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[Music] if you just look at this case and you go this is a man who killed his wife for
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money that doesn't tell you half the story Paul Curry is a self-centered devious
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evildoer I see him as a coldblooded killer who's gotten away with it for almost 20 years this isn't an accident
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this isn't an oops it's not a suicide it's a homicide she was being poisoned she was ingesting something that was
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making her ill is there something weird in her lipstick is he putting something in her fingernail polish she died from a
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massive nicotine poisoning catastrophic levels of nicotine in her system no she's not a smoker she doesn't smoke
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nicotine poisoning how common is that nicotine is one of the strongest poison ever Linda was absolutely fun we took
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our high heels out we dressed up we fixed our hair and makeup and we went dancing on the weekends she was a career
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woman was making good money at that time she did call me and tell me she had met
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this guy at work and that he was so so smart people described him as a genius people described them as knows
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everything about everything this is jeopardy he was on Jeopardy he was and he won he won like 26 $27,000 back in
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the'80s Linda said you know Paul and I are going to go and get married ends up getting
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the car going to Vegas he wasn't the most handsome man he was very short he didn't have a whole lot to work
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with it wasn't looks it wasn't money it was the idea that I am with somebody who
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so brilliant they had been married maybe a month and she called me one night and
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says you know Mary Paul wants to take out a million-- dooll life insurance policy on me what do you
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think are you crazy are you kidding me why would you do that you know what happened to Linda she
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starts getting sick week fatigued just looking bad she was so thin bunch of doctors had no idea why he's being the
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loving husband to his wife oh honey I'm sorry you're so sick and in the back of his mind he's got to be thinking how is
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she not dead how much of this nicotine do I got to give her to kill her for crying out
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loud do you have any eyewitnesses ever seeing him give her any kind of poison no is there any evidence he obtain
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nicotine direct evidence no there's no evidence this is a hard case but I have no doubt whatsoever that he did it and I
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believe I'm going to be able to prove it Beyond a reasonable [Music] doubt I'm Aron morard tonight on 48
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hours to catch a [Music] genius [Music] [Music] she's not going to make it if she stays
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with him I said you got to get away from him he's trying to kill you it's obvious
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I said leave get out of there Linda I got to get you out of the house to this day friends like Mary seabold just get
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out of that house and Bill say and RTO I can't believe she wants to stay there can't understand why Linda Curry never
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left her husband Paul there's know that in my mind that she loved him she died because she loved him Orange County
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prosecutor Brahim Bai is taking on a case that's been unsolved for nearly two decades but he believes he'll be the one
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to prove Paul Curry poison Linda with nicotine up to the moment she died that few minutes before
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midnight on June 99th 1994 in her mind he's the loving husband who's holding my hand who loves me who plays music for me
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who tells me all the nice stuff so she wasn't going to believe anything about him she said oh Paul's such a good
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husband he wouldn't do that Mary seol was one of Linda's closest friends it was instant bonding
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the two met in the 1960s when they both worked at Southern California Edison inside the Santa Noy nuclear power plant
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she was tall I was tall she loved to eat I loved to eat and we could eat in those
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days what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Linda fashionista fashionista always a nice
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new outfit with shoes to match purse to match earrings to match bracelets to match the two career women started at
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entrylevel positions but quickly moved up up we were go-getters and we wanted to get ahead as Linda advanced in her
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career moving from secretary to management she divorced two husbands and began dating Bill sandrao a life
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insurance salesman what was it that Drew you to her what was it about her she had
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a great personality very loving we went on trips together we had a great time Linda and sandretto dated on and off for
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eight years but he didn't want to get married only thing that was bothering me is the way she spent money and she would
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spend a lot of money she would spend it yeah for every dollar she made she spent
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two I used to go [Music] crazy and Linda kept spending buying herself a big house in s Clemente I have
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never seen a more beautiful house in my whole life Frankie Thurber was a close friend and coworker Linda's house was a
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dream house it's where a princess would live and Linda thought she had met her prince when she started dating Paul
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curry in 1989 he was 32 years old and she was 45 they would talk their little baby
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talk oh Linda my you know little one the little nicknames it was a little bit sickening Curry was hired as an engineer
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to consult at Southern California Edison teaching the power plants nuclear Engineers about safety issues Paul had a
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stir earling reputation he was extremely smart Mike flower was Curry's boss the only real complaint most people had with
