there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband man shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. there s a moment where he stares at you and goes like this? like he s ringing your neck. yes, he didn t like me. he s an evil man. worse than charles manchin. sometimes it looks as if houston texas goes on forever, sprawling all the way to the horizon. this was also the setting of a sprawling crime. when they began on a quiet sunday night, with the young woman, named gelareh bagherzadeh. january 15th 2012, she had stopped by her boyfriend cory s house. for a surprise visi
months later. i was, like why didn t you polygraph me the first week if you are trying to track down who did this? and your answer might be so distraught, that it would ve made a difference. i just remember that they were asking me these questions like, what color your shirt was? and that was the baseline question and then they would ask me, did you shoot that girl? and then i remember i would get really upset because they were just calling her, that girl. but corey wasn t just upset about how they were questioning, they were upset that they weren t going harder on him. you were upset because you weren t under enough suspicion? right, because in my mind, if you weren t looking at me, what are you going to do with the guy who actually did it? do you think he s actually gonna tell you that they did? so you felt like they weren t working very hard? yes exactly. okay, maybe they got an honest vibe out of you? right. and even though cory thought he should ve faced more s
where galareh was shot. he turned out to be disturbed but not homicidal. and they spent some time tracking down a carjacking crew that was working galareh s neighborhood. we had the task force over there. maybe this was the same group trying to steal another. car and it didn t work, out and they shot her? and it didn t work on the shot her. but they re whipping of choice didn t match. we said, we had a shotgun. we rob people with a shotgun. then there was something about galleries mom s lawsuit. after a closer look, that fizzled out too. they went down one after, one after another trial, and never got anywhere. after looking through each new person of interest, investigators turned back to one of their first, corey. they called me in, and wanted to polygraph me. which i thought was weird. because this with three or four
even though those doing it desperately want just the opposite and so houston police focused on the hours before galareh s life ended. and that landed them on the doorstep of her new boyfriend, cory beavers. we learned that she was at cory s house that evening. they watched movies and then left, i think before midnight. detectives were eager to talk with cory. and core said he was eager as well he even left his number with the reporter at the crime scene. hoping, he says, that cops will reach out to him. so i gave her my phone number. i knew that the detectives would want to talk to me because i m the boyfriend. so if you can, just pass on my information to them when they get here. cory came into top the evening after galareh summer. straight from the book, investigators asked him, where he was when she was shot. at home, corey said. except for a quick run out for soda. after she left i went to a
what s going on? i didn t know. i remember hearing murder. i remember hearing him use the word life. i was not aware there was an investigation. you were totally blindsided? i was totally blindsided. back at the pie shop, an increasingly anxious christine got a phone call. it was someone from a local tv station. he said i m holding a piece of paper in my hand. it s an indictment for the first degree murder of corey lovelace. i said what? corey wasn t murdered.