Suspect accused of murder and rape disputes with police detective

Heidi Kathleen Carter (Evansville Police Department).

During a tense questioning session, a murder suspect reacted strongly when faced with the harrowing account of death and sexual assault narrated by the surviving victim.

“You’re not my judge,” Heidi Kathleen Carter, 39, angrily said in footage from Oct. 20, 2021.

The suspect was later found guilty by the jury on multiple charges, including murder, being an accessory to, participating in, or instigating forcible rape, and holding someone captive at gunpoint. According to law enforcement in Evansville, Indiana, Carter had met a woman on a dating platform and convinced her and her boyfriend, Tim Ivy, 50, to come to a residence. It was there that Carter’s then-partner, Carrey Hammond, walked in on the group engaging in consensual sexual activities. Enraged, Hammond proceeded to attack Ivy, ultimately killing him by strangulation, and later sexually assaulting the female victim.

Upon discovering Ivy’s lifeless body and the severely injured survivor, who had been restrained using duct tape, another female individual employed to clean the house alerted the authorities.

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.