42-year-old former St. Louis principal Cornelius Green was sentenced to two life terms for hiring a friend to murder his pregnant girlfriend, stealing school funds for the crime.

Former St. Louis principal, Cornelius Green, 42, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for hiring a childhood friend to murder his pregnant girlfriend, Jocelyn Peters, and her unborn child. Green stole $2,500 from a school fundraiser to pay for the murder. Peters was a teacher at Mann Elementary School, while Green was the principal of Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts School.