yes, in my opinion. reporter: the mechanics of rigor more tis go like this upon death a human s muscles start to stiffen. to the detective, it looked like they were in an ad vans state of rigor, meaning she likely died many hours before this photo was taken. remember, curtis said he tucked his sickly wife in bed an hour before finding her dead. it didn t make sense, he went straight to his bosses with the old lovelace file. my first thought is we missed something here. reporter: the chief had been in charge in 2006 when everyone assumed corey had died natural debt. he says he never sue the photos the detective was holding before him. that s when i saw the pictures the first time. what did you think? i thought this is odd. this is not natural. the posture of the arms. definitely appeared to me that rigor mortis set in.
that rigor mortis set in. i looked at those pictures and can t believe we send an undetermined cause of death and a natural death. detective gibson agreed. they had a problem. very thin, notes from a medical examiner from eight years before and a few photos, very few in. and only two slides were taken by the pathologist and passed on in evidence. so, yeah, very thin time. so police went back to the doctor that 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 alms. but that wasn t 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 , have it basically, a review of the original autopsy done. couldn t do a new autopsy because the body had been cremated.
that rigor mortis set in. i looked at those pictures and can t believe we send an undetermined cause of death and a natural death. detective gibson agreed. they had a problem. very thin, notes from a medical examiner from eight years before and a few photos, very few in. and only two slides were taken by the pathologist and passed on in evidence. so, yeah, very thin time. . so police went back to the doctor that 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 alms. but that wasn t 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. have it basically a review of the original autopsy done.
as long as i m wearing this color, i have no say so in this jail. so you can do what you want? i can move you, yes. you re talking like we re equals. we re not. you do not run the institution. so you don t dictate where you go and how you go to a particular housing unit. it shows to me that there is no reason to uphold and respect the laws of the jail. when you come in the building, you want me to check off and say what room would you like? i m serious. no. i m just calling them like i see them. all right. i did my best to handle it politely. pretty much he told me [ bleep ] me in a polite way. he does what he wants to do. coming up my advice is to return to your cell right now or we ll move you to another cell. all right then move me to another cell. fine. rendell maldonado has another run-in with staff. and i lost the cops for a little bit. mind you the whole time i was holding her hand. but rigor mortis set in. david goodell recounts his dramatic capt
holding her hand. but rigor mortis set in. it was like hard and cold, you know what i m saying? so i get cornered, i went down into a cul-de-sac. so i m like, you know what, i m going to just full speed ahead. so i ran the car right through the roadblock. boom! mother [ bleep ]! don t you [ bleep ] move! get out of the car! get out of the car! as officers attempt to subdue goodell, they have no idea the passenger is the deceased viviana tulli. woke up in the hospital. i m like this, prosecutor is also there. i m all stitched up. i m on tv. and i m like, what the [ bleep ] did i just do? goodell was treated at the hospital and returned to the prison from which he had been paroled.