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
you have verbal abuse, names he would call her, over a long period of time, emotional abuse, the way treats are. we have physical abuse, that s everything from the pitching, the slamming, throng or down, pulling her hair, spitting on her. and jane wasn t the only victim. jay was angry that is adopted sign michael was not adopted. you call michael names like names that were just horrible. we have yelling at the street, but how he can t ride a bike, catch up football, throw. he was afraid of what he might do so she didn t report him. so she covered up his abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary of a police report from the 19 80s in which chain 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, danier said, dave inflicted those injuries, then ordered chain to lie and blamed a nonexistent intruder. a pattern of covering up dave s abuse, abuse which by the