Louisville Metro Police Detective Aaron Tenelli noticed kids playing outside the alley in the residential neighborhood

before he went inside a vacant home with overgrown grass.

That was in 2016. Years later, Detective Snellie fought back tears as he testified

about that call he was responding to in the 4,000 block of River Park Road right around lunchtime.

What he saw was heinous.

Detective Tenelli, an 18-year veteran on the force was a father after all.

In the back of the vacant house and the tall grass were two dead teenage boys.

They had been badly beaten. Their bodies had been burned.

What did you note about the bodies?

Upon approaching the children,

the first thing we notice is that they were laid out.

There was no sign of like a struggle or

other signs that there was like some kind of disturbance within it besides the actual bodies themselves and the actual burning of the bodies.

So the first thing I notice is that there's a good chance they were not killed there or murdered there.

Police canvas the neighborhood looking for houses with security cameras but no such lock.

They needed to identify these two young victims, so they went through missing persons databases

locally and nationally to see if they might get a hit.

You're looking at these two children and you're trying to guess age, you're trying to

guess weight, you're trying to guess all these things to give her as much information so that she can

go to these databases and try to get you a range of possibilities, which is extremely

difficult.

A list of potential names was started, but in the meantime, the autopsies were performed.

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