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And I relived the whole life all over again. I could look at those pictures and tell you exactly what we were doing and what a happy little girl she was. I always had a smile on her face. She liked to work out. Part of her was having the nice body. When she was younger, she modeled a lot. My name is Tracy Havlicek. I'm Sandra Razo's sister.

Her heart was bigger than the earth, always wanting to help somebody any way she ever could. I still think she's going to call. When the phone rings, I always hope it's her saying, "Ah, haha, I'm here." It was a hot, humid 4th of July weekend. This is the Park Place condominiums where the homicide occurred, right there in that garage. I am Paul Andrews, Pinellas Park Police Department.

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. Muzzle flash, shards of glass flying everywhere. The shooter then proceeds to shoot eight rounds into the car and ultimately into our victim. It was an ambush murder. Somebody wanted her dead. This wasn't a random act.

Who does she know? Who could possibly want this done? I said, "I know who did this." Pretty quickly, Tracey Humphrey's name came up as someone who would definitely have an interest in having her dead. There was just something about him from the minute that I even looked at him. That was very, very creepy. He threatened to kill her and all of the family. My name's Timothy Lee Humphrey. Everybody calls me Tracey.

I'm charged with first degree homicide. The minute I found out that that girl was dead, to me, in my heart, I felt like he did it. I knew that he had to have been involved. She was so fun and she was so beautiful. He repeatedly told her he was going to kill her. I am being charged for a crime that I did not commit. Who else would do this? The evidence led us in a way we did not expect. That was the shock of the century. He had an alibi. We know exactly where he was.

There's no way he shot her. Sandy Rosso will always be remembered as a vivacious young woman devoted to her big dreams and gorgeous body. She's been doing middling off and on since she was in high school.

Sandy's mom. She was into weightlifting, always caring about her body. And her younger sister, Tracy. If she could help anybody in any way, that's how she wanted people to remember her and be proud of her. She wanted to get into some movie starring. She had the body. She had the face. She was perfect. Sandy spent her days looking for her next big modeling gig.

By night, she tended bar at some of the hottest clubs in Tampa. She was just absolutely beautiful. Just very vibrant, very full of life. Heather Ursini worked with Sandy. It was fun. Sandy was beautiful, so a lot of men would flaunt to her because of how beautiful she was. She was divorced with a teenage daughter, Giovanna, but her ex-husband had custody. Our daughter was her life.

She hated the fact that Giovanna wasn't with her all the time. At 37 years old, Sandy had never given up on finding someone special to share her life with. She was just doing what most single girls do, trying to find Mr. Right. Mitch Eubanks, Sandy's friend and hairstylist, was her confidant.

We would always talk about, you know, guys. I'd give her my guy advice. 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. And then one day, into Sandy Razo's life, walked Mr. Right, Tracy Humphrey, a 6'2", buffed-out muscle man who told everyone that he was a former underwear model and pro football player. I played some semi-pro football.

I did model for the in-house photographer for Armani. I did a couple of shows. I kind of describe him as Mr. Clean with a goatee, which is what he kind of looked like. Kelly Terrell met Tracy at a gym. He had a reputation as a top personal trainer, popular with his clients, especially his female clients. He was very gentle and he was really good at what he did. A lot of girls thought he was really, really good looking.

Sandy and Tracy met at a nightclub where they both worked. She at the bar, he at the door. Men definitely were intimidated by him.

Women all over him. Tracy, of course, if he saw a pretty woman walk in, he'd open that rope and there she goes. Tracy's close friend, Hector Adorno. Nice, charming, masculine, everything that every woman would want in a man. He knew exactly how to look at a woman and say, "God, you're beautiful." He definitely had charisma and knew how to play the field. Sexy? Oh, yeah. Charismatic? Yes.

