way, your daughter s dead. he was emotionless, let s put it that way. people who saw him that day claimed that he was without emotion. curtis also knew cpr. and yet, he never tried to revive his wife. reporter: on the day, why didn t you do cpr? i don t know. i don t know why i didn t do cpr. i don t know why i i didn t call 911. in looking back i saw my wife, cory dead. and i didn t know how to react. reporter: prosecutor parkinson next went after the first police investigation. pushing hard against detective baird who handled the case. he questioned if baird gave curtis who was then an assistant state s attorney, preferential treatment. he was a prosecutor. they were the police. he gave em a story that he how it happened. they bought into it. after all, he s one of us. reporter: so maybe tougher questions didn t get asked.
remember really. i don t know what s in lyndsay s head and in her heart. one day she was happy and then everything changed. reporter: the prosecution still had to explain why the two oldest boys were adamant their mom was alive that morning. parkinson told jurors there was a two-day gap between cory s death and the first police interviews with the kids. ample time he suggested, for the boys to be influenced by their dad. i think the children were confused as to which day. after all reporter: how about coached? do you think that he told him a story? he had custody of the children from the moment of her discovery until thursday afternoon. so from tuesday till thursday afternoon, i don t know what was said. reporter: dr. jane turner, the pathologist detective gibson hired to review the case, took the stand and said science is where the truth lies. she concluded the most reasonable explanation for cory s arms appearing to levitate, is that cory was dead up to 12 hours before
their only concern was that they needed to create a crime and they needed for me to look bad in order to do that. reporter: curtis didn t necessarily need prosecutors help to look bad. some of his own actions the day cory died were at the very at least unusual. including never calling 911. reporter: he called who? his boss. reporter: his wife is dead in the bed? yes. reporter: and he calls his boss? yeah. and said, my wife is dead. so his boss, said, well, would you like me to call the ambulance people? yes. would you do that? reporter: cory s mom, marty didriksen, who lived just a few houses away, testified that curtis broke the news of her daughter s death in what she thought was the most callous way. there was a knock at her door and curtis was standing there with 4-year-old larson. i open the door and he hands me larson. reporter: and says? oh, and by the way, cory s dead. and leaves. reporter: marty, i ve gotta say, i think that s very strange.
cory was drinking too much. it was impacting her ability to take care of things at home. he also told the detective that cory had been taking sometimes out of bed. once more, detective also found of the corey had been battling bully mia. the picture quickly emerging, corey had not been a healthy woman. i know you guys or listen to the words of the subject is telling, you but you re also looking at them. why is he telling me, this is very important. i saw a man who is answering my questions. not being evasive and shifty? cooperative, solemn, upset. curtis also reach rest his family steps, that morning. he last saw his family around 8:15, took the kids to school, he returned and founder deceased. with that, the detective finish the interview and left, but curtis knew that is awful day was about to get worse.
really noticed a girl from back home. it was during a college break. former classmates bumped into each other in quincy, and quickly became an item. cory wasted no time spreading her good news. on never forget the day, i was playing tennis with a friend of mine, cory came over, met us, and that s when she told us that kurt was it. she went to high school with the new couple. surprise? not really. no. they seemed a great fit together. she was very, very much smitten. it wasn t long before cory was telling her mother that she had found the one. she comes home, we re sitting there. i ve met the man i m going to marry. whoa. back up. and she kept her promise. in 1991, just after college, cory include is married. he studied law, she worked a small job to support them both.