Heidi Kathleen Carter (Evansville Police Department).
In an emotional interrogation, a murder suspect snapped back at an investigator who confronted her with the surviving victim’s horrifying story of death and rape.
“You’re not my judge,” Heidi Kathleen Carter, 39, angrily said in footage from Oct. 20, 2021.
But jurors convicted her of charges of murder, aiding, including or causing forcible rape, and criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon. Cops in Evansville, Indiana, said Carter met a woman on a dating site and lured both her and the woman’s boyfriend, Tim Ivy, 50, to a home. There, Carter’s then-boyfriend, Carrey Hammond, walked in on the three having consensual sexual activity. Furious, he beat Ivy, strangled him to death, and then sexually assaulted the female victim.
Another woman, who had been hired to clean the home, found Ivy’s body and the badly beaten survivor, the latter of whom had been restrained with duct tape.
Law enforcement later killed Hammond. The police investigator told Carter that authorities killed Hammond because he had an object that looked like a gun, and he would not put it down.
Carter seemed deeply distressed throughout video, even sitting on the floor while her sweater was halfway off her body. The investigator said he believed the survivor’s story that Carter helped Carter helped beat and tie them up, threatened them at gunpoint, told them that she knew people who could dispose of their bodies.
“I believe her when she tells me that you had a much bigger part in all of this than what you’ve told me,” he said.
Carter denied wrongdoing in the interrogation, and she maintained a defiant tone in her sentencing, calling herself a victim. Vanderburgh County Circuit Court Judge David Kiely noted her “lack of concern that a human life has been lost,” according to The Evansville Courier & Press.
Carter is now serving a 65-year prison sentence.
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