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Paul was that he was too smart too smart too smart but when people would say he's
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too smart was that because he's arrogant too or just because he showed everybody
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else up he he let people know but in a playful way I thought that he was very egotistical he thought highly of himself
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there was no doubt about it Curry bed about winning all those thousands on Jeopardy and being a member of Mena the
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international Society of people with high IQs but that didn't bother Linda the two got married on September 12th
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1992 3 years after they began dating a passionate relationship I don't think passion played into this relationship I
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think it was a comfort but it wasn't passion it wasn't passion Linda wondered why her much Young new husband seem so
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uninterested how did you know that they weren't having any sex she told me and then there were the money issues
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Paul and Linda had combined annual salaries of at least $140,000 but Linda noticed she had less
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money than ever the reason soon became clear Curry was helping to support two Ex-Wives and three children amilies he'
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kept hidden from Linda it was just those little lies that just kept coming up lies and suspicious Behavior like that
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$1 million life insurance policy Curry asked Linda to buy making him the beneficiary he comes into this marriage
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with practically nothing and she's got a beautiful house beautiful Furniture beautiful clothes wonderful circle of
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friends and what is he bringing to the table and now he wants a life insurance policy on her for a million
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red flag Linda never got that extra policy but it hardly mattered because as Curry knew Linda already had several
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life insurance policies worth almost a million dollars and Curry was named the beneficiary on some of them I said get
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him off you need to change your life policy right away that's when she told me I'll give it to you and I said no
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don't give it to me give it to your sister but Linda who had been married just half
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a year at that point in 1993 was torn so she asked Frankie who was then looking for an apartment to
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temporarily move into the Curry House and spy on Paul she was afraid that Paul didn't really love her and she said
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Frankie would you do me a favor would you watch Paul and see if you think he's genuine with me that he really cares
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about me and that's when I started watching every move that he made basically Frankie didn't see anything
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wrong in fact quite the opposite and I went back to her and I said Linda I I've watched everything I I don't see it he
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dots over you he loves you he can't do enough for you I don't know why you would be questioning that even Mary
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never a big fan of Paul's was impressed by the way he pampered Linda he would prepare these exotic wonderful new salad
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dressings as a test and then sent her upstairs for a hot bath every night he would draw her a bubble bath I mean huge
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bubbles I said Linda I would kill to have somebody draw me a bubble bath of course he loves
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you in July of 1993 just short of her first wedding anniversary Linda came down with a
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mysterious illness she said I just don't feel well I just don't feel like myself
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and she couldn't figure out why all of a sudden she'd get sick she became so violently ill that she needed to be
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hospitalized when I saw Linda in that bed honest to God she looked like an 80-year-old woman her organs were
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failing they said they didn't even know she was going to make it that [Music] night
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[Music] [Music] Linda Curry came in with gastrointestinal problems it was July 1993 Linda Curry was rushed to Samaritan
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Medical Center in San Clane I was assigned to take care of her that evening Sher Bundy is a registered nurse
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she was nauseated she had some vomiting I checked her IV so she's connected to an IV at the time yes why for hydration
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as she was checking that IV drip Bundy noticed something odd there was a overhead light and I could see the ivy
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bag was cloudy because of the light shining behind it which I knew was not right how unusual is that
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it's very unusual Bundy reported the incident to hospital brass and the bag was sent to the lab oh my God Linda
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among Linda's visitors was Bill srto her former boyfriend she was just emaciated
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you know what was the cause of this they didn't know at the hospital poisoning was suspected Linda
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was hospitalized for 21 days she had a stroke and nearly died and then lab workers discovered lidocaine a numbing
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agent in the contaminated IV bag and reported the incident to the police they began an investigation that focused on
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one person her husband Paul this is what's so fascinating about this case he was a
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suspect in poisoning her before she [Music] died back then prosecutor Brahim Bai was
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still in law school but eventually in 2006 the case landed on his desk at the Orange County District Attorney's office
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he was surprised to find detectives at the time had audio taped their interviews with Linda these are the old
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micro cassettes that they used back in the early to mid90s very unusual to have a case where you had investigators asked
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the victim who ends up getting killed about the conduct of the person who killed them I was your husband uh-huh
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and how long have you been married not quite a year police investigators interviewed Linda in her hospital bed in
