there s a heavy metallic kind of humidity in the air almost. you almost feel its presence if there is a lot of it and there was a lot of it in the hunter household. reporter: to the left of the front door, in the dining room off the main hallway, lay the body of the boy, tom hunter. he s lying on his face. his hands are down at his side. there is a fair amount of blood around his head. reporter: and down the hall, the body of the housekeeper, shirlee sherman. she was found laying face down with a large amount of blood underneath her, a stainless steel handle of a kitchen knife protruding from the right side of her neck. reporter: both victims had been killed in the same way. and oddly enough, there were no signs of struggle. no fingerprints, no bloody footprints. was this person careful or just very lucky? could be both, you know? it it s not like tv. not every crime scene is gonna yield fingerprints. not every crime scene is gonna yield dna, or trace hairs, or
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. it s big as all get out. i mean, it s enormous. and nobody said anything about that? never one mention of it, which to me indicated that it wasn t my client s vehicle. that s the more likely answer. reporter: the 2013 brumback
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 found out about was the facetime conversation between both
reporter: the piano movers were suspicious. their work order said they were supposed to make a pickup at this house in west omaha on tuesday morning, may 14th, 2013, but no one was home. but when they went to the front door, they observed that the front security door was open slightly. and one of the movers noted a stainless steel handgun magazine lying in the doorway. and they felt that that was of some concern since they weren t getting any answer from the residents to contact 911. reporter: when detective mois and his partner stepped inside they found the body of an older man on the floor. the victim had multiple gunshot wounds and a deep stab wound to the right side of his neck. off to the left you could see the female victim lying in the living room, a large area of blood. it was very clear that there had been a struggle there from all
those types of things. anything stolen? didn t appear to be, no. reporter: in fact, the only things out of place were the knives. the knives came from inside the house. they did. 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. reporter: by all accounts, dr. hunter was still in a state of shock when police took him downtown for questioning. when i came in, shirlee was right there in the hallway between the back door and the front foyer. so the first thing i you know, i just said, where s tom? i think i yelled, tom. do you have any idea who or why somebody would do something like this? honestly, i ve been just racking my brain. i mean, i we live a peaceful existence, uh, almost ridiculously simple.