Suspect in murder of Temple University student held for trial

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The man accused of killing a Temple University student, and then taking her body from Philadelphia to the Scranton area, will be held for trial.

A preliminary hearing for 29-year-old Joshua Hupperterz on Wednesday lasted some seven hours. He is accused of killing 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh.
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Surveillance video from inside Pub Webb on Cecil B. Moore Ave. was shown for the first time. In it, Burleigh is seen leaving at 2:07 a.m. on August 31 with Hupperterz, himself a former Temple student.

Then, a witness who lived in the apartment above Hupperterz in the 1700 block of North 16th Street testified she called police at 4 a.m. reporting a scream, "like a horror movie scream, only more real. Not something I will ever forget."



Then, a cousin of Hupperterz testified that when he came by later that day he found the defendant cleaning up blood in his apartment.
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The cousin said Hupperterz, whose hand was stitched, said he cut it on a beer bottle.



The cousin said Hupperterz asked him to move a large heavy blue plastic storage container to a Jenkintown garage belonging to the defendant's mother.



A Lyft driver testified he used a car the next day to take Hupperterz and a large blue storage container from Jenkintown to the defendant's grandmother's home near Scranton.

Not long after that, authorities went to the grandmother's home.
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There, the prosecution maintains, the body of Jenna Burleigh was found stuffed into that storage container.
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