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Speaker 2 Last night I was going through looking at pictures and stuff and I relived the whole life all over again.

Speaker 2 I could look at those pictures and tell you exactly what we were doing and what a happy little girl she was.

Speaker 2 Always had a smile on her face.

Speaker 2 She liked to work out.

Speaker 6 Part of her was having the nice body. When she was younger, she modeled a lot.

Speaker 6 My name is Tracy Havilichiek. I'm Sandra Razzo's sister.

Speaker 6 Her heart was bigger than the earth, always wanting to help somebody any way she ever could.

Speaker 6 I still think she's going to call. When the phone rings, I always hope it's her saying, ah, ha ha, I'm here.

Speaker 7 It was a hot, humid 4th of July weekend.

Speaker 7 This is the park place condominiums where the homicide occurred.

Speaker 7 Right there in that garage.

Speaker 7 I am Paul Andrews, Pinawals Park Police Department.

Speaker 7 Sandra drives into her complex in her black BMW and pulls into the garage. There is a smack on the window that scares her.
She turns and sees the shooter.

Speaker 7 Muzzle flashed, shards of glass flying everywhere. The shooter then proceeds to shoot eight rounds into the car and ultimately into our victim.

Speaker 7 It was an ambush murder. Somebody wanted her dead.
This wasn't a random act.

Speaker 7 Who does she know? Who could possibly want this done?

Speaker 2 I said, I know who did this.

Speaker 7 Pretty quickly, Tracy Humphrey's name came up as someone who would definitely have an interest in having her dead.

Speaker 6 There was just something about him from the minute that I even looked at him.

Speaker 4 That was very, very creepy.

Speaker 2 He threatened to kill her and all of the family.

Speaker 3 My name's Timothy Lee Humphrey. Everybody calls me Tracy.

Speaker 3 I'm charged with first-degree homicide.

Speaker 8 The minute I found out that that girl was dead, to me, in my heart, I felt like he did it.

Speaker 10 I knew that he had to have been involved.

Speaker 3 She was so fun and she was so beautiful.

Speaker 4 He repeatedly told her he was going to kill her.

Speaker 3 I am being charged for a crime that I did not commit.

Speaker 2 Who else would do this?

Speaker 7 Evidence led us in a way we did not expect.

Speaker 4 That was the shock of the century.

Speaker 7 He had an alibi. We know exactly where he was.
There's no way he shot her.

Speaker 11 Sandy Razzo will always be remembered as a vivacious young woman devoted to her big dreams and gorgeous body.

Speaker 2 She's been doing modeling off and on since she was in high school.

Speaker 11 Sandy's mom.

Speaker 2 She was into weightlifting, always caring about her body.

Speaker 11 And her younger sister, Tracy.

Speaker 6 If she could help anybody in any way, that's how she wanted people to remember her and be proud of her.

Speaker 2 She wanted to get into some movie starring. She had the body.
She had the face. She was perfect.

Speaker 11 Sandy spent her days looking for her next big modeling gig.

Speaker 11 By night, she tended bar at some of the hottest clubs in Tampa.

Speaker 4 She was just absolutely beautiful, just very vibrant, very full of life.

Speaker 11 Heather Ursini worked with Sandy.

Speaker 4 It was fun. Sandy was beautiful, so a lot of men would flaunt to her because of how beautiful she was.

Speaker 11 She was divorced with a teenage daughter, Giovanna, but her ex-husband had custody.

Speaker 4 Her daughter was her life.

Speaker 4 She hated the fact that Giovanna wasn't with her all the time.

Speaker 11 At 37 years old, Sandy had never given up on finding someone special to share her life with.

Speaker 12 She was just doing what most single girls do, trying to find Mr.

Speaker 14 Wright.

Speaker 11 Mitch Eubanks, Sandy's friend and hairstylist, was her confidant.

Speaker 12 We would always talk about, you know, guys, and I'd give her my guy advice.

Speaker 12 You know, I think she always just wanted that kind of like storybook thing and like, you know, the little picket fence in the house and the kids and everything.

