So youre the protector, and you are an 11 years old . The only thing i wanted to do was protect them. He stood behind a closeddoor, clutching the bat, ready to fight back. And i was like, the first person to come through here. Im hitting. Going out fighting. I want to try. The boy could hear the voices of two men in the hallway. They eventually started banging on the door. It felt like they were trying to get in. He says he started cursing at the intruders, using every bad word he could think of. Then i could hear all of a sudden, another set of footsteps. In the upstairs. Start running. And then, eventually, i heard. You know. She has a gun. And then, the boy heard a series of gunshots. A breathless , dialed 911. Someone came to my house and my mom up. But the boy was saying was Something Like out of a movie. As first for the Small Town Police department. Early rescue, you are needed that. That michaels residence. Im not really sure whats going on. What had happened inside the roberts
she says she reached and for the gun. she fired it. he s on the floor, i can see blood about him. so the story is this incredibly brave mama bear taking pair of her clubs? her story fits the evidence. and i m going, no it doesn t. so it s an execution he walks into, is that the way you see it? totally. she killed him. i was defending my family. and that is all i can keep thinking about. twilight, in an eye or roy farming town. darkness is in the windows of a victorian house. downstairs in the kitchen, a crock pot is simmering. upstairs, a young mother runs a bat for her baby daughter. her two older sons huddle by a tv in the bedroom down the hall. suddenly, they hear a shout. their mother s cry for help. all of a sudden, you can hear her yelling. and then i can hear her yelling towards the door. and i m standing there, like what is going on? 11 years old, he sees his mother running towards him. she s in the door jam, trying to get in. i can
scenario that tracey told investigators. her first husband could very well be behind the home invasion. the doctor saw bert echoed that theory, when he was being interviewed by a social worker. they re thinking that, john pitman iii, had something to do with it so. to do with those people coming to your house? yes. the 11 year old relived the home invasion during the interview. got the bat out, somebody ran in the room. i put my bat up, and someone open the door, it was my. mama nearly hitter. he told it like a story out of a rip smoking comic book. and he and his mom where the heroes. she had like, pantyhose around her arm, so i had to untie it. the villain he said, was his dad. tracy s first husband john pitman iii. it aided bert that her his own father had not called to see how he was doing after the attack. if he was a good father, if
stories about what was going on at home. if bert didn t move fast enough, there was a harsh punishment. many times, bert, welcome to school without a coat. and it did be below zero because he did not move fast enough in the morning. but as the story went, it was december 2000, a year before the home invasion, that really exposed tracy and michael s marriage for the facade it was. it began with an argument over offe. dustin s mother, mona, watched it unfold. tracey come storming into the back door. and she is just rampaging, and yelling, and screaming. and michael looked at me, and goes. i m going to have to excuse you, and ask you to leave. and then it went nuts. according to this police report, tracy said that michael had knocked her down and jumped on her. he also pulled her hair. that s when he put my mom s
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