If he does not continue to cooperate and testify fully, Pauley said, “He has 65 years hanging over his head.’’

So far, 10 people, nine of them either active-duty or former soldiers, have been charged in connection with the militia and the murder of Michael Roark, 19, also a former soldier at Fort Stewart, and his girlfriend, Tiffany York, 17, a photographer on her high school yearbook.

“There yet could be more indictments,” Pauley said.

Three members of FEAR, including Aguigui, have been charged with murder. Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.

Heather Salmon, another former soldier, and the wife of one of the militia’s leaders, has also been charged with murder but does not face death in the case. Four other members of the militia have been charged with violating Georgia’s street gang act and with breaking into cars and homes to fund FEAR’s revolution fantasies.

In September, Pfc. Michael Burnett, 26, a member of the militia’s inner circle – “The Family’’ – was the first to turn on FEAR. As he faced a judge in a Long County courtroom, wearing Army fatigues and leg irons, Burnett gave a chilling eyewitness account of the gang’s delusional plans and dastardly effort to keep them secret.

Burnett said the young couple was lured to the woods late on the night of Dec. 5 with the promise of some night shooting, some of “the guy stuff’’ the group often engaged in.

Roark, who was discharged from the Army just days before he was killed, apparently helped the group purchase weapons. Prosecutors say the group was afraid that he might reveal what he knew.

Burnett said that Aguigui considered Roark to be “a loose end.’’ He said he tried to talk the group out of killing the couple. It was too late. The decision had been made. He said he did not want to go along that night, but Aguigui forced him by threatening to kill his infant son.

“Sir, if I could I would have stopped this from happening,’’ he said.

Instead, he joined Aguigui, Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, and they drove to the woods to meet Roark and York, who arrived in Roark’s black 2010 Nissan. The gang and Roark communicated with walkie-talkies as they drove through the darkness.

At the rendezvous spot, before York could even get out of the car, Peden allegedly walked up to the window and shot her in the head. Then he reached inside to check her pulse.

“She still had one,’’ prosecutor Pauley said. “He shot her again.’’

The teenager did not have a chance to be afraid, her mother, Brenda Thomas told Hatewatch.

Roark was not so lucky. Salmon allegedly yanked him out of the car and forced him to his knees. Then he shot him in the head. Twice.

“I just can’t believe,’’ Roark’s father, Brett told Hatewatch, “how evil these people are and how they stayed in the Army so long without the command structure doing something.’’

FEAR left the dead teenagers where they fell. A pair of fishermen found them the next morning. Near Roark’s hand was a walkie-talkie. The cover-up began almost immediately.

Burnett had purchased the gun that was used to kill Roark and York – a Taurus Judge revolver, which can fire either .45-caliber bullets or a .410 shotgun shell – a month before. After the killing, Burnett said, Peden “took the murder weapon back to his house and chopped it up into a bunch of pieces he said.’’

Pauley said the group returned to Salmon’s home on the base that night. At some point, Burnett said,  Aguigui ordered everybody who had been at the crime scene to take off the clothes they were wearing in the woods.

They wore several layers , hoping to “diminish the transfer of physical evidence,’’ Pauley said. They stuffed the clothing, along with the spent shotgun shells into a bag  and burned it the next night in Peden’s backyard off base.

Jenderseck said Aguigui called him and asked him to come over to a meeting of the group. He said he had no idea why. Once there, he built the bonfire.

Jenderseck said he first started hanging around the group shortly after Aguigui’s wife, Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui, 24, died in July 2011 at her home on the Fort Stewart base.  Prosecutor Isabel Pauley said the group purchased most of its weapons with money from a $500,000 insurance policy that Isaac Aguigui received after her death, a death Pauley called “highly suspicious’’ and still under investigation.

Jenderseck said Aguigui had reached out to him to help him cope with his wife’s death because Jenderseck had recently lost a relative. Jenderseck said he then began getting invitations to barbeques with the group where FEAR was sometimes discussed.

He said he was never officially asked to join FEAR but he eventually got the group’s symbol – the Greek letters alpha and omega – tattooed on his arm. Over time, he said, he covered the FEAR tattoo with another tattoo. “I was ashamed I let myself become a part of this,’’ he told the judge.

Pauley, however, said Jenderseck had the tattoo covered over after the murders and after he lied repeatedly to agents from the FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Pauley said he told investigators he had no idea about the existence of the tattoos or their significance.

“It’s no small thing to lie to the FBI in a domestic terror investigation,’’ she said.

She said Jenderseck eventually rolled up his sleeves and showed the authorities his FEAR tattoo. Shortly after, he had them tattooed over.

Brett Roark was in court Monday to hear and see Jenderseck for himself. He said he walked away filled with “contempt and anger.’’

“I was disgusted by his weakness,” Roark said. “He’s really trying to distance himself from what he participated in, covering up the slaughter of two kids.’’