this case talk to everyone and anyone who had known cory. his first call was to her mom, he told her he wanted to me but without why. he said well, can we set up a time, i said scratch what i m doing and just come now. it was the thing that struck me first was the position of loveless s arms a different medical examiner a different medical examiner reaches a conclusion reaches a different conclusion. the manner of death would be homicide. and a detective has a question for criticize daughter. tuesday morning, before you went to school. what did you think was happening? i didn t know. when mr. on the mississippi continues. when mr. on the mississippi continues.
trial. what does that tell you. that tells me that they were absolutely convinced he was innocent. that s not how prosecutor ed parkinson sees it. so does this some work, or does a guy get away with murder? sometimes it works, i think the partner in the prosecution said you re looking at a guy who you think might have got away with murder. i feel bad because i think we were right. a pivotal figure here is detective gibson. understand what is motivation, is when you re about. when you make of this man? i still don t know what is motivation is, i just nobody did. and what we had discovered was that his investigation had turned over a lot of evidence as to my innocence that he had made his mind up early that i was guilty of a crime, and that he wasn t going to stop until he found someone to agree with him. how do you feel right now? while the legal consequences for critters are over. the fallout from cory s death paralyzed the extended family.
i shook her. i called out her name, and at that point i knew that she was dead. at that moment, he said, his thoughts turn to his four year old boy, larson, who is still in the house. i needed to get larson out of the house. and what did you do? i grabbed larsson, i believe he was in bed, and i took him immediately over to his grandparents house. cory s mom marty answered the door, she remembers her son-in-law standing there with a young boy, and saying something nonsensical about her daughter being dead. it was just kind of good morning. there is. and areas, he opens the door and hands me larson, and he said something about people are coming or something. i often regretted not just putting larson down and running over there. stunned, she called her son,
i did not. the prosecution s case of her to be teetering. then came another blow. william bauer, was one of the first emts on the scene. when he arrived, he wanted to place you gauge-y stickers on corey s body to check for a heartbeat. so, he moved her arms. her arms were down against her chest, i had to hold them up to check for a pulse. check for any rigor mortise, and to also move her arms up to where i can place my sneakers grimes was to place them. he moved cory s arms before the police photos were taken. that means her arms were not in the same position i ve seen in the photographs. the ones that started this entire second investigation. the defense seized on that fact. did you know, when you decided to pursue the zip investigation, that the arms had been moved? i did not. is the first time you re hearing that, as you sit here today? the arms had been moved
erica claimed curtis had tried to poison her and her daughter. she told police he likely put something in there or issues. according to the defense, there is a problem with that charge. erica had never sought medical care. isn t it true, ma am, that you never went to a doctor and said i think i m being poisoned? it wouldn t have mattered. when erica left the stand, when you think the jury made of her. i think they were struck with the state called her. the state thought that they couldn t score a point, when she was subjected to cross-examination she wasn t a credible person. there was another theme that you want to drill into this journey, and it concerns the lead detective. adam gibson, he argued, had gone pathologist shopping. that is, he had found pathologist given the as where he was looking for. yes, cory s death was in fact a murder. if my opinion is not what he wants, he s going to be going looking for somebody else. doctor shark 80s was one of the pathologist g