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Somebody is after her, shes in some danger? >> yeah. >> reporter: it was like something fell into place for them. >> there was a separation. it was like jane was the parent and michael was the child and dave was in the way. >> reporter: you had the sense she was pushing david away? >> yeah. i think it was the stress of the marriage. >> reporter: if there was stress, it was pretty clear, said rebecca. >> for a while every time she would called me, it seemed like it was to vent about something she...

I want you to stay inside the house. >> the officers had to lockdown and call in a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. >> referee: ventura county d.a. investigator mike said by the time first responders 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 facedown with very obvious gunshot wounds to his back and to the back of his head. >> reporter: jane was a mess. she told investigators she had n...

Gotten shot. and they both worked at healing hands. >> do you believe that the 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...

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 ...

>> 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. for 27 years.sr who abused her >> the defense called family and friends and neighbors o 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 judge would not allow...

>> 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 want to harm him at all? ...

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 leing threatening notes on her car. >> but then you would ask her, and probher, like what kind of not...

It happened. >> there were several times that i saw bruising on her. 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 ti...

Michael names, 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 inj...

Become a lot more complex. >> here ive got two neighbors, you know, one has been beaten to death and the other one has just gotten shot. and they both worked at healing hands. >> do you believe that the 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 t...