Prosecution Concludes Openings in NJ Cold Case

The prosecution has delivered opening arguments in the trial of a New Jersey man accused of killing five teenagers in 1978.

Lee Evans is one of two suspects charged in 2010 with murdering the teenagers, in what had been one of New Jersey's longest running cold cases.

Assistant prosecutor Peter Guarino told jurors Friday that although the teenagers' bodies were never found, a trail of evidence and witnesses points to Evans.  Guarino says Evans and another man lured the teens to an abandoned house in Newark with the promise of odd jobs, locked them in and then burned it down, allegedly in retribution for stolen marijuana.

Evans, who is representing himself, is expected to begin his opening arguments after a lunch break.