Speaker 11 And then one day, into Sandy Razzo's life walked Mr. Wright, Tracy Humphrey, a six-foot-two, buffed-out muscle man who told everyone that he was a former underwear model and pro football player.

Speaker 3 I played some Simic Pro football. I did model for the in-house photographer for Armani.
I did a couple of shows.

Speaker 10 I kind of describe him as Mr. Clean with a goatee, which is what he kind of looked like.

Speaker 11 Kelly Terrell met Tracy at a gym. He had a reputation as a top personal trainer.
popular with his clients, especially his female clients.

Speaker 10 He was very very gentle and he was really good at what he did. A lot of girls thought he was really, really good looking.

Speaker 11 Sandy and Tracy met at a nightclub where they both worked. She at the bar, he at the door.

Speaker 8 Men definitely were intimidated by him.

Speaker 8 Women, all over him. Tracy, of course, if he saw a pretty woman walk in, he'd open that rope and there she goes.

Speaker 11 Tracy's close friend, Hector Adorno.

Speaker 8 A nice, charming, masculine, everything that every woman would want in a man. Knew exactly how to look at a woman and say, God, you're beautiful.

Speaker 10 He definitely had charisma and knew how to play the field.

Speaker 11 Sexy? Oh, yeah. Charismatic? Yes.

Speaker 10 He told me that he was supposed to be Vin Diesel's stunt double or something in some movie.

Speaker 11 Vin Diesel's stunt double?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 8 You know, he constantly bragged about who he was, what he's done in his lifetime, and that to a lot of people was interesting.

Speaker 10 Model in Italy for a while.

Speaker 11 Underwear model, wasn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 10 Underwear model.

Speaker 10 And was Tom Cruise's bodyguard for a while.

Speaker 11 But Tracy says Sandy knew nothing about his colorful resume. That actually he was attracted to her beauty.

Speaker 3 She caught my

Speaker 3 attention right away.

Speaker 3 She was so much fun to be around, not like most people.

Speaker 3 She was a great lady.

Speaker 11 How long did you date?

Speaker 3 Just like three or four months. But

Speaker 3 it was a real intense experience.

Speaker 8 His relationship with Sandy, from what I understand, was very physical as far as the bedroom is concerned.

Speaker 7 Sex.

Speaker 3 Yes, sex.

Speaker 8 He said that she liked violent sex, that she liked rough sex.

Speaker 11 At first, their relationship was passionate, says Tracy.

Speaker 11 But soon, they began arguing.

Speaker 11 Tracy says the trouble all started one wild night here in Tampa's party district, Ybor City. Allegedly, he and Sandy got caught by the cops, fooling around in his boss's Mercedes.

Speaker 3 Tampa police caught us. in the SUV

Speaker 3 and I was laughing. I thought it was funny.

Speaker 3 But they saw her naked, and that made her mad.

Speaker 11 That embarrassing incident led to another big argument. And Sandy and Tracy went home with other dates that night.

Speaker 3 Over the next week, I paraded around a couple other girls that I hooked up with in front of her and made her pretty mad.

Speaker 11 The relationship spiraled downhill from there.

Speaker 3 She started being cruel, making fun of me, ridiculing me.

Speaker 11 Just more gameplaying. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 I said that I thought we needed to take a break and really look at this and maybe spend some time apart.

Speaker 11 But unwilling to give up a good thing, a couple of days later, Tracy went home with Sandy again.

Speaker 3 We went back to her apartment.

Speaker 3 We did what we did most of the time. We had sex.

Speaker 3 She liked to be roughed up during sex.

Speaker 3 So we had what was normal between us.

Speaker 11 But a bruised and battered Sandy told friends and family a different story.

Speaker 4 Apparently, they started drinking. He got angry.
They got into an altercation of some sort. He tried to physically force himself on her.
He hit her. She had black eyes.

Speaker 11 Sandy also told Heather that Tracy had raped her. and threatened to kill her and her daughter.

Speaker 4 She wasn't really sure what to do because she was so distraught over the situation.

Speaker 11 But because Sandy was so afraid, she waited a week before going to the police to file charges. Were you surprised then when you were arrested?

