Paul Curry, Salina building official, arrested for the 1994 poisoning-murder of his wife

Linda Curry died from nicotine poisoning on June 10, 1994. She didn’t smoke, and police in Orange County, California, suspected her husband, Paul Curry. But they never had enough evidence to charge him. The case was cold … until now.

Paul Curry, who was living in Salina, Kansas, and working as a building official for the city, was arrested on Tuesday on special-circumstance murder charges for allegedly poisoning his wife to cash-in on a $400,000 worth of insurance policies. Has that plan every worked out?