Jane Laut
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It was shortly after midnight, August 28, 2009, and in Oxnard, California, Jane Laut was frantically telling a 911 dispatcher that her husband, Dave, may just have been shot by an intruder.
Dave's younger brother, Don, and his wife, Rebecca, were asleep in their home when they got the call.
Jane Lout called her brother, Hank Laubacher.
This is an audio recording of first responders to the crime scene that night.
Officers found Dave Lout dead in the side yard.
Not long after the shooting, Jane was questioned by Oxnard homicide detectives about what she said happened.
I told you I'm trying to remember everything.
Jane said that while their 10-year-old son Michael was asleep in his bed, her husband heard a noise out back.
He said, there's something going on in the backyard.
how did you first hear that something had happened to your son uh it was about five o'clock in the morning and the doorbell rang and dave's mother dottie loud it was jane's brother hank and hank said
Jane and Michael are okay, but Dave's dead.
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.