march 13th, 2008 was one of those days of cautious jubilation in omaha, nebraska. 61 degrees, and a light velvety breeze. 11-year-old tom hunter wore shorts and a t-shirt to school that thursday.ol it was a little after 3:00 when tom, seen here on a security camera, got off the bus in the leafy dundee neighborhood and headed home to play video games, as he did nearly every day. it would be hours before tom s father returned home, but the house was not empty. 57-year-old shirlee sherman, who scrubbed and polished the hunter home on thursdays, was still there. by sunset, both tom hunter and shirlee sherman would be dead, murdered by a killer who was just getting started. who did it, and why were
reporter: detective mois still remembers the coppery scent of blood that hit him when he stepped across the threshold of theth hunter home. 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.italre 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
somebody s gone to war against the creighton pathology department. it would appear that way. and was dismissed? terminated. because? of unprofessional conduct toward another resident. dr. brumback, hunter, bewtra, any of them involved in that? all of them, but his termination letter was signed specifically by dr. hunter and dr. brumback. reporter: before arriving at creighton, it seemed anthony garcia had been well on his way to achieving the american dream. from a working class background in southern california, he had finished medical school and embarked on what 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 d been dismissed from other residency programs, fired from some jobs and several states had denied him a medical license. it would appear that every time that dr. garcia would apply
the thing that was noticeable was it was silver. the people noticed it as a type of suv or crv. and they mentioned out of state plates. out of state plates, right. reporter: there was also that description of the man people saw near the hunter home that day. an olive skinned man wearing a baggy suit. they were all seeing the same person, the same vehicle and the location. you re convinced that s not somebody who s lost and eventually finds their way outta there. oh, no, it fits. and that s the person that did this crime. and it fits with anthony garcia, also. reporter: tying it all together, prosecutors called a bombshell witness, a former stripper named cecilia hoffman. hoffman told the jury that four years after the dundee murders, garcia made a shocking confession to her. she told the cops about it in this audio recording. i remember he said it was a long time ago, he said, i killed
questions that would eventually take omaha detectives all over north america and would take more than five years to answer. this one stood out, obviously, because of the brutality for one. reporter: detective derek mois, was working 3:00 to 11:00 that day. the 911 call came in from tom hunter s dad, dr. william hunter. dr. hunter had come home, found shirlee sherman and his son deceased and would call 911. anything unusual about that call? there wasn t a lot of emotion shown, but he is a doctor. he is a pathologist. and he s seen a lot of dead people. and he s seen a lot of death, and it was i think to use a word clinical. reporter: the detective and his partner were immediately dispatched to the hunter s stately home in dundee. nice part of town? it is. it s it s an older neighborhood, middle to upper class homes, very quiet. it s not a place where we have a lot of violent crime occur in our city. a