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    Death Penalty Trial: Shelby Svenson aka Shelby John Nealy Pleads Guilty in 2018 FL Slaying of Ivancic Family


    Richard, Nicholas and Laura Iancic


    Jamie Ivancic, 21, was reported missing Friday morning by police in Tarpon Springs, Florida


    Shelby John Svenson, 25, also known as Shelby Nealy


    Police: Man arrested in Lakewood admits to killing Florida in-laws in triple homicide; police searching for wife


    By Robin Goist
    cleveland.com

    LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- A man arrested Thursday by Lakewood police admitted to detectives Friday that he killed his mother- and father-in-law and their son at their home in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

    Shelby John Svenson, 25, also known as Shelby Nealy, admitted to his involvement in the triple slaying to Tarpon Springs investigators at the Lakewood Police Department, Tarpon Springs Maj. Jeff Young said at a Friday afternoon press conference.

    Investigators believe Richard Ivancic, 71, Laura Ivancic, 59, and Nicholas Ivancic, 25, were killed late in the day on Dec. 19 or Dec. 20, Young said. The family’s three dogs, all bichon frise mixed breeds named Buddy, Boomer and Bailey, were also killed.

    Their bodies were in a state of advanced decomposition when authorities discovered the Tuesday in a mobile home on Juanita Way in The Meadows Mobile Home Park on the 500 block of Anclote Boulevard in Tarpon Springs, Florida, according to Bay News 9.

    Neighbors reported seeing a man, with a 2- or 3-year-old child by his side, digging a ditch near the home, Young said. The man’s description matched Svenson’s description, and the child’s description matched that of one of his two children.

    Police learned Svenson recently sold video games at GameStop in Palm Harbor, Florida, and made purchases at McDonald’s and Home Depot in Port Richie, Florida, Young said.

    Tarpon Springs police determined that Svenson might be in the Lakewood area, Young said, but did not elaborate on what ties he had to the city. They reached out to Lakewood police who used an automated license plate reader to spot a purple 2013 Kia Sorrento registered to Laura Ivancic driving around Lakewood.

    Lakewood police found the stolen SUV at a home on the 1500 block of Newman Avenue, Lakewood police Capt. Leslie Wilkins said. Officers learned Svenson was staying at the home with two children, ages 2 and 3.

    The U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, the FBI’s Northern Ohio Law Enforcement Task Force and the Westshore Enforcement Bureau SWAT team watched the home until about 7:30 p.m. when Svenson left the home and was taken into custody without incident, Malley said. The children, who were not hurt, were brought to Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services.

    Svenson is being held on suspicion of receiving stolen property and a domestic violence warrant from the Broadview Heights Police Department, Malley said.

    Tarpon Springs detectives were already en route to Cleveland when Svenson was arrested, Young said. They arrived around 12 a.m. Friday and interviewed Svenson, who admitted to his involvement in the murders, Young said.

    Svenson did not provide any information to police about the whereabouts of his wife, 21-year-old Jamie Ivancic. She is the daughter of Richard and Laura Ivancic, and sister of Nicholas Ivancic.

    Jamie Ivancic is missing under “suspicious circumstances” and is listed as an endangered missing adult, Tarpon police said.

    Ivancic and Svenson were both charged with domestic violence after an Oct. 5, 2016 incident at their home on the 2700 block of West Wallings Road in Broadview Heights, according to a police report.

    Paramedics brought Svenson to Parma Hospital for a psychological evaluation after he reported having suicidal thoughts, the report says. After he left, Ivancic told officers she was 16 weeks pregnant with her second child and that she got into an argument with Svenson. He also threw her against the wall and bit her left shoulder.

    Ivancic suspected she suffered internal bleeding and feared she would lose her baby, according to the report. Paramedics brought her to MetroHealth where she and her baby recovered.

    Svenson reported to a Parma Hospital nurse that Ivancic hit and choked him earlier in the day, police said. Officers documented his injuries and charged both him and Ivancic with domestic violence.

    An officer returned to the Broadview Heights home the next day and informed Ivancic that she was also facing domestic violence charges, the report says. Ivancic told the officer she already had a domestic violence case in Parma Municipal Court that stemmed from an incident in August 2016 at a home on the 6400 block of Beverly Drive in Parma Heights, court records show.