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August 1993 and zeroed in on the key question if somebody were trying to do something
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to you if they were trying to poison you any idea who would try to do that well the only person I could think of that
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would have a motive to do it would be Paul and and the only motive I can think of is many but I don't want to really
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even believe that or think that Linda was candid with detectives admitting that her new husband was sneaky about
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money issues and had lied about his past marriages and children still there was one very big butt do you still love Paul
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yeah I love him very much do you believe he loves you I want to believe that he does he certainly is convincing her
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friends were telling her run her co-workers were telling her run you take all that and she's
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saying but he loves me and he takes care of me and I like how I'm feeling because of what he's
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saying and I like how I'm feeling because of what he's doing and she doesn't run away she
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stays Linda stayed with Paul and recovered in the meantime the police investigation went nowhere but then just
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5 months later in December 1993 she was again hit with a mystery illness this time Paul took her to a
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different hospital but the story was much the same she looked like death warmed over Linda's friend Mary seabold
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was very concerned something's happening to her they don't figure out what it is
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I didn't know if she's even going to make it and how is Paul acting through this caring and involved but Linda told
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Mary that her IV bag had been tampered with yet again an alarm had gone off soon after a nurse report had seen Paul
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leave Linda's room this time the hospital staff put a clear sign on Linda's door it would say Mr Curry your
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husband is not allowed unaccompanied into the hospital room what did you think when you saw this sign on the door
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well I knew that other people had a suspicion that perhaps Paul was doing something to his wife
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[Music] in fact the police were again called and did a second audio taped interview Linda
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told cops that Paul was running up high credit card bills but she still remained
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fiercely loyal he's a wonderful man I love him and he's always been good to [Music]
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me the next day detectives interviewed Paul Curry but he stuck to his story that he had no idea why Linda was
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getting sick I was completely befuddled when doctors couldn't solve the problem I couldn't solve the problem with Linda
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still in the hospital Mary found documents in the Curry House that fueled her suspicions about Paul on the high
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boy dresser as I walk into the room there's a bunch of papers well I just kind of glanced at them but in big
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script writing I saw the word life insurance in Gold writing and I went oh life insurance and then I went oh more
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life insurance policies oh they're all here they're all out on this High boy dresser on the top of
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it now all the red flags are adding up to Crimson I mean it's really red now Mary questioned Linda after she was
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released from the hospital I'm asking her did did you have those things out Linda is this something you're looking
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at well she hadn't been home no not at all I said Linda Linda put it together put it together and let's let's talk
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about what's going on there Mary warned Linda that she believed Curry was getting ready to cash in by killing
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Linda she said you're right there's something going on and and I need to get out of here the next day it was like the
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door slammed on me and she said no Mary no no I I can't I I can't leave Paul did
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she say the reason why she couldn't leave is cuz she didn't believe that he would do this you know she was in such
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[Music] denial 6 months went by and then on June 9th 1994 Mary received an email from Curry
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that said Linda was feeling worse than ever I said Linda Curry's going to die Paul's going to finally get to poison
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her and she's going to die that very evening sometime around midnight Curry says he awoke to find
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Linda barely breathing Linda did not respond he calls 911 gives her CPR paramedics
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arrive no heartbeat no pulse take her to the hospital she dies nurse Bundy heard
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the news the next day when she reported to work at Samaritan Hospital what did you think my first thought was he
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finally did it and my second thought was somebody really dropped the [Music] ball I received a phone call about 1:00
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in the morning on the night of her death one of the first to hear of Linda Curry's death on that June night in
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1994 was Paul Curry's good friend and boss Mike flower can you come to the the home of Paul and Linda Curry and I said
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I'll be right there what did you think Linda was dead like everyone who knew the couple flower was aware that Linda
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had been sick he rushed to the curry home in San Clemente Paul was very emotional he cried on my shoulder for
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hours and what did he tell you what happened I can't believe she's gone her sister called me the next day
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word spread to Linda's good friends Bill sandero I said oh my God and Frankie Thurber I said what she was like a
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sister to me she just was almost even like a mother to me Mary seabold heard the news from her husband I knew that
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all my premonitions were true I knew that it was Paul and I knew that uh no one could save her Linda's friends
