prepared for any kind of relationship. and i wasn t looking for anything like that. where were you in your life christine? were you single? i was. i was single. after reconnected on facebook, the former class folks decided to catch a face to face for the first time in decades. and there he is at the door. who do you see? i see curtis lovelace. my senior homecoming date standing there. and then we spent that evening with friends. and before we knew it, everyone else had gone. and we just had the most amazing time. i was meeting in many ways, the same person who i took to homecoming, just more beautiful, more interesting. and more kind than i had ever remembered. it just worked! more than six months later, on the day after christmas, 2013. kurt s was once again standing at the altar. only this time, the new mrs. lovelace seem to have approval from everyone. even 20 year old daughter
defense s medical expert concluded there was only one plausible explanation for cory s death. she had a history of drinking and falling and that caused that abrasion and cut. the bottom line she was an alcoholic and bulimic suffering from a liver disease, someone who unfortunately died of natural causes. she s not a normal 38-year-old woman. she has a significant disease of a major organ that is associated with sudden death and with liver failure. reporter: in the end, curtis decided not to take the stand. ten women and two men would decide lovelace s fate. the deliberations went on for two full days. then, christine got the call to come back to the courthouse. and i knew in my heart he was coming home. that was it. you were gonna prevail. he s coming home. yes. reporter: but once she arrived, bailiffs led her to a small law library. christine came in. and they explained to her for
benefit of the doubt. but on a warm oregon s morning, that benefit would evaporate along with the peaceful feelings of a lazy summer day. christine lovelace had been a friend up in her new shop, baking pies all morning. curtis was meant to stop by with lunch. i just knew that he was gonna be there. and i kind of had the notion that he was going to bring me fry chicken that day. but lunch came and went. and no curtis? and no curtis. a few blocks away, curtis had just stepped out of his law office. he was in fact, on his way to the pie shop. as i was walking to my car, there was a gentleman in a suit. waiting for me. it was detective gibson. and he was armed with an indictment from the grand jury. he was there to arrest curtis for the murder of cory lovelace. and he said wet? the only thing he said was my wife died in 2006. what did you think of that? it was not the reaction i was expecting at all. then again, curtis lovelace
working on her next goal, making bail to get her husband out of jail. friends eventually put up the cash. almost two years after his arrest, curtis was released to his wife and sons. they greeted me at the hancock county jail. and i came home to a dog that i had never met. and for the first time, got to be back in my house and back in my home. reporter: but it wouldn t be home sweet home for long. while curtis and mrs. lovelace number three waited for the next trial in the alleged murder of mrs. lovelace number one, the judge ruled that mrs. lovelace number two could testify against her former husband. and what a story she had to tell. coming up erika, out of disguise, and on the stand. he ripped my shirt. and then he let me go and he tried to grab me again and i
autopsy reviewed by somebody else. have basically a review of the original autopsy done. do a new autopsy, because the body had been cremated. so the chief oked their quest to have a new doctor review the old notes. the detective also had something else to mind to beef up the case. talking to anyone anyone who known cory. the first call was to the mom, marty. he told her he wanted to meet, but not why. he said, are you there for the time i said scratch what i m doing this afternoon, you should just come now! because that was so nervous about what it was. everything old is about to be new again. new, and very unsettling. coming up! the thing that is struck me first was the position of mrs. lovelace s arms. a difficult man examiner reaches a different conclusion. the manner of death would be