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foreign [Music] this was strange [Music] that happened in Dundee it's a classic neighborhood the heart of
Omaha [Music] violent crime does not happen then Dundee the mundane world of after school and
then it's just shattered by a monster [Music] I remember walking in their front door
into this very nice home there's a little boy lying face down in a very large pool of blood
you know you think of Tommy Hunter you can't imagine what the last few seconds of his life were like
smart kid love science math every parent's son and then as you walk through the house
and you get to the back door you see this large pool of blood this lady who had very evidently been pushed down to
the ground and attacked Shirley Sherman grandma gentle soul [ __ ] working to have anybody murdered is a shock to
the community but to have an 11 year old boy and a housekeeper killed in a manner
they were I think is a whole number level there didn't appear to be anything missing in the house no robbery no there
was no readily explainable reason behind what you see on that day one of the neighbors
happened to notice a car that she wasn't familiar with was a fleeting glance at him and his vehicle
silver Honda CRV [Music] things went cold after the first couple months how frustrated were you getting
incredibly I don't even know if I can put it into words beautiful Mother's Day tragedy strikes again
Dr Roger Brumback and his wife Mary yeah murdered detective do you remember the first time
you walked into this house I did what it looked like the aftermath of an incredibly brutal murder
Roger Brumback devoted portions of his medical career to Childhood disease and then to Alzheimer's
Mary Brumback could not have had an enemy in the world let me walk through that first door
Scott and I had a real definitive moment after we walked through that house where
we're like you know I've seen these things before specifically with the wounds to the
right side of the neck you don't see a lot of knifings that are stabbings that are that are like that when had the last
time been that you had seen stabbings like that it was 2008. with Thomas and Shirley
the mindset at that point was there's a connection here light bulb must have gone off very brightly
it's incredible on so many levels you can't help but be touched by the Innocence
of all of these victims and then it's in peaceful neighborhoods on beautiful days
this is a once in a lifetime type story [Music] thank you [Music] Omaha Nebraska a proud Beacon of
America's Midwest spreading out from the Majestic banks of the Missouri River home of the College World Series
and Warren Buffett Rich enough to live anywhere he chooses might take out all my overalls is a terrific place to live
according to Todd Cooper court reporter for the Omaha World Herald the secret heartbeat of this town is Creighton
Medical Center it resonates throughout the community you can't go anywhere without running into someone who is
Creighton born and bred how long was your career at Creighton 40 years Dr Shonda and a Gaines are butra loved and
respected their Creighton colleagues you both knew Dr Hunter yes his office is right next to my office the butras were
close friends with doctors Bill and Claire Hunter the parents of 11 year old Thomas
what were they like nice people dedicated to their Hospital he was very well loved by residents and
students the hunters and their four children lived here a handsome home in that upscale close-knit neighborhood known as
Dundee it's a classic neighborhood Neighbors in each other's business common areas where kids play
March 13 2008 Dr Claire Hunter was attending a conference in Hawaii and Bill was busy at the Pathology Lab
[Music] the school bus camera captures Tom arriving home smart kid love to play Xbox drink Dr
Pepper eat potato chips Tom Hunter a very bright very normal sixth grader his three older brothers
already out of the house waiting for Tom the Hunter's part-time housekeeper Shirley Sherman
when you think of your mom what are some of the words that come into mind mother
caregiver grandmother nurturer for her son Jeff and her younger brother Brad Shirley was the
Rock Solid hard-working centerpiece of their extended family anytime you go over there first thing she'd always want
to do is make sure she had coffee and you want something to eat I'll fix you something
Tom grabbed a snack and settled into this basement playroom with his chips soda and his Xbox
[Music] five o'clock Dr Hunter left his Pathology Lab at Creighton and began the
10 minute ride home he came home from work immediately walking in the back door and
he encountered Shirley and just a few feet away lay his son Tom the doctor knew immediately it was too
late for an ambulance he called 9-1-1 they told him to get out of the house and wait for First Responders to come
