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Is there anybody threatening you at this time . 20 miles away, traceys mother was also wondering about her daughter. Tracy was late picking her up for her grandson, bert, basketball plastics. Then the phone rang. It was her, sobbing. She just broke out in tears. And was crying hysterically on the phone, was really hard to understand him. And said that someone was shot in the house. And someone tracys mother, hoped in her car and raced down Country Roads to the house. She says the policeman stopped her from going inside. He said, i couldnt go in because it was a crime scene. And i said, i want to see how my daughter, how she is. Im sorry. And he said, they are working on her. And she couldnt breathe. Tracey was alive, but she was gasping for breath. Paramedics loaded her into the ambulance and took her to the hospital. Two hours later, another mother came rushing to what was once the home of a friend, but now a crime scene. And theres all these kids, and cars and stuff there. And we go flying through the barricade. Local realtor, mona, was looking for her son dustin wehde. His car was parked in the driveway of the roberts home, secured now behind crime scene tape. Mona said that Police Officers would not let her near it. I looked at them and i said, is my son here . And they go, yes. And i go, is he dead . And they go, yes. The body of dustin wehde, the young man being mentored by tracys husband. It was sprawled on the couples bedroom floor. Tracy had shot him, in what appeared to be a desperate act of selfdefense. Did they tell you anything about what happened in that house . No. They told us to go home. I said, i want to hold, him and they said you cant. 12 miles away at the hospital. Tracy was finally safe, and breathing on her own. Investigators captured the Ugly Red Choke marks on her neck, and the look of terror in her eyes. What did she endured . Tracy said that she couldnt believe it when the police told her, it had been her friend son dustin wehde, who had attacked her. She hadnt been able to make out his face in the dark. What did you think when you had a name attached to this . It was so hard. Because at that point i heard the worst of it was behind me. And then. You killed monas son . Yeah. Thats who i felt bad about. Because i cared about mona. You know . And now . Shes lost her son. From her hospital bed, tracey told investigators a little bit of what she remembered. How she had been running a bath for her daughter, mason, when she heard sounds at the bottom of the stairs. Has they had chased her when she ran to bert room. The baby in her hands. Bert said i threw mason, i dont remember throwing her. I dont 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. Thats 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 couldnt get away. And i, i was having trouble even twisting out of it. Tracy says that she mustve 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 in the code and open it. She grabbed a handgun, and pointed it over her shoulder. But when she pulled the trigger, nothing happened. The safety was on. It was such relief when i got it open. And then, nothing. She pulled the trigger again, and this time she says, the gun fired. The thing i remember the most is that, it was so loud. And it was so bright. Like, the flash from the gun was blinding, really. Tracy says that she managed to swivel around to face her attackers. She kept firing. Are you hearing the assailant scream . I didnt hear anybody scream. What she could hear when she stopped shooting, was the sound of someone breathing. And then, sudden footsteps running out of the door. Had one of the Home Invaders fled . Tracey inch down the bed, she couldnt see much. The bedroom was hazy with gun smoke. But she heard her kids calling for her, she said. And she ran to bert room. I opened the door, and bert almost took my head off with a bat. And i dont 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 were 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 traceys floor, was still alive. She could see it was dustin wehde, the son of her wifes 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. And before she knew it, she had another gun in her hand. And she fired a warning shot. Telling dustin to stay down. I could hear her yelling on him to stay on the ground. Dont get up, dont get up. And then another shot, and then another. And finally, dustin was still. There was no sign of a second in trudeau. Tracys husband, michael, had been out of state when the breakout occurred. There must have been questions occurring in your brain. How is she . How are the kids . There were too many questions. Reunited with the family, he was puzzled what would happened. The story is that this incredibly brave mama bear is protecting her cubs, against these two Home Invaders . It was incredible. I was proud of her. They are my heroes. But he said he could not understand why dustin wehde, a 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 monas 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 dont lock us door. A lot of us cant lock our doors. We were nervous. A town on edge as Police Search for the second intruder. Was it someone from traceys mysterious past . She said im about to send you a fax, and i hope you still love me after i send it to you. When dateline continues when i first learned about my dupuytrens contracture, my physician referred me to a Hand Specialist. And im glad he did, because when i took the tabletop test, i couldnt lay my hand flat anymore. The first Hand Specialist i saw only offered surgery. So, i went to a second Hand Specialist who also offered Nonsurgical Options which felt more right for me. So, what id say to other people with dupuytrens contracture is this dont wait find a Hand Specialist trained in Nonsurgical Options, today. Ive had so many nightmares i found mine at