By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author.
On March 11, 2001 — the day after the murders — Sgt. Medaries asked Douglas Simonds, who lived at 221 Greenwood, who he thought could have been responsible. Simonds answered: “I don’t know, we just — people out there saying rumors… suppose to been some dude… it was something like Fat, they call him Fat.” (R. 113; ROA. 1834; 2022 application.)
Twenty-five years later, when attorneys asked Glen Dale Nelson about the same street name, he answered: “I’ve heard all kind of things. I’ve heard that too… I just know that the statements that was made saying that Hunter confessed in front of me, that never happened.” (2026 interview transcript.) Harold Black, another resident, told investigators he believed the killer “had to be somebody that knew us, knew what was going on.” Tony Hunter, per the bond-hearing testimony, had no links to the household at all. (R. 141, 1435.)
The other half: a street rumor is not evidence, and no one named “Fats” was ever charged. We report what the first interviews contained because the record contains it — and because the man eventually convicted was not the man those interviews pointed to.
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