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Produced past Jaime Stolz and Marc Goldbaum
[This story originally aired on May vi, 2017]
"To have everyone murdered is a shock to the customs, but to take an xi-year-old boy and a housekeeper killed in the manner they were – I think is a whole 'nother level," Omaha Police Sgt. Scott Warner told CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod.
In 2008, a community was shocked by the brutal stabbing deaths of Tom Hunter and Shirlee Sherman within the Hunter family unit dwelling house. Police establish no Deoxyribonucleic acid, no signs of a robbery and little motive for someone to desire them dead. Five years afterwards and 6 miles away, tragedy struck once more when Dr. Roger Brumback, and his wife, Mary, were institute murdered in their dwelling.
For the two constabulary enforcement officers investigating the cases, the set on on the Brumbacks was eerily similar to what they found five years earlier with the Hunter and Sherman murders.
Investigators would find more than similarities between the cases and a trail that led to Creighton University Medical Center. But would they detect the killer there?
Omaha, Nebraska, is a proud beacon of America's Midwest. Spreading out from the majestic banks of the Missouri River, information technology is dwelling of the Higher World Serial and Warren Buffet – who is rich enough to alive anywhere he chooses.
Warren Cafe: My take on Omaha overall is it's a terrific place to alive.
According to Todd Cooper, court reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, the clandestine heartbeat of this boondocks is Creighton University Medical Center.
Todd Cooper: It resonates throughout the customs. … You tin't go anywhere without running into someone who is Creighton born and bred.
Doctors Chhanda and Againdra Bewtra loved and respected their Creighton colleagues.
Jim Axelrod: How long was your career at Creighton?
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: 40 years.
Jim Axelrod: You both knew Dr. Hunter?
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: His function is right next to my office.
The Bewtras were close friends with Drs. Beak and Claire Hunter, the parents of 11-year-old Thomas, and dedicated to their hospital.
Jim Axelrod: What were they like?
Dr. Againdra Bewtra: Nice people.
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: He was very well loved past the residents and the students.
The Hunters and their four children lived in a handsome domicile in the upscale, close-knit neighborhood known as Dundee.
Todd Cooper: From the beginning this was strange… Vehement law-breaking does not happen in Dundee. …it's a classic neighborhood … neighbors in each other's business concern, common areas where kids play.
On March 13, 2008, Dr. Claire Hunter was attending a conference in Hawaii, and Dr. Pecker Hunter was decorated at the pathology lab. This school charabanc camera captures Tom arriving domicile.
Todd Cooper: Good kid, smart child. …loved to play Xbox, drink Dr. Pepper, eat irish potato chips.
Tom Hunter, a very bright, very normal sixth grader. His 3 older brothers, already out of the house. Waiting for Tom was the Hunter'due south part-time housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman.
Jim Axelrod: When you recall of your mom, what are some of the words that come into mind?
Jeff Sherman: Mother, caregiver, grandmother – nurturer.
For her son Jeff Sherman and her younger brother, Brad Waite, Shirlee was the stone-solid, difficult-working centerpiece of their extended family unit.
Brad Waite: Anytime you went over there, the first thing she wanted to do was make sure she had coffee. …And, "You want something to eat, I'll fix you something.'"
Tom grabbed a snack and settled into the basement playroom with his chips, soda and his Xbox.
At 5 p.yard., Bill Hunter left his pathology lab at Creighton, and began the x-infinitesimal ride home.
Det. Mois: He came dwelling house from work. Immediately walking in the back door … he encountered Shirlee.
And just a few feet away lay his son, Tom. The dr. knew immediately it was too tardily for an ambulance.
Todd Cooper: He called 911, they told him to become out of the business firm and wait for first responders.
Detective Derek Mois, xix years with the Omaha Police Department, and his partner, Sgt. Scott Warner, describe a law-breaking scene that would eat and haunt them.
Sgt. Warner: Incredibly sad scenarios. It only doesn't leave y'all.
