"Golden boy."

That's how People Magazine described Quincy, Illinois lawyer Curtis Lovelace—a former college football star, school board president and state prosecutor.

That is, until he was charged in 2014 with murdering his wife Cory, who died unexpectedly eight years earlier. Prosecutors belatedly claimed Lovelace smothered his 38-year-old spouse with a pillow. He said she died of natural causes stemming from alcohol abuse and other health issues.