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Different persona altogether. >> so what was the truth about j.j.? >> she was happier than he's been ever, that i can remember, and all of his friends will tell you the same thing. >> who was right? and what did it say about the events in this little seaside bedroom? coming up -- >> i asked john to help me and he was reluctant at first and then he finally helped med, but when he did, he said, don't tell cara. >> a very different picture emerges of j.j., as a man very much under cara's thumb. >> he was very controlled. he couldn't go out to lunch without bringing home a receipt. >> a man ready ...

Cara told them it was pretty wild -- >> sex that i haven't even thought about since college. >> the detectives looked at text messages between cara and her new boyfriend sent a few days earlier. >> well, they had text messages back and forth. >> tie me up, tie me down. >> talked about putting certain type of lotion and bite marks or bruises, and they talked about handcuffs. >> the injuries on your wrists, the text from him. he said he would bring over handcuffs again and again leave some marks. >> i said, are you bringing your handcuffs? >> well, and he said, get prepared to have some more bru...

>> reporter: once the trial began, futerman told those jurors that cara had no choice but to use her gun to defend herself. plain and simple. >> he attacked her. she said stop. he never acted like this, stop. you're raping me, stop. >> reporter: something else the defense tried to do, persuade the jury that j.j. was out of control after seeing that text from cara's new boyfriend, and came back to the house in a rage. >> he snapped. she defended herself. he snapped. >> so those are the elements you need to get a jury to believe. he was a person capable of snapping -- >> correct. >> and that she...

Scene now on this tiny street in indian rocks beach. the street lit up with flashing lights, police lines drawn, crime scene investigators and detectives arriving. >> my name is john syers, okay. i'm with the sheriff's office. >> lead detective john syers and his partner a.j. scarpati introduced themselves. asked cara, who did she shoot? did she know him? without hesitation she said -- >> my ex-husband. >> who do you -- >> jay. >> i'm sorry. what do you call him? >> jay. >> jay? >> j.j. >> okay. >> it's j.j. rush. i call him jay. >> that's right, her ex-husband, j.j. rush. small world. detecti...

>> cara told detectives that as she and j.j. were in bed together, he phone kept beeping. incoming text messages. chirp chirp. >> yeah. so i ignored it. >> it was scott. >> it went off again. and i told him, "just ignore it. just ignore it." and he leaned over and he grabbed the phone and he opened it and he said, "who the hell is scott holderbaum? " >> that, cara told police, is when j.j. saw she'd sent the same picture, the same invitation to both of them. >> so, he saw, kind of like, the text message can voer sags, or whatever you call it? >> i think he saw a photograph, i don't know. and t...