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 11 Did you have any idea it was coming?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 11 Tracy insists he did nothing wrong.

Speaker 3 She threw a pillow at me and I

Speaker 3 swung it at her. It hit her in the side of the eye and it knocked her contact out.

Speaker 3 She fell face down on the bed.

Speaker 11 Was there any question in your mind that she had been raped and attacked?

Speaker 3 Beaten? Oh, no.

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 11 He beat her.

Speaker 6 He squeezed her head between his legs while he was straddling her and, you know, punching her face several times.

Speaker 14 He did beat her up. She did have a black eye.

Speaker 11 Detective Scott Golzewski.

Speaker 14 There were also allegations of sexual battery.

Speaker 11 But there was no DNA or medical evidence because Sandy had waited too long to report Tracy to police.

Speaker 11 Instead, he was charged with assault, which carried a 10-year prison sentence, a prospect that utterly terrified him.

Speaker 8 Tracy told me that before he went to jail, he'd commit suicide.

Speaker 11 And that, police say, is when someone hatched a diabolical plan to make Tracy Humphreys' problems disappear.

Speaker 7 I don't think she suspected that anybody was watching her then.

Speaker 11 A plot that would involve seduction, manipulation, and murder.

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Speaker 11 If Tracy Humphrey was worried about his upcoming assault trial, he certainly wasn't showing it.

Speaker 11 He was the player.

Speaker 9 He, you know, had a different girl. Seemed like every month he was dating somebody new.

Speaker 8 He wanted to go out and sleep with other women.

Speaker 11 And he was attracted to this sort of sexier, outgoing.

Speaker 11 Absolutely.

Speaker 8 He wanted them to look like that, sexy and always, you know, in high fashion.

Speaker 11 But in autumn of 2002, Tracy had his eye on a different kind of girl. A girl just out of high school.

Speaker 8 Ashley was a little scared girl. She was not a sexy girl.
She was not pretentious, stuck up.

Speaker 11 Ashley Laney was just 19.

Speaker 10 She was very fit, very bubbly, very vibrant, a little bitsy.

Speaker 4 She was very cute.

Speaker 9 She was just so boy crazy and she wanted someone to love her so bad.

Speaker 11 Charlie Williams is one of Ashley's best friends.

Speaker 9 I liked Ashley the first time I met her. We had a lot in common.
We used to go rollerblading together and we had the same taste in music.

Speaker 11 The girls worked together at a frozen yogurt shop across the street from the gym where Tracy Humphrey was head trainer.

Speaker 3 So I came in and I met her and I was kind of taken with her right away. She has that girl next door kind of a thing going.
She was nice. She was fun.
She was eager. She was very eager.

Speaker 8 Ashley wasn't a bartender. Ashley wasn't a topless dancer.
Flip-flops, jeans, and a regular t-shirt. As far as fashion, very simple girl.

Speaker 11 She was a bright girl, A's and B's in high school. But at home, Ashley led a troubled life.

Speaker 3 Her mom was horrible, and her family was terrible.

Speaker 3 Her dad spent pretty much his whole life in prison.

Speaker 11 And Ashley's friends say that background left her insecure, vulnerable. She aggressively looked for love.
And that played right into Tracy's hands.

Speaker 8 Tracy's really good about making sure he feeds your insecurities by making you feel better about them. If they felt ugly, he'd make them feel beautiful.

Speaker 11 In no time, Ashley and Tracy had moved in together.

Speaker 3 She was a blast. She'd do anything that she thought would make me happy.
And that's how our relationship grew. We got to be really good friends.

Speaker 11 I always got a bad vibe off of him. Ashley's best friend Charlie thought Tracy was a bad influence.

Speaker 9 I knew something was wrong because she wasn't normal Ashley, but he definitely took over her life. You could just tell that Ashley, there's something wrong with her.

Speaker 9 Like, she went into like almost zombie.

Speaker 11 Soon, Ashley was shedding her old friends.

Speaker 11 Taking on a new job with Tracy at the gym. And eventually, the couple started their own personal training business.
Did you fall in love with her?

