About to drop a bombshell. coming up a daughter s difficult decision. i don t know what s in lyndsay s head and in her heart. one day she was happy, then everything changed. and a mother recounts what she says was curtis bizarre behavior the day her daughter died. i open the door and he hands me larson. and says? oh, and by the way, cory s dead. when dateline continues. e with eczema said about how their skin feels. .when it comes to our skin, what if it could feel differently? say hello to opzelura for the treatment of mild to moderate eczema. opzelura is a steroid-free cream proven to help clear skin and significantly reduce itch. do not start opzelura if you have any infection as it may lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you are being treated for an infection;. .have tb or have been in close contact with someone with tb; have had hepatitis b or c.
Hall like marching us out the door like she always did. reporter: on the day of her father s arrest, lyndsay was away at college when she had an emotional talk with her brothers. talked to em on the phone the day he got arrested. and they passed the phone around and they were sobbing cause they were scared. hold on. hold on. and they asked me to come home, and that was the last thing i ever said to them like, ever talked to them. reporter: that s when another tragedy unfolded within the lovelace family. around the time of curtis arrest, his relationship with his daughter once again deteriorated. the family doesn t want to get into details but soon lyndsay found herself cut off from her brothers, too. i had been shut out, completely shut out. well, you knew the charge against your father and the theory of the crime that he had put a pillow over your mother s nose and smothered her. that s a stark image to deal with. it s something i didn t ponder, and i chose not to p
reporter: though a jury would soon be pondering curtis guilt or innocence. in august 2014, the 45-year old former assistant state s attorney found himself standing in a courtroom. this time as a defendant at his own arraignment. having to appear in a courtroom that i had served as a prosecutor, and dressed in in stripes and and having my my hands and my feet shackled. those were some really some low times. reporter: married just eight months, wife number three s commitment for better or for worse was immediately put to the test. my husband, who is kind and caring and compassionate, is charged with something so heinous that it makes no sense. reporter: if convicted, curt lovelace could spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of his wife cory. as if that weren t enough stress, his daughter lyndsay was
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
She didn t know he had been transferred to a different jail. eventually, he called. he told me everything would be okay. and that we were gonna have to to fight some things. reporter: christine was a wreck. her husband was in jail and she was dumbfounded as to why the police had taken the boys out of school and then interviewed them without parental permission. she felt better about this though the two oldest boys backed their dad s story, they had seen their mom cory alive valentine s day morning, just like curtis said. they saw their mother alive that day. the and that s that s the gist of their story. yes, i saw her alive that morning yes. when dad took us to school. uh-huh. so there it was valentine s day. so therefore she couldn t have been dead upstairs and right. dying and rigor mortis setting in. right. because we saw her alive. uh-huh yes. reporter: the boys sister lyndsay, had also told police two separate times her mom was aliv