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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 couldn't believe it when the police told her, it had been her friend son dustin wehde, who had attacked her. she hadn't 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 mona's son? >> yeah. that's who i felt bad about. because i cared about mona. you know? and now? she's 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.

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about occasions when dustin had lost his temper in her home. >> you are afraid of leaving your daughters alone with dustin prior to his death? >> i was not afraid to leave them alone, i did not like to leave him alone. >> mona told the jury that yes, her son had been difficult, but not violent. she said she had never told tracy that dustin was a threat to her other two children. >> they made dustin look like the bad boy and the violent child and violent adult. but it was horribly hard for me to listen to that. >> but what about the other boy at the heart of this crime, treson's son burt? he was going to be the defenses trump card. >> this is my guardian angel, right here. and that, right there, it is the head of a demon. >> bird has an elaborate tattoo depicting the home invasion. >> that is my mom. >> his mother is pictured as the hero. >> i know for a fact that, if my mom had not done what she did, i would be dead.

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there was something wrong with the very idea that dustin had been a hitman for hire on that night. >> he parked in front of the house, he had no gun, he had no knife. >> but hadn't dustin revved off a computer? they found it in the car. >> you're gonna tell me that my son, went into the house, that is full of bells and gateways. and he went upstairs in the corner of the bedroom, and picked up a obsolete piece of drunk? >> it's an old beat of computer. >> useless computer, went out, put it in his car. packed it in nice and neat. and went back in the house, and went upstairs to get killed? >> monett know there had to be a better explanation. maybe dustin had stumbled in on someone else trying to kill tracey? mona peppered investigators with questions. >> i kept asking questions, and, i got, funny answers. and they just plain and simple said, her story fits the evidence. and i'm just going, no it does not.

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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!

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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 tracy's 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 didn't like the idea of him being around the kids. because when i saw him with

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three times in this under arm. two times in his hip. and at that point, four times in the back of his head. and i went, what? >> the violence of dustin's death overwhelmed her. mona now believe not only did tracey's story of self-defense was bogus. not only that her son was innocent of any crime the night of the home invasion. she also believed that austin had been murdered, targeted. >> so this is an execution he walks into? is that the way you see it? >> totally. >> but years after the attack, she felt as if there was no want to listen to her. >> i felt like my hands were tied because i could not do the investigation. i could not do anything. and i was so sad, because my son and his file was just sitting on a shelf. how long would it sit there? would there ever be a day of justice? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for years, mona had quietly watched the woman who had shot her son, give interviews. >> i turned around and then fired it. >> a time came when mona fired back at a local paper.

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♪ i gotta good feeling about this, yeah ♪ new emergen-c crystals. ♪ i'm with it ♪ ♪ i gotta good feeling about this ♪ ♪ yeah, ♪ ♪ so let's get it ♪ ♪ i'm feeling good vibes ♪ >> mona's son dustin had been shot dead. and she knew that tracey roberts story did not add up. but it was a conversation with the town's funeral director that made her think, tracy might be deliberately be misleading police. that she had something to hide. >> they told me that dustin was shot.

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mona was consumed with questions that she felt no one else cared about. instead of wondering about the idea of the mysterious, second intruder. or who masterminded the attack. she wanted to know what had really happened to her son that night. >> was there any way that you could put him in the house up to no good? >> no. i just said, there is no way, no way possible. >> for starters, mona said her son wasn't this scary, hair trigger misfit described by tracy. his mother knew dustin with a sweet smile, masking a little sadness. not a killer. certainly, a kid who connected his family would -- that's why he treasured his relationship with the roberts family. no way was he putting them to harm. >> they were my friends, they defended him. he was like, i got a friend. no, he's not gonna go down there and say, oh, i think i will kill you today. >> common sense told mona that

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two hours later, another mother came rushing to what was once the home of a friend, but now a crime scene. >> and there's 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 tracy's husband. it was sprawled on the couples bedroom floor. tracy had shot him, in what appeared to be a desperate act of self-defense. >> 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 can't. >> 12 miles away at the hospital. tracy was finally safe, and

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>> i did put out one small article in the paper. and i just asked, why did you kill my son? tell me why. >> the grief and the frustration was taking its toll on mona's family. >> i just felt, everybody ripping apart everybody. i didn't know how to pull back, and i hurt. >> but then, on christmas eve. seven years after dustin's death. mona got a surprising phone call. iowa's division of criminal investigation had given the home invasion case file to a cold case investigator. at last she had a reason to hope. someone else was suspicious of tracey story. >> i had a hard time making sense out of it. because i could not get past her original statement. >> special agent, trent, noticed a lot of inconsistencies in tracey's statements to police. basic facts that she kept changing. like the number of intruders in the house. the other red flag? the crime scene photos.

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