Det. Mois: Just the manner and the brutality of it.
And in the basement, cops plant that all the same life of Tom's globe, interrupted by madness.
Det. Mois: His Xbox was online. You could come across his bag of fries and his Dr. Pepper.
Non surprisingly, it was evident, Shirlee had been hard at piece of work.
Det. Mois: You see her bucket of cleaning supplies … just kinda dropped haphazardly right where Thomas was.
Tom Hunter and Shirlee Sherman had been stabbed to death. And, every bit if sending some nighttime, raging homicidal message, knives had been left in the victims and around the house.
Simply what was the motive for murder?
Jeff Sherman: Something's just not addin' upwards here … My mom had $833 in cash in her purse. It wasn't even touched.
Det. Mois: The Hunters have a lot of valuables in that location. None of that appeared to have been touched.
Jim Axelrod: I imagine the community must have been unglued.
Sgt. Warner: I think the urban center as a whole, an 11-year-quondam boy doesn't get killed in his home. It merely doesn't happen anywhere in this metropolis.
For Detectives Mois, Warner and the other investigators, the horror of these gut-wrenching murders would before long exist paired with a deep frustration. The crime scene left them little to become on -- no Dna, no motive and no credible suspects.
Sgt. Warner: Ane of the neighbors happened to notice a car that she wasn't familiar with.
That was the offset inkling and information technology would one mean solar day prove critical – the neighbour'due south sighting of a silver Honda SUV, with out-of-state plates, prowling the streets of Dundee.
Sgt. Warner: It caught her attention not just because of the car, but watching an individual that exited the car -- take a satchel and then walk northbound on this street.
Mois and Warner played out one scenario after the next.
Det. Mois: It occupied our lives every solar day. And when I say every 24-hour interval, I mean all twenty-four hour period.
Was Shirlee the target? Might Tom take attracted an online predator to his basement playroom?
Sgt. Warner: Was there something that had occurred online over his gaming, over a computer?
And in that location was Creighton itself. Were the murders a gruesome act of vengeance by a disgruntled, quondam employee targeting Tom's parents – the Hunters?
Detectives briefly considered Dr. Anthony Garcia, a former resident in the pathology program. Bill Hunter had fired Garcia back in 2001. Only --
Todd Cooper: Bill Hunter dismissed Anthony Garcia when they brought up his name in an interview. "Yeah he got fired. But he left quietly."
Every atomic number 82 seemed similar a dead end, leaving nothing but shattered families.
Brad Waite: You lot merely tin't put information technology out of your mind.
Jeff Sherman: We did not want it to just go away, disappear.
Det. Mois: They desire answers. And the only people they can actually turn to is us.
Jim Axelrod: Was there always a point for either of yous where you idea, "We're just never gonna discover out who did this?"
Det. Mois: Sure. Absolutely.
Sgt. Warner: Yes, there was.
TWO More than MURDERS
The horrific offense scene in the Hunter house in Dundee gave investigators plenty to puzzle over and think through.
Det. Mois: It was clear that Thomas had been attacked offset. ...Nosotros just didn't encounter anything that would have precipitated the murders.
Det. Mois: Even afterwards a couple weeks into the investigation we didn't know if Thomas was the intended victim, if it was Shirlee -- if it was the Hunter'southward themselves, or if it was a completely random deed.
Todd Cooper: It went common cold quietly.
Todd Cooper: It was a mystery for years.
Mois and Warner kept grinding and getting nowhere.
Jim Axelrod: Let's talk nigh Mother's Solar day 2013.
Dr. Againdra Bewtra: Nosotros took a couple … and nosotros took them out for Female parent'southward Day brunch. And they're older people. And he was with a walker.
That Mother's Day fate brushed the Bewtras. And it all started afterward that brunch, with their slow-moving elderly guest.
Todd Cooper: He took forever to become to his car. And Dr. Bewtra's hubby ribbed him at the time and said, "You are killing the states here. Similar, you are taking forever."
