Death of an Olympian

Summary

Podcast Summary: 48 Hours – "Death of an Olympian"

Date: March 2, 2026
Host: Erin Moriarty (CBS News)
Theme: The shocking murder of celebrated Olympian and coach Dave Lout and the controversial trial of his wife, Jane Lout. The episode explores family love, allegations of long-term abuse, investigative twists, and the complexity of truth and motive in a domestic homicide.

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Episode Overview

This gripping "48 Hours" episode, hosted by Erin Moriarty, investigates the killing of Dave Lout, an Olympic medalist and beloved high school coach in Oxnard, CA. Listeners are taken deep into the tumultuous, unraveling marriage between Dave and Jane Lout, the chilling circumstances of Dave's murder, and the years-long legal and emotional battles that followed.

Through firsthand interviews, courtroom audio, and family reflections, the episode lays bare the disputed narratives of abuse, self-defense, and financial despair that culminated in Jane Lout’s first-degree murder conviction.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Lout Family and Marriage to Jane

• Background: Dave and Jane met in high school—he was the athletic star, she the homecoming queen. They appeared the perfect couple ([00:38],[01:15]).
• Adoption and Family: Difficulty conceiving led to adoption; son Michael becomes their world ([01:05],[08:28]).
• Career and Fall from Grace: Dave's Olympic dreams ended after an injury; he turned to teaching and coaching ([07:49],[08:13]).

2. A Sudden, Shocking Death

• 911 Call: Shortly after midnight, Jane frantically reports her husband may have been shot by an intruder ([03:38]).
• Crime Scene: Dave is found in the yard, shot six times with his own single-action revolver—hidden post-shooting in a grandfather clock ([04:52]-[09:26]).
• Investigation: The gun's mechanics suggested purposeful, repeated action with each shot ([09:50],[13:13]).

3. Competing Stories – Intruder, Abuse, or Premeditation?

• Jane’s Shifting Story: Initially claims an intruder is responsible, but quickly changes her story to self-defense after police find the gun ([10:29]).
• Allegations of Abuse: Jane asserts years of escalating physical, emotional, and sexual trauma; claims the killing was to save herself and Michael ([13:34],[14:44]).
• Denials and Doubts: Dave’s family, friends, and investigating officers insist they never witnessed or heard of such abuse and saw no evidence ([21:08]-[22:03]).

4. Financial and Personal Strains

• Debt and Embezzlement: Jane was in charge of finances; deep debt, unpaid taxes, and missing PTA funds surfaced as a possible motive ([24:20],[25:00]).
• Family Loans: Jane had borrowed substantial sums from Dave’s mother without his knowledge ([24:46]).

5. The Trial: Defense and Prosecution Narratives

• Trial Delay: Six years on bond before trial began ([11:00]).
• Prosecution Case: Claims of premeditation, insurance motives, and no evidence of danger or struggle; points to extensive gunshots and hidden weapon ([29:43]-[31:15],[30:13]).
• Defense Argument: Jane is painted as a battered wife with no other escape; defense highlights ‘battered woman syndrome’ ([31:43],[36:41]).
• Key Testimonies: Jane testifies emotionally; son Michael describes Dave’s temper but no physical violence ([32:45],[35:36]).
• Jury Options: Murder, manslaughter, or acquittal ([37:29]-[37:48]).

6. Verdict and Aftermath

• Verdict: Jane found guilty of first-degree murder after four days of jury deliberation ([40:56],[41:05]).
• Sentencing: Mandatory 50 years to life ([43:01]).
• Family Fallout: Both sides of the family are devastated—losing a son, daughter-in-law, and fearing for the grandson’s future ([42:13]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dave’s Family on His Character:

  "Wasn't just my big brother, he was like Superman." — Don Lout ([00:55])
  "He was not the monster that they tried to portray him to be. He was a good guy." — Dottie Lout ([35:29])

• Jane on the Night of the Shooting:

  "He was going to kill us. Michael. He was going to shoot Michael. He was going to kill me. I didn't think I was going to live that night." — Jane Lout ([02:17])
  "I felt if I took the plea, nobody would know what really happened." — Jane Lout, on refusing a manslaughter plea ([19:32])

• Detective’s Skepticism:

