DURHAM, N.C. (Court TV) — A North Carolina man is charged with murdering his girlfriend after investigators say he showed the victim’s dead body to a friend.

Christopher Brian Whitley, 31, is charged with the first-degree murder of Auriel Cimone Lowe, 34, on Sept. 10, 2025. In an obituary posted on a fundraising site for the victim’s family , Lowe was described as a nurse who had just begun her “dream job” at Duke University Hospital.

Christopher Whitley is charged with the murder of Auriel Lowe. (VINE)

Lowe’s family told WNCN that Whitley met the victim on a dating app and the couple had been together for a couple of months.

Police were first called by a friend of Whitley’s, who reported that she had heard him confess to murder. In 911 calls obtained by The News & Observer , the

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