Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
School Principal Hires a Hitman - The Cornelius Green story
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
This is the story of Cornelius Green, the principal who hired a hitman to murder his girlfriend.
Who is Principal and what is his predicament?
So this guy, let's call him Principal, because he's a middle school principal. And Principal loves to smash. He smashes with his wife. He smashes with his multiple girlfriends on the side. He's a busy guy. But one day, one of his side chicks delivers some devastating news to him. She pulls him aside, and she tells him she's pregnant. And Principal, he pretends he's all happy.
He's like, yay, you're pregnant. But deep down, he is devastated. He can't have a kid with his side chick. His wife and his other girlfriends are going to be so upset. Now the side chick, her name is Jocelyn. And she's a really nice woman. She's a third grade teacher at a nearby elementary school. And I'm not sure if she actually knows that Principal is married.
But she is happy about being pregnant with his kid because she really wants to be a mom. So as Jocelyn is all dealing with the pregnancy, Principal is quietly losing his mind. He's like, man, if my wife and my other girlfriends find out, they might leave me. Also, it wouldn't look good for a middle school principal to impregnate a teacher slash side chick. He could probably lose his job over that.
So Principal rubs his two brain cells together and he comes up with a plan. A plan to have Jocelyn unalived. So he calls up his shadiest friend, this guy, who we'll call Hitman. And Principal tells Hitman what's going on. And Hitman's like, oh, that sucks, bro. How can I help? And Principal's like, I need you to unalive my pregnant girlfriend. And Hitman's like, all right.
And then he says he needs $2,500 in cash up front. And Principal's like, deal. Now here's the thing about the $2,500. Principal, he works for the public school system. He doesn't have $2,500 to just be thrown around to give to a hitman. But Principal does know where to get it.
See, the dance team at his middle school just held a fundraiser and raised a bunch of money for a spring break trip they're gonna take. And he's the principal, so he knows where they keep this money. So Principal, he just goes and he steals about $2,700 from the middle school dance team's fundraiser. And then he packs all that money in a box and he takes it to a UPS store to mail it to Hitman.
Because Hitman lives a few states away in Oklahoma. And UPS is like, hey, you need to put a return address on that. And so principal, he doesn't want to put his own address on it. So he puts the school's address on it. And that'll be important later. Meanwhile, Jocelyn, she's at home and she's pregnant. She has no idea any of this is going on. In fact, she's getting ultrasounds.
She started a baby registry for them. She thinks she and Principal are about to have this baby and live happily ever after. Now, a few weeks later, Hitman takes a Greyhound bus from Oklahoma, where he lives, to St. Louis, where Principal lives. And they go over the plan. And Principal gives Hitman the keys to his car and... the key to Jocelyn's apartment.
Then the next morning, Principal takes an Amtrak train from St. Louis to Chicago so that he has an alibi during all this. And about a day later, it's 3 a.m. and Hitman takes Principal's car and he drives it to Jocelyn's apartment. And there he lets himself in and he sneaks through the apartment and he finds Jocelyn in her bedroom, asleep on her bed.
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