Jim Axelrod: The irony being he actually may take been saving their lives.
Todd Cooper: Yeah.
The Bewtras, both doctors at Creighton, finally began their short drive habitation when they got a call. Their burglar alarm was going off.
Dr. Againdra Bewtra: So I went to the basement… This door was opened about an inch.
The door was ajar just zero was out of place. They had no idea how lucky they were. Cops say the intruder moved on, just a few miles down the road, to the home of Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife Mary.
Todd Cooper: Roger Brumback was in his old dress, painting the entryway of his business firm, getting it ready to sell.
Jim Axelrod: They were moving away … they were gonna retire.
Todd Cooper: They were on the cusp of what we all piece of work for. And they had talked to their daughter via FaceTime. …His girl cracked a joke. …And she screenshot it.
It was before long after that FaceTime conversation that Creighton Dr. Roger Brumback answered a knock at the door.
Todd Cooper: And boom, just immediately shot.
It would be two days before anyone knew the extent, and the nature, of the carnage inside the Brumbacks' habitation.
Jason Peterson, a piano mover, showed upward as scheduled.
Jason Peterson: Nosotros showed up to motion a piano here and nobody answered the door. …I opened upwards the front glass door to yell inside "hullo," and that's when I seen a gun clip on the flooring.
Jim Axelrod: Like a magazine?
Jason Peterson: Like a magazine on the floor.
The piano mover called the cops:
Peterson to 911: There'south a gun clip and some bullets on the floor. …I simply think at that place'south something going on in this house.
That day, Detectives Derek Mois and Scott Warner happened to be on call.
Det. Mois: We walked through that forepart door. There was the loaded mag that the movers had spotted. Yous also constitute a spent shell casing kind of stuck betwixt the double doors. …And just beyond that in the entryway was Roger Brumback. Where you could meet he had gunshot wounds. …We would as well see very evident stab marks on the right side of his neck only beneath his right ear.
Det. Mois: And within the chief living room area of that primary floor. And that's where we observe Mary Brumback. …She had very clear defensive wounds on her hands which were indicative of her trying to put up a defense. …And nosotros had knives that were left in that offense scene.
The carnage just inside the front door of the Brumback home was shocking fifty-fifty for longtime homicide detectives, but there was something else that hitting them almost instantly about the criminal offense scene – a sickening familiarity.
Det. Mois: We walked through that first door … Scott and I had a existent definitive moment after we walked through that house where we're similar – you know -- I've seen these things before.
Det. Mois: Specifically, with the wounds to the right side of the neck. …And when I saw those both on the male victim and on the female victim, yous don't come across a lot of knifings or stabbings that are like that.
Sgt. Warner: The mindset at that point was at that place's a connection here.
Jim Axelrod: Calorie-free bulbs must have gone off. Very brightly.
Mois and Warner: Yep.
The wounds were a mirror epitome to those suffered by Tom Hunter and Shirlee Sherman in 2008.
Jim Axelrod: And then you find out the victim worked as a doctor at Creighton'southward medical school.
Sgt. Warner: Yeah.
Jim Axelrod: Then y'all 2 must await at each other and say, "We can't ignore this. We got something."
Mois and Warner: Yes.
Roger Brumback was not merely a doctor at Creighton, but he worked out of the aforementioned part as Tom Hunter's male parent, Pecker -- the pathology department. Roger Brumback was chairman and Pecker Hunter was in charge of the residents.
Det. Mois: We knew we had these similarities in the crime scenes and the weapons that were used and this connexion to the pathology department.
The common cold case that had mystified Omaha for v frustrating years was heating upward.
Sgt. Warner: Your listen's goin' a million miles an hr. …You consciously have to make yourself slow down.
The next day cops got a call from the Bewtras, telling detectives about that alarm that went off at their home on Female parent'south Day -- the same day the Brumbacks were believed to accept been murdered.