He told me that he was supposed to be Vin Diesel's stunt double or something in some movie. Vin Diesel's stunt double? Yeah. He constantly bragged about who he was, what he's done in his lifetime, and that to a lot of people was interesting. Model in Italy for a while. Underwear model, wasn't it? Yeah, underwear model. And was Tom Cruise's bodyguard for a while.

But Tracy says Sandy knew nothing about his colorful resume. But actually, he was attracted to her beauty. She caught my attention right away. She was so much fun to be around, not like most people. She was a great lady. How long did you date? Just like three or four months. But it was a real intense experience.

His relationship with Sandy, from what I understand, was very physical as far as the bedroom is concerned. Sex? Yes, sex. He said that she liked violent sex, that she liked rough sex. At first, their relationship was passionate, says Tracy. But soon, they began arguing. 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. Tampa police caught us in the SUV, and I was laughing. I thought it was funny. But they saw her naked, and that made her mad. That embarrassing incident led to another big argument. Sandy and Tracy went home with other dates that night.

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. The relationship spiraled downhill from there. She started being cruel, making fun of me, ridiculing me. Just more game playing. Yeah, exactly. I said that I thought we needed to take a break and really look at this and maybe spend some time apart.

But unwilling to give up a good thing, a couple of days later, Tracy went home with Sandy again. We went back to her apartment. We did what we did most of the time. We had sex. She liked to be roughed up during sex. So we had what was normal between us. But a bruised and battered Sandy told friends and family a different story. 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. Sandy also told Heather that Tracy had raped her and threatened to kill her and her daughter. She wasn't really sure what to do because she was so distraught over the situation. 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? Absolutely. Did you have any idea it was coming? No.

Tracy insists he did nothing wrong. She threw a pillow at me and I swung it at her. It hit her in the side of the eye and it knocked her contact out. She fell face down on the bed. Was there any question in your mind that she had been raped and attacked, beaten? No. He beat her. He squeezed her head between his legs while he was straddling her and punching her face several times.

He did beat her up. She did have a black eye. Detective Scott Gosiewski. There was also allegations of sexual battery. But there was no DNA or medical evidence because Sandy had waited too long to report Tracy to police.

Instead, he was charged with assault, which carried a 10-year prison sentence, a prospect that utterly terrified him. Tracy told me that before he went to jail, he'd commit suicide. And that, police say, is when someone hatched a diabolical plan to make Tracy Humphrey's problems disappear. I don't think she suspected that anybody was watching her then.

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

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If Tracy Humphrey was worried about his upcoming assault trial, he certainly wasn't showing it. He was a player. He, you know, had a different girl. It seemed like every month he was dating somebody new. He wanted to go out and sleep with other women. And he was attracted to the sort of sexier, outgoing... Absolutely. He wanted them to look like that, sexy, and always, you know, in high fashion. ♪♪

But in autumn of 2002, Tracy had his eye on a different kind of girl. A girl just out of high school. Ashley was a little scared girl. She was not a sexy girl. She was not pretentious, stuck up. Ashley Laney was just 19. She was very fit, very bubbly, very vibrant, a little ditzy. She was very cute.

She was just so boy crazy and she wanted someone to love her so bad. Charlie Williams is one of Ashley's best friends. 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. The girls worked together at a frozen yogurt shop across the street from the gym where Tracy Humphrey was head trainer. 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. 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.

She was a bright girl, A's and B's in high school. But at home, Ashley led a troubled life. Her mom was horrible and her family was terrible. Her dad spent pretty much his whole life in prison. And Ashley's friends say that background left her insecure, vulnerable,

She aggressively looked for love. And that played right into Tracy's hands. 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. In no time, Ashley and Tracy had moved in together. 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. I always got a bad vibe off of him.

Ashley's best friend Charlie thought Tracy was a bad influence. 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. Like she went into like almost zombie. Soon, Ashley was shedding her old friends, 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? Oh, yeah.

