a few days later, dave s friends and family held a candlelight vigil. he was so loved. and every step we take, we take because we knew he would reach out to us and who are here to support my mother-in-law and husband, and our family, and we truly appreciate that. thank you. light up your candles for dave. but they didn t know then, didn t know what the police had discovered. a key piece of evidence, almost overlooked at first. the late investigator in this case walks in and he s just looking around and, i mean, you have a dining room table, you have a hunch. you have a grandfather clock. so, he opened up that clock and it was an, oh wow moment. and why would a prouder leave something so important in there? if the intruder was outside, how did a key piece of evidence get inside?
think. these were the moments before they were born when a shot potter named dave laut became s family superman, and his little brother watched him win a bronze medal at the 1984 olympics. afterwards i just cried. how do you not? how do you not cry when you see your brother up they re getting a medal? he s my big brother bodies like my superman. he was my superman. don laut it s dave s younger brother by nine and a half years. dave and don shared a passion for athletics and fitness from their father. i remember my first milk when i was a kid was a protein powder. this is all really built in your dna than. part of your life. yeah it really. is here is where that dna was planted.
got into pajamas and waited for days anger to subside. but he wasn t calming down, so about 10:30 or 11:00, he comes out of the room, he s upset and he s angry. and that s when she saw the gun said then you. he s holding a source talking about michael that they don t respect him and he s gonna blow as effing head off. then he throws are against the wall. she falls down, she kind of crawls backwards with her hands and feet towards the back door. somehow she gets him out on the patio and said calm down dave come down. then out of the darkness, dave stumbled out of the patio. he loses his balance, and that s your opportunity. she just goes out, and tries to grab the gun. and they go down and the gun goes off and, she eventually gets a gun and she empties it. and then she said, she ran back into the house, but the
insurance policies? i think we total it all up and it came up to 300, $350, 000, somewhere in that neighborhood. she was likely to see it if a prowl or had done this. was there any indication that she was capable of violent acts? or a stern person who could be violent? she said some things to me. and i dismiss them because i maybe didn t want to believe that she was capable, but sometimes she would say things like, i d be better off if dave wasn t around. but meanwhile, justice crawled. the year passed, then two, three, four. jane remained free on bond, and dave s niece, meghan, fumed. she calls my family so much pain. and it s horrible. it s just, i hated.
down and call it a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. ventura county da investigators about the time first responders arrived, there was no sign of uproar, 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 into the back of his head. james was a mess. she told investigators she had no idea who would do this. is there anyone would want to harm him at all? no. son michael, ten at the time slipped through it all and jane s brother took charge of him while jane went down to the oxnard police station to offer more hoops complete statement. it s been a perfectly normal evening, she said.