Murder Most Foul – Issue 111 – January 2019

young boy and an old lady?’” he said,
“That’s the worst pickup line in the
history of the world.”
He agreed that Garcia, who liked to
be known as “Dr. Tony,” was a regular
at the Club Koyote strip joint but that
wasn’t a crime. “Dr. Tony was like Norm
at Cheers,” he said, “Everyone knew him
when he walked in the door.”
The prosecution’s evidence was
circumstantial and incomplete, he added.
They had not placed Garcia at either of
the two crime scenes.
The idea that Garcia killed four people
over a reference was incredible. “To do
that kind of butchery, that’s hate in your
heart,” Motta said. “In those 12 years,
what did you see that was so horrible that
makes you believe that this guy would
hold that much hate in his heart for 12
years and decide he was going to come
back and kill? I don’t see it.”

believe. “I was very surprised because the

person I knew was polite and easy-going

and got along well with everyone,” said

Dr. Steve Lore, who studied with Garcia

at Utah.

Garcia never spoke to his attorneys

during the trial and his later

communications were all said to be

“gobbledegook.” “Either he’s incredibly

talented at sounding insane – or he is

insane,” said Jeremy Jorgenson, one of the

defence team. “I don’t know the answer.”

In September 2018, Anthony Garcia

arrived in a wheelchair and, as far as

anyone could tell, slept through the

hearing as a panel of three judges

sentenced him to death – but not before

some courtroom excitement. Gage

County District Judge Gary Randall

A less hirsute Garcia escorted into court at an earlier hearing. He is now

one of 12 inmates on Nebraska’s Death Row

B

ut the jury did see it. Anthony Garcia

was found guilty on all four counts of

murder after the jury of six men and six

women had deliberated for seven hours.

Some of his old friends found it hard to

“Thomas was a

wonderful, lively

child. He was a joy

in everybody’s

life and he didn’t

deserve what

happened to him”

was wheeled away on a gurney after

he collapsed in agony. “I apologise,” he

groaned. Judge Rick Schreiner took over.

He explained that Judge Randall had

undergone back surgery earlier that week

which had left him in extreme pain. He

didn’t ask if there was a doctor in the

house.

Nebraska has not executed an inmate

since Carey Dean Moore died by lethal

injection for the 1979 shooting deaths

of two Omaha cab drivers. With current

execution protocols tied up in knots,

it’s hard to predict whether Anthony

Garcia, 45, will ever face an executioner.

Meanwhile, he joins 11 other Nebraska

inmates on Death Row.

After the sentence was issued Bradley

Waite, Shirlee Sherman’s brother, said,

“Lethal injection is way too good for

him.”

Claire Hunter, the mother of

Thomas, had impressed the court

with her dignity throughout the

trial. She now added, “Thomas was

a wonderful, lively child. He was a

joy in everybody’s life and he didn’t

deserve what happened to him.”

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