point, after everything we had been through. so i was hoping that it would all pan out okay. reporter: and it did go okay. christine kept all the lovelaces running like a swiss train schedule. kids off to school, while curtis worked at his own law practice in downtown quincy. christine, meanwhile, put on her baker s apron. i opened an actual pie shop. i was making a hundred pies a week and i was selling out of pies before 9:00 in the morning. by all accounts, it was so this wasn t just a little hobby to keep you busy. no. this was a going concern, huh? yes. absolutely. what s your go-to pie? i love blueberry. i m with you. but i make a mean gooseberry. you name it, i can probably do it. reporter: after years of turmoil, it seemed, the lovelaces were reborn. lyndsay was back in the family fold. christine had even adopted curtis sons as her own. everything was working. but darker souls wait for the train wreck just when things are looking all hunky-dory. turned o
for now, back to dateline extra. reporter: for so many years he d been the guy in town people looked up to and admired. curtis lovelace, football star, school board president, suddenly a pitiable widower who needed help. it was overwhelming. people did come forward friends and family, helping get the kids to school in the morning, so i could also go to work. and then picking them up from school. it s a lot. it s a lot. but we came together as a family and did what we needed to do. reporter: to long-time friend beth dobrzynski, curtis was stoic in the weeks after cory s death. but one time, she noticed the mask slip just a little. it was at a high school reunion later that summer. they were doing a video montage, and cory s picture came up. and he turned around and he looked, and he goes, hey, that s my wife. and it was just times like that that
that you would expect in an age in which science and technology are just reaching dizzying heights, that people would no longer believe in this flapdoodle but they still do. right. well, in that case, it really did happen to my brother s kozen s sister s nephew s uncle. but let me ask you this. is the internet to blame? because it used to be word of mouth and it would take a while to circulate, but now, it s the touch of the send key. yes, so, i think social media certainly hasn t helped, precisely because all of the rules and standards and norms that keep us rational, because none of us individually is rational. i mean, we re a little bit rational when it comes to our daily lives. keeping food in the fridge, getting the kids off to school. but when it comes to beliefs about, you know, the origin of the universe or what s going on in the white house, or what s the cause of disease, we re often very happy with myth and legend and rumor. we kind of unlearn these intuitions when we ar
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anything that s what happened? yes. but then came perhaps the most anticipated testimony for the prosecution. lindsay, curtis s own daughter took the stand. two times over a span of a year, she told police her mother was alive that morning. she said she had felt. better but on the stand, with her dad s life on the line, she changed her story, telling jurors she was no longer sure her mom was alive that day. i don t remember any of. it it doesn t stick in your? memory nope. and yet detective baird notes, you do telling the story about seeing your mother, in the videotaped interview with detective gives, and you seem quite clear about that morning. and yes, you saw her and went off to school. what happened in the interim between your statement and going into, trial on the stand, and then stemming back from all that? it was the fact that no one had honestly asked me, sincerely, will head happened that day. and i never taken time to actually think about. it well, detect