it s a panic button, that piggybacks of the office alarm. and she was racking her brain, trying to figure out who wanted to harm her. it s just, like, hundreds of possibilities running through my head. and right now, i m afraid of all of them. investigators had a number of possible suspects in their sights. among them, that chicago dentist who tracy claimed had assaulted her a few years before. when he did not appear to have any ties to dustin. and much more promising lead, was someone tracey told the cavs was happier to see her dead than alive. her ex husband. did you love him? of course i did. tracey had met her first husband at a chicago teaching hospital. his name was john. he was a medical student, and she was a radiography or. purely 20 years old. he was very much in control. and i like that. i grew up in a household with a very domineering, controlling father. so to me, i thought that s what was how it was supposed to be.
kid he taking under his wing, had apparently turned on him. breaking into his house, attacking his wife and children? that night, michael spoke to dustin wehde mother on the phone. mona called me. apologized, and asked me to tell tracey that she loves her. she believed her son was in the wrong? yeah. she said that she was sorry, but that she loved her. it was heartbreaking. heartbreaking to hear mona s grief. and chilling to think what might have happened if tracey had not fought back the way that she did. michael wondered what, or who, had driven dustin to such violence that night. coming up! living here, most of us don t lock us door. a lot of us can t lock our doors. we were nervous. a town on edge as police search for the second intruder. was it someone from tracey s mysterious past? she said i m about to send you a fax, and i hope you still love me after i send it to you. when dateline continues!
he recreated the shooting in the courtroom. there is a wound to the right arm, lower abdomen, right here on the side, shoulder right here. just as she told investigators, tracey had indeed started firing from the side of the bed. but, then, she tracked him as he tried to turn away and tracy had continued shooting as she moved closer and closer to justin. he s going down, and down to the floor, there is a shot, number four to the right neck. the expert testified about the final shot into the back of dustin s head. one of them exits out the aloft here. any one of them could have been fatal, according to the process prosecution, and it was highly unlikely that dustin could ve been trying to get up, as tracey had told the police over the. years unless he is, you know, a zombie. he is got eight bullets in his body. he s got to the back of the head too. the prosecutions expert then explained what the blood splatter evidence showed about
interview, them i said please describe to me so i know what kind of people they are. johnson has a one paragraph response, and what was interesting about the one paragraph response is that it was incredibly similar language to paragraph five of the journal. if i had any lingering doubts at that time, the she described john pittman the exact same way that dustin wehde describe john pitman, there is no doubt that she authored it. so if the journal was a fake, what does that mean? well, that is where the serpent bottom tale gets kind of simple. motive. the prosecutor says that tracy stage the home invasion to stage her acts and get an upper hand in the custody battle. here is what tracy is hoping. law enforcement s find the pink spiral notebook, they read it, and they think holy cow. it is going to raise enough suspicion that they re gonna spend all this time in energy to interview dr. pittman about this murder for hire scheme, and it is just enough for her to get it into the juvenile
ball pen sticking out of dustin s back pocket, the same type of pen made the journal. it makes no sense why dustin would go into a home invasion with a black roller ball pen in his pocket, it made more sense that the pink spiral notebook was done that day. the pink journal, written in dustin s chicken scratches, stated that john pitman had hired him to kill tracey. the prosecution had decided to clear that up once and for all. to do our ask dustin wehde to set up a plan to kill tracey richter or your son? god no. because the cops had long believed that doctor pittman was innocent of any murder for hire scheme, they kept the journal secret, thinking that anybody who knew about it was probably behind the moment vision plot. enter mary higgins, the prosecution star witness.