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. i think so. reporter: neighbors testified the lovelace household was sometimes a stormy one. and that, parkinson suggested to jurors, is the backdrop of cory s death. they fought all the time. it was a rocky marriage with lots of arguments going both ways. and it got out of control. and maybe the evidence indicates that placing a pillow over one s face to make them stop yelling at me. maybe in her weakened state, if she was had flu-like symptoms, maybe it went too far. reporter: the state s theory, remember, is the force of the pillow caused that cut and abrasion on the outside and inside of cory s lip. the prosecutor then implied the pillow was placed under her arms after she died and later removed. if you leave it there through