A former Illinois prosecutor who faces a second murder trial in his first wife's death has been released from jail. Curtis Lovelace was released today from the Hancock County Jail a day after friends posted $350,000 of a $3.5 million bond that a judge reduced from $5 million.
He had been incarcerated since being charged nearly two years ago with first-degree murder in the suffocation death of his 38-year-old first wife, Cory Lovelace.
His second wife, Christine, and sons Larson and Lincoln greeted him as he left the jail in Carthage. A tearful Lovelace didn't make a statement.
He'll be under home confinement except to go to church and weekly meetings with a monitoring company representative.
Christine Lovelace asked for privacy so her husband could acclimate to his release.
