michael names, [ bleep ], 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 in which jane 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, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries. then ordered jane to lie, and blame a nonexistent intruder. a pattern of covering up dave s abuse, abuse which by the summer of 2009 was getting worse, said bamieh. from june of 09 to august of 09, it was escalating. but jane continued to take it, until that particular august night when something changed. that night, according to bamieh,
florida. he s accused of driving under the influence. and severe thunderstorms are being forecast this memorial day from the texas coast up to the carolinas. the storms could bring damaging winds and flooding. for now, back to our regular programming. reputation is all we have in the end. how quickly it can turn. sweet jane laut, now accused murderer, and dave, now that dave was dead, stories emerged. it seemed like she was controlled, in my opinion. an across-the-street neighbor. i mean, he s there, standing there, while she s, you know, pulling weeds, cleaning out gutters, washing his truck. and he s not lifting a finger to help her? come on, you know. while jane seemed, what, nervous? almost like a scared little rabbit.
this was an execution. she had lured him out, shot him from behind, and then egressed on him, shot him a second and third time, stepped back and shot him a fourth time, came up super close, and shot him two more times, one to the back of the head. there seemed to be plenty of evidence. jane s odd behavior, her lie about a prowler, and on top of it all, the gun in the grandfather clock. so jane hired a lawyer and pleaded not guilty and the story that came out then turned the whole case on its head. mr. laut was a monster. he was despicable. coming up, what had been happening behind closed doors? you ve got one or two choices at that point, fight or flight. she decided to fight.
deposited two pieces of scalp matter on the garbage can. you re saying that s physically impossible? yes. it s ludicrous. it violated the laws of physics. what s more, he said, the dna on the gun was dave s. once again supporting jane s contention, that he had the gun. and then they struggled for it. his dna is on the trigger. i mean, there s no getting around that fact. one more thing, said bamieh, one more bit of evidence that the police missed, even though it was right under their noses. bruising on jane s upper left arm, photographed the morning after dave was killed. look at the bruise closely, you ll see there s basically a little hand print. a hand-shaped bruise that helps prove, said bamieh, this wasn t murder. it was self-defense. if you re fighting for your life reasonably, you have to reasonably conclude if you re fighting for a gun, you get to
what s the person look like that was in your backyard? there were shots. you heard shots being fired? yes. my husband is outside. the woman on the phone was jane laut, the wife of the hometown he you. oh, my god. 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. so i came back in. and i heard the shots. how old is your son? he s still asleep. don t wake him up just yet, okay? yeah. i can t see dave. stay with me. i have officers on the way. two officers. stay inside the house. the officers had to lock down and call in a homicide team to investigate further. it was a brutal scene. eventual ra ventura county d.a. s investigator mike palmieri said by the time