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Gunman who has wounded becky is also the person whos broken in and fatally beaten miss parsons? >> of course that comes to mind. i mean, of course it does. its just too much of a coincidence. >> reporter: and nothing about this shooting took the heat off beckys son michael. >> whats the working theory? >> the working theory still is, michaels still pretty high up on the list. somebodys looking for some money. somebody owes somebody some money. >> reporter: edmunds had some tough, personal questi...

It had been a perfectly normal evening, she said. they were in bed by 10:00. dave in the master bedroom, she in michaels room, where she often slept because dave had a bad back. she said it was about an hour later, she said, about 11:00. >> dave came down the hall, she said, worried about the dog. >> so 11:15, she said, she and dave crept over to a sliding glass door to a side yard. >> the gunshots?

>> 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 his 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 consistent with janes story. in fact, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries. then ordered jane to lie, and blame a nonexistent intruder. a pattern of covering ...

Stay inside the house. >> the officers had to lock down and call in a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. >> ventura countys investigator mike palmeiri arrived, there was no sign of a prowler. but they did find dave laut. >> he had been shot multiple times. he was on the ground, face down, with very obvious gunshot wounds to his back and to the back of his head. >> jane was a mess. she told investigators she had no idea who would do this. >> is there anybody who would wa...

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, thats everything from the punching to the k...

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 upset and hes angry. >> and thats w...

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 notes? but she wouldnt re...

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 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. ron bamieh: if shes going to get a "not guilty," which is what were shooting for, she has to testify. keith morrison: the judge would not allow cameras to roll when, for the first time publicly, through tears...

>> and in that moment of fear, ellen says, she pulled the trigger. not once, not twice, but repeatedly. >> i have never been so afraid in my life. >> he turned around and ran away from you. >> he did. >> and you kept shooting. >> i did. i turned, grabbed and kept shooting. >> how far did he get? >> ten feet. >> then what happened? >> then he fell down. >> elizabeth, mike and allens 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didnt wake up. but ellens son michael, 17, was in his bedro...

Courthouse for ellens sentencing. ellens son michael was there in support of his mom. just as he had been on the day she shot her husband. michael was still a minor when the killing happened, and so in exchange for his cooperation, he was given immunity and faced no charges. as we sit here, youre about to go into that courtroom and a judge is going to pronounce sentence. >> yep. >> are you ready for what is coming? >> how do you say youre ready for that? i know that it has to happen. and i know ...