Speaker 3 Oh yeah.

Speaker 11 But Charlie says Tracy was cheating on Ashley.

Speaker 9 I just knew there was something not right. I always started hearing, you know, about all the different girls he was with.

Speaker 11 And do the two of you talk about that?

Speaker 9 Yeah, but when you think you're in love, you're not going to listen to what anybody else has to say.

Speaker 11 In fact, more and more, the only person Ashley listened to was Tracy.

Speaker 11 By springtime, he confessed that he was potentially facing serious time in prison because of what he claimed was a bogus assault case involving his ex-girlfriend, Sandy Razzo.

Speaker 11 How did she feel about the case?

Speaker 3 I think she

Speaker 3 found a way to hate Sandy.

Speaker 11 Because Sandra was the one making the accusations.

Speaker 3 Right. Essentially, she would lose everything if she lost me.

Speaker 3 I told you she had a bad life. She struggled.
And now we were starting a business together. She was an equal partner.
If she lost me, she lost all that. She goes back to mom in the trailer park life.

Speaker 11 Then, just a month before Tracy's trial in the Sandy Razzo assault case, the couple surprised everyone and got married.

Speaker 8 I thought it was the craziest thing I had ever heard Tracy do.

Speaker 11 And whose idea was it to get married?

Speaker 3 That was mine.

Speaker 11 How did you propose?

Speaker 3 We had this running joke that as soon as I bought her boobs,

Speaker 3 that we'd get married.

Speaker 11 That's an interesting gift.

Speaker 11 That's a, you know, ring or, you know. Or boobs, yeah.

Speaker 17 Yeah. There you go.

Speaker 11 Tracy and Ashley got married at the gym. No minister, no rings, just a marriage license and some unusual wedding gifts.

Speaker 10 They got tattoos of each other's names in large letters on their back.

Speaker 11 There would be no romantic honeymoon to make up for the less than romantic impromptu wedding at the gym. A day after Tracy got married, the woman who had accused him of grape was murdered.

Speaker 11 Sandy Rosa was shot eight times at point-blank range while she sat defenseless in her car.

Speaker 3 I was overwrought.

Speaker 3 I shared time with Sandy, you know.

Speaker 3 I loved her.

Speaker 7 There was a significant amount of glass.

Speaker 11 Lead investigator Paul Andrews.

Speaker 7 Absolutely a tremendous amount of blood

Speaker 7 and multiple shell casings that she could see on the floor of the garage and just outside the garage.

Speaker 7 Somebody had it out for her. This wasn't a random act.

Speaker 11 With Sandy's death, the assault charges against Tracy were dropped. But his troubles were far from over.
He was now the prime suspect in her murder.

Speaker 2 He threatened from day one that if my daughter reported him or turned him in, that he would kill her and all of her family.

Speaker 11 Almost from the start, police were convinced that Tracy Humphrey was behind the murder of Sandy Razzo.

Speaker 11 The trouble was, at the time of the murder, he was at home eating pizza.

Speaker 14 We spoke to the pizza delivery man. We described Tracy Humphrey to him, and he remembered going there.

Speaker 11 Shortly after the murder, Detective Scott Golzewski went to the gym where Tracy worked. When Tracy refused to speak with him,

Speaker 11 Galzewski decided to stop by Tracy's apartment and talk with his new wife, Ashley.

Speaker 14 She was very nervous, very scared.

Speaker 14 She almost threw up twice when I was interviewing her.

Speaker 11 However, it wasn't long before Tracy showed up and the interview ended. What did you think when you walked out of that apartment?

Speaker 14 I said she's definitely involved. She definitely knows something.

Speaker 11 The trail to finding out just what Ashley knew began when Golzewski and his partner, Paul Andrews, got a tip from the fire department who had heard about the case.

Speaker 7 May 31st, her car was found on fire in Tampa.

Speaker 11 The fire department told the homicide detectives they had found Ashley's car in flames a month before the murder. Ashley had reported it stolen.

Speaker 11 Investigators suspected arson and turned over a background check they'd run on her to Andrews and Golzewski. who noticed some unusual purchases.