  "Every shot fired from a single-action revolver had to be cocked… that shows premeditation." — Detective Mike Young ([23:19])

• Family’s Shattered Trust:

  "She's lied so many times… so many lies." — Dottie Lout ([19:53])
  "She's a murderer, and she's a desperate woman trying to get herself off." — Rebecca Lout ([39:29])

• Defense’s All-or-Nothing Gamble:

  "If it's self-defense, it's not voluntary manslaughter… You either believe it 100% or you don't." — Ron Bamier ([37:48])

• After the Verdict:

  "I was pretty shocked, honestly. I tried to prepare myself for everything, but I was surprised." — Jane Lout ([41:10])
  "That's right. That's why I lost a son. Lost a daughter. And I guess I've lost a grandson, too. I don't know if I'll ever get to see him again." — Dottie Lout ([42:13])

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Timeline of Important Segments (Timestamps)

| Timestamp | Segment / Key Theme | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:38 | Opening: Family background; Dave & Jane’s relationship | | 03:38 | Jane’s 911 call and initial police response | | 07:49 | Dave’s Olympic ambitions and career heartbreak | | 09:26 | Discovery of the murder weapon | | 10:29 | Jane changes her story to self-defense | | 14:44 | Jane’s detailed allegations of early marriage abuse | | 17:20 | Sleeping arrangements reflecting household fear | | 21:08 | Detective Young’s investigation into abuse allegations | | 24:20 | Discovery of deep debt & financial deceptions | | 29:43 | Beginning of Jane’s murder trial | | 32:45 | Jane testifies—emotional scenes | | 35:36 | Michael’s testimony: details on his father’s temper | | 37:29 | Jury deliberation options explained | | 40:56 | Jury verdict delivered | | 41:47 | Dottie Lout’s emotional reflection after verdict | | 43:01 | Sentencing and life impacts for Jane and Michael |

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Tone and Presentation

The episode maintains Erin Moriarty’s signature balanced, methodical tone, blending empathy for all affected with forensic journalistic inquiry. Interviews range from raw and emotional (Jane’s testimony, family’s grief) to clinical (forensic analysis, court experts). The tension between explanation and skepticism persists throughout—a fundamental theme of the episode.

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Conclusion

"Death of an Olympian" is a haunting portrait of murder in a revered American family, asking whether justice or tragedy has ultimately won. The episode leaves listeners grappling with irreconcilable stories—of love, desperation, and trust forever broken—and highlights the challenges of uncovering the truth in a marriage that only two people truly inhabited.

If you missed the episode, this summary gives you all central personalities, timelines, evidence, and the profound questions at the heart of the case.

Transcript

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[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

They met in high school. She was a homecoming queen and she was, you know, one of the big studs in high school. He also was an Olympian flout of

[Podcast Host/Narrator]

the usa May be able to do it.

[Detective Mike Young]

He is sitting in third position.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

Wasn't just my big brother, he was like Superman. They had a good relationship.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Hey Mike.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

They just decided they wanted to adopt.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Hi Michael.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

That was an exciting time they had their child.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

I was like wow.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

I think they were the perfect couple up until towards the end.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

What's the one and two?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

One and two is scalp matter. We believe from Dave Loud.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

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[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

and 3, 4, 3, 4 are blood.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

To even try to figure out what happened it just kind of goes beyond your scope of understanding.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

How did a pool of blood get over here if his body is here?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

What theory would you like to hear first? The prosecutions or what actually happened?

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

I noticed you don't call this a crime scene.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

It's not. It's not a crime scene. It's where a woman saved her life.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

Who is Jay Lent?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

She was a woman who was battered and abused for years. Who accepted that as her plight. You have to understand this man was a monster.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Why did you shoot him?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He was going to kill us. Michael. He was going to shoot Michael. He was going to kill me. I didn't think I was going to live that night.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

When did you hear what her defense was going to be?

