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What is murder? I'm Rebecca
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Lieb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost
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Town. Paul
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Curry gained notoriety on the game show Jeopardy!
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in 1989. In
1:27
1994, he gained attention in
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a much different and most unwelcome way. Paul
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Curry was a training consultant from Laguna Hills,
1:34
California. He was on Jeopardy! over the course
1:36
of three episodes in March 1989. He
1:39
emerged victorious twice, amassing a total of $24,101
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before his streak ended on the March
1:45
21st episode. Although specific
1:48
details about the episodes were Curry triumph
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for Unavailable, his final appearance was a
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closely contested battle. Heading into
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Final Jeopardy!, Curry trailed the leader
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by a mere $400 and was $300 for behind
2:00
the second-place contestant, holding $5,000. The
2:04
final question, a clue in
2:06
the US President's category, read, Though
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his second administration was scandal-ridden, he
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was almost nominated for a
2:12
third term four years later. Curry's
2:14
response was, Who is Andrew Jackson?
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Unfortunately, both of his opponents answered
2:18
correctly, Ulysses S. Grant. Consequently, Curry
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lost all his earnings from that
2:22
day by wagering his entire sum
2:25
before Final Jeopardy. However, he
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still walked away with his winnings from his
2:29
two previous victories and received some consolation prizes,
2:31
including a color TV for finishing third on
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his final day. Curry found
2:35
himself in a tragic turn of events just five
2:38
years later when his wife, Linda
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Kincaid, passed away under suspicious
2:42
circumstances. Marrying in 1992,
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Curry reportedly pressured Kincaid to put
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all their financial assets in
2:48
his name. Mmm, smart. Including
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the mortgage and life insurance policies, Kincaid's
2:54
friend Mary Seibold recalled that oxygens charmed
2:56
to death that Curry was insistent on
2:58
this, even wanting to take out a
3:00
one million dollar life insurance policy on
3:02
her. Never good. It's never
3:04
a good sign. When is it a good sign?
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It's never a good sign. You work on these things
3:08
all the time. A lot of them are the same. It's
3:11
like, whose name is the life
3:13
insurance policy under? Oh,
3:16
this suspect? Hmm, interesting.
3:18
Maybe we look into them, because they're going to get
3:20
a lot of money. Who benefits from this tragedy?
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As tensions rose over Curry's
3:25
undisclosed past marriages and child,
3:27
he attempted to reconcile by booking a
3:29
cruise. However, the cruise ship was hit
3:31
with the virus that was going around,
3:33
which Kincaid contracted before passing on to
3:35
Curry. Kincaid's health deteriorated over
3:38
time, leading to several hospitalizations.
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Seibold, who stayed with the couple during
3:43
this period, became suspicious after finding records
3:45
of Kincaid's finances and life insurance in
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Curry's possession. Kincaid's health took a critical
3:50
turn on New Year's Eve, leading to
3:52
her hospitalization. A nurse later discovered a
3:54
needle puncture in Kincaid's IV tubing, suggesting
3:57
foul Play. It's
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probably it's nothing loki like puncture an icy
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in like even like a small thing as
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training in of i don't know I saw
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it there. It's. I don't know
4:08
for in Nineteen Ninety four. Or
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or things more like I always think in those
4:13
terms like what. Cameras were
4:15
yeah. Oh absolutely. I think they're they were.
4:18
And that's why we're solving. A lot of speaking of
4:20
my like True crime. Pretty surprised. So we're
4:22
solving lot of teases now. It's because
4:24
they were cold cases, because we didn't
4:26
have the technology and resources spouses. The
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gulags there's there must. Be a better
4:30
way than to go into a room and
4:32
puncture this. As can be found out with of
4:35
this shit over the ground. It's not like people are
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not going to notice that. Curry. Reached
4:39
out to see both for help him June
4:41
Nineteen Eighty Four. claiming contained was in poor
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health. However, Can. Passed away
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the following day and Curry collector the
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life insurance payout and her four one
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K speaking to detectors from a hospital
4:52
bed and Tate acknowledge the possibility that
4:55
her husband was out to get her.
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a n g i Duh,
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fun, but a break. I'd
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have motive to kill her. Years have gone
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by. I know, it's so frustrating. He
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was obviously
7:02
diabolic. He had a
7:04
lot of critical thinking that he was
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always doing. The shadiest part of his
7:08
past is when Curry allegedly tried to
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poison his second wife. Oh my god.
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Who also suffered from a mysterious symptom
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for over a year. Enough. The
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ego. The ego that you could get away with
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it twice, too. In
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2007, evidence showed that Curry had
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been slowly poisoning Kincaid over the
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course of a year. Before,
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he finally slipped her a powerful sedative
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and injected her with a fatal dose
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of nicotine behind her ear. Jesus.
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A slow burn murder. Yeah,
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god, you're not trying to just get
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it done at that point. You kind
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of take pleasure in the process, which
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is vile. Curry
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was finally arrested in 2010 at
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age 57. He created a
7:54
new life for himself as a Chief
7:56
County Building Inspector in Salina, Kansas. So
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he got out of Southern California. California who knows
8:00
what lies he told to become I don't know
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what that and they're probably very good lies You
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know I this man is a con artist.
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He's highly intelligent clearly in 2014
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finally He's convicted
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of insurance fraud and first-degree murder with special
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circumstances They found out that she had a
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lot of nicotine in her system despite not
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being a smoker It's not
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secondhand smoke no also where you get
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all that nicotine and maybe you can melt down
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a nicotine pat I don't
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know I just or a lozenge maybe
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Authorities believe that curry put tobacco in
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her food over extended period and then
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injected a fatal dose of nicotine Behind
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her ear. It's so inhumane. There's
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so many better
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more efficient Kinder
8:47
ways to again kill somebody
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this just it's so brutal
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Curry is now serving a life sentence
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without the possibility of parole Angie
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9:31
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9:53
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9:56
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9:58
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10:00
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the free Angie mobile app
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today or visit angie.com. That's
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angi.com.
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