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As for the gun used in the brumback killings, prosecutors argued the gun parts found at the brumback house fit a gun later found alongside a highway about 20 miles from garcia s home. that gun was missing a crucial component, the barrel, meaning a test bullet couldn t be fired, however, what was left was licensed to anthony garcia. all of a sudden you get handed the murder weapon? right, yeah, that was a gift. i think it was divine intervention, yeah. reporter: the 2008 dundee case, however, had no physical evidence. what it did have was eyewitnesses. several described seeing a silver honda crv with an out-of-state plate. this is a picture of the car anthony garcia owned in 2008 when he was living in louisiana. it s a honda crv. ....
Murdered by a killer who was just getting started. who did it, and why were questions that would eventually take omaha detectives all over north america and would take more than five years to answer. this one stood out, obviously, because of the brutality for one. reporter: detective derek mois, was working 3:00 to 11:00 that day. the 911 call came in from tom hunter s dad, dr. william hunter. dr. hunter had come home, found shirlee sherman and his son deceased and would call 911. anything unusual about that call? there wasn t a lot of emotion shown, but he is a doctor. he is a pathologist. and he s seen a lot of dead people. and he s seen a lot of death, and it was i think to use a word clinical. reporter: the detective and his partner were immediately dispatched to the hunter s stately home in dundee. nice part of town? it is. it s it s an older neighborhood, middle to upper class homes, very quiet. it s not a place where we have a lot of violent crime occur in ....
reporter: the dna evidence linking garcia to the bewtra break-in they said was flawed. and the prosecution s timeline for the brumback murders was suspect. the state s window for when this had to occur because of where they had our guy at certain times through cell phone records, it had to occur sometime between 3:15 and 4:00, maybe 4:15. reporter: according to the defense, the brumbacks were killed later, maybe around midnight, long after anthony garcia had left omaha and headed for home. our pathologists made it very clear that because of the rigor mortis, the conditions of the bodies, the homicides didn t happen when he was in omaha. reporter: in the dundee murders, perhaps the biggest hurdle for the defense was the testimony of former exotic dancer cecilia hoffman. cecilia hoffman s statement was was huge. ....
reporter: since bill and claire hunter were both doctors at creightion, he a pathologist, she a cardiologist, detectives wondered if someone at the hospital might have had a motive to harm them. do you have any patients that are upset with you? not as far as i know. honestly. how about your wife? i don t know. i mean, usually not. reporter: everyone handles grief differently. after their youngest son was murdered in their home, the hunters seemed to want nothing more than to be left alone. we re kind of a private family, so we re not too keen on talking with media. reporter: on the other hand the family of shirlee sherman, the other dundee victim, desperately wanted to keep the case in the public eye. we wanted the publicity. you really wanted this to be solved? yeah. oh, yeah. hell, yeah. reporter: they had their own ideas about who the killer might be, and the more they talked, the more detectives wondered if ....
Would have known each other. no question. reporter: it had been more than five years since the killings in dundee. but the creighton connection was lost on no one, least of all the families of the 2008 victims shirlee sherman and tom hunter. we saw it on the news and these people say it was dr. roger brumback was head of the pathology department at creighton university. whoa. i recognized that name right away. and the fact that it was another pathologist from creighton killed with a knife, i automatically assumed it was related. reporter: roger and mary brumback were both 65. in researching their final hours, reporter todd cooper learned the couple had last been heard from at about 2:00 p.m. on mother s day. one of the first things we ....