A pregnant woman's found in her apartment.
A single gunshot wound through her eye
that instantaneously killed her.
And a potato was used to silence the gun.
She was sound asleep and just ambushed in her own bed.
There was no DNA evidence, no forced entry.
This was not a burglary-type homicide.
It looked like one of those old mafia movies.
What all is going on here?
There is video surveillance of someone
turning onto the victim's street the night of the murder.
He tears out a single sheet of paper and proceeds
to chew it up and swallow it.
There's no question that this was
an elaborate, premeditated
plan to end her life.
We were dispatched to West Pine Avenue.
At the same time, EMS responded,
declared the victim deceased.
At the scene, we were met by the person that made
a 911 call, Cornelius Green.
And he said he was the boyfriend
of the victim that was inside.
Her name was Jocelyn Peters.
Cornelius was extremely out of breath,
a little bit frantic.
He told us Miss Peters was seven months pregnant,
and he oftentimes stayed with her at her apartment.
It was a secure building with a key
that cannot be duplicated for the front main entrance door.
As you enter the apartment building,
you'd go through a secure locked glass foyer entrance.
The victim's apartment was that first apartment
on the left as you walk up to the second floor.
As you enter the apartment, to the right is the bedroom.
Her bedroom door was opened.
The victim was on her bed laying
on her right side, pillow tucked underneath her arms,
blankets no longer on her.
You could definitely tell that she was pregnant.
She had her arms folded like she was sound asleep
and just ambushed in her own bed.
She had obvious gunshot wound through her eye and blood that
had came down the side of her face
and pooled on the pillow next to her arm.
Terribly tragic scene.
I do not believe this poor woman ever knew what
hit her before it happened.
The whole thing was horrible.
This was an investigation of a homicide.
As we looked around the bedroom,
we observed something that was extremely strange,
what appeared to be an organic material all around the victim
on her bed,
large chunks of it on the wall and next to the bed.
This was unidentified, and we immediately
requested our evidence technicians
to come in and seize this material so we could send
it off for further analysis.
We identified, underneath the dresser
next to the victim's bed, a spent shell casing
for a .380-caliber handgun.
But there was no DNA evidence obtained during that time.
One of the first things that I noticed
is that there wasn't clothes strewn about.
There wasn't TVs or anything knocked over.
There wasn't drawers tossed out like someone
that went through an apartment looking for something.
There was no forced entry.
Nothing taken.
This was not a burglary-type homicide.
There was something else going on here.
We also noticed there was gifts that were laid out.
There was a shirt that indicated "I love Daddy"
and other items related to her baby.
It looked like this woman's whole life
was surrounded around a child that she was about to have.
While our evidence technicians were conducting
the interior scene investigation,
we responded outside of the apartment
and spoke with Mr. Green.
Cornelius Green was very upset.
And he told me that his girlfriend, Jocelyn Peters,
was 30 years old, and she was getting ready to have
a shower for her child.
He immediately said, you got to find
out who killed the mother of my child and my unborn child.
Cornelius said that Ms. Peters was currently employed
as a third grade school teacher
at Mann Elementary School in the city of Saint Louis.
And that he said he was a principal at Carr Lane School,
but he had prior worked at Mann Elementary,
and that's how they began the relationship.
And he also stated that he was out of town visiting some
friends in Chicago, and he got off the Amtrak
train at 2:59 p.m. that day.
We continued our conversation,
I asked how many keys there were for the apartment.
He said he had one and the victim had one.
These are heavy-duty doors that if you had to break in,
you would have had to make a lot of noise.
You would have had to done damage.
None of that was visible.
So Cornelius Green was taken down to police headquarters
for more interviewing.
My phone just started ringing
and ringing and ringing.
And I looked up.
It was Cornelius.
He was like, it's been an accident.
It's been blood.
It's blood.
I said, I got to go now.
It felt like I was driving only 2 miles an hour.
And I got to her apartment.
There was police.
And I walked up to her door,
and the cop just looked at me,
and she was like, she's dead.
And I was like, what about the baby?
What about the baby?
And she just kind of like, dropped her head down.
And she was like, the baby's dead, too.
I just couldn't believe it.
She wasn't the young lady to be out and running the street,
making enemies, stuff like that.
She just wasn't that person.
I told the police, we just took a family cruise for her
30th birthday, with Cornelius.
I believe they paid for the cruise together.
He was a good guy.
It was a good relationship.
She was really happy and ecstatic because this would
have been her first child.
I just felt like if I could have traded my life for hers,
I would have gladly did it.