detective Derek Moyes 19 years with the Omaha PD and his partner Sergeant Scott Warner describe a crime scene that would
consume and haunt them incredibly sad scenario just the manner and the brutality of it
and in the basement cops found that still life of Tom's World interrupted by Madness his Xbox was
online and you could see his bag chips and his Dr Pepper not surprisingly it was evident surely
had been hard at work do you see her bucket of cleaning supplies just kind of dropped haphazardly right where Thomas
was Hunter and Shirley Sherman had been stabbed to death and as if sending some dark raging homicidal message knives had
been left in the victims and around the house but what was the motive for murder
something's just not adding up here my mom had 833 dollars in cash in a purse it wasn't even touched the hunters have
a lot of valuables or none of that appeared to have been touched I imagine the community must have been
unglued I think a city as a whole an 11 year old boy doesn't get killed in his home it just doesn't happen
for detectives Moyes Warner and the other investigators the horror of these gut-wrenching murders would soon be
paired with a deep frustration the crime scene left them little to go on no DNA no motive no apparent suspects
one of the neighbors happened to notice a car that she wasn't familiar with that was the first clue and it would one
day prove critical the neighbor's sighting of a silver Honda SUV with out of state plates prowling the streets of
Dundee it caught her attention not only because of the car but watching an individual that had exited the car take
a satchel and then walk Northbound on this street [Music] Moyes and Warner played out one scenario
after the next and it occupied our lives every day and when I say every day and I mean all
day was surely the target my Tom have attracted an online Predator to his basement playroom was there something
that occurred online over his gaming over a computer and there was Creighton itself
where the murders a gruesome active Vengeance by a disgruntled former employee targeting Tom's parents the
hunters detectives briefly considered this man Dr Anthony Garcia a former resident in
the pathology program Bill Hunter had fired Garcia back in 2001. but Bill Hunter dismissed Anthony
Garcia when they brought up his name in an interview now I yeah he got fired but
he left quietly every lead seemed like a dead end leaving nothing but shattered families
you just can't put it out of your mind we did not want it to just go away disappear
they want answers and the only people they can really turn to Is Us is there ever a point for either of you
where you thought we're just never going to find out who did this sure yes absolutely yeah there was
[Music] clear to us that Thomas had been attacked first the horrific crime scene
in the Hunter House in Dundee gave investigators plenty to puzzle over and think through
we just didn't see anything that would have precipitated the murders even after a couple of weeks into the investigation
we didn't know if Thomas was the intended victim if it was Shirley if it was the Hunter House the hunters
themselves or if it was a completely random act Moyes and Warner kept grinding and getting nowhere
it was a mystery for years let's talk about Mother's Day 2013. we took a couple and we took them
out for Mother's Day brunch and they're older people and he was with the Walker that Mother's Day fate brushed the
butres and it all started after that brunch with their slow-moving elderly guest he took forever to get to his car
and Dr butcher's husband ribbed him at the time and said you are killing us here like you are taking forever the
irony being he actually may have been saving their lives the butras both doctors at Creighton finally began their
short drive home when they got a call their Burglar Alarm was going off so I went to the basement
this door was open about an inch pushed it back in the door was a jar but nothing 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 Roger Brumback was in his old clothes painting the entryway of his house
getting it ready to to sell they were moving away they were going to retire they were on the cusp of what we all
work for and they had talked to their daughter via FaceTime his daughter cracked a joke she screenshot it it was
shortly after that FaceTime chat that Creighton Dr Roger Brumback answered a knock at the door
and boom just immediately shot it would be two days before anyone knew the extent and
the nature of the Carnage inside the brumback's OWN we showed up to move a piano here and
nobody answered the door Jason Peterson a piano mover showed up as scheduled and
I opened up the front glass door to yell inside hello and that's when I seen a gun clip on the floor like a magazine on
