air travel something you can check. we knew he was on the schedule. i believe we knew he had logged into his email account at the facility that day. but nobody actually saw him at work? right. but there is nothing to show that he was anywhere near there. it s not bad. sometimes that s the reality of our work. that seems to be the end of the line. doctor blank he had been the investigators last lead. unwilling to see the case go cold shirlee sherman s family offered a reward. a number of contributions, we saw people contributing as well. it made it how bad? at least 15. and counting everybody s contributions? yes. we actually wanted 100, 000, but they wouldn t allow that because they thought it would be a bounty, which it was, in my opinion. when the reward failed to produce a break in the case, they hired private
investigator. part of the motivation in doing that was, we are going to send a signal not let it become a cold case. you saw it becoming a cold case? we felt it was going that way. in the end, the private i found nothing that detectives hadn t already studied and discounted. year after the murders and then the, the case went cold, and most of the detectives went on to other things. but for the families of shirlee sherman and tom hunter, there could be no moving on. had you seen your dad change? it wasn t like he was depressed all the time, he was himself, just there was obviously something kind of like you could always see behind someone s eyes that there is something there, traveling them. i think we all had that. five dreadful anniversaries came and went. the dead were still inexplicably dead, and the case was still unsolved. but through it all, the
thomas hunter, shirlee sherman, and roger and mary brumback, anthony garcia finally faced a jury. there to witness it all, friends and family of the victims. thomas hunter s mom claire hunter, who had been staying out of the public eye, and shirlee sherman s brother dan were two of the first people outside the courtroom. it s been eight years. you know? it s been going on for a long time. a lot of this stuff s a blur. douglas county attorneys don kleine and brenda beadle had been prepping this case for more than three years. you prosecuted all four murders. yeah. you ever think about, maybe we should just take the last two. that s easier? sure. that was a discussion that we had many times but the evidence, i think, would still come in. especially with the 2008 case. so it seemed like the most logical thing was, if we re going to do these, let s do them together.
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. 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 [ bleep ] evidence, do we want to cloud it up by talking about a bunch of [ bleep ] that doesn t matter, right? bob, that s the only thing that i want to say. there s sound on this, so f words probably
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. 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. never before in my career, yeah. but that s your motive. sums up the case. that s our motive. yeah. they argued that garcia killed because he was angry about his termination from creighton and that it prevented him from being accepted into other programs to which he later applied. as he continues to try and have some sort of a career, it follows him. every time he tried to get into a different program or get