We have a young, pregnant school teacher,
has no enemies, no criminal history,
and she was shot in her sleep.
So we went back inside of the apartment.
We're going to be meticulous, take our time,
and go through and get every obstructive fact that we
can obtain from the scene.
As we looked around the apartment again,
the kitchen was in order.
On the refrigerator, the victim had a menu for the whole week
written on a whiteboard, contained everything
she wanted to feed herself.
We observed on the kitchen dining room table a 10-pound
bag of Russet baking potatoes.
The bag was opened, but the menu
on her refrigerator, none of those recipes
indicated they used potatoes.
The substance that was all over the victim
and the victim's bed and the walls, the evidence technician
unit was able to find a piece big enough that indicated
it may possibly be a potato.
There's old mafia movies where they use potatoes as silencers.
If it was a silencer trick, it's
not like you're going to go in and break into a house
and then look around for a potato,
decide to kill somebody sleeping.
Somebody knew the potato was going to be there, that they
were going to obviously use.
This was a clearly and obviously
a premeditated and planned murder.
There was the package with the money
to kill Jocelyn Peters.
You could clearly see a 10-pound bag of Russet
potatoes sitting on there.
She is literally purchasing the tools that are going
to be used in her own murder.
It becomes very apparent how much thought process went
into this before it happened.
She never saw this coming.
On March 24, 2016, when I found out,
Jocelyn Peters was found shot to death.
And what struck me immediately was the fact
that she was pregnant, and a potato
was used to silence the gun.
So I went to the area where the crime scene was.
And people were talking about how nice and sweet she was.
I just didn't understand.
Please, please tell me this isn't true, is it?
She was such a nurturing and loving teacher,
her passion, her liveliness.
She was very, very skilled.
And she had just this fire about her.
We knew she would be an amazing mom.
She was really ecstatic about having the baby,
because this would have been her first child.
Micah Leigh was the name for her baby
that she was carrying.
And from my interviews with her family, friends, coworkers,
it was fairly obvious how excited Jocelyn
was to be a new mother.
Upon speaking with the medical examiner at the scene,
it was determined that Ms. Peters died between 2:59
and 3:48 a.m. from a single gunshot wound through her eye
from a .380-caliber handgun that would have
instantaneously killed her and caused
the death of her unborn child.
I immediately thought, how did this happen?
Why did this happen?
Mr. Green had told Sergeant McGlynn
that he was the only one to have access
and keys to the apartment, and there
was no sign of forced entry.
So Cornelius Green was obviously a person
of interest at this point.
So we conveyed Mr. Green down to the Homicide office
so we could interview him.
When murders happen, the overwhelming majority of them
are at the hands of someone that we know--
a family member, spouse, brother,
sister, something like that.
During that initial interview,
we want to see his body language, how he speaks.
Does he react as most people normally
do in a situation like that?
Cornelius Green, when he's being questioned
by the detectives, he seems to be
upset about losing this child and this woman
that he has loved.
But he doesn't engage in a heck of a lot of eye contact.
It seems that he is trying hard to manage
the way other people see him.
During that same time, we want to get a timeline of,
when did you get into town?
How did you get here?
As he's on the train coming back to Saint Louis,
Cornelius starts calling Jocelyn repeatedly,
not getting answers.
He calls her mother and says, I'm concerned.
She's not answering my calls.
Cornelius informed me that he was picked up by his friend
in Cornelius's car.
He dropped his friend off, came over to the apartment,
and found the victim.
While we were interviewing him,
I had the investigators call the train station.
We got their surveillance footage,
and we could see Cornelius coming off the Amtrak
train into the terminal.
Cornelius Green was out of town in Chicago
at the time of the murder so he obviously
was not the triggerman.
But the odd thing about that was, he was looking up
at the cameras to make sure that
you could see a good, clear view of him
getting off that train.
He made a point to be seen.
That was something that stuck in our head.
So we had to keep digging.
We wanted to get a little background
on his ongoing relationship with Jocelyn Peters.
He had stated that they had been looking at houses
and had just, two weeks prior to her death, went on a cruise
together with several members of her family.
But then he said something that was extremely strange.
Mr. Green explained to us that he
was currently separated from his wife, obtaining a divorce.
And it was due to his ongoing relationship with Ms. Peters.
At that point, I wanted to search Cornelius's car,
and I was going to search the victim's car as well.
Because vehicles are places that sometimes
evidence ends up.
It's an extension of the crime scene.
Mr. Green became extremely agitated.