    The first domestic violence charge was dropped and Ivancic pleaded no contest to the second one, court records show. Judge Deanna O’Donnell found her not guilty on Jan. 9, 2017, records show.

    https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019...-for-wife.html
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    Body found at Florida home in probe of murdered family; husband arrested in Ohio

    By Nicole Darrah
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    A body has been recovered from a Florida home that was linked to the killings of three family members, investigators said Sunday.

    The identity of the body was not immediately clear, but the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said the body was with the medical examiner's office.

    At the home, located in Tarpon Springs, the bodies of a couple, identified as Richard Ivancic, 71 and Laura Ivancic, 59, and their son, 25-year-old Nicholas Ivancic, were found dead on Jan. 1 after authorities conducted a welfare check.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Remains discovered in FL identified as Jamie Ivancic; husband now charged with 4th murder

    By Chris Anderson
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    CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Law enforcement has confirmed that the remains of Jamie Ivancic have been discovered in Pasco County, Fla.

    Investigators discovered the remains behind a residence on Norwood Avenue in Port Richey after receiving a tip from police in Tarpon Spring, Fla. on Jan. 4, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

    Ivancic was recently classified as missing and endangered after her husband, Shelby Svenson, was arrested in Lakewood, Ohio and charged with murdering three of his wife's family members in Tarpon Springs.

    The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is now charging Svenson with the murder of Ivancic; his fourth alleged murder victim. Svenson has confessed to murdering his wife, according to Pasco County law enforcement.

    Deputies say Ivancic may have been murdered up to a year ago. Her family never became suspicious of Ivancic’s disappearance because they were led to believe that she was not available to talk with them or they were communicating through different portals.

    Ivancic’s cause of death has been ruled as “violent blunt force trauma.”

    http://www.cleveland19.com/2019/01/0...ith-th-murder/
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    Man who admits killing wife, her parents is held without bond

    By WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff

    TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (WFLA) - The man who detectives say admitted to killing his wife and three in-laws is being held on no bond in Pinellas County.

    Shelby John Nealy, also known as Shelby Svensen, was finally extradited to the Pinellas County Jail from Ohio this weekend to face capital murder charges.

    The 25-year-old appeared in front of a judge Sunday morning, who appointed him public defenders and ordered that he be held on no bond.

    Nealy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and one theft of grand theft auto.

    He is accused of killing 71-year-old Richard Ivancic, his 59-year-old wife Laura Ann Ivancic and their 25-year-old son Nicholas James Ivancic in December.

    While being questioned about their deaths, detectives say Nealy also admitted to killing his wife, 21-year-old Jamie Ivancic - who is Laura's daughter. Jamie's body was found buried in a yard at a home in Pasco County several days after her family was found dead.

    Richard, Laura and Nicholas Ivancic were found dead in their home on Juanita Way in Tarpon Springs on New Year's Day during a welfare check. Police also found three small dogs dead in the home.

    When Tarpon Springs police responded to the mobile home they found it "ransacked and in complete disarray," according to court documents. An officer says he found the bodies of Laura and Richard Ivancic wrapped in area rugs and Nicholas Ivancic's body wrapped in a painter's drop cloth.

    Police later found Nealy in Ohio by tracking down Laura Ivancic's stolen car.

    According to court documents, Nealy admitted during an interview with police that he killed his wife Jamie about a year ago in Pasco County. The documents say that Nealy told authorities he moved to Texas after killing her and used her phone to keep in contact with her parents, pretending to be her.

    Detectives say Nealy told them he went to Tarpon Springs to kill Jamie's family when they started to get suspicious that they hadn't heard their daughter's voice.

    Court documents say Nealy killed Richard first when just the two of them were in the home by hitting him in the head several times with a hammer. Detectives say he killed Laura with the same hammer when she returned home. After the killings, detectives say Nealy wrapped the bodies in area rugs and put them in the bedroom.

    According to detectives, Nealy killed Nicholas last by hitting him in the head with a hammer while he slept on the couch and then covered his body with a painter's drop cloth.

    A separate warrant says detectives also found blue paint covering Richard's body and a rope tied in a noose on a new painter's cloth inside the mobile home.

