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00:16a pregnant woman found in her apartment a single gunshot wound through her eye that
00:23instantaneously killed her and the potato was used to silence the gun she was sound asleep and just
00:31ambushed in her own bed there was no DNA evidence no forced entry this was not a burglary type
00:40homicide it looked like one of those old mafia movies what all is going on here there is a video
00:48surveillance of someone turning onto the victim street the night of the murder he tears out a
00:57single sheet of paper and proceeds to chew it up and swallow it there's no question that this was a
01:04elaborate premeditated plan to end her life
01:33sorry police department let me help you
01:49we were dispatched to West Pine Avenue at the same time EMS responded declared the victim deceased
02:00at the scene we were met by the person who made a 911 call Cornelius Green and he said he
02:06was the
02:07boyfriend of the victim that was inside her name was Jocelyn Peters Cornelius was extremely out of
02:14breath a little bit frantic he told us Miss Peters was seven months pregnant and he oftentimes stayed
02:21with her at her apartment it was a secure building with a key that cannot be duplicated for the front
02:30main
02:30entrance door as you enter the apartment building you'd go through a secure locked glass foyer entrance
02:37the victim's apartment was that first apartment on the left as you walk up to the second floor
02:45as you enter the apartment to the right as the bedroom her bedroom door was opened the victim was
02:52on her bed laying on her right side pillow tucked underneath her arms blankets no longer on her you could
02:59definitely tell that she was pregnant she had her arms folded in it like she was sound asleep and just
03:06ambushed in her own bed she had an obvious gunshot wound through her eye and blood that had came down
03:14the side of her face and pooled on the pillow next to her arm terribly tragic scene I do not
03:21believe this
03:22poor woman ever knew what hit her before it happened the whole thing was horrible this was an investigation of
03:32homicide as we looked around the bedroom we observed something that was extremely strange what appeared
03:39to be an organic material all around the victim on her bed large chunks of it on the wall and
03:45next to
03:45the bed this was unidentified and we immediately requested our evidence technicians to come in seize this
03:53material so we could send it off for further analysis we identified underneath the dresser next to the
04:00victim's bed a spent shell casing for a 380 caliber handgun but there was no DNA evidence obtained during
04:09that time one of the first things that I noticed is that there wasn't clothes strewn about there wasn't TVs
04:18or
04:18anything knocked over there wasn't drawers tossed out like someone that went through an apartment looking
04:23for something there was no forced entry nothing taken this was not a burglary type homicide there was
04:30something else going on here we also noticed there was gifts that were laid out there was a shirt that
04:38indicated I love daddy and other items related to her baby it looked like this woman's whole life was
04:48surrounded around the child that she was about to have while our evidence technicians were conducting
04:55the interior scene investigation we responded outside of the apartment and spoke with mr. green
05:03Cornelius green was very upset and he told me that his girlfriend Jocelyn Peters was 30 years old and she
05:12was getting ready to have a shower for her child he immediately said you got to find out who killed
05:17the
05:17mother of my child and my unborn child Cornelius said that miss Peters was currently employed as a third grade
05:24school teacher at manna elementary school in the city of st. Louis and he said he was a principal at
05:31car lane school but he had prior worked at manna elementary and that's how they began the relationship and
05:37he also stated that he was out of town visiting some friends in Chicago and he got off the Amtrak
05:43train at
05:442.59 p.m. that day we continued our conversation and I asked how many keys there were for the
05:50apartment he
05:51said he had one and the victim had one these are heavy-duty doors that if you had to break
05:57in you would
05:58have had to make a lot of noise you would have had to done damage none of that was visible
06:03so Cornelius
06:05Green was taken down to police headquarters for more interviewing my phone was it started ringing and
06:15ringing and ringing and I looked up it was Cornelius he was like it's been an accident it's been blood
06:22it's
06:22blood just say I got to go now it felt like I was driving only two miles an hour and
06:28I got to her
