state at the time of the brumback murders. when detectives reinterviewed him, they wondered if they were missing something. could their primary person of interest have somehow slipped in and out of omaha undetected? reporter: any indication that he was in omaha? none. none. reporter: for his part, belenky told the cops he had nothing to do with the omaha killings, in fact, he denies ever saying he was glad dr. brumback was dead. in the end detectives had to scratch dr belenky off their list. back to the drawing board. if the suspect wasn t michael belenky, detectives figured it had to be someone else with creighton connections. we knew that we had to look at everybody in the pathology department, all of the staff, everybody there. reporter: that means there are, what, maybe a thousand, a couple thousand persons of interest all going in different directions? yeah.
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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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 licensed somewhere, this creighton thing pops up. reporter: and prosecutors said items found in garcia s home indicated that he was trying to destroy traces of his troubled past. there s this
would have known each other. no question. reporter: it had been more than five years since the killings in dundee. but the creighton connection was lost on no one, least of all the families of the 2008 victims shirlee sherman and tom hunter. we saw it on the news and these people say it was dr. roger brumback was head of the pathology department at creighton university. whoa. i recognized that name right away. and the fact that it was another pathologist from creighton killed with a knife, i automatically assumed it was related. reporter: roger and mary brumback were both 65. in researching their final hours, reporter todd cooper learned the couple had last been heard from at about 2:00 p.m. on mother s day. one of the first things we
it was the second time in five years that a doctor from creighton university s pathology department had apparently been targeted for murder. in 2008, the victims were dr. william hunter s 11-year-old son, tom and his house cleaner shirlee sherman. the latest victims were dr. roger brumback and his wife mary. and at 2:19 p.m., on the day the brumbacks were last known to be alive someone had tried to break into the home of a third creighton pathologist, dr. channda bewtra. and, of course, because of her position, again, we re right back to creighton university and specifically right back to the pathology training program. we believed that that incident as well could be related.
northwest, dividing his time between vancouver and washington state at the time of the brumback murders. when detectives reinterviewed him, they wondered if they were missing something. could their primary person of interest have somehow slipped in and out of omaha undetected? reporter: any indication that he was in omaha? none. none. reporter: for his part, belenky told the cops he had nothing to do with the omaha killings, in fact, he denies ever saying he was glad dr. brumback was dead. in the end detectives had to scratch dr belenky off their list. back to the drawing board. if the suspect wasn t michael belenky, detectives figured it had to be someone else with creighton connections. we knew that we had to look at everybody in the pathology department, all of the staff, everybody there. reporter: that means there are, what, maybe a thousand, a couple thousand persons of interest all going in different