A $14 million civil lawsuit against convicted murderer Wesley Abel Brady alleges he and his romantic partner plotted to lure a pair of teenagers to their Bend home for sex, but the plan unraveled, leading to the beating and strangulation deaths of the teens.

The 15-page complaint filed in Deschutes County Circuit Court on Friday morning offers a motive behind Brady’s actions on Aug. 16, 2022. Brady pleaded guilty to the killings and was sentenced to life in prison in 2023.

Now, just more than a year later, the estates of Angela Pastorino and Alfredo Hernandez, both 18 when Brady killed them, are seeking closure.

The complaint alleges assault, battery, negligence and wrongful death. Also named in the suit is the owner of the home on Mount Faith Place, Melissa Adams, a social worker who was Brady’s roommate and sexual partner at the time of the murders. She was also a mental health counselor for Brady at one point, the lawsuit states.

The suit was filed by Pastorino’s mother and Hernandez’s brother. It was based on the lengthy law enforcement investigation that ensued after the teens’ deaths, said Tim Williams, a Bend lawyer representing Pastorino’s mother, Jennifer Grigg.

“This is more about closure for the family, getting some answers to questions that maybe the police didn’t ask,” Williams said.

The lawsuit also details events leading up to the murders that were not made public by authorities.

Pastorino and Hernandez were engaged to be married. Pastorino and Adams’ daughter had been best friends for at least a few years, Williams said. Pastorino’s mother had also known Adams and had exchanged text messages, he said.

Brady had invited the teenagers to Adams’ house, where Brady and Adams were living together, to help them replace some carpet.

Brady and Adams were remodeling the house in preparation for selling it, the lawsuit said. It alleges that the two had formulated a plan to have sex with the teens, which they were unaware of.

“All four began drinking and using marijuana at approximately 3:00 p.m. that day and continued drinking and using drugs throughout the day and well into the night,” the lawsuit states.

All four became “heavily intoxicated,” the lawsuit states.

Throughout that night, Pastorino and Hernandez had been arguing. The two had jealousy issues, which Adams and Brady should have known, the lawsuit alleges.

Around 3 a.m., Adams and Hernandez were inside the house while Brady and Pastorino went to the back patio. Adams passed out on a couch inside while Hernandez vomited, the lawsuit said. When he was done, he went outside to the patio and saw Brady and Pastorino together.

He became upset.

He moved Pastorino away from Brady and began yelling at him, the lawsuit said.

“Brady told the police that from his recollection, Hernandez was starting to swing on him, but he was so drunk he couldn’t connect to the place he wanted to,” Williams said.

Brady then grabbed “a nearby sawed-off trunk of a Christmas tree,” and whacked Hernandez in the head three times. The first hit stunned Hernandez. The second one made him fall to the ground. The third knocked him unconscious.

At this point, Pastorino jumped on Brady, screaming and trying to stop him from killing her fiancé, the lawsuit states. Brady then punched Pastorino several times and “strangled her as she was trying to fight him off,” the lawsuit said. He crushed her windpipe and duct-taped her mouth. Unable to breathe, she died, the lawsuit states.

Brady then watched Hernandez “struggle to live” for at least two hours before he died.

At around 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 17, Adams discovered one of the bodies in her garage, according to previous reports by The Bulletin. After police arrived, they found a second.

Brady eventually pleaded guilty in 2023 to two counts of first-degree murder and strangulation, according to court records. Brady, now 43, is serving his life sentence at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario.

“Wesley Brady’s crimes were among the worst we’ve seen in Deschutes County, and if anybody deserves justice for those crimes, it’s the families of those victims,” Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels told The Bulletin on Friday.

Brady had a troubled past prior to the August 2022 killings. He was suspected of killing dogs and, on one occasion, boiling them in a pot in 2018, but he was never charged. He was convicted on arson charges in 2019 after setting fires on Halloween the year prior in a historic Bend home in a cult-like ceremony, investigators said at the time.

He published a book in 2022 detailing the lead-up to his crimes.

Adams sold the house at 20081 Mount Faith Place in January 2023, according to Deschutes County property records.