DRUG DEALERS SAY THEY SOLD WENDELSDORF DRUGS

Since they met in 1994 or 1995, Heidi Watkins and Jesse Wendelsdorf bought
and sold drugs together.

The activity intensified after Wendelsdorf moved into her Spirit Lake,
Iowa, home in 1999, Watkins testified Tuesday.

"After he moved in, sometimes I would get the meth, sometimes he would, and
we'd get marijuana and sell it," Watkins said in U.S. District Court in
Sioux City.

Other methamphetamine dealers testified Tuesday morning that they had sold
the drug in the late 1990s to Wendelsdorf, 31, who now lives in Sioux
County and is facing three federal charges related to selling methamphetamine.

"A couple times we went to Heidi's place and Jesse was there and we sold
them some (meth)," said Donna Peterson, 45, who awaits sentencing on
federal drug charges and testified against Wendelsdorf as part of her plea
agreement.

Joel Laubenthal, 36, said he, too, sold Watkins and Wendelsdorf
methamphetamine at their house. Laubenthal, who's serving a 150-month
federal sentence for making and selling meth, said Wendelsdorf never helped
him make the drug.

"He's never cooked (meth) with me. I don't know whether he was or not. I
didn't see him sell any," Laubenthal said under questioning from
Wendelsdorf's attorney, Robert Lengeling of Sioux City

Lengeling challenged the motivation for Laubenthal and Peterson to testify.
Both could have their sentences reduced in exchange for their testimony.
Both also agreed to take lie detector tests beforehand, suggesting the
government didn't trust them to tell the truth, Lengeling said.

But Watkins, 34, said Wendelsdorf did sell meth to others. She gave the
names of several people who were regular customers.

"They'd come in and tell us what they wanted," Watkins said.

Wendelsdorf and Laubenthal once performed part of the meth-making procedure
in her house, Watkins said. She testified that she came home from the store
once and found them in the bedroom with several coffee filters of wet
methamphetamine.

"They were waiting for it to dry. I told them to take it downstairs," said
Watkins, currently serving a 50-year prison sentence for multiple acts of
child endangerment, a charge resulting from the January 2000 death of her
2-year-old daughter, Shelby Duis. Wendelsdorf was charged with and later
acquitted of murder in the child's death.