Introduction
This blog is a tracking of the murder case of Brittney Gregory by Jack Fuller Jr. for those looking for information.
I had planned to cover the facts as they unfolded, piece together as much of the press and information as I can, since many of the sources of information are
either poorly linked, or disappear to archives (some paid).
At some point I still hope to get some, interviews with some of the players in this case,as well as Brittney's family and friends. I have opted not to even try up until now as I felt there were other places their attention needed to be focused.
While I tried to remain unbiased, once Fuller admitted to killing Brittney, it became impossible for me as a father of a young girl to be COMPLETELY "fair and balanced".
But despite that, all information that I uncover will be found here.
Please feel free to comment, but remain civil. (especially towards each other).
Friday, August 26, 2005
Accused killer of Brick girl headed to court Monday
(Published in the Asbury Park Press 08/26/05)
BY KATHLEEN HOPKINS
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER — The man accused of killing 16-year-old Brittney Gregory last year is scheduled for a court appearance Monday.
Jack Fuller, 39, of Howell is scheduled to appear before Superior Court Vincent J. Grasso.
"I anticipate scheduling issues will be discussed," said Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Ronald F. DeLigny, who has been assigned to prosecute the case.
One thing that needs to be scheduled before the case goes to trial is a hearing at which the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the Brick teenager will be asked to discuss his findings.
Fuller's defense attorney, John O. Goins, has filed a motion asking Grasso to bar the prosecution from presenting any argument that Gregory may have been strangled or suffocated.
He argues in the motion that any discussion of strangulation or suffocation should be barred from the trial because Dr. Hydow Park, Atlantic County's medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Gregory, did not provide a cause of death, but instead only said that suffocation or strangulation could not be ruled out.
In response to Goins' motion, DeLigny has argued in court papers that Park ruled the death a homicide but could not specify the exact cause or rule out suffocation or strangulation "based upon the decomposed nature of the victim's body that was in the ground for approximately 16 days."
At pretrial hearings on July 15, Grasso said he could not rule on Goins' motion to exclude discussion of strangulation or suffocation from the case until after a hearing at which Park would testify. Grasso did not schedule a hearing at that time.
However, on that same date, Grasso ruled that there had not been enough pretrial publicity to require moving the case against Fuller out of Ocean County, and that the tape recording of an incriminating conversation — in which Fuller asked a police informant if four feet was deep enough to bury a body — can be used as evidence at the trial.
Gregory, who had just completed her sophomore year at Brick Memorial High School, was reported missing by her family on July 11, 2004. On July 27, 2004, authorities with bloodhounds found Gregory's body in a shallow grave just under a power line off Ridge Avenue in Lakewood, about 1 1/2 miles from Fuller's house and not far from where the victim lived with her father, Joseph Dunn, in Brick.
Fuller was arrested July 18, 2004, before Gregory's body had been found. He was charged with murder in a single-count indictment in February
