According to Reagan Fondren, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, 35-year-old Ashley Grayson ran an internet-based business and gained notoriety from her online presence.On her Instagram account, Grayson called herself a bestseller, eight-figure business coach, course creator, and philanthropist. She claimed she made $1 million in just 40 minutes with an online course teaching others how to turn their own skills into online courses.
Grayson asked the couple to kill three people – her business rival in Mississippi, her ex-boyfriend, and a Texas woman who had made negative comments about her online. She offered to pay them $20,000 for each murder, prosecutors said.The Memphis couple agreed to the deal, but instead of carrying out the murders, gave police a video of Grayson saying she’d pay them an extra $5,000 to kill the Mississippi woman as soon as possible.