hall like marching us out the door like she always did. reporter: on the day of her father s arrest, lyndsay was away at college when she had an emotional talk with her brothers. talked to em on the phone the day he got arrested. and they passed the phone around and they were sobbing cause they were scared. hold on. hold on. and they asked me to come home, and that was the last thing i ever said to them like, ever talked to them. reporter: that s when another tragedy unfolded within the lovelace family. around the time of curtis arrest his relationship with his daughter once again deteriorated. the family doesn t want to get into details but soon lyndsay found herself cut off from her brothers, too. i had been shut out, completely shut out. well, you knew the charge against your father and the theory of the crime that he had put a pillow over your mother s nose and smothered her. that s a stark image to deal with. it s something i didn t ponder, and i chose not to po
only that i had to make, but we had to make as a family. and i didn t know whether i could put them through another year of what we had already gone through. that s when one of curtis s lawyers turned to christine. he said this can all end right now if curt agrees to take this deal. he said it would keep him from dying in prison. but he d have to admit his culpability, responsibility in cory s death. that s the condition, right? correct. and that he wouldn t have to spend probably any more than 13 years in prison. the two said no thanks to the state s offer and geared up for a second trial. but that forced them to face another dire reality: they were totally broke, unable to afford another lawyer. what are we going to do? i mean, at that point, it there didn t appear to be any option. this could be a moment for christine to say, i m out of here. i didn t sign on to be some tammy wynette for this guy, standin by her man. i m gone. yeah. and who who could who
helped the kids get ready for school. she did come down stairs to help with that. he says corey was so ill, he had to help her back to bed before driving the three kids to school, backpacks stuffed with valentine s cards. within minutes, he was back. only the home cluttered with clothes and toys was now filled with something else. silence. quiet enough to break a family s heart. coming up, what had happened in that house? as i got closer, i immediately knew that something was really, really wrong. so wrong, it would tear apart a family and puzzle police for years to come. every detective needs to keep in mind that there could be a bigger pick. when dateline continues.
he studied law. she worked a small job to support them both. after graduation, they decided to buy a home in quincy. they wanted to be in the neighborhood. they wanted to be close by and that just made it all the better. so we found them a house and they moved back. virtually over the fence? two houses up and one over, yeah. curtis ambitions drove the young couple. he became a prosecutor in the adam county state attorney s office and dabbled in school board politics, winning a seat andesque is as president. he even found time to teach a law class at quincy university. in between the professional milestones, the lovelaces started a family, first girl, lindsay and three years, how was corey as a mother? fantastic, she was a great mom. there wasn t anything she didn t do for those kids. corey s days were filled with
happened. i just remember crying and not believing it and so we went. we left and we went to my grandma s house. i m like, i want to go back to school. and you did on the day you lost your mom? because that was normal for me. it was a normalcy thing for me. in hindsight, maybe the best thing she could have done. her favorite teacher for her. she had wolf pups. she had a friend. i remember holding the wolf puples. i m sure they had lost her missouri they re orphan. what a jumble of things. that was the most comforting thing i could have done is hold those wolves. by then, her untimely death was rippling across town. students across the law class were the first outside the family and authorities to suspect something had happened. his class was all outside his classroom waiting for him to come. reporter: one of curtis students, erica, was surprised to learn his class had been