Been resting on, why wasn t it there anymore? turner noticed the embrace jim on her face, and the cut on her sudden lit. to her, it suggests that something had been pressed against the woman s mouth. and then seeing that the marks around her mouth, and inside the mouth all suggests that suffocation occurred. suffocation. an abrasion, an unaccepted timeline that no longer fit. turner was convinced cory had not died a natural death. she concluded someone had used an option, likely a pillow, to suffrage the woman. left it under her arms, and remove it many hours later. the manner of death be homicide. for the detective, corey love lisa s death came down to two competing methods from two compelling . one relied on science to explain the murder, the other relied on to describe an ailing mother just before she passed away. in the end, the detective
But no evidence of a crime. any signs of a struggle? no. it was case closed. years passed new lives. two new wives. he s extremely charming. we just had the most amazing time! then, a new detective dusts off the old case. what s trumped out at you? most definitely the arms where in a race position. my first thought was the manner of death would be . what s really happened in that bedroom? i m a young mother s death was a mystery, but was in the murder? tell me what happened to her to my face. do not give me excuses. it runs through the heart of america. along, meandering lifeline.
Treatment. he was a prosecutor. they were the police. he gave em a story that he how it happened. they bought into it. after all, he s one of us. reporter: so maybe tougher questions didn t get asked. i think so. reporter: neighbors testified the lovelace household was sometimes a stormy one. and that, parkinson suggested to jurors, is the backdrop of cory s death. they fought all the time. it was a rocky marriage with lots of arguments going both ways. and it got out of control. and maybe the evidence indicates that placing a pillow over one s face to make them stop yelling at me. maybe in her weakened state, if she was had flu-like symptoms, maybe it went too far. reporter: the state s theory, remember, is the force of the pillow caused that cut and abrasion on the outside and inside of cory s lip. the prosecutor then implied the pillow was placed under her arms after she died and later removed. if you leave it there through
Where the truth lies. she concluded the most reasonable explanation for cory s arms appearing to levitate, is that cory was dead up to 12 hours before police arrived on the scene. i viewed this material and reviewed it with the eye of a scientist and and what we know about the development of rigor mortis. reporter: what would a jury believe, science, or the words from two of cory s own sons? cory s brother, a dentist, found himself struggling over the conflicting facts. science is my living you know, it s i have to believe in that, but i also have to, you know, believe in the family at the same time. so i m completely torn. reporter: i ve never seen a more difficult case, more closely argued. and there doesn t seem to be middle ground to there s there s none. reporter: parkinson urged the jury to focus on the science and one image. cory in her bed, her body in rigor mortis. he said it proved she d died hours before curtis claimed. it proved he was lying. it proved
You can see her arms frozen and death above her body. that final police had caught detective baird s attention the years before. a corrosive-y but he didn t assign any significance. now, adam gives him dead. rig mortise? yes. in my opinion. the mechanics of rigor more disco like this. upon death, the muscles start to stephen. but to the detective, it looks as though cory s arms and hands were in an advanced stage of rigor. meaning, she likely died many hours before this photo was taken. remember, curtis said that he touched his wife in the bed only an hour before finding her dead. it did not make sense to the officer. detective told his bosses about the old lace file. my assumption is that we missed something here. he had been in charge in 2006 when everyone assumed everywhere cory died unnatural death. but he said he never saw this photos that the detective was holding before him. that s when i saw the