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>> she really believed that he was going to kill michael. >> reporter: jane had taken michael to the beach that day, said bamieh. they were late getting home. >> dave was upset. nobody respects me. i don't get any attention around here. nobody cares about me. >> reporter: jane put michael to bed. got into pajamas herself and waited for dave's anger to subside. >> but he wasn't coming down. about 10:30 or 11:00, he comes out of the room and he's upset and angry. >> reporter: and that's when she saw the gun, says bamieh. he's holdg it and he starts talking about michael. he doesn't respect him. ...

About how he can't ride a bike or catch a football. >> reporter: jane was afraid, so she covered up his abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary from a police report in the 1980s in which jane reported an intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found injuries consistent with her story. in fact, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries and then ordered jane to lie and blame a nonexistent intruder, a pattern of covering up dave's abuse, abuse by the summer of 2009 was getting worse. >> by june of 09 to august of 09, it was escalating. >> reporter: until t...

Differently, things jane told them through the years, which maybe didn't add up either. >> i honestly felt like she was family, so i'm going to dismiss the strange feeling i get sometimes. >> reporter: like, said rebecca, the time jane told her dave held a knife to her throat and demanded money. >> i said did you call the police, did you yell? she says, oh, no. i just came home. i wanted to get home. and this was in the middle of the day and nobody else saw? and she said no. >> reporter: then there was her claim that someone was leaving threatening notes on her car. >> then you'd ask her what ...

>> 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. he is the monster who abused her for 27 years. >> the defense called family and friends and neighbors who all testified jane was an abused spouse. but attorney bamieh said the most important witness was the defendant herself. >> if you're going to get a not guilty, which is what we're shooting for, she has to testify. >> the judge would not allow cameras to roll when for the first time publicly, through tears, jane told he...

Midnight august 28th, 2009. oxnard, california. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> something over there -- >> reporter: a woman in full panic. >> there was shots. >> there were shots being fired? >> yes. my husband is outside. >> reporter: the woman on the phone was jane laut, the wife of the hometown hero. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: dave was still outside, she said, where she heard shots fired. >> he told me to get back in with michael. i came back in and i heard the shots. >> how old is your son? okay. don't wake him up just yet. stay with me. i have officers that are there. i want you to st...