The Mississippi man on trial for allegedly burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive took time in the aftermath of her death to delete text messages they had exchanged, according to investigator testimony.

Quinton Tellis, 29, reportedly admitted to investigators that he wiped all communication with the teen cheerleader from his phone days after her horrific murder in December 2014 on a rural Courtland road.

The defendant appeared Thursday in Panola County Circuit Court for the third day of testimony in his retrial, where prosecutors accused him of dousing Chambers with gasoline then setting the teen and her car on fire.

FBI Special Agent Dustin Blount told jurors Thursday that Tellis acknowledged in an interview that he had a sexual relationship with Chambers. He also allegedly told Blount that he spent the morning riding around in a car with her before she was murdered.

Tellis denied being intimate with the teen the day she died, but said they last had sex in her car with the passenger seat reclined.

The FBI agent said Chambers’ torched car was found with the seat in the same position.

Jurors were brought Thursday to the scene where her charred car was discovered, along with a half-dozen other locations relevant to the case.

Tellis faces charges for capital murder in the retrial, which was scheduled after his initial trial in 2017 ended with a hung jury.

His lawyers have emphasized this week that multiple emergency responders heard the dying victim name “Derek” or “Eric” as her attacker. Prosecutors, however, argued that Chambers was too severely injured to have been able to articulate words.

Tellis’ retrial comes as he faces another murder indictment in the 2015 stabbing death of Meing-Chen Hsiao in Monroe, Louisiana. In that case, he already pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of her debit card. He is also currently serving a prison sentence for an unrelated burglary charge.