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Dateline NBC

Poison

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, newlyweds Paul and Linda Curry come down with a mysterious illness. Paul recovers but Linda is hospitalized and the strange symptoms won’t go away. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on December 12, 2014.

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0:00.0

We could have complete respiratory failure within a number of minutes.

0:15.0

Dizziness, confusion, weakness, those are your clothes.

0:19.0

You're looking for anything that could contribute to the person's death.

0:23.0

One dose, high enough dose, could do all of that.

0:27.0

Everybody was in such a shock.

0:30.0

She shook like someone with the start of Parkinson's.

0:35.0

The nurse came back and found the ID bag had a discolored fluid.

0:39.0

Something being ingested that the body cannot handle.

0:41.0

She worked at a nuclear plant.

0:43.0

She did.

0:44.0

How could this happen?

0:45.0

How could this be?

0:48.0

A long time ago, I was saying, get out of the house.

0:51.0

You think that someone makes me try to poison you?

0:53.0

I had a motive.

0:54.0

A hand to do you by the victim.

0:56.0

From the grave.

0:57.0

Elaborate, diabolical.

0:59.0

It's mind-boggling.

1:01.0

That sounds like a very unpleasant way to die.

1:03.0

Yes.

1:17.0

What was wrong with Linda Curry?

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