Bodycam footage has emerged showing a New Jersey father accused of abusing his son to death calling his ex a ‘dirtbag’ two days after his sons passing.
Christopher Gregor, 31, was stopped by police in Tennessee days after his son Corey Micciolo died in 2021 of ‘blunt force trauma’ after years of alleged abuse.
Bodycam footage taken from officers in the Volunteer State show them stopping Gregor who had been travelling from New Jersey.
A portion of the footage was played in court last week as Gregor faces murder charges, if convicted he faces life in prison.
In it, Gregor can be heard referring to Breanna Micciolo, Corey’s mother, as a ‘dirtbag’ and blamed the death of Corey on her.
In the footage, officers can be seen searching him as Gregor agrees to allow officers to search his vehicle
After being pulled aside, the tearful father can be heard telling officers that Corey’s mother was a ‘dirtbag’
In the footage, officers can be seen searching him as Gregor agrees to allow officers to search his vehicle.
After being pulled aside, the tearful father can be heard telling officers that his son had died.
Gregor tells them that it wasn’t clear how his son had died, saying: ‘They didn’t know. They thought it was some internal bleeding. He didn’t have any bruising on him.
‘I just knew when he got home something was wrong with my gut but I just thought that he needed sleep.
‘I should have took him right there. There’s a lot of me that thinks it was partially my fault in the sense that it truly did something.
‘If he didn’t have a drug addict mother, then he’d still be alive. That’s been going through my head this whole drive. She’s a special kind of dirtbag. I regret ever meeting her.’
Gregor told police he had driven 20 hours straight from New Jersey and made it to along the Arkansas-Texas state line when he turned around and drove to Nashville.
There, he told officers he ate dinner, had a drink and got a hotel room before going to sleep.
The initial autopsy revealed that Corey died as a result of blunt force injuries across his body, alongside cardiac and liver contusions
Corey’s mother shared sickening images of the abuse she claims was inflicted by the father to social media, including black eyes and bruises across his body
Corey would allegedly often return from his father’s home with new bruises and injuries
Gregor was also questioned on why he had picked up a female friend from an airport in New Jersey and if he was planning to flee across the southern border.
One officer can be heard asking him: ‘Were you trying to cross the border?, to which he responds: ‘No, I mean, even if I was, I wouldn’t be headed in the direction I’m in.’
Officers can also be heard conversing among themselves, with one heard saying: ‘He seems pretty cooperative’, while another noted his hands shaking.
According to the Asbury Park Press, Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan ruled that the video was inadmissible as evidence as it was filled with hearsay.
Jamie Schron, Ocean County prosecutor, told the judge that the state will confront Gregor with statements he made on the video during cross examination.
Police in Tennessee eventually let Gregor go but they did take his car and cell phone into evidence.
His father David then arranged for his son to then rent a car so he could drive home to New Jersey.
Gregor was arrested in July 2021 on charges of child neglect after investigators reviewed horrific surveillance footage from a New Jersey gym.
The trial was show footage of Gregor forcing his son to run on a treadmill, and picking him up off the floor several times when he falls off the machine.
Gregor watches jurors enter Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan’s courtroom in Toms River Wednesday May 22
Sickening CCTV video shown in Gregor’s ongoing trial, Corey was seen continuously falling off the treadmill, while Gregor keeps lifting him up and putting him back on the machine
The footage was taken less than two weeks before Corey died, where he was rushed to hospital unconscious hours after being dropped at his Gregor’s home by his mom.
Corey’s mother Breanna testified that he had never even met his son until a year before his death, and Corey would routinely return home from Gregor’s home with fresh cuts and bruises.
Prosecutors alleged that Gregor showed a pattern of abuse for months before Corey was killed.
Read More
Who is Christopher Gregor? The New Jersey father who allegedly tortured son with gym sessions and is now on trial for his murder
A forensic pathologist ruled that his cause of death was blunt force injuries that were administered ‘by another person.’
The six-year-old suffered from ‘chronic abuse’ including blunt impact injuries on his chest and abdomen with a laceration on his heart, left pulmonary contusion, and laceration and contusion of his liver.
Micciolo was the first to take the stand as a witness in court. She sobbed and wiped her eyes as she watched the disturbing video.
After her son’s death, Breanna Micciolo created a private Facebook page called Justice for Corey to raise awareness for his case.
His parents David and Carol Gregor took the stand last week to give their testimony on the moments they learned of Corey’s death, and threats they received.
After they testified on Friday, Gregor called his mother from Ocean County Jail, where he is being held, and tried to tell her what to say.
The phone call was revealed in Ocean Superior Court, New Jersey, and prompted Gregor’s defense to abandon its questioning of Carol.
Corey’s mother Breanna Micciolo was the first to take the stand as a witness in court on this week, where she broke down in tears while detailing the alleged abuse
Gregor only entered the boy’s life when he was five-years-old, and on their first meeting, Corey allegedly returned home to his mother with a ‘busted lip’, according to Jersey Shore Online.
Micciolo didn’t believe Gregor’s excuse that he accidentally kicked their son while playing soccer, but said a DCPP caseworker accepted it and didn’t investigate.
For over a year after that first meeting, she claims that Corey was routinely abused by Gregor, and reportedly suspected the father was using as treadmill as a punishment tool during their visitations.
During that time, his LinkedIn profile says he worked as a realtor and math teacher, with his past work experience also including volunteering at mental health hotline Crisis Text Line for six months in 2015.
Before his arrest, Gregor lived at a sprawling New Jersey estate valued at over $1 million, online records show.