Speaker 7 She had purchased a couple of computer software programs that would enable her to look for somebody. One of them actually was a search that she paid for on her credit card for Sandra Razzo.

Speaker 11 Trying to track down where she lived? Yes. And any sort of background information she could get on her? Yes.

Speaker 11 Another break came when they spoke with the co-signer of Ashley's car loan, David Abernathy, her mother's boyfriend.

Speaker 14 As we were leaving, I just asked him if he has any firearms, and he said he used to.

Speaker 11 Abernathy told them he no longer had a gun because he had loaned it to Ashley.

Speaker 11 It was explosive evidence. The shell casings from Abernathy's gun, a Ruger 22 caliber, matched the type found in Sandy's garage.

Speaker 14 It did open up the investigation to we're looking at Ashley a lot harder.

Speaker 11 Ashley's cell phone records on the day of Sandy's murder sealed their case.

Speaker 14 The cell phone records were very damning.

Speaker 11 Cell phone towers picked up Ashley's calls in Sandy's neighborhood at the exact time of the murder.

Speaker 11 Now with a mountain of evidence against her,

Speaker 11 police arrested Ashley for the murder of Sandy Razzo. Do you understand what you're being arrested for?

Speaker 9 Um, they said the murder of a woman that I don't know.

Speaker 14 Okay. And I told her in the interview, there's no more going to the malls.
There's no more going to the gym working out. This is it for you.

Speaker 14 You'll have to enter to the charge of murder the first degree.

Speaker 3 Get my turn.

Speaker 3 What do you mean, get him?

Speaker 19 You mean bring him here.

Speaker 11 Her tough talk didn't last long. After three weeks behind bars, Ashley cracked.
She confessed to gunning down Sandy Razzo, telling police she did it because she was afraid of losing Tracy.

Speaker 14 She shot Sandra because,

Speaker 14 quote, she's telling lies that are going to put him into prison.

Speaker 11 It turned out that Sandy's murder was the culmination of a plan far more elaborate than anyone had imagined.

Speaker 11 The day that Sandra was killed, that was not the first attempt in her life.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 11 Detectives learned that weeks before Ashley borrowed the Ruger 22 from her mother's boyfriend, she had snuck into their home and stolen a rifle.

Speaker 18 Don't hot.

Speaker 7 She stole a Chinese SKS assault rifle, almost identical with this one. A little girl or anybody can take a weapon like this and shoot fairly accurately with it,

Speaker 7 even as a novice shooter.

Speaker 11 And with that rifle, Ashley began stalking Sandy Razzo, donning elaborate disguises.

Speaker 7 She painted her face up to look dark-skinned and had baggy clothes on and shoes too big for her feet.

Speaker 11 Then, one month before the murder,

Speaker 11 Ashley drove her blue VW Beetle to a parking lot outside the bar where Sandy worked.

Speaker 7 When Sandra left work, leaning out the window, looking through the scope right at Sandra, she pulled the trigger.

Speaker 7 Sandra ducked like she heard the shot, but apparently didn't realize it was a gunshot nor that it was anything aimed at her and got back in her car and left.

Speaker 7 Shortly thereafter, Ashley realized that she had shot her own driver's side or rather she had shot her own passenger mirror.

Speaker 7 It's actually a mistake that a lot of inexperienced snipers make not realizing that the barrel is lower than the scope.

Speaker 11 With a bullet hole in her car's mirror, Ashley panicked. She tossed the rifle into a wooded area off the highway.
She took the car to an empty lot and set fire to it.

Speaker 11 That's when she borrowed her mother's boyfriend's gun.

Speaker 11 Within six weeks of that failed attempt, there would be that wedding and another plot.

Speaker 11 Less than 48 hours after Tracy and Ashley were married at the gym, instead of relaxing on their honeymoon, Ashley was staked out in the parking lot of a bar with a gun in her hand, waiting for Sandy again.

Speaker 7 She was supposed to catch her in the parking lot and make it look like a robbery.

Speaker 11 But once again, things went wrong.