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wondered if Paul had poisoned her by putting something in his special salad dressings and all those bubble baths he
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knew everyone was looking at him as a suspect didn't you like think no way would this guy actually killer when he
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knew he'd be the first suspect you know he was such a con man and and and such a
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a narcissist and such a psychopath I just think he thought I am so much smarter than anybody I can do
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this Paul Curry knew that there is no way he could murder his wife and not be a suspect his objective was not to
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eliminate himself as a suspect his objective was to make sure he doesn't get charged with the
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crime during the autopsy the medical examiner found an unusual mark behind Linda's right ear that could have been
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left by his syringe then toxicology reports revealed what Linda's friends had long
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suspected she had been poisoned and now they knew the cause nicotine a lot of nicotine people say well maybe she's a
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smoker no she's not a smoker she doesn't smoke it's not possible she could have gotten that
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amount of nicotine over a period of time building up in her system absolutely not
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the toxicology reports also reveal the presence of a large amount of the generic form of ambient a sleeping
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medication in Linda's body her death was declared a homicide but there was no evidence to connect Paul Curry to the
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nicotine the sleeping pills or a syringe so he could not be charged the fact that he wasn't charged
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with a crime wasn't because somebody dropped the ball it's because he was able to cover his track
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[Music] Curry was about to get away with murder free to start a new life and to claim
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the money from Linda's estate he sto people he's going to get a million dollars out of it that was his
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plan not so fast as it turns out Linda had drafted this handwritten note giving her sister approximately half her estate
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Curry was apoplectic after he found out that things weren't as easy to get all the
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money and he called me and uh and he said did you know did did you know anything about about Linda changing and
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and her and and her sister Pat is going to get and he was like stuttering but incredibly despite all of
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Linda's suspicions she remained faithful to Paul even in death she left him her house and close to a half a million
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dollars quote so he'll be okay if she thought he was killing her why would she want to leave him money because she
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never allowed herself to believe what was obvious to anybody and everybody and that's the power of the
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heart after Linda died Paul Curry was transferred from his old job at the nuclear power plant and that's when a
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routine Security check revealed a pack of lives in his resume he was not an engineer he didn't even have a college
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degree the brilliant Mansa member who trained nuclear Engineers was a complete fraud so I called Paul up at the end of
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the day and I said Paul I'm coming in tomorrow morning at 8:00 and I'm going to fire you unless your resignation is
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on my fax and I came in the next morning and his resignation was on my fax but thanks to Linda Paul Curry collected
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$419,000 from two of Linda's life insurance policies and her retirement plan he also began collecting her
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retirement benefit of $564 every month but even with all that money he let Linda's beloved house slip
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away he let the house go into foreclosure and he got out of Dodge and went to Vegas and I understand that he
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got a job as a used car salesman which I found quite intriguing because a con artist is a really good car
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salesman but it wasn't long before Curry conned his way into a new job this time
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becoming a building inspector years went by and the police investigation into Linda Curry's murder
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came to a complete standstill the case badly needed a fresh set of eyes it was 2002 I was working in
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our Cold Case unit Sergeant Ivon scha of the County Sheriff's Department inherited Linda Curry's murder from a
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retiring detective I would know what it was it was very distinct she immediately
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focused on those old audio taped interviews of Linda if somebody were trying to do something to you if they
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were trying to poison you any idea who would try to do that well the only person I could think of that would have
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a motive to do it would be Paul sh began digging into Paul Curry's background I started with
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who is Paul Curry everywhere I looked about Paul Curry it was false it was fake for 4
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years sha reexamined the entire case reinterviewed Witnesses and then in 206 she felt she had enough to take it
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to Bay Tha she says you know I have this cult case that I've been working on so I
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said bring me the file she comes back a few hours later with about 25 binders B I plunged in studying the case
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for 3 years until 2009 when he reached out to the nicotine expert who had been hired years before to analyze Linda
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Curry's blood Dr Neil benowitz and I said do you remember that case it didn't take him long to remember oh yeah I
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remember that high level and what Dr benowitz had to say shocked bayai he said all that he needed
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to do is to go into a grocery store and and buy a pack of cigarettes how often have you seen
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nicotine used as a murder weapon never I I've read about it but I've never seen it
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until now until now yes Dr Neil benowitz professor of medicine at the University
