Gerald Wayne Bivens and His Crime Spree
The Pre-Story of the Radcliffe Murder *****This is a true story based on my memory, documents that I possess, and court documents from Carroll County. If there are errors they are slight and unintended. It is probably the longest story I've ever typed out, so be prepared. I hope you find it entertaining.***** Gerald Wayne Bivins was pronounced dead on March 14, 2001 at 12:26 a.m. Another murder? Another unsolved? Hardly. Jerry was pronounced dead in the Michigan City Prison due to lethal injection. The cause of death on the death certificate was cardiac arrest due to that injection. So what were the events that led to this action being taken? Arrest-wise, it all began in Carroll County. Specifically with the Delphi City Police. While the death penalty sentence did not come out of Carroll County, the beginning of this story certainly did. I graduated from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy at the end of 1989 and was off and running. ...