An Indiana woman has been convicted of rape and murder charges in connection with a three-way encounter that ended with baseball bats and left two people dead.
On Wednesday, a Vanderburgh County jury found Heidi Kathleen Carter, 37, guilty of six felonies: three counts of criminal confinement, two counts of aiding, abetting or causing rape and one count of aiding, abetting or causing murder .
Carter was arrested in October 2021 was arrested in October 2021 at her home in Evansville, where she invited a couple she met on a “lesbian dating app” to have threesome sex. All three drank alcohol and took drugs before engaging in the trio, according to court documents.
Carter’s then-boyfriend, Carrey Hammond, entered the house during the sex session. Hammond allegedly flew into a rage and used a baseball bat to severely beat the man involved in the trio: 50-year-old Tim Ivy.
The surviving victim said in the courtroom Monday, “The next thing I know, a man walks in the door with a baseball bat and attacks us.”
The woman added that Hammond “swinged (the bat) like a golf club.”
Carter and Hammond restrained Ivy with duct tape and the female victim with duct tape and Velcro straps. The victim said Carter and Hammond “beat and abused them for hours.”
The unnamed woman testified that Hammond raped her while Carter pointed a gun at her.
The Courier & Press reported, “Carter would continue to hold her at gunpoint while Hammond raped her, the woman testified. She said Carter appeared ‘excited’ and ‘angry’ as she told Hammond to ‘do all the that he wants with me.” “
The victim told investigators that Carter was threatening to kill the couple while holding a gun. Carter allegedly said he “knows somebody in Indianapolis who knows how to hide a body.”
The woman said Carter left the house for a “short time” and while she was gone, Hammond strangled Ivy to death with the belt after trying to remove her duct tape restraints. Hammond allegedly wrapped Ivy’s dead body in blankets. When Carter returned, he helped Hammond move Ivy’s body into another room, according to court documents.
Carter and Hammond hired a housekeeper to clean two rooms for an upcoming homeowner’s inspection. The cleaner noticed blood on Carter’s shoes and a gun in his hand, according to Fox News. The couple then ordered pizza.
The housekeeper heard a woman screaming for help upstairs. She “went to sit on what she thought was a pile of pillows and blankets” and realized it was a human body, according to the arrest report.
The housekeeper told the couple she had to leave, but Hammond and Carter told her she couldn’t. Carter allegedly told the woman she had “better listen” to Hammond. The housekeeper managed to escape from the house and found a state agent.
Law & Crime reported: “When police arrived at the home, Hammond aggressively exited the home and grabbed a gun-like object, police said. Officers opened fire and killed him. The police said he had a metal and plastic object that looked like a gun in his hand, and police described Hammond’s death as a suicide by an officer.”
Carter was arrested.
Carter confessed to police that he was making threats with the gun, but said he was only “pretending” to help Hammond calm down, according to the arrest report.
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