The remains of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney tested positive for methamphetamine and Trazodone, an anti-depressant used to treat insomnia, after the 3-year-old’s body was found 10 days after her abduction, according to testimony Tuesday in a Jefferson County courtroom.

The testimony was revealed in the preliminary hearing for Patrick Devone Stallworth, one of two suspects in the abduction and slaying of McKinney.

Stallworth and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Derick Irisha Brown, are charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If Stallworth and Brown are convicted, both could face the death penalty. Circuit Judge Clyde Jones is presiding over the cases.

Initially, Jones ruled Stallworth and Brown’s preliminary hearings would be held jointly but later separated them. Brown will appear in court on Friday.

The case is being prosecuted by District Attorney Danny Carr and assistant district attorneys Misty Reynolds and Peyton Neal Zarzour. Stallworth is being defended by Derrick Collins and Roderick Walls.

Family members of both Kamille and Stallworth were in the courtroom.

Testimony and questioning by Stallworth’s defense attorney indicated Stallworth has told detectives he had nothing to do with the abduction or killing of Kamille. Instead, Stallworth’s attorney indicated, Brown was solely responsible and Stallworth lied because of his love for Brown. Collins has previously said Brown has made statements implicating Stallworth and it was disclosed Tuesday that it was Brown who told detectives where Kamille’s remains could be found.

During 2 1/2 hours of testimony Tuesday, lead homicide Det. Jonathan Ross chronicled the actions of Stallworth and Brown on that Saturday leading up to Kamille’s disappearance later that night, including newly-released information that Stallworth bought $18.91 cents worth of candy at a Shell station near Tom Brown Village.

Phone records put Stallworth at Tom Brown Village at the time of the abduction, and it was Stallworth who had a prescription for Trazodone. Also on the night of the abduction, testimony showed, Stallworth went to a convenience store near his home to buy an energy drink and a pill for erectile dysfunction.

Five minutes after buying the candy, two preteen girls were leaving cheerleading practice from Hayes K-8 when the two approached them in a blue SUV, Ross said. One of the girls, age 11, said Stallworth told her, "I’m looking for a girl that looks like you,'' Ross testified.

The girls said the man offered them candy. They became apprehensive and the other girl said, “Let’s go.” There was security video from Hayes to back up their story, but it was not close enough to show the occupants. The girls described the female with the male as “dark-skinned” and “chunky.”

Other children told police a man in a vehicle that matched Stallworth’s SUV was giving out candy in the housing community, and said eventually Kamille got into the vehicle with them. “She was crying,” Ross testified a 10-year-old boy told him.

Police began searching for Kamille that night.

After hearing the story from the girls leaving cheerleading practice, detectives began to canvass the businesses around Tom Brown Village in search of additional video evidence.

It was at the Shell station they retrieved surveillance video of the blue SUV – later determined to be a Toyota Sequoia – pulling up to the gas pumps. A man – later identified as Stallworth – entered the store where he bought $18.91 worth of candy. That was at 12:02 p.m. Saturday. It was at 12:07 p.m. that they approached the cheerleaders.

The Shell video provided the first images of a possible suspect, which were quickly disseminated to the media and Stallworth was identified through tips provided to Birmingham police.

Once he was identified, investigators went to Brown’s apartment in Center Point – Woodside Condominiums on Shadow Wood Drive off Center Point Parkway. Stallworth and Brown both were detained, and the SUV recovered about 8 p.m. that Sunday.

Stallworth consented to a search of his phone, on which investigators say they phone child pornography, though none of the images were of Kamille. Stallworth was charged with multiple counts of possession of child pornography and later released from jail on bond.

Before being released, Stallworth was interviewed three times by detectives.

Initially, Stallworth denied knowing anything about Kamille’s disappearance but did admit to approaching the two preteen girls near the middle school. He also admitted that he had bought candy at the Shell and admitted he was at Tom Brown Village that Saturday night.

However, Stallworth said he saw a group of young children playing with a mouse trap and told them they shouldn’t be doing that and then said he walked away.

Ross testified they found on video that showing a man talking to two small children – one of them Kamille – who then followed them out of view of the camera. Ross testified that Stallworth said he and Brown had been together all day.

Stallworth said that after they left Tom Brown Village, the pair went to the Jet Pep on Center Point Parkway. Store video confirmed they had been there. They went home and Stallworth later went back out to a Chevron where he bought an energy drink and a pill for “sexual dysfunction,’’ Ross testified.

Ross said that tracking of Stallworth’s phone showed “a lot of movement” between Woodside Condominiums and Parkway Villa apartments, which are adjacent to Woodside and have a worn pathway in the wooded area between the two complexes.

Ross later indicated that it was Brown who pointed them to a construction trash dumpster at Parkway Villas, which is mostly vacant, in the search for Kamille. That dumpster was taken to a landfill and examined by a specially-trained team of FBI agents, who recovered Kamille’s decomposed remains on Oct. 22.

An autopsy conducted by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office showed Kamille had died asphyxiation by suffocation. The exam also turned up toxic levels of methamphetamine and Trazodone. The levels of the drugs indicated Kamille had ingested the drugs, and not just been exposed to them.

Following the discovering of Kamille’s body, Stallworth was arrested again and both he and Brown were charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14. After his arrest, Stallworth summoned detectives to the jail, saying he wanted to talk to them again, Ross said.

In that interview, Stallworth admitted for the first time to seeing Kamille on the night of her abduction.

Stallworth said that he walked into the couple’s apartment and saw his girlfriend sitting on the couch with Kamille and said, “That’s not your child.” He said Brown indicated that she wanted to “keep” Kamille and then suggest Stallworth “do something sexual to the child,’’ Ross said.

Stallworth said he refused and went outside to smoke a cigarette. Later, Stallworth said, “Brown put her hands over Cupcake’s nose and mouth.” He described to the detective that Kamille was then “asleep.”

Stallworth also said Brown had removed the girl’s hair bows and clothes and given her a bath.

Stallworth said the next thing he remembered was waking up in bed the following day with Brown next to him.

Testimony also showed that investigators removed a plastic covering from a mattress that was in the living room. That covering showed blood in several places and testing of that blood showed a mixture of DNA belonging to Stallworth, Brown and Kamille.

Stallworth’s attorney called into question the credibility of some of the state’s witnesses in the case, primarily young children whose testimony differed somewhat from testimony presented by the state.

Other children, Collins pointed out, had mentioned the presence of a white male and a white female at or near Tom Brown Village on the night of the abduction.

Collins also said they had witnesses saying there multiple adults – black and white – who were “switching cars” in a parking lot near Tom Brown Village. One of the vehicles included the blue SUV.

Stallworth, according to his attorney, said Brown used methamphetamine and his Trazodone together because he liked the way it made her feel. He said Brown had been stealing his Trazodone and said Stallworth did not use meth – only marijuana. Stallworth told detectives he believed Brown was using meth on the day of the abduction because “she was talking a lot.”

Prosecutors said it was only after Kamille’s body was found that Stallworth admitted to knowing anything about the girl’s abduction and that he lied during the previous three interviews with detectives. Collins said Stallworth lied because he loved Brown and couldn’t believe she would do that to a child.

Collins also pointed out that Kamille’s mouth, vagina and anus were all swabbed for DNA and there was no sign of sexual assault. Reynolds said the condition of Kamille’s body by the time it was found made it difficult to tell what, if anything, had been done to her sexually.

The defense argued that the state had not proved enough probable cause to proceed with the capital murder against Stallworth, however Jones found otherwise and sent the case to a grand jury for indictment consideration.