Always Laughing: How Demorris Hunter Hid a Serial Killer Behind a Friendly Face
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Joe
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In 2002, California parolee Demorris Andy Hunter shot and killed forty-one-year-old Ivora Denise Huntley in Oakland after she intervened in a domestic assault, then fled to Orlando, Florida, where he strangled and concealed the body of thirty-eight-year-old Theresa Ann Green before stealing the identity of a Washington D.C. executive to fund his life as a federal fugitive while his face aired on America's Most Wanted. Convicted of Huntley's murder in California in 2005, Hunter wasn't extradited to Florida to face charges in the Green case until 2015, with the trial concluding in April 2026 with a unanimous twelve to zero death penalty recommendation.Everyone who knew Demorris Hunter said the same thing: he was the nice one, always laughing, the one parents were glad to have around. What they didn't know was that behind that warmth he was building a body count across two states, living under a stolen name, and letting a thirteen-year-old boy grow into a man in his late thirties before anyone answered for what happened to his mother. This one is about the space between who people think you are and what you actually are, and about the people who paid the price for that gap.
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone who knew DeMoris Hunter described him the same way. Nice, respectable, always laughing. |
| 0:10.0 | He was the guy parents were glad to have around. He was also a convicted killer who murdered two women across two states, |
| 0:18.0 | stole the identity of a Washington, D.C. executive to fund his life as a fugitive, and left the 13-year-old boy waiting 24 years for someone to answer for his mother's death. I'm At the 2026 trial, when lawyers called witnesses to talk about who DeMores Hunter was as a person, |
| 0:57.8 | they all reached for the same words. |
| 0:59.9 | He was respectable, he was very nice, always laughing. |
| 1:03.5 | His cousin, Alfred, said that he was like an older brother, never aggressive a day in his life. |
| 1:09.2 | His childhood friend, Lenise, talked about how they'd been |
| 1:12.6 | close ever since the seventh grade, the warmth in him. His neighbor Florence said he was a regular |
| 1:18.8 | fixture in her home. The kind of young man parents were actively glad to have around their kids. |
| 1:24.5 | None of these people were wrong. That version of DeMores Hunter was real, and the |
| 1:29.3 | people describing him knew him very well. He was also a man who, by the time that testimony was |
| 1:34.7 | delivered, had shot three people before he turned 19, served 13 years at Folsom for it, walked out |
| 1:41.5 | on parole, and then murdered two more women across two states in the span |
| 1:45.7 | of about three months. Both of these people lived inside the same body at the same time, |
| 1:51.1 | and figuring out how that works is basically the entire story. DeMoris Andy Hunter was born |
| 1:57.4 | April 18, 1966 in Oakland. Oakland in the late 60s through the 70s was a city |
| 2:04.3 | under real economic strain. Industrial jobs were disappearing, communities were contracting, |
| 2:10.5 | and the crack epidemic was still building toward something that was going to hit neighborhoods, |
| 2:14.5 | like hunters, especially hard. His friend Chevron, who was essentially |
| 2:19.1 | family to him, said the loss of Hunter's mother during his youth left a wound that never really |
| 2:24.6 | closed. And plenty of people lose a parent young and managed to get through life without hurting |
| 2:29.5 | anyone else. That's absolutely true. Something else was running in Hunter at the same time. |
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