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

When she hired Ron Bamier. He started saying things in the media outlandishly.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

Just bashing Dave.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

He beat her and she did what any mother would do to save her son.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And he suggests they will find evidence

[Narrator/Advertiser]

of a troubled home life.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

You have to understand, a lot of people didn't want to confront Dave Lout. He was an Olympic hero.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I was afraid because he's Dave Lout nobody would believe what was really happening.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

She kept a secret for years from the people closest to her.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

Do I Believe that he hit her? Absolutely not.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

He loved her. Were you in love with Dave?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Yes. Yeah, I really was.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

There are a lot of people who will look at Jane and they see a meek, quiet woman.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

Don't let it fool you. There's a different person living inside of her than what you see.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Is Jane Lout going to testify?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Of course. She'll be our first witness. I'm confident a jury's gonna know that Jane was in fear of her life that night. And that shooting Dave was her only esc.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

I'm erin moriarty. Tonight on 48 hours. Death of an olympian. It was Shortly after midnight, August 28, 2009, and in Oxnard, California, Jane Lout was frantically telling a 911 dispatcher that her husband Dave may just have been shot by an intruder.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

You're a trust based buyer?

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

Yes.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dave's younger brother Don and his wife Rebecca were asleep in their home when they got the call.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Hi, you've reached without family.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

When the phone rings that early, you know, it's.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

Yeah, something's not right.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Hi, this is Detective Sonia Sanchez with Oxnard Police Department.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

But we kind of laid there frozen, Right. Let it go to voicemail.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane Lout called her brother Hank Laubacher,

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

and there was some shots of the police right here. It's at 10:48. It's in the alley.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

This is an audio recording of first responders to the crime scene that night. Who saw him last? I did.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Okay.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Officers found Dave Lout dead in the side yard.

[Detective Mike Young]

Please.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dave's been injured.

[Detective Mike Young]

From a distance, I observed Dave's body and he had two very close proximity gunshot wounds.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Lead detective Mike Young.

[Detective Mike Young]

One was to the back of his head. And there was a second very close proximity gunshot wound to the back of his right shoulder.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

I hit the floor and I was in tears. My superman was gone.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Not long after the shooting, Jaime was questioned by Oxnard homicide detectives about what she said happened.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I told you, I'm trying to remember everything.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane said that while their 10 year old son Michael was asleep in his bed, her husband heard a noise out back.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He said, there's something going on in the backyard.

[Detective Mike Young]

Her husband, Dave Lout, had gone outside to investigate, that she'd gone out briefly with him. He told her to go back in the house and that she had heard gunshots and that Dave had not come back into the home.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I went in the house. I mean, I kind of like stood there. I heard the shots, so I slammed the door.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

That Jane said is when she called

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

91 1, your husband about 5 my husband's still outside.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

How did you first hear that something had happened to your son?

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

It was about five o' clock in the morning.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The doorbell rang, and Dave's mother, Dottie Lout.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

It was Jane's brother Hank. And Hank said Jane and Michael are okay, but Dave's dead.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dottie was devastated, but relieved that Michael and Jane were safe. Jane had been a beloved part of the Lout family for over 30 years.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

This is a memorabilia room.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Boy.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

Yeah, Quite a few things, huh?

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Back in 1980, Dave was a hometown hero who had set shot put records and was destined for Olympic fame. His biggest supporter was a young woman who was about to become his wife.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

I mean, if you knew Dave and the kind of person he was and the way he beamed when he talked about Jane and how he had her up so high on this pedestal, I mean, he just. He loved her.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

She was a nice girl. I loved her all these years. I did.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane Lout spoke to me for her first TV interview. You remember your wedding day?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Mm.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Were you happy that day? I was.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I was really happy, you know, and it was. It was very special.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

They had a good, strong friendship and something that I always thought, you know, I want to have a marriage like that.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But the marriage faced challenges. In 1984, Dave finally won an Olympic medal, but it was bronze. Everyone was proud, but Dave was determined to win the gold in the 88 games. And then while training, Dave tore tendons in both of his knees and forever lost his chance at the gold.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

He tried, but he couldn't come back.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

He then became a teacher. Did he like teaching?

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

He loved it. And the one that was important was

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

that one athletic director from high school.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

It was his dream job.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane and Dave seemed to settle into their new life and tried to have a family. When Jane couldn't get pregnant, the couple adopted a baby boy from South Korea.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Say hi, Daddy.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And named him Michael.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

We had happy times. The time right before Michael arrived was good. Right up until Michael was probably five was the best time of our marriage. And it just. It just started going downhill. And it got worse and worse every

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

year, but no one seemed to know how bad.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I'm trying my best. I don't know.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Back at the loud home, Detective Young made a stunning discovery that would change everything. You found the weapon, didn't you?

