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Cornelius Green Charged In Jocelyn Peters Murder

Cornelius Green has been charged with the murder of Jocelyn Peters who was pregnant at the time of her death in 2016. According to police reports Cornelius Green (above image on the left) would plan with childhood friend Phillip Cutler to murder Jocelyn Peters who became pregnant while the two were having an affair. While Phillip Cutler was murdering the pregnant school teacher Cornelius Green, a former principal, was conveniently out of town. Phillip Cutler would break into Jocelyn Peters apartment and fatally shoot her. Investigators were able to track a package that Cornelius Green used to pay Phillip Cutler. Cornelius Green who would be arrested for theft for stealing from the school he used to be a principal at. Now Cornelius Green and Phillip Cutler are facing two counts of murder and could be sentenced to death.

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A federal grand jury indicted a former St. Louis principal and an Oklahoma man in a murder-for-hire plot that left a pregnant woman dead in 2016.

Cornelius Green hired his childhood friend, Phillip J. Cutler, of Oklahoma, to kill 30-year-old Jocelyn Peters in 2016, the indictment alleges. Although Green was legally married, he began dating Peters who then became pregnant. Between Feb. 29, 2016, and Oct. 11, 2016, investigators believe Green hatched his plan to kill Peters and her unborn child. Peters was a teacher at Mann Elementary in St. Louis City while Green was the former principal at Carr Lane Visual Performing Arts School

Prosecutors allege the murder was “outrageously vile, horrible or inhuman in that involved torture or depravity of mind.”

“What we have here is an apparent murder for hire,” said Jennifer Joyce, Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney. “What we do know is Mr. Green did send Mr. Cutler through the mail $2,500 cash.”

On March 7, 2016, Cutler allegedly received the money in a UPS package in Oklahoma. Court records show Cutler was visiting in St. Louis the week of Peter’s murder and stayed at one of the former principal’s homes. Green traveled to Chicago to distance himself from the murder. Seventeen days later, Cutler drove Green’s Kia Optima and broke into Peters apartment in the 4200 block of West Pine. Utilizing a potato as a silencer to muffle the sound, police said Cutler shot Peters in the head while she was in her bed. She was seven months pregnant at the time of the shooting.

Green was arrested in August 2016, on theft charges, for allegedly stealing $2,700 from a student dance group at the school where he used to be a principal. Green faces two counts of first-degree murder. Cutler was also charged with various crimes related to the murder.

In 2017, prosecutors sought the death penalty for both men.

https://www.kmov.com/2022/03/10/grand-jury-indicts-former-st-louis-principal-accused-hiring-hitman-kill-pregnant-teacher/

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A federal grand jury indicted Cornelius M. Green and Phillip J. Cutler on March 9, 2022, for conspiracy to commit murder for hire and murder for hire that resulted in the death of Jocelyn Peters and her unborn child in 2016.

The indictment alleges that Green and Cutler had a longstanding and close friendship and Green, already legally married to another was involved in an ongoing romantic relationship with Jocelyn Peters. In 2015, Ms. Peters became pregnant, with Green being the father of the unborn child.

Beginning at an exact time unknown but including February 29, 2016, through October 11, 2016, within the Eastern District of Missouri and elsewhere, Green devised a plan to murder Peters and her unborn child. Part of that plan was that Green offered cash to Cutler for the murder of Peters and her unborn child.

It is alleged on or about March 7, 2016, Green sent a package via United Parcel Service containing $2500.00 to Cutler, who accepted the package at an address in Oklahoma. As part of the conspiracy, it is alleged that Cutler traveled to St. Louis on March 21, 2016, staying at a residence occupied by Green. The next day, Green traveled to Chicago, Illinois allegedly to distance himself from the homicide.

It was further part of the conspiracy that on or about March 24, 2016, Cutler traveled to the area of 4236 W. Pine in Green’s 2013 Kia Optima, unlawfully entered Jocelyn Peters’ apartment, Unit #201, found Peters in her bed, shot her with a .380 caliber firearm in the head while using a potato as a silencer to muffle the sound of the shot.