Felt like it was an accusatory question that we would ask him.
He became irate towards us and refused consent
for any officers to look inside of his vehicle
at that current time.
And you're like, this guy is obviously
involved in something.
And then during the course of our interview,
Mr. Green requested to contact his daughter.
And we monitored this as it was happening live.
He had the volume up so loud that you
could hear the other person on the other line talking.
His vehicle had still remained at the scene,
and he was reaching out to his wife, Stephanie.
He wanted her to meet with someone named Phillip
and give him the keys so Phillip
can go pick up his vehicle.
Which makes zero sense when his girlfriend and his child
have just been murdered.
It makes you wonder, who is Phillip,
and why is Cornelius so concerned
about his wife meeting with this man,
and what all is going on here?
At one point during the interview with Cornelius Green,
he makes a phone call to his wife.
Cornelius had requested his wife, Stephanie,
to get his spare key and take it to a friend
of his named Phillip.
After speaking to his wife, he reached out to Phillip.
Green arranges for Stephanie and Phillip
to meet at this gas station by Forest Park and Highway 40.
And then Cornelius wants him to go pick up his vehicle
at the crime scene.
It was kind of shocking to see him do that.
I wanted to know what was on the inside of that car
that Cornelius was trying to hide.
Cornelius wasn't a suspect, but his extreme concern
over his vehicle gave us a pause and concern
to investigate further.
But we were not able to get a search
warrant, because there was not enough tangible evidence
at that point.
So we went back in the interview room
and we asked who he was talking to.
He admitted that he called his wife, Stephanie, and a friend
of his named Phillip Cutler.
We wanted to know why he's the one
that Cornelius reached out to.
Obviously, we knew that on the 22nd, Cornelius Green took
the Amtrak train to Chicago.
We wanted to know who gave him a ride to the Amtrak station.
We knew he did not want us to search that vehicle, which
really didn't make sense.
We wanted to know, what did Phillip Cutler do with the car
while Cornelius was gone?
Was he near Jocelyn Peter's apartment
during the time when the murder had occurred?
So now, he's a person that we got to interview.
We had investigators respond to that gas station.
They were able to make contact with Stephanie Green
and Phillip Cutler, and they're both brought down
to the Homicide Division, where we're able to interview
them that evening.
And we obviously had to look pretty hard
at Cornelius's wife,
because he indicated there was a divorce
that was going to take place.
Stephanie Green was shook up and in fragile emotional state
while we were speaking to her.
She had no idea that Cornelius was
involved in this relationship with our victim,
Jocelyn Peters.
And she was further unaware that Cornelius and Jocelyn were
expecting a newborn child.
It was kind of a bombshell that was dropped on her.
That was immediately a red flag for detectives.
Cornelius's wife said, there was no talk of divorce.
There was no talk of we're having problems.
And she had an alibi when the murder occurred.
Stephanie was cooperative.
There was nothing that indicated to us that she was
being dishonest or deceitful, so we
have to rule Stephanie out.
But Mr. Green's lies regarding him obtaining a divorce
from his wife made him look even more to us
like a suspect during this investigation.
So the next step was to speak with Phillip Cutler.
He stated that he had not personally met her
and denied ever being over at victim Peter's residence.
Then we kind of went into a let's get a timeline
of when did you get into town?
He stated he'd come here on the Greyhound bus.
Cornelius picked him up at the bus station on the 21st
at approximately 10:30 in the evening.
When we asked him-- you came down to visit your friend.
Doesn't that seem-- that seems a little odd.
Did you know he was going to be leaving?
He kind of hem-hawed a little bit around the question.
And at this point, we had conducted interviews
with Mr. Cutler, Mr. Green.
Some of the things just didn't sit
right with the investigation.
Cornelius gave Phillip Cutler possession of his vehicle
while he was out of town, and then he
refused consent for any officers
to look inside of his vehicle.
Also, Green wasn't telling the truth about being
separated from his wife.
So they were certainly persons of interest,
but there were no arrests at that time.
But we had investigators continued reviewing
the evidence, reviewing reports,
and video footage from the interviews
with Mr. Cutler, Mr. Green,
that's when we observed something that was extremely
strange that occurred while Mr. Cutler was
alone in the interview room.
He's pacing back and forth.
And then much to our astonishment,
he thumbs through a notepad, tears
out a single sheet of paper, and proceeds
to chew it up and swallow it.
My immediate reaction was, what in the heck?
There's no doubt in my mind that that piece of paper
was a direct connection to him and the murder
that had just occurred.
