Dad Who Allegedly Made Young Son Run On Speeding Treadmill On Trial For Murder

The video of the little boy running on a treadmill is horrifying to watch.

But jurors in the murder trial of his father, Christopher Gregor, 31, currently underway in Toms River, New Jersey, had no choice: They were required to see the surveillance footage of the New Jersey gym where prosecutors said Gregor forced his 6-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to run at high speeds even as the boy struggled to find his footing and fell off the moving belt.

The video shows Corey falling six times, sliding on his back and face-first behind the treadmill. Each time, his father picks him up, at one pointing seeming to bite the boy’s head as he tries to stay upright. Eventually Gregor appears to slow the speed and Corey resumes running until his father stops the machine and the two walk out of the gym.

Thirteen days later, on April 2, 2021, the boy was dead.

Corey’s mother, Breanna Micciolo, 27, alarmed about the number of bruises she saw on Corey’s body, had spent the previous night with her son at a pediatrician’s office and at two hospitals. Other than the bruises and contusions, however, they had found nothing wrong with Corey. Micciolo, who shared joint custody of Corey with Gregor, last saw her son alive the next morning, when she dropped him off at the apartment where he lived with his father.

Corey was pronounced dead at a hospital just after 5 p.m.

In March 2022, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Gregor had been charged with murder.

Gregor had previously been charged in July 2021 with child endangerment after investigators obtained video of the treadmill incident.

After an autopsy on April 3, 2021, the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office had initially determined that Corey’s death was caused by blunt