06:30apartment there was police and I walked to her door and the cop just looked at me and she was
06:40like
06:41she's dead and I was like what about the baby what about the baby and she just kind of like
06:49dropped her
06:50head down and she was like the baby dead too I just couldn't believe it she wasn't the young lady
06:58to be out ripping running the street making enemies stuff like that she just wasn't that person
07:04and I told the police we just took a family cruise for her 30th birthday with Cornelius I believe they
07:12paid for the cruise together he was a good guy it was a good relationship she was really happy and
07:19ecstatic because this would have been her first child I just felt like if I could have traded my life
07:26for hers I would have gladly did it we have a young pregnant school teacher has no enemies no criminal
07:40history and she was shot in her sleep so we went back inside of the apartment we're gonna be meticulous
07:50take our time and go through and get every obstructive fact that we can obtain from the scene as we
07:59looked
07:59around the apartment again the kitchen was in order on the refrigerator the victim had a menu for the whole
08:07week written on a whiteboard contained everything she wanted to feed herself we observed on the kitchen
08:14dining room table a 10-pound bag of russet baking potatoes the bag was opened but the menu on her
08:22refrigerator none of those recipes indicated they used potatoes the substance that was all over the
08:29victim and the victim's bed and the walls the evidence technician unit was able to find a piece big
08:35enough that indicated it may possibly be a potato there's old mafia movies where they use potatoes as
08:43silencers if it was a silencer trick it's not like you're gonna go in and break into a house and
08:50then look
08:51around for potato decided to kill somebody sleeping somebody knew potato was gonna be there that they were
08:58gonna obviously use this was a clearly and obviously a premeditated and planned murder
09:08there was the package with the money to kill jocelyn peters and you could clearly see a 10-pound bag
09:15of
09:15russet potatoes sitting on there she is literally purchasing the tools that are gonna be used in her
09:21own murder it becomes very apparent how much thought process one put into this before it happened she never saw
09:41this coming on March 24 2016 when I found out that jocelyn peters was found shot to death what struck
09:51me
09:52immediately was the fact that she was pregnant and a potato was used to silence the gun so I went
10:00to
10:00the area where the crime scene was and people were talking about how nice and sweet she was I just
10:09didn't
10:10understand please please tell me this isn't true is it she was such a nurturing and loving teacher her
10:16passion her liveliness she was very very skilled and she had just this fire about her we knew she
10:23would be an amazing mom she was really excited about having the baby because this would have been her
10:32first child Micah Lee was the name for her baby that she was carrying and from my interviews with her
10:39family friends co-workers it was fairly obvious how excited jocelyn was to be a new mother upon speaking
10:52with the medical examiner at the scene it was determined that Miss Peters died between 259 and
10:58348 a.m. from a single gunshot wound through her eye from a 380 caliber handgun that would have
11:04instantaneously killed her and caused the death of her unborn child I immediately thought how did this
11:12happen why did this happen mr. Green had told sergeant McGlynn that he was the only one to have access
11:18and
11:18keys to the apartment and there was no sign of force entry so Cornelius Green was obviously a person of
11:26interest at this point so we conveyed mr. Green down to the homicide office so we could interview him when
11:36murders happen the overwhelming majority of them are at the hands of someone that we know the family
11:43member spouse brother sister something like that during that initial interview we want to see his body
11:51language how he speaks does he react as most people normally do in a situation like that hey John
11:58it's Cornelius hey if I can ask you one thing I have you sit right there what's your last name
12:04hey I just want to express my condolences to you okay we're gonna do everything we can to help get
12:13you
12:13through this situation okay Cornelius Green when he's being questioned by the detectives he seems to be
12:20upset about losing this child losing this woman that he has loved but he doesn't engage in the heck
12:26of a lot of eye contact it seems that he is trying hard to manage the way other people see
12:32him nobody in
