Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Florida Man Torched House With Woman and Baby Inside: Prosecutor

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Charles Ivy is accused of setting a fire in November 2023 that killed his ex-girlfriend, Den'Jah Moore, and her 10-month-old baby boy. Ivy's two children, a 4-year-old and 5-year-old, were also in the Daytona Beach apartment but survived. Detectives grilled Ivy about the fire but he didn't confess. Now he faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the said case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can submit a claim in 8 clicks or less without having to leave your couch. To start your claim, visit: https://www.forthepeople.com/CrimeFixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. That woman is dead right now. I brought the gun. She was stabbed more than a hundred times. That's Charles Ivy being grilled by detectives about the gruesome murder of his ex and her baby boy. And then the building goes on fire, and not to mention your baby. his mom, your children, bro.

Your children. I'll go through how Ivy tried to save himself but ended up behind bars facing a possible death sentence. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. A special place in the gates of hell. That's what the police chief said Charles Ivy, the defendant in this case, deserves

for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 100 times, before setting her apartment on fire with their children inside. It's unbelievable. This case is out of Daytona Beach, Florida, and it began in November of 2023. Police Chief Jacari Young described this as the most horrific crime he's ever seen. Young said that Ivy stabbed Denja Moore

and then set her apartment on fire. Moore and Ivy had two children together, ages four and five, but Moore also had a 10-month-old baby boy who died in the fire, By the grace of God, the two older children survived. Detectives confronted Ivy in the interrogation room. So what was your thought going on in your mind?

At a time? Mm-hmm. Why so strong? Damn. Yeah. They're going to put this on me. That's what you thought? Yeah, like, man, why's so strong?

They're going to put it on me and like, you know, everybody just pointing the tape and got the guns and all that. Well, that's kind of an odd reaction. Detectives believe the evidence is stacked against Charles Ivy. That interrogation was in November of 2023, but now nearly two years later, his case still has not gone to trial. The state attorney for Belugia County is seeking the death penalty against Ivy. He faces two counts of first-degree premeditated murder,

two counts have attempted. felony murder and arson of a dwelling for allegedly starting the fire at Moore's home in Daytona Beach. Denja had custody of the four-year-old girl and five-year-old boy that she shared with Ivy. But Ivy is actually the father of seven children with a few different women. So Denja is just one of the women he is supporting at the time with whom he shares children. He's also seeing another woman named Jasmine. Why don't you just commit to Jasmine? And you wouldn't be having any of these headaches.

nightmares. Right. I don't know. You just can't keep it in your pants, can you? I just choose not to. Yeah, I choose not to. The choices we make dictate the lives that we lead. That's very so. That's very so. This type of dynamic is toxic, and it's a motive that detectives consider pretty early on that maybe Ivy just has too many obligations, especially since Ivy admits he was sleeping with both women, Jasmine and Dan Jha, at the same time. You're deleting photos because you don't want to see her seeing over your shoulder is in your phone. Well, that's not issues, though.

Well, maybe she's got issues with you. Right. You don't have issues with her. Maybe she's got issues with you. That's a better way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And to make your life a little bit easier, you try and eliminate those issues as much as can. Mm-hmm.

So why don't you just? cash out her the 120 instead of having to go a little way down there. Nikki Cashout wasn't working. It wasn't working. On the night of November 20th, 203, Ivy admits that he went over to Denjaw's home to drop off $120. And that was the last time anyone ever saw her alive. Because just before midnight, Daytona Beach police say the fire department responded to

the apartment because it was fully engulfed with flames and black smoke was coming from the home. Quickly, authorities entered the apartment navigating the heavy smoke to recover any survivors. Firefighters rescued the two children and rushed them to a children's hospital, saving the lives of the four-year-old and five-year-old. But Denja and the baby, they were not as fortunate. Denja was dead and there was no saving her baby boy who passed away after suffering from cardiac arrest at the hospital. Since Ivy was the father of the children, police tried to reach him to tell him about what had happened with they couldn't find him. Until the next day, when Detective Cassidy decided to camp out outside of Ivy's