Cornelius Green and Cutler were both charged for a variety of crimes related to the murder of Peters and her unborn child by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office and are currently incarcerated awaiting trial.

Charges set forth in the indictment are merely accusations and do not constitute proof of guilt. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The case was investigated by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted in cooperation with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office.

Christian Jeffers Charged In NYC Hammer Attacks

Christian Jeffers has been arrested in New York City for a series of hammer attacks on random victims. According to police reports Christian Jeffers who has a very long criminal history with over thirty arrests would intentionally bump into people in the subway before striking them with a hammer. Christian Jeffers who has been charged with a series of assaults is now facing hate crime charges as well. New York City has seen a sharp uptake in crime over the last few months with random attacks increasing especially in the subway

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The suspect who attacked a subway rider with a hammer after bumping into the victim at a Manhattan station has been arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes, police said.

Christian Jeffers was arrested Wednesday, department sources told NBC New York and later confirmed by police. The 48-year-old was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing, each as a hate crime. Jeffers also faces a weapon possession charge.

While being led by police out of the police precinct, Jeffers told reporters that the other man in the station “pushed me.”

It was not immediately clear if Jeffers, who last residence was listed as an address on the Upper West Side, had hired an attorney. Sources told NBC New York that Jeffers has been arrested more than 30 times pin the past.

Police and the district attorney did not specify what led to hate crime charges being filed. The MTA released a statement after the arrest, saying that they are “grateful for the outstanding police work by the NYPD who were able to locate and arrest the person who attacked one of our riders with 24 (hours) of the incident…we expect this perpetrator of a hate crime will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The arrest comes less than 24 hours after Jeffers allegedly attacked another man at the 14th Street station, using a hammer to bash the victim in the head.

The victim told NBC New York on Wednesday that Jeffers intentionally bumped into him after harassing someone else on the platform, adding that he had no time to argue before the blow was delivered.

The victim, who asked his name be withheld, says he was with a friend with whom he had just had dinner Tuesday. They were on their way home and encountered the suspect near the turnstiles around 9 p.m.

“We saw the assailant come out from the turnstile,” the victim said. “As he was coming out he bumped into another individual that was in front of us.”

Words were exchanged between those two, according to the victim. Then the suspect walked the victim’s way and allegedly intentionally bumped into him, though he says he tried to move to the side to avoid contact.

“He turned around, trying to get in my face, get in my face aggressively,” the victim said, adding the stranger ended up stepping on his foot in the process

What happened next was captured on video shot by the man’s friend. It shows the suspect screaming at the victim — something about, “Don’t you see me walking here? Don’t you have eyes? Open your eyes!’, the victim recalled.

Then the hammer came out. The victim was hit on the left side of his head.

“I just saw him reaching into a bag, pull something out — and I saw that,” he said of the hammer. “It happened too quick for me to react, I tried to put my hand up because I was expecting something but I just got hit regardless.”

It happened right by the subway booth, though it wasn’t clear if an agent was inside at the time. Police initially said the victim had suspect had some sort of argument, but the victim says the two had no dispute. He says the suspect was the aggressor.

He also says the suspect threatened the friend who shot the video.

The victim, who says he has spent the time since the attack in a constant state of fear, described the sharp pain he felt. He said there was blood pouring down the side of his head and that he was too shocked and dazed to do much.

“I want to get him locked up because he was clearly aggressive,” the victim said. “He was looking for trouble.”

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to be physically OK.

“It’s very sad what we are facing. We are trying to live our life as well as we can and it’s just unfortunate that we have to face all these adversities along with just all the struggles of life and it’s just unnecessary conflict,” the victim said of the current state of subway crime. “It’s unfortunate the city is the way it is.”

“It’s hard because we have to be afraid, just be constantly aware, like be afraid of anyone who is passing by you,” he added. “And you know, who knows what they have, you know. It’s not really a way to live.”

