she was found lying face down with a large amount of blood. what does the scene tell you? what do your victims tell you? you ve got a killer loose here who specifically targeting people. yeah. she was somebody that he really thought was smart on him, he had animosity towards her. there was a doctor s house. somebody s after the doctors. four people are dead because of somebody s vengeance. revenge, that s their motives. revenge. it sent shockwaves right away. no fingerprints, no bloody footprints next thing you know, you are trying to constantly find out what s going on. park your car somewhere else, walk to the location. the list a killer would make? yes, it is. he said, they had it coming. where is he going? what s he gonna do? you re getting real life. god, what the hell do we have here? winter on the great plains can be long, bleak, brutal. so, in march, when winter briefly releases its grip for a day or two, even the trees seemed to
was still unsolved. but through it all, the detective said he stayed in touch with the hunter and sherman families. you kinda hear the frustrations when they call, and they want update. they want to kind of be kept in the loop, but as investigators, you can t give them what they are looking for, they re looking for answers you can t give them. tough for you guystoo, because i m sure you want to keep you working on this. meanwhile, your boss says here is a case, another one, another one. that s why it went to the cold case unit. that s how it stayed, until may of 2013. the breakthrough moment came in brutal form. yet another double homicide, in omaha. for detectives who had been at the hunter home five years
press? yes, investigators once again went into the personnel files, looking for someone else who might have harbored a grudge against dr. brumback and bewtra. the already been down this road before, and you look back a couple years? yeah. now, what was different was we were gonna pull the records from, i believe we started in 2000 to 2013. how many of you are sitting there reading files? there were 21 of us assigned to the task force, and i think at some juncture, almost all the detectives would get assigned files from creighton.
still, when detectives arrived. the only sounded, music, from a video game in the basement. it seemed to add a haunting soundtrack, to the violent and disturbing scene. it had appeared that thomas was in the process of playing an online game on his ex box, you could see he had his pop and his chips in front of a chair, right in front of the tv, probably like a lot of kids after school every day. the game itself had timed out, but the music was playing kind of ominously in the background. during bill hunter s interview with police investigators, they got straight to the point. does he play around on chat rooms or anything like that that you might be nervous about? i mean, i don t know.
publicized crime. months earlier, there had been another murder not far from dundee in this one, an elderly female had been bludgeoned and stabbed in the neck. we had knives that were used from her residence, in her murder. so, we had similarities in that weapons were taken from her home, and used against her and left at the scene. you had somebody you liked for that? the detectives that investigated that case identified that subject very early. somebody who was a family member of hers, who she had a falling out with. and it didn t seem to have any connection with the hunters? none, whatsoever. that comes a time in every homicide investigation, where detectives have to focus on the victims family and friends. as far as detectives knew, the hunters were well respected family. anything about the hunters you didn t know, gambling addiction, family problems?