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It is still Valentine’s Week so let’s consider the extremes to which people will go for love. Beautifully Cruel<\/em><\/a> is mostly a story about Tracey Richter-Roberts<\/a> and the lengths to which she was willing to go for cash and personal sexual fulfillment, but buried within is an interesting story about what others are willing to do for love and\/or sex.<\/p>\n

Context: Ms. Richter-Roberts sued her first husband and accused him of sexually abusing their toddler son in order to secure custody and child support cash. The second marriage, to an Australian, proceeds in a similar fashion:<\/p>\n

Not a year into the marriage, Michael said later, Tracey was screwing around on him, having repeated affairs. This, mind you, fit into her MO; she had done the same to John Pitman. The marriage, almost from the first few months of Michael being in the States, was in shambles.<\/p>\n

\u201cTracey went back to their home [from the office],\u201d Ben [the local prosecutor] continued, \u201ctook a bubble bath and, an hour after the [fight with the husband], called the cops on Michael. When the cops got there, Tracey told her fictitious version of events and then had Bert make a statement that he, Bert, had been abused by his [step]father, Michael.\u201d Michael spent the night in jail. Because of Bert\u2019s allegations, Child Protective Services (CPS) conducted an investigation, which Tracey wasn\u2019t expecting. This addition to the truth, if you will, wound up being the beginning of a situation Tracey would soon find herself in with no way out. CPS reports are, by law, given to the biological parents. So John Pitman, Tracey\u2019s ex, received a notice that Michael had abused Bert (which was untrue). When she realized what she had done, \u201cTracey had Bert lie [again] and tell Child Protective Services he wasn\u2019t referring to Michael when he said his father hit him, but rather his biological father, Dr. Pitman,\u201d Ben Smith added. Thus, Pitman received a notice of the allegation of abuse against Bert by Michael\u2014but also that he, too, was once again the target of a child abuse investigation. This after Pitman had fought and proved false two sexual abuse claims already by Tracey. This became, in effect, the catalyst that sparked Pitman\u2019s filing for a change in custody in late 2000\u2014a filing on Pitman\u2019s behalf, Ben Smith went on to claim, that facilitated Tracey\u2019s new plan to now make sure that Pitman lost this new child custody case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story that that a guy in Virginia had abused a boy in Iowa ends up having some legs and Ms.\u00a0Richter-Roberts wasn’t able to stop all of the gears from turning:<\/p>\n

Tracey\u2019s attempts to portray Pitman as sexually abusing Bert had failed. Every single exam, every single accusation she had ever made against John Pitman over the years\u2014thus subjecting Bert to several colonoscopy-like exams for sexual abuse\u2014had been proven to be nothing more than unfounded nonsense, trumped up by a woman hell-bent on destroying a man and his reputation so she could keep the cash flowing. None of it worked. Tracey had made it all up, according to the state and several investigations into the alleged abuse. The court was going to side with Pitman and his new motion to gain custody of Bert.<\/p>\n

Thus, the obvious solution to all of Tracey\u2019s problems\u2014potentially losing custody of Bert and all of that money associated with custody, at a time when her husband\u2019s computer company was hemorrhaging money they did not have\u2014was written in a narrative by a local special-needs kid. If Dr. Pitman was arrested and charged with conspiracy, Tracey\u2019s life\u2014that is, as she saw it\u2014would turn around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She persuaded a 20-year-old neighbor, Dustin Wehde, to come over to her house, write a diary in a pink(!) notebook talking about how he had been hired by the first husband to kill the man’s son, and then shot the kid 9 times, purportedly in self-defense. The diary was conveniently left in the kid’s car, which he parked in the driveway during what was supposedly a home invasion (the second husband was away on a business trip). Despite all of the inconsistencies and absurdities in the heavily armed woman’s story about how she happened to kill an unarmed young man, it took the authorities 10 years before they arrested her and put her on trial.<\/p>\n