    Tarpon Springs police later obtained video surveillance of Nealy buying three painter's drop cloths, Gorilla Waterproof Patch & Seal Tape and three packages of rope.

    Detectives say they also found video of Nealy selling multiple pieces of jewelry at several different pawn shops in Pinellas County. While searching the home, detectives said they found several empty jewelry boxes around the house.

    According to court documents, Nealy was seen wearing a black skull shirt while completing the pawn transactions. The shirt was later found inside the washer and dryer at Laura's home. Detectives say it had blue paint on it that matched the paint found on Richard's body.

    Detectives also noted in their warrant that Nealy ordered a pizza from Domino's on Dec 21., several days after the killings, and asked to have it delivered to the home on Juanita Way.

    https://www.cbs17.com/news/south/man...ond/1751655807
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    State seeks death penalty in Tarpon Springs triple homicide

    Prosecutors list the reasons why they will seek to have Shelby Nealy put to death for the December murders

    By McKenna Oxenden
    Tampa Bay Times

    The state intends to seek the death penalty for Shelby Nealy, the 25-year-old man accused of killing three people in Tarpon Springs to cover up another murder.

    The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney’s Office filed the legal notice on Thursday, according to court records. Nealy bludgeoned his in-laws, Richard and Laura Ivancic and their grown son, Nicholas, just before Christmas. Then Nealy, who also goes by the name Shelby Svensen, fled to Ohio with his two young children, according to Tarpon Springs police.

    Investigators believe Nealy did so because he feared the family might discover that he had killed the couple’s daughter, Jamie Ivancic, months earlier. He has not been charged in that crime. Her body was found buried in a Pasco County yard, investigators said, days after Tarpon Springs police found her family’s bodies.

    Prosecutors listed the reasons for seeking to have Nealty put to death: He has been convicted of crimes involving violence or the threat of violence; he committed murder to avoid arrest; the crimes were “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel;” and the homicides were committed in a “cold, calculated and premeditated manner.”

    The arrest warrant in the Tarpon Springs homicides says Nealy admitted to killing his 21-year-old ex-wife Jamie Ivancic back in Jan. 2018. Then he used her phone to send text messages and photos of their two kids to fool family and friends into thinking she was still alive.

    But her family started to get suspicious, Nealy told investigators. So in December he left Texas and headed to their Tarpon Springs intending to kill the Ivancic family, according to the warrant.

    Starting Dec. 15, police said he ambushed each with a hammer and bludgeoned them to death. Then he ransacked their house, stole Laura Ivancic’s KIA Sorento and drove to Ohio with his two children.

    Tarpon Springs police discovered the family’s decomposing bodies on New Year’s Day inside their home at 1954 Juanita Way home. They were found just 12 miles south of where Pasco County deputies would later find Jamie Ivancic’s body.

    Investigators tracked the stolen vehicle to Ohio. Nealy was arrested Jan. 3 in Lakewood, Ohio, and investigators said he confessed to all four murders. The children were found unharmed and taken into state custody there. He was extradited back to Florida about a month later and booked into the Pinellas County jail on Feb. 2. He is being held without bail.

    He faces three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, jail records show. The state dropped a charge of grand theft auto in regards to the stolen KIA, saying only that the charge does not merit prosecution at this time.

    The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said it will seek to have Nealy prosecuted for Jamie Ivancic’s murder, but has released no other information about that case.

    https://www.tampabay.com/breaking-ne...cide-20190219/
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    Not guilty plea entered in Triple Springs triple homicide case

    Shelby Nealy, 25, faces the death penalty in 3 of the 4 1st-degree murder cases against him

    The 25-year-old facing the death penalty for the triple homicide that took place in Tarpon Springs just before Christmas has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

    An assistant public defender entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment hearing Monday. Nealy, who also goes by Shelby Svensen, did not attend the hearing. He is being held without bail in the Pinellas County jail.

    Nealy faces a total of 4 counts of 1st-degree murder in the deaths of the Ivancic family, who authorities say were killed over a year’s time in Pasco and Pinellas counties.

    The 1st murder he’s accused of took place in January 2018. He killed his 21-year-old ex-wife Jamie Ivancic, according to Tarpon Springs police investigators, then used her phone to send text messages and photos of their 2 kids to fool family and friends into thinking she was still alive.