But Charlie says Tracy was cheating on Ashley. I just knew there was something not right. I always started hearing, you know, about all the different girls he was with. And did the two of you talk about that? Yeah, but when you think you're in love, you're not going to listen to what anybody else has to say.

In fact, more and more, the only person Ashley listened to was Tracy. 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 Razo. How did she feel about the case? I think she found a way to hate Sandy. Because Sandra was the one making the accusations? Right. Essentially, she would lose everything if she lost me.

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 and the trailer park life. Then, just a month before Tracy's trial in the Sandy Razo assault case, the couple surprised everyone and got married. I thought it was the craziest thing I had ever heard Tracy do. And whose idea was it to get married? That was mine.

How did you propose? We had this running joke that as soon as I bought her boobs, that we'd get married. That's an interesting gift. You know, ring or, you know. Or boobs, yeah. Yeah, there you go. There you go.

Tracy and Ashley got married at the gym. No minister, no rings. Just a marriage license and some unusual wedding gifts. They got tattoos of each other's names and large letters on their back.

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 rape was murdered. Sandy Rosa was shot eight times at point blank range while she sat defenseless in her car. I was overwrought. I shared time with Sandy. I loved her. There was a significant amount of glass.

Lead investigator Paul Andrews. I absolutely had a tremendous amount of blood and multiple shell casings that you could see on the floor of the garage and just outside the garage. Somebody had it out for her. This wasn't a random act. 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. 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. Almost from the start, police were convinced that Tracy Humphrey was behind the murder of Sandy Razzo. The trouble was, at the time of the murder,

He was at home eating pizza. We spoke to the pizza delivery man. We described Tracy Humphrey to him and he remembered going there. Shortly after the murder, Detective Scott Golczewski went to the gym where Tracy worked. When Tracy refused to speak with him, Golczewski decided to stop by Tracy's apartment and talk with his new wife, Ashley.

She was very nervous, very scared. She almost threw up twice when I was interviewing her. However, it wasn't long before Tracy showed up.

and the interview ended. What did you think when you walked out of that apartment? I said she's definitely involved, she definitely knows something. The trail to finding out just what Ashley knew began when Golczewski and his partner, Paul Andrews, got a tip from the fire department who had heard about the case.

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

Investigators suspected Orson and turned over a background check they'd run on her to Andrews and Golczewski, who noticed some unusual purchases. 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 Raza. Trying to track down where she lived? Yes. And any sort of background information she could get on her? Yes.

Another break came when they spoke with the co-signer of Ashley's car loan, David Abernathy, her mother's boyfriend. As we were leaving, I just asked him if he has any firearms, and he said he used to. Abernathy told them he no longer had a gun because he had loaned it to Ashley.

It was explosive evidence. The shell casings from Abernathy's gun, a Ruger 22 caliber, matched the type found in Sandy's garage. It did open up the investigation to we're looking at Ashley a lot harder. Ashley's cell phone records on the day of Sandy's murder sealed their case.

The cell phone records were very damning. Cell phone towers picked up Ashley's calls in Sandy's neighborhood at the exact time of the murder. Now with a mountain of evidence against her,

Police arrested Ashley for the murder of Sandy Razo. Do you understand what you're being arrested for? Um, they said the murder of a woman that I don't know, so... Okay. 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. You'll have to answer to the charge of murder of the first degree. Get my turn. What do you mean, get him? I mean, bring him here.

Her tough talk didn't last long. After three weeks behind bars, Ashley cracked. She confessed to gunning down Sandy Razo, telling police she did it because she was afraid of losing Tracy. She shot Sandra because, quote, "she's telling lies that are gonna put him in prison." It turned out that Sandy's murder was the culmination of a plan far more elaborate than anyone had imagined.

The day that Sandra was killed, that was not the first attempt in her life. No. 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. Going hot! She stole a Chinese SKS assault rifle, almost identical to this one. A little girl or anybody can take a weapon like this and shoot fairly accurately with it, even as a novice shooter.

