It's February 2009, and Christina Asp is sitting in a penthouse apartment on the 19th floor of an Edmonton highrise.

She's telling another woman about the last moments of Gordon Seybold's life.

She thinks she's talking to the boss of a powerful crime family.

She's wrong.

The boss and every person she met in the room is actually an undercover RCMP officer.

A secretly-taped video of the meeting was shown to a Whitehorse jury on Wednesday, the first day of Asp's first-degree murder trial.

Seybold's body was found in the charred remains of his Ibex Valley home in March 2008.

The black and white video shows Asp telling the undercover officer that she and her boyfriend, Norman Larue, attacked Seybold early in the morning.

She describes personally hitting the 63-year-old three times in the skull with a bat and hearing a "crack.”

By the time the couple was done, Seybold's body was bloody and unrecognizable, she tells the faux-crime boss.

Asp tells the undercover officer that Seybold was a marijuana grower who had upset her mother.

She goes on to describe leaving the house, while her boyfriend set it ablaze.

Larue is also charged with murder in connection to Seybold's death. He is scheduled to go to trial later this year.

On the recording, Asp tells the undercover officer that while fleeing the scene, Larue backed the truck they were driving into a tree.

The pair would later drive that same truck into a parking lot pole in an attempt to cover up the damage, she said.

After leaving the house, the couple burned all their clothes in a bonfire outside of Whitehorse, she told the officer.

After spending about a week and a half in the territory, Asp said she and Larue took a bus to Alberta using fake names.

It is unclear from the recording how the now-34-year-old came in contact with the undercover officers or how long the ruse had been going on before the penthouse meeting took place.

In his cross-examination, Asp's defence lawyer, Ken Tessovitich, repeatedly suggested his client had been wooed by the "crime family” with food, lodging, money and gifts.

He argued that police were trying to sell the "good life of crime” and lied to Asp about things like family planes and a trip to Costa Rica.

The officer presenting the recording in court said he was only involved in helping plan the scenario in the penthouse and did not know about what might have been done throughout the investigation.

In his opening statement earlier that morning, David McWhinnie, one of two prosecutors trying the case, described the undercover operation as a "Ms. Big-style” operation, and promised the jury more details from the investigators involved as the trial progresses.

McWhinnie told the jury of 12 women and two men that much of the evidence burned to the ground along with Seybold's home.

That loss of evidence influenced the case from the very beginning, he said.

Motive may not be clear by the end of the trial, he said, adding the Crown does not need to prove motive.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the jury began hearing testimony from Robert Atkinson, the Ibex Valley volunteer fire chief and Seybold's neighbour, who discovered the blaze that morning.

Atkinson continued his testimony today.

The trial is expected to last three months and include at least 80 witnesses.

Officials searched through more than 200 people to find an appropriate jury.

Sheriffs went to the streets three times during the jury selection process to find prospective jurors.

The case is being heard by Yukon Supreme Court Justice Leigh Gower.