Ex-Principal Admits to Hiring Hitman to Kill Teacher Pregnant With His Baby
A former Missouri middle school principal pleaded guilty on Thursday to hiring a hitman to murder a teacher who was seven months pregnant with his child, finally bringing the stunning case to a close.
Prosecutors alleged that married St. Louis principal Cornelius Green hired his friend to kill then-30-year-old Jocelyn Peters, a third-grade teacher at Mann Elementary School with whom he’d been having an affair.
In March 2016, Green briefly left St. Louis for Chicago to establish an alibi, prosecutors said. While he was away, his friend Phillip Cutler drove to Peters’ apartment and shot her in the head with a .380 caliber gun, killing her and her unborn child.