- Posted December 15, 2014
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Jury convicts two men in torture, murder of teens
DETROIT (AP) - A jury has convicted two men of first-degree murder, torture and armed robbery in slayings of two teens who traveled miles across Detroit from their suburban homes to buy drugs at an eastside house.
Twenty-six-year-old Fredrick Young and 24-year-old and Felando Hunter were arrested two years after the bodies were found.
The Detroit News says that 17-year-old Jourdan Bobbish and 18-year-old Jacob Kudla were robbed and forced into a car's trunk in July 2012.
The Westland teens were missing for five days before their bodies were found in a trash-strewn field overgrown by weeds near Detroit city airport - not far from the drug house where they were abducted. They'd been shot in the head.
A Wayne County jury convicted Young and Hunter last Thursday. Sentencing is Jan. 21.
"This is not going to bring my baby back, but now he and Jourdan can rest in peace," Virgie Kudla said last Thursday after the jury delivered its verdict in Wayne County Circuit Court. "Our justice system works."
Jourdan Bobbish's father, Michael Bobbish, was teary-eyed after the verdict.
"Those guys are going to be put away for a long time," he said.
Published: Mon, Dec 15, 2014
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