Det. Mois: Nosotros have Dr. Hunter….
…whose son Tom had been murdered in 2008.
Det. Mois: We have Dr. Brumback…
…who had but been gunned downwards in his doorway.
Det. Mois: And now Dr. Bewtra…
…a colleague of Doctor's Hunter and Brumback in Creighton's pathology department.
Det. Mois: Who are they in a position to have affected the most? And the obvious reply was, of grade, the residents at that pathology preparation programme.
Sgt. Warner: And from that point on, that's what nosotros looked at.
Det. Mois: We went to Creighton Academy and we pulled the files from every resident within that program starting I think in 2000.
Jim Axelrod: And 1 of the files you got belonged to Anthony Garcia.
Det. Mois: Uh-huh.
Omaha police force had heard Anthony Garcia'due south proper name earlier – the Creighton pathology resident the cops had barely considered back in 2008. He had been fired. And Garcia'due south professor in the pathology department? Physician Chhanda Bewtra.
Jim Axelrod: What kinda student was he?
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: Bad guy and a bad student.
And Dr. Bewtra didn't hold back on her feelings in several functioning reviews she prepared for Nib Hunter.
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: I was trying very hard to convince Bill to get rid of him, yes.
And that'southward exactly what happened. Hunter and Brumback fired Garcia. His letter of termination began to look like a smoking gun.
Jim Axelrod: The signatures are Dr. William Hunter and Dr. Roger Brumback?
Det. Mois: Correct.
Jim Axelrod: And then in his mind, if he's trying to figure out who's responsible for his termination … He's thinkin' of three people: Brumback, Hunter and Bewtra.
Chhanda Bewtra: Yes.
Jim Axelrod: So every time Anthony Garcia is looking for a job, this letter signed past Brumback and Hunter…
Det. Mois: Kinda seemingly was coming back to haunt him.
A Common THREAD
Jim Axelrod: Where does this case, where is it in terms of your frontal lobe?
Det. Mois: It's ever present. Information technology's at the forefront for certain.
Sgt. Warner: Information technology'southward been a constant since 2008.
2 sets of murders 5 years apart with a common thread: Creighton University.
Jeff Sherman: I always felt information technology had something to do with Creighton.
Meanwhile, Det. Derek Mois was learning as much as he could well-nigh former Creighton resident Anthony Garcia.
Det. Mois: After I got the Garcia book -- like I said, every time that I turned a page, I was learning something new that I felt was relevant, that I felt was gonna acquit me onto the side by side stride.
For Mois, Garcia was looking more than and more like his No. 1 suspect -- simply an unlikely 1.
Jim Axelrod: Anthony Garcia. Who is he?
Todd Cooper: A decidedly middle-class kid -- played football game, grew up in Walnut, California.
Walnut, Calif., is a place where dreams really practice come true. Information technology'due south a pristine suburb in a golden valley about an hour due east of Los Angeles.
Fernando Garcia: Information technology was a loving dwelling... We were encouraged to practise the right thing.
Fernando Garcia, Anthony's younger brother, is keenly aware of what his family unit has accomplished.
Fernando Garcia: My mom was born in Mexico and came here. …My dad was born here …My dad fought in Vietnam … They didn't have a lot. But they were able to achieve the American dream.
For Fred, who worked for the Post Role, and Estella a registered nurse, a cornerstone of their dream was their first-built-in kid, Anthony.
Estella Garcia: He was … good for you, playful … He played football.
Jim Axelrod: What kind of educatee was Anthony?
Estella Garcia: He was a good student. …He was an chantry boy.
Fernando Garcia: He wanted to go along with people. Not confrontational.
There was college in California, and so med school in Utah.
Estella Garcia: He wanted to be a brain surgeon.
Jim Axelrod: Y'all must accept been enormously proud.
Estella Garcia: Of course.
Frederick Garcia: Oh, yes.