Speaker 14 As it turned out, she fell asleep briefly, right at the time Ms. Raza was getting to her car.

Speaker 11 Ashley woke up just in time to see Sandy's black BMW pulling out.

Speaker 11 Determined to get it over with, she followed Sandy 25 miles to her home. And this time,

Speaker 11 there were no follow-ups.

Speaker 11 Tracy says the news of Sandy's murder shocked him.

Speaker 3 It hit me hard, you know.

Speaker 11 And he was stunned when Ashley confessed to him.

Speaker 3 I said, Ashley, what did you do? You got to tell me what you you did. You got to tell me what you did.

Speaker 11 But police say Tracy already knew exactly what Ashley did.

Speaker 3 There's no way in my own mind that I can believe somebody like you

Speaker 3 would commit that type of crime unless someone

Speaker 3 was pushing, manipulating.

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Speaker 11 As police saw it, Tracy Humphrey planned to get rid of Sandy Razzo.

Speaker 11 But he couldn't commit the crime himself.

Speaker 14 So his only alternative was to get somebody else to do the homicide for him.

Speaker 11 That somebody, according to police, was Tracy's young girlfriend, Ashley, whom he had conveniently married the day before the murder.

Speaker 11 And in the state of Florida, one spouse cannot be forced to testify against the other.

Speaker 14 Now he felt she couldn't be compelled to testify against him.

Speaker 11 Because he told her, if we're married, you don't have to.

Speaker 18 Exactly.

Speaker 11 Detectives believed it was highly unlikely Ashley had come up with the murder plan on her own.

Speaker 11 Especially as they learned more about Tracy Humphrey's background

Speaker 11 and his double life.

Speaker 8 He was a very good friend to me. I was a very good friend to him.

Speaker 11 Just friends?

Speaker 8 Well, let's just say I don't go around kissing my friends.

Speaker 11 A life that was full of tall tales. Did you tell people that you played in the Rose Bowl?

Speaker 3 I told people that I went to the Rose Bowl with the University of Iowa.

Speaker 11 And did you? No.

Speaker 3 Who doesn't pad the resume a little bit?

Speaker 11 Turns out there was something else that Tracy had left off his resume. He was an ex-con, and he had done serious time, mostly for violent crimes against women.

Speaker 11 Just like the brutal beating Sandy Razzo had accused him of.

Speaker 11 It's Tracy. Police were now convinced that Tracy was the mastermind behind the murder.
Obviously, they've got something to bring me back in.

Speaker 11 But they needed more evidence.

Speaker 11 So they enlisted one of his clients, Toby White, to go undercover. So what am I supposed to say about it?

Speaker 3 Well, we've talked about it a million times.

Speaker 11 Here, with Ashley beside him, he's asking Toby to lie by telling police she saw Ashley with him at the time of the murder.

Speaker 17 They were just hanging out over my house.

Speaker 17 You know, refereeing an argument.

Speaker 11 Armed with that tape,

Speaker 11 Humphrey's wrap sheet,

Speaker 11 and those cell phone records, which revealed Ashley and Tracy had called each other 22 times the night Sandy died, police charged Humphrey with first-degree murder.

Speaker 3 Who's going to believe that I wasn't involved? What do I do? Where do I turn? What am I going to

Speaker 3 tell on this woman who says that she loved me so much that she couldn't lose me? I wasn't guilty of doing anything besides not telling on her.

Speaker 11 In February 2006, just before Tracy Humphrey's trial was set to begin, the prosecutors struck a deal with Ashley.

Speaker 11 If she would plead guilty and agree to testify against her husband, the state would recommend she be sentenced to just 25 years in prison instead of seeking the death penalty.

Speaker 11 You may call your next witness. The prosecution painted Tracy Humphrey as a man with a history of violence

Speaker 11 and wheeled out an ex-girlfriend.

Speaker 5 He also hit me and tried to choke me, held me hostage.

Speaker 11 And Toby White, who had gone undercover for police. During my my workout session that Saturday, he threatened to kill me if I was working with the police.
How are you giving this case to be the truth?

Speaker 11 The whole truth is not the case. But it was the testimony of this woman.