[Detective Mike Young]

I did.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Where?

[Detective Mike Young]

Inside the grandfather clock that was in the living room of the house. I walked over to the grandfather clock, opened the door, and looked inside, and there was a gun underneath the weights.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dave had been shot with his own 22 caliber single action revolver. The kind of gun you see in cowboy movies.

[Detective Mike Young]

It's a single action revolver, heavy and

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

an effort to use. Gun expert Nabil Katar showed me that the hammer must be cocked for every shot.

[Detective Mike Young]

Now bring that hammer back and fire.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Six shots were fired at Dave Lout that night and according to authorities, all six hit their target. And the gunshots that people heard were they boom boom boom boom.

[Detective Mike Young]

They were separated as I recall by about a second of shot. So boom boom boom boom.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Just hours after being interviewed by police, before she even knew they found the gun, Jane changed her story. Now she said it was self defense and hired attorney Ron Bamier.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

There's no dispute that she wanted him dead that night. Yeah, it was going to be him or her.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane says it was when her husband also threatened to kill their 10 year old son Michael that she felt she had no choice.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I think if it didn't happen, we would both be dead.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But even then it would be nearly six months before Jane Lott was arrested and then she would be released on bond for six years until her trial finally began. Why? Why did it take so long?

[Detective Mike Young]

Because knowing the WHO is only half the story, we wanted to try and figure out if there was a legitimate why.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

So why do you think she killed your son?

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

My personal feeling is that she was afraid Dave was going to take Michael.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Next Jane tells us her side of the story.

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[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

You're a child faced Byers. Yes.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane Lout says she never planned to kill her husband.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I thought it for sure. It was the only way to stop him. You don't get how he. He would not stop coming after me.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

She was used to abuse, she says. But that night, she says, Dave went further than he ever had.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Normally he'd get mad and it would taper off sometimes, but he never stopped all night. He just kept raging.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane claims she first noticed Dave's temper when they were dating and Dave was going for the gold.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

There were signals I didn't really pay attention to before, just his anger, his, You know, if something didn't go right, if he couldn't find something, if he's throwing away the shot and it doesn't go as far as he wants, he's just losing his temper.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The first time Dave hit her, Jane says, was also shortly after they were married. Dave was going out of town to an Olympic training session and it was Jane's job to pack his bags.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He was leaving for a trip and I forgot to buy something this, like bathroom supplies. And he hit me and I had like a black eye and my lip was split. He told me if anybody asked, tell him something did it.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And that, says Jane, is exactly what she told everyone.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I told him somebody bugged me, a black person mugged me.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But Jane admits that physical violence was not the norm. Instead, she describes a pattern of mostly emotional and psychological abuse. How often would there be incidents and what would they involve?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

It was mostly verbal abuse.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

What would he call you?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Well, stupid, idiot, fat bitch, Jew.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

How often would that happen?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

The last two years it was all the time.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane also says that Dave would taunt her and their young son Michael with his vast gun collection, claiming that he even made her play Russian roulette.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

And he kept trying to make me hold the gun and I wouldn't do it.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The older Michael got, says Jane, the more unwelcome, unreasonable Dave became.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

There's so many times I should have called the police and I didn't, and I so regret that, especially the times when Michael was involved. I can't believe I let him stay in danger like that.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Why did you stay?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I always thought it would get better.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Yet, she says she was still unprepared for what happened on the night of August 27, 2009, when Jane and Michael returned home late from a day at the beach, she says Dave exploded.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I didn't ask Dave anything about his day. I didn't. It just started it that we didn't ask him. We didn't respect him.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane put their 10 year old to sleep early and did what she had been doing for two years, crawled into bed with her son. Why were you sleeping in Michael's room?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Because he was scared.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Michael was scared.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Dave would stay up in the living room and he'd been drinking all night and he's just raging at whatever. It's the tv, it's something, an email

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

that would happen every night, almost every night. Jane says she was in Michael's room when she heard Dave raging in the hallway and got up to try and calm him.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He just started just swearing at me and I kept telling him I was sorry. And he started to come down towards Michael's room and I saw the gun in his hand.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

