she was a very young 38 year old. she seemed healthy, from what everybody understood. so, it was a huge shock. must be sad that your professors wife had died. you did know her. i didn t know her. i also didn t know him at that time. soon, everyone in town was wondering what caused cory s death. the pathologist who performed the autopsy a day later, noted some trauma. small abrasion on corey s upper lip, and another mark inside, that appear to be a cut. curtis mentioned that cory had fallen, in the days before her death. those false as they described, could ve kept that injury, presumably? i wish i knew. but, yes. a fall could ve found for an injury. the pathologist also noted that was called a fatty liver often caused by heavy drinking. still, the doctor labeled the cause of death, undetermined. she didn t know what killed
was trying to understand why a 38 year old woman had died suddenly. as he looked for clues inside the home, filled with the clutter of young family life, jeff barry, notice one item in particular, a white cup by her bedside. i collected an unknown liquid that smells faintly of alcohol. the detective asked her husband, when it was. did he tell you that she liked to have a pocket on it? yes. and that s likely woes in the styrofoam? yes. big 24 ounce glass. yes. as curtis told him, alcohol it been a constant in the home. there was alcoholism in her family. so, there was this ugly side of that. you are drinking too much? looking back, yes. i drink too much. cory was drinking too much?
her hands had been resting, on why wasn t it there anymore? turner noted the abrasion on corey s, face and the cut insider upper lip. to her, that suggested something had been pressed against the woman s mouth. then, seeing the marks around the mouth, and inside the mouth, all suggests that suffocation occurred. suffocation. an abrasion, and none except a time of the no longer. fifth turner was convinced that cory had not died of natural causes. she concluded, someone who s an object, likely a pillow, to suffocate the woman. left it under her arms, and removed it many hours later. the manner of death would be homicide. for the detective, corey lovelace s death came down to two competing from two compelling women. when will add on science to explain the murder, the other relied on memory, to describe an ailing mother, just before she passed. in the end, the detective
when i arrived home, everything was quiet. i assume that cory was sleeping, resting. she had is that most of the night, i was going to leave our home and literally. before looking it non her, he went over his emails in the kitchen, then he headed upstairs. i needed to take a shower, and as i walked up the steps, i look to the left. the door was as i left it, and i could see her lying in bed. i could see something from the distance, it didn t seem right. we ll made you say that? i m really not sure. as i got closer, i could see that she was pale she, was motivational us. i immediately knew that something was really really, wrong. do you think, she s dead? i shook her, i called out
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 the night, and while rigor mortis is setting in, and then if a person is thinking, oh, my god. what did i do? and, oh, there s that pillow in