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Gives you that sense. you can do whatever without being touched or having that sense of power. >> reporter: he says cartel leaders supplied him with thousands of dollar as week, a mercedes and a house. the money was seductive and intoxicating for these teens who came from the ram shackled streets of a texas bored town. >> reporter: you enjoyed the money, but did you enjoy the killing? >> we did enjoy the money. >> you dont enjoy what youre doing. >> it didnt seem to bother you that much? >> no. ...

He bragged to a laredo police detective, that killing made him feel like superman, taking the gun out of his hand was like taking candy from a kid. how in the world did it come to this for two american teens? cardona and retta grew up here on lincoln street, a few blocks away from the mexican border. this is the neighborhood where they became friends. like many people around here, they each had families on both sides of the border in mexico and the united states. they could easily move back and ...

>> yeah, it gives you that sense. you can do whatever without being touched or having that sense of power. >> reporter: he says cartel leaders supplied him with thousands of dollar as week, a mercedes and a house. the money was seductive and intoxicating for these teens who came from the ram shackled steets streets of a texas border town. >> reporter: you enjoyed the money, but did you enjoy the killing? >> we did enjoy the money. >> you dont enjoy what youre doing. >> it didnt seem to bother yo...

Thats a day im never going to be able to forget. after that i had no life. >> you kept on killing after the first time at that ranch? >> i had to. thats what a lot of people dont understand. >> thats what retta says now, in this police interrogation video. the young killer relished the deadly power he wielded. he bragged to a laredo police detective, that killing made him feel like superman, taking the gun out of his hand was like taking candy from a kid. how in the world did it come to this for...

I knew that day my life had just changed forever. >> reporter: he then says an argument broke out. miguel trevino wanted to know why retta was there. trevino handed him a gun, they stood over a man tied up on the ground. >> what did they tell you to do? >> to kill that person. i have to do it. if i dont do it, i know whats going to happen to me. >> reporter: and then after did you it, you shot him? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: how many times? >> multiple times. >> reporter: a 13-year-old assassin w...

He bragged to a laredo police detective, that killing made him feel like superman, taking the gun out of his hand was like taking candy from a kid. how in the world did it come to this for two american teens? cardona and retta grew up here on lincoln street, a few blocks away from the mexican border. this is the neighborhood where they became friends. like many people around here, they each had families on both sides of the border in mexico and the united states. they could easily move back and ...

You could do whatever you wanted? you were untouchable >> yeah, it gives you that sense. you can do whatever without being touched or having that sense of power. >> reporter: he says cartel leaders supplied him with thousands of dollar as week, a mercedes and a house. the money was seductive and intoxicating for these teams who came from the ram shackled streets of a texas bored town. >> reporter: you enjoyed the money, but did you enjoy the killing? >> we did enjoy the money. >> you dont enjoy ...

In mexico, then he started carrying drugs and weapons across the border, working his way up the cartel ranks to become a hit man. cardona dropped out of school in ninth grade. >> it was great. >> did you feel like you could do whatever you wanted, you were untouchable? >> yeah, it gives you that sense. you can do whatever without being touched or having that sense of power. >> cartel leaders supplied him with thousands of dollars a week, a mercedes and a house. the money was seductive and intoxi...

>> reporter: he then says an argument broke out. miguel trevino wanted to know why retta was there. trevino handed him a gun, they stood over a man tied up on the ground. >> what did they tell you to do? >> to kill that person. i have to do it. if i dont do it, i know whats going to happen to me. >> reporter: and then after did you it, you shot him? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: how many times? >> multiple times. >> reporter: a 13-year-old assassin was born. >> the first day i had to take somebodys ...

Along with this man retta. they spoke from texas prisons where theyre serving life sentences for murder. they both say they worked for miguel angel trevino. the ruthless violet leader of a drug cartel recently arrested in mexico. >> i know this man. hes not going to tell you to do something if he wont do it, and thats why a lot of people followed him. >> how much control do you think he had of nuevo laredo? >> absolute control. >> reporter: he was 13 years old when two friends brought him to nue...