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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...

And death above her body. that final pose it caught the detectives attention, years before. a curiosity, but he didnt -- now, adam gibson did. regret mortise? >> yes. in my opinion. >> the mechanics of rigor mortise collect this, upon death, a humans muscle start to stiffen. but, to the detective, it looked as though corys arms and hands were in an advanced state of order, meaning she likely that many hours before this photo was taken. remember, curtis said he tucked his sickly wife into bed, on...

Telling me that youre seeing a woman who apparently died in her bed. and, not that long before authorities arrived? >> thats right. if i can stress that there wasnt a single mark on her, other than what appeared to be a skin blemish. >> and yet, there was something about corys body that did strike him acid. he thought death in gravity wouldve caused arms to drop, instead they were both fixed in midair, hovering above her chest. >> i was looking for an explanation for, that and i even addressed i...

The last minute documents that was supposed to have received from the police but never did. potentially exculpatory evidence. >> you understood this e-mail, didnt you? >> it was not something that i thought of, no. >> one e-mail was from a medical expert. he warned detective gibson that if the first pathologist left the cause of death undetermined that opinion would trump anyone elses and that would give plenty of reasonable doubt to a jury. >> this e-mail should have been turned over. >> i beli...

Including those of phil specter and casey anthony. >> the appearance of the injury leaves no doubt that this is not a healing wound. >> reporter: in a darkened courtroom, spitz showed photos and talked about that cut inside corys mouth. curtis had told police his wife had fallen in the days before she died, his explanation for that injury. but this expert said he saw no signs the cut was an old one. >> theres no evidence of healing. so this looks like at the time it was incurred. >> reporter: th...

>> then again, curtis level is never sought coming. >> told me to put my hands behind my back, and put me in handcuffs. >> what was going on? >> i didnt know. i remember hearing murder, i remember hearing him use the word wife. i was not aware that there was an investigation. >> you are totally blindsided? >> totally blindsided. >> blindsided, because nobody had really question corys death before. even the police concluded that she died of natural causes. back at the pie shop, an increasingly an...

Mom, it was out of the blue, i dont think anything of. it >> how could that, be 38 years old, right? >> yeah, igs are a couple weeks. go >> detective with quincy little police department was assigned to head the definitely investigation. when he arrived to the scene he went straight upstairs, he was in the bedroom -- >> he tested or body temperature by placing her hand against wraps him in, they followed. suit >> was the body warmer cold? >> it was warm. one of the tele-corner? >> he knew that t...

That was there was no autopsy. >> would that mean to you? >> undetermined could mean a lot of things. in this particular autopsy, there were things listed as suspicious are traumatic. >> for instance, the report mentioned that abrasion on coreys face, just under her nose. something the arriving officer had observe that day. the pathologist also noted the cut, that she called a laceration on the inside of her upper lip. the detective kept scrolling, and then saw something that just stopped him co...

>> did she ever get out of bed. >> yes, i think she did. >> reporter: if jurors believed them, it blew apart the prosecutions timeline that cory was murdered the night before. >> they said the same thing that they had told baird in 2006 and detective gibson in 2014. >> reporter: and the defense had its sights on detective gibson. they claimed in 2013, he was an over-eager, newly promoted detective, primarily assigned to work crimes against seniors. this was his first murder case. >> he transferr...

After graduation, they decide to buy a home in quincy. >> they wanted to be in the neighborhood, and they want to be close by. it just made it all the better. i found in the, house in the mood. back >> virtually over the fence? >> two houses up, and one over. >> curtiss ambition -- he became a prosecutor in the adams county state attorneys office, and dabbled in the school board politics. winning a seat, and serving as president. he even found time to teach a business class in quincy university....