Here’s the love story part of the book:<\/p>\n

Thirty-year-old<\/strong> John Pitman, in his fourth year of medical school, was working a rotation at the hospital one night as a medical student, when he crossed paths with a woman claiming to be a radiographer, who caught his eye. She was simply breathtaking then: long, dark, thick mane of hair, all teased up into a 1980s metal-band do. She wore loose-fitting hospital scrubs and smelled of the sweetest perfume. She smiled and seemed nice. \u201cTracey . . . Tracey Richter,\u201d she said. Tracey was twenty years old<\/strong>; John Pitman nearly ten years her senior. With her perfectly sculpted body and full face, high cheekbones and plump lips some women pay lots of money for, it was clear to John, like many men Tracey had come in contact with, that she could have chosen any guy she wanted.<\/p>\n

Later, John would assess the dating portion of their relationship and find that Tracey had represented a picture and persona of a woman who\u2019d had a tough life at home, didn\u2019t get along with her father, and seemed to yearn for the sympathy that narrative would get her.<\/p>\n

When they got back [from skiing in Vail], John and his roommate were in the kitchen talking about the incident earlier. The roommate was saying if Tracey, like everyone else, had taken skiing lessons, then the entire situation could have been avoided. But Tracey had refused to take the lessons. Tracey must have been eavesdropping, because she came storming into the kitchen at that point. She had heard what the roommate said and was clearly pissed. She got right into the roommate\u2019s face. A vile, angry look washed over her. \u201cIt was wrong of you to expect us to wait for you,\u201d the roommate said. \u201cYou are acting like a crybaby!\u201d Tracey became enraged and charged the man, sticking him in the face with her right hand, and then striking him \u201cfairly hard . . . sending\u201d his glasses \u201cflying across the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

John finished medical school in June 1987. The University of Colorado was up next. \u201cI\u2019m going back to Chicago, John,\u201d Tracey said one night before they were scheduled to leave. She\u2019d made up her mind. \u201cI\u2019ll decide while in Chicago whether I\u2019m coming out to Denver or not.\u201d What could he do? They packed and left for Chicago. John told Tracey he would drop her off and head to Denver. If she wanted to come out, great; if not, was there anything he could do to change her mind? It seemed as though they had been through so much. Tracey was a lot to deal with. Very needy. Very sensitive. Very dramatic. Tracey had always wanted dogs, as did John. They both wanted a home. As they were driving out to Chicago, John indicated he had something to say. He wanted to give the relationship one more shot. \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d Tracey accepted.<\/p>\n

In early 1991, Tracey had spent thousands of the family\u2019s dollars on breast implants. It was April 1992 and Tracey was showing off her new breasts to a friend and the Pitmans\u2019 new babysitter, Monica (pseudonym).<\/p>\n

Tracey had been working at a medical facility and \u201cbegan an affair with a man\u201d who worked there. She blamed him, claiming he was obsessed with her and one day cornered her in a dark room and forced himself on her. She loved the attention, at first, she later admitted. It was something she was not getting, according to her, at home. So she \u201chad intercourse with him\u201d two times and then \u201ccalled it quits,\u201d leaving her job. At home, to John, it was a different story. \u201cI\u2019m being sexually harassed,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0[#MeToo<\/strong>] she told him. Tracey said the guy was someone closely connected to the owners of the company. \u201cHe is possibly even following me. He asked me out one day and I refused. Since I said no, the company has been complaining about my job performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monica found an issue with Tracey\u2019s mothering skills. \u201cBert was often dirty and\/or inappropriately dressed,\u201d Monica reported later. Because of this and several other things Monica uncovered about Tracey, their relationship deteriorated. The one major problem Monica had was that Tracey got involved with several \u201cshady characters\u201d she had met at the strip clubs, both male and female strippers who used drugs \u201cand possibly engaged in other illegal activities.\u201d Tracey seemed to be drawn to people like this.<\/p>\n

Beyond those incidents, there were all the men, Monica said, claiming Tracey was not only having an affair with a guy she worked with, but a male dancer and another man\u2014all at the same time. \u201cShe even sold one of their dogs and told John that it had been run over by a car,\u201d Monica told authorities.<\/p>\n

When Tracey found out Monica was onto her, she spun it and claimed Monica couldn\u2019t be trusted because she was having an affair with John at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish you were dead,\u201d Tracey said one night to John during a fight. \u201cI wish that you had gone to Desert Storm [the husband was in a military program] and died.\u201d She slapped him across the face.<\/p>\n

TRACEY GOT A NEW JOB and worked part-time during the day. John felt a bit less stressed; however, he worried what she was going to do next. Then the behavior started all over again. He never saw any of the money Tracey earned, nor had he any idea what she did with it.<\/p>\n

