Dangerous Liaisons

How Far Would You Go For Love?

(CBS)  Ashley told the jury that once she agreed to kill Sandee, it was Tracey Humphrey who hatched the murder plan, that it was his idea to get a gun, his idea for her to stalk Sandee, and his idea to use the disguise.

And when that first attempt failed, Ashley testified Tracey Humphrey was furious. "He said if you still want to live with me, you still have to do this. Don’t think this is a way out it."

Then, just a few weeks later on the night of July 5th, 2005, instead of enjoying her honeymoon, Ashley set out to keep her husband from going back to prison.

“I timed her coming out of the parking lot, I began following her car. It looked like she was heading home," Ashley testified.

As Sandee pulled into her garage, Ashley says Tracey Humphrey was on the cell phone peppering her with questions, asking how far away she was from the garage and whether she could run up and shoot her.

At 11:22 p.m., Ashley became a cold blooded killer. "I went to the garage and I slammed the butt of the gun on her window and she saw me and started screaming and, then I just shot her repeatedly until I thought she was dead. Then I looked in her eyes and she was dead," Ashley testified.

Finally, Ashley says here was one last conversation with Tracey Humphrey. "I called him and I said, 'It’s done.' And he just said, 'Get rid of everything and call me when you’re done.'"

Asked by Tracey Humphrey's defense attorney why she murdered Sandee, Ashley said, "Because I loved him."

"Everything that happened here is Tracey’s fault, right?" the attorney asked.

"No, I take complete responsibility for everything, but I never would have done that if I hadn’t met him," she replied.

But Ashley’s husband Tracey Humphrey insists he’s innocent and says his wife is the true manipulator. "Ashley’s a lot smarter and a lot more cunning than anybody’s given her credit for, even me," he testified.

"They say that I had control of her, that I had all this control of her. I couldn’t even get her to clean the house," he testified.

Tracey Humphrey insists Sandee’s murder was all Ashley’s idea.

Asked by the prosecution if he had told Ashley that he was afraid of returning to prison, Tracey Humphrey testified, "I don’t know if I said exactly that. But, I said I’d rather die than go to prison."

And to keep him from going back to prison, Tracey Humphrey says Ashley hatched the plan. "The first thing she said was 'What if she doesn’t come to court?' And I said 'I kind of hope that’s what happens,'" he testified. "And then she said, 'What if somebody kept her from coming to court?' That was the first time I said to her, 'Don’t ever even joke like that. That’s not funny.'"

Tracey Humphrey claims all he ever wanted from Ashley was that she try to dig up dirt on Sandee.