Hunter, who had served prison time for an earlier manslaughter conviction, arrived in Florida with a stolen identity<\/a> after killing a woman in California on March 26, 2002.<\/p>\nInvestigators said the California victim, 41-year-old Ivora Huntley, was shot dead when she called police after witnessing Hunter attacking his then-girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Hunter met Green shortly after coming to Florida, but Green only knew him as his alias: Michael Berry.<\/p>\n
On the night of May 25, 2002, Hunter and Green attended a get-together at their neighbor\u2019s apartment in College Park, where witnesses said an altercation between them ended with them tumbling down a flight of stairs before returning to her apartment.<\/p>\n
The next morning, Hunter asked the neighbor to help him take Green\u2019s car to a Walgreen\u2019s parking lot in Sanford with \u2014 unknown to the neighbors, according to prosecutors \u2014 Green\u2019s body in the trunk.<\/p>\n
Green\u00a0wasn\u2019t reported missing until the following day, when her teenage son, Octavius Hayes, couldn\u2019t find his mother but spotted a hole in the drywall of her apartment that was not there the night before.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said her body was discovered in her car wrapped in a blanket, with an autopsy finding she was likely beaten and strangled. Forensic analysts who reviewed the decades-old report, however, disagreed in their testimony with whether that determination was conclusive.<\/p>\n
His attorneys contended there was no DNA evidence linking him to the crime, while prosecutors pointed to her injuries and insisted she did not leave her apartment alive after her fight with Hunter.<\/p>\n
The case was prosecuted by the neighboring Fifth Circuit State Attorney\u2019s Office, which covers several counties including Lake, after former Gov. Rick Scott removed the case from Orange-Osceola prosecutors in 2017 due to then-State Attorney Aramis Ayala\u2019s opposition to the death penalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see no other punishment fitting for this defendant who ruthlessly took the life of Theresa Green,\u201d State Attorney Bill Gladson said in a statement after observing Tuesday\u2019s proceeding from the gallery. \u201cWhile the Court has rendered justice under the law, the final judgment does rests with God \u2014 and may he levy an even greater punishment knowing the defendant denied every measure of mercy to his victim.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter went back on the lam after Green was killed, and the case was featured on a segment of the hit TV show \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted\u201d along with Huntly\u2019s murder. He was later arrested in Texas and sent back to California to face charges there first.<\/p>\n
He was convicted of murdering Huntly in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison, but it wasn\u2019t until 10 years later that he was extradited to Florida to be tried for killing Green.\u00a0Between a series of procedural delays, the change in prosecutors and the COVID-19 pandemic, the case was not brought to trial until this year.<\/p>\n
A jury took seven hours to find him guilty and another two hours to recommend his execution.<\/p>\n
Hunter was denied an opportunity to speak before the court Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man found guilty of killing a College Park woman in 2002 while on the lam for another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7075,112,28,114,266,115,1335,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-363120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-college-park","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}