And then, in 1999, came a journey virtually parents only dream of.
Todd Cooper: His dad described … packing all of Anthony'due south property into a van and driving cross country, father and son. Dad couldn't have been prouder.
Father and son were headed to Basset-Saint Elizabeth's in Utica, New York. It would be Anthony Garcia'south showtime residency. And information technology didn't go well.
Estella Garcia: I did non know he was having problem.
Garcia's professors accused him of behaving unprofessionally – including yelling at a radiology technician. Under pressure, Garcia resigned and the first-born son headed dorsum home.
Estella Garcia: When he came back, he was not the aforementioned. He looked very tired, most exhausted.
But he wasn't giving up. And in July of 2000, Anthony Garcia got what few residents ever do: a second run a risk.
Estella Garcia: I was happy he was getting a chore.
That's when Garcia began his residency in the pathology department at Creighton.
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: Academically he was very poor.
But there was much more poor academics.
Todd Cooper: …pranking a primary resident, rolling a body onto its face up so that it becomes disfigured. …He would write emails to Dr. Hunter complaining nearly Dr. Bewtra. I hateful, this guy was a child -- cloaked with a medical degree.
And so in 2001, after multiple incidents -- and those bad performance reviews past Dr. Bewtra -- Creighton had its make full of Anthony Garcia.
Jim Axelrod: What does it hateful for a resident to be terminated?
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: Pretty serious.
Sgt. Warner: It pretty much ends your medical career.
Anthony Garcia headed home, once once more.
Estella Garcia: He said it didn't work out.
Jim Axelrod: Did he complain about the people?
Estella Garcia: He did not complain nigh the people.
Frederick Garcia: He didn't complain about everyone.
Those who knew and still beloved him, believe Anthony struggled with low and migraine headaches, and was overwhelmed by the rigorous work required to fulfill his American dream of becoming a doctor.
Fernando Garcia: I can run across that taking a toll on somebody … psychologically, emotionally.
Jim Axelrod: Did y'all go the sense at all that Anthony felt he had failed?
Frederick Garcia: Not at all.
Estella Garcia: I think he was adamant virtually continuing with that career.
And, miraculously, in 2003, Anthony Garcia got a third chance. Working as a resident at the University of Illinois Infirmary, he somehow managed to get a medical license to exercise in the state of Illinois.
Todd Cooper: But for the Country of Illinois, this guy does not take a medical license anywhere.
For the adjacent few years, Anthony Garcia bounced effectually the country working where he could – clinics and even a prison hospital.
With every new state he moved to, Garcia had to utilise for a medical license there. And those who had the authorization to grant that license, would learn of his dismissal from Creighton. And each time, he would pay a price for his past.
Det. Mois: To get licensure in another state, they would be sending Creighton University very specific requests about Anthony Garcia's time at Creighton University …And those responses … They were not positive. …It doesn't take a detective or even a doc to read those as a lay person and say, "That's not gonna help him go licensure or a chore."
Investigators discovered that in Feb 2008, Garcia was living in Louisiana. The state denied his application for a medical license due in part to his termination from Creighton. Less than three weeks afterwards, Tom Hunter and Shirlee Sherman were brutally murdered.
The pieces of Anthony Garcia's past were coming together in front of Mois and Warner. But could they identify him in Dundee in 2008, on the twenty-four hours of Tom and Shirlee's murder? Mois wondered what kind of machine Garcia was driving back and so, so he checked his reports.
Det. Mois: And I retrieve it was on page 11 of that report … that between July of 2007 and July of 2009, Anthony Garcia had a Honda CRV registered to him at a Shreveport, Louisiana, address.
After discovering the make and model, Mois ran the VIN number to go the color.
Det. Mois: And it came back as a Silverish Honda CRV.
ON THE TRAIL OF A KILLER
It was 2013. The slaughter of 4 innocent people over the form of v years had left Omaha staggered and searching for answers.
