Did you snap and then put a pillow over her nose and mouth and suffocate her? no. no, i there there were no bad arguments the night before. um, it s it s exactly what what i ve told detective baird in 2006. and what i told detective gibson in 2014, and what i m telling you now. that that is what happened. she was sick and i came home and i found her that morning. and she was dead in bed. reporter: it was clear the detective s strategy hadn t yielded what he wanted, a confession. i have a problem with you not remembering all of these things. reporter: the lawyer s goal of talking his way out of trouble hadn t exactly worked either. even after he agreed, curtis says, to take a lie detector test. in a short time, he was swapping out his buttoned downed shirt and leather loafers for a very different courthouse look. jail house black and white stripes.