Jury Selection Begins In 2012 Murder Of Westland Teens

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Jury selection is taking place for the trial of two men in the drug-related killing of two suburban teens whose bodies were found in an eastside Detroit field.

Efforts to pick a jury began on Monday. The case against 26-year-old Fredrick Young and 24-year-old Felando Hunter is being heard in Wayne County Circuit Court. They're charged with first-degree murder, torture and robbery.

The bodies of 17-year-old Jourdan Bobbish and 18-year-old Jacob Kudla were found in an overgrown field on July 27, 2012. The Westland teens had been missing for five days after trying to buy drugs in Detroit.

Prosecutors, testifying in an evidence tampering hearing related to the case, said Kudla and Bobbish had been shot execution-style in the back of the head. Both were dressed only in undergarments.

"They beat the kids up, put them in the trunk of a car and took them to a field and shot them for the fun of it," Bernie Kudla, Jacob's dad, told WWJ's Marie Osborne last September, before Young and Hunter were arrested.

In July of 2012, larceny, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence charges in connection to Jacob Kudla's vehicle were filed against two ex-cons from Detroit, Casey Green and Larry Anderson. Police say Green and Anderson stripped the car and cleaned it with bleach to hide their fingerprints. The car was found behind a west side Detroit apartment building with its sound system removed the day after the teens went missing.

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