prior to the pictures? yes. because, basically, your investigation took off because you believed the arms were suspicious. yes. a final surprise, for the first time, the defendant, curtis lovelace, took the stand. he insisted he wasn t a violent man. he never harmed his second wife erica, and certainly did not kill cory. i did love cory. and i know the kids loved her, and it s been difficult. the defense wrapped up its questioning, with an emotional courage is telling jurors of the enormous told the two trials have taken on him and his family. how long have you and your family had to live with this process? it s been two and a half years. whenever you re ready. on cross examination, the prosecution pointed out that a whole bunch of witnesses and
rolled,, the the barges slid by, barge is sloughed by and corey lovelace s death slipped and corey lovelace this death further into the slipped further into past. her mom, marty. the past. august it in the cemetery by myself for a little by myself for a little while. while. and of course valentine s day now, i don t do that s that nothing, i don t to cory s valentine s day. has been meanwhile cory s husband, had remarried, meanwhile, had divorced, and remarried, married again. divorced, and remarried and in all that again. time, no and it all the one really time no one really question how or question the how or why of corey s death. why all that changed but all of that one day when a man in changed when a man in a windowless room a windowless room a few have a few blocks blocks off the in mississippi found mississippi, found himself with brett himself with spare time on time on his hands his hands. i, i was sitting in my was sitting in my office, office, and all of our file
gonna talk. curtis lovelace was putting his hands in the hands of john would. his new attorney to come the defense for free, had more than 20 years of experience, just not a criminal law. was this your first murder trial? it was. i did a battery colonel defense case right at a lot of school, other than that this case when i first criminal defense case. curtis was taken a huge gamble. on the other hand, since he was broke, he didn t have a lot of options. cory died of massive liver disease. it is opening remarks, he said the state hadn t presented every evidence of murder for a reason, there was no murder. all the medical evidence in this case is going to prove to you that she thought of his one of the defenses key goals was to debunk that
his life, curtis was the one in the hot seat. you have the right to remain silent, do you understand that? yes. anything you say can be used against in the court of law. you are a lawyer, you know the number one rule is you do not talk to the police without a lawyer present. but you talk. but i talk. i want to answer all the question, i thought they wanted to know the truth. she didn t feel well. on that valentines morning, curtis that cory was still nursing that bad cold. i walked back upstairs with her, she climbed into bed he described leaving the house, then coming home only to find his wife dead in their bedroom. she was cold, and stiff, i just recall her and her hands being out. yet many other details
that there is places that he could go in town that there are people more his age, because he looked a lot older than what he was. he stood out at that club have? he did. quite a bit. but not long after, pity blossomed into friendship, and love. he started dating about six months after cory s death. erica and her daughter of from a previous laura lane ship eventually moved in with curtis and his four children. it was nice that my child tucked in there with the rest of them. all of us just fell into place. that is not the way curtis s daughter lindsey side, what do you think of her? we did not get along. from the get-go? from the get-go. she arrived as a girlfriend, and that s how it was. and i think it was too quickly? yes. but adults make their own decisions. in fact, lindsey was so unhappy with her dad s girlfriend, she picked up and