Jackson murder suspect: 'Hey, do you have a shovel? I have a body in the trunk'
TOMS RIVER - A love triangle prompted a Pemberton man to stab his romantic rival, throw him in the trunk of his car while still alive, drive him to a wooded area in Jackson and leave him there to die, an assistant prosecutor alleged today at a detention hearing for the accused killer.
Alan McGinnis, 27, first announced his intention to kill Cody MacPherson to a group of people who were drinking in a house in Browns Mills in Pemberton Township in the early morning of Sept. 24, said Michael Weatherstone, assistant Ocean County prosecutor.
The defendant proceeded to go upstairs and stab MacPherson in the throat while he slept on a couch, Weatherstone said. Then, he took the victim outside and stabbed him again in the abdomen, a wound that eventually caused the 20-year-old's death, Weatherstone said.
McGinnis put "a still living Cody MacPherson in the the trunk of his car,'' and drove to Jackson, Weatherstone alleged.
There, he came upon his cousin about 3 a.m. and asked him, "Hey, do you have a shovel? I have a body in the trunk,'' Weatherstone said.
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Meanwhile, the woman at the heart of the love triangle was passed out drunk, and her mother was sopping up the victim's blood in the living room of their home on Pardee Boulevard in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton, the assistant prosecutor said.
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