Describe how fast they were. But if her husband was dead outside, why was the gun found hidden inside and what other secrets were hidden away. Sometimes she would say things like id be better off if dave wasnt around. Was her husband defending his family or was she. She rose that knife. The mystery may not be who did it, but why. The truth will come out and justice will be served. I have to believe that. Im lester holt and this is dateline. The Hometown Hero and the homecoming queen. It was late when it happened. Very late. Too late. Sky had already fallen. No one saw it coming. No one heard the warning, but now in the night it was done. They worked hard here in their homemade garage gym. It isnt just a gym. Its a kind of shrine. You look at the wall and theres a bunch of pictures. Its something special. Before they were born, but a shot putter named dave became his families super man. Here with have that spin that is a very good technique here. And his little brother watched him win a bronze medal in the 1984 olympics. After i just cried. How do you not . How do you not cry when you see your brother up there getting a medal. Its cool. He was my big brother, but he was like my super man. He was my super man. Don is daves younger brother by nine and a half years. They inherited a passion for athletics and finance by their fath father. This is all built into your dna. Yes. It really is. Here is where that dna was planted, oxnar d dc dcd califor when we grew up, you know, you could ride your bike anywhere. Every knew everybody. This is helen. She knew them growing up and that big old farming family anderand childhood best friend. They were big here in ox nard. There were always lots of us around. They multiplied. They were good catholics. And helens friend jane grew up to be especially beautiful, feature instead her High School Yearbook as homecoming queen. She was not ever concerned with that. Shes also very, very shy. How do you get to be homecoming queen if youre shy. Shes also just a very kind person. Very gentle person. And as that yearbook shows, a star volley ballplayer too. She could spike. Shes not thattal, but she could jump. Jane soon met that other gifted athlete. Dave. Already on his way to being one of the best shot puters in california. Sometimes let don tag along. She was wonderful. She was fun. They got along so well. They loved each other. It was neat. When they got married in 1980, janes friend helen was a bridesmaid. Going to the morning of the wedding, to janes parents house and all the girls getting dressed up. It was really fun and it was really sweet. Jane was quite excited. She looked beautiful on her wedding day. He had her on a pedestal. He always said such wonderful things about her. This is dons wife, rebecca. We would talk maybe once or twice a week on the phone. Probably for hours, her and i. We just hit it off. We were family. Jane was there by daves side as he became a national and then world competitor. And the World Championship meet in 1983, he talked to nbc sports about the benefits and costs of weight training. It ccan tighten a thrower up dave won the bronze medal at the 1984 games, but after his career fade ed quickly. He kept trying, but knee injuries. He didnt make the olympic team in 1988. He was disappointed, but he knew. Its a point of your career when you know something is done. Its okay. You know youve done youve gone as far as you can and that door closes. And another door opened. Dave became a High School Biology teacher, coach, and athletic director. He was even better at being a teacher and koechl than he was at throwing. He missed his former glory, his family said. He never showed it and remained a legend to his niece and nephews. I think the phrase that best describes him is a gentle giant. He had so much patience, so much kindness. At home, dave and jane skr struggled to have children. She wanted to have a family really bad. I felt bad when i would get pregnant. Then in 1999 they adopted a boy from south korea. Named him michael. They were happy. I have tons and tons of pictures of them. The three of them together. They were happy. Moments in time. Inspiration on a garage wall, which these days is about all thats left. It doesnt make sense. Its not right. Ever since that august night in 2009. 911, whats your emergency. You heard shots being fired . Yes. When a super man fell to earth. What happened in that backyard . When we return, did a run in with a prowler turn deadly . How many pops did you hear. Three. Describe how fast they were. Pop, pop, pop. Pop. Thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say, geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. Couldve parked a little bit closer. Its gonna be dark by the time i get there. Geico®. 