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of Cali California San Francisco is one of the country's preeminent experts on nicotine this was beyond anything we've
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ever measured levels four or five times higher than anything we'd ever seen before even after two decades benowitz
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remembers the Linda Curry case because of the catastrophic levels of nicotine discovered in her body back in
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1994 how do you believe she had to have gotten that nicotine well I think most likely it was by an intren
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injection it's the only possible explanation says Dr benowitz and remember the medical examiner did find a
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puncture mark behind Linda's right ear can you say how soon she had to die after she got that dose of nicotine it
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was my thought that death must have been within 20 or 30 minutes Dr benit says he does not
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remember discussing that time frame with the original investigators 20 years ago
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but now says bayai that one fact turns the entire case the nicotine was introduced into Linda's system during
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this time frame and the only other human being who had access to her is Paul Curry Curry's story has always been that
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on the night Linda died the two of them were home alone for approximately 6 hours bayai believes Curry injected
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Linda after knocking her out with a heavy dose of ambian I think she comes home he
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introduces ambient into her system whether it's by way of food or a drink or a salad or one of his fancy dressings
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um when she's out when she's sedated he takes that syringe that he had ready with nicotine he injects her with the
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nicotine and he waits until he is sure that she's not going to survive this one but where would Paul Curry get so much
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nicotine the answer is frightening Curry only needed to buy a pack of cigarettes if you have a pack of
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cigarettes you can have 300 milligram of nicotine and that's way above the lethal
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dose for a person the case was rounding into shape but bayai wanted more Sergeant Ivon sh track Curry to
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Salina Kansas where he had a new wife a new son and a new job working as a building inspector
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finally Curry would have to answer some tough questioning and sha was ready to take him on face to face I was afraid
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that if we told him we were from Orange County that he wouldn't talk to us so prosecutor bayai came up with a plan to
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trick Paul Curry into believing he was being questioned by two local detectives who had no knowledge of the case
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Sergeant Ivon scha would be playing the part of Marie hi I'm Marie Marie Paul Curry nice to
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meet you on November 9th 2010 the Salina police chief tells Curry that Orange County investigators are just trying to
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close out a death investigation and so they requested Salina detectives to ask Curry a few questions I'm going shut
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this so we can the chief of police said oh he's a building inspector he's very smart he's never going to talk to you
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what was your reaction when he said yes were you shocked I couldn't believe it I
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I thought to myself well he's not as smart as he thinks he is I guess this involves something with
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um a woman named Melinda this my my ex-wife I mean my was married she passed away okay how long were we go into that
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interview and our plan was for the first part of it let him think he is in complete control so he's thinking I'm
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going to absolutely run circles around him because they don't know anything about the case and they're from Kansas I
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am smarter than they are but then SCH takes over and the Meandering interview becomes a
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targeted interrogation the night that Linda passed away you and Linda were alone correct corre was there anybody
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else in the house sha is locking Curry into the story that he's told all these years
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leaving him no room to back away from it later so nobody snuck into the house there was no burglary at the house there
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was no robbery at the house nothing like that it was just you and Linda he has now boxed himself in and
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sha gives it to him straight Paul I believe that the cause of Linda's illness is and the cause of
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Linda's death are at your hands and before I ask you any other questions I feel like I need to re your
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rights are you arresting me not yet but for such a smart guy Paul Curry does not
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do the smart thing he keeps talking were you slowly poisoning her no no of course
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not no despite the grilling a detached Curry seems to have other things on his mind and when sha leaves the room
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briefly Curry shows his impatience should I presume that I'm not going to make my 4:00 meeting
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today yes why is that I don't know how long this is going to take well what what is this that is
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taking does this Trump my obligation to my employer it's going to be awfully hard to explain
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professionally that's the least of his worries at this point Paul you are not free to leave I am placing you under
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arrest for the murder of Linda Curry my name's yvon scha my middle name is Marie
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finally 16 years after Linda's death Paul Curry is called to account for her murder what I need you to do is uh stand
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up and turn around it felt great to pull out my badge and ID and introduce myself
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to him and tell him I was from Orange County and I was there to arrest him it felt
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great put both your hands behind your back but the the arrest is just the beginning bayai still has a case full of