And with that rifle, Ashley began stalking Sandy Razo, donning elaborate disguises. She painted her face up to look dark-skinned and had baggy clothes on and shoes too big for her feet. Then, one month before the murder, Ashley drove her blue VW Beetle to a parking lot outside the bar where Sandy worked. When Sandra left work, leaning out the window, looking through the scope right at Sandra, she pulled the trigger...

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. Shortly thereafter, Ashley realized that she had shot her own driver's side, or rather, she had shot her own passenger mirror. It's actually a mistake that a lot of inexperienced snipers make, not realizing that the barrel is lower than the scope. 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. 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 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. She was supposed to catch her in the parking lot and make it look like a robbery. But once again, things went wrong. As it turned out, she fell asleep briefly right at the time Miss Raza was getting to her car.

Ashley woke up just in time to see Sandy's black BMW pulling out. Determined to get it over with, she followed Sandy 25 miles to her home. And this time, there were no follow-ups. Tracy says the news of Sandy's murder shocked him. It hit me hard, you know? 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. But police say Tracy already knew exactly what Ashley did. There's no way in my mind that I can believe somebody like you would commit that type of crime unless someone was pushing, manipulating. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun

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As police saw it, Tracy Humphrey planned to get rid of Sandy Rosso, but he couldn't commit the crime himself. So his only alternative was to get somebody else to do the homicide for him. That somebody, according to police, was Tracy'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. Now he felt she couldn't be compelled to testify against him. Because he told her, "If we're married, you don't have to." Exactly. Detectives believed it was highly unlikely Ashley had come up with the murder plan on her own, especially as they learned more about Tracy Humphrey's background and his double life.

He was a very good friend to me. I was a very good friend to him. Just friends? Well, let's just say I don't go around kissing my friends. A life that was full of tall tales. Did you tell people that you played in the Rose Bowl? I told people that I went to the Rose Bowl with the University of Iowa. And did you? No. Who doesn't pad their resume a little bit?

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

But they needed more evidence. So they enlisted one of his clients, Toby White, to go undercover. So what am I supposed to say to him? Well, we talked about it many times. 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. I'm just hanging out over my house, refereeing and arguing. Armed with that tape, Humphrey's rap sheet...

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

In February 2006, just before Tracy Humphrey's trial was set to begin, the prosecutor struck a deal with Ashley. 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. You may call your next witness. The prosecution painted Tracy Humphrey as a man with a history of violence.

and wheeled out an ex-girlfriend. He also hit me and tried to choke me, held me hostage. And Toby White, who had gone undercover for police. During my workout session that Saturday, he threatened to kill me if I was working with the police.

But it was the testimony of this woman. Please have a seat in the witness chair. That Sandy's friends and family had anxiously awaited. Will you please state your full name? Ashley Christine Humphrey. How old are you? 23. Ashley Humphrey, after more than two years in custody. This was you right before you went in custody? Yes. Was barely recognizable. 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 looked horrible. I hate to say it, but she was beautiful and she's not anymore. Ashley told the jury that she had gone out with plenty of guys, but had fallen head over heels in love with Tracy. 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 act together. But it wasn't long, she said, before he began to dominate and control her. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without telling him. I wasn't allowed to have any friends. Possessiveness turned to pain and violence. We had fights often. Ashley said Tracy hit her. And he swung around and hit me in the face. And frequently threatened to throw her out. And I was begging to stay with him.

One night, she says he knocked her unconscious. When she woke up, Ashley says she agreed to do the unthinkable. And I told him that if you let me stay with you, I'll kill Sandra for you. Did he accept that? Yes.

Ashley told the jury that once she agreed to kill Sandy, it was Tracy who hatched the murder plan. He was the mastermind. It was his idea to get a gun. He wanted it to be a big gun. His idea for her to stalk Sandy. He wanted me to stalk her. His idea to use the disguise. He wanted me to paint my face black so I would look like a black man.