12:33that apartment complex that Jocelyn was having a problem with or anybody there that was she never
12:40said hey there's you know crazy guy downstairs during that same time we want us get a timeline of when
12:47did
12:47you get into town how did you get here as he's on the train coming back to St Louis Cornelius
13:02starts
13:02calling Jocelyn repeatedly not getting answers he calls her mother and says I'm concerned she's not
13:10answering my calls Cornelius informed me that he was picked up by his friend in Cornelius's car he
13:29dropped his friend off came over to the apartment and found the victim in our process our investigation
13:38we're gonna go through take some elimination fingerprints I just think could you stay there
13:43sure so while we were interviewing him I had the investigators call the train station we got their
13:51surveillance footage and we could see Cornelius coming off the Amtrak train into the terminal
13:58Cornelius Green was out of town in Chicago at the time of the murder so he obviously was not to
14:05trigger man but the odd thing about that was he was looking up at the cameras to make sure that
14:12you
14:12could see a good clear view of him getting off that train he made a point to be seen that
14:18was something
14:18that stuck in our head so we had to keep digging we wanted to get a little background on his
14:23ongoing
14:24relationship with Jocelyn Peters he had stated that they had been looking at houses and had just two
14:37weeks prior to her death went on a cruise together with several members of her family but then he said
14:43something that was extremely strange Mr Green explained to us that he was currently separated
15:03from his wife obtaining a divorce and it was due to his ongoing relationship with Miss Peters at that
15:11point I wanted to search Cornelius's car and I was gonna search the victim's car as well because
15:18vehicles are places that sometimes evidence ends up it's an extension of the crime scene would you
15:24like to give us consent to look in your car so we just rule out that there's anything in there
15:27I just
15:28don't understand why by looking in your car not seeing anything that jumps out at us we would be
15:33saying okay Cornelius isn't involved in this I'm not okay Mr Green became extremely agitated felt like
15:41it was an accusatory question that we would ask him I feel like when you do that I'm actually
15:45shooting like a criminal you want us to rule you out right how am I being moved in sir I
15:50really haven't
15:51been here he became irate towards us and refused consent for any officers to look inside of his
15:58vehicle at that current time when you're like this guy is obviously involved in something and then during
16:07the course of our interview Mr Green requested to contact his daughter and we monitored this as it was
16:14happening live he had the volume up so loud that you could hear the other person on the other line
16:24talking his vehicle had still remained at the scene and he was reaching out to his wife Stephanie he
16:40wanted her to meet with someone named Philip and give him the keys so Philip can go pick up his
16:46vehicle
16:46which makes zero sense when his girlfriend and his child have just been murdered it makes you wonder
16:52who is Philip and why is Cornelius so concerned about his wife meeting with this man and what all is
16:59going on
17:02here not here at one point during the interview with Cornelius Green he makes a phone call to his wife
17:19can you meet up with Philip please I need my car Cornelius had requested his wife Stephanie to get his
17:27spare key and take it to a friend of his named Philip after speaking to his wife he reached out
17:34to
17:34Philip hey protection staffs number could you help her and get my key in my car I need that to
17:43happen
17:43like right now Green arranges for Stephanie and Philip to meet at this gas station by Forest Park and Highway
17:5140
17:52and then Cornelius wants him to go pick up his vehicle at the crime scene it was kind of shocking
17:59to see him do that I wanted to know what was on the inside of that car that Cornelius was
18:05trying to
18:06hide Cornelius wasn't a suspect but his extreme concern over his vehicle gave us pause and concern to
18:14investigate further but we were not able to get a search warrant because there was not enough
18:20tangible evidence at that point so we went back in the interview room and we asked who he was talking
18:27to he admitted that he called his wife Stephanie and a friend of his named Philip Cutler we wanted to
18:36know why he's the one that Cornelius reached out to obviously we knew that on the 22nd Cornelius Green
18:56took the Amtrak train to Chicago we wanted to know who gave him a ride to the Amtrak station how
19:02did you
