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"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 garcia's 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 i always thought about was someone was still trying to find my dad because that was always my hunch, that someone was after e...

And they want to be kind of kept in the loop. but, you know, as investigators, you kind of -- you can't give them what -- they're looking for answers from you that you can't give them, you know? >> reporter: tough for you guys, too, because i'm sure you want to keep working on this. meanwhile -- >> yes. >> reporter: your boss is saying, "here's another case." and another one. and another one. >> yeah. and that's why it went to the cold case unit. >> reporter: and that's how it stayed until may of 2013. the breakthrough moment came in brutal form, yet another double homicide in omaha. for detec...

>> right. but there was nothing to show that he was anywhere other than there. >> reporter: which is not an ironclad alibi, but it's not bad. >> it's not bad. and sometimes that's 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 sherman's family pooled their money and offered a reward. >> there were a number of contributions. i think there were some other people contributing as well. >> reporter: which made it how big? >> $50,000. >> reporter: so it was $50,000 in...

>> reporter: the judge took it as a clear attempt to send information to potential jurors that the state's 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 could've, you know, been information to potential jurors, and that violated the pretrial publicity rule. >> reporter: the mottas wanted to fight alison's removal, but what their client anthony g...

>> so it might have been a cop who did that search and not your client? >> i'm not going to suggest that anybody, you know, specifically typed the name in. i'm 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 magazine evidence, we want to cloud it up by talking about a bunch of [ bleep ] that doesn't matter...