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>> 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 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 the...

I mean, it's enormous. >> and nobody said anything about that? >> never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasn't my client's vehicle. that's 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 broken into? >> i don't know. do we -- that's a tough question. i mean, you're dealing with digital ...

Doing that was, we're going to send a signal. we're 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 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 o...

"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 ...

>> it's big as all get out. i mean, it's enormous. >> and nobody said anything about that? >> never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasn't my client's vehicle. that's 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 broken into? >> i don't know. do we -- that's a tough question. i mean, ...