Text messages and body camera footage revealed during a murder trial for two Michigan men convicted of killing a 72-year-old jewelry store owner they tried to rob — while posing as gas workers checking for leaks — show how it went down, including one of the killers' plans to "buy a house" for his wife with money from the attempted "score."

"I hope we get enough money to buy a house," the wife of Carlos Jose Hernandez, who was found guilty Friday of first-degree felony murder , allegedly wrote in a text message to him just two days before Hussein Murray was beaten to death by Hernandez and Joshua Zuazo in his upscale Rochester Hills home near Detroit, according to local NBC affiliate WDIV . Zuazo was also convicted of murder.

The October 2024 killing was the result of a premeditated theft

See Full Page