On the afternoon of September 30, 1991, an investigator in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, walked carefully through a college chemistry lab that was also a potential crime scene.

The room was a complete mess, with construction debris all over the place and lab equipment strewn across all the countertops.

In fact, it was so cluttered that the investigator hardly knew where to begin.

But then he noticed something laying on a nearby counter.

It was the soiled rag with a handwritten note sitting right next to it.

And when he read that note, he was astonished because he realized he could be the next to die.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious

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Okay, let's get into today's story. Early on the morning of August 19, 1991, a 32-year-old man named Bobby Curley stood in his recently renovated kitchen in the city of Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.

He walked over to his fridge, opened it up, reached inside, and grabbed his bag lunch along with his thermos,

and he was just about to head out the door and go to work, but he stopped and gave his wife Joanne a kiss on the cheek and said he loved her,

and then he left for the day.

So Bobby and Joanne had been married for a year, and they lived with Joanne's four-year-old

daughter, Angela, in a duplex in a working-class neighborhood. Bobby was an electrician, and so he

made pretty good money, but the Curlies were by no means rich. However, Bobby knew that that actually might change soon,

because Joanne was on the verge of winning this big court settlement. Joanne had actually been

married once before, but her husband had died in a car accident about three years ago. His card

collided with a tractor trailer, and the driver of that tractor trailer was eventually found to be the

one at fault. And so now, Joanne's lawyers and the trucking company's lawyers were finally closing in

on a financial settlement to compensate Joanne for her first husband's wrongful death. It had been a

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