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>> if you are in a situation that calls for self-defense, and if you lie about the circumstances, then that tells me that you weren't justified in what you were doing. otherwise why do you need to keep changin' the story? >> reporter: no question in their minds, said the detectives. cara murdered j.j. they arrested her. the sheriff made the announcement. >> so i believe this is a domestic related homicide and cara ryan was uh, acting out because she was losing control over him. >> when i watched the press conference, i was crying my eyes out. >> reporter: fellow teacher debbie rein didn't beli...

To cara ryan and her stories about j.j.'s problems -- depression, gambling, drinking, painkillers, a man so out of control, he raped her in a rage before she shot him. >> and then he came back through the door. i thought he was going to kill me. >> was it true? >> never in his life. never in his life. >> lonnie lancto had known cara and j.j. for years before she and j.j. fell in love. did she have a reasonable argument that maybe she thought she was defending her life? >> not at all. he wasn't a violent person. she has no other defense but to tell you that. >> private lives, as we all know, ca...

Neighborhood chatter carried on a cooling ocean breeze. there was a moon, almost full. cara ryan was in bed all alone in a small, darkened room. and then fear searing as a heart attack. the dogs. >> they were growling. that's one of the things that made me feel so scared. >> someone was coming into her house. >> the door crashed open. >> you said the lights were off. >> they were. >> was it so dark you couldn't actually make out who this person was? >> it happened so fast, and i was so afraid. >> she reached to the bedside table, opened the drawer, took out the gun, the one her ex-husband had ...

Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. j.j. rush was dead. his ex-wife, cara ryan, killed him in self-defense, she said. and now she set about telling the detectives about the real j.j. same thing she told us, not a pretty picture, she said. >> right after we got married, the compulsive gambling became the big issue, and there were days where he could go from sundown to sunup, and there's no windows in the casino. so he would just lose all track of time. >> did you go w...