Police video reveals Shayna Hubers dancing and singing “I did it” around the police interrogation room hours after shooting her boyfriend. / ABC
A woman who admitted to shooting her boyfriend in the face for breaking up with her has been found guilty of murder.
Shayna Hubers, 27, killed Ryan Poston, 29, in 2012, just before he was due to meet a date. After two trials, with the second taking just five hours for the jury to be convinced, the Kentucky woman was convicted of his murder.
Ohio TV station WLWT 5 reported Hubers admitted to shooting Mr Poston because he wanted to break up with her, but Hubers' lawyer tried to flip that script, claiming she shot her on-off boyfriend in self defence because she "feared" him.
Shayna Hubers hummed Amazing Grace to herself while in the interrogation room.
Surveillance footage, filmed just hours after the shooting in a police interrogation room showed Hubers dancing and singing, "I did it, yes. I did it." Hubers can be heard chanting on the video and waving a finger in the air. "I can't believe I did that."
After showing the video to the jury, prosecutor Michelle Snodgrass said: "I don't know what could sound more malicious than that."
Ohio TV station WLWT 5 reported that Hubers once told police she gave Mr Poston the "nose job he wanted" when she shot him six times, including in the face.
"He's very vain. One of our last conversations we had that was good was that he wants to get a nose job," Hubers told police in a recorded conversation. "And I shot him right here. I gave him his nose job he wanted. I broke it."
She also began to question the officers about what life was like behind bars, asking if she'd be allowed to take her phone or have a shower.
"I don't know if anyone will ever want to marry me if they know that I killed a boyfriend in self defence — not funny."
Her lawyer, David Eldridge, said Mr Poston had physically abused Hubers and made her fear for her life.
Shayna Hubers sang and danced around the interrogation room.
"He was grabbing her hair, jerking her head back and forth like she thought her neck was going to snap," Mr Eldridge said in court, according to WCPO. "The commonwealth has been unable to accept the truth about Poston. They don't want you to see the whole picture of Poston and Hubers."
Hubers was found guilty of murder in 2015. She was originally sentenced to 40 years, but was granted a retrial after it was discovered that one of the jurors was a felon.
Hubers was found guilty again on Tuesday. The jury recommended a life sentence on Wednesday, with the possibility of parole after 20 years.
Psychologists called by both sides in the retrial testified she does have borderline personality disorder. But they disagreed on whether or not she had post-traumatic stress disorder.
The local TV station reported that Hubers wept into the lap of her lawyer before the verdict was read.
She also mouthed the words "I love you" to her mother.
Shayna Hubers, 27, killed Ryan Poston, 29, just before he was due to meet a date. Photo / news.com.au
Mr Poston's family released a statement after the verdict, saying it brought them peace but not happiness.
"Today we embrace justice, and yet we do not feel joy," the statement read. "It has been six long and heartbreaking years without our beloved Ryan.
"Those who love Ryan now move forward with the integrity, dignity and kindness that Ryan exemplified throughout his life."
On the night of October 12, 2012, Mr Poston was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte, Miss Ohio 2012, for a date.
Instead the young lawyer was found dead in his penthouse apartment, shot six times in the forehead, back, and torso.
During the second trial, Hubers recounted how she and Mr Poston went on their first date on her 20th birthday in April 2011 after meeting on Facebook months earlier.
She had explained she was rattled by his physicality and how forward he was and called a taxi from the bathroom of a bar to get away.
"I remember thinking that he had a strong personality. I feared him. I felt like I need to do what he was telling me to do," she said, according to Fox 19.
However, they kept dating on and off and often had rough sex when drunk. She said everything went downhill after she refused to do a sexual act in 2012.
After two trials, the 27-year-old was convicted of killing her on-off boyfriend in 2012. Photo / news.com.au
"It felt degrading … I didn't know if I trusted him. I feared him," she said.
Hubers admitted that she was also violent with Mr Poston as their fights escalated over the course of the year.
"I smacked or hit him in the face around his mouth. He shoved me, he shoved me back," she said.
The pair tried to get back together about a month before the murder, but Mr Poston had conditions, Fox 19 reported.
"He wanted me to be his incognito girlfriend and he wanted me to talk 25 per cent less, he always said I talked too much," Hubers testified.
"And he wanted me to get a hobby while I was at his condo and he wanted me to also agree to have threesomes with other girls."
Hubers' lawyer Mr Eldridge said in his closing statement: "There was a perfect looking couple on the outside that was deeply flawed on the inside. Their deeply troubled relationship came to a tragic end."
Prosecutor Ms Snodgrass said in her closing statement: "You put six bullets in a person. You're going to have to say it was self defence, or you're going to have to admit you're a cold-blooded killer."
