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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. >> that's the only thing that...

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 all counting everybody's contributions?...

And danny calls me and says, "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 hu...

State of mind at this point. >> 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. >> reporte...

>> 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 forensics. >> reporter:...