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>> reporter: prosecutors thought it was just what they needed to show garcia's guilt and weave all their evidence together. >> you know, one piece by itself probably isn't enough. but you put all those pieces together, and it's a very good case. >> reporter: after 12 days, it was now the defense's turn. they would tell a different story, one that attacked the very foundation of the prosecution's case. coming up, a candid look inside the defense team. >> shut up. >> raw and real. >> you want real life? you're getting real life. you're flies on the wall, man. >> when dateline continues. >> whe...

>> reporter: their theory was whoever killed the brumbacks also killed thomas hunter and shirlee sherman. prosecutors summed up their case in a word, revenge, and they pointed to something they found on garcia's tablet. >> 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....

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 detectives who'd been at the hunter home five years earlier, this one felt uncomfortably familiar. >> it was like,...

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 garcia apparently wanted was a t...

Chuck schumer called for acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and john bolton to testify as part of an expected impeachment trial. a group of freshman democrats are privately campaigning for speaker nancy pelosi to have representative justin amash serve as an impeachment manager in a senate trial. amash left the republican party after backing impeachment. now back to "dateline." 2008, two months after the murders in dundee, detectives powered through and eliminated nearly all of their early leads in that case. the boyfriend of shirlee's daughter, the man who looked like such a good suspect ...