>> it was courtney who eventually broke the news to ashton and brianna. their mother, their father's wife of close to 30 years, was dead. but neither courtney nor chris waited at the house to tell the sisters what happened. or to comfort them, nor did they linger over the body at the hospital. they couldn't because father and daughter were escorted to separate squad cars and driven to the police station to talk about the accident. what was that ride like? >> quiet. i just remember crying the whole time. i couldn't comfort my father, he couldn't comfort me. when we got to the station, he said my dad would be a few more minutes. >> chris so frenzied at the scene had calmed down by then. he was a cop among cops, after all. he understood, he said, what was necessary to help them sort out what happened. >> i can't even start to imagine what you're going through, okay. just, you know, it was a death