In March 2008, 57-year-old housekeeper Shirlee Sherman was found fatally stabbed inside her employers’ Omaha home. Dr. William Hunter discovered Sherman and his 11-year-old son, Thomas, dead when he returned from work. Knives were left in the victims, there were no signs of forced entry or robbery, and investigators initially found no clear motive or usable DNA evidence. A sketch of a possible person of interest based on neighborhood witness descriptions was released but produced no breakthrough, and the case grew cold for years.

Investigators reopened the file after a similar double homicide in Omaha in 2013. Both doctors involved had worked at Creighton University Medical Center, and the investigation focused on a former pathology resident, Anthony Garcia, who had been dismissed by the doctors in 2001. Phone records and other evidence placed Garcia in Omaha around the time of the murders; he was arrested in July 2013 and later convicted. Did anyone in Omaha in 2008 notice a suspicious person or vehicle in the neighborhood around the Hunter home?