AKRON, Ohio -- Donna Moonda did not testify at her murder trial, but her own words could still convict her.

Mrs. Moonda once made a point of telling her probation officer that she feared for her husband's safety. She said Dr. Gulam Moonda always carried large amounts of money, and she was afraid his habit would attract a robber.

She was either a psychic or a woman bent on murder. Jurors will decide that soon -- testimony in Mrs. Moonda's trial should conclude tomorrow, and closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday.

One day after Mrs. Moonda mentioned that her husband was courting danger, a thief stole Dr. Moonda's wallet and shot him to death on the Ohio Turnpike. Mrs. Moonda and her mother witnessed his murder.

Mrs. Moonda, of Mercer County, Pa., told members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol that her husband had carried a wallet filled with $3,000 or $4,000 -- all in $50 bills. She said he had displayed all that money when they stopped at a turnpike plaza for sandwiches, soup and bottled water.

Investigators with the highway patrol checked the surveillance video at the plaza. They found that Mrs. Moonda's story was not true.

The video shows Mrs. Moonda, now 48, carrying her husband's wallet in her purse. Dr. Moonda, 69, could barely be seen in the footage. A viewer can see his hand pick out an ice cream bar for purchase, but his wife had his wallet.

After telling the highway patrol that Dr. Moonda might have flashed a few thousand dollars at the turnpike plaza, Mrs. Moonda made a contradictory statement. She said she always carried her husband's wallet when they traveled.

Highway troopers highlighted most of this evidence during the early stages of Mrs. Moonda's trial. Last week federal prosecutors tried to tie it together by calling Mrs. Moonda's probation officer, Chris Sotter.

He testified that on May 12, 2005, Mrs. Moonda told him she felt "afraid for my husband's safety." Mr. Sotter made a note about her concerns.

The next day, Friday the 13th, the highway robber murdered Dr. Moonda in broad daylight. Mr. Sotter notified homicide investigators about his conversation with Mrs. Moonda, and of her odd forewarning about her husband tempting thieves with his bulging wallet.

Mr. Sotter supervised Mrs. Moonda when she received probation for stealing narcotics from UPMC Horizon, where she worked as a nurse anesthetist. He said she was tested for drugs more than 30 times while on probation, and was always clean.

But she violated another term of her probation. Soon after the murder, investigators discovered that Mrs. Moonda was having an affair with 25-year-old Damian Bradford, a drug dealer in Beaver County, Pa.

Police raided Mr. Bradford's apartment one week after the murder. They found 19 $50 bills in his safe and labeled him "a person of interest" in the robbery and shooting of Dr. Moonda.

Mr. Sotter said he ordered Mrs. Moonda to say away from Mr. Bradford. She did not.

First she spoke to him by phone from a Pennsylvania jail, where he served six months on a steroids charge. Mr. Bradford, who had an interest in bodybuilding, said Mrs. Moonda stole the steroids from her husband's medical office and gave them to him.

After his release, Mr. Bradford spent a few days with Mrs. Moonda around Christmas 2005. They were together in the Moondas' $550,000 house.

A grand jury later indicted Mr. Bradford for killing Dr. Moonda. He confessed to the crime last year, and said Mrs. Moonda hired him to kill her husband.

For her part, Mrs. Moonda first told investigators that the killer could not have been Mr. Bradford. Now her lawyers say she did not recognize Mr. Bradford because he could have covered his face with a knit cap.

Mrs. Moonda's mother, Dorothy Smouse, also witnessed the murder. Now 76 years old, she has not been at her daughter's trial since testimony began. Neither side has called her as a witness.

Prosecutors will bring in rebuttal witnesses tomorrow, but they will not comment on whether Mrs. Smouse will be one of them.

Donna Moonda told the highway patrol she could not tell if the killer was white or black. Her mother, though, initially told police the shooter was a black man. Mr. Bradford is African-American.

During his testimony, Mr. Bradford said Mrs. Moonda hired him to kill her husband so they could enrich themselves. He said he was to receive half of her multimillion-dollar inheritance.

If jurors convict Mrs. Moonda, her trial will move to a second stage. The jury then would decide whether her sentence should be life or death.

Mr. Bradford negotiated a plea bargain that calls for him to serve as little as 17¹/₂ years in prison.