Her alleged accomplice was later deemed unfit to stand trial in another murder case. A Colorado woman was found guilty in January of conspiring to kill her boyfriend in 2020 over his reaction towards a job interview she went on. Ashley White, 29, was convicted of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and robbery in the 2020 shooting death of Cody DeLisa, 28, after a three-week trial.

The couple had a strained and volatile relationship in the months leading up to the murder, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a news release last week. The pair lived together in Adam’s County, just north east of Denver. DeLisa criticized White for not being able to obtain full-time employment. Their arguments created tension in the relationship, prosecutors said. White even wrote in her diary that she regretted ever meeting DeLisa.

Her frustration escalated after an incident in which she attempted to drown and burn DeLisa’s cat, an incident that raised alarms about her mental well-being. In 2020, she attended a job interview in Denver. A neighbor drove her to the city and she took the bus home. She texted DeLisa about her experience and he responded saying he was skeptical about her getting the job, deeply upsetting her. On the bus, White reportedly met a man named who identified himself as “Scott.” He asked if White was in a relationship and then bizarrely inquired if her partner had sexually assaulted her. When she responded he had, he said they should kill him. The man had a firearm on him at the time, the release states.

He and White got off the bus, spent some time together and fired the man’s gun. They then continued on to the home she shared with DeLisa where “Scott” introduced himself as White’s brother from Texas. DeLisa was later shot twice in the head. Officials discovered his body the following day during a welfare check. The pair then stole DeLisa’s wallet and left the residence. They spent the next few days in the area before Scott departed. Prosecutors say they never saw each other again.

White would later be identified as a suspect in the murder. She spoke with investigators and provided a “detailed account of the events that led to DeLisa’s death,” officials say. Police arrested and charged her. Roughly three years after the shooting, a woman notified police that she believed she was dating the man known as “Scott,” whose real name is Michael Stratton. He had confessed the crime to her and police said the confession matched White’s account of what happened. At the time, Stratton was in custody for the murder of a man in Pueblo, Colorado, which police say occurred after DeLisa’s death.