findahandspecialist. Com. About the attack. Tracey roberts, in her sleep, relived the terrifying night of the Home Invasion. Her mother said that she was falling apart. She did not want to go in the house. She was afraid to go in the house. It was very uncomfortable in there. Uncomfortable, and uneasy, described a great many residents in early, iowa in the great days following. I was tracys best friend, like many other people in town. Worried about her family safety. Living in early, most of us dont lock our doors. Most of us cant lock our doors. We were nervous. Where was the second intruder . Tracy gave an interview to a local tv and reporter, in the months following the invasion. There is a person still out there. And as a mother, i have a natural instinct to want to protect my children. She gave a description of the second intruder, but other than that police did not have much to go on. Crime scene technologist could find no fingerprints at the scene. No one saw anyone suspicious fleeing the area that night. Were still looking. And again, we have no clue who the second party was. In the house that night. And of course, police know the identity of the attacker that had not gotten away. Dustin wehde, the son of tracys friend. Realtor, mona. I was in shock. I could not think. It was also hard from wanted to hear. Her boy, dustin wehde, a child she raised. Was not a violent young man. He was just misunderstood. I felt my son was labeled at a very young age. And really started getting bullied at a very young age. He was never invited to a birthday party, he was never invited for a sleep over. Was there a name for what troubled him . Mona had taken dustin wehde, from doctor to doctor to get a handle on his social awkwardness. His moodiness. Every place we went, there was also always a different diagnosis. I felt that he was very misunderstood as a child. Had the troubled young man simply snapped . Tracy sought so. She said that she had never felt safe around dustin, even when michael was mentoring him. I told michael i didnt like the idea of him being around the kids. Because when i saw him with michael, the affect was just off. Tracy said that dustins mother once confided in her that she was scared of her own son. She complained that he was physical with his sisters. Scaring his own sister . She said that she could not he leave him alone with the girls. Because he would hurt them. Physically hurt them . Physically hurt them. Yeah. She says mona told him that day and you believe he did that . Yeah. I saw her cry over it. In the hours after the attack, tracy speculated about what had brought the unstable teenager to her home in the first place. Had some of michaels collectible guns caught his eye . Was it a botched robbery . Investigators didnt think so. The intruder showed no interest in grabbing the expensive jewelry, or the cash michael kept in the safe. The one item made off with from the house, was an old computer found in the backseat of dustins car. When i heard the computer was taken, i did think it was strange that a ring, that is a lot smaller, and has a lot more value, which could easily fit into somebodys pocket. Why didnt someone just slipped the ring off my finger . But if dustin and his Mysterious Coconspirator had not been looking for clues, what had they been doing . Had their mission been even more sinister than anyone had first imagined . Investigators wonder, did someone want to scare tracey . Or maybe even kill her . But no one could picture dustin, troubled as he was, as leading that vicious assault. Who then, was the other person in the house that night . Finding him could be the key to figuring out who would want tracy dead. Michael roberts had a glimmer of a theory. Involving some sordid, personal history with his wife. Incredibly, the Home Invasion wasnt the first time that tracy had come under attack. I was at work, and she said im about to send you a facts. Can you make sure that you are standing at the Facts Machine . And i hope you still love me after i send it to you. Four years before, when the roberts had still been living in chicago. Tracey had sent her husband of troubling document. It appeared to be the type written confession of a dentist, admitting that he had assaulted tracey after sitting her during a dental treatment. She said she had woken up and she was redding red high heeled shoes that were too small for her. And he was masturbating over her. In the document, the destin sent out the terms for an understanding. He would seek counseling for his sexual obsessions, and pay tracey 160,000 in damages. In turn, tracy promised to keep it a secret, even from her husband. So what do you do . Youre reading this facts in which her talk is documenting hurry from the dentist. What do i do . Im her husband. Of course, he didnt mean it. He told her to call the cops. I just meant, she had to call the police. It was rape. And she would not do it. Tracy filed a lawsuit against the doctor instead, alleging medical malpractice. And a few days before the home and vision, they were set to go to trial in a chicago courtroom. So your first allusion to the Home Invasion is the dentist . Of course it was the first thing i want to. And i was told the guy had a chicago accent. It was a solidly and a potential mastermind of the Home Invasion. Had her big city past followed her to rural iowa . Coming up there are just like, hundreds of possibilities in my head. And right now, im afraid of all of them. The list of possible suspects is about to grow longer. As tracey pointed the finger at someone else from her past. She said, he is the one. Theyre going to arrest him. When dateline continues after advil. Feeling better . On top of the worlddddd before advil. Advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. When pain comes for you, come back fast with advil liquigels. 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