conned people her entire life. she was a tornado wreaking havoc everywhere that she went. so had tracy gotten away with murder by pretending to be a victim? it was not an entirely new idea. investigators had discussed it back in the day, but bad in 2010, agent valletta found someone willing to listen to his wild theory. he would send me little teasers and continuously call me. what do you think about that? the newly elected sack county prosecutor, ben smith, was a captain in the iowa national guard and knew his way around guns. he was immediately skeptical of tracey s description of the shooter. you are saying that every shot she took was either sitting kneeling, with her eyes closed, or glasses of. what is the degree of difficulty here? army ranger difficulty. a challenging exercise? i do not think i would be up for now, according to what she said. if you believe that it was in
tracy was driving down the highway in her fiancée s trust. she had a new man in her life, a new job, a new name. had she finally put the home invasion behind her? then, she noticed the police blue lights in her rearview mirror. the next thing i know there is a bunch of police cars and there ban pointing guns at me and telling me to get out of the car and i kept asking what is this about? and a man came over, and said i was under arrest for the murder of dustin wehde. ten years after she told police she had been attacked by the teenager, she was charged with dustin wehde murder. the news was overwhelming to dustin s mother. i just kind of went blank and was like, what? i was so heavy and i was like, it is unbelievable. because i never thought that that day was going to come when i would be told that she was actually arrested for murder. but that day did come on a mild october morning in fort dodge, iowa. tracey, standing trial for murder as tracey richter, she had entered a ple
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.
your children? the day i was arrested. the stakes were high at tracey richter s murder trial. this mother who could be looking at a future in her prison cell without her children said she was being punished for protecting them. this is an admirable story for a lot of americans. this is a woman defending her puppy bears, at the risk of her own life? protecting them from peril. that is what we believed happened that night. tracy s defense attorney, scott and carmen anderson did not want the jurors to lose sight of the woman they believe their client to be, an heroic mother. her story see much easier to believe than the prosecution s theory of an elaborate frame to just a custody dispute. common sense tell you you do not plot implant murder during
bird starts to hit his head on the table, not to hurt himself, i did not feel, but out of frustration. and he says, why did you go up there, why did you go back up there? and he said, you did not have to shoot him, you did not have to kill him. was there something that operative seen his mother do that terrible night in 2001 that he had been keeping a secret all these years? what truth could ever tell the jury as he took the stand? coming up common sense tells you that you do not execute a murder in an hour timeframe when he had three children at home. the heart of the defense case. what tracey sun remembers about that night. i was very, very, very scared. dustin would say anything to you at that time? yes, he told me to stay in the room. my mom was dead, and i am next. but will he stand by his story under cross examination? when dateline continues. eline continues.