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>> yes. its ludicrous. >> it violated the laws of physics. >> whats more, he said, the dna on the gun was daves. once again supporting janes contention, that he had the gun. and then they struggled for it. >> his dna is on the trigger. theres no getting around that fact. >> one more thing, said bamieh, one more bit of evidence that the police missed, even though it was right under their noses. bruising on janes upper left arm. photographed the morning after dave was killed. >> look at the bruise...

Jane remained free on bond. and daves niece, megan laut, fumed. >> she caused my family so much pain, and its horrible. its just -- i hate it. >> nephews aaron and cody took it out on the garage weight room. >> i have a way of bottling and condensing it and i get it out when i lift. >> you get your emotion going, your anger, your adrenaline going. >> in september 2013, don laut pleaded with a judge to get the case before a jury. >> i just want the court to know that theres a family, and theres f...

Patio. shes like, calm down, dave, calm down. >> then, out in the darkness, dave stumbled on the patio. >> he loses his balance, and thats her opportunity. and she goes at him and she try toss grab the gun. they go to the ground. there is a struggle for the gun. the gun goes off. and then she eventually gets the gun and she empties it. >> then she ran back into the house, put the gun inside the grandfather clock and called 911. >> she has no idea hes dead. hes down but she thinks hes getting up....

>> on the stand, jane admitted that she lied in her 911 call. but she denied she had any financial motive for killing her husband. after all, she did not ask for nor did she receive a penny of daves life insurance. >> jane would never be about finances. absolutely not. >> why do you say that? >> thats not her value. jane is about relationship, shes about family. shes about children. its never been about money for her. >> the prosecutor got his chance to cross-examine jane. there were a lot of i ...

Coming up, jane takes the stand. >> i get a not guilty, which is what were shooting for. she has to testify. >> a gun takes center stage. >> pull back the hammer, fire. each and every time. >> when "dateline extra" continues. plus b vitamins for heart health. your one a day is showing.

>> we find the one that goes through his cheekbone, it goes down the side yard, it bounces off of the concrete, it nicks the fence, and that bullet we matched out on the sidewalk. >> shots four, five and six hit in the upper arm and back, and the back of daves head. >> we believe shot six, the final shot, was the shot to the back of the head. >> from the very beginning, jane denied she had anything to do with it. >> i dont know what happened, and i didnt do it. >> but they didnt believe her. esp...

Jane laut. remember those clothes they found in the laundry room? when they tested them they found gunshot residue. so did jane shoot dave, then change into her pajamas before she called 911? and youll remember, jane specifically mentioned a red flashlight. so police bagged it, tested it, and found gunshot residue. as if she was holding the flashlight while shooting her husband. if jane was the killer, this is about as cold-blooded as it gets. investigators said dave had been shot six times. >> ...

The strange feeling i get sometimes. >> like said rebecca the time jane told her two men put a knife to her throat and demanded money. >> and i said, well, did you call the police? did you yell? she says, oh, no, i just -- i just came home. i just wanted to get home. and i said, this was in the middle of the day and nobody else saw? she said, no. >> and then there was her claim that somebody was leaving threatening notes on her car. >> but then you would ask her, and probe her, like what kind of...

That night, according to bamieh, for the first time, dave threatened michaels life. 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 ...

>> for a while, every time she would call me, it seemed like it was to vent about something she didnt like about what dave was doing. >> so evidence was carefully sifted for months. and then in february 2010, jane laut was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, and the story, said investigators, was chillingly clear. >> this was an execution. she had lured him out, shot him from behind, and then egressed on him, shot him a second and third time, stepped back and shot him a fourth time, c...