baby. and at the little baby needed his bottle. so he made me drink out of a bottle. are you okay with this? he s your little boy. i wasn t happy with it, but i found when i ejected it made it worse. bert said his mother remained blinded, to something that was becoming clearer and clearer to him. it wasn t his biological dad who had plotted the murder. he now believed, it was his stepfather. so you think that michael, your stepfather, was involved in this? orchestrated it? planned it? fully involved. looking back, bert thinks michael gave himself away at the hospital the night of the attack. just the way that he looked at us. or the way that he reacted to see us alive was, off. as though he did not expect you to see alive? yeah. bert thinks michael was posing as a loving, concerned husband. and pointing fingers at the chicago dentist, and tracy s ex-husband just throw cops off the trail. he is trying to look in all of these directions. instead of at him. isn t i
bert said i threw mason, i don t remember throwing her. i don t remember. but at some point she was out of my arms, and she was in the room. you were trying to get in there with your children? yeah. and. i was pulled out. that s when one of the man, she said. had started to strangle her with some pantyhose that had been left drying on the banister. i was having trouble breathing, and i couldn t get away. and i, i was having trouble even twisting out of it. tracy says that she must ve passed out, because the next thing that she remembered was waking up on the floor. she could hear bert cursing at the intruders. this was the moment that she knew she had to act to protect her children. she ran for a gun safe next to the bed in the master bedroom. i dove into the room. and i just, i went for the safe. she could feel dustin and the other man grabbing, her as she tried to open the safe. even so, she managed to punch
i opened the door, and bert almost took my head off with a bat. and i don t remember having a conversation with them. i just remember being so happy that they were fine. both of us were on pure adrenaline. just like, trying to just grasp what just happened. you know? are you okay? yeah we re fine. tracy said that she shepherded bert and her younger children into the hallway, thinking they were finally safe. but according to both tracy and bert, the nightmare was far from over. the intruder lying on tracey s floor, was still alive. she could see it was dustin wehde, the son of her wife s friend. mona. he was on the floor, i could see that there was blood around him. and i could see him start to get up. he was moving? he started moving. was he gonna attack tracy again? and i remember, it just put me back into, when is this gonna end? when is it gonna stop? just make it stop. tracy says that she ordered the kids back into the bedroom.
now his mother was relying on him to save her from a life behind bars. tracey sobbed as her son took the stand. how do you feel about being here today, bert? pretty nervous. bird walked the jurors it through the home invasion. i heard someone coming towards my door. and what did you do? i still had my that ready. burt told the jury there is no mistaking dustin s criminal intent. he had a disturbing look on his face. angry and threatening. and how did you feel when you saw i it was very, very, very scared. and did dustin say anything to you at that time? yes, he told me to stay in the room. my mom was dead and i was next. we re told the jury how he had seen dust and try to get
like she had a second life that i was not a rare of. and she hung out with male strippers, and just all kinds of unsavory characters. tracy later told people that it was her first husband, not she, who enjoyed the company of strippers. she also denied having had affairs. but doctor pittman says that his private i warn him, he should not take any chances. his life might be in danger. he said look, she s already shot at you. the first one goes in the air, the third one goes of your head, the next one hit you. tracy said that it was his fat out fear that end of the marriage. not his infidelity and abuse that she had claimed. but what about the tracey s allegation that he had sexually abused his own son, bert. he said none of it was true. and he had a court filing to prove it. i ve never done anything. no inappropriate touching, exposure, grooming. anything. the cold case investigator believed traces acts was telling the truth. that doctor, who had seen evidence of abuse? she h