Peter Ivers was born in Illinois on September 20, 1946 to parents Merle Rose, and Jordan Rose. When Peter was two years old, his father became ill with lung cancer. Shortly after Jordan was diagnosed, the family relocated to Arizona in an attempt to help him recover. His health further declined, and Jordan died in 1949.
Merle quickly remarried to Paul Isenstein, a businessman from the Boston area. Merle didn't care for his last name, so she picked the last name "Ivers" out of the phone book as her new married name (Paul also took the last name, in an attempt to win his mother's affection.)
From about age four, Peter was raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard University, majoring in classical languages, but chose a career in music. He started playing harmonica with the Boston-based band Street Choir.
Ivers embarked on a solo career in 1969 with the EPIC release of his debut, Knight of The Blue Communion . In 1976, Ivers was asked by David Lynch to write a song for his movie, Eraserhead. In 1977, Ivers produced a synth-pop/disco album for Roderick Falconer titled Victory in Rock City.
On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his Los Angeles loft space apartment. The murderer was never identified.
In the hours following his death, LAPD officers sent to Ivers home failed to secure the scene, allowing many of Iver's friends and acquaintances to traffic through the loft space. The scene was contaminated and officers even allowed David Jove to leave with the blood-stained blankets from Ivers' bed.
At the time of his death, Ivers had been dating film executive Lucy Fisher for many years. About five weeks after the murder, Fisher paid for a private investigator named David Charbonneau to investigate the crime. Charbonneau stated: "I do not believe it was a break-in. I do not believe it was just someone off the street that Peter brought in because he was a nice guy that night and fell asleep trusting them. I'm not buying it."
No further investigations or arrests have been made, as much of the evidence was contaminated when the officers failed to secure the scene.
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