Death on Valentine's Day - Encore
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[ Music ] >> Did you have anything to do with the death of your wife, Corin? >> I did not. [ Music ] >> Two minutes. >> I'm with the CBS affiliate, Inquency. So, we've been covering this from day one. I was a journalist in Quincy for 25 years and I'm now writing a book on the case. [ Music ] >> Curtis Loveless was a center on the Quincy high football team. >> The offensive line, Kurt Loveless. >> Went to the University of Illinois and became an all-big ten center. >> Well, we're just underway. >> I think we all understand the concept of the play more than the past. >> He was hired in the Adams County State's Attorney's Office as an assistant state's attorney. >> She was a beautiful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman, thin, perfect face. Essentially, what it was, it's -- you have, like, the star football player dating the cheerleader. That's what Corin and Curtis were. >> And then they get married and they have these kids. >> Everybody's thinking he had it all. >> Do you have good memories of any of the time together? >> I do. There were good times and bad. I mean, it wasn't a perfect marriage. [ Music ] >> On Valentine's Day, 2006, Curtis Loveless found his wife, Cory, dead in the bedroom of their home on Kentucky Street in Quincy. >> What was your reaction? >> Just utter shock, just not knowing what to do. >> At what point does it change from being this blissful, you know, storybook relationship to death on Valentine's Day? >> I think the volatility, you know, sort of built over time. It did escalate to a point where there was a lot of gossip in the community about him. The case was quickly closed. There was no determination for a cause of death, and Curtis went on with his life. >> That's when the Quincy gossip mill got started going. People wanted to know what happened to her. [ Music ] >> I was sitting in my newsroom and got the call, and they said, "Sounds like Curtis Loveless has been arrested." [ Music ] >> Curtis Loveless was arrested in the afternoon. >> Loveless is accused of suffocating his home-of-white Cory Loveless in 2000. >> We begin tonight with the start of the Curtis Loveless murder trial. >> To not only be called a murder, but to say that I murdered the mother of my children, it's horrible. >> This is a prosecution that should have never been brought. There never should have been an indictment. [ Music ] >> Breaking news here inside the Adams County Courthouse Judge Hardwick did just now declare a mistrial. >> Except for retrial, and we plan to retrial. [ Music ] >> Here we are again, the beginning of another loveless trial.
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Tried twice for allegedly killing his wife, former hard-charging prosecutor Curtis Lovelace speaks out about the case that made national headlines. "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates.