The fabricated story gets deeper. Hunter told the 911 operator that he in fact saw two men fleeing as he entered his home.
When Daytona Beach law enforcement arrived, he kept his “shadowy figures in the yard” tale going until finally confessing that he thought his wife was cheating on him and he only wanted to scare her, “but his anger got the best of him.” The couple married in February 2010. His three-year-olds were home but left unharmed during the attack.