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>> its been eight years. you know? its been going on for a long time. a lot of this stuffs a blur. >> reporter: douglas county attorneys don kleine and brenda beadle had been prepping this case for more than three years. you prosecuted all four murders. >> yeah. >> you ever think about, "maybe we should just take the last two. thats easier? >> sure. that was a discussion that we had many times but the evidence, i think, would still come in. especially with the 2008 case. so, it seemed like the m...

Frustrations when they call, and they want updates. and they want to be kind of kept in the loop. but, you know, as investigators, you kind of -- you cant give them what -- theyre looking for answers from you that you cant give them, you know? >> reporter: tough for you guys, too, because im sure you want to keep working on this. meanwhile -- >> yes. >> reporter: your boss is saying, "heres another case." and another one. and another one. >> yeah. and thats why it went to the cold case unit. >> ...

Facility that day. >> but nobody actually saw him at work. >> right. but there was nothing to show that he was anywhere other than there. >> reporter: which is not an ironclad alibi, but its not bad. >> its not bad. and sometimes thats just the reality of our work. >> reporter: that seemed to be the end of the line. dr. belenky had been the investigators last best lead. unwilling to see the case go cold, shirlee shermans family pooled their money and offered a reward. >> there were a number of c...

There to witness it all, friends and family of the victims. thomas hunters mom claire hunter, who had been staying out of the public eye, and shirlee shermans brother dan were two of the first people outside the courtroom. >> its been eight years. you know? its been going on for a long time. a lot of this stuffs a blur. >> reporter: douglas county attorneys don kleine and brenda beadle had been prepping this case for more than three years. you prosecuted all four murders. >> yeah. >> you ever th...

As a clear attempt to send information to potential jurors that the states case was suspect. as a result the trial was postponed again, and the judge effectively kicked alison motta off the case. >> the judge denies her application to practice in the state of nebraska, very controversial move. >> it was just i spoke to the public, and that put, you know, information that couldve, you know, been information to potential jurors, and that violated the pretrial publicity rule. >> reporter: the motta...

>> so it might have been a cop who did that search and not your client? >> im not going to suggest that anybody, you know, specifically typed the name in. im just going to say that the way that the state presented the case and, in particular, that piece of evidence was not exactly truthful. >> reporter: the defense attornies spent a lot of time talking about the gun found on the side of the road and the ammo magazine at the brumback house. >> in light of the fact that we have the very damaging m...

"we have dna tests that prove that our guy was not at the hunter-sherman scene." >> reporter: alison motta spoke with wowt-tv via skype. >> their physical evidence and their dna evidence establishes undeniably, unmistakably and without doubt that the murders were committed by two people and not anthony garcia. >> reporter: the claim was based on what the mottas believed to be a potential match between some unidentified dna found on shirlee shermans bandana and some dna taken from a suspect in an...

And danny calls me and says, "they made an arrest in the case." and i think i forgot about 20, 30 items on my grocery shoppin list cause i was, like, real happy. i just -- the carton, rushed out of the grocery store and wanted to go home and watch the news. >> reporter: with anthony garcias arrest, jeff hunter says he and his parents felt as if they could finally stop looking over their shoulders. >> i mean, for five years they were super paranoid because that -- i mean, for all we knew, for all...

In this one, an elderly female had been bludgeoned and stabbed in the neck. >> we had knives that were used from her residence in her murder. so, we had similarities in that weapons were taken from her home and used against her and left at the scene. >> but you had somebody you liked for that. >> the detectives that investigated that case had identified a suspect very early on. somebody who was a family member of hers whom she had had a falling out with. >> and who didnt seem to have any connect...

Victims families met privately with the people responsible for bringing this case to an end. >> we basically gave em a round of applause when they came in because they did a hell of a job. >> tough to be there, or you were glad you were there? >> my family, were not really emotional, so seeing my brother cry, seeing my mom cry, its hard and seeing the district attorney cry, it was a tough moment. >> reporter: while garcias defense team faced a gaggle of cameras outside the courtroom. >> in terms...