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>> she said the man attacked her. >> he told me he was going to kill me. >> she'd been assaulted. she defended herself. >> so why did others call it murder? >> my very first words were, she set him up. >> cara's account kept changing. >> it hit me just how different all of these stories were and how unbelievable they were. >> lies. it's all lies. >> what really made cara pull that trigger? >> the rug was pulled out from underneath her. she was shocked. >> and she was angry? >> yes. >> a jury would have to decide. >> i did what i did because i had to, not because i wanted to. >> it was night wh...

But calm as the jury deliberated. >> it was nerve-wracking. i was, like, wondering what they were talking about. >> reporter: ron fowler was foreman of the jury, amy petrila was the one and only woman. >> reporter: how did the prosecution want you to see her and her character? >> you know, manipulated and -- and cold -- a cold blooded killer. >> reporter: would you agree with that? >> well, yeah. and i guess maybe not quite to that degree. >> reporter: but was she? >> you know, she's a teacher. she's never been in trouble before. >> reporter: but as he listened to testimony, ron found cara's a...

He was done. and i was proud of him. >> so he'd left her. taken up with another woman. cut off a substantial income. ended her ability to control him. sounded like a motive, said the detectives. >> the rug was pulled out from underneath her. she was -- she was shocked -- dismay. >> and she was angry? >> the shock turns to anger at some point. >> and there was j.j., apparently happy, getting his own place, his own car. had a girlfriend who loved him. bought his daughter that dress. >> i think it was the first moment of being, like, freedom, i guess. where he felt like i can -- i can actually do...

Was it a third version of events? this one filled with stories about j.j. >> he had a dark side. >> yes. cara had a lot to say about her recently departed ex, but was it true? coming up -- cara calls one behavior of j.j.'s disturbing and downright compulsive. >> there were days where he could go from sun down to sun up. >> why some say j.j. was spinning out of control. >> there is no way to predict where the spiral would end. either a danger to himself or someone else. >> when "dateline" continues.

Condition he was in, what -- what jay had done, what -- what jay had threatened to do. but then it goes to "someone" was in my house. i -- i mean, it -- it can't be both. did you think this was jay or did you think this was a masked marauder breaking -- >> i thought -- >> -- into your home? >> -- i was going to die. >> what made you think that? >> somebody was in my home. whether it was jay or jack the ripper, i was scared. >> reporter: there were more variations. the door was locked, or it wasn't. j.j. would always call her before he came over, but this time didn't. the detectives counted the...