the floor the piano mover s called the cops there's a gun clip and some bullets on
the floor I just think there's something going on in this house that day detectives Derek Moyes and Scott Warner
just happened to be on call let me walk through that front door there was the loaded magazine that the
movers had spotted he also found a spent shell casing stuck between the double doors and just beyond that in the
entryway was Roger Brumback where you could see he had gunshot wounds we would also see very evident stab marks on the
right side of his neck just below his right ear [Music] and inside the main living room area of
that main floor and that's where we would find Mary Brumback she had very clear defensive wounds on her hands
which were indicative of her trying to put up a defense and we had knives that were left in that crime scene the
Carnage just inside the front door of the brumback's house was shocking even for long time homicide detectives but
there was something else about the crime scene that hit them almost instantly a sickening familiarity 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 you
don't see a lot of knifings that are stabbings that are that are like that the wounds were a mirror image to those
suffered by Tom Hunter and Shirley Sherman in 2008 and then you find out the victim worked as a doctor at
Creighton's medical school yeah then you two must look at each other and say we we can't ignore this we got something
here oh no Roger Brumback was not only a doctor at Creighton but he worked out of
the same office as Tom Hunter's father Bill the Pathology Department Roger Brumback was chairman and Bill Hunter
was in charge of the residence we knew we had these similarities in the crime scenes and the weapons that were used
in in this connection to the Pathology Department the cold case that had mystified Omaha for five frustrating
years was heating up your mind's going a million miles an hour you consciously have to make
yourself slow down the next day cops got a call from the butras telling detectives about that alarm
that went off at their home on Mother's Day the same day the brumbax were believed to have been murdered we have
Dr Hunter whose son Tom had been murdered in 2008. we have Dr Brumback who had just been gunned down in his
doorway and now Dr beatra a colleague of doctors Hunter and Brumback in Creighton's Pathology
Department who are they in a position to of effect the most and the obvious answer was of
course the the residents at that pathology training program and from that point on that's what
we looked at we went to Creighton University and we pulled the files from every resident within that program
starting I think in 2000 and one of the files you got belonged to Anthony Garcia
Anthony Garcia Omaha Police had heard his name before that Creighton pathology resident the
cops had barely considered back in 2008 he had been fired and Garcia's professor
in the Pathology Department Dr Shonda Putra what kind of student was he bad guy and
a bad student and Dr butra didn't hold back on her feelings in several performance reviews she prepared for
Bill Hunter I was trying very hard to convince Bill to get rid of him yes and that's exactly what happened Hunter and
Brumback fired Garcia his letter of termination began to look like a Smoking Gun and the signatures
are Dr William Hunter and Dr Roger Brumback correct so in his mind if he's trying to
figure out who's responsible for his termination he's thinking of three people Brumback
Hunter and butra every time Anthony Garcia is looking for a job this letter signed by Brumback and
Hunter kind of seemingly was coming back to haunt him [Music] thank you where does this case where is
it in terms of your your frontal lobe or present it's at the Forefront for sure it's been a constant since 2008
two sets of murders five years apart with a Common Thread Creighton University I always felt there's something to do
with Creighton meanwhile detective Derek Moyes was learning as much as he could about
former Creighton resident Anthony Garcia after I got the Garcia book every time I
I turned a Paige I was learning something new that I felt was relevant that I felt was going to carry me on to
the next step for Moyes Garcia was looking more and more like his number one suspect
but an unlikely one Anthony Garcia who is he you know a decidedly middle class kid played
football grew up in Walnut California Walnut California is a place where dreams really do come true a pristine
suburb in a Golden Valley about an hour east of Los Angeles it was a loving home we're encouraged to
you know do the right thing Fernando Garcia is Anthony's younger brother keenly aware of what his family has
accomplished my mom was born in Mexico and came here and you know my dad was born here you know my dad fought in
