PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A man who admitted to killing his wife, her parents and her brother, has been indicted in Pinellas County on three capital first-degree murder charges and three charges for aggravated animal cruelty.
Shelby Nealy, 25, is charged with killing Richard Louis Ivancic, 71, Laura Ann Ivancic, 59, and Nicholas James Ivancic, 25.
Court documents show that Nealy confessed to killing his wife Jamie Ivancic, 21, a year ago in Pasco County before moving to Texas with their two young children. While there he used Jamie's phone to communicate with her family, pretending to be her.
Nealy told detectives his wife's family became suspicious because "they had not heard their daughter's voice," according to documents. Nealy then drove his wife's car from Texas to her family's Tarpon Springs mobile home, "with the intent to kill all three victims."
"My sister, Laura, was very concerned about her daughter Jamie and she had contacted them a number of times and was never able to communicate with Jamie," said James Zindroski, Jamie's uncle, “If in fact Shelby is guilty of all this I just hope justice is served.”
Richard Ivancic was killed first on December 15, the documents show. Nealy was home alone with Richard and hit him in the head with a hammer. Later that same day when Laura Invancic came home, he killed her the same way.
Then he wrapped both of their bodies in rugs and dragged them into their bedroom.
The documents state Nicholas Ivancic came home last that day, sometime in the early evening. The next day Nealy used the same hammer to kill Nicholas while he was sleeping on the couch, according to the documents.
Nealy wrapped Nicholas' body in a painter's drop cloth, documents show.
Nealy then stole Laura's Kia Sorento and drove it to Ohio. He told detectives he stole it, "because the license tag was expired on Jamie Ivancic's vehicle." He told detectives he intended to return at a later time to dispose of the bodies, the documents state.
The bodies of Richard, Laura and Nicholas were found by Tarpon Springs Police after a family member called for a welfare check because they weren't able to contact them.
The officer said he saw numerous live flies through a window of the home, and smelled a strong odor of body decomposition. He then entered the home through an unlocked sliding glass door, according to documents.
He said the home was ransacked and in "complete disarray." Then he found all three of the victims.
Forensics Anthropologists from the University of South Florida, along with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, found Jamie's body on January 4 after receiving a tip from Tarpon Springs Police. Authorities said she died from violent blunt force trauma.
Nealy was arrested in Lakewood, Ohio after police caught him with Laura's stolen vehicle.
When police responded to the area where the stolen SUV was seen, they arrested Nealy, who also uses the alias name of Shelby Svense. Nealy was in a home on Newman Avenue with his two children, a 3-year-old and a 2-year-old. The toddlers were transported to Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services.
Nealy was released from the Cuyahoga Jail on January 18 on extradition. He is currently being held at the Pinellas County Jail.
He has been charged with capital first-degree murder in the deaths of Richard, Laura and Nicholas. He has also been charged with three counts of aggravated animal cruelty for killing the family's three bichon frise mix breed dogs, Bailey, Boomer and Buddy.
It is unknown at this time if he has been charged with the death of his wife Jamie.
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