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>> reporter: the mottas brought in bob's father, robert motta 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 he's towards the end of his career and he'd always said to me, "if you get a juicy murder, that give me a call. i'll try it with ya." and i called him half expecting him to be, like, "nah, you know, i'm too old. i don't wanna do it." and he was onboard immediately, so -- >> this ended up being that case. >> that was that case, right. >> reporter: dr. anthony garcia insiste...

>> 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 it's easy to find when you google it. >> reporter: it was a quote similar to one in shakespeare's 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 that's your motive. >> sums up the case. that's our motive. yeah. >> reporter: they argued that garcia killed because he was angry about his termination from creighton and that...

Dundee. 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 didn't seem to have any connection with the hunters. >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: there comes a time in every homicide...

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