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The Ivancics seem to be such a warm, nurturing family.

[Doeg] They were an important part of that community.

[Sarabia] Their grandkids were there.

That was a big part of their life and their happiness

at that point.

[Eric] The air conditioning system had been running nonstop

outside the Ivancic's home.

All three small dogs haven't been seen now in two weeks.

[Doeg] He was essentially hunting them.

He was waiting for the right time

to get each one of his victims alone.

[Eric] Carrying that out while those children are still around,

I mean it's just...

it's just chilling.

[eerie music]

[phone rings]

[narrator] New Year's Dayú in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Police receive a call from a concerned son.

He's worried about his dad,

he can't reach his dad, ú been trying to reach him.

So he calls police for aú welfare check at the house.

He says, I haven't heardú from my dad for a while now.

I think something's wrong.

[narrator] The father is 71-year-old Richard Ivancic

who lives with wife Laura and their adopted son, Nicholas.

Their mobile home lies within a retirement community.

The police go to the house

and neighbours say that for the last week or so,

the air conditioning system have been running nonstop

outside the Ivancic's home.

That's unusual.

The dogs who have been yappy and happy,

all three of them small dogs

haven't been seen now in two weeks.

And they would always hear them barking

or see them on their walks.

And so people start to become curious

about why it is that they hadn't heard anything

or seen the couple walking them.

The officer goes to the house and looks in the window

and sees flies flying around.

And they could smell something.

[narrator] The officer enters through an unlocked door.

That's when they make this gruesome discovery.

There's a lot of blood throughout that room

and on the couch.

All the law enforcementúofficers who were on scene said

that they'd ever seen anything like this,

the horror of going in there.

[narrator] In the master's suite,

Richard and his wife Laura are found dead,

doused in paint and wrapped in floor rugs.

Nearby police spot a hammer, rope, and duct tape.

Then in the back bedroom under a tarp,

the body of their adopted son, Nicholas.

[Sarabia] The law enforcement officers see there are bags

with the bodies.

[Eric] The dogs, they too were killed.

Remember this is New Year's Day.

Given that time of year, all of this seemed particularly tragic.

[reporter] The decomposing bodies discovered by

Tarpon Springs Police

during a welfare check requested by family.

[narrator] As the crime scene's sealed off,

word spreads to the local media.

Reporter Eric Glasser is on duty.

Out comes this media alert from Tarpon Springs

of what appears to be homicide.

And then when we got there, it was more than a homicide

that would usually be involving two people

who had gotten in a bar fight on New Year's Eve.

We were in a retirement community

outside of a mobile home,

and there was clearly an enormous police presence.

And there were a lot of disturbed,

very shaken neighbours,

standing around wondering what it was that had happened.

On that day and for the next few days,

neighbours were very concerned

that perhaps there was a killer in their neighbourhood.

[narrator] A crime of this scale is out of the ordinary

for this Florida backwater.

Tarpon Springs is a community that is north of Tampa, proper.

It is along the Gulf Coast.

Made up in large part of retirees,

whether they're snowbirds as we call them, part-timers,

or whether they live there year round.

There's a mix of people there

who essentially have come down for warmer weather,

and someplace that people could retire comfortably.

And that's what this community was.

[narrator] It's why Richard and Laura

had moved to Tarpon Springs.

[Eric] They'd only moved from the Ohio area here to Florida

before this happened.

[Doeg] Richard and Laura had been long time foster parents.

They'd actually restructured their home

to accommodate taking children in

and being part of their community.

[Joni] The Ivancics seem to be such a warm nurturing family.

They were very, very loving.

They were really a family that embraced people

who were going through hardú times, who needed some help.

They were people that found it very important to help out

and to be that sort of influence in their community.

[Eric] We did start to learn things just from neighbours.

Neighbours described them as being somewhat quiet,

but I think that they were highly regarded

as being warm-hearted people.

[narrator] So when the autopsy reveals

the victims were killed by blunt force trauma by a hammer,

abandoned at the scene,

the mystery for police and reporters deepens.