Then she fell in with a new group of people\u2014and with that came another affair. John suspected this when, with Tracey working what was only about twenty hours a week, she was never at home. She was always out, gone, always hiring a babysitter. … When he did run into Tracey at home or talked to her on the phone, John would ask where she was going. \u201cWork,\u201d Tracey would say. But she was dressed like a $500-an-hour hooker\u2014dolled up in tight, short skirts, wads of makeup lathered on her face, skintight blouses showing off her large breast implants.<\/p>\n

Tracey was sleeping with a man\u2014maybe even two or three\u2014fairly regularly by this point, even buying him gifts. Skis. Weekend getaways. All on John\u2019s credit cards, mind you. When John questioned the charges, Tracey gave her husband the guy\u2019s name and said he must have stolen the numbers from her pocketbook at work. John called the credit card company, which then tracked the man down. Of course, he said Tracey had bought the items for him. He told the credit card company he and Tracey had been dating for four months.<\/p>\n

By March 1992, after John suffered a nasty back injury while sledding with Tracey and Bert, having been in a back brace for three months, the marriage, hanging on by a thread as it was, deteriorated into dust. At this point, Tracey did not even hide what she was doing anymore. She did whatever she wanted, went out whenever she wanted, slept with whomever she wanted, spent whatever amount of money she needed. Each job Tracey took on always turned into a drama and ended with her leaving or being fired \u201con a note of controversy,\u201d John later said in a report.<\/p>\n

By early summer 1992, Tracey agreed to move to Chicago so John could begin a plastic surgery fellowship at Northwestern University. Perhaps this was the final chance for their marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then John thought about something else: before leaving for Toronto [for a medical conference], Tracey had demanded he \u201cup [his] life insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n

John decided to call the private investigator his parents had used to look into the credit card theft in Vail. … \u201cI\u2019m concerned for your safety, Mr. Pitman,\u201d the PI said. John was now scared. \u201cI think I should put her under surveillance,\u201d the PI suggested. \u201cOkay,\u201d John agreed. Within two days the investigator came back with some news. Tracey had spent two nights in one guy\u2019s apartment, a \u201cbodybuilder type.\u201d She had spent the entire time with the man.<\/p>\n

While in Chicago, John had his private investigator continue surveillance and report back. Tracey moved around a lot, always seemingly involved in something reprehensible. A lot of the men she interacted with during her day \u201cappeared to be bodybuilders.\u201d One of her favorite dresses to wear out at night was a \u201ctight black evening dress, long black gloves, [with] high heel pumps.\u201d On several occasions, the PI followed Tracey into adult bookstores, where she\u2019d spend time buying sex toys and condoms and oils and then head off to a motel, where a man would soon meet her. She\u2019d spend a few hours inside and the man would leave. A while later, another man would arrive and enter the same motel room, spend several hours and leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cTracey had stolen one of Dr. Pitman\u2019s prescription pads,\u201d Ben Smith added. \u201cThat\u2019s how she was able to obtain the steroids.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here’s a guy who was smart enough to be a plastic surgeon, rational enough to get the U.S. military to pay for his medical training, capable enough to serve as an officer in the U.S. military, etc. Yet he couldn’t resist marrying a woman whom he knew to be violent and tried to hold onto the woman as a wife despite knowing about her multiple affairs, incompetence\/neglectfulness as a mother, involvement with criminal activities, etc.<\/p>\n

I’m not in love with the way that the book chops up the timeline or the way in which the author TELLs readers that this woman has lied when the facts easily SHOW the lie. And that one person would be willing to lie in order to get what she wanted isn’t surprising. But the book is fascinating when you think about people on the other side of the “trade” as Wall Streeters would say. Why were so many people, especially men, buying what this woman was selling? After, literally, a life of crime, here’s the scene at her murder trial:<\/p>\n

Tracey was now engaged to a man who sat in the courtroom every day. She \u201cblew kisses at him\u201d and signed the words \u201cI love you,\u201d a courtroom source recalled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wouldn’t it be interesting to interview that man and ask him, in a country of 327 million souls, why would he choose to be engaged to an accused murderess who had already been convicted of a variety of lesser crimes?<\/p>\n

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