Four years ago, Kempton Park dentist Dr Casper Greeff - now charged with the contract killing of his wife - hid in his bedroom cupboard with a camera and a gun while his wife enticed her lover to strip naked.
The Pretoria High Court heard this week how Greeff, 52, then leapt from his hiding place, grabbed the lover's clothes and took photographs of him in a bizarre plan hatched by his wife to prove her love for him.
The man, named in court as Mr X, was blackmailed to pay R100 000, R50 000 of which went to pay off Mrs Greeff's debts, incurred by her florist shop.
According to Greeff, his wife hatched the entrapment plan after he confronted her about her affair with Mr X. Greeff told the court that it was not blackmail and called it "slut money".
This is just one of the lurid incidents from Greef's stormy 11-year marriage related by during his bail application this week. He is charged with murdering his wife, Estelle, 39, by contracting his two co-accused, Gijimane Elliot Masango and Mzogisi Christopher Njeje, to abduct and kill her.
This week, the quietly spoken Greeff put on a brave face, winking at family members in court.
Mrs Greeff disappeared from their luxury double-storey home in Terenure on October 8 and a search for her was started hours later after she failed to fetch her daughters, Romi, 8, and Britanni, 10, from school.
A week later, the Scorpions, the country's elite unit of crime fighters, took over the case from North Rand detectives.
Greef hired "Slang" van Zyl, a former Civil Co-operation Bureau operative-turned-private investigator, to look into his wife's disappearance - an act, it is now alleged, designed to divert attention from him.
The tide turned against Greef a few days later when Van Zyl and a team from Brixton Murder and Robbery arrested him for the murder after two men had pointed out the body of Mrs Greeff on the Cullinan road outside Pretoria.
Masango was arrested along with Njeje, 20, on October 14, six days after Estelle Greeff disappeared.
During the bail application of the three men this week, Greeff faced tough and damning questions from Advocate Gerhard Nel, chief prosecutor for the Scorpions.
Masango claimed that Greeff repeatedly pestered him to kill Mrs Greeff, offering him R60 000 to do it.
The shocking evidence took its toll on Greeff's son and daughter from a previous marriage. Willem, 24, and Tanya Fourie, 28, wept openly as their father revealed personal family matters in court.
Nel sketched an unbalanced marriage and an insecure and bitter man who resorted constantly to making his wife look bad.
Greeff told the court that his wife had a borderline personality and that he had taped their arguments in case he ever needed to show a divorce court that he was not always the "pig in the story".
The discovery that she had been having an affair with a prominent married man, Mr X, had been "the roughest time in my life", he said.
He told of an incident in bed one morning two years ago when his wife had said that Tanya was the "biggest whore" in Kempton Park.
"Your honour, I was so shocked I slapped her face. She jumped up and ran out of the room. I am not proud of this but it is what happened," he said.
Nel put it to Masango that he and Njeje had attacked Mrs Greeff in her home, tied her up with ropes left for them by Greeff, and smothered her. They then put her in the boot of her car and drove off with a TV and video recorder.
"You took her to Cullinan and found she was still alive. You told a magistrate that you and Christopher took turns to slit her throat," he said.
Nel established that Greeff had taken out life policies on his wife, with himself as the sole beneficiary, valued at over R1-million.
Nel asked the dentist about his overseas investments and he admitted that he had a R110 000 investment in England that he hadn't mentioned when listing his assets earlier.
The hearing continues on Monday.