home and she watched as Ivy and the woman he was currently living with, Jasmine, loaded suitcases and bags into their car. She also noticed that Ivy had an injury to his leg. Ivy wasn't brought in for questioning until authorities got a search warrant. According to the arrest warrant, Ivy was armed with a lethal cutting instrument when he was arrested. We covered some property as we feel as evidence, but I wanted to give you a chance to, first of all, I would like to hear your story and see if you're willing to talk to us. So my partner will end up, he's going to reach you your rights. And then if you're willing to talk, then we'll talk. Okay. Okay. The world can be a really scary and unpredictable place, and that's where our partner and sponsor Morgan and

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So if you're ever hurt, you can easily start a claim at for the people.com slash crime fix or click the link in the description and pinned in the comments. Now before questioning even begins, Ivy overhears a phone call and he wants to set the record straight. There was something that you said that you wanted to address. And what was that that you wanted to address? make sure that we see in the trailer that was damaged from my hand to my leg explaining that was from lifting it up my leg got caught under we can see the on the trailer if I don't know if they're taking pictures it's an endpoint that's pointing out on it

that messed it up boom and it happened earlier that morning when I'm heading straight out What I do, I go straight out. I don't do nothing to put on my clothes, go straight out. What morning did it happen? Yes, this morning. Now, what Charles Ivy doesn't know is that the investigators, they've already done their due diligence on this case. They've used traffic cameras to pinpoint Ivy's location around town the night of the murder.

Through the cameras, detectives clocked a timeline of Ivy's whereabouts, starting with the time he got off his shift at checkers at 10 p.m. His SUV was captured heading in the direction of Denghaw's apartment. Then minutes after the fire was reported, detectives say his vehicle was driving away from the apartment and toward his home in Ormond Beach. Detectives changed the topic, and they try to get Ivy to confirm the details they already know.

So you leave there at about 1042. Where do you go from there? No, I went 1040. I couldn't have been 1042. I left a little bit before then. 1042, Denizia had called me, a Nicky had called me and I let him know I was leaving. Okay. That I was already on the way, matter of fact.

And I said I was called, yeah, yeah, she called, she called. And I said, um, by that time I was passing by a main one. Okay, so you took international? Right, because that's what the, um, I'm coming from the speedway Carrabbles and going up to, you know, going to the left. going to make a left, I mean right, right? To go, what is that? Clyde Morris, to that way.

So you take International to Claude Morris and make a right on Clyde Morris? You have to go to it. Okay, yeah. And then where do you go from there? Yeah, I go to Denizia. What time do you think it was when you got to Nicky's house? 11?

Yeah, if that was 1042, 11, a little bit before 11. Yeah, a little bit before 11. 1042 don't take that long time, like 5 minutes. When you left checkers on your way to Nikki's house, did you stop anywhere in between? No. Give soda, a pack of cigarettes, anything? No. When you got to Nicky's apartment, who was there?

She came to the door. I haven't really seen nobody else. Okay. Like the kid, was the kids there or anything? Yeah, they could have been, but it was at that time they usually be asleep. Okay. So, Nicky answered the door? Or did you just walk in?

Yeah, she had already unlocked the door, but I still had knocked that she came to the door, was in everything. So Ivy tells detectives that he arrived at 11 p.m., stayed for 15 to 20 minutes and remained in the parking lot for 30 minutes, leaving at 1135. But according to the fire marshal, the fire started between 1132 and 1142 p.m. And was intentionally set with the fire starting in two locations, a telltale sign of arson. The first fire was set in the kitchen area. All four burners on the kitchen stove were turned on. Large amounts of miscellaneous burnt paper and a box on top of the stove were found. But when investigators asked Ivy about the burner, he mentions that he was the one who turned it off.

Turned that off. You turned that off? Yeah. So you did use the stove. Well, I wasn't using it. I didn't use it. She was using it. You touched the stove.

