22-year-old Temple University was beaten and stabbed by man because she refused to have anal sex
30-year-old Joshua Hupperterz is on trial for the murder of 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh, who he allegedly killed at his apartment in Philadelphia in August 2017.
A Temple University student found beaten and stabbed to death in 2017 was allegedly killed because she refused to have anal sex with the attacker, a 12-person panel consisting of seven men and five women heard at the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
Thirty-year-old Joshua Hupperterz has been accused of murdering 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh at his apartment in August 2017 and then transporting and dumping her body more than 100 miles from the scene of the crime.
Prior to the opening statements on Tuesday, January 9, Hupperterz surprisingly pleaded guilty to the abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence but pleaded not guilty to murder and possession of an instrument of crime.