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holes even up to today there's no smoking gun or a smoking syringe or a smoking [Music]
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anything he was a monster a monster who picked his pre and that was my best friend
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Linda he's a liar how can you live with yourself taking this beautiful beautiful woman
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and setting her up to die in this courtroom sits a vicious coldblooded murderer make no mistake
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about [Music] that it took 20 years but in September 2014 assistant district attorney Brahim
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bayai finally has Paul Curry right where he wants him he thought he's smarter than everybody else in front of a jury
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on trial for the murder of his wife Linda she died from nicotine poisoning bayai admits the case is No
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Slam DK my obligation is to prove it to you beyond a reasonable doubt you're never going to to hear
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about how exactly Linda Curry died defense attorney Lisa kman wastes no time pointing out the lack of direct
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evidence connecting Paul Curry to the murder of his wife you're never going to hear where the nicotine came from how it
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got into her this is a case based on suspicion innuendo and conjecture Curry is charged with first-degree murder for
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financial gain which carries a mandatory life sentence with no possibility of parole this defendant is as guilty as
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Sin no surprise the defense sees things differently he is an innocent man the prosecutor uses the word murderer
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murderer murderer kman belittles the case against Curry questioning those Hospital IV bags that appeared to have
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been tampered with come on this is baloney there was no poison ever found in any of those IV bags there was no
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fingerprints on it instead she tells the jury that Linda had a history of stomach
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problems dating back to the late 60s long before she met Paul throughout those years she gone to many many
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doctors all that history is not going to create nicotine in her system out of nowhere the defense argues that Linda
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was so desperate for a cure that she gave herself an unor Orthodox remedy a nicotine enema and it wound up killing
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her one way it got in there is this through her colon from a nicotine enema bayai can barely contain himself it's
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the enema defense it's the enema defense there is no evidence Linda ever gave herself an enema bayai says and even if
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there was it would not explain the Undisputed toxic levels of ambient in Linda's system where did the ambient
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come from you know where it came from I'm going to show you follow my finger right there that murderer sitting right
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there do you have any evidence he obtained ambian did he have a prescription did she have a prescription
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the answer to your question is no no no no the only pertinent fact bayai says is
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that Linda died that June night within 30 minutes of getting that one lethal dose of nicotine
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and that Paul Curry was the only person who could have administered it nobody other than this defendant had access to
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Linda in the 6 hours before her murder nobody the defendant had all the motive in the world to murder her all of it all
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of it he had to cash that check he had to cash the check she had to die Paul Curry never takes the stand to explain
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himself but bayai has a surprise in store one of the better witnesses that I had is the one that I wasn't able to get
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to take the stand Paul Curry because the day after I signed that piece of paper to get him arrested he talks to his
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current wife then and he's on the phone telling her about what he thinks about our evidence I mean big trouble I got to
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tell you it it looks bad I mean other the fact that there's no physical evidence saying I did it I didn't do it
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they could put me away to prison they're serious about this with Paul's own words
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ringing in their their ears jurors get the case for me when a jury starts deliberating this is when I realize
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there is nothing else that I could do jurors deliberate for a day and a half before reaching a verdict Sergeant
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Ivon schol who brought the curry case back to life in 2002 heads back to the courthouse either guilty or not guilty I
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didn't think it was going to hang I watched the jury come in and they wouldn't look at me where previously
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they would look at me and so I was afraid I was holding one of Linda's earrings and our other good friend was
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next to me and I gave her one of Linda's earrings and we just held hands and held
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her earrings in our hands we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant Paul Curry
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guilty of the crime of murder first degree guilty of murder for financial gain for those on Linda's side the jury's
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verdict brings sweet relief what did you feel peace I wish it was 20 years earlier cuz he got to enjoy 16 years of
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freedom but even the guilty verdict does not answer the ultimate question why did
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Linda stay with Paul she didn't want to admit failure after you've waited that long and you've gone out with that many
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men you don't want to admit that you chose the wrong guy they're really hard to look at
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because they remind me of my best friend that I [Music] lost if you could go back would you do
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something differently oh if I could go back yeah I'd have have to just bodily take her out of the
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house I miss her so [Music] much I'll see her again I'll see her again 48 hours to miss it would be a
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crime were you at all prepare for what happened in this case [Music] [Applause] [Music]