entitled action find the defendant, paul curry, guilt of the crime of felony guilty of first degre murder, sentenced to life in prison with no possibility o parole the jury had reached a verdict on how linda died. but there is still one lingering question she was smart, she was educated, she had a good job, sh could ve walked out of the doo at any time if she thought her life was in danger that was his hook on linda. he gave her which he needed, which is somebody to say i lov you, i will be here for you, i will hold your hand. that s what he prayed on look, we all want somebod in our live loves us and cares about us and tells us how grea we are linda curry is not alone i that, but, how long are yo willing to stick around fo what turns out to be you eventual murder after yo already suspect your husband in linda s case, for th rest of her life that s all for this edition of dateline, i m craig melvin, thank you for watching this sunday. are you ready to meet the press? .w
that star. had one wish to grow on. play double time. ha, ha! i have to fine the wishing star. sniff him out. -all i can smell, is cats. oooh. good night. [ cheering ] you re still here? ok, one more number. puss in boots. only in theater, rated pg. after linda curry s death paul curry lost his job at the nuclear power plant. in large part because it turne out he lied about being ne nuclear physicists he left california, move to la vegas and began his life over. he eventually remarried, adopted a son. and by 2010, he was living i the small town of salina kansas back then, jason gauge was the city manager when we met paul, one of th
linda had wanted the rolex t go to her sister and i called her and said there is a report that the watch was stolen, she says no have to watch on right now in fact, the watch had neve been stolen. paul curry, it seemed, had filed a phony insurance claim. who does that if somebody is an innocent spouse, grieving the death o his beloved wife, who decides, within days after that to fake the theft of her rolex and fil a claim to collect the money paul, apparently. but it turned out that h needed bother, linda s conflicted feelings about paul ran deep five months after taking him off her insurance policies, sh wrote her sister pat a letter, a will and left paul $400, 000 which eventually received afte her death. but by then, paul had othe
i thought this is unsolvable case you thought she laid it out for us, we should finish it. from the grave, we have t find justice they began to follow th money, it turned out linda was worth a lot of it. she had a retirement account a edison and almost $700,000 i life insurance and, despite her reluctance to believe that paul was trying t poison her, she had change those insurance policies making her sister according to the prosecution paul only found that out after linda s death, and he wasn t happy. he had letters that he sent to the insurance company sayin that we paid for the premium from our marriage money, i a entitled to it he also find out that pau had filed an insurance claim for a ladies rolex wall watc and some jewelry that had gone missing after linda s funeral. he received a 9000 dolla payout but investigator knew that
things that we notice initiall was that he seemed to be very, very smart paul was hired as the lin is building official, dealin with permits and inspections he kept city commissioners updated about his projects he was soft unspoken really but very much to the point and it was easy to tell he did his homework, he knew what he wa doing. even, by this time sergeant with the orange count sheriff department, had done her homework to. and on november 9th, 2010, she was more than ready to speak with paul curry about the deat of his wife. more than 16 years earlier paul met her at the salina police department. he came in without an attorney and agreed to answer questions okay, i paul curry. a camera was recording as paul talked about his long ago marriage to linda. we were very observed wit one another. it was a wonderful - many years and he spoke of the night she died i will come in the middle o the night and she was no breathing. and i called 9-1-1