Newly-released evidence shows the chilling account of a woman who witnessed what happened hours before two high school students were shot execution-style and set on fire along the Cady Way Trail.
Jesse Davis and Hector Rodriguez are both accused of killing 16-year-old Nicholas Presha and 18-year-old Jeremy Stewart, and then burning their bodies on the trail in April.
Hours of audio recordings and jail phone calls with testimony from witnesses were released Tuesday.
The majority of the recordings are interviews with investigators and Angela Patterson, who is the ex-girlfriend of Davis.
During her confession to detectives, Patterson said she was angry at Davis for getting her involved.
"It's not fair. I didn't ask for this. I didn't do this," said Patterson. "I'm over this. I want my mind back. I want my brain back and I want my head back. I'm angry with him for letting me see something like this."
Patterson spoke with deputies while in custody for an unrelated charge.
She was with Davis the night of the killings and eventually admitted to holding a gun for the men as they searched the teenagers' pockets.
Patterson told detectives she woke up when she heard people in the living room of the home she shared with Davis. She told detectives she saw the boys naked and bound on the floor and Rodriguez giving one of them drugs.
Detective: "You come out into the hallway and you see…"
Patterson: "Hector."
Detective: "And?"
Patterson: "The two boys."
Detective: "And how were the two boys? Were they sitting up? Standing up?"
Patterson: "Laying down. Hands behind their back. They were alive. I mean everything was fine. They weren't even hurt. They were fine. Like I said, the one kid was asking for cocaine."
Detective: "And what was Hector doing?"
Patterson: "Standing at the kitchen table, scooping up cocaine and putting it in the kids' nose."
Patterson told detectives this wasn't the first time Davis had stripped someone of their clothes and tied them up and that he had even held a gun to her that same night.
Detectives know Presha and Stewart were with the two men earlier in the night from surveillance video at a nearby CITGO gas station. Although the portion showing the teens wasn't released, a worker remembered seeing them.
WFTV also listened to a phone call of Davis talking to his mother from jail. In the call, he tries to convince his mother to go along with an alibi.
Davis: "I don't know what the (expletive) going on with this (expletive)."
Davis' mother: "Well they're just trying...they have a big profile case in Orange County and they're just trying to pin it on you."
Davis: "If I remember I was in (expletive) Pensacola, wasn't I?"
Davis' mother: "I think so. I don't remember the time frame."
More evidence is expected to be released sometime Wednesday.
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