Kill For Me by M. William Phelps

Author:M. William Phelps [Phelps, M. William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

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At two o’clock in the afternoon on September 3, 2003, Tobe White and her attorney showed up at the SAO, ready to do her part in Humphrey’s scheme to create an alibi for himself and his wife. Tobe, on the inside, was frightened, nervous, and terrified of lying. Yet, she had a fairly good poker face. The flip side of the coin, she knew, was having to face Tracey Humphrey after telling him she couldn’t go through with it. Tobe White did not want to go anywhere near that scenario.

The court reporter placed Tobe under oath; they were officially on the record now. Whatever she said was going to count.

Assistant State Attorney Fred Schaub conducted the interview. Schaub had one of those down-home Southern drawls, a minister’s ability to throw his voice. This was probably from a career’s worth of trial experience. Born and raised in Florida, Schaub did his undergraduate work at Florida State University (FSU). He attended Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, after working for Shell Oil Company, buying and selling oil and gas leases.

“They called me a petroleum land man,” Schaub said later with a bit of humble pride.

Regardless of what they called him, the job paid enough to pay for law school. Schaub chose Stetson because his father had gone there. He graduated from Stetson in 1984, began his career with the SAO a year later, and never looked back.

Fred Schaub’s call in life was to put bad people—in his mind, ones like Tracey Humphrey—away.

Schaub had been briefed about the case building against Humphrey and Ashley. This interview with Tobe White was, in a sense, one of the more pivotal moments of the case thus far. What Tobe said would determine where the case was headed next, and how the SAO was going to proceed from there.

As Schaub began his questioning, Tobe appeared calm and at ease. She talked about meeting Humphrey at a time in her life when she needed someone with Humphrey’s energy and knowledge of health and fitness to kick her in the ass and set her on the right nutritional and strength-training path. And there was no doubt that Humphrey had filled those voids with fervor and zeal. He had changed her life for the better, Tobe said.

Then Schaub slowly danced his way into the events surrounding July 5, 2003. Where? When? How? Why? It was time for Tobe to put Humphrey’s plan in motion.

“I worked out at the Athletic Club,” she said, “from about three-thirty to five. From five until—oh, I don’t know—about eight or eight-thirty, I was at my brother’s girlfriend’s house for a Fourth of July party.” Her movements up to this point would be easy enough to check out. It was effortless for Tobe to recall this portion of her day, because it was true. “I missed several phone calls from Ashley while I was at my brother’s girlfriend’s house.”

“Did you ever speak to them [the Humphreys] on the phone?”

“Yes,” she said. “I finally made contact with both of them later that night and agreed to go over to their apartment later on.

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