She says she focused on diverting Dave away from Michael and drawing him out of the house.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

We went to the side of the house and we stumbled. I don't know if we were falling or just like moving, but I felt when he got shot, quaff. And then we did fall and I was like straddling him and I honestly don't remember. After that,

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

five more shots were fired. When you got up, you had to realize he was dead.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I didn't think he was, honestly. I mean, I saw him. I remember seeing his socks. I just thought for sure he's going to jump up and run after me.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But if you were terrified, why didn't you right away then tell the 911 operator, oh my God, he tried to kill me and he's going to come back in.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I can't explain why.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The district attorney's office offered Jane a deal, plead to manslaughter and agreed to a six year prison term. But Jane did the unimaginable. She turned it down.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I felt if I took the plea, nobody would know what really happened. It would be like accepting what the prosecution said happened that night. It would be like accepting that they said there was no abuse with Michael. Me.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

She's full of baloney. She's lied so many times. All her. As I look back and think back, so many lies.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The lout family now says the woman they embraced as part of the family is a pathological liar and cold blooded killer. Rebecca, you once said to me that there are two faces of Jane. What do you mean by that Jane

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

likes to portray herself as very meek and quiet and shy.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I'm trying to remember everything. I don't know where that's my child is. I'm trying to help.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

And then there's another part of her that's f the world and f everything. I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

I don't care who I hurt. In some cases, kill. Gonna put this cook and see which

[Detective Mike Young]

kind of big game animal comes and eats the cookie.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Was Dave Lout a hometown hero, a beloved coach and high school athletic director, secretly abusing his wife at home? Oxnard homicide detective Mike Young was determined to find out.

[Detective Mike Young]

We spent five or six months doing dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews with friends and family, seeing if anyone was aware of any domestic violence issues. Another direct neighbor right next door who was a ex LA county deputy. I specifically asked if there was any domestic issues, and he said, absolutely not. I would have seen that.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Did Jane ever tell you that Dave hit her? Never.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Never.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dave's brother Don and his wife Rebecca, in interviews were adamant they never witnessed or heard about any abuse. Pushed her, Never was verbally abusive? Never. Did you ever see her with any kind of bruises?

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

Never. Never, Never ever.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Even Jane, on the night of the shooting, denied any abuse in her marriage.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

I asked you about your relationship.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Is it abusive?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

No.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Physically?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

No.

[Detective Mike Young]

Mentally?

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

What's more, Jane didn't look like someone who had been in a battle for her life. There were no fresh scratches on Dave or Jane.

[Detective Mike Young]

She had two small, maybe nickel size or so, older bruises on the inside of her left bicep that were greenish and yellowish, as if they were in late stages of healing.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Young says that evidence collected from the scene tells a different story. He says Jane followed Dave out into the side yard holding this flashlight in one hand and this gun in the other. Then she took a shot from behind.

[Detective Mike Young]

The first shot was fired from a distance, striking him on the left part of his head, above his left ear. Then the next two shots, we believe are contact wounds on the side of his face. And then there's another gunshot wound while he's down on the ground is at least four to six feet away. And then you've got two more. One in the back of his right shoulder. And the sixth shot that we believe was the gunshot wound in the back of the head, which is the fatal gunshot.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And because the gun was a single action revolver, Young says every shot shows premeditation.

[Detective Mike Young]

She had to physically manually cock that firearm each time she shot him.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Police say after she shot Dave, she hid the Gun in the grandfather clock and then called 911 with that story about the police prowler.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Somebody lives in our backyard.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

According to the Lout family, unbelievable stories were nothing new for Jane.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

She told me one time that a man died in her arms at the bank. She told me another time that she was held up at knifepoint at the grocery store.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Was that true?

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

I don't think so, but it was Jane. So you kind of just say, oh, ok.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But Jane now says all those stories were to cover for Dave's abuse. Is it possible she did make up these stories about a stalker and an attack to cover up injuries that her husband gave her?

