MARION COUNTY, Fla. — On Thursday, prosecutors laid out more evidence trying to tie a brother and sister to the killing of a Marion County teenager.
Officials said Seath Jackson was lured to his death in April 2011 by a group of teens.
The jury saw photos and video of the crime scene on Thursday, including large plastic paint buckets that were used to put the Jackson's burned remains in.
A sheriff's dive team said they found them in a flooded Marion County rock quarry.
"Well, we started from the point where Detective Stroupe believed they may have been tossed. We went straight to that spot, went down and they were there," said Sgt. Billy Padgett of the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Prosecutors said siblings Kyle Hooper and Amber Wright were part of a plot involving five people to kill Jackson.
Detectives said the victim was beaten and shot to death in a Summerfield mobile home on April 17, 2011. They said his body was then burned and the remains packed into the buckets, which were dumped at the quarry off State Road 40.
"As one of the divers was diving the bottom of the water, he found what appeared to be a piece of human tissue and a possible skull," said Lisa Byrd, a crime scene technician.
Divers also found a tooth that prosecutors said DNA tests tie it to the victim.
Attorneys for Hooper and Wright said there's no proof either of them ever went to the quarry and there was no testimony to show they did.
"What I'm asking you as you sit here right now is if you saw anything to suggest Kyle Hooper ever went out there," asked the defense attorney.
"No, replied Byrd. "I didn't see anything with his name on it."
The teens face life in prison if convicted.
Of the three other defendants, one pleaded guilty, one was found guilty, and another one will stand trial later this year.
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