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Her legs, several places. >> reporter: hes a monster, just a monster. >> reporter: ron bamieh is janes attorney. according to him, dave is far from the hometown hero some believed him to be. the truth about dave laut, he said, for nearly two decades he subjected his wife to horrific abuse. >> like all abuse, it is power and control. we have verbal abuse, the names he called her over a long period of time. we have emotional abuse. we have physical abuse, thats everything from the punching to the ...

It was a brutal scene. >> reporter: 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 no idea who would do this. son michael, 10 at the time, slept through it all. and janes brother took charge of him while jane went down to the oxnard police departm...

>> i said, i have a gun. hes laughing at me telling me im a coward and im never, ever going to tell anybody. >> so hes taunting you, saying you dont have the courage to shoot me. >> taunting me. calling me, you know, a bitch and telling me what a rotten person i am. screaming at me. >> and, in that moment of fear, ellen says, she pulled the trigger. not once, not twice, but repeatedly. >> i emptied the gun. i had never been so afraid in my life. >> he turned around and ran way from you. >> he di...

President trump will speak to the march for life crowd. speaker ryan will address the markers in person. >> bret: do you think the creation of the religious freedom office is a good thing? let me know on twitter @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. if you have not come down with the flu yet, chances are someone at your family, at school or at work has. this years flu strain appears to be especially strong and resistant to the vaccine. chief corre...

The additional burdens. >> emergency room usually sees 222 patients a day. we have been seeing 280, over 300 last week. if we get too many patients, we are moving less sick patients here. >> jessica meantime buried 12-year-old michael today. >> i am a mom. im supposed to protect my kids and i couldnt. >> nationwide according to the latest figures, 759 people have died because of the flu. the season runs through march. >> bret: jonathan, thank you. the parents of 13 siblings who were allegedly he...

The stolen check funny-business? could that have led to a conflict between michael and kay? but, heres the thing, the authorities wouldnt even learn about the "healing hands" theft for months to come. even without that story about the theft, michael was shaping up to be a prime suspect in the murder. >> it wasnt looking real good for him. things started -- started piling up. >> reporter: then something happened that would stand the investigation on its head more violence, more mayhem, with anoth...

That house, you know? because i did not want anything -- my fingerprints anywhere in that house. because -- i just, you know, watched enough tv to know better. >> reporter: whatd you -- whatd you see in him in terms of demeanor? >> he seemed pretty genuine to me. he was pretty shaken up. >> reporter: so investigators knocked the contractor off their list but in his interview he helped point them to someone else that boy on the rock. >> then i seen that boy sittin the next-door neighbor sittin do...

Wed be -- being dumb and young, thats all. >> reporter: smokin weed, or harder stuff, michael? >> ah, smokin weed and a little harder stuff, pills, things like that. >> reporter: this is methadone? >> yeah. uh-huh. yes, sir. >> reporter: with michaels presence on the scene, and drugs now in the equation, edmunds team brought him down to their substation for questioning. >> now, im gonna be point-blank with ya, if you knew anything about this you would tell me right? >> absolutely. >> when was th...

Work that morning with her 19-year old son christopher. the two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. >> theyre both there, so your mother and christopher are there? >> yeah, they pulled up together at the same time, with columbia county officer. we all walk around back to kays house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. shes -- shes screamin kays name. >> she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? >> right. they show up on scene and -...

>> so you -- you -- youre completely confident your d.n.a. is not in that house anywhere? >> i know its not. i know its not. >> he -- he keeps saying, you know, "i -- i didnt do anything so i dont have anything to worry about." >> reporter: but was he in fact on your list at that point? >> oh, he -- he was, you know. he was, he put himself with michael. >> well, i think you know a little bit more than youre telling me. >> sir, i dont. i -- i -- ive -- im giving you pearls, man. im giving you all...