Why Were Poisoned Letters Mailed to the President? Rivalry Involving Elvis Impersonator Provides Clues

Mar. 15, 2025

Elvis Presley impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis.Photo:Netflix

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When someone mailed poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others in 2013, investigators quickly zeroed in on a conspiracy-theory addled Elvis Presley impersonator from Tupelo, Miss., as their suspect.

What they didn’t expect was for the man himself to be the victim of a conspiracy.

That imbroglio is the subject of a new three-part docuseries premiering on Netflix this week,The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga.

“After three years in Mississippi, what we initially thought would be a slice of small-town Americana, exploded into an electrifying yarn about America itself, told in the centuries long tradition of southern storytelling,” the Chapman brothers explain.

The story centers on the city of Tupelo, birthplace of Elvis Presley, and focuses on Paul Kevin Curtis, a renowned impersonator of the King of Rock and Roll.

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Kings of Tupelois available to stream on Netflix on Dec. 11.

source: people.com