And when that first attempt failed... 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." 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. I timed it so that I would be behind her when she pulled out of the parking lot.

And I got behind her and discovered she was driving in the direction of her home. As Sandy Razo pulled into her garage, Ashley says Tracy was on the cell phone peppering her with questions. How many steps away was I? Could I run up to her and shoot her? At 11:15 p.m., Ashley became a cold-blooded killer.

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. And then I just shot her repeatedly till I thought she was dead. And I looked in her eyes and she was dead.

Finally, Ashley says, there was one last conversation. I called him and I said, it's done. And he said, get rid of everything and call me when you're done. I think the question you all want to know is why? I loved him very much and I did not want to lose him. So you were willing to kill another human being because you loved him? Yes. Everything that happened here is Tracy's fault, right? No, I mean, I take complete responsibility

responsibility for what I did, but I wouldn't never have done this if I hadn't even met him. But Ashley's husband insists he is 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. At New Balance, we believe if you run, you're a runner.

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The defense calls Timothy Humphrey. Facing the death penalty, Tracy Humphrey says the jury has only heard one side of the story, Ashley's. They say that I had all this control over her. I couldn't even get her to clean the house. He insists Sandy Razo's murder was all Ashley's idea. Did you tell her you were afraid of returning to prison for 10 years on the charges Sandy Razo had placed against you?

I don't know if I said exactly that, but I said I'd rather die than go back to prison. And to keep him from going to prison, Tracy says it was Ashley who hatched the plan. The first thing that she said was, what if she doesn't come to court? And I said that I kind of hope that's what happens. And then she said, well, what if somebody kept her from coming to court?

And that was the first time that I said to her, "Don't ever even joke like that. That's not funny." Humphrey claims all he ever wanted from Ashley was that she try to dig up dirt on Sandy. Did you demand, tell, or ask Ashley to harm or murder, shoot, or do anything to Sandra Razo? I asked her to do background research to help discredit her. That's it.

So yes or no, did you ask her to kill Sandra Rosner? Absolutely not. And he 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. We like to talk to each other. We were still in the stage of our relationship where you watch the phone like it's the TV.

Humphrey said they spent most of those phone calls arguing about Ashley's jealousy over one of his female clients. Well, was there anything in your phone calls to suggest she was fixing to murder somebody, according to you? No. She was frantic. She was upset. In an effort to prove just how manipulative Humphrey could be, the prosecution presents letters he wrote to ex-lovers after his arrest.

"And in fact, hadn't you written other women telling you loved them?" "Uh, I think I wrote, yeah." So you're declaring love for one and saying, "I dream of having children with you and moving to New York." And then, I thought it was Con and Irby that she asked you for 150 bucks at the end of it. "That was kind of the only reason I wrote it." That doesn't bode well for your credibility. "I know." But Tracy still claims he is simply a victim of circumstance. "You've been called a manipulator."

A liar, someone who beats women, puppet master. I mean, are you basically just a good guy who got screwed by his young wife? A lot of wrong places at the wrong times. A lot of stupid decisions. He was the man pulling the strings. Hoping that Tracy Humphrey has finally run out of time, the prosecution takes one final shot at him during closing arguments.

Timothy Humphrey had a firearm, and that firearm that he pointed at Sandra was Ashley Humphrey. And he pulled that trigger on Ashley Humphrey, and he fired eight times and took care of his problem. The jury deliberated just four hours. The jury has reached a verdict. Yes, Your Honor. The defendant is guilty of murder in the first degree.

Who did he think he was that he think that he could get away with this? Did he think he was so high and mighty that he could do something like this and get away with it? His sentence? Life in prison without parole. Feel like justice has been served? Yes. That's better. I think that's better than the death penalty because he's got to suffer every day and think every day what he did.

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. She put her life on the line, knowing what the consequences could be, to put a message out there to not let anybody do something like this to you and get away with it and stop it before they can hurt you.

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