on this case. he started knocking on doors. talking to cory s former neighbors. all the neighbors talked about all the talking and fighting. . the detective went as a step further, you ve got an s car and drove more than 100 miles in the university of iowa, to talk to someone who had been eyewitness to the lovely s marriage. i hadn t gives than, i detective with quincy. lindsay lovelace, curtis and cory s oldest, was in college there through the campus police department to talk with detective gibson. i was very confused by someone from quincy had driven their. the questions that followed in clear things up. at least not up first, the detective started talking about her late mom, and asking about her parents marriage. how was your parents relationship, do you remember? they would fight. it was an interesting relationship.
caught her off guard. if you do to talk to your dad, though i think that i would ask is that you not discuss the fact that they came and talk to you yet. what did you think was happening? i didn t know, especially when he said don t tell your father i was here. so it is happening? and i went back to where i was living, and just not, there and thought what is going on. and then it slowly hit me. she realized the detective, for whatever reason, suspected her father had something to do with her mother s sudden death. even so, she kept her promise, and did not tell her father about the visit. in the meantime, detective gibson was waiting to hear from dr. jane turner. then, assistant medical examiner for the city of st. louis. he had hired her to review that old autopsy report. the thing that struck me first, just looking at the scene photographs, was the position of mrs. lovelace s arms. she says the photo shows cory s body in full rigor more dust, like the detective, the
this room. the police detective? yes. yes. he walked in and i had no idea who he was. he looked at the boys and said, your father has been charged with the first decree for her of your mother. as one thing is? that yes. and i said did you need to tell them like that? and he said. yes detective gibson had rounded up the voice because he was looking for more information. looking into the death of your mom from 2006, okay detective started to question them about the last days of their mother s life. so you went into your mom s room? for yeah. and she was in bed? yeah. we wake up every morning. you know what i m? that was no. the youngest son was not interviewed by police back in 2006 because he was only four years old, now, he was telling detective gibson he was not
current. suffocation, and abrasion, an accepted timeline that no longer fit. turner was convinced, corey had not died a natural death. she concluded, someone had used 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 a homicide. for the detective, corey lovelace s death, gave birth to competing narratives. one relied on science to explain the murder the other relied on memory to describe an ailing mother just before she passed away. in the end, detective believe the science, he believed the crime had indeed been committed. there were two officers who conducted very different destinations in the same case. detective gibson, you believe this is a homicide. i do believe it. do you think this was a