The incident comes almost two weeks after New York City started its new “Subway Safety Plan”, a 17-page program to fight the massive spike in transit crime in the still-recovering city. But instead of going down, major transit crimes were up 30% week over week in the first part of the rollout, with felony assaults nearly doubling.

Christian Jeffers Arrested In NYC Hammer Attacks

Harvey Marcelin Charged With 3rd Murder

Harvey Marcelin is a transgender woman who has just been charged with her third murder. According to police reports Harvey Marcelin spent time in prison for two murders, one committed in 1963 and the other committed in 1983, and was on lifetime parole has been charged with the dismemberment murder of Susan Leyden whose body parts were found scattered around Brooklyn. Now Harvey Marcelin who is 83 years old would shoot and kill his first victim in 1963 and would spend twenty years in prison and within a year after getting out Harvey Marcelin would stab another woman to death before stuffing her body in a suitcase and dropping it off in Central Park. In 2019 Harvey Marcelin would be released from prison and is now facing yet another murder charge. Harvey Marcelin was seen on surveillance camera wheeling a large bag out of an apartment in which authorities now believed contained parts of Susan Leyden who was seen bringing the same bag into Marcelin apartment a few days earlier.

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An 83-year-old previously convicted in two other killings has been arrested in connection with the grisly discovery of a woman’s body — missing a head, arms and legs — that was found in a garbage bag in a shopping cart on a busy street outside a Brooklyn store last week, according to police and prison records.

Harvey Marcelin, who has spent more than 50 years in prison for the two prior convictions in deaths of other women, is charged with concealing a human corpse regarding the torso that law enforcement sources said belonged to a 68-year-old woman living in an LGBTQ shelter in the Clinton Hill area at the time of her death.

Additional charges could be forthcoming.

The body was found a week ago at the corner of Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues, just outside a construction safety gear shop next to a carpet store, by a passerby who noticed the bag on his way to a friend’s house in Greenpoint and decided to open it up when it was still there on his way home. He was the one to call 911.

The bag wasn’t tied up. It was only rolled down, a senior NYPD official said the man reported. He reached inside. First, he felt a roll of toilet paper. Then came the torso.

The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how the woman died. It’s not yet clear if a human leg found blocks from the torso a few days later has been definitively linked to the same victim.

According to prison records cited by the New York Post, Marcelin has twice been convicted of killings before. Marcelin spent more than 50 years in state prison on murder and manslaughter convictions dating back to 1963.

The murder charge stemmed from a woman’s shooting death. Marcelin was released on lifetime parole in May 1984, the Post reported, and cuffed again for allegedly stabbing another woman less than a year later. Marcelin was released from prison in late 2019.

Police stress their investigation in the latest case is ongoing. Marcelin is due back in court Thursday. Harvey Marcelin is being represented by Legal Aid, which didn’t immediately return an email request for comment early Thursday.

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There’s new information on a convicted serial killer charged with murder this week after police found a woman’s body dismembered and discarded in Brooklyn.

Details around 68-year-old Susan Leyden’s death are gruesome and disturbing.

The investigation began last week when police allegedly found the Brooklyn woman’s torso bagged in a shopping cart on Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues in East New York.

“Evidence includes extensive video canvassing, interviews of witnesses, search warrants executed to gather items recovered,” Chief of Detectives James Essig said.

Investigators say surveillance videos led them to Harvey Marcelin, also known as Marceline Harvey, an 83-year-old trans woman and twice convicted killer, who lives around the corner from where the torso was found.

Police believe Harvey befriended Leyden two years ago via social media.

Leyden was last seen alive walking into Harvey’s apartment on Feb. 27

“On March 1, our perpetrator, Ms. Harvey, and another unknown female at the Home Depot in Manhattan, they purchased a Sawzall, trash bags and cleaning solutions,” Essig said.

Police say this surveillance video from last week shows Harvey in a 99 cent store, where they believe she was sitting on a human leg wrapped in plastic.

When cops then executed a search warrant in Harvey’s apartment, they found more body parts inside. She’s now charged with second-degree murder.

“This is just the latest of a list of heinous offenses conducted over period of a lifetime by Ms. Harvey, and we can only hope she can do no more,” Essig said.