It's not like you hit somebody one time and they're just gone.

This is a violent attack that requires multiple blows.

So yeah, just the

the coldness and the evilness of that

is shocking.

[narrator] When it's realizedpersonal belongings, documents,

and jewelry are missing from the family home,

police consider whether the killings

may have been a result of a burglary gone wrong.

Around the time, all had gone quiet at the Ivancic"s home,

neighbours had seen someone in their front yard.

When asked about some of the issues

that were now starting to add up,

some of the neighbours told us and police

that there was a trench being dug by a young man

in the front yard of the mobile home.

A trench that was about 10 feet long

and 3 feet deep.

This guy is standing here digging

with two kids running around

and just largely unsupervised while he's digging that.

Some of the neighbours who noticed it

and thought it was weird, but didn't call it a report anything

because they thought

they're putting new shrubs in there.

When I asked one of the neighbours,

"Well, does that sound like an irrigation project?"

"What does that sound like to you?"

Given the facts of what we had known at that point,

that person looked at me and simply said,

"that sounds like a grave."

[narrator] Police urgently need to trace the young man

seen outside the property.

One of the major leads law enforcement had

was Laura Ivancic's vehicle, not at the residence.

And you know, they knew

that there was a vehicle registered to her,

it should be at the residence, where was that vehicle?

[Eric] All we knew is that some people were dead.

There had been a person at that house two weeks earlier

that had dug a trench.

And there was a car missing, and there were children involved.

From many people's perspective, it was,

"oh gosh, I hope that these kids are okay."

Were they related to the people that have been murdered

and they've been kidnapped?

Are they in danger of some kind?

There was clearly great concern on the authorities' part

of finding the person who had taken this car

and we need to find this individual quickly

before something potentially happens to these kids.

[narrator] Traffic alerts are sent out nationwide

to find the missing Kia.

[Eric] And so from some perspective,

this was really a man hunt.

[narrator] As officers canvas the neighbourhood,

another car catches their attention.

Abandoned near the community pool,

just around the corner from the Ivancic home,

is a Hyundai Elantra.

They see there's all kinds of stuff in it,

and they end up getting the ability

to do a search of that vehicle,

where they see all sorts of things

from inside the Ivancic's home,

you know, family photos, various things like that,

sort of wrapped up in trash bags.

[narrator] Police run database checks on the Elantra.

They discover it's registered

to the Ivancic's adopted daughter, Jamie.

Jamie was an adopted child, she'd been adopted an early age.

Jamie was brought up with her older brother,

Nick, the victim.

Her parents were veryúsupportive and loving of her.

She seemed to be close to her family.

She kept in contact with them.

She was somebody that really loved her children.

And wanted to do the very best by them.

[narrator] In Jamie's car, they also find items

belonging to her husband, 25-year-old Shelby Nealy.

[Doeg] He had left in there, different things,

receipts of his own.

I think there was like a pay stub

from one of the jobs he had.

[narrator] With Shelby's belongings found inside

and witnessed statements of a young man at the crime scene

detectives mount a statewide search.

They soon discovered the Ivancics

had once taken him under their wing.

When you look back at Shelby's childhood in Texas,

his Mom escaped what it seems to have been a pretty abusive,

physically abusive relationship, with Shelby's biological father

when he was very, very young.

And she goes to Ohio and she meets a guy

that becomes Shelby's stepfather, really,

for the rest of his life.

And this man seems to really care about Shelby

and considers him his son.

I believe he went to a private school,

an elementary school.

He didn't do fantastic in school.

He had some learning problems, he was diagnosed with ADHD.

He had behavioural issues.

He was constantly getting suspended

at one point he was expelled from school.

[Joni] And so when he's 14 almost 15,

he reconnects with his biological father,

and that seems to be meaningful to him.

He maintains somewhat of a relationship with him,

and then he finds out the day after he turns 17,

that his biological father has shot himself

and committed suicide.

And this seems to have been very, very traumatizing.

