Dangerous Liaisons

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(CBS)  It turned out that Sandee's murder was the culmination of a plan far more elaborate than anyone had imagined.

Detectives learned that weeks before Ashley borrowed the gun from her mom’s boyfriend, she had snuck into their home and stolen a rifle.

"She stole a Chinese SKS assault rifle," Andrews says. "A little girl or anyone can take a weapon like this and shoot pretty accurately with it, even as a novice shooter."

And with that rifle, Ashley began stalking Sandee, donning elaborate disguises.

"She painted her face to look dark skinned and had baggy clothes on and shoes too big for her feet," says Det. Andrews.

Then, one month before the murder, Ashley drove her blue VW Beetle to a parking lot outside the bar where Sandee worked.

"We know that she sat in the car for hours that day in a position where she could stake out Sandra Rozzo’s car. When the time came and Sandra left work, leaning out the window, looking through the scope right at Sandra, she pulled the trigger," says Andrews.

"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. And shortly thereafter, Ashley realized that she had shot her own driver’s side - or rather she had shot her own passenger mirror," says Andrews. "It’s actually a mistake that a lot of inexperienced snipers make, not realizing that the barrel is lower than the scope," he adds.

With a bullet hole in her car’s mirror, Ashley panicked. She tossed the rifle into a wooded area off the highway, took the car to an empty lot and set fire to it. Later, she reported it stolen. That’s when she borrowed her mother’s boyfriend’s gun.

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

Less than 48 hours after they got married, 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 Sandee again.

But once again, things went wrong. Det. Golczewski says Ashley fell asleep briefly, missing Sandee getting into her car.

She woke up just in time to see Sandee’s black BMW pulling out. Determined to get it over with, she followed Sandee 25 miles to her home and this time, there were no foul ups.

Tracey says the news of Sandee's murder shocked him. "It hit me hard, you know," he says.

And he was stunned when Ashley confessed to him. "I said 'Ashley, what did you do? You gotta tell me what you did, you gotta tell me what you did,'" Tracey recalls.

But police say he already knew exactly what Ashley did. "It was a close as you can get to a contract killing. The killing was intended to keep Tracey Humphrey out of prison," says Det. Andrews.

As police saw it, Tracey Humphrey planned to get rid of Sandee but he couldn’t commit the crime himself.

"He knew he was going to be the primary suspect. So his only alternative was to get somebody else to do the homicide for him," says Golczewski.

That somebody, according to police, was Tracey Humphrey’s young girlfriend, Ashley, whom he had conveniently married the day before the murder. And in the state of Florida, one spouse cannot be forced to testify against the other.

"So he now felt she couldn't be compelled to testify against him," says Golczewski.