[Detective Mike Young]

Well, I guess it's possible. You know, I don't know. I find it convenient.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Another secret that police uncovered. It turns out that Jane and Dave were deeply in debt. Rebecca Lout blames Jane.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

She was the one in charge of the finances. And I don't think Dave knew that she hadn't paid her taxes in three or four years. I don't believe he knew that they were behind on their mortgage.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And Dave may not have known that Jane had borrowed nearly $60,000 from his own mother, Dottie.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

She would say, I need X amount of dollars for Dr. Bill. I need X amount of dollars. I have to pay some tuition. And I just gave it to her.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

A large sum of money also went missing from the Parent Teacher association at Michael's school, where Jane was the treasurer.

[Detective Mike Young]

She told Dottie that she needed $25,000, otherwise the bank was going to basically foreclose on the home. And it turns out that she took that $25,000 check, deposited it in the bank, cashed out $20,000 the next day, and deposited it into the parent club account.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane again says she was covering for Dave, who had thrown the money into the fireplace in a fit of anger. But you had to borrow $20,000. He didn't burn all that, did he?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

No, there was some I used because the house payment were two months, three months behind. So I paid for that.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But where was all the money going?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I don't know. I paid for household bills, I paid for groceries, and I paid for tuition. I know Dave ordered a lot of stuff.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

I know, but we're talking about thousands of dollars.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I don't know.

[Detective Mike Young]

We hired a forensic accountant who went through everything, and I think that their conclusion was that she was just a reckless spender.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Rebecca and Don say they are just as puzzled.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

We have since found out that Dave's wages were being garnished.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

Right.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

Because apparently there was issues with the irs. Maybe he found out that day that his wages were being garnished and he went home and asked. I honestly think that he was fixing to leave. I truly believe that he was done with the whole financial thing.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Rebecca and Don both say the terrible shooting and Jane's story of abuse came completely out of the blue.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

She told me a lot about the relationship, very personal things about the relationship. So I know that if that was happening, she would have said something to me.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But as we have learned since this interview, Rebekah might know more about Jane and Dave's marriage than she told us. In a phone call with Detective Young Just five days after Dave's death in 2009, Rebecca admitted Jane had confided in

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

her he was very verbally abusive. Very. To her and to Michael. Gosh, there's so many, so many, so many instances. I can't even think right now.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And she may not have been the only one who knew about the verbal abuse.

[Detective Mike Young]

You're not the first person that said that. But, you know, whatever she's confided in you and told you is very, very important.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He was just very, very verbally abusive. And that was the main thing.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Could there have been signs of physical abuse?

[Detective Mike Young]

Yeah. She never made mention of him physically being violent towards. Towards her. You sort of, I think, sensed it. But she never said anything.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

No. She would get very quiet.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Rebecca insists that Jane never mentioned any physical abuse and says that with all she's learned, she now believes that Jane lied about it all. Do you think that Dave's mother or your sister in law knew this was going on?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

They knew a lot. They did. They knew what was going on.

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[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

As the date for Jane Lout's murder trial approached, Dave's family feared what they'd have to hear in her defense. Jane Lout would be testifying that her husband, the Olympian hero, was also a sadistic abuser. Rebecca, what if the jury believes her?

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

I mean, it's going to be a horrible day, but what are you going to do?

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

On January 11, 2016, more than six years after Jane Louch shot her husband, the trial finally began. Cameras were only permitted for opening and closing statements.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Good morning, everyone.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Ventura county senior deputy district attorney Ramin manui Began to lay out the state's case against Jane loud. Shot by shot.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

On August 27, 2009, this defendant took this Ruger new model single six revolver. She followed her husband of 29 years

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

to the side yard, and she shot

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

him with this gun.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The shooting was premeditated, Minui said, Because jane had reasons to want her husband dead. Approximately $300,000 worth of insurance benefits, and the fear of a contentious divorce.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Several weeks before the murder, Dave lapp was researching divorce on his laptop.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

He was looking up divorce lawyers.

[Detective Mike Young]

Yeah, there was some web activity of divorce lawyer research.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

There's research done on the computer looking up divorce attorneys.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I didn't know that. It was on his laptop, I guess.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Did he threaten to leave you?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

No. Never talked about it.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But the computer evidence was only one part of the state's case. Investigators insist jane was never in danger the the night of the shooting and that she lied to police from the start. Minui even showed the jury that grandfather clock where jane hid the gun after she killed her husband. You said there was no sign of a struggle out in the back?