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The woman on the phone was jane laut, the wife of the Hometown Hero. Dave was still outside, she said where she heard shots fired. Where did you last see your husband. He told me to get back in. I came back in and then i heard the shots. I just want to get my son. How would is your son. Hes still asleep. I cant see dave. Stay with me. I have two officers that are there. Stay inside the house. The officers had to lock down and call in a Homicide Team to investigate further. It was a brutal scene. Das investigator said by the time First Responders arrived there was no sign of a prowler. They did find dave laut. He had been shot multiple times. He was on the ground, face down with very obvious gunshot wounds to the back of his head. Jane was a mess. She told investigators she had no idea who would do this. Is there anybody that wanted to harm him . His son, michael, ten at the time slept through it all and jamess brother took charge of him while jane went down to offer a more complete statement. It had been a perfectly normal evening, she said. They were in bed by ten. Dave in the master bedroom and she in michaels room where she often slep because dave had a bad back. The then it was about an hour later, she said. Dave came down the hall, she said. Worried about the dog. We went down to get her. So 11 15, she said, she and dave crept over to a sliding glass door to a side yard. He had add flashlight. So you walk towards the side of that door with the flashlight in your hand, right . Uhhuh. When you get to the sliding glass door, then what happens. He was by where the trash cans were and then i heard him what the f or Something Like that. Did you see anybody else . I saw a shadow or something. Do you think you did. Was it in front of or behind dave. So how far behind him are you. Four, five feet. What do do you. He says get in the house. Im going to door. Then what happens. And then i the shots and then i shut the door. And the gunshots. What did it sound like. It sounded like a pop, like quick. How many pops did you hear. Three. Describe them too me, how fast they were. Pop, pop, pop. It wasnt pop, hesitation, pop, hesitation. It was 1, 2, 3. As jane talked to investigators into the Early Morning hours, the awful news was getting around. We got a call about 5 00 in the morning. You go to bed and everything is fine. Phone rings at 5 00 in the morning and your life is a very different thing. Its like an earthquake. It just shakes your whole foundation and being. And things are flenever the sam after. It was awful. He just fell to his knees. He was on the phone and just began sobbing and saying no, no. Yes. It was horrible. You dont believe it, but its like how do you kill superman . How is superman dead . A few days later daves friends and family held a candle light vigil. We are here to support my motherinlaw and my husband and our family and we just really truly appreciate that. Thank you. Lift up the candles for dave. But they didnt know then, didnt know who the police had discovered. A key piece of evidence they almost overlooked at first. The lead investigator in the case walks in. Hes just walking around. You have a dining room table. You have a hutch. You have ra grandfather block and he opened up that clock and it was an oh, wow moment. What would a prowler leave something so important in there. Coming up, if the kbrintrude was outside, how did a key piece of evidence get inside. And Something Else seemed odd. Janes behavior. She tried to keep one of the Police Officers out of the laundry sometimes we use ky ultragel to enhance my bodys natural moisture so i can get into it a bit quicker. And when i know shes into it, i get into it and. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. Jane lawsuit told a horrifying story. Now her husband, dave laut, was dead, but some things seemed a little off. For example, said investigator, when police were still questioning jane at the house, she stepped into the laundry room. She actually tried to keep one of the Police Officers out of the laundry room. She tried to close the door with her in the laundry room and him out. Why, well, jane was wearing pajamas when police arrived, but in that laundry room they found her genes rolled up tucked behind the drier. Her top was there as well, inside out. Looked like they had been removed quickly. When an officer tried to administer a gunshot residue to janes hands, standard procedure. When the officer doing test began getting the test ready, she did go into the bathroom and either wash her hands or wipe her hand on a towel. One of the two before coming back to the table and before the test was done. So odd things. Anyway, police scoured the place. Didnt see any murder weapon lying around and they were about to take daves body to the morgue when some instinct told the lead detective to look here. He opened the grandfather clock, looked down inside and there it was. This is more than likely the murder weapon. A six shot revolver. Surely no prowler would have dropped a weapon right here in the dining room clock. The prowler didnt make any sense whatsoever with a hidden gun inside the house. It wasnt long before investigator shifted their focus from unknown prowler to the woman who had reported one, jane lawsuit. Remember those clothes they found in the laundry room. When they tested them, they found gunshot residue, so did jane shoot dave then change into her pajamas before she called 911 . Remember, jane specifically mentioned a red flashlight so police bagged it, tested it and found gunshot revenue as if she was holding the flashlight while shooting her husband. If jane was the killer, this was about as coldblooded as it gets. He had been shot six times. Came up with a fairly logical explanation of how it was done. Shot one was saefrl feeveral fe deposited pieces of scalp on the garbage can. That shot brought him to his knees where the killer did shots