During the interview, you see Phillip Cutler
get a piece of paper with some writing on it
and then goes to his mouth with it and it disappears.
It's very unusual, what he does.
It was like he was trying to hide something.
Possibly, there's some indication of guilt there.
Because of their behavior, our investigation now
is directed towards Phillip Cutler and Cornelius Green
as suspects.
But we need evidence.
So one of the things that we do is,
we'll look for potential surveillance equipment
throughout the neighborhood.
The entrance to Jocelyn's street,
where the apartments were located,
had a building that had some security footage
running 24/7 on the perimeter.
I was able to reach out and go over surveillance footage.
We know that Cornelius Green arrived over at the scene
sometime around 3:20 the afternoon after the murder,
and he was driving his car, so that gave us a starting point.
We backed up and went through probably 12
to 15 hours of video surveillance
of that intersection.
As we're looking at it, 2:59 a.m.
on the night of the murder,
we see a vehicle turn onto Jocelyn
Peters's street from Boyle.
And we later observe it leave the street around 3:48.
It was a white Kia, and they were able to zoom in,
and we got three or four positive letters
off the license plate.
It was indeed Cornelius Green's white Kia Optima.
We knew that Cornelius Green was out of town,
and he had left the keys to his vehicle
with Phillip Cutler.
And we knew that those keys also contained a key
to enter into that apartment complex
and enter into Mrs. Peters's apartment.
At this point, it gave us a theory
that Phillip Cutler was the one that killed Jocelyn Peters.
I couldn't really process her untimely death,
but I had a funeral to plan.
Principal Nicole had called, and she was like, well,
you know what?
I'm going to call that day off for the kids
so they'll be able to attend Jocelyn's funeral.
There were kids that were really struggling,
so we really wanted to find a way to celebrate her life.
When I got to the funeral, it was people already
just standing there lined around the corner
just to see her.
Jocelyn's favorite color is yellow.
So at the funeral, when the kids walked past me,
all the kids would hand me one yellow rose.
It was really hard.
I was constantly praying.
Cornelius did not attend her funeral.
It ran in the back of my mind, why my daughter is dead,
he's not dead, too?
That's what I wanted to know.
As we continued looking into Cornelius Green and Phillip
Cutler, trying to get as much evidence and a foundation laid,
there was tips that would come in.
One of those was this woman who came into the Homicide office
and stated that she saw on the news
that this incident occurred.
And then she said she was involved with Cornelius
for quite a while, a couple years at least,
and recently learned he was juggling
numerous romantic sexual relationships at the same time.
She said he was a womanizer and certainly was
another red flag for police.
At that point, after interviewing her,
we'd received a call from Cornelius Green.
He said he had heard out on the street
that we were speaking to this woman who he was involved
in a relationship with, and he was
irritated, to say the least.
He then went on and asked what he could do to help us,
so we offered him the opportunity
to provide his cellular telephone, and oddly enough,
he allowed us to download it.
After receiving the data information,
we were able to obtain his text messaging and some
of his Google searches.
And on March 20, 2016, four days before the murder
and prior to Phillip Cutler coming into town,
he had a telephonic conversation
with Phillip Cutler.
He then reached out to Ms. Peters via text.
During that conversation, Ms. Peters states that she's going
to go to the ALDIs and go grocery shopping,
and Cornelius states, "I will meet you there."
He seemed adamant that, hey, we'll go shopping together.
It just seemed rather odd.
She didn't seem like she was asking him to come
with her to the grocery store.
We were able to obtain the video surveillance
inside the ALDIs,
and we observed Jocelyn Peters exiting
the store with Cornelius Green directly
behind her, pushing the cart.
And you could clearly see a 10-pound bag of Russet
potatoes sitting on there.
Same brand that was found at the crime scene on the kitchen
table with one missing.
I don't believe it was just happenstance or coincidence.
Now, there's no doubt in our minds
that that conversation he had with Phillip Cutler on March
20th prior to going grocery shopping with Ms. Peters
was him making sure that there's some potatoes bought.
It becomes very apparent, how much
thought process he was putting into this before it happened.
It was kind of shocking.
She never saw this coming.
She is literally purchasing the tools that are going
to be used in her own murder.
That's important because it did
help us start to paint the picture
and see what was happening just days prior
to Ms. Peters being murdered.
But it was circumstantial evidence,
and there was a tremendous amount of other obstacles
to overcome.
First, there was no murder weapon that was ever recovered.
And second, Cornelius Green has an alibi.
