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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....

>> honestly, i've been just racking my brain. i mean, i -- we live a peaceful existence, uh, almost ridiculously simple. >> reporter: dr. william hunter, known as bill to friends and colleagues, ran the pathology residency program at nearby creighton university. his wife, claire, also a doctor at creighton, was in hawaii that day attending a conference. her husband had to break the awful news to her from the police station. >> how is your wife? crushed? is she going to be okay? >> she has a work mate that's with her. >> so she's not alone? >> no. >> that's -- that's -- that's good. >> reporter...

A beloved medical school professor and his wife were found dead, murdered in their home. the killing has rocked omaha, nebraska, and creighton university, from the professor taught. new link to a 6-year-old cold case may help investigators solve not one but two double murders. cnn's stephanie elam is in omaha. stephanie, what do we know about the latest crime? >> reporter: we can tell you this one crime happened on tuesday where dr. brumback, back in march of 2008 another faculty member dr. william hunter his 11-year-old son and family housekeeper were found murdered in their house, a case tha...

There believe they have to be connected. the 65-year-old was in the process of retiring. on tuesday, he and his wife, mary, were found dead in their home. a flashback to 2008, 11-year-old thomas hunter and shirley sherman were found dead in a family home connected to creighton. thomas was the son of two doctors. his father, william hunter, worked with brumback, and it's believed the same person killed all four people. >> anybody other than somebody that works in the pathology department in creighton, you would not give it a second thought. >> reporter: police found the bodies after a piano mov...

Don't leak too much out to hurt the investigation. >> tell us about the 2008 double murder. do police believe it may be linked to the bromback killings? >> reporter: right. the thing that happened here, the reason they are interested in that is in 2008, another faculty member from the pathology department, dr. william hunter, his 11-year-old son and the family house keeper were found murdered in the family's home. that murder is still a cold case. it's never been solved. the pathology department at creighton is only 12 people. it's a small community you are talking about. a subset of a communi...