A Woodstock man entered a guilty plea Tuesday to charges he kidnapped and killed his estranged wife in a twisted murder plot he planned for six months before her death.

In exchange for not receiving the death penalty, Quinton Ray admitted to killing Sue Anne Ray, 26, and then burying her body in a wooded area in north Cherokee County. He received a sentence of two consecutive life terms in prison and will be eligible for parole in 20 years.

During the court hearing Tuesday, a transcript of an audio taped conversation was released in which Ray talked with a confidential informant after his wife’s murder. On the audiotape, Ray told the informant that he planned Sue Anne Ray’s murder for six months before carrying it out because she was having an affair with another man. As part of the planning, Quinton Ray started to exercise so that he could be physically strong to carry her body into the woods to bury her inside a grave he dug five months earlier. Ray said that before he killed her, he told her that she could fight but that her struggle would do no good. It took him 90 seconds to strangle Sue Anne Ray, Quinton Ray said during the call. The Medical Examiner ruled in August of 2005, after her body was found that Sue Anne Ray died of asphyxiation.

At the same hearing, Ray’s father, Daniel Ray, pleaded guilty to hindering the apprehension of a suspect and received five years probation.

Sue Ann Ray disappeared from her Woodstock home in August 2005. Her van was found at the Canton area Wal-Mart store. Quinton Ray admitted that he was the last person to see her at his Pickens County home, but, until he pleaded guilty, denied being her killer.

The couple's young daughter is now being raised by Sue Ann Ray’s family.

We want your opinion. Did he get what he deserved? What sentence do you think whould have been justified? Email us at amandaray2133@yahoo.com