19:02get today train station Philip dropped off on Tuesday and uh what did you do with your car
19:11we knew he did not want us to search that vehicle which really didn't make sense we wanted to know
19:21what would Philip Cutler do with the car while Cornelius was gone was he in here with Joshua and
19:28Peter's apartment during the time when the murder occurred occurred so now he's the person that we
19:33got to interview we had investigators respond to that gas station they were able to make contact
19:38with Stephanie Green and Philip Cutler and they're both brought down to the homicide division where
19:43we're able to interview him that evening we obviously had to look pretty hard at Cornelius's
19:49wife because he indicated there was a divorce that was going to take place Stephanie Green was shook up
19:56in a fragile emotional state while we're speaking to her she had no idea that Cornelius was involved
20:01in this relationship with our victim Jocelyn Peters and she was further unaware that Cornelius and Jocelyn
20:09were expecting a newborn child it was kind of a bombshell that was dropped on her that was immediately a
20:17red
20:18flag for detectives Cornelius's wife said there was no talk of divorce there was no talk of we're having
20:25problems and she had an alibi when the murder occurred Stephanie was cooperative there was nothing that
20:32indicated to us that she was being dishonest or deceitful so we have to rule Stephanie out but Mr. Green's
20:40lies
20:40regarding him obtaining a divorce from his wife made him look even more to us like a suspect during
20:47this investigation so the next step was to speak with Philip Cutler he stated that he had not personally
21:09met her and denied ever being over at victim Peter's residence then we kind of went into a let's get
21:17a
21:17timeline of when did you get into town when did you plan this trip to come back to St. Louis
21:23he stated he
21:34come here on the Greyhound bus Cornelius picked him up at the bus station on the 21st at approximately 10
21:4030 in the evening
21:57when we asked him you came down to visit your friend doesn't that seem you know that seems a
22:01little odd did you know he was going to be leaving kind of hem-hawed a little bit around the
22:06question
22:08when they were in and at this point we had conducted interviews with Mr. Cutler, and Mr.
22:12Green some of the things just didn't sit right with the investigation
22:16Cornelius gave Philip Cutler possession of his vehicle while he was out of town
22:21and then he refused consent for any officers to look inside of his vehicle also green wasn't
22:29telling the truth about being separated from his wife so they were certainly persons of interest
22:34but there were no arrests at that time but we had investigators continued reviewing the evidence
22:42reviewing reports and video footage from the interviews with mr cutler mr green that's when
22:50we observed something that was extremely strange that occurred while mr cutler was alone in the
22:55interview room he's pacing back and forth and then much to our astonishment he thumbs through a notepad
23:04tears out a single sheet of paper and proceeds to chew it up and swallow it my immediate reaction was
23:12what in the heck there's no doubt in my mind that that piece of paper was a direct connection to
23:18him
23:19and the murder that just occurred
23:34during the interview you see philip cutler get a piece of paper with some writing on it and then
23:41goes to his mouth with it and it disappears it's very unusual what he does it was like he was
23:47trying
23:47to hide something possibly there's some indication of guilt there because of their behavior our
23:54investigation now is directed towards philip cutler and cornelia screen as suspects but we need evidence
24:00so one of the things that we do is we'll look for potential surveillance equipment throughout the
24:06neighborhood the entrance to jocelyn street where the apartments were located at a building that has some
24:13security footage running 24 7 on the perimeter i was able to reach out and go over surveillance footage
24:22we know that cornelia screen arrived over at the scene sometime around 3 20 the afternoon after the
24:28murder and he was driving his car so that gave us a starting point we backed up and went through
24:34probably
24:3512 to 15 hours of video surveillance of that intersection as we're looking at it 2 59 a.m on
24:43the night of the murder we see a vehicle turn onto jocelyn peters street from boyle and we later observe
24:50it leave the street around 348 it was a white kia and they were able to zoom in and we
24:56got three or four
24:57positive letters off the license plate it was indeed cornelia screen white kia optima we knew that
25:05cornelia screen was out of town and he had left the keys to his vehicle with philip cutler and we
