FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) – Closing arguments are scheduled in the trial of a woman charged with killing a 20-year-old rural Iowa man in 2001.
Jurors will hear the arguments Friday after more than a week of testimony for and against Tracey Richter, who is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 13, 2001 death of Dustin Wehde.
Richter insists she was the victim of a home invasion, and shot Wehde after she was choked with pantyhose. But she did not take the witness stand, leaving her son who was 11 at the time to tell jurors about the alleged attack.
Prosecutors say the home invasion was made up. They say Richter killed Wehde after forcing him to write in a notebook that he was hired by her ex-husband to kill her and her son.