Marceline Harvey has already spent more than 50 years in prison.

She was first arrested in 1957 for felony assault and in 1963 for rape. That same year she was arrested again for shooting a woman to death in Harlem and sentenced to 20 years to life.

Harvey was released in 1984 on lifetime parole and arrested a year later for stabbing a woman to death in Central Park.

She was just released from prison in 2019.

The NYPD is now looking back at any unsolved missing person cases in this area dating from 2019 to now to see if Marceline Harvey could have any connection.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/east-new-york-brooklyn-woman-dismembered-murdered-marceline-harvey-arrest/

Emanuel Bedford Charged In Deidre Reed Murder

Emanuel Bedford who was the person of interest in the disappearance of Deidre Reid has now been charged with her murder. According to police reports Deidre Reid disappeared six months ago after she gave Emanuel Bedford a ride to a bus station in September 2021. Deidre Reid, who is a mother of six, car was found abandoned in Aiken County South Carolina with signs of foul play inside of the vehicle which was submerged in a pond. Emanuel Bedford was seen on surveillance camera driving Deidre Reid vehicle however she was not seen in the vehicle. Emanuel Bedford is the father of Deidre Reid youngest child. Along with murder charges Emanuel Bedford is facing kidnapping and obstruction of justice charges.

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The person of interest in the case of a missing Chesterfield County mom is now charged with murder and kidnapping, officials said.

On Thursday, a deputy solicitor asked the jury for upgraded charges, including murder, in the disappearance of Deidre Reid, a mother of three who vanished six months ago from Pageland.

Investigators said she drove Emanuel Bedford, the father of her youngest child, to a Charlotte bus station in September.

She never returned home.

Bedford was previously facing charges of obstruction of justice and grand larceny. He has now been indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of Reid.

In a hearing in February, Channel 9 learned Deidre Reid’s car was found in Aiken County, South Carolina, just days after she was reported missing, according to the solicitor. The state said the car, which was found partially submerged in a pond on Sept. 5, had blood inside it.

Deidre had plans to meet up with her sister, Tina, after she dropped Bedford off.

“I waited and waited. She never called back so I called James and said, ‘have you heard from Deidre? She supposed to been coming by, she said she was coming back and she hadn’t came yet.’” Tina Reid recalled. “He said, ‘she probably okay,’ but I didn’t feel right. I didn’t feel right.”

On Sept. 23, Bedford was named a person of interest in Reid’s disappearance and in February, prosecutors revealed what family members have said all along — they don’t believe he has been truthful about what happened the day Reid disappeared.

During February’s hearing, prosecutors said Bedford never got on a bus in Charlotte. They said on the afternoon Reid disappeared, he was spotted on surveillance video at a York County gas station, driving Reid’s car. She was not seen in that video. Then, two days later, investigators found her partially submerged car and were still processing the DNA evidence from the blood they found inside it.

Bedford was denied bond in that hearing.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/murder-charge-expected-case-missing-pageland-mother-solicitor-says/MH7AN5FCLRBNDGC7FFRFHQNQPY/

Andrew Derr Will Not Face Charges In Sara-Nicole Morales Death

No one doubts that Andrew Derr shot Sara-Nicole Morales dead however what lead up to the shooting is what it is still in question however prosecutors have decided not to press any charges against Derr. On November 20 2022 Sara-Nicole Morales was driving with her daughter in the vehicle in Orange City Florida and was involved in a road rage incident with Andrew Derr who was driving a motorcycle.

Witnesses said that Andrew Derr kicked Sara-Nichols Morales car and yelled at the woman. Sara-Nichols Morales responded by hitting the saddlebag on Andrew Derr motorcycle which almost caused him to crash. Sara-Nichols Morales would then attempt to drive off, which Florida police would later categorize as a hit and run. Another motorcyclist and another person driving a truck tried to prevent Sara-Nichols Morales from driving off. However Sara-Nichols Morales was able to drive to her house.

