chris latham is an impressive guy.charleston, and he was sort of a pillar of the -- >> reporter: a member of society, yeah? >> yeah, he's a pillar of the community. and i think one challenge we had as prosecutors, was to convince a jury why such a distinguished and successful person would commit this crime. >> reporter: but motive? clear as day. the prosecutors told the jury, chris in fact had a lot to lose in his divorce, like reputation, when people found out he'd been living in sin with wendy. >> it's going to come out that he's cheating with his secretary on his wife. >> reporter: and there was money at stake. buckets of money. >> i mean, there's so much evidence that he faced exposure in alimony. $75,000 a year in alimony, forever. >> reporter: prosecutors told the jury that chris was involved every step of way. in fact eight of the 11 pages in the hit pack could be linked to chris latham's phone, computer or printer. and after the plot was exposed, chris arranged payments, through other family members, not just f

chris latham. >> it was great.got easier as i went along. >> reporter: along with her bank duties, she helped her boss with personal matters, like his divorce, all purely professional, of course. >> so we were friends, but not really close friends. >> reporter: but then all those hours of working together, the story as old as office romance. in their case, said wendy, it was a romance for the ages. chris was soon the love of her life. >> i really got to know him as a person and how sweet he was and how -- i mean, kind. chris has a good faith in god too, and that means a lot to me. and yeah, one day i looked over at him and i'm like, i'm so happy. >> reporter: and as far as how she fell victim to a misfortune as humiliating and unfair as her arrest and incarceration here, just a simple misunderstanding. all she did, she said, was give her ex- a disposable phone and set him up in a cheap motel, for reasons not sinister at all. why did you rent him a hotel room and wire him the money? quite a bit of money. >> we were