He already had all of these behavioural issues going on,

and I'm sure they escalated after such a tragic incident.

[Joni] He began smoking marijuana.

You know, began having some significant mental health issues

in terms of suicidal thoughts and depression.

It's probably not much of a surprise

that Shelby Nealy as he went into young adulthood,

struggled as well.

He couldn't maintain a job.

By the age of 19, he had his first child.

So he had met a 17-year-old, young woman.

She had gotten pregnant.

They ended up getting married.

[narrator] As investigators dig deeper into Shelby's life,

they uncover a sometimes violent past.

Bottom line is Shelby Nealy's relationship

with his first wife was incredibly violent.

It was documented with local police.

He ended up choking his first wife.

After that relationship ended,

he kind of bounced around for a while.

He was homeless for a period of time.

Using drugs, hanging out with people

that are probably not great influences.

And then he met Nicholas Ivansic,

which was Jamie's brother.

He and Nicholas are working at Burger King together.

And the Ivansics actually take him in

because he has no place to stay.

[Doeg] They were the type of people

who just automatically wanted to help.

And so, you know, even when he was just Nick's friend

who was kind of struggling, they wanted to help him then.

[Joni] So he lives with Ivancics for a period of time.

And this is where he meets his future wife, Jamie.

Jamie is a young, attractive, kind woman,

and so Shelby and Jamie start dating.

They fell in love

the relationship progressed very quickly.

Four months later, he and Jamie are married.

That's incredibly quick.

And unfortunately, it devolved into the same relationship

that Shelby had had with his first wife.

Even in talking with some people who knew him or reached out,

there seemed to be consistency in that

Shelby would flip a switch,

and then just get upset and become violent and nasty.

The two end up having two children together,

and that does nothing to affect the violent relationship

that these two had.

What's so disturbing is that this violence also occurred

when Jamie is pregnant.

At one point, throughout the house,

Shelby, Jamie tells police through her against a wall

and bit her.

Bit her in the shoulder.

So when police came,

she told them she was actually worried about her baby.

You can imagine how scary that was for her.

[narrator] Police discover Jamie is battling her own demons.

She's had mental health crises in the past.

I think because of the mental illness

that Jamie was also suffering from,

she was sort of little bit more vulnerable.

He would respond violently to her.

And then try to turn the situation around

and make himself the victim.

"You know what, I'm going through mental health crisis,

I'm thinking about suicide,

I took a bunch of pills",

like those different instances, we see in the records.

And so it seems

like a manipulation tactic on his part.

[narrator] Shelby tries to convince the authorities

that Jamie is the domestic abuser.

[Kristin] Jamie was also charged with domestic violence twice.

So that goes to show you how volatile this relationship was.

There was just a massive amount of domestic violence

involving the two of them.

A lot of violence, a lot of tension,

and things only get worse.

[narrator] Around 2017, Jamietells police Nealy strangled her

when she threatened to leave him.

We know that if he had strangled in a non-fatal way,

which he had did several times before,

that it raises the risk of interpersonal homicide by 750%.

In January 2018, Jamie calls her family and says,

"Look, I've got to leave him.

I am making plans to get this in place.

We are going to leave."

I think she was concerned about the violence

in the relationship, and she wanted to protect them.

[narrator] Police tried urgently to trace Jamie,

but they discover something sinister.

Jamie was last seen about a year

before these murders took place.

Shortly after, she's trying to escape with the kids.

The communication with Jamie,

it continued with the family, but it changed,

like she was never available to talk on the phone.

She could only text message.

Shelby would always say that she was too busy

to come to the phone

or that she was just unavailable

because she was taking care of the kids at the moment.

And so they kind of just kept thinking,

all right, well that's weird that you can't get on the phone,

but all right, we'll text message with you.

[keyboard clatters]

Richard and Laura were saying, "We will come to you."

Like, we want to see our grandkids.

We want to see you. You know, we miss you.

[Kristin] Jamie's family has not spoken to her.

