reporter: based on nieghbors descriptions, police produced this sketch and four days after the murders asked the public for help. we received hundreds of phone calls about people knowing somebody who resembled that sketch and each one of those leads had to be given some degree of consideration. reporter: reporter todd cooper covered the story for the omaha world herald. dundee is a nice neighborhood in omaha. it s an affluent area. doctors and others. not mansions but stately homes. crime like this doesn t happen in dundee. and so it sent shockwaves right away. more about the computer use reporter: while the murders in dundee dominated the news, investigators were taking a second look at a less publicized crime. months earlier, there had been another murder not far from dundee. in this one, an elderly female had been bludgeoned and stabbed
we also had learned through those search warrants by the indiana state police that shortly after he returned to terra haute after the brumback homicides, that he had purchased another firearm, another handgun. reporter: in july 2013, investigators were ready to make their move. one team of detectives was sent to indiana to arrest anthony garcia. another flew to california to simultaneously search his parents home. it was all supposed to be a coordinated operation, but on the morning of the planned arrest, the indiana team suddenly discovered their suspect had put them behind the eight ball. coming up, manhunt. our hope was in the morning he would get up and go home and we could grab him there. but that morning of course when the fbi agents got up he was on the move. they re going 100 miles an hour.
no, not at all. we had an explosive relationship. meaning? meaning things got broke. reporter: kelly says that relationship became so tempestuous, so difficult that shirlee got involved and actively tried to keep the boyfriend away. at one point in time she was thinking about getting a restraining order, mainly for my daughter s sake. she would tell me, he can t come over. and i would sneak him in. one time she come walkin around my house with a hammer in her hand and saying, i want his blood on this hammer. she hated him that bad because of what he had been doing to me. reporter: in spite of that, kelly stuck with the man, got pregnant and had a baby with him. and it got uglier from there. she actually started the process of getting my house out of my name. so that she could keep him out of the house? right. reporter: after shirlee died, what had been a very private and embarassing family feud became fodder for public speculation. todd cooper, the reporter, sa
defense team planned and prepped their expert witnesses. this really boils down to interpretation and every single lab can interpret something differently. 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. repo
not prove a link between gun parts found at the brumback house and the gun that was licensed to anthony garcia. the parts found in the house are parts of a weapon that went through a catastrophic failure. the parts of our client s gun that were found on the side of the road showed no evidence of a catastrophic failure. and although it s the right kind of gun to have committed the murders, it s not necessarily the gun. right one of the right kinds of gun. you can t fire a test bullet from the gun, right? no. reporter: the chicago based defense team worked late into the night while keeping a close eye on their beloved cubs who were in hot pursuit of a world series title. it s the top of the second. cubs have men on first and second. it s one out. reporter: it was during these sessions over lunch there s no point in showing the cards that don t need to be shown. reporter: during breaks and at their rental home that the