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the scariest thing that you will ever go through. my whole world crumbled. >> cara was the kind of teacher students just love. >> she was a rock star at her school. >> with the same man for 20 years, enjoying life together by the beach. >> the balcony was like our second living room, you can hear the waves on the shore. >> but she was all alone that night when, according to her, an intruder burst into her bedroom. >> i was scared to death. i didnt have any other choice. >> you shot him...

Futerman. and? >> i was dead wrong. >> reporter: heres what the mock jurors told futerman. while some women gave the answer he expected. >> i found her not guilty, she was already in fear for her life. >> reporter: most found her guilty as sin. >> i dont believe for one second that she was raped. >> reporter: as for the men, the result was practically reversed. >> the facts of the case are that someone broke into the home, and they were afraid and they shot him. >> reporter: was futerman and his...

>> cara was a school teacher, remember. and one day, she said, she got a nasty letter from the florida department of education. >> the state was going to pull my teaching certificate, because he hadnt paid my student loans. >> he paid the bills in the early days of their marriage, she said. >> so, i started looking at the accounts, thinking, whats going on here? i dont understand. >> what was going on, cara said, was they were broke. >> i felt really betrayed and lied to and hurt. >> so, she sai...

Him. and we went to marriage counseling. that helped. >> cara told detectives that for five years j.j. didnt gamble at all and they were happy. but -- >> you know, i always worried that the gambling would come back up and financial situations would happen again. >> and then in 2004, j.j. had that that bad crash in his police car. >> when we got there very shortly thereafter, he had an actually, like, a hole in the top of his head. >> bob jones is a former st. petersburg police officer and j.j.s ...

Depression, gambling, drinking, painkillers. a man so out of control he raped her underage before she shot him. >> and then he came back through the door. i thought he was going to kill me. >> was it true? >> never in his life. never in his life. >> lonnie lancto had known cara and j.j. for years, before she and j.j. fell in love. did she have a reasonable argument that maybe she thought she was defending her life? >> not at all. he wasnt a violent person. she has -- she has no other defense but...

>> uh-um. >> reporter: more evidence soon after the murder police asked jjs daughter meghan to call cara. they recorded the call, it too was played for the jury. >> why did you shoot him though? >> i didnt know if it was him coming back to kill me like he said he would or if it was a stranger coming in and thats what he said if anyone came in the house unannounced to shoot to kill. >> the monotone, the -- you know, the lack of -- sympathy. >> how are you doing? >> horrible. >> im sorry. i dont k...

To me, id run over there and say, "he just texted me, what do i say? " i hadnt really been on a date in 20 years. >> the day of the shooting, cara texted scott a very explicit text, complete with intimate selfie, inviting him to come over for a tryst. >> so embarrassing. i had never sent suggestive text messages, let alone body parts, it was mortifying. it would be sad if it wasnt so tragic. but it is tragic. >> -- but he couldnt come, is that what happened? >> oh, scott was at work. he worked f...

Knew him very well indeed. coming up -- >> so embarrassing. i had never sent suggestive text messages, let alone body parts. >> cara shares an eyebrow raising new detail about what happened in her bedroom. >> it was mortifying. >> what she claims set the intruder off. >> thats when he became violent. >> when "dateline" continues. my uncontrolled movements. some mental health meds can cause tardive dyskinesia, or td, and its unlikely to improve without treatment. ingrezza is a prescription medici...

Night. a 3:00 a.m. knock at my door. they said, "your dads been shot and hes been killed." i screamed. the scariest thing that you will ever go through. my whole world crumbled. >> cara was the kind of teacher students just love. >> she was a rock star at her school. >> with the same man for 20 years, enjoying life together by the beach. >> the balcony was like our second living room, you can hear the waves on the shore. >> but she was all alone that night when, according to her, an intruder bur...

>> no? >> like i told her, i said, "what, did the bullet hang a u-turn? it doesnt work like that." >> reporter: but perhaps the states strongest evidence was in caras own words. jurors listened to those hours and hours of ever evolving stories. >> i was scared. i didnt know who was coming in. >> i think any normal person, you know, would be able to look at those interviews and say, "shes lying. shes not telling the truth." theres nothing in there that tells me -- you know, that theres a reasonab...