<p>A man facing the death penalty for the 2003 slayings of two Cobb County real estate agents made the women strip naked and tortured them for their bank access codes before he shot both in the head, a prosecutor told jurors as the trial began Tuesday.</p><p>Stacey Ian Humphreys' motive, the prosecutor said, was to steal enough money to make a $565 payment on his Dodge Durango truck.</p><p>"It's all about money," Marc Cella, a Cobb County assistant district attorney, told jurors in his opening statement. "They had to die so he could make his truck payment. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is an abandoned and malignant heart."</p><p>Cyndi Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21, were found dead Nov. 3, 2003, at the Powder Springs sales office where they sold homes in a Cobb County subdivision north of Atlanta.</p><p>Humphreys, 34, fled Georgia when investigators tried to question him. He was arrested in Wisconsin following a police chase five days after the slayings, and told detectives he would rather plead guilty than have to face the victims' families.</p><p>Cobb County Superior Court Judge Dorothy Robinson moved the trial to coastal Glynn County, 320 miles southeast of Cobb County, because of pretrial publicity. The trial is expected to last up to four weeks.</p><p>In his opening statement, Cella read the jury of nine women and three men portions of a transcript of an interview Humphreys gave a Cobb County detective soon after his arrest.</p><p>"I can't stand in front of anybody's family and face this," the prosecutor quoted Humphreys as saying. "I know I'm guilty as well as anybody."</p><p>Humphreys had $800 in cash when he was arrested, and told detectives he'd spent $565 on a truck payment, Cella said. Both women's ATM cards had been stolen, and police found the PIN code for Williams' card written on a calendar in the real estate office.</p><p>Humphreys' defense attorney, Jimmy Berry, acknowledged to jurors that Humphreys had confessed to police.</p><p>However, Berry said, Humphreys also told the detective he couldn't remember where he had been or what he had done the day the women were killed. Berry said Humphreys suffered from memory lapses and had heard that some of his co-workers had implicated him in the crime.</p><p>"He didn't know what had happened," Berry said. "He just knew the people at work believed he did it, so he believed them."</p><p>Berry told the jury Humphreys had an abusive childhood and had a history of mental problems. He had been in and out of prison since age 17 for various theft-related charges, Berry said. Humphreys was on parole for a 1993 theft conviction when the slayings occurred, and had been released from prison 13 months earlier.</p><p>Prosecutors showed jurors police photos of the crime scene, including graphic images of each woman's dead body.</p><p>Police found Brown naked lying face down on the floor, with a trail of blood soaking into the carpet from where she had been shot in back of the head.</p><p>They discovered Williams, also nude, on her knees with her head tucked beneath a desk. She had been shot twice _ in the back and in the head.</p><p>Cella told jurors Humphreys had tied Williams' underwear tightly around her neck and used it to lead her around the office before killing her.</p><p>Glen Griesemer, a homebuilder at the Oakwind subdivision where the women worked, had a basement office in the same model home where Brown and Williams' sales office was located. He testified Tuesday he found Brown's body when he went to see the agents for an afternoon meeting.</p><p>"The first thing I did was touch her to try to awake her, and she did not respond," Griesemer said. "She was cold and starting to turn blue. With all the blood, I realized there was nothing I could do. So I walked out and called 911."</p><p>Griesemer said he did not see Williams' body, which was hidden from view behind a desk. He also didn't report hearing gunshots. Prosecutors said Humphreys used a plastic bag filled with balloons to muffle the gunfire.</p><p>The jury heard the 911 tape, on which Griesemer told the operator he'd noticed "someone was here earlier, in a black Durango" _ the type of vehicle Humphreys owned. He told police he'd seen a man about age 30 with a large build and shaved head beside the truck earlier.</p><p>When police arrested Humphreys in Wisconsin, they found a handgun in the console of the rented Jeep he used to flee Georgia. Ballistics tests matched the weapon to 9 mm shell casings found near the bodies, Cella said.</p><p>They also found blood on the gun that matched Williams' DNA, he said, and a drop of Brown's blood on the carpet of Humphreys' truck.</p>
