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>> every day i wanted answers, every day i was told it was an unknown. people dont just die! >> she was a loving mother he was a crime fightin prosecutor >> you are a pillar of tha community. >> i did what i thought wa right. >> then one day, the law was a his door his wife was dead in bed >> her eyes were open, she was pale >> i just remember crying, and not believing it >> suddenly suspicious but no evidence of a crime >> any signs of a struggle >> no. it was case closed >> years pas...

Turner was convinced cory ha not died a natural death she concluded someone had used an option, likely a pillow, to suffrage the woman left it under her arms, an remove it many hours later remove it many hours later >> the manner of death b homicide >> for the detective, core love lisas death came down to two competing methods from two compelling - one relied on science to explain the murder, the othe relied on -- to describe an ailing mother just before she passed away. in the end, the detectiv...

Account. cory ha died minutes after seeing her children off to school -- not hours earlier, as the detective suspected. if hed been disappointed in lyndsays answer, he didnt show it. but he did make a request that caught her off guard. >> if you do talk to your dad, only thing that i would ask is that you not discuss the fact that i came and talked to you yet. >> what did you think was happening? >> i didnt know, especially when he said, "dont tell your father i was here." >> whats that mean? >>...

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Corey lovelaces mom had tried hard to move on after her daughters sudden death in 2006. but after a phone call and a visit from detective adam gibson in early 2014, she started to wonder. >> a lot of things i shoved away. really shoved away. and one of em was really why -- cory had died. >> did you ever suspect that there might be foul play involved in her death? >> no. >> reporter: friends of both curtis and cory also started getting calls from the detective. beth dobrzynski remembers his messa...

Word, "wife." i was not aware that there -- that there was an investigation. >> reporter: you were totally blindsided? >> was totally -- totally blindsided. >> reporter: blindsided because no one had really questioned corys death before. even the police concluded she died of natural causes. back at the pie shop, an increasingly anxious christine got a phone call. it was someone from a local tv station. >> he said, "im holding a piece of paper in my hand. its an indictment for the first degree mu...

>> she says the photos show corys body in full rigor mortis. like the detective, the m.e. believed the picture and curtis story were out of sync. >> i estimate that the time of death was somewhere ten to 12 hours -- prior to her photograph being taken that morning. so, somewhere around 9.00 or 10:00 -- or 11pm the night before. >> in other words, the night of february 13th -- not the morning of february 14th as curtis claimed. something else bothered her: turner thought the scene appeared altere...

>> and then seeing the marks around the mouth and inside the mouth all suggest that suffocation occurred. >> reporter: suffocation. an abrasion. an accepted timeline that no longer fit. turner was convinced cory had not died a natural death. she concluded someone had used an object -- likely a pillow to suffocate the woman; left it under her arms and removed it many hours later. >> the manner of death would be homicide. >> reporter: for the detective cory lovelaces death came down to two competi...

>> how was your parents relationship, do you remember? >> they would fight. it was an interesting relationship. there were times we were like the perfect family, wed do like fun family stuff. and then there were times i do remember being woken up at night by my parents fighting. >> reporter: for the first time, someone inside the lovelace family was revealing the turmoil before corys death. but then the detective asked lyndsay to describe that tuesday in 2006 when her mothers body was found. >> ...

Beth and other close friends said cory didnt really talk about her marriage. so the detective did something no one else had done on this case. he started knocking on doors talking to corys former neighbors. >> all the neighbors talked about -- all the -- the constant arguing and fighting. >> so you were getting a picture of what was goin on in that marriage that wasnt in focus in 2006. >> right. >> the detective went a step further. he got in his car and drove more than a hundred miles to the un...