it s never good news. 5:00 in the morning. i knew something was wrong. he just began sobbing and saying, no, no. it was just before midnight when the shooting started. he had been shot multiple times. on the ground. face down. a man was dead, but not just any man. how do you kill superman? how is superman dead. he was an olympian and a father, killed, his wife says, by an intruder in his own backyard. [inaudible] describe to me. but if their fought husband was dead, outside by was the gun found hidden inside. and what other secrets were hidden away? sometimes she would say things like, i would be better off the deep wasn t around. was the father defending the family or was she? she throws that night. 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. welcome to dateline. an elite athlete dave laut reached olympic heights taking ventura county, california where he grew up wearing
father, killed his wife says by an intruder in his own backyard. ,,. . ? . ? . whoops welcome to dateline. i elite athlete who reached olympic heights taking home a bronze medal at the 1984 olympic games for dave holmes ventura county, california where he grew up wearing that his beautiful bride. jane said there was uproar and then gunfire. place found dave loud dead and troubling walls and jane story. here s keith morrison with the hometown hero and the homecoming queen. it was late when it happened, very late. too late. the sky had already fallen. no one saw it coming, no one heard the warning, but now in the night, it was done. they work hard here in their homemade garage jim, because in part it isn t just a gym. it s a kind of shrine. i look at the wall and there s a bunch of pictures. that s what makes it special, i think. these were the moments before they were born when a shot potter named dave laut became s family superman, and his little brother wat
shot one appeared to be fired from a distance, several feet. what found pieces of scrap on the garbage can, and the bullet hit the wall. that s what brought him to his knees, where the killer fired shots to win three into his face at close range. we find the one that goes through his cheek bone, it goes down the side yard, bounces off the concrete. it nicks the fence, and that bullet, we matched out on the sidewalk. shots five, four, and six hit the upper arm, and back, the back of his 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 did not do it. i don t know what happened. i didn t do it. i m truly scared. okay. but they didn t believe her. especially when they found out that the bullets that killed dave matched the gun in the grandfather clock. and now, don and rebecca laut began to look at things differently. things jane had told them
though she was holding the flashlight while shooting her husband. and if jen was the killer, this was about as cold blooded as it gets. investigator said that dave had been shot six times. we came up with a fairly logical explanation of how it was done. shot one seemed to be fired from a distance, several feet. what found pieces of scrap on the garbage can, and the bullet hit the wall. that s what brought him to his knees, where the killer fired shots to win three into his face at close range. we find the one that goes through his cheek bone, it goes down the side yard, bounces off the concrete. it nicks the fence, and that bullet, we matched out on the sidewalk. shots five, four, and six hit the arm, and, back the back of his 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