UPDATE: Accused Ax Murderer's Ex-Wife Talks

=   The woman living with an accused ax murderer opens up to NewsChannel 9. The arrest of Michael Curry didn't completely surprise Susan Curry, but she does not believe he was capable of butchering four people with a bush axe.

    Investigators have been tight lipped about the new evidence that broke this 24 year old case. But one letter Susan Curry came across in her Whitfield home may be a missing piece. She hasn't slept since his arrest two days ago, but stands behind him.

   This is how she described the last two days. "Hell, Absolute hell," Curry said.  She shared the home on Old Dixie Highway with Michael Curry. Today is the first time she's even been outside since police arrested her ex-husband Wednesday in Dalton. He has worked since October of 1999 for Dalton Public Schools as an electronic technician. Officers picked him up at the Maintenance garage in the middle of downtown Dalton.

 "I'm a pretty tough cookie, but not for this," Curry explained why she has avoided the gruesome news. Earlier this week a grand jury in Columbus, Georgia returned a sealed indictment after seeing new evidence from a 1985 grisly cold case.

In August of that year, Curry ran out of his Columbus home saying, "They killed my wife, they killed my kids." Police found Ann Curry, who was pregnant, four year old Erika and 20 month old Ryan all butchered with a bush axe.

    His current ex-wife said, "I love him, it's not possible." Before their January divorce, Susan and Michael Curry had been married for three years. She describes him as a caring and compassionate man. "I will not believe until it's put in front of me, I will not."

   We asked her if he was capable of this heinous act. "Everybody has anger, but I don't believe that kind of anger came out of him, " Curry said adding she had never seen that kind of anger out of him. When we asked if he had ever been physically violent to her, she responded saying they had had marital problems but they were private.

    But this brutal ax butchering news did not blind side her. Columbus, Georgia police have actually been here to the south Whitfield before. Susan Curry told us they came here last October after she called them. She says she found a letter but would not divulge the contents of it to us. "Needs not to be discussed." But the contents really upset her and they separated. She moved to North Carolina to live with her godson. But they started reconciling this spring and she says she moved back in just 11 days ago.

    "Everything was going so perfect, aah," she runs out of words as she looked off into the sky and thought back to midweek. Wednesday, her world changed. "Do I need to open my eyes and hit reality? Yeah. [Notes:butt to 06:35] Do I need to talk to him, do I need to talk to detectives? Yeah. Do I need answers? Yeah."

    Susan Curry told us the letter came from Columbus and the contents of it may have triggered the indictment. We asked her if her husband ever explained how his whole family was killed. She says he told her he was caught in an affair, with an outraged husband. "Told him, I'll get you and I won't even touch you. That's where I question, have they even questioned him, have they even investigated him."

We found some published reports out of Columbus about this alleged affair, but that's all. Messages left with the lead detective and Columbus police chief have not been returned. And the prosecutor in this case hasn't yet decided if she will seek the death penalty.

    Meanwhile, Susan Curry says she has called the Muscogee County jail repeatedly to speak with Michael but can't get through. She says no one is on his visitation list, but she plans to go visit him.

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