    But when Nealy feared her family was about to unravel his scheme, police say he targeted her family in Tarpon Springs. He is accused of bludgeoning his in-laws Richard Ivancic, 71, his wife Laura, 59, and their 25-year-old son Nicholas just before Christmas. He targeted them one at a time, police said, and also killed their 3 dogs.

    Investigators believe Nealy killed his in-laws because he feared they would discover he had killed their daughter. Their deaths were discovered on New Year’s Day, which soon led to the discovery of her body about 12 miles north of the family’s Tarpon Springs home. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said she was found buried in the yard of a Port Richey home the couple once stayed at.

    Authorities tracked Nealy and his 2 young children to Lakewood, Ohio, where he was arrested Jan. 3 on 3 counts of 1st-degree murder. The children were placed in state custody. He has confessed to the murders, investigators say, and was returned to
    Pinellas County on Feb. 2. A 4th-count of 1st-degree murder in the 2018 death of Jamie Ivancic was filed on Feb. 22.

    Nealy faces the death penalty in the 3 Tarpon Springs homicides. The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney’s Office has not yet decided whether to pursue that penalty in the 4th murder case.

    He also faces 3 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals in the deaths of the family dogs.

    (source: Tampa Bay Times)
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    Man pleads not guilty to killing his wife, in-laws

    By WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff

    PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - A man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges accusing him of killing his wife, in-laws, and brother-in-law last year.

    Shelby John Nealy, also known as Shelby Svensen, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and one theft of grand theft auto.

    Nealy allegedly killed his 21-year-old wife, Jamie Ivancic whose body was found buried in a Port Richey yard.

    He admitted to killing 71-year-old Richard Ivancic, his 59-year-old wife Laura Ann Ivancic and their 25-year-old son Nicholas James Ivancic in December so that they wouldn't question Jamie's whereabouts, investigators said. The family was found dead in their Tarpon Springs home.

    Police later found Nealy in Ohio by tracking down Laura Ivancic's stolen car. He was extradited to the Pinellas County Jail to face capital murder charges.

    Nealy is due back in court in May.

    https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-c...aws/1849149469
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    Shelby Nealy, accused of killing ex-wife and her family, wants a deal

    He has offered to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in exchange for a lifetime prison sentence. Right now he faces the death penalty

    By Josh Solomon
    Tampa Bay Times

    LARGO — Shelby Nealy, charged with four counts of first-degree murder, is trying to save his own life.

    The 25-year-old man is accused of killing his ex-wife, her parents and her brother. In three of those killings, Nealy faces the death penalty.

    In court Monday, Nealy's public defender Allison Miller told Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone that since his Feb. 3 extradition to Florida following his arrest in Ohio, Nealy has sought a deal: he's willing to plead guilty to all four counts of first-degree murder in exchange for four consecutive life sentences.

    "The state has rejected that offer," Miller said, standing alongside Nealy, who was dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit. Listed at 5-foot-3 and 120 pounds in jail records, he looked diminutive behind the courtroom's lectern and flanked by bailiffs. He kept his uncuffed hands behind his back during the brief hearing. His hair and beard were trimmed short.

    His plea remains not guilty, and the case will drum toward trial. Bulone told Miller to move ahead with the discovery process and begin taking depositions as part of her defense.

    Nealy's case is one of the most grisly in recent memory in the Tampa Bay area. The killings were two-pronged, prosecutors say. They believe he killed his ex-wife, Jamie Ivancic, 21, in January 2018, burying her in the yard of the Port Richey home they once shared.

    Nealy, who also goes by Shelby Svensen, then tried to cover it up by posing as her in texts to her family, investigators say. That is, until Ivancic's family began to see through the scheme. Prosecutors say he drove to her parents' home in Tarpon Springs on Dec. 15 and bludgeoned her father, Richard Ivancic, 71; mother Laura Ivancic, 59; and 25-year-old brother, Nicholas Ivancic, one at a time with a hammer.

    He left the bodies in the home for two weeks, until a neighbor reported an odor and the air conditioner running, despite not having seen anyone in the home for weeks. That's when police found the three bodies on New Year's Day.

    By then Nealy had driven to Ohio with his and Jamie Ivancic's two young children. He was taken into custody in Lakewood, Ohio on Jan. 3 to be brought back to Florida the next month.

