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It was just what they needed to show garcias guilt and weave all their evidence together. >> you know, one piece by itself probably isnt enough. but you put all those pieces together, and its a very good case. >> reporter: after 12 days, it was now the defenses turn. they would tell a different story, one that attacked the very foundation of the prosecutions case. coming up, a candid look inside the defense team. >> shut up. >> raw and real. >> you want real life? youre getting real life. your...

Sr. as co-counsel. back in the 70s, the senior motta represented a clown-turned-serial-killer named john wayne gacy. >> i had never tried a case with my dad, and hes towards the end of his career and hed always said to me, "if you get a juicy murder, that give me a call. ill try it with ya." and i called him half expecting him to be, like, "nah, you know, im too old. i dont wanna do it." and he was onboard immediately, so -- >> this ended up being that case. >> that was that case, right. >> repo...

Murder," so then obviously my interest was piqued. >> reporter: it was a stroke of luck. anthony garcias family had been cold calling lawyers looking for someone to defend anthony. bob motta was the first to call back. it was 2:00 a.m. california time when he got anthony garcias brother on the phone. 30 minutes later, bob motta was retained to handle his first murder case. >> i go upstairs. i wake my wife up, who is my law partner, alison motta. and im, like, "we got a murder case. we gotta get ...

>> reporter: since bill and claire hunter were both doctors at creightion, he a pathologist, she a cardiologist, detectives wondered if someone at the hospital might have had a motive to harm them. >> do you have any patients that are upset with you? >> not as far as i know. honestly. >> how about your wife? >> i dont know. i mean, usually not. >> reporter: everyone handles grief differently. after their youngest son was murdered in their home, the hunters seemed to want nothing more than to be ...

>> one of the searches was just an interesting quote that had the word revenge in it, so we were interested to know where that came from, and its easy to find when you google it. >> reporter: it was a quote similar to one in shakespeares play "the merchant of venice." >> if you harm me, shall i not revenge? >> not often does "the merchant of venice" come up in a murder trial. >> never before in my career, yeah. >> but thats your motive. >> sums up the case. thats our motive. yeah. >> reporter: t...

>> reporter: you saw it becoming a cold case? >> well, we felt it was becoming that way. >> reporter: in the end, the private eye found nothing that the detectives hadnt already studied and discounted. a year after the murders in dundee, the case went cold and most of the detectives moved on to other things. but for the families of shirlee sherman and tom hunter, there could be no moving on. >> howd you see your dad change? >> it wasnt like he was depressed all the time or he was himself. it jus...

I mean, its enormous. >> and nobody said anything about that? >> never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasnt my clients vehicle. thats the more likely answer. >> reporter: the 2013 brumback case was more complicated for the defense team beginning with the fact that anthony garcia had been in omaha on the day of the murders. >> how do you explain your client being back in omaha and searching for the addresses of one person who was killed and one person whose house was nearly brok...

Doing that was, were going to send a signal. were not going to let it cold case. >> reporter: you saw it becoming a cold case? >> well, we felt it was becoming that way. >> reporter: in the end, the private eye found nothing that the detectives hadnt already studied and discounted. a year after the murders in dundee, the case went cold and most of the detectives moved on to other things. but for the families of shirlee sherman and tom hunter, there could be no moving on. >> howd you see your dad...

"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...

>> its big as all get out. i mean, its enormous. >> and nobody said anything about that? >> never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasnt my clients vehicle. thats the more likely answer. >> reporter: the 2013 brumback case was more complicated for the defense team beginning with the fact that anthony garcia had been in omaha on the day of the murders. >> how do you explain your client being back in omaha and searching for the addresses of one person who was killed and one person ...