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This Sept. 21, 2011 photo shows the home of Tracey Roberts in Early, Iowa. In 2001, Roberts, now known as Tracey Richter, fired 9 shots from two guns into Dustin Wehde, a 20-year-old neighbor who died on the floor of her bedroom. A jury will be asked to d Ryan Foley, Associated Press
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This Sept. 22, 2011 photo shows the grave site for Dustin Wehde at a cemetery in Holstein, Iowa. Seen through the middle of the heart ornamentation at right is the gravestone of his father, Brett, who committed suicide at that spot the year after his son' Ryan Foley, Associated Press
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2011 photo, Tracey Richter Roberts confers with Karmen Anderson, one of her attorneys, during a motions hearing in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The trial begins Tuesday for the Iowa mother charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 2 Ryan Foley, File, Associated Press
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This Sept. 21, 2011 photo shows downtown Early, Iowa. On Dec. 13, 2001, Tracey Roberts fired 9 shots from two guns into Dustin Wehde, a 20-year-old neighbor who died on the floor of her bedroom in this tiny farming town. Ryan Foley, Associated Press
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This photo released July 27, 2011, by the Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Tracey Ann Richter-Roberts. In 2001, Roberts fired nine shots from two guns into Dustin Wehde, a 20-year-old neighbor who died on the floor of her bedroom. A jury will be ask Iowa Department of Public Safety, Associated Press
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FORT DODGE, Iowa — A jury has been seated for the first-degree murder trial of a woman charged with killing a 20-year-old neighbor in rural Iowa as part of an alleged plot to frame her first husband.

A jury of six men and six women was selected Tuesday after attorneys for Tracey Richter and the prosecution spent hours questioning potential jurors.

Richter's defense attorney, Scott Bandstra, told them his client did kill Dustin Wehde on Dec. 13, 2001, but it was self-defense. He asked them about their views on using guns for protection.

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Richter claims she shot Wehde after he and another man broke into her home and assaulted her. But prosecutors say she killed Wehde and planted a notebook in his car in an apparent attempt to implicate her first husband in a murder-for-hire-plot.

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