Sgt. Warner: This is something that really had upset the customs, the city, the region.
Det. Mois: It evolved into something so much bigger than any of us were used to.
But its origin was the pathology department at Creighton University Medical Eye, where Dr. Brumback was the caput of the department and Dr. Hunter was in charge of the residents. It was also here, investigators allege, Anthony Garcia adult his twisted motive for murder.
Todd Cooper: It'southward unfathomable. A grudge that festers for 7 years before the first killings and 12 years before the second set of killings? That's unheard of.
A grudge that wouldn't quit. Revenge for existence fired was the motive -- the theory of the case Mois and Warner began to build. Simply Fernando Garcia, Anthony's younger brother, wasn't buying information technology.
Fernando Garcia: There's been millions of people fired who don't come back and kill somebody.
And by 2013 Garcia was long gone from Omaha, living 500 miles away in Terre Haute, Indiana. He had been fired again – this time from that chore as a medical worker in a prison. Still, he had a Ferrari in his driveway and appeared to be living the high life. But that wasn't the information cops craved.
Det. Mois: I needed to find out where he was on May 12, 2013.
The solar day Roger and Mary Brumback were murdered. Garcia's electronic records lit up the trail.
Det. Mois: Nosotros have this telephone telephone call accessing a cell tower in Atlantic, Iowa, which is only an hour away from Omaha … He had made a buy at a Wingstop restaurant in Omaha.
And Anthony Garcia was defenseless on photographic camera -- but exterior Omaha, buying a example of Bud Light that very same 24-hour interval.
Jim Axelrod: At this bespeak practice you have a suspect yous want to abort?
Det. Mois: Aye.
Detectives headed for Garcia's Terre Haute home, but, when they got there, he was nowhere to be plant.
Sgt. Warner: Our concern was that he was leaving Terre Haute and he was headed south towards Louisiana.
Jim Axelrod: Where there were other people that you felt he perceived had wronged him?
Det. Mois: Yes.
Sgt. Warner: Yeah.
Cops feared Garcia was out to kill again. Omaha detectives were now working with nearby police force enforcement agencies and the FBI. And at 8:30 a.m., Illinois State Police spotted Garcia's machine. He was pulled over. Drunk, and on his knees, in the eye of the road, Anthony Garcia was arrested. In his car was a crow bar, a sledge hammer and a gun.
Det. Mois: And we got a call that he was in custody.
Jim Axelrod: And what did that sound like?
Sgt. Warner: Relief.
With Garcia under arrest, cops entered his house in Terre Haute.
Det. Ryan Davis: It was arid. It didn't await like somebody planned on really coming back.
Omaha Detective Ryan Davis got the kickoff look into a night and conflicted globe through Garcia's chilling words: "We alive. We die. We live. Nosotros die."
Det. Davis: On elevation of the dining room table are all of these documents. …I would call them documents of success. A medical degree … the act to his house …"
Det. Davis: And then he'southward got this bag, this trash bag in his kitchen sink.
Inside the trash purse were more documents submerged in a liquid. Information technology looked to detectives like someone was trying to destroy them.
Det. Davis: These documents really give y'all the chills. He'south talking about going to the store, buying broccoli, butter, shrimp.
Anthony Garcia'due south shopping listing -- from the ordinary to the ominous.
Det. Davis: As you lot can come across here, it says, "Invade rich firm, torture, murder. Over here information technology says, "Rich children, gun, invade, kill, knife, kidnap family, SUV, torture, kill."
And there was also something familiar soaking in the sink: Those negative operation reviews written by Dr. Chhanda Bewtra and Garcia's termination alphabetic character signed by Drs. Hunter and Brumback.
Todd Cooper: The motivation for these murders was all right at that place in that sink.
That sink full of evidence wasn't all detectives establish. Their investigation led them to a key witness at Garcia's favorite haunt, Guild Koyote.
Jim Axelrod: Who's Cecilia Hoffmann?
