lynda curry knew that linda ha been sick for months and a list for doctors could never explain. and paul had been sick to. now suddenly, lindo was dead paul's friends steve wiggly. >> everybody was in such shock i don't think the reason mattered it was just okay, we have to take care of our friend. >> how was paul? >> grief stricken. >> so was linda's family her niece ricky remember how paul changed the funeral arrangements to help them deal with linda's sudden death. >> he allowed the casket to be open so that my mom could se her sister wrap her mind around her siste being gone >> linda was now only a memory but she had left behind perplexing medical mystery what caused the mysterious illness that took her life >> what were her symptoms? >> diarrhea, vomiting,
>> and, like everyone else, he wondered if postmortem tests would finally solve th mystery. >> you understand that they're doing, toxicological - >> to try to determine - >> yet they haven't sent me an information. >> she has a forensi toxicologist at the boston university school of medicine. she didn't work on linda's case, but in her lab, she often deal with the same challenges, when finding out how someone died linda suffered from dizziness, weakness, vomiting after eating, what does that sound like? >> it definitely sounds like the nausea and vomiting is persistent, that's suggestin that the body is ingeste something that the body can' handle >> that's what linda's frien had thought all along. she said she shared he concerns with lynda. >> let's have someone go int
>> paul wrote that she was mumbling incomprehensible stuf in her sleep about work an projects and meetings. >> and she's working all these hours. and she's working too many - and maybe mary, she'll liste to you >> when linda came home from work that day she was tired an went to bed without eating dinner a few hours later, the phone rang at mike flowers house >> i answer it and he said mr. flowers, this is the chaplain. and he said, can you come to paul and lynda curry's house >> mike rushed over and foun his friend paul, who told an awful story. how he woke up to an odd sound and found linda not breathing. he called 9-1-1. but by the time paramedics got there it was too late. >> paul was extremely upset. for hours, i was basically holding him up and he wa crying on my shoulder.
>> what was wrong with linda curry? >> something is happening with you lynda, you're ingestin something in your body tha shouldn't be there >> she went to the doctor. a lot of doctors >> and it wouldn't go away and it will get worse. nausea, vomiting >> dizziness, confusion. >> medicine didn't seem to hel her. >> you could have respirator failure within a number of minutes. >> those who knew lynda watche something unfold but what exactly did they see? it would take 20 years t unravel this mystery linda curry, born linda kilgore, with six years younger than he sister path. linda grew up to be a southern california beauty. she loved the sunshine, horses and family pat's daughter ricky looked up to her aunt linda. >> she would call me over to her house to go read her
after linda's death, and fou years after paul's arrest. it was finally time for him to face a jury. his defense attorney argue that the prosecution's case wa all a cauldron of suspicion, stirred by lynda's friends >> they tell the doctors their suspicions, they talk to b such other about the suspicion over the year. so everything tart start getting interpreted in suspicious ways. >> suspicion without evidence? there was no evidence that pau had ever bought nicotine or an other poison, nothing to tie him directly to linda's death. on the contrary, according t her, paul was a loving, caring husband. she called paul's friend stephen to testify >> she wasn't in a harmful