Nancy Verespy Curley, who was married to Bobby Curley’s late brother, John, is affiliated with volunteers4veterans. As a free woman, she is under no obligation to report her whereabouts to authorities. A prison vehicle prohibited the Times Leader from getting close to Curley’s vehicle, which has South Dakota license plates and volunteers4veterans decals.Īccording to sources who requested anonymity, Curley might reside in Plains Township or Bear Creek Township until she decides where she will live permanently. Curley said nothing and entered the truck. She said she started poisoning him just two months after their August 1990 wedding.Īs Curley walked out of prison Monday, a Times Leader reporter shouted to her, asking if she had anything to say now that she was a free woman. She pleaded guilty that year to third-degree murder, admitting she put the poison in her husband’s tea. He died in September 1991, but it took five years for investigators to piece together the case, and they charged Joann in 1996. With the wind blowing and snow flying, Curley, 53, walked out of the minimum-security prison for women and got into a truck for the long drive home in wintry conditions.Ĭurley, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, has completed her 20-year sentence for murdering her husband, Bobby, by lacing his iced tea with rat poison.

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.ĬAMBRIDGE SPRINGS - Now that Joann Curley is a free woman, the convicted killer apparently has returned to Luzerne County to start the next stage of her life.Ĭurley was picked up by her former sister-in-law at the State Correctional Institute at Cambridge Springs, near Erie, just seconds after midnight Monday.

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