LAKE WALES, Fla. (CBS12) — Investigators say two Florida teens plotted the murder of a man in Central Florida and used the promise of sex to lure him to his death.
"They were pure evil in the flesh," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd as he described the suspects, 18-year-old Angel Lobato, and his 19-year-old brother, JoJo Lobato.
The two are under arrest for the murder of 21-year-old Danne Frazier, reported missing by his family on Nov. 4 when he didn't come home from work at Publix.
Investigators said JoJo met up with the victim to have sex. As they pulled into a parking lot in Winter Haven, deputies said JoJo stabbed Frazier with a knife during a fight.
"Our victim was fighting for his life," Sheriff Judd said.
The sheriff said Angel beat Frazier with a baseball bat. The two suspected killers then dumped Frazier's body in an orange grove on Nov. 10 in Lake Wales. Authorities said a crew surveying the land discovered the remains in a trash pile.
The sheriff's office said the brothers confessed about killing Frazier and to bragging about the murder on social media.
"Their confession is absolutely horrific," said Judd.
The Lobatos face charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, accessory after the fact of a capital felony, giving false information during a capital investigation, grand theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of tampering with evidence, and burglary of a vehicle. They are being held without bond on the murder charges.
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