been resting on, why wasn t it there anymore? turner noticed the embrace jim on her face, and the cut on her sudden lit. to her, it suggests that something had been pressed against the woman s mouth. and then seeing that the marks around her mouth, and inside the mouth all suggests that suffocation occurred. suffocation. an abrasion, an unaccepted timeline that no longer fit. turner was convinced cory had not died a natural death. she concluded someone had used an option, likely a pillow, to suffrage the woman. left it under her arms, and remove it many hours later. the manner of death be homicide. for the detective, corey love lisa s death came down to two competing methods from two compelling . one relied on science to explain the murder, the other relied on to describe an ailing mother just before she passed away. in the end, the detective
other high-profile cases including those of phil specter and casey anthony. the appearance of the injury leaves no doubt that this is not a healing wound. reporter: in a darkened courtroom, spitz showed photos and talked about that cut inside cory s mouth. curtis had told police his wife had fallen in the days before she died, his explanation for that injury. but this expert said he saw no signs the cut was an old one. there s no evidence of healing. so this looks like at the time it was incurred. reporter: the abrasion on the outside of the lip and the cut inside indicated to spitz that an object, like a pillow, had been placed on cory s face shortly before she died. this is not an accident, this is not a natural death, this is not a suicide, this is a homicide. reporter: then came testimony the first jury never got to hear, and it was explosive.
and he added: where is the evidence cory fought for her life? there were no signs of struggle and only the cut and abrasion on her lip. you will fight until you no longer can. the thought that somehow you could suffocate someone with a pillow and there would be only one dental mark is ludicrous. reporter: detective baird testified that when he first arrived on the scene cory s stomach area was still warm. how is that possible, the defense asked, if she had died up to 12 hours earlier? if the body is warm to the touch, my common sense tells me, not science, that this is someone recently deceased. absolutely. is there an error in that assumption? no. reporter: as far as the prosecution s contention that curtis killed cory after a heated argument, the couple s oldest son testified he didn t hear anything like that the night before. and he should know, because his room was right next to his parents. it was even connected by an extra door that was usually left slightly opened.
because she was in very young 38 year old. she seemed healthy from what everyone understood. so it was a huge shock. so that said that your professors wife is that. you didn t know her? i didn t know her and i did know him at that time either. soon, everyone in town was wondering what had caused her death. the pathologist who performed the autopsy a day later, noted some trauma. a small abrasion on her upper lip, and another mark inside that appear to be cut. curtis mention that cory had fallen in the days before her death. those false could ve captured that injury to her lip? presumably? i wish i knew. but yes. a fall can account for an injury. the pathologist also notice that cory had a fatty liver. also caused by heavy drinking. still, the doctor ruled the death undetermined. she did noah killed her at this point?
treatment. he was a prosecutor. they were the police. he gave em a story that he how it happened. they bought into it. after all, he s one of us. reporter: so maybe tougher questions didn t get asked. i think so. reporter: neighbors testified the lovelace household was sometimes a stormy one. and that, parkinson suggested to jurors, is the backdrop of cory s death. they fought all the time. it was a rocky marriage with lots of arguments going both ways. and it got out of control. and maybe the evidence indicates that placing a pillow over one s face to make them stop yelling at me. maybe in her weakened state, if she was had flu-like symptoms, maybe it went too far. reporter: the state s theory, remember, is the force of the pillow caused that cut and abrasion on the outside and inside of cory s lip. the prosecutor then implied the pillow was placed under her arms after she died and later removed. if you leave it there through