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[Music] did you have anything to do with the death of your wife course I did not two
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minutes with the CBS affiliate in Quincy so we've been covering this from day one
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I was a journalist in Quincy for 25 years and I'm now writing a book on the case
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[Music] Kurtis Lovelace was a center on the Quincy High football team the offensive
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line Kurt Lovelace went to the University of Illinois he became an All Big Ten center away I
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think we all understand the concept of the play more than the past he was hired in the Adams County State's Attorney's
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Office as an assistant state's attorney she was a beautiful blonde haired blue-eyed woman thin perfect face
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essentially what it was it's you have like the star football player dating the cheerleader but that's what Corey and
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Curtis were and then they get married and they had these kids everybody thinking he had it all do you have good
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memories of any of the time together I do there were good times and bad I mean it wasn't a perfect marriage
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on Valentine's Day 2006 Kurtis Lovelace found his wife Corey dead in the bedroom
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of their home on Kentucky Street in Quincy what was your reaction I just utter shock just not knowing what to do
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at what point does a change from being this blissful you know storybook relationship to death on Valentine's Day
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I think the volatility you know sort of built over time it did escalate to a point where there was a lot of gossip in
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the community about him the case was quickly closed there was no determination for a cause of death and
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Kurtis went on with his life that's when the Quincy gossip mill got started going
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people wanted to know what happened to her I was sitting in my newsroom and got the call and they said sounds like
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Curtis levels had been arrested not only be called a murder but to say that I murdered the mother of my children it's
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horrible this is a prosecution that should have never been brought there never should have been an indictment
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breaking news here inside the Adams County Courthouse judge Hardwick did just now declare a mistrial it's set for
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retrial we plan to retry it here we are again the beginning of another loveless trial the retrial where a year after the
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first one defendants first place for us was solidly that'll be our medical only ages supposin fake news this is a big
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case in there are fake witnesses no one has been in homicide Jenny what do you see is the big
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difference this time around Lovelace is second wife Erika Gomez as we know she was banned from this first trial she's
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the biggest difference in this case a lot of people saying that she was the missing puzzle piece to why we're even
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here to begin was May 2012 is the first time that he attacked me he ripped my shirt and he tried to grab me again and
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I kept on trying to fight him off they were lies I told them multiple times that I had nothing to do with coarse
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death so how do you find yourself in this position it's a good question as a question that we've been asking for the
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last two and a half years