And so she says in text message,

"I'm going to come down for Christmas."

December of 2018,

Shelby Nealy shows up withú the two kids and no Jamie.

And he tells the family,

"There's just a lot going on at home,

so you know, she wanted to stay there,

so that's why she's not here."

[narrator] Investigators can now place Jamie's husband

at the murder scene.

Forensic examiners also find fingerprints on a trash can,

a pane of glass, and a Christmas card box.

When they run them through the FBI database,

they all hit on one name.

Shelby Nealy.

[Kristin] Also, they find pictures of him

hanging out with his in-laws in their house, with his kids.

For an entire week, Shelby stays at the house with the family.

[Kristin] With his wife and children also missing,

the search has stepped up to find Shelby.

This manhunt became urgent.

[news] Video also shows Nealyú driving his mother-in-law,

Lauralvancic's, red van.

[narrator] Forensic officerscontinue to comb the crime scene

for leads on their suspect.

They find a receipt for a local hardware store

dated December 18th

around the time of the murders.

Detectives trawl their CCTV.

Can you imagine what they find?

At the store there is surveillance video

of him with his children in a shopping cart,

buying tarp and duct tapeú and all these various things

that he needed.

[narrator] The tape, rope and tarp Nealy buys on camera,

matches the items found with the victim's bodies.

[Doeg] We got surveillance videos

from the various stores that he was at.

He bought respirator masks for himself.

We know how overpowering the smell was

from law enforcement that was in there,

that it was like chokingly strong.

Based on the receipts, we know what he was doing.

He was cleaning up the I vancic"s murders,

buying supplies for that.

[narrator] Meanwhile, there's aú lead on the missing Kia.

Looking for that vehicle, Laura's vehicle,

they were able to getú information from toll roads

or anything where the licenseú plate might have been seen.

And helped determine that, OK, that vehicle's up in Ohio.

We've had a sighting of Shelby Nealy.

[narrator] The car is spotted

more than 1,000 miles north of Tarpon Springs

in a driveway near Cleveland.

The house is put under surveillance.

[Doeg] There's definitely safety concerns.

We wanted to make sure those kids were safe

and that they did things in such a way that

was as safe as possible.

Shelby Nealyú was staying with a friend,

whom he confessed to, essentially,

that he wanted to kill his in-laws.

That friend didn't feel right about this at all.

He saw that there were things that did not add up.

He had personal belongings and jewellery

and a couple of other items that belonged to family members,

he was looking to liquidate them quickly,

that belonged to the Ivancic"s.

[narrator] Officers bide their time until nightfall,

when Nealy leaves the house alone.

[Doeg] He was cooperative with law enforcement

when he was arrested.

And it's fortunate that they did when they did,

because I think that Mr. Nealy's new roommate

was really quite in quite of danger at that point

unbeknownst to him

because he was asking a lot of questions.

When I went through the house in Ohio,

there was a hammer on the bathroom sink.

The children were taken into custody at that time, as well,

and I believe into foster-care.

Police were eventually ableúto use license plate trackers

to locate the stolen vehicle.

They track Nealy to a neighbourhood near Cleveland

where he was taken into custody.

[narrator] Florida detectives fly straight to Ohio.

Next day, they finally speak to their suspect.

[Sarabia] I think Shelby very much assumed

like, "Oh, they got me."

So at that point, he decided, I'm just going to tell them

from my perspective what happened.

[Kristin] And he did it in horrific detail.

He confesses about everything that he did.

He tells them it's not just these three people

down in Tarpon Springs.

That his wife who had been missing now for several months

had also been killed at his hands.

[Doeg] We really only have his account,

but it's not likely to be the full or truthful story.

He indicated that there was an argument

and that during the course of that argument

she had armed herself with a knife

and had threatened either him or the children

with the knife that he was going to be violent towards them.

What he said he did to stop her is he grabbed her by the neck

and then choked her

to sort of try to choke her out and stop her from doing that.

Logically it doesn't make sense

that if she has a knife in her hand

and is threatening to be violent with it

that his hands would go to her neck.

