Miss. man accused of mailing suspected ricin described conspiracy theory involving body parts

[Recursion]

Source: Washington Post

A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and sometimes performed as an Elvis Presley impersonator.

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line about 50 miles north of Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo.

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Curtis wrote that he was trying to “expose various parties within the government, FBI, police departments” for what he believed was “a conspiracy to ruin my reputation in the community as well as an ongoing effort to break down the foundation I worked more than 20 years to build in the country music scene.”

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The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the letters and the Monday bombing in Boston that killed three people and injured more than 170. The letters to Obama and Wicker were postmarked April 8, before the marathon.




Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-miss-man-arrested-accused-of-sending-letters-with-suspected-ricin-to-washington/2013/04/17/dad88156-a7bb-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

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Under W: somebody mails anthrax, kills several people, and never gets caught.

Under Obama: somebody mails ricin, kills nobody, and is nabbed within days.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. I wonder if this idiot is planning to perform for the other inmates.

[mac56]

13. Everybody in the whole cell block

will be dancing to the Jailhouse Rock.

[rightsideout]

2. I have to admit to looking for a political affiliation from these people

But many times they aren't righty or lefty. Some weird thing bothers them and consumes them to the point they do something bizarre.

[Yo_Mama]

14. Paranoia

Will destroy ye.

Yes. The reason they caught him so quickly is that he's been sending letters like this to various authorities for a while. Only without the ricin, which may or may not even be ricin.

He worked at a hospital and found body parts and developed this bizarre theory about it, and for a very long time he's been out peddling his crazed theory. His frustration keeps growing because no one is listening to his claims (due to being utterly crazy without the slightest foundation in reality), and he thinks that's proof that they are all involved in the conspiracy.

It comes back to mental health issues, as so many of these things do.

[Travelman]

16. I don't think crazy really has a political affiliation

There's plenty of crazy to go around in the world, and this guy seems to have gone back for seconds.

One can go around talking about liberals or conservatives are crazy, Republicans or Democrats, but for one of theirs, there's always one of ours. It's a tit-for-tat game that doesn't get anywhere.

[marshall]

17. Did this guy have some political beef?

I don't see anything about political affiliation playing a part.

[leftynyc]

23. He has a twitter history

spelled out nicely in this link:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41881_Officials-_Arrest_Made_in_Ricin_Letter_Investigation/comments/


A vermin birther who wants Ted Nugent to run for President.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. The media is NOT going to lable him a right-winger....

No way. He's going to be called a "nut" and that's it.

BTW: There's a picture of him mugging before a bumper sticker that says, "Christian and a Democrat" floating around Freeperville but that might not have even been his own car, just one he thought was "funny" in a parking lot. The fact that the pic is from a cell phone at night fits that scenario.

[leftynyc]

31. I saw that photo on another site

and agree with you analysis that it was not his car and merely thought anyone calling themselves a Christian and an Obama supporter was funny. I've already shut down two wingers with those tweets after asking them to explain them.

[adieu]

3. This guy is just as nutso as Jared Loughner.

I don't peg him as a righty or a lefty. Just someone who really ought to be in a sanatorium.

[Recursion]

4. That's my take too

It's also not clear whether he actually made real ricin, or just ground up castor beans.

[avogadro]

19. He should have been

locked in a rubber room long ago.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Tortelvis couldn't be reached for comment. nt

[shenmue]

6. Yipes

I want to be in a band too, but dang!

[Alamuti Lotus]

7. I just love how all the nutjobs are coming out of the rotten woodwork..

it's like a dystopian George Carlin rant (later years) come to life.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thanks for the reminder of what happened with the Anthrax investigation.

Nice work by the F.B.I., of course.

[center]

Showtime with Paul Kevin Curtis. [/center]

[BainsBane]

9. Well, this one signed his name with initials

That did facilitate capture.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. As well as writing the letters in HANDwriting & already being known for crank letters to Congress.nt

[MADem]

11. He sounds like Dale Gribble...only less smart.

[watoos]

12. I bet that he is one of those good guys with a gun (NRA member)

but a bad guy with ricin. Maybe the NRA should expand its coverage and include ricin as a 2nd amendment right. Then we could decide whether this guy was a good or bad guy with ricin.

[Javaman]

15. "and sometimes performed as an Elvis Presley impersonator."

"Curtis wrote that he was trying to “expose various parties within the government, FBI, police departments” for what he believed was “a conspiracy to ruin my reputation in the community as well as an ongoing effort to break down the foundation I worked more than 20 years to build in the country music scene.”

or his music just plain sucked and he could cope with that.

get a large pot, put in some silver lame', a healthy does of really off key singing, a bunch of Breaking Bad episodes and the frustrated dreams of a guy who clearly thought he was an undiscovered talent held down by "the man" and this is what you get.

[SoapBox]

18. ...another crazy bastard.

Nuts.

[SemperEadem]

22. everyone where?

and you should know:


There is no evidence that the car in front of which he is posed is his car.

now go whine elsewhere about it.


eta: the post to which I was responding has been removed, either by tombsstone or by the poster doing a dirty delete. Basically, they tried to assert that everyone was wrong about the guy being from a blue state--he wasn't. He was from Mississippi, north of Tupelo near the Tennessee border... and that the car he was posing in front of in the picture was his, when there is no evidence to say that. Glad to see their idiocy was removed before it polluted this thread any further.

[leftynyc]

24. WRONG WRONG WRONG

Check out this link to his tweets - vermin birthers and people who want that cretin Ted Nugent to run for President are not Democrats:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41881_Officials-_Arrest_Made_in_Ricin_Letter_Investigation/comments/


You signed up and failed all in the same moment. Go lick your wounds at newsmax.

[Recursion]

27. OTOH he also sued the hospital over labor and overtime abuses

At least that's what seems to have led to the whole weird body part craziness.

[leftynyc]

28. Don't you know?

Tort reform is for all the other people - not the wingnuts who have a legitimate beef like finding body parts in a morgue. Wingnuts think everything like that is for everyone else. He's a birther - that's all I need to know to know he's not anywhere near the left side of the aisle.

[SemperEadem]

21. IOW

delusional and living in his own manufactured, little world.

btw, how does one get their hands on this substance to begin with if it is so deadly? How did he get his hands on it? Follow that trail... he's not the only one who should be snatched up on this.

[Recursion]

25. You make it from castor beans. It's not actually very difficult

It's less toxic than a lot of other stuff; it's just very easy to make.

[MynameisBlarney]

29. Wow...the comedy just writes itself.

What a fucking loon!