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The Jeopardy Murders

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What is murder? I'm Rebecca

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Lieb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost

1:06

Town. Paul

1:22

Curry gained notoriety on the game show Jeopardy!

1:24

in 1989. In

1:27

1994, he gained attention in

1:29

a much different and most unwelcome way. Paul

1:32

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

1:41

before his streak ended on the March

1:45

21st episode. Although specific

1:48

details about the episodes were Curry triumph

1:50

for Unavailable, his final appearance was a

1:52

closely contested battle. Heading into

1:54

Final Jeopardy!, Curry trailed the leader

1:56

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

2:08

his second administration was scandal-ridden, he

2:10

was almost nominated for a

2:12

third term four years later. Curry's

2:14

response was, Who is Andrew Jackson?

2:16

Unfortunately, both of his opponents answered

2:18

correctly, Ulysses S. Grant. Consequently, Curry

2:20

lost all his earnings from that

2:22

day by wagering his entire sum

2:25

before Final Jeopardy. However, he

2:27

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

2:33

his final day. Curry found

2:35

himself in a tragic turn of events just five

2:38

years later when his wife, Linda

2:40

Kincaid, passed away under suspicious

2:42

circumstances. Marrying in 1992,

2:44

Curry reportedly pressured Kincaid to put

2:46

all their financial assets in

2:48

his name. Mmm, smart. Including

2:52

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?

3:06

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?

3:23

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.

3:40

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

3:47

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

4:00

probably it's nothing loki like puncture an icy

4:02

in like even like a small thing as

4:04

training in of i don't know I saw

4:06

it there. It's. I don't know

4:08

for in Nineteen Ninety four. Or

4:11

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

4:28

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

4:37

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

4:43

health. However, Can. Passed away

4:45

the following day and Curry collector the

4:48

life insurance payout and her four one

4:50

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,

6:00

fun, but a break. I'd

6:30

have motive to kill her. Years have gone

6:32

by. I know, it's so frustrating. He

7:00

was obviously

7:02

diabolic. He had a

7:04

lot of critical thinking that he was

7:06

always doing. The shadiest part of his

7:08

past is when Curry allegedly tried to

7:11

poison his second wife. Oh my god.

7:13

Who also suffered from a mysterious symptom

7:15

for over a year. Enough. The

7:18

ego. The ego that you could get away with

7:20

it twice, too. In

7:22

2007, evidence showed that Curry had

7:24

been slowly poisoning Kincaid over the

7:27

course of a year. Before,

7:30

he finally slipped her a powerful sedative

7:32

and injected her with a fatal dose

7:35

of nicotine behind her ear. Jesus.

7:38

A slow burn murder. Yeah,

7:41

god, you're not trying to just get

7:43

it done at that point. You kind

7:45

of take pleasure in the process, which

7:47

is vile. Curry

7:49

was finally arrested in 2010 at

7:52

age 57. He created a

7:54

new life for himself as a Chief

7:56

County Building Inspector in Salina, Kansas. So

7:58

he got out of Southern California. California who knows

8:00

what lies he told to become I don't know

8:03

what that and they're probably very good lies You

8:05

know I this man is a con artist.

8:07

He's highly intelligent clearly in 2014

8:11

finally He's convicted

8:14

of insurance fraud and first-degree murder with special

8:16

circumstances They found out that she had a

8:18

lot of nicotine in her system despite not

8:20

being a smoker It's not

8:22

secondhand smoke no also where you get

8:24

all that nicotine and maybe you can melt down

8:26

a nicotine pat I don't

8:28

know I just or a lozenge maybe

8:32

Authorities believe that curry put tobacco in

8:35

her food over extended period and then

8:37

injected a fatal dose of nicotine Behind

8:40

her ear. It's so inhumane. There's

8:42

so many better

8:44

more efficient Kinder

8:47

ways to again kill somebody

8:49

this just it's so brutal

8:52

Curry is now serving a life sentence

8:54

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