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I have two officers. i want you to stay inside the house. >> the officers had the lock down and call in a homicide team to investigate further. >> by the time first responders got there, there was no sign of a prowler, but they did find dave laut. >> he was facedown with obvious gunshots to his back and the back of his head. >> jane was a mess. she told investigators, she had no idea who would do this. son, michael, 10 at the time, slept through it all. and janes brother took charge of him while...

Racial names to michael that are just horrible. we have him yelling at him in the street because he cant ride a bike or catch a football or play baseball. >> all those years jane was afraid to report dave. said bamieh, afraid of what he might do to her loved ones. so she covered up her abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary of a police report from the 1980s in which jane reported that an intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found the injuries consisten...

One time on her face. her arms, her legs. several places. >> this is a monster. hes just a monster. >> ron bamieh is janes defense attorney. and according to him, dave laut is far from the hometown hero so many believed him to be. the real truth about dave laut, said bamieh, for nearly three decades, he subjected his wife to horrific abuse. >> like all abuse, its power and control. we have verbal abuse, over a long period of time. emotional abuse. the way he treats her. we have physical abuse, t...

She really believed he was going to kill michael? >> yeah. >> so she made a decision to fight. >> jane had taken michael to the beach that day, said bamieh. they were late getting home. >> dave was upset. started screaming and yelling, nobody respects me. i dont get any attention around here. nobody cares about me. >> jane put michael to bed, got into pajamas herself and waited for daves anger to subside. >> but he wasnt calming down. so about 10:30 or 11:00, he comes out of the room, and hes up...

Hates michael. m michael is a businessman. sorry, i dont see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and the dishonest media. story over the weekend on the possibility of cohen flipping on the president may have touched a nerve. and few reporters are as well sourced as she is in the trump white house. the white house on two occasions today did not rule out pardoning cohen. >> i wanted to ask you a question that sort of following up on what you were asked about michael cohen. noticed b...

>> she really believed that he was going to kill michael. >> reporter: jane had taken michael to the beach that day, said bamieh. they were late getting home. >> dave was upset. nobody respects me. i dont get any attention around here. nobody cares about me. >> reporter: jane put michael to bed. got into pajamas herself and waited for daves anger to subside. >> but he wasnt coming down. about 10:30 or 11:00, he comes out of the room and hes upset and angry. >> reporter: and thats when she saw th...

About how he cant ride a bike or catch a football. >> reporter: jane was afraid, so she covered up his abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary from a police report in the 1980s in which jane reported an intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found injuries consistent with her story. in fact, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries and then ordered jane to lie and blame a nonexistent intruder, a pattern of covering up daves abuse, abuse by the summer of...

Differently, things jane told them through the years, which maybe didnt add up either. >> i honestly felt like she was family, so im going to dismiss the strange feeling i get sometimes. >> reporter: like, said rebecca, the time jane told her dave held a knife to her throat and demanded money. >> i said did you call the police, did you yell? she says, oh, no. i just came home. i wanted to get home. and this was in the middle of the day and nobody else saw? and she said no. >> reporter: then ther...

>> defense attorney, ron bamieh, countered the real victim was jane laut, who suffered the utmost cruelty at the hands of her husband. >> he is not the hero of the olympics. he is the monster who abused her for 27 years. >> the defense called family and friends and neighbors who all testified jane was an abused spouse. but attorney bamieh said the most important witness was the defendant herself. >> if youre going to get a not guilty, which is what were shooting for, she has to testify. >> the j...

Midnight august 28th, 2009. oxnard, california. >> 911, whats your emergency? >> something over there -- >> reporter: a woman in full panic. >> there was shots. >> there were shots being fired? >> yes. my husband is outside. >> reporter: the woman on the phone was jane laut, the wife of the hometown hero. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: dave was still outside, she said, where she heard shots fired. >> he told me to get back in with michael. i came back in and i heard the shots. >> how old is your so...