So we need to essentially prove he planned a way for Mr. Cutler
to come into town to kill Jocelyn Peters.
So next, we obtained a search warrant
and received the tracking history from Phillip
Cutler's telephone.
It showed Phillip Cutler in the area
of Jocelyn Peters's apartment the night she was murdered.
And then it showed Cutler traveling directly
down to North Riverfront Park on the far
north end of the city.
Why this stood out to us is because North Riverfront Park
borders the Mississippi River.
Cutler responded there after speaking with Green
and spent eight minutes there the morning after the murder.
We believe he discarded the murder weapon
in the Mississippi River.
The river was searched, but unless you knew
exactly where it was, the chances of it still being there
are slim.
So the murder weapon was never found.
It was a very difficult case to make.
That's why the detectives kept digging
and digging and digging.
While we were looking for something that proved
that they both worked together and planned a way to kill Ms.
Peters, we were able to identify some of the most
prevalent Google searches on Green's phone
prior to the murder of Ms. Peters.
One of the first patterns we observed
was that there were Google searches about how to mask
the taste of an abortion pill.
This was early on in the pregnancy, just a few weeks,
and he had started Googling, can I crush
up pills to end a pregnancy?
It strongly suggested that Cornelius Green
was trying to kill the baby without Jocelyn
Peters' knowledge.
I believe the baby that Jocelyn Peters was
carrying became an obstacle.
And if he could get rid of the pregnancy,
then he could continue to have Jocelyn Peters as a toy
to play with, along with the other five or six women,
and continue to live life in exactly the way
that he wanted to.
As we continued looking into his Google searches,
it seemed that this apparently was not working.
One of Green's searches was still seeing a heartbeat
after taking an abortion pill.
And all of these Google searches
happened several months prior to Ms. Peters being murdered.
He obviously was searching for this method
to get rid of the child, and when that didn't work out,
it wasn't long after that Cornelius decides to
segue into the murder business.
We identified Cornelius Green
researching abortion pills,
researching ways to induce an abortion.
Cornelius made some fairly sinister efforts
to get rid of this pregnancy.
And when that didn't work, he arrived at the conclusion
that Jocelyn Peters was a liability
that he needed to get rid of.
That starts to build the motive and the means
and the method of how this murder occurred.
We further investigated Cornelius's cell phone data,
and on February 28th Cornelius Green and Phillip Cutler
had a conversation via text, where Green had said,
are you going to be coming into town?
Cutler responds in the affirmative and asks, when?
He says, March 20th.
And Cutler says, OK.
Don't forget to send the package.
When I read it, I immediately thought,
there was something of value sent from Green to Mr. Cutler.
And I was able to reach out to the post office.
There's a record of a transaction,
where on March the 7th, just days prior to the murder,
he sent a package to Phillip Cutler in Oklahoma.
Which the police assume is the money to pay
him to kill Jocelyn Peters.
This was obviously planning and premeditation
on both Green and Cutler's part,
with relation to Ms. Peters' murder.
But at this point, Green had obtained
an attorney so we could not bring him
in and speak with him again.
It was extremely challenging to keep moving forward.
But then we'd received a call from the dance instructor
of Carr Lane School, where Cornelius Green
was the principal.
We had learned approximately $2,700 had been
stolen from Carr Lane School's dance program a few weeks prior
to the murder of Ms. Peters.
She said, on March 3rd she observed Cornelius Green
in the area where the money had been taken and believed that he
was, no doubt, involved.
When asked about why it wasn't reported,
she stated that she was extremely concerned
with repercussions because he wielded
a certain amount of authority over the school
being the principal.
We believe that $2,700 was the payment
Cornelius Green sent to Phillip Cutler to kill Jocelyn Peters.
As you progress through the investigation, the amount
of circumstantial evidence that was obtained,
it gave us the timeline, the motive, and the method
of how this murder occurred.
There's no question that this was
an elaborate, premeditated plan to end Jocelyn Peters' life
and get rid of the baby that Jocelyn Peters was carrying.
In August of 2015, Ms. Peters became pregnant.
Then, just a few weeks in the pregnancy,
Cornelius Green started searching
ways to end a pregnancy.
Cornelius spent months trying to poison
or kill the baby.
And when that didn't work, on February 28th
Cornelius Green arranges for Phillip Cutler
to be the triggerman.
On March the 3rd, he stole money
from Carr Lane Middle School.
On March 8th, Cornelius Green sent Phillip Cutler
the money to murder Jocelyn.
