

In 1993, he was a member of the raid team that stormed the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. He was also a member of ATF's Special Response Team and was a trained sniper. For several years Hustmyre was part of ATF's Safe Home Task Force, targeting armed drug traffickers and other violent criminals in New Orleans' sprawling public housing projects. Marshals Service fugitive task force, the New Orleans Police Department's Violent Offender Warrant Squad, and the FBI's Gang Task Force. While with ATF, Hustmyre's assignments included tours with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Army military policeman, a district attorney's investigator and then as a special agent with the U.S. Hustmyre began his law enforcement career as a deputy sheriff in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel Hannity's America, FNC The Live Desk, FNC Fatal Beauty: 15 Notorious Women, E! Network Deadly Women, Investigation Discovery Channel. Hustmyre's story, Blue on Blue: murder, madness, and betrayal in the NOPD, in addition to being honored by the Press Club of New Orleans, was selected for inclusion in the HarperCollins book Best American Crime Writing 2006. In 2006, 20, the Press Club of New Orleans presented Hustmyre with honors for his investigative reporting and feature writing. He is a regular contributor to The Advocate newspaper and 225 magazine. Hustmyre's articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Homeland Security Today (HSToday), American Health & Fitness, Black Belt magazine, New Orleans magazine and many others. Hustmyre has written more than 700 news and feature articles and covered several high-profile cases for TruTV when it was known as CourtTV, including the Virginia Tech massacre, the Jason Midyette infanticide case in Boulder, Colorado, and the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse in Orlando, Florida. The Axman of New Orleans (novel, 2012), based on the true story of the early 19th century serial killer who many have called the "American Jack the Ripper".

House of the Rising Sun (film, 2011), released by Lionsgate.House of the Rising Sun (novel, 2011), a story of greed and corruption that pits a crooked ex-New Orleans cop against the Mafia.A Killer Like Me (novel, Dorchester/Leisure Books, 2011), the story of a troubled detective hunting a serial killer in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.An Act of Kindness (non-fiction, Penguin, 2007), republished as Unspeakable Violence, the true story of the brutal, racially charged murder of Genore Guillory by four grave-robbing, skinhead meth-freaks in rural south Louisiana.Killer with a Badge (non-fiction, Penguin, 2004), the shocking true story of killer New Orleans cop Antoinette Frank.