two and three in his face from close range. It bounces off of the concrete. It nicks the fence and that bullet, we matched out on the sidewalk. Shots four, five and six hit in the upper arm and back. Back of daves head. We believe shot six, the final shot was the shot to the back of the head. From the very beginning, jane denied she had anything to do with it. I dont know what happened and i didnt do it. Like now im scared. But they didnt believe her. Especially when they found out that the bullets that killed dave matched the kwgun in the grandfather clock. Now don and rebecca laut started to look at things differently. I honestly felt like she was family so im going to dismiss it will strange feeling i get sometimes. Said rebecca the time jane told her two men put a knife to her throat and demanded money. I said, well, did you call the police . Did you yell . She says, oh, no, i just came home. I wanted to get home. This was in the middle of the day and nobody else saw . She said, no. Then there was a claim someone was leaving threatening notes on her car. You would probe her what kind of notes, but she wouldnt tell you. So the implication is somebody is after her, shes in some danger. Now when they look back at the things they noted over the years, it was like something 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 got the sense she was pushing dave away. Yes. That was stress on the marriage. There was stress was pretty clear says rebecca. For a while, every time she would call me, it seemed like it was to vent about something she didnt like about what dave was doing. Oh, in february 2010 jane laut was arrested and charged with first degree murder, and the story said investigators was clear. She lured him out, shot him, shot him a second and third time. Stepped back, shot him a fourth time. Came up super close and shot him two more times to the back of the head. There seemed to be plenty of evidence. Janes odd behavior. Her lie about a prowler and on top of it all, the gun in the grandfather clock. Jane hired a lawyer and pleaded not guilty. The story that came out turned the whole case on its head. Mr. Laut was a monster. He w. Coming up. What had been happening behind closed doors. Doors. [phone rings] ah, its my brother. Keep going. Sara, will you marry. [phone rings again] what do you want, todd . . . . [crowd cheering] keep it going if you sit on your phone, you buttdial people. Its what you do. Todd if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. I know we just met like, two months ago. 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She said jane reminded her of another vulnerable creature. Jane looked like a scared cat. Always doing a switch over her shoulder. Looking to see if someone is behind her. And this from janes former coworker. He was very aggressive. Very demanding and when he said jump, she would go how high . How strange it was, she thought, that jane always wore long sleeves, even when it was hot outside, but more disturbing. There were times she would come in and i noticed on her face it looked swollen. And she would never comment how it happened. There were several times that i saw bruising on her. One time on her face, her arms, her legs, several places. He is a monster. Hes just a monster. Ron is janes defense attorney and according to him, dave laut is far from the Hometown Hero so many believed him to be. The real truth, for nearly three decades he subjected his wife to horrific abuse. Like all abuse, its power control. We have verbal abuse. We have emotional abuse. The way he treats her. We have physical abuse thats everything from the punching to the kicking to the slapping to the hitting. Throwing her down. Spitting on her. Hitting her. Jane wasnt the only victim. He was angry the adopted son michael was not athletic. He would call racial names to michael that are horrible. We have him yelling at him out in the street about not riding a bike. All those years jane was afraid to report dave. Afraid of what he might do to her loved ones. She covered up his abuse and her injuries. We obtained this summary from a Police Report in 1980. Jane reported an intruder attacked her alone at work. Police found the injuries consistent with janes story. Dave inflicted those injuries and ordered jane to lie and blame a nonexisting intruder. A pattern of covers up abuse, abuse by which 2009 was getting worse. From june of 2009 to august of 2009 it escalated. She continued to take it until that particular august night when something changed. That night according to him for the first time, dave threatened michaels life. She really believed he was going to kill michael. Yes, so she made a decision. Jane had taken michael to the beach that day. They were late getting home. Dave was upset. Started screaming and yelling no. Nobody respects me. I dont get any attention around here here. Jane put michael to bed and waited for daves anger to subside. He wasnt calming down. He comes out of the room and hes upset and angry and thats when she saw the gun. Holding it and he starts talking aboout michael, how the dont respect him and hes going to blow his head off. Grabs her, throws her against the wall. She kind of crawls backwards. Somehow she gets him out in the patio and is like calm down dave, calm down. Then out of the darkness, he stumbles on the patio. He loses his