Mary Brumback, a 65-year-old white woman, was found dead alongside her husband, Dr. Roger Brumback, in their west Omaha home on Shirley Street on May 14, 2013. A piano mover arriving for an appointment noticed the front door ajar and alerted authorities, who discovered the couple inside. Investigators described a brutal scene: Roger was shot multiple times and stabbed, and Mary was found nearby in the living room with numerous stab wounds to the neck.

Detectives quickly searched for connections to an unsolved 2008 double homicide — the stabbing deaths of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and housekeeper Shirlee Sherman. The Brumback scene and the earlier killings were eventually linked by a task force to a single suspect with a fraught history at Creighton’s pathology residency program. Two months after the Brumbacks were killed, police arrested former medical resident Anthony J. Garcia and recovered a .45-caliber handgun; testing tied the weapon to the shooting of Roger Brumback. Garcia was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and, after a trial, a Douglas County jury convicted him on October 26, 2016, with a three-judge panel sentencing him to death in September 2018, the case closed as retaliation against faculty who had terminated him years earlier.

Does anyone have information about the Brumbacks’ life in west Omaha or memories of the neighborhood around May 2013 that could add context to this case?