Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 10/18/05
BY KATHLEEN HOPKINS
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
A 39-year-old Howell man today admitted murdering 16-year-old Brittney Gregory of Brick, for the first time shedding light on what happened to the straight-A student who went missing on July 11, 2004.
Jack Fuller pleaded guilty to the murder before Superior Court Judge Vincent J. Grasso in a courtroom filled with the victim's relatives.
Many of them were quietly sobbing as Fuller, answering questions posed by his attorney, admitted that he punched the teen ""at least twice'' in the head when she asked him not to smoke crack in front of her. Then, she fell unconscious while Fuller continued to smoke the crack, he said. When he was done getting high, he realized the girl was lifeless, Fuller admitted.
Fuller faces 30 years without parole when he is sentenced by Grasso on Jan. 13.
News of Gregory's disappearance dominated news for weeks and prompted hundreds of law enforcement officers to search for her. The search ended July 27, 2004, when the girl's body was found in a shallow grave, just under a power line off Ridge Avenue in Lakewood, near where she lived with her father, Joseph Dunn, in Brick, and about 1 miles from Fuller's home in Howell.
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