Det. Davis: At the fourth dimension, she was a stripper at a strip club in Terre Haute, Indiana. …Mr. Garcia was a regular customer.
A roadside strip joint -- the one identify Anthony Garcia'south childhood dreams still had life.
Det. Davis: When he came in the door, they would announce that "Doctor Tony" was in the business firm. …He had all this money.
Cecilia Hoffmann told Detective Davis that Garcia wanted more than simply a trip the light fantastic toe -- he wanted a girlfriend. That wasn't what she wanted.
Det. Davis: And and so she stated to us that she started to try to altitude herself from him.
Omaha cops recorded Hoffman's haunting story:
Phonation of Cecilia Hoffmann: I'chiliad putting on my niggling voice and maxim, "Well, Dr. Tony, I only like bad boys." …"I'm a bad girl. You couldn't -- you lot know -- you couldn't handle a girl like me." …Then that's when he told me. He told me I wasn't every bit good every bit I thought he was. And he said, "I killed people before." …He said, "I killed a young boy and an onetime woman."
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Jim Axelrod: Anthony Garcia confesses to the murders of Thomas Hunter and Shirlee Sherman as a way to try to impress a stripper?
Todd Cooper: Right.
The police fugitive unit would extradite Garcia back to Omaha, and on July 23, 2013, at the Douglas Canton Courthouse, Dr. Anthony Garcia was formally charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Lead prosecutor Don Kleine and deputy Brenda Beadle would lay out Nebraska's capital murder instance against Anthony Garcia.
Brenda Beadle: There wasn't anything in this case I don't think that was similar our big piece of evidence. I recall there were a lot of pieces. And when you put them together that's what makes it overwhelming.
Don Kleine: And it all points to Anthony Garcia
Bob Motta Jr.: They're trying to put my client to death and I was gonna practice whatever I had to practise to get him a fair trial if at all possible.
Bob Motta Jr., his begetter, and their legal associates, were the Chicago-based powerhouse defence team Anthony Garcia's parents spent their unabridged life savings to hire.
Jim Axelrod: Did your son impale Tommy Hunter, Shirlee Sherman, Roger and Mary Brumback?
Estella Garcia: I don't know. If he did, it's a totally unlike person that they're talking well-nigh.
ANTHONY GARCIA ON TRIAL
Omaha. Sept. 26, 2016. 15 years after he was fired from Creighton, the quadruple murder trial of Anthony Garcia finally began.
Todd Cooper: Just the innocence in this … every one of those people were only going about their days, their lives … And and then Anthony Garcia comes knocking.
Knocking, with his grudge -- Garcia's motive -- summed up by the prosecution in a single word: revenge.
Brenda Beadle: He Googled it. He searched for it. He searched for that term
Jim Axelrod: Including a quote in his phone, Shakespeare quote.
Brenda Beadle: Merchant of Venice … "If yous harm us, shall I non revenge."
Bob Motta Jr.: Their theory's revenge. Revenge. …If you take out that element … that leaves them with absolutely a giant gaping hole in their tapestry where the unabridged affair becomes unwoven.
No cameras were allowed in courtroom. The Mottas of Chicago went at the prosecution like heavyweights.
Todd Cooper: They brought a lot of burn.
"Revenge," suggested the Mottas, was just a fancy theory. And in fact, the Mottas produced a letter of recommendation for Anthony Garcia written by Dr. Hunter just a few days after Garcia was fired from Creighton.
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: We terminated him, but we don't want him to exist jobless, destitute. We want him to rehabilitate and observe some other job.
And the Mottas have on the star witness, Cecilia Hoffmann, who Garcia had allegedly confessed to? She was a strung-out stripper at the time.
Fernando Garcia: I think she's a liar.
Bob Motta Jr.: At the time she gives the interview she's intoxicated. She's popping script pills every day. …She has no credibility.
Brenda Beadle: I thought she was extremely credible, and she had nil to gain by coming forward.
