the cold and flu fightings. machine. you put in your machine. press the button to brew up powerful relief. to defeat your toughest cold and flu symptoms fast. new theraflu powerpods. press. sip. relief. seven years after the mysterious death of cory lovelace i just remember crying and not believing it. police have reopened the case. we missed something here. her husband, curtis, who remarried twice, is the prime suspect. returning, now, to mystery on the mississippi. he had seen plenty of videos.
curtis lovelace was a local celebrity. or at least so infamous, according to his new defense team, that he couldn t get a fair trial in his hometown. a judge agreed. so trial number two was moved from quincy to springfield, illinois all rise. reporter: about two hours away. the defense is going to come up here and try to portray the defendant as a pillar of the community. that s a facade. reporter: david robinson would join ed parkinson for the prosecution. this time cameras were allowed in the courtroom when the trial started in march 2017. our houses were about 15 feet apart from each other. reporter: as in the first trial, neighbors testified they often heard arguing from the
the murder of his wife, cory. as if that weren t enough stress, his daughter, lyndsay, was about to drop a bombshell. coming up a daughter s difficult decision. i don t know what s in lyndsay s head and in her heart. one day she was happy then everything changed. and a mother recounts what she says was curtis bizarre behavior the day her daughter died. i open the door and he hands me larson. and says? oh, and by the way, cory s dead. when dateline continues. the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to recommend pronamel strong and bright. it s going to give their patients whiter teeth. recommend pronamel strong and bright. zooka had digestive problems and wouldn t eat., then i fed him freshpet.
tried to grab me again and i kept on trying to fight him off. reporter: then erika told the jury another shocking story. she said curtis had been drinking at a party. and later that night, he blurted 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 reporter: and it sounds as though he s talking about killing his wife at that moment. that s what we thought it
appearing to levitate, is that cory was dead up to 12 hours before police arrived on the scene. i viewed this material and reviewed it with the eye of a scientist and and what we know about the development of rigor mortis. reporter: what would a jury believe, science, or the words from two of cory s own sons? cory s brother, a dentist, found himself struggling over the conflicting facts. science is my living you know, it s i have to believe in that, but i also have to, you know, believe in the family at the same time. so i m completely torn. reporter: i ve never seen a more difficult case, more closely argued. and there doesn t seem to be middle ground to there s there s none. reporter: parkinson urged the jury to focus on the science and one image. cory in her bed, her body in rigor mortis. he said it proved she d died hours before curtis claimed. it proved he was lying. it proved, he argued, that curtis killed her. coming up