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On Monday, jurors will decide if a man who used to live in McCreary County will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Toby Holt is on trial in Florida, accused of killing his boss' son.

Investigators say two years ago, Holt kidnapped Robert Wiles', devised a ransom plot that failed, then made the body disappear.

The McCreary County native took the stand Thursday, reportedly calm while attorney's grilled him about what happened to Wiles.

Wiles disappeared two years ago and investigators say Holt was the last person to see him alive.

Wiles' body was never found and neither was a murder weapon. There was a ransom note that demanded Wiles' father, Tom, pay $750,000. A wealthy businessman, he owned the Lakeland, Florida aircraft repair shot where his son and Holt worked together.

With Holt Friday, was his sister. Her neighbors say Rhonda Sumner is at the trial and not at the Whitley City home she shares with her husband. It's a place Holt reportedly told authorities he could go to target shoot and visit his sick mother before being arrested in December.

Investigators say that gun and Holt's cell phone left the same tracks as Wiles' cell phone - key pieces of evidence in the trial.

"I know you can track cell phones. Why would I, why would I take Robert's cell phone with me on a trip. You know? That just doesn't make any sense," said Holt, who is a 1985 graduate of McCreary County High School.

He's reportedly in debt and broke. As to whether that figures into a motive for the crime is up to the jury to decide.

Jurors will begin deliberating Monday after they hear closing arguments.

While Holt would still visit McCreary County, we're told he moved away about 20 years ago.