Murder-For-Hire: The Senseless Death of Pregnant Teacher

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

School Principal Cornelius Green arrives at the Amtrak train station in St. Louis after spending a few days in Chicago. Leaving the train station Green goes to straight to the apartment of his girlfriend, 3rd grade school teacher, Jocelyn Peters. Arriving at her apartment Green finds Peters, who is 7-months pregnant, in bed. He immediately calls 911 and tells them his girlfriend has been shot in the head, send help now! Jocelyn Peters is pronounced dead on the scene and the investigation begins with the person who found her, Cornelius Green. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the story that leads to stolen school funds, a hitman, and a potato gun silencer, on this episode of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:57 Joe talks about the impact of 3rd grade teacher

00:03:12 Discussion of victim

00:08:54 Discussion of Green sending money to Cutler

00:11:23 Talk about alibi set up by Green taking train to Chicago

00:14:20 Discussion about finding pregnant woman shot in the head

00:16:02 Talk about investigation, alibi

00:19:50 Talk about no sign of forced entry

00:23:18 Discussion of “potato silencer”

00:28:12 Talking about objects changing trajectory

00:32:30 Discussion of Federal and State charges

00:36:29 Discuss Phillip Cutler in court

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. When my father got home from his service for the Marine Corps. He proceeded to pack me and my
0:30.7	mama up. I guess I was probably seven. and moved us to Georgia from Louisiana.
0:35.0	Louisiana is all I'd ever known growing up.
0:39.0	And you know when I arrived in Georgia I just turned to eight and
0:49.8	the first school that I was ever in, obviously in elementary school, but the first grade I was ever in there was third grade.
1:00.0	And I'll never forget my teacher because I was a fish out of water.
1:05.0	I didn't know anybody.
1:08.5	I remember being very scared.
1:10.8	But the teacher I had, her name was Miss Peoples.
1:15.0	She was always kind to me.
1:18.0	I remember Dave, she had a big old beehive hairdo,
1:22.0	and she always took Tom time and she was kind to me. It's almost like she
1:26.0	understood just for a moment of how fearful I was because all these other kids had been
1:31.6	together since they were probably in
1:33.2	kindergarten but she made a lasting impression on me and it's something that has
1:40.8	stuck with me to this very day and because of the kindness that
1:45.6	she extended to me I've used her kind of as a role model in my teaching.
1:53.8	It's weird how you reflect back on your life
1:56.3	and you think about those little benchmarks
1:59.0	to try to be kind to my students within reason without knuckling under to their demand so much.
2:07.6	But Miss People's had an effect on me and I'll forever be grateful for that experience I had with her, but today we're going to discuss
2:17.6	another third grade teacher. A lady who was single. She had a job teaching in public schools, but she was also pregnant and it was probably for that reason that she was
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