not at all certain why or how the woman died. the detective couldn t rule out any possibility, including foul play. around the room itself, any overturned glasses or any signs of a struggle? no. so as i hear you, you re telling me you re seeing a woman who has apparently died in her bed and not that long before authorities arrive. that s right. if i can stress that there wasn t a single mark on her other than what appeared to be a skin blemish under her nose, not a mark. reporter: and yet there was something about the position of cory s body that did strike him as odd. he thought death and gravity would have caused her arms to drop. instead, they were both fixed in mid-air, hovering above her chest. i was looking for an explanation for that, and i even addressed it to curtis lovelace. i asked him if there was a possibility that blankets had been under her arms when he discovered her.
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 mystery on the mississippi continues. on the miss issippi continues . a mountain of toys to fulfill many wishes. must be carried across all roads and all bridges. and when everyone is smiling and having their fun i can turn my sleigh north because my job here is done. it s not magic that makes more holiday deliveries to homes in the us than anyone else, it s the hardworking people of the united states postal service.
alive valentine s day morning, just as curtis said. they saw their mother alive that day. and that s that s the gist of their story. yes, i saw her alive that morning yes. 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. dire because they saw her alive. yes. reporter: the boys sister lyndsay, had also told police two separate times her mom was alive that morning, had seen her off to school on valentine s day. she was standing in the front 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 them 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. re
so i remember holding these wolf pups. i m pretty sure they had just lost their mom. like, they were orphaned. what a jumble of things going on for you that day. and that was the most comforting thing i could ve done was hold those wolves. reporter: by then, news of cory lovelace s untimely death was rippling across town. students from curtis business law class that morning were the first outside of the family, and authorities to suspect that something had happened. his class was all outside of his classroom waiting for him to come. reporter: one of curtis students, erika, was surprised to learn professor lovelace s class had been cancelled. later, she learned why. everyone was just in shock because she was a very young 38-year-old, and she seemed healthy from what everybody understood. so it was a huge shock that so that s very sad your professor s wife has died. i you didn t know her. i didn t know her, and i really didn t know him at that time either. rep
made you know, made me really think that, you know just, you know, grieving husband. reporter: that s why, a few months later, she and other friends were surprised to hear that curtis had met someone new. that was fast. she was different than anyone i had ever dated before. maybe in some ways, that difference intrigued me. reporter: she was erika, as in the former student who showed up to professor lovelace s cancelled class that fateful valentine s day morning. he s extremely charming. anything that i needed or wanted, he could take care of and he did. reporter: at the time this interview took place, erika asked us to alter her appearance some to protect her privacy. she began her story by recounting how she d, as a 33-year-old single woman, bumped into her 37-year-old professor at a nightclub not long after cory s death. a fish out of water, she thought. and i felt really bad for