The cold-blooded murderers who poisoned with nicotine… and nearly got away with it
One was a nuclear engineer known for his devious intelligence. The other was a 19th century nobleman with a penchant for reckless behaviour.
Both of them murdered with nicotine.
And they nearly got away with the murders, if not for the dedicated work of the medical scientists and the criminal justice officers of both their times.
A 20-Year-Old Murder Investigation
It was Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Paul Curry showed no emotion in court as the jurors pronounced him guilty of the murder of his wife, Linda Curry, in 1994.
Linda’s family and friends wept and held hands as the verdict was announced. It was a satisfying moment for the prosecutors. It had taken twenty years for the police homicide department to gather enough evidence to prosecute Curry. Linda’s family had waited painfully for two decades for justice to be delivered to the man who had cold-bloodedly murdered his wife for money.
But why had the investigation taken so long?
Why had it taken twenty years for the case to close?
It was because Curry had murdered with nicotine.
