i addressed it to curtis lovelace. if there was a possibility that blankets had been under her arms when he discovered her? >> what did he say? >> no. >> you are saying the scene he saw it is when he saw it and found his wife, by his account? >> yes. >> then the detective was not getting hung up on one detail this early in the case. >> every detective needs to keep in mind, there could be a bigger picture. >> oh, yes, there was a portrait of a woman, a par trait of a marriage, filtered with details painted in a most unflattering life. >> coming up, a peek behind back doors. you were drinking too much. >> i drank too much. >> corey was drinking too much in. >> and corey was drinking too much. >> i remember crying and not believing it. >> when "dateline" continues. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing service

and the timeline doesn't make sense with curtis lovelace. >> reporter: in january 2016, nearly a decadevelace's death, curtis arrived for the first day of his trial. he faced 20 to 60 years in prison upon conviction for first-degree murder. he pleaded not guilty. cameras were not allowed in the courtroom. >> it's clear to me -- it didn't matter what i did. as far as the prosecution was concerned. their only concern was that they needed to create a crime and they needed for me to look bad in order to do that. >> reporter: curtis didn't necessarily need prosecutors help to look bad. some of his own actions the day cory died were at the very at least unusual. including never calling 911. he called who? >> his boss. >> reporter: his wife is dead in the bed? >> yes. >> reporter: and he calls his boss? >> yeah. and -- said, "my wife is dead." so his boss, said, "well, would you like me to call the ambulance people?" "yes. would you do that?" >> reporter: cory's mom, marty didriksen, who lived just a few houses away, testified that curtis broke the news of her daughter's death in what she thou