East Chicago man is charged with killing his fiancee

An East Chicago man is accused of killing his fiancee last year in what police said was “a domestic fight that went too far,” court records show.

Terrie Glover, 59, was charged Thursday in Lake Superior Court with murder and domestic battery in the death of Tabitha Mirzaabolahsoni, 43.

Police were called Nov. 13 to an apartment in the 3900 block of Elm Street where Mirzaabolahsoni was found in a bedroom lying face down and “cold to the touch,” a probable cause affidavit states.

An autopsy determined Mirzaabolahsoni had been dead for roughly two hours before medics arrived, according to the affidavit. She had “multiple blunt force injuries over the head, torso and extremities,” and her shoulder was dislocated, the affidavit states.

The coroner’s office ruled Mirzaabolahsoni’s death a homicide, caused by “asphyxia due to neck injury/suffocation,” with a contributing factor of hepatic cirrhosis, according to the affidavit.

Glover, who called 911, said that he and Mirzaabolahsoni had been together for about 8.5 years and were “engaged to be married,” the affidavit states.

Glover changed his story “several times” as he spoke with investigators but said “numerous times that he did not kill her,” according to the affidavit.

Glover first said that he and and Mirzaabolahsoni were in bed and watching a movie when she “started to shake and go into convulsions,” the affidavit states.

Mirzaabolahsoni had “complained about her head hurting” earlier, and Glover said he bought her Advil Pm and that they drank vodka, according to the affidavit.

Glover then said he was asleep when Mirzaabolahsoni had a seizure that woke him up, the affidavit states.

“Glover said that she had blood coming out of her nose and mouth at that time, and when he got up her head was in a puddle of blood,” according to the affidavit.

When asked about the bruising on her body, Glover said Mirzaabolahsoni “fell down the stairs a thousand times and that he would have to carry her up the stairs,” the affidavit states.

A detective asked about the markings on her neck, and Glover said Mirzaabolahsoni “might have tried to choke herself to death and that he did not know,” according to the affidavit.

Glover told investigators the couple “argued and fought often,” the affidavit states. The two got in a physical fight before her death, and while Glover said “he did not strangle” Mirzaabolahsoni, he “put his hands around her neck for maybe two minutes to get her off him,” according to the affidavit.

The detective asked if “this incident was a domestic fight that went too far,” and Glover said that description was “on point,” the affidavit states.

When the detective left the room during questioning, Glover called a relative and said that “they are trying to convict me of a murder because I strangled and choked Tab to get her (expletive) off of me,” according to the affidavit.

Glover was asked why he waited two hours to call 911 “and he said that he did not know that she was messed up like that,” the affidavit states.

An attorney and hearing date were not listed for Glover as of Friday afternoon in court records.