Timeline of death and misfortune among, and surrrounding, lottery winners
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28 Apr 1997 Lottery millionaire Michael Allen is bludgeoned to death
in a Lewiston, Maine motel room.
22 May 1999 Billie Bob Harrell, Jr. commits suicide. In June 1997,
Harrell won $31 million in the Texas state lottery.
4 Sep 2001 Patrick Collier randomly wins $1 million at a McDonald's
in Holly Hill, Florida. "I'm getting a Harley and a couple of houses."
Two weeks later, Collier is arrested for allegedly choking and
punching his fiancee in the face.
19 Dec 2001 British lottery millionaire Phil Kitchen is found dead on
his couch. Kitchen had apparently drunk himself to death (whiskey).
11 Jul 2002 British lottery winner Dennis Elwell dies at work,
shortly after telling a coworker that he had drunk cyanide.
21 Apr 2003 $25 million lottery winner Richard Krenzer is stabbed six
times by Randall Hillyard and his son at the Swillburg Stop Bar &
Grill outside Rochester, NY.
29 Jun 2003 Lottery millionaire Jody Lee Taylor is arrested in
Collinsville, Virginia for attempting to run over a sheriff's deputy.
On the night of his arrest, Taylor was driving naked down the wrong
side of U.S. Route 58 with his headlights off.
5 Aug 2003 After lottery millionaire Jack Whittaker passes out in a
West Virginia strip bar, a burglar steals his briefcase containing
$545,000 in negotiable bonds. The money is located in a trash dumpster
the next morning.
13 Sep 2003 The London Telegraph reports that 16-year-old British
lottery millionaire Callie Rogers has lost her boyfriend, fought with
her father, been mugged, and been accused of stealing someone's man.
"Some days I don't even want to leave my house because people just
scream abuse at me. Two months ago I thought I was the luckiest
teenager in Britain. But today I can say I have never felt so miserable."
15 Sep 2003 In his Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey home, lottery
millionaire Oscar Cordoba repeatedly stabs his wife and her mother
with a kitchen knife, killing the mother-in-law.
17 Oct 2003 In a program entitled Living with the Lottery Lout, ITV1
reports that British lottery millionaire Michael Carroll has
completely alienated his neighbors in Swaffham, Norfolk by
periodically staging loud, impromptu demolition derbies on his property.
18 Nov 2003 An English court issues a bench warrant for lottery
millionaire Satish Patel, charged with defrauding the government for
three years' worth of unemployment claims.
6 Jan 2004 After getting banned from Billy Sundays Bar and Grill in
St Albans, West Virginia, lottery winner Jack Whittaker reportedly
threatens to have the manager and his family killed.
20 Jan 2004 Lottery winner Jack Whittaker reports that shortly after
dawn, somebody broke into his SUV in Scott Depot, West Virginia and
stole a bag containing $100,000 cash.
25 Jan 2004 Lottery winner Jack Whittaker is arrested for drunk
driving in Nitro, West Virginia. Police allege the millionaire blew a
.190 blood alcohol on the breathalyzer.
Apr 2004 A judge rules that broke Virginia lottery millionaire
Suzanne Mullins owes $154,146.50 to the People's Lottery Foundation, a
Florida lending institution specializing in loans to lottery winners.
26 Jun 2004 At his Longmont, Colorado home, state lottery millionaire
Kevin Lee Sutton allegedly shoots Cristobal Lopez in the head with a
.22 caliber pistol. Lopez survives and Sutton is later charged with
attempted murder.
20 Jul 2004 In Minneapolis, MN, lottery millionaire Victoria A. Zell
reportedly crashes her SUV into a truck on the way home from a bar,
killing passenger Joshua Schmidt and paralyzing Amity Dimock from the
waist down.
7 Aug 2004 Incarcerated serial rapist Iorworth Hoare wins $12.9
million in the British lottery.
13 Aug 2004 The nonprofit group Equine Protection of North America
files suit against New Hampshire lottery millionaire Mary Ellen
Sanderson for failure to deliver on an alleged $70,000 annual donation
pledge.
24 Aug 2004 An Arizona bird refuge, The Oasis Sanctuary, files suit
against New Hampshire lottery millionaires Mary Ellen Sanderson and
former husband Jason Sanderson for failure to deliver on an alleged
$100,000 annual donation pledge.
Sep 2004 Minnesota lottery millionaire Victoria A. Zell is arrested
for having allegedly violated the terms of her bail and possessing 0.7
grams of methamphetamine. Zell had also reportedly wired $500,000 to a
Canadian bank.
10 Oct 2004 Seattle police officers shoot California lottery
millionaire Rick Camat to death in a parking lot near Qwest Field.
Officers claim that Camat refused to drop his pistol, but Camat's
brother claims the cops give him no instructions to do so.
2 Oct 2005 Having spent his $10 million prize in just seven years,
Winnipeg lottery winner Gerald Muswagon hangs himself. Notable events
in his monied spree include a high-speed chase in 2000 and a sexual
assault arrest in 2002.
28 Oct 2005 Million dollar jackpot winner Christina Goodenow is
arrested after Oregon police discover that she had purchased the
winning ticket with a credit card stolen from her dead mother-in-law.
Police searching her home discover her stash of methamphetamine, but
find no trace of her first $33,500 installment.
15 Jan 2006 Bankrupt ex-lottery millionaire William "Bud" Post III
dies of respiratory failure in Seneca, Pennsylvania. Post had won
$16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery on February 24, 1988. From a
1993 interview: "Everybody dreams of winning money, but nobody
realizes the nightmares that come out of the woodwork, or the problems."
--
There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we'd all
love one another. - Frank Zappa
Arthur Preacher
because I am living proof. I won $10 one morning
and I am the same person I have always been.
No one bothers me and I was not concerned
in keeping my privacy. These people were doomed
to destruction whether they won anything or not.
The real winners, like myself, will always rise
to the top of the top of the bottoms top! Get it?
Mad Old Bat
> From - http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/
> Timeline
>
> 28 Apr 1997 Lottery millionaire Michael Allen is bludgeoned to death
> in a Lewiston, Maine motel room.
etc. etc
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Audrey
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"Mad Old Bat" <audrey....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> Have you received any email from any of the poor
> unfortunates on your
> list?
>
> http://frogend.blogspot.com/2006/07/messages-from-beyond-grave.html
>
> Kind regards
>
> Audrey
No. Microsoft hasn't figured that out yet.
William Barger
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