we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, jane laubacher laut, guilty of the crimedegree murder. >> guilty of first-degree murder. a shock ran through the room. ron bamier, who fervently believed in her innocence, looked distraught. jane comforted him. the woman who flat turned down a deal to do six years for voluntary manslaughter was later sentenced to a mandatory 50 years to life in prison. it was a victory for dave's family. yes. but not one to celebrate. >> our faith calls us to forgive, and we do. we forgive her. >> but forget? no. not the lauts. not their superman. >> it's very difficult. i miss him every day. i miss him every day. >> i think i'll always grieve. i know i'm always going to miss him. he's always a part of me. but it's hard. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. i was already in a juvenile detention facility. >> local high school students get an earful from an inmate. a group of inmates are entrusted with potential weapons. one of them homes this assignment will end in a lifelong bond. back at the jail, an inmate brawl leaves

jane said there was a prowler, and then gunfire. police raced to the scene to find dave laut dead. and troubling holes in jane's story. what happened at the laut home that night? here's keith morrison with "the hometown hero and the homecoming queen." special, i think. >> these were the moments before they were born when a shot putter named dave laut became his family's superman. and his little brother watched him win a bronze medal in the 1984 olympics. >> i mean, after, i just cried. how do you not? how do you not cry when you see your brother up there getting a medal? it's cool. he was my big brother. but he was like my superman. he was my superman. >> don laut is dave's younger brother by nine and a half years. dave and don inherited a passion for athletics from their father. >> i remember my first milk when i was a kid, it was protein powder. >> it's built into your dna. it's part of your life. >> yeah, it really is. >> here is where that dna was planted, oxnard, california. a farm town on the beach north of l.a.'s encroaching sprawl. they grow mostly strawberries here now. lim