25:12knew
25:12that those keys also contained a key to enter into that apartment complex and enter into mrs peter's
25:18apartment at this point it gave us a theory that philip cutler was the one that killed jocelyn peters
25:31i couldn't really process her untimely death
25:36but i had a funeral to plan principal nicole had called and she was like well you know what
25:43i'm gonna call that day off for the kids so they'll be able to attend jocelyn's funeral
25:51there were kids that were really struggling so we really wanted to find a way to celebrate her life
25:58when i got to the funeral it was people already just standing there lying around the corner just to
26:06see her jocelyn's favorite color is yellow so at the funeral when the kids walked past me all the kids
26:15would hand me one yellow rose it was really hard i was constantly praying cornelius did not attend her
26:25funeral it ran in the back of my mind while my daughter's dead he's not dead too that's what i
26:32wanted to know
26:36as we continued looking into cornelius green and philip cutler trying to get as much evidence
26:42and a foundation laid there was tips that would come in one of those was this woman who came into
26:49the homicide office and stated that she saw on the news that this incident occurred and then she said
26:55she was involved with cornelius for quite a while a couple years at least and recently learned he was
27:01juggling numerous romantic sexual relationships at the same time she said he was a womanizer and
27:07certainly it was another red flag for police at that point after interviewing her we'd received a call
27:14from cornelius green he said he had heard out on the street that we were speaking to this woman who
27:20he
27:20was involved in a relationship with and he was irritated to say the least he then went on and asked
27:27what
27:27he could do to help us so we offered him the opportunity to provide his cellular telephone
27:33and oddly enough he allowed us to download it after receiving the data information we were able to
27:40obtain his text messaging and some of his google searches and on march 20th 2016 four days before the
27:49murder and prior to philip cutler coming into town he had a telephonic conversation with philip cutler
27:56he then reached out to miss peters via text during that conversation miss peters states that she's going
28:03to go to the aldi's and go grocery shopping and cornelius states i will meet you there he seemed adamant
28:11that hey we'll go shopping together it just seemed you know rather odd she didn't seem like she was asking
28:16to come with her to the grocery store we were able to obtain the video surveillance inside the aldi's
28:23and we observed jocelyn peters exiting the store with cornelius green directly behind her pushing the
28:30cart and you could clearly see a 10 pound bag of russet potatoes sitting on there same brand that was
28:37found at the crime scene on the kitchen table with one missing which i don't believe it was just happenstance
28:43or coincidence now there's no doubt in our minds that that conversation he had with philip cutler on
28:49march 20th prior to going grocery shopping with miss peters was him making sure that there's some
28:55potatoes bought it becomes very apparent how much thought process he was putting into this before it
29:01happened it was kind of shocking she never saw this coming she is literally purchasing the tools that
29:09going to be used in her own murder that's important because it did help us start to paint the picture
29:14and see what was happening just days prior to miss peters being murdered but it was circumstantial
29:21evidence and there was a tremendous amount of other obstacles to overcome first there was no murder weapon
29:29that was ever recovered and second cornelius green has a alibi so we need to essentially prove he planned
29:38a way for mr cutler to come into town to kill jocelyn peters so next we obtained the search warrant
29:46and received the tracking history from philip cutler's telephone it showed philip cutler in the area of
29:52jocelyn peters apartment the night she was murdered and then it showed cutler traveling directly down to
29:59north riverfront park in the far north end of the city why this stood out to us is because north
30:07riverfront park borders the mississippi river cutler responded there after speaking with green and spent
30:13eight minutes there the morning after the murder we believe he discarded the murder weapon in the
30:20mississippi river the river was searched but unless you knew exactly where it was the chances of it still
30:26being there are slim so the murder weapon was never found it was a very difficult case to make
