GUILTY MO - Jocelyn Peters, 30, pregnant, found murdered, St Louis, 24 March 2016

[Blondie in Spokane]

Missouri middle school principal arrested for allegedly paying off friend to kill his pregnant girlfriend

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...nd-kill-pregnant-girlfriend-article-1.2827393

 

[al66pine]

More info:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_173b2743-397f-568b-ba71-e4ef84806c20.html Oct 12.

 

[colette]

Wow it sounds like he stole the money to kill Jocelyn from the school and from dance students field trip fund. Glad he was finally arrested.

 

[al66pine]

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for St. Louis school principal in teacher's death

 

[al66pine]

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for St. Louis school principal in teacher's death

"...In court filings in the cases against both men, prosecutors said the murder of Jocelyn Peters, 30, was “outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture or depravity of mind... aggravating factors for the death penalty... they also said the murder was committed in exchange for money or a thing of value and while another “unlawful homicide” was being committed..."

"... Court documents claim Green sent Cutler $2,500 in cash March 20, and left Cutler his car and keys, including a key to Peters’ apartment, when he left on a train trip to Chicago. That car was spotted on surveillance video on Peters’ street about 3 a.m. the day Peters was found, and Cutler’s cellphone record show it was nearby at the time, court records show.."
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_a8af193b-bbf7-574e-baa2-369df63681e6.html Nov 9

 

[LizzyE]

New federal indictments, in addition to the ones previously handed down by the state:

“A federal grand jury has indicted a former St. Louis middle school principal and his friend on murder-for-hire charges for the shooting death of a teacher and her unborn child in 2016, prosecutors said Thursday.

Cornelius M. Green, the principal, and Phillip J. Cutler are already facing charges in state court for the death of Joceyln Peters.”
Feds charge former principal, friend in 2016 murder of St. Louis teacher

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Cornelius Green was the principal of Carr Lane Visual Performing Arts School while Jocelyn Peters was a teacher at Mann Elementary. Green was married but was having an affair with Peters, according to KMOV.

In 2015, Peters became pregnant with Green’s child. Around the beginning of 2016, Green forged a plan to kill Peters, who was 27 weeks pregnant at the time. He contacted his childhood friend Phillip Cutler and offered to pay him to commit the crime.

Green allegedly stole $2,500 from the middle school to seal the deal. On March 21, 2016, Cutler traveled to St. Louis from Oklahoma and stayed at Green’s house.

To create an alibi, Green took an Amtrak train to Chicago the next day, leaving the man the keys to his car and keys to Peters’ apartment. Cutler broke into Peter’s house and shot her in the head while using a potato as a silencer to muffle the sound, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Former principal admits to hiring hitman to kill teacher pregnant with his baby

He allegedly stole $2,500 from the middle school to pay for the murder.

www.wect.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Under the plea agreement, if Green is sentenced to life in prison on the federal charges, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office will drop state charges connected with the killings, which prosecutors had said they'd seek the death penalty.

Married St. Louis principal pleads guilty to hiring hitman to kill his pregnant teacher girlfriend and her unborn baby

Cornelius M. Green pleaded guilty Wednesday in a plea agreement that will see state charges — which carry the possibility of the death penalty — dropped if he's sentenced to life.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[al66pine]

@imstilla.grandma. Thx for this.
Married St. Louis principal pleads guilty to hiring hitman to kill his pregnant teacher girlfriend and her unborn baby

2016 news story mentions the perp's "hitman" friend
Boyfriend charged in connection with murder-for-hire of pregnant teacher
"A friend of Green, 35-year-old Phillip Cutler, was charged in June with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action."
W a quick search, I did not find the final resolution for Cutler.

Anyone? TiA

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The case of a St. Louis teacher who was killed in a murder-for-hire plot will be featured on ‘48 Hours’ on CBS Saturday night.

Case of pregnant St. Louis teacher killed in murder-for-hire plot to be featured on ‘48 Hours’

The case of a St. Louis teacher who was killed in a murder-for-hire plot will be featured on ‘48 Hours’ on CBS Saturday night.

www.foxcarolina.com

 

[wendybtn]

BOP: Federal Inmates By Name

www.bop.gov

Cornelius M. Green is incarcerated for life in Hazelton Federal Prison in West Virginia.

BOP: Federal Inmates By Name

www.bop.gov

Phillip Cutler (the shooter) is also serving life in a federal prison.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In the spring of 2016, Peters, a beloved third-grade teacher, was just months away from becoming a mom.

Peters and Green—a principal at Carr Lane Visual & Performing Arts Middle School—had met years earlier while both were working at St. Louis’ Mann Elementary.

“He was a good guy. It was a good relationship,” her mom Lacey Peters remembered. “She was really happy and ecstatic because this would have been her first child.”

But on March 24, Green returned from a trip to Chicago to visit friends and found Peters dead in her bed.

As Green told a 911 dispatcher, “It looks like my girlfriend’s been shot in the head.”

The 30-year-old—who was seven months pregnant at the time—had been ambushed as she slept with one fatal bullet wound to the back of her head that came out her eye, leaving a pool of blood on her pillow.

“I do not believe this poor woman ever knew what hit her before it happened,” St. Louis Police Sgt. Brian McGlynn said. “The whole thing was horrible.”

A Potato Silencer & Stolen School Money: Inside Principal’s Plot to Kill Pregnant Girlfriend | Oxygen

Find out more about the murder of elementary teacher Jocelyn Peters and what led authorities to her boyfriend Cornelius Green.

www.oxygen.com