The case received national media attention because of the discrepancy in the sentencing of the two young offenders.
[3] Myers and Back had attended the same middle school together and were childhood friends in seventh and eighth grade.
Mosley was interested, and the pair discussed whether to rob a drug dealer or the stepfather of Back, Mark Cates.
Myers knew that Cates had a safe containing money and a gun left in the family home.
They decided to hide the body behind a log in a field near the village of Gratis in Preble County.
Myers then poured ammonia and septic enzymes onto the corpse, which was still clothed and partly wrapped in the blanket.
Deciding against it, the men drove to a park in Brookville, where Mosley tossed Back's laptop into a dumpster.
They bought a crowbar in Englewood and went back to Mosley's house to crack open the safe.
Instead of the $20,000 that Myers had promised, the safe contained some paperwork, loose change, bullets, gun accessories, and other random items.
Afterward, they burned the papers, several trash bags containing evidence of the crime, and their bloody clothes in a fire pit in the backyard.
They called the police and tried to contact Back, but discovered his cell phone had been left inside the house.
The car was located by Clayton police, who detained Myers at Mosley's house and notified the Warren County detectives.
Based on what they learned, the detectives had Clayton police officers arrest Mosley and Myers and return them to the station.
This time, he admitted shooting the body (in a foolish attempt at misdirection) and acknowledged buying the materials to make the garrote (+ septic tank enzymes & gloves).
He continued to deny that he had restrained Back during the murder, insisting he was not even aware he was being stabbed at the time but merely punched, claiming he was left in a state of shock and disbelief on seeing all the blood.
The same day, Preble County sheriff's deputies found Back's body (after approximate directions from Myers).
A Montgomery County coroner autopsy determined that Back had died of multiple stab wounds.