Charlene Childers says she regrets every day the plot to kill her ex-boyfriend last fall — a plot also carried out by her husband Timothy Dean, a former police chief in Texas.

"At any time you could have told him to stop, and he would have stopped, because he was your puppet and you manipulated him and he would have done whatever you said," said Hon. Daniel Barrett, Wayne County Court judge.

Childers, who took a plea deal, was given 28 years in prison Thursday in connection with the fatal shootings of her ex-boyfriend, Joshua Niles, and his girlfriend, Amber Washburn.

Dean traveled from Texas to Sodus last October, where Niles and Washburn were gunned down in their driveway.

The motive behind the murders: Niles was granted custody of the two children he had with Childers.

"It was your fault you lost your kids. You said you did this to get them back and that you loved them, but no mother that loves their kids has their father killed," said Niles’ sister, Nicole Gunkel.

Washburn’s uncle shared a letter written by her parents, calling their daughter a kind and caring person.

The prosecutor also read an emotional letter from Amber Washburn's sister.

"She is concerned for one person and one person alone and that's herself,” said prosecutor Christine Callanan. “I think those were true and honest moments when she got upset, but again, it was for her and not necessarily for the family.”

"It is my hope that it took 26 years to get where she's at right now, which is the wrong place,” said defense attorney Rome Canzano. “Hopefully in the next 25 years she'll get to the right place."

Childers was the second of the three defendants to be sentenced in this case. Bron Bohlar was sentenced earlier this month for the conspiracy. Timothy Dean was convicted of murder earlier this year, and will be sentenced at the end of next month.