A Missouri principal has been arrested after prosecutors say he paid his friend to murder his girlfriend, who was seven months pregnant.
On Thursday, Cornelius Green was indicted on two counts of first degree murder. Prosecutors say he hired Philip J. Cutler, who was his childhood friend, to kill his girlfriend, Jocelyn Peters, along with their unborn child, on March 24.
Initially, Cutler, who was arrested in June, was thought to have acted on his own. But when investigators discovered that Green had sent Cutler $2,500 four days before his girlfriend’s murder, they become suspicious of Green as well.
The day after Green sent Cutler the money, court documents revealed that he met Cutler at the bus station to pick him up. He then left Cutler with his car keys as well as the keys to Peters’ apartment. Though Green left town, the two men remained in contact over the next few days.
When Green returned and found Peters dead in her apartment, police pulled him in for questioning. He asked to make a phone call to his daughter but called his ex-wife instead, asking her to move his car from Peters’ apartment where it had been left. He did not realize that police were listening in on the call.