[Detective Mike Young]

No.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Was there any sign that there had been any kind of fight inside the house?

[Detective Mike Young]

Nothing.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

What about on jane?

[Detective Mike Young]

She had nothing visible on her face during the interview, Detective mora actually noted that she had a small nick on one of her hands. He asked her how she got in that, and she attributed it to her cat.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The defense has never denied that jane shot dave that night. But attorney Ron bamier has always said she had no choice.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

There's no sophisticated plan here. If you really wanted to kill the guy, you don't do it in your house with your kid 20ft away.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

What evidence is there that he was the aggressor that night? The bruising on Jane bamier showed the jury these photos taken the morning after the shooting of a large bruise on Jane's left arm, an injury she says she sustained while struggling with dave over the gun.

[Detective Mike Young]

According to the detective that saw her naked, the only bruises on her inner arm were these two old green bruises.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But it's possible a bruise can develop with time.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Sure.

[Detective Mike Young]

Can you? But I don't believe it. This knockdown, drag out, fight for your life. No injuries on your face, no injuries on your breasts.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Having turned down five plea deals, Jane had only one option now. If she wanted the jury to understand why she did what she did that night, she had to tell them herself. How difficult was it to testify at trial?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

It Was awful, but it felt kind of good. It felt almost a relief that it would be over.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

She sobbed through most of her testimony. Marjorie hernandez, a reporter for the Ventura county star and a consultant for 48 hours, says all eyes in the courtroom were on Jane. This was her opportunity to tell jurors, this is what I was going through behind closed doors for 20 years, nine

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

years in this marriage.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

It took two days as Bamier walked Jane through a harrowing tale of abuse and even sexual assault at the hands of her husband.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

The guy sexually, physically, and verbally abused her for years, did things to her that are just awful. Just awful.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Which explains, says Jane, why she felt she had to kill her husband. On that August night, he pushed me

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

up against the door jamb, and it was just like yelling in my face, telling me how much he's sick of us and that he was gonna blow Michael's head off.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

When the prosecutor finally stood up to question Jane, the first thing he wanted to know was why Jane didn't ever call out for help. Did anyone hear anyone screaming, yelling?

[Detective Mike Young]

Nothing. The only thing that was heard were gunshots by several of the neighbors.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

You can understand people wonder why you didn't scream for help. If he's trying to kill you.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I never scream.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Ramin manui pressed Jane on why she can't recall the actual shooting. You don't remember anything? Is it just a blank?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Yeah, it is. I mean, I don't. I remember the first shot.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Do you remember pulling the trigger on the first shot?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Mm. Mm. I just remember feeling it.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But, I mean, it takes more than that. It. You have to pull the trigger and pull the hammer back. I mean, it takes a real effort to shoot that gun.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I don't remember that. I mean, I block it out.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

To bolster jane's defense, Bamier called witnesses who also testified that Dave had a dark side and said that looking back, they missed telltale signs.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

They saw signs of his temper. They saw signs of him being very aggressive. They saw signs of him yelling at Jane. They saw that, and people would be disgusted by it, but nobody would say anything.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But the prosecution had witnesses, too, friends and family who never saw signs of violence and described Dave lout as a loving family man and true hometown hero.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

He was not the monster that they tried to portray him to be. He was a good guy. He cared about other people.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane and Dave's son Michael, now 17, testified on his mother's behalf. His father had a bad temper, yelled a lot, and called him names. Sometimes, he said. But when asked by the prosecutor, if his father was ever violent with him or Jane, Michael said he couldn't recall.

[Detective Mike Young]

Do I think that there was absolutely no domestic violence in that house? I don't know. I can't say for 100%. I didn't live in that house. I'm very certain that the level of abuse, if it did exist, was nowhere near to the degree that she testified to.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

One person who did not testify was Dave's sister in law, Rebecca Lout. So jurors never heard the the call between her and Detective Young.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

He was just very, very verbally abusive.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Because Rebecca now believes Jane was lying, the defense never called her to testify.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

