'Family Feud Killer' Defends Viral Divorce Quip In Jailhouse Interview — WATCH
And the survey says... we're not buying what he's selling.
Timothy Bliefnick — who joked about wanting out of his marriage in a 2020 episode of Family Feud only to later be convicted of his wife's murder — is defending the crack-seen-'round-the-world.
In an interview with 48 Hours, the so-called 'Family Feud Killer' told Erin Moriarty that the joke he made to host Steve Harvey is not proof of premeditation. "It wasn't said with any malice or bad intentions," he maintained. "It was supposed to be funny."
A jury on May 31 convicted Bliefnick of two counts of first-degree murder in the gruesome death of wife Rebecca, who was shot 14 times at close range last February. In August, he was sentenced to life in prison.
"You researched this murder. You planned this murder. You practiced this murder. You broke into her house and you shot her 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 times," Judge Robert Adrian said at the sentencing hearing. "I don't know how long it took you to do that. Some of those shots were fired while she was lying on the ground, and you did all of that while your children were upstairs at your house, lying snug in their beds."
In his aforementioned Family Feud episode, Bliefnick was asked by Harvey, "What's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?"
"Honey, I love you, but... said 'I do,'" he answered. After getting a big reaction from the audience, he attempted to walk his answer back. "Not my mistake! Not my mistake! I love my wife." (Watch the clip here.)
The couple divorced two years after the episode aired.
Bliefnick's 48 Hours interview will air Saturday at 10/9c on CBS.