Speaker 14 Police have a seat in a witness chair.

Speaker 11 That Sandy's friends and family had anxiously awaited.

Speaker 14 Will you please state your full name?

Speaker 23 Ashley Christine Humphrey.

Speaker 3 How old are you?

Speaker 11 23. Ashley Humphrey, after more than two years in custody.

Speaker 12 This was you right before you went in custody?

Speaker 23 Yes.

Speaker 11 Was barely recognizable.

Speaker 11 She had gained more than 30 pounds and gone were the fresh-faced good looks of a girl who just a few years earlier had chased after boys with her best friend, Charlie Williams. She looks horrible.

Speaker 9 I hate to say it, but she was beautiful and she's

Speaker 9 not anymore.

Speaker 11 Ashley told the jury that she had gone out with plenty of guys, but had fallen head over heels in love with Tracy.

Speaker 23 I was very attracted to his body. He was about 220 pounds, very muscular.
He seemed older and more mature. I thought he had his eye together.

Speaker 11 But it wasn't long, she said, before he began to dominate and control her.

Speaker 23 I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without telling him. I wasn't allowed to have any friends.

Speaker 11 Possessiveness turned to pain and violence.

Speaker 23 We had fights often.

Speaker 11 Ashley said Tracy hit her.

Speaker 23 And he swung around and hit me in the face.

Speaker 11 And frequently threatened threatened to throw her out.

Speaker 23 And I was begging to stay with him.

Speaker 11 One night she says he knocked her unconscious. When she woke up, Ashley says she agreed to do the unthinkable.

Speaker 23 And I told him that

Speaker 23 if you let me stay with you,

Speaker 23 I'll kill Sandra for you.

Speaker 17 Did he accept that?

Speaker 23 Yes.

Speaker 11 Ashley told the jury that once she agreed to kill Sandy, it was Tracy who hatched the murder plan.

Speaker 23 He was the mastermind.

Speaker 11 It was his idea to get a gun.

Speaker 23 He wanted it to be a big gun.

Speaker 11 His idea for her to stalk Sandy.

Speaker 23 He wanted me to stalk her.

Speaker 11 His idea to use the disguise.

Speaker 23 He wanted me to paint my face black so I would look like a black man.

Speaker 11 And when that first attempt failed?

Speaker 23 He was furious and he said, if you still want to live with me, you still have to do this. Don't think this is a way out of it.

Speaker 11 Then, just a few weeks later, on the night of July 5th, 2003, instead of enjoying her honeymoon, Ashley set out to keep her husband from going back to prison.

Speaker 23 I timed it so that I would be behind her when she pulled out of the parking lot.

Speaker 23 And I got behind her and discovered she was driving in the direction of her home.

Speaker 11 As Sandy Razzo pulled into her garage, Ashley says Tracy was on the cell phone peppering her with questions.

Speaker 23 How many steps away was I? Could I run up to her and shoot her?

Speaker 11 At 11.15 p.m., Ashley became a cold-blooded killer.

Speaker 23 I went into the garage and I slammed with the butt of the gun on her window and she saw me and she started screaming

Speaker 23 And then I just shot her repeatedly till I

Speaker 23 thought she was dead.

Speaker 23 And

Speaker 23 I looked in her eyes and

Speaker 23 she was dead.

Speaker 11 Finally, Ashley says, there was one last conversation.

Speaker 23 I called him and I said, it's done.

Speaker 23 And he said, get rid of everything and call me when you're done.

Speaker 3 I think the question you all want to know is why.

Speaker 23 I loved him very much and I did not want to lose him.

Speaker 12 So you were willing to kill another human being because you loved him.

Speaker 23 Yes.

Speaker 12 Everything that happened here is Tracy's fault, right?

Speaker 23 No, I mean, I take complete responsibility for what I did, but

Speaker 23 I wouldn't never have done this if I hadn't even met him.

Speaker 11 But Ashley's husband

Speaker 11 insists he is innocent and says his wife is the true manipulator.

Speaker 3 Ashley's a lot smarter and

Speaker 3 a lot more cunning than anybody's given her credit for, even me.