Vietnam they didn't have a lot they were able to achieve you know the American dream for Fred who worked for
the post office San estela a registered nurse a Cornerstone of their dream was their firstborn child
Anthony he was healthy playful he played football what kind of student was Anthony it was
good he was a good student he was an auto boy who wanted to get along with people
not confrontational there was College in California and then med school in Utah he wanted to be a
brain surgeon you must have been enormously proud oh yes yeah then in 1999 came a journey most parents
only dream of his dad described packing all of Anthony's belongings into a van and driving cross-country Father and Son
dad couldn't have been prouder [Music] Father and Son were headed here Bassett Saint Elizabeth in Utica New York it
would be Anthony Garcia's first residency and it didn't go well I did not know he was having trouble
Garcia's professors accused him of Behaving unprofessionally including yelling at a radiology technician Under
Pressure Garcia resigned and firstborn son headed back home when he came back he was not the same
he looked very tired almost exhausted but he wasn't giving up and in July of 2000 Anthony Garcia got what few
residents ever do a second chance I was happy he was getting a job that's when Garcia began his residency
in the Pathology Department at Creighton academically he was very poor but there
was much more than poor academics pranking a chief resident rolling a body onto its face so it becomes disfigured
he would write emails to Dr Hunter complaining about Dr butra I mean this guy was a child cloaked
and cloaked with a medical degree then in 2001 after multiple incidents and those bad performance reviews by Dr
butra Creighton had its fill of Anthony Garcia what does it mean for a resident to be
terminated pretty serious it pretty much ends your medical career Anthony Garcia headed home once again he
said it didn't work out did he complain about the people he did not complain about the people I never
complain about anybody those who knew and still love him believe Anthony's struggled with
depression and migraine headaches and was overwhelmed by the rigorous work required to fulfill his American Dream
of becoming a doctor I can see that taking a toll on somebody psychologically emotionally and did you
get the sense at all that Anthony felt he had failed not at all I think he was adamant about
continuing with that career and miraculously in 2003 Anthony Garcia got a third chance working as a resident
at the University of Illinois hospital he somehow managed to get a medical license to practice in the state of
Illinois but for the state of Illinois this guy does not have a medical license anywhere
for the next few years Garcia bounced around the country working where he could clinics even a
prison hospital with every new state he moved to Garcia had to apply for a medical license there
and those who had the authority to grant that license would learn of his dismissal from Creighton
and each time he would pay a price for his past to get licensure in another state they
would be sending Creighton University very specific requests about or Anthony Garcia's time at Creighton University
and those responses were not positive they were not positive it doesn't take a detective or even a physician to read
those as a layperson and say that's not going to help him get get licensure or a
job investigators discovered that in February 2008 Garcia was living in Louisiana
the state denied his application for a medical license due in part to his termination from Creighton
three weeks later Tom Hunter and Shirley Sherman were brutally murdered [Music] the pieces of Anthony Garcia's past were
coming together in front of Moyes and Warner but could they Place him in Dundee in 2008 on the day of Tom and
Shirley's murder Moyes wondered what kind of car Garcia was driving back then so he checked his reports and I remember
it was on page 11 of that report that between July of 2007 in July of 2009 Anthony Garcia had a Honda CRV
registered to him at a Shreveport Louisiana address after discovering the make and model
moist ran the VIN number to get the color and it came back as a silver Honda CRV
[Music] it was 2013. the slaughter of four innocent people over the course of five
years had left Omaha staggered and searching for answers this is something that really had upset
the community the city the the region it evolved into something so much bigger than any of us we're used to
but its origin was right here the Pathology Department at Creighton University Medical Center where Dr
Brumback was the head of the department and Dr Hunter was in charge of the residence
it was also here investigators allege that Anthony Garcia developed his Twisted motive for murder it's