Rather than her hand to get control of the knife.

Domestic battery by strangulation

is a felony offence.

He realized that he was going to end up going to jail for that.

He thought if he killed her,

he would not have to go into custody at that point.

He claimed that he took that hammer and struck her one time.

But the physical evidence tells a very different,

much more violent story of what happened.

I think some of that was a desire on his part

to control the narrative,

to minimize some of the...

the real horror of it.

He then, and he admitted this,

took her body threw it in the bathtub of the house,

left it there for a few days,

because he was trying to figure out what he was going to do.

Let her essentially rot for days

while he dug a hole in the backyard,

to ultimately bury her there,

while he and the kids continue to live in the house

in the vicinity of their mother's body.

He puts Jamie in the hole, wrapped up,

I believe it was a garbage bag.

Maybe another sheet or something,

and he leaves her there.

He's in the house for a period of time after that

with the two kids, and he trashes the house,

and then he flees Florida and goes back to Ohio.

He was, you know, texting and sort of posing as Jamie

to try and keep people from realizing

that she had passed away.

[Eric] But there was questioning going on.

Where is Jamie? How come we can't call her now?

And so the wall started to close in.

I think it just became clear to him

that he couldn't keep the ruse going forever.

And that's when he made the determination

to return to Florida and kill Richard, Laura and Nick

because he believed that they would find out otherwise.

[narrator] In a calculating move,

Nealy brings his childrenú down to Tarpon Springs

to spend Christmas with their grandparents.

[Sarabia] They were thrilled,

Jamie's two children were there to visit.

Their grandkids were there.

That was a big part of their life

and their happiness at that point.

To think that this whole time, he is planning their murders.

[Doeg] He was essentially hunting them.

He was waiting for the right time

to be able to get each one of his victims

alone and vulnerable

in a position that he would be able to attack them

and overpower them.

[Joni] Shelby, he's alone with Richard.

Jamie's dad, who's 71 years old.

And he basicallyú kind of creeps up behind him

and hits him in the head

and then brutally attacks him with a hammer.

At one point realizes he's hearing some kind of noises

and actually goes back and hits him again

to make sure that he is dead.

[Doeg] We know from receipts that Laura was going

to several different locations, pharmacies,

things like that.

Once she gets home, he attacks her.

[narrator] Shelby's brother-in-law, Nick

arrives home next.

[Joni] They order pizza, they're watching TV,

they watch "The Grinch".

They're smoking weed together at one point.

I think Shelby's words were something to the effect of,

you know, wanting to hang out with him one last time,

because he knew he was going to be killing him.

As far as Nick is concerned,

this is just another fun night with his brother-in-law

and a good friend.

Nick falls asleep on the couch

and in the early, early morning hours,

Shelby decides that's his moment.

He gets hammer and he goes,

and he starts attacking Nick on the couch,

according to Shelby, Nick wakes up.

Nicholas is stunned about what is going on

and tries to fight back and Shelby kills him as well.

[Sarabia] The three dogs of Laura's and Richard,

he executed.

One of them with a hammer

and the other two suffocated them in trash bags.

[narrator] Nealy explains why he abandoned the grave he dug.

[Kristin] He said that Richard was so big and heavy

that he couldn't lift him.

And so he said that he was going to go away

for a few weeks bulk up, meaning like get stronger,

let the bodies decompose more

so he could go back and dispose of them.

He did not get a chance to do that

because he was later arrested.

[narrator] During a break from interrogation,

the defendant calls his mom.

[narrator] Nealy claims he committed the murders

to stop his children being taken away.

He's tried to convince himself

that he's doing this ultimately for his children.

He's the super dad, whose job is to protect his children.

And then he justifies these murders

as you know, gee, her parents kept asking.

So unfortunately, I had to go kill them as well.

And there's just no sense at all of the magnitude

of what he's done.

Those kids are alone in the house

with the rotting bodies of their three relatives.

