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
the first time what was about to happen, that the judge would declare a mistrial. curt was sitting across. he said, i m not gonna be able to come home tonight, and and i lost all my air. it was terrible. reporter: the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. the vote six guilty, six not. curtis would face another trial. since he couldn t make bail, he d remain in jail, unless a deal? a plea deal? they had offered a second-degree murder plea. but i knew it was a decision not only that i had to make, but we had to make as a family.
and i lost all my air. it was terrible. reporter: the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. the vote six guilty, six not. curtis would face another trial. since he couldn t make bail, he d remain in jail, unless a deal? a plea deal? they had offered a second-degree murder plea. but i knew it was a decision not 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. reporter: that s when one of curtis lawyers turned to