. >> reporter: ron bamieh is jane's attorney.dave is far from the hometown hero some believed him to be. the truth about dave laut, he said, for nearly two decades he subjected his wife to horrific abuse. >> like all abuse, it is power and control. we have verbal abuse, the names he called her over a long period of time. we have emotional abuse. we have physical abuse, that's everything from the punching to the kicking to the hitting to the slapping. >> reporter: jane wasn't the only victim, said bamieh. dave was angry that his adopted son michael was not athletic. >> he was yelling in the street about how he can't ride a bike or catch a football. >> reporter: jane was afraid, so she covered up his abuse and her injuries. we obtained this summary from a police report in the 1980s in which jane reported an intruder attacked her while she was alone at work. at the time, police found injuries consistent with her story. in fact, said bamieh, dave inflicted those injuries and then ordered jane to lie and blame a nonexistent intruder,