I had the stove. When you say she was boiling a bottle, describe that? Yeah, um, like warm it up. Like, so you put water in the pot. Okay. And turn it on, let it hit a certain temp. And then you just... She have glass or plastic bottles?

Uh... Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. And I believe that it was on the front eye. On what? On the front eye. The bottom, we use the front eye for the bottle.

The burner? Yeah, the front burner, yeah. The front burner. How many burners are on that stove? Regular. Four. Four? Yeah.

Just the regular four. And if I'm looking at the stove, which one did she have the... No, the front one. The first one on the right? Yeah. Front right. Yeah. Okay.

Did you just turn it off or did you move it to another burner? No, just turn it off? Mm-hmm. Was the water like simmering or really boiling, rolling? It was, no, it was good. It was like, um, regular. I mean, it wasn't like too much. It was the normative, well, what is the normal temperature?

Let me be precise. It was, I wouldn't know how to describe it. It wasn't overdoing it, you know, it was, it was ready for him. It was going to be ready. Probably had to let it sit. Problems coming up from the, from the bar. Yeah, you probably had to let it sit. and just all you have to do just let it sit for a little minute like she usually doesn't just let it just let it sit and then be ready

okay so he's gonna wake up because he he usually wakes up about 12 1 and she got to get him that bottle so she just pregnant she was there any other burn or someone The investigators are losing their patience, and the fire marshal says there was another fire that also started in the northwestern bedroom, where a denjand or ten-length old son were found. You are the only one right now. You are the only one that can answer this question. You're the only one that can answer the question why this woman is laying dead like that. Stabbed over a hundred times. That a hundred times. I don't know. I'm telling you, sir, I was in my car. I was in my car.

And it's as valid as it can get. I was in my car. You think we're going to believe that you're just sitting there in your car and your baby mom is right in front of you. He's not in front of me. Can we go back? Your baby mom... That's not in front of me.

That's not in front of me. That's not in front of me. That's not in front of me. in this building. It's not in front of me though. Your baby mom is in this building. It's not in front of me. Being stabbed more than a hundred times.

Being stabbed more than a hundred times. And you're there in the parking lot. And then the building goes on fire. And not to mention your baby's mom, your children, bro. Your children, your children are in there. I did not see any smoke coming from it. I did not even see any smoke coming from it. smoke coming from it.

You can't tell me that. It would, it was two guys out there. It was two guys out there. It was two guys out there. First there's nobody out there. No, no, no, no. It was two guys when I pulled off. Just like I, come on, just like I forgot I went to Wells Fargo.

It does make sense. Yes, that I did. So it makes sense to you that you were there when your baby moms were stabbed a hundred times. 100 times. I was in my car. The building was set on fire with three children inside of the apartment and you're in your car in the parking lot.

That makes sense to you. What happened in there, Charles? Nothing to have them to tell you. I can tell you something happened. I showed you the picture already. Something happened. Something did happen. I didn't do it. I had to go

to your baby mom's autopsy. I understand that. for three hours. Not only her, the baby that was laying next to her. The baby that was laying next to her, man. I can't believe you can sit there and tell me that lie. I can't believe you can sit there and tell me that lie. And you can't tell me the reason.

What happened? Nothing ain't happened. We're good. We're good. We're good. We're good. Now, if everything is all good, like Ivy mentions, then shouldn't you be showing some emotion about losing the mother of his children and her baby son dying, too?

You know what surprises me is we're sitting here having this conversation. I show you a picture of Nikki, and you're not bothered by that. I'm highly bothered by it, but I've been in the military. I was infantry. I highly bothered by it. I asked the ladies earlier. Not to mention, Nikki, your children, and that one baby. That one of your baby.

Did you know I went up there? I went up there. That's where I was going where y'all even put me up. I was just up there this moment. As soon as the officers came, we went straight up there. I talked to the social workers. I talked to everyone. I even seen the children.

