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
up and like i remember her not feeling good and i was sitting on the stairs and then i went to school. i think i remember saying i love you before we left, but that s pretty much it. reporter: logan, the eldest son, said he knew for certain that his mom was alive that february 14th. she was sitting on the steps, like, ready for us to leave the house. reporter: christine was still trying to find her husband. 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,
gibson, you seem quite clear about that morning, and yes, you saw her and went off to school. what had happened in the interim between your statement and going into trial, on the stand, and then kind of stepping back from all of that? it was the fact of no one had honestly asked me, sincerely, what had happened that day. and i had never taken time to actually think about it. i well, detective gibson did a couple of years before when he took your statement, right? but it again, i didn t know why he was askin me. i didn t know what was going on. and i gave the story i always gave. so when i had to sit there and think about it, i had to be honest with myself. and it wasn t the answer i wanted. i wish i could say i really do wish i could say, yes, i remember her, or, no, i know i didn t see her. but you cannot say that? but i cannot say that. and this is not you getting back at your dad who you re very sideways with at this point? no, because it hurts my he needs t
he says cory was so ill, he had to help her back to bed before driving the three eldest kids off to school, their backpacks stuffed with valentines cards. within minutes he was book, only the home, still cluttered with clothes and toys, was now filled with something else. silence. quiet enough to break a family s heart. coming up what had happened in that house? as i got closer, i immediately knew that something was really really wrong. so wrong, it would tear apart a family and puzzle police for years to come. every detective needs to keep in mind that there could be a bigger picture. when mystery on the mississippi continues. on the mississippi continues.
school the next day. her daughterers are cuddling with her mom and watching the olympics, and snowboarder shaun white. i remember saying he was so cute. she was not bedridden. no. she was feeling sick. even for my mom that was not uncommon. even if she was sick she did what was expected of her and took care of us and made dinner and laundry and everything because that was her role. reporter: when tuesday, valentine s day dawned curtis said he told her to take it easy. i decided to cancel my morning class at quincy university, in order to get the kids to school. so dead dad is going to be on deck. it is going to be dad s time to get everybody up and running here? right. so so i canceled my class, helped the kids get ready for school. she did come downstairs to help out with that.