 10 February 2023 Tim telephoned the Quincy police about returning the gun, calling Becky 'that crazy bitch'; a lieutenant told him it was a civil matter. On Valentine's Day a neighbour saw someone on a bicycle outside Becky's house at night and a camera recorded a person walking up the driveway at 12.37 a.m. On 21 February Becky, three days after abdominal surgery, asked Tim to keep the children overnight; he agreed. Late on 22 February she told Ted she was excited to be allowed to drive again and to collect the boys the next day.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Her ADT system recorded the front door opening at 1.12 a.m. At 11.51 a.m. Tim telephoned the children's school, said he could not reach Becky and that he would collect the boys; he picked them up at 1.50 p.m., an hour before dismissal, and then texted Becky's father asking him to contact her. Becky's father drove to the house, found the front door open, and found her on the bathroom floor, covered in blood. She had been shot fourteen times with a 9mm handgun: nine wounds to the torso, three to the right arm and two to the left hand, none of them immediately fatal, and she bled to death over several minutes. The bathroom door had been kicked in, shell casings lay around her, and shreds of an Aldi carrier bag were found on and around the body. Entry had been made through a second-floor window in one of the boys' bedrooms, reached by a patio chair, with tool marks showing it had been pried open.

A blue Schwinn Sidewinder with no reflectors on its wheels was found on 27 February less than half a mile from Tim's house. It matched the bicycle in the bus garage surveillance footage. A fake Facebook account in the name of John Smith, found on Tim's phone, had been looking at a blue Schwinn without reflectors, and a seller testified that he sold such a bike in October 2022 to a tall, athletic man. A search of Tim's house produced stacks of Aldi bags, ammunition, a crowbar, a gun safe and 27 spent 9mm casings that an expert matched to the gun used in the murder; the CZ 75 Becky had bought and a Ruger LC9 he owned were both missing. His Whoop fitness tracker showed that it disconnected from his phone and reconnected at times that matched the camera sightings of a bicyclist on 14, 21, 22 and 23 February, and his laptop and phone searches included how to open a window with a crowbar, how to make a homemade silencer, how to wash gunpowder residue from his hands and Quincy police response times. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now Tim's lawyer, Casey Schnack, argued the case was 'dripping with reasonable doubt': the bike carried no DNA from Tim, the shoe print was never matched, the murder weapon was never found, the searches could have been made after the murder and the man in the videos could not be identified. The defence called no witnesses. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Becky's three sons live with her parents, who were in the process of adopting them. A GoFundMe raised $130,666 towards a $250,000 goal, and Becky is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Quincy.