Returning now to mystery on the mississippi. Curtis lovelace had seen plenty of Interrogation Videos during his career as a former prosecutor. In the summer of 2014, for the first time in his life, curtis was the one in the hot seat. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You are a lawyer and the Number 1 rule is you dont talk to the police without having a lawyer present. But you talk. I wanted to answer their questions. I thought they wanted to know the truth. She indicated she did not feel well. On the valentines morning, cory was nursing that bad cold. I walked back upstairs with her. She climbed into bed. He described leaving The House then coming home, only to find his wife dead in their bedroom. She was cold and stiff and i recall her hands being something like that. Other details surrounding the death seem to elude curtis. I dont remember anything significant. You said you went to bed together . Yeah. I believ
out something she found disturbing. he s rarely honest except for when he s been drinking. and he was upset about something, and i asked him what he was upset about and he stated something about. she was writhing underneath me and then he said, oh, the black cat. reporter: as strange as that story sounded, the prosecutor took it to mean this. curtis wasn t talking about a cat, but about cory s last minutes of life, as she struggled while curtis smothered her. erika had a story to tell. there s one particular quote that came out and he says, i could hear her writhing beneath me. yes. that was evidence. she gave and it sounds as though he s talking about killing his wife at that moment. that s what we thought it sounded like, and she testified to that under oath on the stand that i could feel her writhing beneath me. and that s pretty much what would ve happened if suffocation was occurring. reporter: the prosecution