That's not the image of a man that is doing everything

to protect his children.

Shelby's focus was on Shelby.

Not on anybody else.

[news]25-year-old Shelby Nealy confessed

to the killing of his wife, Jamie,

one year ago in Pasco County.

It was just within hours, if not days,

that the police were back at the house

that he and his wife had shared, úand they were exhuming her body.

[Sarabia] And I'm havingúdiscussion with them about that.

Do we need anyú search warrants or anything

to get in the residence, and yeah, we didn't.

And they're going to start looking for the body

in the backyard.

[narrator] With directions provided by Nealy,

investigators locate Jamie's decomposed body.

But there are no forensicú leads left inside the house.

The property management company,

as soon as they found that the house was vacant,

they sent people into clean out the house

and that really just came downúto luck on Shelby Nealy's part.

[narrator] But Jamie's autopsy confirms her cause of death

as blunt force trauma.

Together with Nealy's confession,

prosecutors can press charges.

A man who pretended to be his murdered wife

is back in Florida,

charged with killing her entire family.

[Judge] You're charged with three counts

of murder in the first degree.

When we were in the court and seeing him,

one of the things is that his his statue doesn't match

the monster that he is.

He's small. He's quiet.

[Judge] Are you financially able to hire a private lawyer?

No, Your Honour.

[Glaser] When you look at him, the crime

doesn't necessarily match the image.

He remains in the Pinellas County jail.

[narrator] Prosecutors and defence lawyers

negotiate a plea bargain.

Nealy pleads guilty to his wife's killing.

He receives a 30-year sentence for manslaughter.

Because he pled guilty and was sentenced on Jamie's case,

there was no trial but understand too,

that was done in conjunction with him

pleading to the other three murders.

So there was a benefit to us because part of that is that

he'd also plead guilty to these crimes.

So we knew that he would at minimum

be sentenced to life in prison,

but still be eligible for the death penalty.

[narrator] Two years later, a sentencing hearing

will decide Shelby Nealy's fate.

The sentencing phase is said toú begin at 8:30 this morning

here at theú Pinellas County Courthouse.

A jury will eventually decideúif Nealy gets life in prison

or a death sentence.

Given the nature of the offences,

the amount of pre-meditation,

the cruel nature of how the offences were committed,

as well as the volume

of the number of people that he killed,

that really warrants the death penalty,

and that's what we're seeking to have imposed.

The parents passed way first.

Spent one last night with Nick and killed him too.

We had a tremendous amount of testimony

and evidence that was put on.

Obviously, the interviews with Shelby

were a major part of that.

[news]úJurors saw surveillance video

of Nealy shopping with his kids

and hitting up Walmart multiple times.

[Detective]úThere I see 3M breather masks,

incense it looks like, ú and white Krylon paint.

We presented Facebook photos that he's taking of his kids.

Where they're sitting on this furniture

and there's paint drips on it

from him covering up the murder right next to it.

And you know that there are three rotting bodies

of their relatives in the next room.

[narrator] The lead detective testifies

to seeing the same paint and incense

Nealy purchased at the murder scene.

Nicholas' body is on theúground; the dresser would be...

if you're looking in the room to his right.

On top of the dresser. There was, I believe,

three different incense holders and incense.

That was in various stages of burning.

I can take my children to a store,

I can purchase the supplies right in front of them

to kill members of their family who they love.

And then carrying that out

while those children are still around.

I mean, it's just, it's just chilling.

[narrator] The prosecution reveals

a familiar motis operandi,

Nealy also hijacks Laura's phone

to send family fake texts to cover his tracks.

[Detective] We are going to be in Texas for a while with Jamie.

We are currently dealing with a family emergency with her.

Laura was more apt to actually have a phone call with someone

and have a conversation,

particularly about things that are important.

So there were a lot of red flags for family members

that they weren't getting the type of communication

that they were used to.

And so something seemed wrong.

[narrator] The court is shown that Nealy boasts about

his new found wealth

that he stole from the Ivancics.

