all of that? it was the fact that no one had honestly asked me sincerely what happened and i had never taken time think about it. detective gibson did when he took your statement? again i didn t know why why he was asking and i just ghav story i gave that day. i wish i could say i really do wish i could say i remember her or no, i don t remember. but i can t say that. this is not about getting back to your dad? no, because it hurts my brothers too for me to not honestly say i saw her. but i m going to say what i remember which is nothing. it s a black hole, a tromtizing event and when kids go through tromtizing events they black things out and losing my mother was the worst day of my life.
conducted very different investigations othe very same case. detective gibson, you bleeb this is a homicide? i do. do you believe this is a death of natural causes? are you divided? i m now uncertain from what i ve heard and been told under new investigation. much more uncertain than in 2006. their boss still backs both men who says if there s blame to be had he ll talk it. you hate taadmit mistakes were made and i take full responsibility. dprrs i was chief in 2006. i had detectives and supervisors working on the case did he get a pass because he was a piller of the community? i don t can know that he got a pass. i think he may have got the been if the of the doubt. but on a warm august morning that benefit would evaporate along with the peaceful feelings of affladesy day.
inrig ormortise stepped in. i can t believe we accepted an undetermined cause of death and a natural death. detective gibson agreed. but they had a problem. very thin. some notes from eight years before and a few photos, very few. and only two slides were taken by the pathologist and passed on in evidence. very thin file. so police went back to the doctor that did the autopsy and canned her to review the case. she did but would not alter her original findings. the next step might have been to order a new autopsy. but that wasn t possible because the family had her remains created. detective gibson had a suggestion. he want strood the autopsy reviewed by someone else. basically a review of the original autopsy done.
at the time all alone at police head quarters. what were the kids told? they actually thought something happened to me. i walked into the room and they got up and they all um they were very scared and they hugged me and i told them everything would be okay. we ll figure this out. detective gibson had rounded up the boys because he was looking for more information. we re looking into the death of your mom from 2006, okay. uh-huh. the detective started to question them about the last days of their mother s life. so you went in your mom s room and she was in bed? yes, i d wake up every morning and go in their room and wa our oshow. you know what time that was? no. the youngest son wasn t interviewed because he was only four.
corey lovelace s mom had tried hard to move on after her daughter s sudden death in 2006. but after a phone call and a visit from detective adam gibson in early 2014, she started to wonder. a lot of things i shoved away. really shoved away. and one of em was really why cory had died. did you ever suspect that there might be foul play involved in her death? no. reporter: friends of both curtis and cory also started getting calls from the detective. beth dobrzynski remembers his message asking her to call asap. so then when i called detective gibson and he said, we re reopening the case of cory didriksen lovelace, i was shocked. i was shaking. so the detective seemed to be interested in what you could tell him about the marriage? correct. which, she admitted, wasn t much.