Don Kleine: She was subjected to very long and extensively vigorous cross-exam. …And she didn't waiver. And the jury saw that.
And the jury saw the gun cops believe Garcia used to impale Roger Brumback.
Don Kleine: The other piece of the gun was establish off the highway-- on an exit ramp -- correct by Terre Haute, Indiana.
Jim Axelrod: That's an unbelievable coincidence.
Don Kleine: It's astonishing.
The serial number matches the one on the gun box found in his Terre Haute apartment.
And at the Bewtras' habitation, there was Dna on a doorknob.
Don Kleine: There was DNA evidence that pointed to Anthony Garcia.
But, the Mottas insisted cops could not place Garcia in Omaha for the kickoff set of murders. And they argued Anthony Garcia was not the only disgruntled employee at Creighton. That buying chicken wings and beer on the day of the Brumbacks murder didn't make their client a killer. And that he was but looking for a chore again in the Omaha expanse.
Jim Axelrod: If Nebraska puts Anthony Garcia to death is an innocent man dying?
Bob Motta: I believe so.
Alison Motta: I believe so.
After more 50 witnesses and fifteen days of emotional testimony, the case went to the jury. It took only seven hours, and and so the jury spoke as one: Anthony Garcia, who didn't testify, guilty on all counts.
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Don Kleine: [Sighs] You know, the breath just kinda comes out of you. It brings a lot of emotions back … considering you remember almost Thomas and Shirlee and Roger and Mary.
For two cops it was the reply to nigh a decade of relentless work.
Jim Axelrod: You lot been called the hero of this story.
Det. Mois [shaking caput no]: Not at all.
Jim Axelrod: You can't shake that off fast enough.
Jim Axelrod: Oh no, not at all.
Jim Axelrod: You're describing to me a tireless investigation.
Det. Mois: Past a lot of detectives in our department and other agencies.
But Omaha, that proud Midwestern city, wasn't buying Derek Mois and Scott Warner's modest ways, and when they approached a room full of the victims loved ones.
Jim Axelrod: Tell me what happened. You walked in.
Det. Mois: I don't even wanna say information technology. [Laughs]
Jim Axelrod: Why not?
Det. Mois: I don't know.
Jim Axelrod: I can run into it in your face up. This was the most emotional moment, wasn't it?
Det. Mois: One of them, yes. For sure.
The victims' families stood and applauded.
Don Kleine: It's very gratifying. That's I think, why we do what we exercise.
Sgt. Warner [emotional]: And merely finally after vii years, you lot can kinda allow it go a little bit and say, "OK, these families have got their answer."
Three families shattered. Iii -- plus ane.
Estella Garcia: They got the wrong person.
Fred Garcia: I still don't believe it.
Jim Axelrod: Will you lot be at the sentencing?
Estella Garcia: Ah, aye.
The outset-born son of hard-working people.
Estella Garcia: He grew up in a healthy environment. What changed him? I don't know.
The boy who followed his dream -- now upwardly for the death penalty.
Estella Garcia [in tears]: I accept to exist at that place. I don't know if I ever see him again.
If at that place is room for irony in a murder story, information technology belongs to the Bewtras. Police believe that the Bewtras, not the Brumbacks, would be dead – if the Bewtras had not been at that Female parent's Day brunch with their slow moving, elderly friend.
Jim Axelrod: If you lot had been home 20 minutes earlier, what would accept happened?
Dr. Chhanda Bewtra: Nosotros would be both be dead. We wouldn't exist having this conversation. It was either united states of america or them.
Outside Creighton Medical Heart… where every single day countless doctors demark wounds, aid and heal, there sits in the cool stillness, a statue. Information technology is Tom Hunter, forever an eleven-year-onetime child, at play … for eternity.
Anthony Garcia has stopped communicating with his defense team and his family.
A 3-judge panel will decide if Garcia will be sentenced to decease.
Jim Axelrod
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