    Pasco County sheriff's deputies found Jamie Ivancic's body on Jan. 6.

    The deaths of the family members are being prosecuted together in Pinellas County. Even though Pinellas and Pasco together compose Florida's sixth judicial circuit, Nealy is being prosecuted separately in Pasco County for the death of his ex-wife, though Miller represents him in both cases. He does not face the death penalty in that case.

    The next hearing in the Pinellas case is scheduled for July 29. In Pasco, the next hearing is scheduled for June 26.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinell...deal-20190603/
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    Accused family murderer Shelby Nealy set for trial in Pinellas

    The trial, set for November 2020, is scheduled for four months after he stands trial for murder in Pasco County

    By Josh Solomon
    Tampa Bay Times


    LARGO — Shelby Nealy is set to stand trial in Pinellas County on Nov. 10, 2020 in the killing of his ex-wife’s family.

    That date, set at a Monday hearing, is four months after his trial date in Pasco County in the killing of his ex-wife, Jamie Ivancic.

    Nealy, now 26, is accused of killing Ivancic, 21, in January 2018, burying her in the yard of the Port Richey home they once shared. Nealy then tried to cover it up, investigators said, by posing as her in text messages to her family. Until Ivancic's family began to see through the scheme.

    Prosecutors say Nealy drove to her parents’ home in Tarpon Springs on Dec. 15 and bludgeoned her father, Richard Ivancic, 71; mother Laura Ivancic, 59; and 25-year-old brother, Nicholas Ivancic, with a hammer.

    Nealy is standing trial for each incident separately. His trial in Pasco, where he faces one count of first-degree murder, is set for July 20, 2020. He does not face the death penalty in that case.

    He does face the death penalty in Pinellas, where he is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

    Defense attorney Allison Miller reiterated to Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone on Monday that Nealy has offered to plead guilty to all four murder in exchange for four life sentences. Prosecutors have not taken that deal.

    At Monday’s hearing, Assistant State Attorney Elizabeth Zuroweste asked Bulone if he had read a letter Nealy wrote Aug. 5 in which he seemed to say disparaging things about Miller.

    “Do you want to file a motion to dismiss counsel?” Bulone asked Nealy.

    “No your honor," he said.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/...l-in-pinellas/
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    Shelby Nealy incompetent to stand trial, lawyer says

    A judge on Monday appointed a doctor to evaluate Nealy, who stands accused of killing his ex-wife and three of her family members

    By Kathryn Varn
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    LARGO — A judge on Monday appointed a doctor to evaluate whether Shelby Nealy, who faces the death penalty in the slayings of his wife and three of her family members, is competent to stand trial.

    Nealy, 27, is unable to help his lawyers with his defense, has “irrational trial strategies” and distrusts his attorneys, according to court documents.

    Since he was booked into the Pinellas County jail in February 2019, Nealy had lived mostly in isolation for his own protection and was being treated for a mental health condition.

    Recently, one of his attorneys, Pinellas-Pasco Assistant Public Defender Allison Miller, became aware of his deteriorating mental state, Miller wrote in court documents. He was placed in psychiatric isolation and had to be persuaded to take his psychotropic medication.

    During a court hearing Monday, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone appointed a doctor to evaluate Nealy’s mental state. Should he be deemed incompetent to stand trial, Nealy will be sent to a state mental hospital until his competency is restored.

    Nealy will go to trial twice, once for the killing of his ex-wife Jamie Ivancic and again for the slaying of her parents and brother almost a year later. One trial, in the killing of his ex-wife, is set for August in Pasco County. The other is scheduled for October in Pinellas County. Those trial dates will likely be pushed back if the expert and judge determine Nealy is incompetent to stand trial.

    Nealy is accused of killing his ex-wife in January 2018 and burying her in the backyard of the Port Richey home they once shared, according to police. He then posed as her for almost a year in text messages to her family.

    As the woman’s family grew suspicious of her whereabouts, Nealy drove in December 2019 to their Tarpon Springs home and bludgeoned the family with a hammer. Their bodies were found New Year’s Day 2019.

    Nealy appeared in court Monday morning with a shaved head and wearing orange scrubs. He didn’t speak during the few minutes he was in the courtroom.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/...l-lawyer-says/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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