By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author. Posted August 11, 2026.
On the night of March 10, 2001, where was Tony Hunter? The sworn and record evidence assembled in his post-conviction filings answers in detail — and the jury that convicted him heard almost none of it. (Primary source: the 2022 application, Statement of Facts, transcribed with record citations.)
The evening, hour by hour
Until ~7:30 p.m.: Mr. Hunter was at a party for the March birthdays on South 1st Street, hosted by Brenda Graves, with his 11-year-old daughter Porcia. Graves confirmed this to investigators on May 8, 2001 — two months later, and years before trial. (R. 185.)
After 7:30 p.m.: he returned with Porcia to the Colonial Manor apartment he shared with Stephanie Stokes and their four children. Stokes remembered the evening specifically: it was still light out and the children played outside with their father; the next day was their son Tony Jr.’s birthday, Porcia stayed over to help prepare; the TV was on because Tony always watched the 10 o’clock news. By her account he was home the entire night.
The work records: his supervisor at James Machine Works testified Mr. Hunter worked a full week before the murders and a full 39-hour week after them. (R. 2239.) Men who have just committed a triple homicide rarely clock a full Monday.
What he did when questioned
Interviewed on May 6, 2001, Mr. Hunter waived his rights, said he did not know Levi Williams or the children and had never been to 221 Greenwood Drive, denied involvement — saying he had five children of his own and would never hurt a child — and offered to take a lie detector test. (R. 182.)
The statement the defense says it never received
The filings allege that the alibi statement taken from Stephanie Stokes was never provided to the defense — one of the five disclosure claims documented on the withheld evidence page. Stokes’s sworn affidavit was filed with the 2022 factual-innocence application.
The other half
Alibi evidence from family and friends is exactly the kind juries are entitled to weigh skeptically — which is why the remedy sought is not belief but process: no jury has ever evaluated this alibi, no court has held an evidentiary hearing on the claim it was withheld, and every application presenting it has been denied. (Procedural history; why this case is a wrongful-conviction case.)