I’d say at least three.ĪNDREW: Asking Barb’s question in a different way, even if there aren’t any active cases out there that you can say “Yeah, this is like this”, are there any other just generally famous cases or murders that you can compare this to? ROBERT IVES: I would say there were two or three things. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the term modus operandi, where sometimes criminals will use a…commit a crime in such a way where it’s so distinct that it acts as a sort of signature for them.ĪNDREW: Was there a signature in his crime, like would you characterize something as a signature? Like, without telling us what it is. There was nothing that seemed similarly identical that you think ‘well this is modus operandi’. I wish I could tell you, but again that’s up to the State Police. And so because of unique circumstances, which all unique circumstances of a crime are a sort-of ‘signature’, you think “Well, this unusual fact might lead to somebody, or that unusual fact might lead to somebody”. And it’s probably not what you would imagine, or what people think that I’m talking about, it’s probably not. All I can say about the situation with Abby and Libby is that there was a lot more physical evidence than at that crime scene. He was seen at the scene, you know, things like that. So, you had a dead person with three bullets in them. He pinned her up against the refrigerator, shot in the back of the head, she fell on the floor, he shot or twice more in the chest. The very first case I handled as a prosecuting attorney back in 1987…1988, a fellow shot his wife in Deer Creek Indiana. ROBERT IVES: I follow along with your example. A person was shot in the head, the bullet casing is here…what to you would make an unusual or odd crime scene? We have our ideas about what a typical crime scene is. That’s probably all I can say about it.ĪNDREW : Maybe you could answer that in a more general way without being specific to this, this crime scene. It was just not your normal ‘a person was killed here’ crime scene.
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They have to decide what’s going to be released was not going to be released. There were a variety of things at the scene of the crime where I guess I would ask you to talk to the State Police about that. But again this is where I have difficulty because I’m not sure what all has been released. ROBERT IVES: Well, in once sense, any murder scene is probably odd. He says it’s usually pretty clear from the jump who did what…but that’s not the case here.īARBARA : You were quoted as saying that the evidence, or the crime scene, was “odd”.
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NARRATOR: From Ives’ perspective, crime scenes in Carroll County are generally routine.
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Ives is extremely smart and well spoken, and in this interview he supplies some of the best insight into the inner workings of the case to date. The entire show is phenomenal and well produced. Please be sure to listen to Down the Hill Podcast – Chapter 5: Signatures as you read along. Now retired, Ives gave a fascinating interview to HLN’s ‘Down The Hill’ Podcast, providing an overview of the investigatory process, where he discussed everything from the legalities of securing search warrants and cell data, to Libby’s video, and even possible signatures left at the crime scene.Īs part of an ongoing effort to document facts and interviews of significance relating to the Delphi Murders, the relevant portions of the episode has been transcribed below. Robert Ives was Carroll County, Indiana’s Chief Prosecutor during the time the Delphi Murders occurred. Prosecutor Robert Ives details Delphi murders, crime scene, and signatures in interview with ‘Down The Hill’ Podcast.