Posted on 12/17/2001 8:31:05 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
And kudos to her 11 yr. old son who was willing to help, and probably ended up saving ALL their lives by giving his mom a chance to get free and get the gun.
That mom is a young man now!
Smart move on their part. There's something screwy with this case, at least as it's presented in the press.
What the husband says and what the dead guy's uncle say are two different things:
Wehde "was under the influence of the other person . . . the boss," said Roberts, who operates a computer business.
"I think he walked in on something going on in the house. I think Dustin was coming to the rescue," Wehde said. In the darkness and confusion, "he ended up getting shot for mistaken reasons."
One of them suggests he was in the house with the intruder, the other suggests he may have just happened to walk in when the intruder was there.
I hope the sheriff checks out every possibility, including the fact that the husband may be involved. It doesn't sound to me like these were just burglars. They were really trying to kill this woman, elsewise, wouldn't you think they'd take off with the boy swinging the baseball bat? Or, if they didn't want witnesses, why wouldn't they try to kill the boy, too?
Tracey Roberts had severe bruises from the attempts to strangle her, her husband said Saturday. She passed out twice but was able to regain consciousness and remove a pistol from a small bedside safe, he said.
This makes it sound like this struggle went on for some time, assuming that it's impossible to pass out twice in the space of a few seconds. It sounds to me like someone was definitely trying to kill her, and whoever the other guy is, he was either hired by someone else who wanted her dead, or he himself knew her personally and had some grudge against her. Maybe he wanted to sleep with her and she turned him down. I would definitely check out the finances of the husband and his computer business.
Something is definitely wrong with this picture. I hope the authorities check out the husband, the dead guy's history, and whoever the missing guy is (I have no doubt they'll catch him--small town like that).
"This makes it sound like this struggle went on for some time, assuming that it's impossible to pass out twice in the space of a few seconds." Tracey Roberts had severe bruises from the attempts to strangle her, her husband said Saturday. She passed out twice but was able to regain consciousness and remove a pistol from a small bedside safe, he said.
So, she passed out twice, regained consciousness AND managed to retrieve a gun from a gun safe, all while she was being strangled? What was the intruder doing while she was getting the gun from the gun safe? Was the boy beating him with the baseball bat long enough for her to free herself and get the gun from the gun safe?
BTW, I'm in no way suggesting that this woman didn't have every right to shoot any intruders, no matter how many of them there were. There's just a whole lot more to this story than meets the eye, I'm sure.
(she should have called chuck shoomuh)
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