balance and thats her opportunity and she goes at him. The gun goes off and she eventually gets the gun and just she empties it. Then she said she ran back into the house. Put the gun inside the grandfather clock and called 911. She has no idea hes dead. Hes down she thinks hes getting up. They give their abusers. So yes, she lied about the prowler, but did it almost automatically her conditioned response to her abuse. Once the police discovered janes lie, their minds were made up, that she was a cold calculated killer. So when police found those clothes shoved in a laundry room, they believed it must have been janes attempt to hide evidence, but those clothes when tested only had a tiny fragment of gunshot residue. They never bothered to test the pajam pajamas. The pa jaj mass wejamas were co gunshot residue. Proving she was wearing the pajamas when the gun went off. As for the claim she jumped up to wash her hands before a gunshot residue test. That never happened. That was just the police covering up a major mistake. The cop lost the test. They searched for it. They couldnt find it. Anyway, they looked at the crime scene evidence and just plain got it wrong. Once they concluded she was a murder, thal actually distorted the evidence to fit their story. Deposited two pieces of cal p matter on the garbage can. Youre saying that physically impossible. Yes, its ludicrous. It violates the laws of physics. Whats more he said, the dna on the gun was daves, once again supporting janes contention that he had the gun and then they struggled for it. His dna is on the trug igger theres no getting around that fact. One more thing that the police missed even though it was right under their noses, bruising on janes upper left arm photographed the morning after dave was killed. In you look at the bruise closely, theres a little hand print. A hand shaped bruise that helps prove this wasnt murder, it was selfdefense. Youre fighting for your life reasonably. Think you reasonably have to conclude that fight for a gun. You have to use reasonable force. Now, looking back said janes childhood friend, helen, things began to make sense. We saw her less and less. More than two decades passed. Helen had a career as a social worker and gradually lost touch. I would always send her christmas cards and say call me, whatever. I would never hear from her. Then helen heard about daves death. Everybody was pointing to jane and like a lightbulb went off and im like, oh, my god. She was a battered wife and you didnt get it. You didnt see it. But, the very idea that jane was an abused spouse, that she killed dave in self defense, absolutely ludicrous said the lauts. I know my brother. Hes just a good man. He would give you the shirt off his back. Thats just the way he was. Can you see him losing his temper at the woman hes married to and abusing her, hitting her. Never, no. No. No, said the lauts. No said the police. Besides they said, maybe jane had quite another motive for killing dave laut, a financial one. Coming up, borrowed money. 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In fact, says the detective as they shifted through dave and janes financial records, they found evidence they were struggling. The lauts finances, they were living beyond their means. It was poor bookkeeping. Poor management of their bills. This had been going on for years and years and years. After dave was killed, they found out jane had been borrowing money from her motherinlaw. Jane asked her for a lot of money. Gave her different excuses why she needed money. To pay mortgage or Something Like that. Mortgages, doctor bills, school, tuition, school supplies. How much money are you talking about here. It was thousands and thousands of dollars. It was a lot. And when they found out dave had three Life Insurance policies. I believe we totaled it all up and i think it came to 300, 350,000. Somewhere many that neighborhood. She was likely to see if a prowler had done this. Was there ever any indication she was capable of violent acts or the sort of person that could be violent. She said some things to me and i dismissed them because i maybe didnt want to believe that she was capable, but sometimes she would say things like id be better off if dave wasnt around. Meanwhile, justice crawled. A year passed. Then two, three, four. Jane remained free on bond and daves niece, megan laut, fumed. She caused my family so much pain and its horrible. Nephews took it out in the garage weight room. I have a way of bottling it and condensing it and i get it out when i lift. Get your emotion going, adrenaline going. In september 2013, don pleaded with a judge to get the case to a jury. I just want the court to know theres a family behind my brother and its been four years and its been very difficult. Then in jane 2015, more than five years after daves death, in a move that shocked janes defense attorney, the prosecution indicated it would be open to making a deal. And i was blown away. A plea deal . Yes, and what a deal it was. If jane pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter she would serve three years. The opportunity of a lifetime for a woman facing first degree murder and 50 to life. I gave her my strong memorandum dags s recommendation she should take it and she said no. I was stunned. I kept saying do you understand. I understand fully. Its not