Bodycam footage has emerged showing a New Jersey father accused of abusing his son to death and calling his ex a “dirtbag” two days after his son died.
Christopher Gregor, 31, was arrested by police in Tennessee days after his son Corey Micciolo died of “blunt force trauma” in 2021 following years of alleged abuse.
Bodycam footage from officers in the Volunteer State shows them arresting Gregor, who was traveling from New Jersey.
Some of the footage was played in court last week as Gregor is accused of murder. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
In it, Gregor can be heard calling Breanna Micciolo, Corey’s mother, a “dirtbag” and blaming her for Corey’s death.
The footage shows officers searching him while Gregor consents to officers searching his vehicle
After being pulled aside, the tearful father is heard telling officers that Corey’s mother was a “dirtbag”
The footage shows officers searching him while Gregor consents to officers searching his vehicle.
After being taken aside, the tearful father can be heard telling officers that his son has died.
Gregor tells them that it was not clear how his son had died: ‘They didn’t know. They thought it was internal bleeding. He had no bruises on him.
“When he came home, I just knew something was wrong with how I was feeling, but I just thought he needed sleep.
‘I should have taken him there. Many of me think it was partly my fault, in the sense that it actually did something.
‘If he didn’t have a drug addict mother, he would still be alive. That’s been going through my head the entire ride. 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 had reached the Arkansas-Texas state line when he turned around and drove to Nashville.
There he told officers that he had eaten, had a few drinks and was given a hotel room before going to sleep.
The initial autopsy revealed that Corey died as a result of blunt force injuries to his body, in addition to heart and liver contusions.
Corey’s mother shared sickening images of the abuse she said was inflicted by the father on social media, including black eyes and bruises on his body
Corey would often return from his father’s house with new bruises and injuries
Gregor was also questioned about why he had picked up a girlfriend from a New Jersey airport and whether he planned to flee across the southern border.
An officer can be heard asking him, “Were you trying to cross the border?” to which he replies, “No, I mean, even if I were, I wouldn’t be going in the direction I’m in.”
Officers can also be heard talking to each other, with one saying, “He seems quite cooperative,” while another saw his hands shaking.
According to the Asbury Park PressSupreme Court Judge Guy P. Ryan ruled that the video was inadmissible as evidence because it was rife with hearsay.
Ocean County Prosecutor Jamie Schron told the judge that the state will confront Gregor about 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 as evidence.
His father David then arranged for his son to rent a car so he could drive to New Jersey.
Gregor was arrested in July 2021 on child neglect charges after investigators reviewed gruesome surveillance footage from a New Jersey gym.
The process consisted of show images of Gregor forcing his son to run on a treadmill, 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 on Wednesday, May 22
Sickening CCTV video shown during Gregor’s ongoing trial, showing Corey continually falling off the treadmill as Gregor kept picking him up and putting him back on the machine
The footage was taken less than two weeks before Corey died, where he was taken to hospital unconscious for hours after being dropped off at his Gregor’s house by his mother.
Corey’s mother Breanna testified that he had not met his son until a year before his death, and Corey would routinely return home from Gregor’s house with fresh cuts and bruises.
Prosecutors alleged that Gregor displayed a pattern of abuse for months before Corey was killed.
A forensic pathologist ruled his cause of death was blunt force injuries administered ‘by another person’.
The six-year-old suffered ‘chronic abuse’ including blunt force trauma to his chest and abdomen with a laceration to his heart, a lung contusion on the left side and a laceration and contusion to his liver.
Micciolo was the first to testify in court. She cried 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 cause.
His parents David and Carol Gregor took the stand last week to give their testimony about the moments they learned of Corey’s death and the threats they received.
After they testified Friday, Gregor called his mother from the Ocean County Jail, where he is being held, and tried to tell her what to say.
The call was revealed in Ocean Superior Court, New Jersey, and prompted Gregor’s defense to halt Carol’s questioning.
Corey’s mother Breanna Micciolo was the first to testify in court this week, where she broke down in tears as she detailed the alleged abuse.
Gregor didn’t come into the boy’s life until he was five years old, and during their first meeting, Corey reportedly returned home with a “broken lip,” according to Jersey Shore Online.
Micciolo did not believe Gregor’s excuse that he had accidentally kicked their son while playing football, but said a DCPP employee accepted it and did not investigate it.
More than a year after that first meeting, she claims that Corey was routinely abused by Gregor, and she reportedly suspected that the father used a treadmill as a punishment tool during their visits.
During that time, his LinkedIn profile says he worked as a real estate agent and math teacher, and his previous work experience also included volunteering for six months at the mental health hotline Crisis Text Line in 2015.
Before his arrest, Gregor lived on a sprawling New Jersey estate worth more than $1 million, online records show.