anastasia bolton tells us jack's story is not unique. >> i needed a housekeeper and a cook and a companion that i could talk to. >> reporter: he went about it an old fashioned way, an ad in the newspaper, some letters and a phone calls and he thought he found the right person. jana bergmann needed a place to live because she was living in jail. bergmann had a long criminal history with multiple felonies, including fraud, drugs, forgery, but in spite all of that, jack wanted to help. >> so i took up the position that i needed to help her. >> reporter: bergmann wrote and called jack from jail telling him she was, quote, a care provider in every sense of the title. he bought that and her freedom. jack bailed bergmann out of jail so she could come live with him. he would do that two more times before their fight in october of 2014, the fight that almost killed him. >> i knew he was trying to push already had broke the skin on my arms. and she was just trying to push my legs out from underneath me. >> this is one of the worst cases of elder abuse i have ever seen. the type of abuse out there is