Described to investigators as naturally “flashy and flamboyant,” the suspects in the Bryan Kocis murder were rising stars in the gay pornography business.

They lived in a Virginia Beach, Va., home worth $500,000, enjoyed exotic vehicles and extravagant dinners, and traveled the country making contacts for their escort and adult video businesses, officials learned.

“It was obvious these were two individuals who led an extravagant lifestyle and followed through with it in all facets of their life,” said Corporal Leo Hannon, of state police at Wyoming.

Arrest papers filed this week detail how Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes transformed from successful players in their lucrative industry to alleged brutal murderers. It also highlights how the two thought they had covered their tracks, only to be linked to the killing by computer records.

Investigators say the two considered Kocis their “main rival” and were determined to hire his superstar actor, 19-year-old Sean Lockhart, no matter what it took.

Police said the two killed Kocis on January 24 at his 60 Midland Drive, Dallas Township, home in hopes to cast a movie with Lockhart and told an informant in early January the film would make them “a ton of money.”

The same informant told police that in the days and weeks after Kocis’ death he noticed Cuadra and Kerekes became “reclusive,” not speaking to anyone.

He said Cuadra changed his phone numbers and turned his myspace.com page to private viewing in what the informant called “highly suspicious” behavior that significantly hurt their pornographic enterprises.

But as time passed, Cuadra, 25, and Kerekes, 33, thought they had gotten away with murder, police say.

“... I should have thought where all those fingers would have pointed. I remember looking at the press. I’m just glad this (expletive) is over,” Cuadra allegedly said while under surveillance on a San Diego, Calif., nude beach on April 28.

“... the cops put it (the investigation) on the back burner,” Cuadra added, police say.

It turned out investigators intensely focused on both men shortly after the murder, and gathered loads of evidence along the way leading up to the surveillance on the nude beach of “discussions concerning the planning, execution and subsequent destruction of evidence” in Kocis’ murder, police said.

The victim and suspects communicated to colleagues and each other in a deep Internet web, and analyzing computer records led cops to the alleged murderers, police say.

“So many people use computers in a roundabout way these days. Because of those conversations, there is usually a record of it,” said Trooper Tom Kelly, spokesman for state police at Wyoming.

Kelly credited the office’s computer crimes section with putting the wheels of justice in motion to solve the crime.

“They generated a lot of leads, quite frankly, and gave us a direction of where we needed to go,” said Hannon, who was the lead investigator. “They were invaluable to building the case.”

According to the criminal complaint, research of computer records found:

n Cuadra e-mailed Kocis several times between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24, the day Cuadra was expected to visit Kocis to discuss a modeling contract. A picture of Cuadra that Kocis e-mailed to a colleague is what first drew investigators attention to Cuadra.

n Suspected to be in the Wilkes-Barre area for his meeting with Kocis, Cuadra regularly sent e-mails from his laptop computer, except between 6:42 p.m. and 11:10 p.m. on Jan. 24. Police say the murder occurred sometime around 7 or 8 p.m.

Police say they also linked the suspects through photos, credit card receipts, car and hotel rental records, and incriminating comments allegedly made under surveillance while on the nude beach.

At the beach, Cuadra admitted to being present when Kocis was killed and noted, ‘Don’t worry, he went quick,” police said.

Cuadra and Kerekes are charged with homicide, accomplice to murder, burglary, robbery, arson, theft, tampering with evidence, abuse of corpse, and criminal conspiracy to commit such crimes. They are jailed in Virginia Beach awaiting extradition. An extradition hearing will be held Thursday morning.

Lawyers for both men said they are still contemplating whether to fight extradition.

Meanwhile, both men are under investigation for possible violation of Virginia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, authorities said in a search warrant affidavit.