Bound to Kill: The Death of Travis Anton

December 02, 2003

Travis Anton was killed by Susan Fullilove (aka Delia Day) on December 2, 2003. He was passionate about photography, drawing and painting, and since today marks the 20th anniversary anniversary of his death, I thought I’d share some of his art with you all.

Scattered into the text below are some of his works - generously shared with me by his brother, Richard Anton. Susan, the mother of Travis’s two young children, was never charged with a crime.

Although the case was presented to a grand jury, they were not shown the police report or the autopsy, which in any case was conducted by Steven Hayne, who at the time performed up to 90 percent of criminal autopsies in Mississippi even though he was not certified by the state to do so.

While researching Bound to Kill, I was told repeatedly that both the police report and the questionable autopsy no longer existed; I was eventually able to track down a copy of both. Rumors swirled about the killing on the internet amongst Delia Day fans in the months and years of radio silence that followed; based on the police report, none of these rumors turned out to be true.

In the once lost police report, which will be available for the first time after it’s published here in Murder Pop Magazine, police document a bewildering interview with Susan about the killing, in which she never invokes the spectre of self-defense.

According to the report, on Wednesday April 21, 2004 the “case was presented to the Choctaw County Grand Jury and a ‘No Bill’ was returned. Case Closed.” This decision came just short of five months after Susan was arrested for shooting Travis with the shotgun he taught her to shoot. By the fall of that same year, Susan had re-married an old college friend.

You can read more about Delia Day, Travis Anton, and Susan in Bound to Kill: The Untold Story of Delia Day by Viktoria Evans.