[reporter] Evidence shows Nealyú was telling other women

he was moving to Ohioúand he had just gotten a Kia.

[Detective] I'm a criminal genius, my dear.

There's nothing I can't do anymore.

[reporter] He claimed his father left him

a lot of money after he passed.

And he was trying to sell hisúgrandfather's coin collection,

which actuallyú belonged to Richardlvancic.

[Detective] I'm completely okayú with how 2018 turned out.

We know what he was doing in between attacks

based on his Facebook communications,

because he was in contact with multiple different women

that he was trying to have relationships with.

He was sending sexually explicit messages

to at least one of these women.

And was actually sort of sexting,

where he was sending photographs of himself,

nude, masturbating in the victim's bathroom...

in between murders.

I mean, it's really a shocking leap

that he was able to do.

He didn't care.

His defence team is bringing in

what they considered to be the mitigating factors;

background, having to do it with any sort of issues

that he had coming from that that might have impacted

or affected his psychology.

The suicide of his dad...

toxic relationships with women...

shape the rest of his lifeú and affected his choices.

[narrator] Nealy's step-bother takes the stand

to describe the impact of the suicide on Nealy.

He was completely broken.

I had never seen Shelby anything like this.

[news] The case also went into the past of Nealy's mom, Lisa,

and her relationship with Nealy's biological father,

Bobby.

Bobby held... a knife to my throat

And if he ever found me again, he would kill me,

chop me up, and dispose of me.

The testimony that they put on

from Sheldon Nealy's mother and stepfather

showed that they were loving parents

that he had every advantage a child can have,

even with his bad behaviour.

And he threw it away based on his own whims.

There are a lot of experts, úa lot of mental health experts,

testifying about various diagnoses

that Shelby had received, including ADHD.

There were some talk about some head trauma

that he had experienced.

They pointed to that head injury and he had, you know,

may have caused some degree of brain damage.

[Joni] ADHD obviously does not cause violence.

A head injury does not cause violence.

We know in the situation with Shelby,

that he had a history of severe domestic violence

before he ever had any alleged head injury.

There are so many people who also suffer

issues during the course of when it is

that they're young, growing up,

they don't grow up to be cold-blood killers.

[narrator] Richard Ivancic's son

sums up the toll of Nealy's crimes.

We will never get to see them again,

and can only hold on to the memories

that we shared along the journey of life

before they were all taken away.

By him.

[narrator] The jury finally delivers its verdict.

[ foreman] We the jury find by a vote of 11 to 1,

that Shelby Healey should be sentenced to death.

The jury came back with a recommendation

around dinner time this evening after two weeks of trial

and 10 Tampa Bay was in the courtroom

and spoke to the prosecution

just minutes after the verdict was read.

Everybody loses because ofú Mr. Nealy and his actions.

His family loses, ú the victim's family loses,

obviously the victims lost,

but it's because of the defendant.

He did these actions, and he has, again,

left a wake of tragedy

wherever he has gone.

[news] The family said that while no sentence

can ever bring back our loved ones

today, justice demanded accountability,

the highest accountability,

we're grateful that the jury delivered it.

[narrator] On the 10th of April, 2026,

Judge Joseph Bulone sentences Shelby Nealy to death.

[Judge] Accordingly, it is ordered and adjudged

that the defendant Shelby Nealy, is sentenced to death.

The defendant will be committed to the custody

of the Florida Department of Corrections

for these sentences to be carried out as provided by law.

He's not only done this to these four innocent people,

he's done this to his children,

who are also innocent in all this.

We had this whole family this almost wiped out,

as a result of domestic violence.

[narrator] Now on death row,

Nealy's actions have left their mark on Tarpon Springs.

[Doeg] They were an important part of that community.

Every one of those foster kids who's grown up now,

they were all impacted.

This family that had helped them as children

were murdered so savagely.

[Kristin] Here's a family

that didn't have to let in Shelby Nealy,

he was homeless.

All they did was welcome him in and they're punished for it.

And this, this with their lives.