Post Mortem | Jocelyn Peters and the Notebook
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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48 Hours correspondents Natalie Morales and Anne-Marie Green discuss the murder of third grade teacher, Jocelyn Peters, whose boyfriend, Cornelius Green, hired a hitman to kill her. The team examines a bizarre clue at the crime scene, why a person of interest ate pages from his notebook in the police interview room, and Green's affairs with other women.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your |
| 0:27.3 | podcast. Welcome to Postmortem. I'm 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales, filling in as host today to speak with Anne-Marie Green about her report on the murder of Jocelyn Peters. |
| 0:51.3 | So on March 24, 2016, Jocelyn's boyfriend, Cornelius Green, called the St. Louis |
| 0:57.9 | Police Department to report that Jocelyn had been shot in her apartment. |
| 1:03.6 | Now, this story features details that I have never encountered in another 48 hours episode, |
| 1:08.9 | including a key suspect eating pages out of a notebook, |
| 1:13.1 | and fragments of a potato that were found at the crime scene. We're going to discuss all of that |
| 1:18.9 | and more. But first, Anne-Marie Green, thanks for joining us. And Natalie, it's always great to be here. |
| 1:24.3 | And, you know, I always like doing post-mortem with you. So it's fantastic. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you. I love doing it with you as well. And this one is such an intriguing case. |
| 1:42.4 | I mean, I got to remind our viewers first, though. If you haven't watched or listened to our 48 hours episode, Jocelyn Peters and the Notebook, just go check it out right now. Then come back for a conversation. |
| 1:47.8 | Jocelyn Peters was a 30-year-old, beloved elementary school teacher. |
| 1:53.8 | She was in a relationship with a school principal, Cornelius Green, for five years. |
| 1:56.2 | In fact, they were expecting a child together. |
| 2:00.6 | Jocelyn was seven months pregnant when she was killed in her home. Well, now investigators did find a shell |
| 2:03.1 | casing on the floor. No weapon, though, was recovered. Jocelyn's phone was also missing, |
| 2:10.0 | and they did find something else that was really bizarre, Anne-Marie. They did. They found potato |
| 2:16.5 | fragments in the bedroom. |
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