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.
tracy s mother was not a fan of her doctor husband. he never really talked. he was very much almost to himself. and it was hard having a conversation with him. it almost felt like you are driving things out. did he have something to hide? tracy revealed to investigators that her marriage to the doctor had quickly deteriorated. he was a philanderer, and a bully. she said. even in the bedroom. she described how the doctor enjoyed tying her to the bed. and gagging her. at one time, he had even left her tied up overnight, uncovered, with the windows open. in 1992, the couple separated. they d shared custody of their son baby bert, until one day she reported to the authorities the three-year-old had blurted out something shocking. his father had touched him. bert is the first one that made a comment. and we weren t sure. so here she took him to a doctor. and it was a doctor who said that it looked like he was abused. had the boy been sexually abused by his own father, doctor john
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.
rolled me up in a cotton, king sized cheat. very tight. pinned me with safety pins. and reached underneath or, behind the bed. and took out a plastic bag over my head. she put a plastic bag over your head? the way that michael to the, tracy tried to suffocate him. she says that michael story was sheer fantasy, but not long after, he filed for divorce. but what about michael s polygraph? that seemed so suspicious to her early investigators. michael had an answer for that to. he said that the lie detector had caught his own skirmish out about tracey s story. not that he was the brains behind the home invasion. it s hard to answer a question as to, do you know the identity of the second intruder if you don t believe there was a second intruder. agents had ruled out michael roberts as a suspect. and he started to wonder, you couldn t get two more poles apartment then tracy s two ex-husbands. the australian entrepreneur,