on you ron. Its my decision. She was crying. She said i have to fight for this. Mind you by then jane had some powerful moral support from her old friend, helen. She rose that night. She didnt fall. She rose that night. You know, became the a very strong powerful woman and defended the life of her son. Then at last in january 2016, jane laut went on trial for murder. Her friend helen sitting right behind her. Do you think shell go to jail. I dont. I about lute wisolutely do not. Do you believe the jury will believe her story and see it as a case of self defense. I do. I believe that. I sincerely believe her and i dont say that about many people. Do you usually get this personally investigate insteed i am always invested in my cases, but do i care as much about clients, no. I would be lying if i said i did. Could he persuade a jury to believe in jane too . Coming up, jane takes the stand. She has to testify. A gun takes center stage. Pulled back the hammer issuing fire, fires. Each and every time. We the jury sometimes we use ky ultragel to enhance my bodys natural moisture so i can get into it a bit quicker. And when i know shes into it, i get into it and. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. Have dave laut was a son, he was a father. He was a colleague. He was a friend. More than six years after the death of olympic medallist finally began. Prosecutor told the jury jane was a calculated killer. If you look at each of the six shots, they were administered by this defendant as she was executing her plan to murder her husband. There is only one reasonable conclusion, is to find the defendant guilty of murder. Im about to talk to you for quite some time. Defense attorney 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, friends, and neighbors who all testified jane was an abused spouse, but attorney said the most important witness was the defendant herself. She wanted to get not guilty, which is what were shooting for. She has to testify. The judge would not allow cameras to roll when for the first time publicly, through tears, jane told her story. She said she took janes abuse for nearly three decade until the night he threatened their son. He could live with the fact he could kill her. She could not live with the fact he could kill michael. On the stand she admitted she lied in her 911 call and later to the police about a prowler, but she denied she had any financial motive for killing her husband. After all, she did not ask for nor did she receive a penny of daves Life Insurance. Jane would never be about finances. Absolutely not. Why do you say that . Thats not her value. Jane is about relationship, shes about family. Shes about children. Its never been about money for her. The prosecutor got her chance to crossexamination jane. There were a lot of i dont remembers. She simply couldnt recall after she fired the first two or three shots, she said, but she did at mi admit she was quite familiar with the gun. She had used it before. This gun in the hands of this defendant required her to pull back that hammer and fire. Pull back the hammer, fire each and every time with the six times that she aimed that weapon at her husband and shot him. Like this, said the prosecutor as he played the video of a woman firing that very gun. But said the defense attorney, thats not the only way to fire the gun. If you hold the trigger down, you can pull the hammer back. This is called fanning the gun. The sort of thing you would expect to see in an old western. Like a fistful. The prosecution expert said a movie is the only place you would see that. Every expert that came up said that is absurd. The accuracy is not on. After seven weeks of testimony, final arguments from both sides, defense attorney made an impassioned plea to the jury. Why would jane laut do this . Why would she do this . When you think about it, theres only one real reason. Its what anybody would do to protect their child. Anyone. You do not have the right to kill your husband. While prosecutor urged the jury to look past the emotion and focus on the evidence. The defense testimony is false. It is untruthful. It is unbelievable. It is a story made up to raise battered women in self defense case. It is plan b because plan a doesnt work and its a lie. Jurors deliberated for three and a half days and finally, march 30, 2016, announced they were ready. Jane supported by helen and other friends who stood by her all along walked to the courthouse and what waited there. It appears to be an order. So i will read the verdict. We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, jane laut, guilty of the crime of first degree murder. Guilty of first degree murder. A shock ran through the room. Ron, who so believed in her cnn incense look ed distraught and jane comforted him. The woman now faces the possibility of life in prison. It was a victory for daves family, yes, but not one to celebrate. Our faith calls us to forgive and we do. We forgive her. But forget, no, not the lauts. Not their superman. Its very difficult. I miss him every day. I miss him every day. I think ill always grieve. Im not always going to miss him. Hes always a part of me, but its hard. Thats all for now. Im lester holt. Thanks for joining us. This sunday, are we seeing the rebirth of the dump Trump Movement . 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