to go home and watch the news. reporter: with anthony garcia s arrest, jeff hunter says he and his parents felt as if they could finally stop looking over their shoulders. i mean, for five years they were super paranoid because that i mean, for all we knew, for all i always thought about was someone was still trying to find my dad because that was always my hunch, that someone was after either my mom or dad. reporter: investigators dispatched to anthony garcia s home in terre haute, indiana, saw the outward signposts of success. the house sat on a quiet street with a ferrari in the drive, but inside the house was practically empty. bare rooms, bare closets and barely any food. in the living room, detectives found a table stacked with financial documents, mortgage information and insurance policies.
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anthony garcia was broke, his home facing foreclosure. well, it appeared to us that he had made some deliberate attempt to kind of lay things out so people could get his affairs in order. and we see those things as homicide investigators when you investigate suicides. so, wherever he was headed when you arrested him, maybe that was going to be his last journey anywhere. that was our thought, that that was going to be his end game. reporter: in addition to the documents taken from garcia s home, investigators had to go through all the data collected from his electronic devices, cell phones, tablets, computers and his icloud account. you could see from his financial records that he was regularly going to alcohol stores, that he was spending a lot of time at gentlemen s clubs in and around terra haute. he was not working regularly, so it looked to us collectively
been, they would have shown what jurors saw anthony garcia napping. he slept quite a bit during the trial. i d say half the trial. you know, and how do you think that that plays off to a jury? reporter: the 2008 case of tom hunter and shirlee sherman was the most straightforward for the defense. there is no direct evidence against my client. there is no smoking gun. there is no dna. it s all pieces and they are trying to put together this puzzle. reporter: on the stand, none of the prosecution s eyewitnesses could i.d. anthony garcia as the man they d seen eight years earlier. as for the silver honda crv, the defense pointed out that not one of them ever mentioned the big spare tire that was on the back of garcia s car. it s big as all get out. i mean, it s enormous. and nobody said anything about that? never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasn t my client s vehicle. that s the more likely answer. reporter: the 2013 brumback
reporter: four days after the brumback murders, this investigation got one more jolt. another pathology professor from crieghton reported that around 2:19 p.m. on mother s day someone had tried to force their way into her house, setting off the burglar alarm. fortunately, dr. channda bewtra and her husband were out for a mother s day lunch at the time. it made that theory of ours even stronger. that now we have two crimes, and potentially there would ve been another had they been home. reporter: this is what dr. bewtra told nbc affiliate wowt-tv. we get there, there was no damage. nothing was missing. everything was as it was. reporter: a week after the