On March 14th through the 18th, Cornelius
takes Jocelyn and her family on a cruise for her birthday.
We believe he was trying to throw them off.
Then March 20th Cornelius Green
accompanied Jocelyn Peters
to the grocery store, where they
purchased the Russet potatoes.
And then he left them inside of the apartment
for Mr. Cutler.
On March 21th, Phillip Cutler travels from Oklahoma
to Saint Louis, Missouri.
Police believe the next day, Cornelius hands Phillip
Cutler his .38-caliber gun and the keys
to Jocelyn's apartment.
Then Cornelius Green takes an Amtrak to Chicago,
as an alibi for himself.
In the middle of the night, Phillip Cutler
goes into Jocelyn Peter's apartment.
He uses a potato as a silencer, shoots
her one time in the head, and kills her and her unborn child.
Next, Cornelius Green takes an Amtrak back to Saint Louis.
As he's on the train, Cornelius starts
calling Jocelyn repeatedly.
It was all just part of the ruse to make it look like he
was concerned about her.
And then lastly, Cornelius Green goes to her apartment
and calls 911 to report the death of Jocelyn Peters.
The level of planning that went on for this case
was shocking.
That's his girlfriend.
He's going to be the father of the child that she's carrying.
This was a cold-blooded, horrific crime.
I don't know if Cornelius Green was a psychopath,
but he should be in the psychology textbooks,
because the cognitive sophistication
that it would take to keep all of that separate,
you have to be adept at compartmentalizing your life.
At that point, we knew that we needed to arrest
both Cutler and Green for the murder of Jocelyn
Peters and her unborn child.
At this point, we have the abortion
search history with Green.
We have Cutler's cell phone data
that puts him at the location of the victim's residence.
We have the video surveillance of the vehicle
that Phillip Cutler was in possession
of turning onto the victim's street the night of the murder.
So we were able to secure indictments against Mr. Cutler
and Mr. Green for conspiracy to commit murder
and committing murder-for-hire.
Cornelius is arrested first.
Obviously, we wanted to get an opportunity
to try and talk to him, but he doesn't make
any statements at that time.
And then, we traveled to Muskogee, Oklahoma,
and placed Phillip Cutler under arrest
to be transported back to Saint Louis, Missouri.
And in our post-arrest interview,
he denied having anything to do with the murder
of Jocelyn Peters.
When they called and told me
they had arrested both of them,
I was, pretty much, in shock.
I thought Cornelius was a good guy.
I was out to dinner with our school counselor,
and it came across the news that he was arrested.
And we just cried together.
That was a life-changing day because it had taken
so many months, and it finally had happened,
and it was just a rush of emotion.
I was glad that it finally happened,
but, you know, I just wanted my daughter and my
granddaughter back.
This is certainly a chilling crime.
A father and a principal at the school
thought out a murder-for-hire plot.
But, unfortunately, the COVID pandemic
really threw a wrench into the criminal justice system.
Eight years go by before we actually go to trial.
And prior to the trial date, Cornelius Green accepted
a plea to plead guilty.
Cornelius agrees to life, with no parole.
So the death penalty was off the table at this point,
but Phillip Cutler takes it to a jury trial.
It was shocking that he wanted
a trial, given the mountain of evidence there was against him.
And how could you put this family
through reliving all of this?
From the beginning of the trial,
there were members of Jocelyn's family
and friends and coworkers that were in the courtroom.
And there was really some outrage.
How dare you?
I had to be there.
I wanted to see him.
I wanted to look at him, and I wanted him to know
that I know what you did.
I was mad.
He shot my baby in the face, right through the eye.
I had just wanted to scream.
We look at this case, and you see
the troubling sophistication of it.
Hey, I'll go to the store and buy a sack of potatoes,
and the potatoes will be in the apartment.
Then when you get there, all you have to do
is grab one and use it.
This was the most thought-out, premeditated
crime that I had covered.
And, Phillip Cutler, any point in time along the way,
easily could have backed out and no one
would have ever known.
And he just didn't.
Phillip Cutler was found guilty
and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms
in prison without parole for both
the murder of Jocelyn Peters and her unborn child,
Micah Leigh.
There was just this huge sense of relief.
He is going to pay for what he did.
There's a special place in hell for him.
The hole in my heart is still there.
It's not a day that I don't think about Jocelyn.
I can be driving down the street
and see something that reminds me of her.
She had a smile and a laugh that was contagious.
She was all about helping kids and the community.
So everybody in the family, we don't mind giving a helping
hand to people that need it.
That's how we keep her memory alive.