now what was different is we were going to go back and pull the records from i believe we started in 2000 to 2013. reporter: how many of you were sitting there reading files? there were 21 of us assigned to the tank force, and i think at some juncture almost all of the detectives would get assigned files from creighton. reporter: in those personnel files were several names that looked promising. those who were nowhere near omaha on mother s day were eliminated, but a couple of weeks after the brumback killings, detective mois says, his boss handed him a three-ring binder from 2001. this one was thicker than the rest. and what i took away after reading that file from front to back was that, in my mind, there was enough information contained in that file that it made a very real possibility that there was a motive to want to harm dr. hunter, dr. brumback or dr. bewtra by that individual. coming up a new name and new fears.
are pretty good at keeping that information close to the vest. we just kept waiting and waiting. but that question was foremost on everybody s mind. who could have done this? reporter: detectives returned to the theory that either dr. bill hunter or his wife dr. claire hunter might have been the intended victim. between the two of them, they figured, bill hunter s position at creighton made him the more likely target. he basically oversaw all the students that were going through this pathology training program at creighton university. and if there was disciplinary action to take, he would be the individual, among others, you know, to have a direct impact on those students lives. reporter: so, potentially a lot of suspects there. potentially yes. reporter: so, the detective went to the pathology department at creighton and started asking questions. were there any individuals interacting with these folks at the time this occurred that you believe could be responsible for w
reporter: two months after dr. roger brumback and his wife mary were murdered in their home, omaha detectives flew to indiana, ready to make an arrest. their target was a former creighton med school resident, dr. anthony garcia. the detectives had arranged to have a s.w.a.t. team and forensic technicians on hand in terre haute when they made the arrest at garcia s home. but once their plane landed, that plan changed. after we landed in indianapolis on sunday afternoon and turned our phones back on, we would observe that all of a sudden, dr. garcia s cell phone is no longer in terra haute, and he was mobile, and he was traveling south through illinois, which gave us obviously some concern. because you thought he was headed where? well, we didn t know exactly. it was possible that that he would return the next day. so, we kind of put our plans on because you thought he was
after garcia was dismissed from creighton. it got him his next job, which he got a month after two months after he left creighton. reporter: for his part anthony garcia seemed bored by it all. cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom, but if they had 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
honestly, i ve been just racking my brain. i mean, i we live a peaceful existence, uh, almost ridiculously simple. reporter: dr. william hunter, known as bill to friends and colleagues, ran the pathology residency program at nearby creighton university. his wife, claire, also a doctor at creighton, was in hawaii that day attending a conference. her husband had to break the awful news to her from the police station. how is your wife? crushed? is she going to be okay? she has a work mate that s with her. so she s not alone? no. that s that s that s good. reporter: the hunters had four boys, two grown, one in college and tom. jeff, a student at the university of nebraska in lincoln at the time lived closest. he says it was about 8:00 that night when he happened to check his phone. i had all these missed calls from friends, family.