Sara-Nichols Morales is believed to have grabbed a firearm at this time from inside of her residence. Andrew Derr and the two other motorists would pull up in front of her home. Now Andrew Derr said that Sara-Nichols Morales pulled a gun on him and he responded by firing five times, striking and killing Sara-Nichols Morales. Andrew Derr did have a concealed weapon permit and did call 911 on his way over to Sara-Nichols Morales home. Sara-Nichols Morales also called 911 saying she was followed home. However the police did not arrive fast enough to prevent the shooting. When police did arrive Andrew Derr was put into custody and immediately told police that Sara-Nichols Morales pointed a gun at him.

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Prosecutors will not charge an Orange City motorcyclist who shot and killed a Volusia County library assistant who he said pointed a gun at him following a road rage incident, according to an email from the State Attorney’s Office.

Andrew Derr, 40, of Orange City, shot and killed Sara-Nicole Morales, 35, on Nov. 20 outside her mother’s house in Orange City. Derr said Morales pointed a gun at him, according to reports. Two other men said Morales was waving the gun around, according to reports.

Morales was a library assistant for Volusia County. She was pregnant, her mother said.

Assistant State Attorney Bryan Shorstein, a spokesman for 7th Circuit State Attorney R.J. Larizza, wrote in an email on Tuesday that Derr would not be charged.

“The State Attorney’s Office has completed a comprehensive review of this case. The Orange City Police Department concluded, after a thorough investigation, that the suspect would not be charged with a crime,” Shorstein wrote. “While the facts in this case are truly heartbreaking, the law does not authorize the filing of any criminal charges. Our sincerest thoughts and prayers go out to the Morales family.”

man who answered Derr’s phone on Tuesday hung up after a reporter identified himself. Derr has a concealed weapons permit, according to reports.

Morales’ mother, Doreen Flaherty, said previously that Morales was pregnant when she was killed. She also said her daughter had grabbed her fiancé’s gun.

Flaherty said on Tuesday that she was angered by the prosecutors’ decision.

She also said both sides made mistakes in the fatal incident, but that Derr should not have followed her daughter home.

“If he had not followed her in the first place there would have been no need for him to feel the need to defend himself,” Flaherty said.

The incident began when Derr tried to pass Morales and she moved her car into his lane, causing Derr to swerve, according to a witness’ statement in a report.

Derr then “became aggressive,” yelling and waving as he continued to ride next to Morales’ vehicle, the witness said in the report.

Morales swerved her car at the biker, the report said. Her vehicle struck the motorcycle’s saddle bag, leaving a scuff mark and almost causing the biker to wreck, according to the report.

Derr then kicked Morales’ car, a witness stated in the report

Derr and two other men, who were the witnesses quoted in the reports, followed Morales to her home on East Wisconsin Avenue in Orange City. Derr later told police he and the other two men were waiting in the road near her house.

Morales ran into her house and came back out with a gun, the report stated. Derr pulled his .45-caliber pistol and shot her dead, according to a report

“She came toward us and when she was about 15 feet away she raised a gun at me,” Derr told police, according to a report. “It was pointed at me. I was scared to death and immediately drew my firearm and defended myself.”

Nicolas Hirst, of Deltona, one of the other two men who followed Morales, told police Morales came out of the house and told the men she was on the phone with police, the report stated.

“She then pulled out a gun and waved it at the three of us. I stepped back, said ‘calm down’ and before I knew it, the male motorcyclist drew his gun and shot the female what sounded like five times,” Hirst stated, according to the report.

Cody Drew, 21, of Umatilla, was the other witness who followed Morales.

Drew told police that “lady pulled in driveway of the house and came out to road to talk. Lady pulls a pistol and waves it at me and the guy on the bike and another witness. Guy on bike with black jacket pulls his pistol and unloads his clip on the lady in the blue car,” according to the report.

Morales’ 11-year-old daughter was inside the house and heard the gunshots that took her mother’s life.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/courts/2022/03/08/florida-man-who-killed-library-assistant-in-orange-city-road-rage-incident-wont-face-charges/9429851002/