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Speaker 14 Defense cost Timothy Humphrey.

Speaker 11 Facing the death penalty, Tracy Humphrey says the jury has only heard one side of the story, Ashley's.

Speaker 3 They say that I had all this control over her.

Speaker 3 I couldn't even get her to clean the house.

Speaker 11 He insists Sandy Razzo's murder was all Ashley's idea.

Speaker 13 Did you tell her you were afraid of returning to prison for 10 years on the charges Sandy Razzo had placed against you?

Speaker 3 I don't know if I said exactly that, but I said I'd rather die than go back to prison.

Speaker 11 And to keep him from going to prison, Tracy says it was Ashley who hatched the plan.

Speaker 3 The first thing that she said was,

Speaker 3 what if she doesn't come to court?

Speaker 3 And I said that

Speaker 3 I kind of hope that's what happens. And then

Speaker 3 she said, well, what if somebody kept her from coming to court?

Speaker 3 And that was the first time that I said to her, don't ever even joke like that. That's not funny.

Speaker 11 Humphrey claims all he ever wanted from Ashley was that she trying to dig up dirt on Sandy. Did you demand, tell, or ask Ashley to harm or murder, shoot, or do anything to Sandra Razzo?

Speaker 3 I asked her to do background research to help discredit her.

Speaker 3 That's it.

Speaker 11 So yes or no, did you ask her to kill Sandra Razzo? Absolutely not.

Speaker 11 Mindy also has an explanation for one of the most incriminating elements of the state's case. Those 22 cell phone calls he and Ashley exchanged in the hours leading up to and after the murder.

Speaker 3 We like to talk to each other. We were still in the stage of our relationship where

Speaker 3 you watch the phone like it's the TV.

Speaker 11 Humphrey said they spent most of those phone calls arguing about Ashley's jealousy over one of his female clients.

Speaker 13 Well, was there anything in your phone calls to suggest she was fixing to murder somebody, according to you?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 She was frantic. She was upset.

Speaker 11 In an effort to prove just how manipulative Humphrey could be, the prosecution presents letters he wrote to ex-lovers after his arrest.

Speaker 13 And in fact, hadn't you read another woman telling them you love them?

Speaker 3 I think I wrote, yeah.

Speaker 11 So you're declaring love love for one and saying, I dream of having children with you and moving to New York. And then I thought it was Conan Irvy that she asked you for $150 at the end of it.

Speaker 3 That was kind of the only reason I wrote it.

Speaker 11 That doesn't bode well for your credibility. I know.

Speaker 11 But Tracy still claims he is simply a victim of circumstance. You've been called a manipulator,

Speaker 11 a liar, someone who beats women, puppet master. I mean, are you basically just a good guy who got screwed by his young wife?

Speaker 3 A lot of wrong places at the wrong times.

Speaker 3 A lot of stupid decisions.

Speaker 11 He was

Speaker 12 the man pulling the strings.

Speaker 11 Hoping that Tracy Humphrey has finally run out of time, the prosecution takes one final shot at him during closing arguments.

Speaker 12 Timothy Humphrey had a firearm. And that firearm that he pointed at Sandra was Ashley Humphrey.

Speaker 13 And he pulled that trigger on Ashley Humphrey.

Speaker 12 And he fired eight times and took care of his problem.

Speaker 11 The jury deliberated just four hours.

Speaker 11 The jury has reached a verdict, yes, Your Honor.

Speaker 9 The defendant defendant is guilty of murder in the first degree.

Speaker 2 Who did he think he was? That he thought he could get away with this.

Speaker 2 Did he think he was so high and mighty that he could do something like this and get away with it?

Speaker 11 His sentence?

Speaker 11 Life in prison without parole.

Speaker 11 Feel like justice has been served?

Speaker 2 Yes, that's better. I think that's better than the death penalty

Speaker 2 because he's got to suffer every day and think every day what he did.

Speaker 11 Tracy's punishment aside, Sandy's mother says she has finally found some peace, knowing that her daughter's death has likely saved other women from Tracy Humphrey's deadly grip.

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