By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author. Originally published February 2021 on the first version of this site; republished and re-sourced August 2026.
Tony Lavelle Hunter was convicted in 2004 of a triple homicide and attempted armed robbery. No eyewitness identified him. No fingerprints, DNA, blood, hair or fibers connected him to 221 Greenwood Drive, to the victims, or to the murder weapon — the State’s own forensic record, set out page by page here, shows what was tested and what it found.
What convicted him was the testimony of three men incarcerated with him at the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center. The Louisiana Second Circuit, affirming on direct appeal, described that testimony as “the only evidence that directly linked Tony Hunter with the crime.” State v. Hunter, 907 So. 2d 200, 204 (La. App. 2 Cir. 2005). Who those three men were, what they said, what they received, and how their accounts compare — against the record and against each other — is documented on the informants page.
Sworn affidavits filed in later proceedings describe the informants’ accounts as a fabricated scheme — Glen Dale Nelson’s 2012 affidavit calls it “a jailhouse conning scheme organized by my friends,” and Jody Rucks swore in 2022 that he was asked to join it and refused. The other half: no court has held an evidentiary hearing on those affidavits, and every post-conviction application to date has been denied. The complete procedural history, including the filings now pending, is here.
Start with the case summary, then read the record for yourself.
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