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Gunman who has wounded becky is also the person who's broken in and fatally beaten miss parsons? >> of course that comes to mind. i mean, of course it does. it's just too much of a coincidence. >> reporter: and nothing about this shooting took the heat off becky's son michael. >> what's the working theory? >> the working theory still is, michael's still pretty high up on the list. somebody's looking for some money. somebody owes somebody some money. >> reporter: edmunds had some tough, personal questions for becky about her son michael. thankfully the wounds to becky's legs were superficial. s...

It had been a perfectly normal evening, she said. they were in bed by 10:00. dave in the master bedroom, she in michael's room, where she often slept because dave had a bad back. she said it was about an hour later, she said, about 11:00. >> dave came down the hall, she said, worried about the dog. >> so 11:15, she said, she and dave crept over to a sliding glass door to a side yard. >> the gunshots?

>> all those years jane was afraid to report dave. said bamieh, afraid of what he might do to her loved ones. so she covered up his abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary of a police report from the 1980s in which jane reported that an intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found the injuries consistent with jane's story. in fact, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries. then ordered jane to lie, and blame a nonexistent intruder. a pattern of covering up dave's abuse, abuse which by the summer of 2009 was getting worse, said bamieh. >> from june of ...

Stay inside the house. >> the officers had to lock down and call in a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. >> ventura county's investigator mike palmeiri arrived, there was no sign of a prowler. but they did find dave laut. >> he had been shot multiple times. he was on the ground, face down, with very obvious gunshot wounds to his back and to the back of his head. >> jane was a mess. she told investigators she had no idea who would do this. >> is there anybody who would want to harm him at all? >> no. >> son michael, 10 at the time, slept through it all. and jane's brot...

Several places. >> this is a monster. he's just a monster. >> ron bamieh is jane's defense attorney. and according to him, dave laut is far from the hometown hero so many believed him to be. the real truth about dave laut, said bamieh, for nearly three decades, he subjected his wife to horrific abuse. >> like all abuse, it's power and control. we have verbal abuse, over a long period of time. emotional abuse. the way he treats her. we have physical abuse, that's everything from the punching to the kicking to the slapping to the hitting, throwing her down, pulling her hair, spitting on her. >> ...