unfathomable a grudge that festers for seven years before the first killings in 12 years before the second set of
killings that's unheard of a grudge that wouldn't quit revenge for being fired was the motive the theory of the case
Moyes and Warner began to build but Fernando Garcia Anthony's younger brother wasn't buying it 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 job 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 I needed to find out where he was on May 12
2013. the day Roger and Mary Brumback were murdered Garcia's electronic records lit up the
trail we have this phone call accessing a cell tower in Atlantic Iowa which is only an hour away from Omaha he had made
a purchase at a Wingstop restaurant in Omaha and Anthony Garcia was caught on camera just outside Omaha buying a case
of Bud Light that very same day at this point do you have a suspect you want to arrest yes
detectives headed for Garcia's Terre Haute home but when they got there he was nowhere
to be found our concern was that he was leaving Terre Haute and he was headed south towards Louisiana where there were
other people that you felt he perceived had wronged him yes cops feared Garcia was out to kill again
Omaha detectives were now working with nearby law enforcement agencies and the FBI
and at 8 30 a.m Illinois State Police spotted Garcia's car he was pulled over drunk and on his knees in the middle of
the road Anthony Garcia was arrested in his car a crowbar a sledgehammer and a gun
we got a call that he was in custody and what did that sound like relief yeah with Garcia under arrest cops entered
his house in Terre Haute it was apparent it didn't look like somebody planned on on really coming
back Omaha Detective Ryan Davis got the first look into a dark and conflicted world through Garcia's chilling words we
live we die we live we die on top of the dining room table are all these documents I would call
them documents of success a medical degree a deed to his house and then he's got this bag
this trash bag in his kitchen sink inside the trash bag were more documents submerged in a liquid
it looked at detectives like someone was trying to destroy them these documents really give you chills he's talking
about going to the store buying broccoli butter shrimp Anthony Garcia's shopping
list from the ordinary to the ominous as you can see here it says invade Ridge House torture
murder over here it says Rich children gun invade kill knife kidnap family SUV torture kill
and there was also something familiar soaking in the sink those negative performance reviews written by Dr Shonda
butra and Garcia's termination letter signed by doctors Hunter and Brumback the motivation for these murders was all
right there in that sink that sink full of evidence wasn't all detectives found their investigation LED them to a key
witness at Garcia's favorite haunt Club Coyote who's Cecilia Hoffman at the time she
was a stripper at a strip club in Terre Haute Indiana Mr Garcia was a a regular customer
a roadside strip joint the one place Anthony Garcia's childhood dreams still had life
when he came in the door they would announce that Dr Tony was in the house and he had all this money and Cecilia
told detective Davis that Garcia wanted more than just a dance he wanted a girlfriend that wasn't what she wanted
so she stated to us that she started to try to distance herself from him Omaha cops recorded Cecilia's haunting
story I'm putting on my little voice and saying well Dr Tony I only like bad boys
I'm a bad girl he couldn't you know you couldn't handle a girl like me and then definitely told me he told me I wasn't
as good as he thought he was he thought I killed people before he said I killed a young boy and an old
woman Anthony Garcia confesses to the murders of Thomas Hunter and Shirley Sherman as a way to try to impress a
stripper right the police fugitive unit would extradite Garcia back here to Omaha and on July 23
2013 right here at the Douglas County Courthouse Dr Anthony Garcia was formally charged with four counts of
first-degree murder there wasn't anything in this case I don't think that was like our big piece
of evidence I think there were a lot of pieces and when you put them together that's what makes it overwhelming it all
points to Anthony Garcia lead prosecutor Don Klein and his Deputy Brenda Beadle would lay out Nebraska's capital murder
case against Anthony Garcia they're trying to put my client to death and I was going to do whatever I had to do to
get him a fair trial if at all possible and Bob Mata Jr his father and their legal Associates with the chicago-based
PowerHouse defense team Anthony Garcia's parents spent their entire life savings
to hire did your son kill Tommy Hunter Shirley Sherman Roger and Mary Brumback I don't know
if if it did it's a totally different person that they're talking about [Music] September 26 2016.