Ask them how I reacted up there. I'm just keeping my proposal. here, like I just asked them how I was from the detective. I saw your response. I saw the video. Right. Your reaction was carefree at that point. Care free? Yeah. Oh, nah. You see me sit out? You didn't see me sit out and have to gather myself? Oh, that's an opinion, that's an opinion, yeah. That's an opinion, yeah, that's an opinion, yeah.

Whoa. Whoa. Oh, yeah, yeah, you can see me sit down? You want to me to cry for you. I didn't want you. Oh, so that's what I'm saying. You can continue with that. No, no, I'm just saying. I'm just, I'm just, is this a question, right?

I'll just ask the question. I'll just ask the question. I just ask the question. Then the detectives decide that it's ready to drop a bomb on Ivy. What are you going to say? What's Jasmine going to say if the DNA results come back that Messiah is yours? Because we know it's not Max's. You know that?

No, you know. Courts know that. Max did DNA test. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know that.

I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Well, now you do. What's going to happen when the... For jazz? The test come back to... That Messiah was yours. What happens?

Now dead. did. And you say, what happens with what? I'm sorry, you have to, what happens with it? Like, what you mean? Like, what happened? What's going to happen? How are you going to break the news to Jasmine? Like I do last time, just say it. That's right, right, right. All your child was murdered. Then detectives hit Ivy with something else. Question was, what did they got in Nikki's house? I ain't, I ain't, I didn't take nothing. I didn't take anything out.

And how are we gonna explain if her phone and your phone both track in the same direction? At the same time. And she's in the house. Mm-hmm. On fire. Her phone's not.

The phone's in your car when you traveling away from the scene. Make that make sense. And why would you think her phone would stop? Despite being present at the victim's apartment during the fire, Ivy doesn't reveal who committed the murder or the arson. Who else could have done it then? Anybody could have done it.

No. Anybody out of it? that's crazy. You think that that's an opinion. That's a fun opinion. Detectives decide to stop the questioning. It's gone on for a while, so it continues the next day. Did you get to sleep? Yes, yeah. Yeah. You know, go into the process, you know? I mean, what you don't know. Just whatever. You know, just going to the plastic.

How are you feeling now? Go on to the process. Are you feeling okay? I had my medicine. You did or did not have it? So I talked about the lady to see what's the alternate that I get. What do you mean by that? Well, I process the thoughts.

So you gotta go through the process. You said that about four or five times. Yeah, I don't do whatever the process is. That's what I think about, that's a military term. turn it from just whatever it is work man it's Dakota and you got you have they have they're doing better you know

they're trying to get out of the hospital you were you were going up there yesterday So they're doing, they're not going to get released today, but hopefully tomorrow they're going to be okay to look at the hospital, either tomorrow or Friday. Detectives truly try every trick in the book, but Ivy won't crack, and now it's unclear, if we'll ever find out the truth of what happened that night from him. The evidence is already there. You're already here. Nicky's family, man. They just, they want, they want this to be over with, man.

They just, they want to know why, what happened. Here's, here's my thing, you can let us tell the story or you can get your side out there. You know what I'm saying? We know, clean slate for you to apologize on them. on. Here's the instrument to start that apology. You can write it out, Nikki's family, to write it to Dakota and Death and Shubbs. You can write it to Jasmine. No, you can write it to yourself.

Write it to your mama. Excuse me, I want the public... I'm here to see Mr. Ivey. Okay. I don't speak to the attorney right now? I'm your attorney, Mr. Rivey. Oh, I don't see. Okay, I guess...

I don't know. I don't know. I guess if you get in the castle, too. I guess... I think we should talk. You can talk to these guys at any time. I'd like to. We'll finish our story. I'm talking to him.

They said don't know about that. Oh, you got to go back. You can leave them. Yeah. You can talk to them. Oh, that's like to. And that's how the interrogation ended. The public defender.

is still representing Charles Ivy, and he's currently being held without bond in the Valuja County Jail. Charles Ivy is due back in court next month, and a trial date has not yet been scheduled. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.