athlete, that he truly noticed a girl from back home for the first time. it was during a college play, former classmates bumped into each other at quincy, and quickly became an item. cory wasted no time spreading the good news. we ll never forget the day i was playing tennis with a friend of mine, and cory came over, and neil met us and that s when she told us that kurt was it. she went to high school with a new couple. surprised? not really. no. they seemed a great fit together. and she was very, very much spin. it wasn t long before corey was also telling her mother marty, she found the one. she comes home and were sitting there and she said i met the man i m gonna marry. whoa. back up. and she kept her promise, in 1991 just after college korean curtis married, he studied law, she worked a small job to
outside of the, lit and the inside, it became like an object had been placed on corey s face shortly before she died. this is not an accident, this is not a natural death, this is not a suicide. this is a homicide. then came testimony the first jury never got to hear. it was explosive. for this trial, the judge allowed wife number two to testify. remember, when we interviewed her she wanted to protect her identity, but now on the witness stand, she could no longer be shielded by the skies. he attacked me. prosecutors called the ex-wife to the stand to show that curtis had a history of violence. she recounted one incident she says that have been at home during their marriage. he started probably drinking around 9 am, and we have been arguing about kids and he came rushing at me and tried to grab
two of cory s own sons? cory s brother and dentist found himself struggling over the conflicted facts. i have to believe in that, i would have to believe in the family at the same time. so i m completely torn. i ve never seen a more difficult case more closely argued. there doesn t seem to be middle ground, there is nothing. parkinson urged the jury to focus on the science, and one image, corey in her bed, her body, rigor mortise. she says it is proof that she died hours before cordes claims, it proves, he argues, that curtis killed her. coming up, the defense gets its turn, and christine is feeling optimistic. i knew in my heart he was going home. christine came in and explain to her what was about to happen. when mr. on the mississippi continues. when mr. on the mississippi continues. continues. and it works fast. in as little as 7 days
rolled,, the the barges slid by, barge is sloughed by and corey lovelace s death slipped and corey lovelace this death further into the slipped further into past. her mom, marty. the past. august it in the cemetery by myself for a little by myself for a little while. while. and of course valentine s day now, i don t do that s that nothing, i don t to cory s valentine s day. has been meanwhile cory s husband, had remarried, meanwhile, had divorced, and remarried, married again. divorced, and remarried and in all that again. time, no and it all the one really time no one really question how or question the how or why of corey s death. why all that changed but all of that one day when a man in changed when a man in a windowless room a windowless room a few have a few blocks blocks off the in mississippi found mississippi, found himself with brett himself with spare time on time on his hands his hands. i, i was sitting in my was sitting in my office, office, and all of our file
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