30:34that's why the detectives kept digging and digging and digging while we were looking for something
30:39that proved that they both worked together and planned the way to kill miss peters we were able
30:45to identify some of the most prevalent google searches on green's phone prior to the murder of miss peters
30:52one of the first patterns we observed was that there were google searches about how to mask the taste of
30:59an abortion pill this was early on in the pregnancy just a few weeks and he had started googling can
31:06i
31:06crush up pills to end a pregnancy it strongly suggested that corneus green was trying to kill the baby
31:15without jocelyn peters knowledge i believe the baby that jocelyn peters was carrying became an obstacle
31:22and if he could get rid of the pregnancy and he could continue to have jocelyn peters as a toy
31:27to play with
31:27along with the other five or six women and continue to live life in exactly the way that he wanted
31:33to
31:33as we continued looking into his google searches it seemed that this apparently was not working one of
31:39green's searches was still seeing a heartbeat after taking an abortion pill and all of these google searches
31:46happened several months prior to miss peters being murdered he obviously was searching for this method
31:53to get rid of the child and when that didn't work out it wasn't long after that cornelius decides to
32:00segue into the murder business
32:13we identified cornelius green researching abortion pills researching a ways to induce an abortion cornelius made some
32:23fairly sinister efforts to get rid of this pregnancy and when that didn't work he arrived at the
32:30conclusion that jocelyn peters was a liability that he needed to get rid of that starts to build the
32:38the motive and the means and the method of how this murder occurred we further investigated cornelius's
32:45cell phone data and on february 28th cornelius green and philip cutler have a conversation via text
32:52where green had said are you going to be coming into town cutler responds in the affirmative and asks
32:58when he says march 20th and cutler says okay don't forget to send the package when i read it i
33:07immediately
33:07thought there was something of value sent from green to mr cutler and i was able to reach out to
33:16the post's
33:17office there's a record of a transaction where on march the 7th just days prior to the murder he sent
33:23a package to philip cutler in oklahoma
33:29which police assume is the money to pay him to kill jocelyn peters this was obviously planning and
33:37premeditation on both green and color's part with relation to miss peters murder but at this point
33:45green had obtained an attorney so we could not bring him in and speak with him again
33:54it was extremely challenging to keep moving forward but then we'd received a call from
34:00the dance instructor of car lane school where cornelius green was the principal
34:06we had learned approximately 2700 dollars had been stolen from car lane school's dance program a few
34:14weeks prior to the murder of miss peters she said on march 3rd she observed cornelius green in the
34:23area where the money had been taken and believed that he was no doubt involved when asked about why it
34:31wasn't reported she stated that she was extremely concerned with repercussions because he wielded a
34:38certain amount of authority over the school being the principal we believe that 2700 was the payment
34:44according to this green sent to philip cutler to kill jocelyn peters
34:51as you progress through the investigation the amount of circumstantial evidence that was obtained it gave us
34:59the timeline the motive and the method of how this murder occurred there's no question that this was a
35:06elaborate premeditated plan to end jocelyn peters life and get rid of the baby that jocelyn peters was
35:13carrying
35:19in august of 2015 miss peters became pregnant then just a few weeks in the pregnancy cornelius green
35:26started searching ways to end a pregnancy
35:32cornelius spent months trying to poison or kill the baby when that didn't work on february 28th
35:39cornelius green arranges for philip cutler to be the trigger man on march the 3rd he stole money from
35:46car lane middle school on march 8th cornelius green sent philip cutler the money to murder jocelyn
35:55on march 14th through the 18th cornelius takes jocelyn and her family on a cruise for her birthday
36:04we believe he was trying to throw him off
36:07on march 20th cornelius green accompanied jocelyn peters to the grocery store where they purchased
36:13the russet potatoes and then he left them inside of the apartment for mr cutler
36:19on march 21st philip cutler travels from oklahoma to st louis missouri police believe the next day
