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Itself, right on the edge of the sidewalk. >> and you didn't find a tossed weapon in the vicinity? >> no, no weapons. >> reporter: the shooter had vanished without a trace. >> but you had more questions, didn't you? >> we did, indeed. >> reporter: but those questions would be left for jimmy edmunds, whose investigation into kay parsons' murder had suddenly become a lot more complex. >> here i've got two neighbors, you know, one has been beaten to death and the other one has just gotten shot. and they both worked at healing hands. >> do you believe that the gunman who has wounded becky is also ...

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, that's everything from the punching to the kicking to the hitting to the slapping. throwing her down, pulling her hair, spitting on her. >> reporter: jane wasn't the only victim, said bamieh. dave was angry that his adopted son michael was not athletic. >> we had neighbors who hear him call michael names like [ bleep ] racial names to michael that are just horrible. we have him yelling at him in the street about how he can't ride a bike or catch a football or ...

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 that particular august night when something changed. that night, according to bamieh, for the first time jane threatened michael's life. >> 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. nobod...

Quite some time. >> 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...

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 holding it and he starts talking about michael. he doesn't respect him. he's going to blow his effing head off. she kind of crawls backwards with her hands, crab walk to the back door. somehow she gets him off the patio. calm down, dave, calm down. >> reporter: out in the darkness, dave stumbled on the patio. >> he loses his balance and that's her opportunity. it...