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The hitting, throwing her down, pulling her hair, spitting on her. >> and jane wasn't the only victim. said bamieh. dave was angry that his adopted son, michael, was not athletic. >> neighbors would hear him call michael names, racial names to michael that are just horrible. we have him yelling at him in the street because he can't ride a bike or catch a football or play baseball. >> 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 her abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary of a police report from the 1980s i...

Fell into place for them. >> there was a separation, it was like jane was the parent and michael was the child, and dave was in the way. >> you had the sense that she was pushing dave away? >> yeah. i think that was a stress on the marriage. >> that there was stress was pretty clear, said rebecca. >> for a while, every time she would call me, it seemed like it was to vent about something she didn't like about what dave was doing. >> so evidence was carefully sifted for months. and then in february 2010, jane laut was arrested and charged

Bamieh. >> from june of '09 to august of '09, it was escalating. >> but jane continued to take >> but jane continued to take it, until that particular august night when something changed. that night, according to bamieh, for the first time, dave threatened michael's life. she really believed he was going to kill michael? >> yeah. >> so she made a decision to fight. >> jane had taken michael to the beach that day, said bamieh. they were late getting home. >> dave was upset. started screaming and yelling, nobody respects me. i don't get any attention around here. nobody cares about me. >> jane p...

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? >> what did it sound like? >> it sounded like pop, pop, pop. like quick. >> how many pops did you hear? >> three. >> describe them to me, how fast they were. >> pop, pop, pop. >> it wasn't a pop, hesitation pop, hesitation pop?...

Don't wake him up just yet, okay? >> i can't see dave. >> stay with me. i have officers on the way. stay in 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 ...