very thin what you re working with? notes from a medical examiner from eight years before? yes. few photos very few? only two photos, two slides were taken by the pathologist and passed on an evidence. very thin file. so police went back to the doctor who did that autopsy, and asked her to review the case, she did, but she would not alter her original findings. the next step might have been to order a new autopsy, but that was not possible since corey s family had her remains cremated. the only option, was to work with what they had. detective gibson had a suggestion, he wanted to have the autopsy reviewed by someone else. basically a review of the original autopsy done, could into a new autopsy because the body had been cream in it. the chief oked the request to hire new pathologist to review all the autopsy notes. the detective also had something else in mind to reach
her opinion, dr. gifting, one of this call this a homicide. when that was not her conclusion. he had a theory, and he s looking hard to substantiate that theory. the original technology, the original coroner, said there was insufficient evidence to find a homicide. there s nothing unusual here, you re barking at the wrong tree. then came even more damaging accusations against that detective gibson. the defense said it obtained at the last minute, important emails and other documents it was supposed to have received from the police, but never did. potentially, exculpatory evidence. you understood this email, should ve interview did you? it s not something i thought of, no. one emails from a medical expert. he warned detective gibson, that is the first pathologist left the cause of death is under president, that opinion would trump anyone else is. and he implied that would give plenty of reasonable doubt to a jury. it should yes. you didn t turn it over, to?
mom had mom had tried a hard tried hard to move on to move on after after her daughter s sudden her father s sudden death in death in 2006. 2006. but after a phone but after a phone call and a visit call and visit from from detective adam detective adam gibson in gibson in early early 2014, 2014, she started to she started to wonder wonder. . a lot of things i shoved a lot of things i away, shoved away, really really shoved away shoved away,, and one of them one of them was was really why cory why cory had had died. died. did you ever did you ever suspect that there might be suspected might be foul play filed play involved in her involved in her death? death. no. no. friends of friends of both curtis and both curtis inquiry cory also started, also started getting getting calls from the detective, calls from the detective. he remembers his remembers his message message asking her asking her to call to call asap. asap so when i. so when i called detective called dete
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.
lindsay lovelace, criticize own daughter, took the stand. two times over the span of eight years she told prosecutors that mother was alive that morning. but on the stand, with her dad s life on the line, she changed her story. telling jurors, she was no longer sure her mom is alive that day. don t remember any of it. it doesn t stick in your mind. no. in doctor bears notes you do telling the story about senior mother. in the videotape interview with detective gibson you seem quite clear about that morning, guess who sarin, went off to school. what went on in the interim, between statement and going to trial on the stand, and stepping back from all of. that is the fact that no one had actually asked me sincerely that day, and i never taken time to actually think about it. detective gibson did a couple years before when he took the statement. i didn t know why he asked me, i don t know what was going on, i gave the story. i d be honest with myself, and it wasn t the answ