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There to witness it all, friends and family of the victims. thomas hunter's mom claire hunter, who had been staying out of the public eye, and shirlee sherman's brother dan were two of the first people outside the courtroom. >> it's been eight years. you know? it's been going on for a long time. a lot of this stuff's 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. that's easier? >> sure. that was a discussi...

"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 sherman's bandana and some dna taken from a suspect in another case. >> they are taking alleles from dna, bits and pieces, and coming up with a theory that ...

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 don't 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 left alone. >> we're kind of a private family, so we're not too keen on talking with media. >> reporter: on the other hand the family of shirlee sherman, the other dundee victim, desperately w...

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 didn't seem to have any connection with the hunters. >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: there comes a time in every homicide investigation where detectives have to focus on the victim's family an...

>> reporter: in the end, the private eye found nothing that the detectives hadn't 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. >> how'd you see your dad change? >> it wasn't like he was depressed all the time or he was himself. it just, there was obviously something kind of, like, you can always see behind someone's eyes that there's something there troubling them. and i think we all had that. >> reporter: five dread...