former assistant states attorney, found himself standing in a courtroom. this time as a defendant at his own arraignment. having to appear in a courtroom that i served as a prosecutor, and dressed and stripes and having my hands and feet shackled. those were some really low times. mary just eight months, waif number three s commitment for better or for worse, was immediately put to the test. my husband, who is kind in carrying and compassionate, is charged with something so heinous that it makes no sense. if convicted, curtis lovelace could spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of his, wife cory. as if that weren t enough stress, his daughter lindsey, was about to drop a bombshell. coming up. a daughters difficult decision.
be okay and that we were going to have to, to fight some things. christine resurrect. her husband was in jail and she was dumbfounded as to why the police had taken the boys out of school, and then interviewed them without parental permission. she felt better about this though, the two oldest boys back their dead story, they had seen their mom cory, alive on valentine s day morning. just like curtis. they saw their mother alive that. that s the gist of their story, yes, i saw her alive that morning. and then dad took us to school. . it s valentine s day. so therefore she could ve been dead upstairs, because we saw her. life right. the boy s sister lindsey also told police to separate times, her mom was alive that morning, had senior off to school on valentine s day. she was standing in the front hall like marching us out the door like she always did. and the day of her father s arrest, lindsey was away at college when she had an emotional talk with her
you ll professor at a nightclub not long after cory s death. fish out of water, she thought. i felt really bad for him, so i gave him a number and i told him that there s places that he can go in town that there s people more his age. because i thought that he was a lot older he did, quite a bit. [laughs] not long after, it blossomed into friendship, and then love. they started dating about six months after cory s death. erica and her daughter from a previous relationship eventually moved in with curtis and his four children. it was nice that the children work tucked in with the rest of us, we all fell into place. it is not the way that curtis s daughter lindsey saw it. why did you think of her, erica? we did not get along. from the get-go? from the get-go. she arrived as a girlfriend, and that is just how it was. and then i thought it was too quick?
ranging in ages from 4 to 12 to look after. how do you tell the children? that was . i think, to this day . that is the most difficult thing that i have ever had to do. i believe i called the schools, and let them know that i would be on my way. lindsey, the only girl, was the eldest of the lovelace kids. i remember being at school. i remember getting the call from the office that i was getting picked up. in my mind i thought, maybe my mom is in the hospital. she hadn t been the days prior, maybe she just had to go to hospital. it s fine. once inside the principles office, her office broke the news. and he told me that my mom had i. and i just remember, then on, my world crashing down. did you say what had happened, what was going on? i m sure that i asked what had happened. i just remember . crying. and not believing it. and so, we left.