She once told me towards the end she was complaining about Dave and she says, you know, sometimes I think that we'd be better off without him.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The final witness called by Bamier is the executive director of Los Angeles County's domestic abuse center, Gail Pincus. She thinks like a battered woman. She acted like a battered woman. Pincus says that all of Jane's seemingly odd behavior.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I'm scared and I'm worried.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Like lying to everyone, including the police, is actually a classic symptom of battered woman syndrome. There's all of these things going through her head at the same time, none of which are logical and none of which makes sense unless you understand the degree of fear and the degree of trauma. After two months, the case was about to go to the jury when Jane Lout took one final gamble.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

We're all in. We're all in.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Murder one wasn't the jury's only option. They could also choose to convict Jane of a lesser charge of manslaughter.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

We'll settle on a four.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Or if they thought it was justifiable homicide, they could set her free. Jane insisted that Bame a tell the jury it's all or nothing.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

If it's self defense, it's not voluntary manslaughter. And don't think for one second I don't know what I'm saying. It's not a crazy risk at all. You either believe it 100% or you don't.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Why that was such a big gamble.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

It just made it just because it's the truth.

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[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

It's been a long, long, horrible haul.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Mm.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Over six years have passed since Olympian Dave Lout was shot and killed by someone his family once loved. Jane Lout.

[Don Lout (Dave's brother)]

It's heartbreaking for me. It's heartbreaking because I love both of them. I mean, obviously I loved him because he was my brother, but I loved her, too. She was like a sister to me.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But as they wait for a verdict, their love has turned to anger.

[Rebecca Lout (Dave's wife’s sister-in-law)]

She's a murderer, and she's a desperate woman trying to get herself off. We would like to see her put away for life because she took a life.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And now what matters Most is what 12 strangers think of Jane. The jury can convict her of murder, the lesser crime of voluntary manslaughter, or. Or if they can decide Jane killed in self defense and acquit her of any crime.

[Detective Mike Young]

Your verdict on each count.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And as the jury deliberates, Ron Bamier remains optimistic.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

I'm very confident. Jury's not going to convict her of first or second degree murder. I could predict these things. I haven't been wrong yet on one of my cases in terms of what jury's going to do.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

So it's going to come down to either voluntary manslaughter or acquittal.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Right. We either walk out of the courtroom together or we don't.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

For Jane, the waiting is unbearable.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

It was awful. It was. I was trying to be positive, but scared to death.

[Detective Mike Young]

All right, let's bring in the jury, please.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

At stake is more time with her son.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

You know, I had to tell Michael that if I'm found guilty, that I'm remanded right away. I won't come home.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

After nearly four days of deliberating a decision,

[Detective Mike Young]

We the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Jane Lawbacher loud, guilty of the crime of first degree murder.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Guilty of first degree murder.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I was pretty shocked, honestly. I tried to prepare myself for everything, but I was surprised.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

And in a poignant twist, it is Bamier. Once so confident the jury would believe his client. Who needs to be consoled?

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

It just was like somebody punched in the gut.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Jane ended up consoling you.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

Yeah, she did. Staying out.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Dave's mother, Dottie was in the courtroom.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

I was afraid that she was going to get acquitted. And then when she wasn't, it shocked me. I cried. I don't know if I cried because she was found guilty or because it was. Was over.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

The verdict is no victory. I mean, Jane's been part of your Life for over 30 years.

[Dottie Lout (Dave's mother)]

That's right. That's why I lost a son. Lost a daughter. And I guess I've lost a grandson, too. I don't know if I'll ever get to see him again.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Michael has been living with Jane's relatives since she was arrested and released on bond. Did you miss him terribly?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Yep. I know he's okay. I mean, I know he's safe.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

But Jane, who turned down that last plea deal of serving a maximum of six years in prison, may never be free to be with her son again because she is facing a mandatory sentence of 50 years to life. For Jane Loud, who's in her late 50s, this is truly a life sentence.

[Ron Bamier (Defense Attorney)]

She will die in prison. Yes. Maybe they can find something I did wrong or I should have done better. That could be grounds for a new trial. But the odds are, you know, get what, 2% of cases like this are overturned on appeal.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Do you have any regrets?

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

Well, of course. I mean, I regret that it happened. I, you know, killed my husband. But Michael's alive. Hi, Michael.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

Yep.

[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

I think if it didn't happen, we would both be dead.

[Erin Moriarty (48 Hours Reporter)]

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[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

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[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

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[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

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[Jane Lout (Defendant/Wife)]

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