me larson. reporter: and says? oh, and by the way, cory s dead. and leaves. reporter: marty, i ve gotta say, i think that s very strange. take your grandson and, by the way, your daughter s dead. he was emotionless, let s put it that way. people who saw him that day claimed that he was without emotion. curtis also knew cpr. and yet, he never tried to revive his wife. reporter: on the day, why didn t you do cpr? i don t know. i don t know why i didn t do cpr. i don t know why i i didn t call 911. in looking back i saw my wife, cory dead. and i didn t know how to react. reporter: prosecutor parkinson next went after the first police investigation. pushing hard against detective baird who handled the case. he questioned if baird gave curtis who was then an assistant state s attorney preferential
understand what s going on with with lyndsay, christine, because she has told the story that she, like her brothers, remembers seeing her mom alive, but then she backs away from it and says, i think i can t remember really. i don t know what s in lyndsay s head and in her heart. one day she was happy and then everything changed. reporter: the prosecution still had to explain why the two oldest boys were adamant their mom was alive that morning. parkinson told jurors there was a two-day gap between cory s death and the first police interviews with the kids. ample time he suggested, for the boys to be influenced by their dad. i think the children were confused as to which day. after all reporter: how about coached? do you think that he told them a story? he had custody of the children from the moment of her discovery until thursday afternoon. so from tuesday till thursday afternoon, i don t know what was said. reporter: dr. jane turner, the pathologist detective gibso
way, your daughter s dead. he was emotionless, let s put it that way. people who saw him that day claimed that he was without emotion. curtis also knew cpr. and yet, he never tried to revive his wife. reporter: on the day, why didn t you do cpr? i don t know. i don t know why i didn t do cpr. i don t know why i i didn t call 911. in looking back i saw my wife, cory dead. and i didn t know how to react. reporter: prosecutor parkinson next went after the first police investigation. pushing hard against detective baird who handled the case. he questioned if baird gave curtis who was then an assistant state s attorney, preferential 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.
remember really. i don t know what s in lyndsay s head and in her heart. one day she was happy and then everything changed. reporter: the prosecution still had to explain why the two oldest boys were adamant their mom was alive that morning. parkinson told jurors there was a two-day gap between cory s death and the first police interviews with the kids. ample time he suggested, for the boys to be influenced by their dad. i think the children were confused as to which day. after all reporter: how about coached? do you think that he told him a story? he had custody of the children from the moment of her discovery until thursday afternoon. so from tuesday till thursday afternoon, i don t know what was said. reporter: dr. jane turner, the pathologist detective gibson hired to review the case, took the stand and said science is where the truth lies. she concluded the most reasonable explanation for cory s arms appearing to levitate, is that cory was dead up to 12 hours before
and yet, he never tried to revive his wife. on a day, why didn t you do cpr? i don t know. i don t know why i didn t do cpr, i don t know why i didn t call 9-1-1. in looking back, i saw my wife cory dead, and i didn t know how to react. prosecutor parkinson next went after the first investigation, pushing hard against detective bear who handled the case. he questioned whether bear gave curtis, then and assistant states attorney, preferential attorney. he was a prosecutor, they were the police. he gave them a story of how it happened, they bought into it. after all, he s one of us. so maybe tougher questions didn t get asked? i think so. neighbors testified that 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