36:27cornelius hands philip cutler his 38 caliber gun and the keys to jocelyn's apartment and then cornelius
36:35green takes an amtrak to chicago as an alibi for himself in the middle of the night philip cutler goes
36:43into jocelyn peters apartment used a potato as a silencer shoots her one time in the head
36:52and kills her and her unborn child next cornelius green takes an amtrak back to st louis
37:01as he's on the train cornelius starts calling jocelyn repeatedly was all just part of the ruse to make
37:09it look like he was concerned about her and then lastly cornelius green goes to her apartment and
37:17calls 911 to report the death of jocelyn peters the level of planning that went on for this case
37:28was shocking that's his girlfriend he's going to be the father of the child that she's carrying
37:34this was a cold-blooded horrific crime i don't know if cornelius green was a psychopath but he should
37:40be in the psychology textbooks because the cognitive sophistication that it would take
37:45to keep all of that separate you have to be adept at compartmentalizing your life
37:50at that point we knew that we needed to arrest both cutler and green
37:54for the murder of jocelyn peters and her unborn child
38:06at this point we have the abortion search history with green
38:12we have cutler's cell phone data that puts him at the location of the victim's residence
38:19we have the video surveillance of the vehicle that philip cutler was in possession of turning
38:25onto the victim street the night of the murder so we're able to secure indictments against mr
38:30cutler and mr green for a conspiracy to commit murder and committing murder for hire cornelius is
38:36arrested first obviously we wanted to get an opportunity to try and talk to him but he doesn't
38:42make any statements at that time and then we traveled into muskovia oklahoma and placed philip cutler
38:49under arrest to be transported back to st louis missouri i did our post-arrest interview he denied
38:56have anything to do with the murder of jocelyn peters
39:06when they called and uh told me they had arrested both of them i was pretty much in shock
39:14i thought cornelius was a good guy
39:18i was out to dinner with our school counselor and it came across the news that he was arrested
39:26and we just cried together that was a life-changing day because it had taken so many months and it
39:32finally had happened and it was just a rush of emotion i was glad that it finally happened but you
39:39know i just wanted my daughter my granddaughter back
39:49this is certainly a chilling crime a father and a principal at the school thought out a murder for
39:56hire plot but unfortunately the covet pandemic really threw a wrench into the criminal justice system
40:05eight years go by before we actually go to trial and prior to the trial date cornelius green accepted a
40:12plea
40:13to plead guilty cornelius agrees to life with no parole so the death penalty was off the table at this
40:22point but philip cutler takes it to a jury trial it was shocking that he wanted a trial given the
40:31mountain of evidence there was against him
40:35and how could you put this family through reliving all of this
40:43from the beginning of the trial there were members of jocelyn's family and friends and co-workers
40:51that were in the courtroom and there was really some outrage how dare you
40:57i had to be there i wanted to see him i wanted to look at him and i wanted him
41:04to know that i know
41:06what you did i was mad he shot my baby in the face right through the eye
41:13i just wanted to scream we look at this case and you see the troubling sophistication of it hey i'll
41:23go to
41:23the store and buy a sack of potatoes and the potatoes will be in the apartment then when you
41:29get there all you have to do is grab one and use it this was the most thought out premeditated
41:38crime
41:38that i had covered and philip cutler any point in time along the way easily could have backed out
41:45and no one would have ever known and he just didn't philip cutler was found guilty and was
41:53sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison without parole for both the murder of jocelyn peters
42:02and her unborn child micah lee there was just this huge sense of relief he is going to pay for
42:08what he did
42:17the hole in my heart is still there it's not a day that i don't think about jocelyn i can
42:29be driving
42:30down the street and see something that reminds me of her she had a smile and a laugh that was
42:38contagious
42:40she was all about helping kids in the community so everybody in the family we don't mind giving a
42:47helping hand to people that that need it that's how we keep her memory alive
43:00so
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