15 years after he was fired from Creighton the quadruple murder trial of a very different looking Anthony Garcia
finally began [Music] just the innocence in this every one of those people were just going about their
days their lives and then Anthony Garcia comes knocking knocking with his Grudge Garcia's Moto
summed up by the prosecution in a single word Revenge he Googled it he searched for it he
searched for that term including a quote in his phone Shakespeare quote Merchant
of Venice if you harm us shall I not Revenge their theories Revenge Revenge if you
take out that element that leaves them with absolutely a giant gaping hole in their tapestry
where the entire thing becomes unwoven No cameras were allowed in court the Matas of Chicago went at the prosecution
like heavyweights they brought a lot of fire Revenge suggested the Matas was just a fancy Theory and in fact the
Matas produced this letter of recommendation for Anthony Garcia written by Dr Hunter just a few days
after Garcia was fired from Creighton we terminated him but we don't want him to
be jobless destitute we want him to rehabilitate and find some other job and the modest take on the star witness
Cecilia Hoffman who Garcia had allegedly confessed to a strung out stripper at the time I
think she's a liar the time that she gives the interview she's intoxicated she's popping script pills every day she
has no credibility well I thought she was extremely incredible and she had nothing to gain by coming forward
she was subjected to a very long and extensively vigorous cross-examination and she didn't waver and the jury saw
that and the jury saw this the other piece of the gun was found off the highway on an exit ramp right by
Terre Haute Indiana cops believe Garcia used to kill Roger Brumback that's an unbelievable
coincidence it's amazing real number matches the one on this gun box found in his Terre Haute apartment
but at the butra's home on this doorknob there was DNA there was DNA evidence that pointed to
Anthony Garcia but the mod has insisted cops could not Place Garcia in Omaha for the first set
of murders and they argued this Anthony Garcia was not the only disgruntled employee at Creighton that buying
chicken wings and beer on the day of the brumbax murder didn't make their client
a killer and that he was simply looking for a job again in the Omaha area if Nebraska puts Anthony Garcia to death
is an innocent man dying I believe so I believe so after more than 50 Witnesses and 15 days
of emotional testimony the case went to the jury it took just seven hours and then the
jury spoke as one [Music] Anthony Garcia guilty of murder and the deaths of Thomas Hunter Shirley Sherman
and Roger and Mary Brumback Anthony Garcia who didn't testify guilty on all counts
you know the breath just kind of comes out of you and it brings a lot of emotions back
because you think about I can see about Thomas and and Shirley and Roger and Mary
thank you for two cops it was the answer to nearly a decade of Relentless work you have
been called the hero of this story you can't shake that off fast enough oh no not at all
you're describing to me a tireless investigation by a lot of detectives in our department and other
agencies but Omaha that proud Midwestern City wasn't buying Derrick Moyes and Scott Warner's modest ways and when they
approached a room full of the victim's loved ones tell me what happened you walked in
I don't even want to say it why not I don't know I can see it in your face this was the
most emotional moment wasn't it one of them yes for sure [Music] the victims families stood and applauded
it's very gratifying that's that's I think why we do what we do and just finally after seven years you
can kind of let it go a little bit say okay these families have got their answer
[Music] three families shattered three plus one they got the wrong person I still don't
believe it will you be at the sentencing oh yes the firstborn son of hard-working people
he grew up and a healthy environment what changed them I don't know the boy who followed his dream now up
for the death penalty I have to be there I don't know if I ever see him again [Music]
if there is room for irony in a murder story it belongs to the butres police believe that the butras not the
brumbax would be dead the butris had not been at that Mother's Day brunch with their slow-moving
elderly friend if you had been home 20 minutes earlier what would have happened we were both
dead we would be having this conversation that was either them or us outside Creighton Medical Center
where every single day countless doctors bind wounds help and heal their sits in the cool Stillness a
statue [Music] it is Tom Hunter forever an 11 year old child at play for eternity
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Brief Summary

The episode details the murders of Thomas Hunter and Shirley Sherman, and Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife, linking them to suspect Anthony Garcia.

Key points

The Brutal Murders of Thomas and Shirley. The shocking murders of an 11-year-old boy and his housekeeper leave a community in disbelief.
The Frustration of Investigators. Detectives struggle with a lack of evidence and motive in a heartbreaking case.
A Connection Uncovered. Detectives discover a chilling similarity between two brutal murders five years apart.
Shirley's Murder. The shocking murder of Shirley sets the stage for a chilling investigation.
Garcia's Motive. A grudge that festered for years leads to a series of murders.
Garcia's Arrest. After a long search, police finally arrest Anthony Garcia, finding disturbing evidence.

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You think of Tommy Hunter, you can't imagine what the last few seconds were like.

Reflecting on the tragic moments before Tommy Hunter's death.

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