was still in a shape state of shock when police took him downtown for questioning. when i came in, shirlee was right there in the hallway between the backdoor. so, the first thing i you know, i just said, where is tom? i think i yelled out tom. do you have any idea who or why, somebody would do something like this? honestly, i ve just been racking my brain, i mean, we have a peaceful existence, almost ridiculously simple. dr. william hunter, known as a bill to friends and colleagues, ran the pathology residency program at nearby creek university. his wife clare, 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 was your wife? crushed. is she going to be okay?
like the most jiggle thing was that if we re gonna do, these we should do them together. their theory was whoever killed the brumback also killed thomas hunter and shirlee sherman. prosecutors summed up their case in one word. revenge. and they pointed to something they found on garcias tablet. one of the searches was just an interesting quote that had the word revenge in it. so, we were interested in knowing where that came from. and it s easy to find, you need to google it. 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 ben s come up in a murder trial. never before in my career. but that s your motive. thumbs up the case. that s our motive, yeah. they argued 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 to have some sort of a
from a working class background in southern california, he finished medical school and embarked on which should have been a long, and lucrative career. but then, for some reason, his life began to be lit in large measure, by the bridges he burned along the way. he had been dismissed from other residency programs, fired from some jobs, and several states had denied him a license. i have a time doctor garcia would apply for a place of employment, or license as a doctor and another state, creighton university would get another request to verify doctor garcia s time he had spent their. and creighton would respond, usually doctor brumback or dr. hunter, yes, he was here, he was dismissed, he didn t do a good job. that kept coming back to haunt doctor garcia the experience at creighton. how many times did that happen? i want to say at least, seven or eight times. two mois, professional failure and a need for revenge could be a powerful motive. now the detective needed to know if ga
they were, but as they stepped outside, headquaters called. one of the sergeants called. he was saying who the homeowners to the location were. she had mentioned doctor brumback at creighton university from the pathology department. now we have a second victim from the same office, and the same specific pathology training program that we had in the 2008 case. doctor brumback would ve been a colleague of doctor hunter. yes. no question they would ve known each other. no question. 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. he was headed to the pathology department doctor brumback. i recognize that name right away. the fact that it was another pathologists from creighton, killed with a knife, i automatically assumed it was related. roger brumback wasn t any pathologists.
unusual for a killer to show up planning to do murder, and also planning to find the murder weapon at the crime scene? not necessarily. by all accounts, dr. hunter was still in a shape state of shock when police took him downtown for questioning. when i came in, shirlee was right there in the hallway between the backdoor. so, the first thing i you know, i just said, where is tom? i think i yelled out tom. do you have any idea who or why, somebody would do something like this? honestly, i ve just been racking my brain, i mean, we have a peaceful existence, almost ridiculously simple. dr. william hunter, known as a bill to friends and colleagues, ran the pathology residency program at nearby creek university. his wife clare, also a doctor at creighton, was in hawaii that day, attending a conference.