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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 insisted that he was innocent. but the mottas were concerned that extensive press coverage of the murders was giving potential jurors only one side of the story. >> they needed to hear that there were so many other people with means, motive, and opportu...

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 detectives who'd been at the hunter home five years earlier, this one felt uncomfort...

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 never made it to trial, but she throws it out there on the eve of trial, and prosecutors are incensed, and it really chapped the judge. >> reporter: the judge took it a...

>> reporter: prosecutors said hoffman had nothing to gain by publicly talking about her past life. >> she had two children. she had moved on in her life, and didn't want to go back in time, but she did. >> reporter: but why would garcia make that confession to her? hoffman said garcia, who was a regular at the strip club where she worked, wanted more than a lap dance. >> he was trying to impress her because she was trying to keep him at arm's length saying, "you know what, he was getting too serious." >> and she said, "i only date bad boys," or something like that -- >> right. "you're too good...

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 there's something there troubling them. and i think we all had that. >> reporter: five dreadful anniversaries came and went. the dead were still inexpli...