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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
By Associated Press

FORT DODGE, Iowa — An Iowa prosecutor says a woman forced a 20-year-old neighbor to write a diary framing her ex-husband in a murder-for-hire scheme and then killed him because she didn't think he could keep his role a secret.

Prosecutor Douglas Hammerand told jurors Tuesday that Tracey Richter invited Dustin Wehde to her home on Dec. 13, 2001 and forced him to create a diary claiming he had been hired by her first husband to kill her and her 11-year-old son.

Hammerand says the writing was interrupted when a friend stopped over, and Richter snuck Wehde out the door. But then she invited him back later that night and shot him nine times because she worried that he would tell people she had him write in the pink spiral notebook.

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