Lottery Winner murdered day after collecting his winnings

Lottery winner fatally poisoned day after collecting winnings, death ruled homicide

Some folks say that lottery winners actually end up being worse off than they started due to all the attention, blackmail, requests for money from friends/relatives and new financial issues they receive, but this one takes the cake.

Way I figure it, this can't be a very difficult investigation. All the police gotta do now is just wait and see which family member all of a sudden starts spending lavishly or makes a large deposit to a new bank account, and then they've got their suspect!

edited 8th Jan '13 12:33:52 AM by SgtRicko

It's like rain, on your wedding day...

Okay, I know reading internet comments is unhealthy but.

How the fuck are there political arguments over this?

edited 8th Jan '13 1:56:53 AM by Thorn14

My guess is that the dumber conspiracy theorist types who think they're the only ones who've figured out the truth and are trying to preach to the masses are the ones who make those sorts of posts. Also, given that several commentors are blaming the police and believe this whole thing happended because of shitty police work may also point to them being inner-city folk with a hatred of the Po-Po.

That, or we're watching what happens when the average layman gets online and doesn't double-check on what he's posting on.

edited 8th Jan '13 2:40:41 AM by SgtRicko

Such a thing is not considered a bad thing in Colorado. Every wedding I've gone to here has been rained on. (That's the price you pay for having a summer wedding in the Colorado monsoon season.)

This reminds me of that one case where brother of lottery winner hired hitman to go after his brother.

To the person who started the political debate: See #3.

edited 8th Jan '13 9:55:44 AM by Malph

I do wonder the thinking behind the relative who killed him for the money. Is there really any chance for s/he to get away with it? :-/

As much of a cliche this might be, I'm obliged to say:

Love for money is the root of all evils.

Nah the root of all evils has historically been carrots.

No wonder why rabbits are bastards.

Love for money by itself is not a bad thing.

Combine it with the wrong personatly and you have a psycho. :V

The depressing thing about this is that it's happened before.

No, no, obviously the lottery winnings are a Red Herring. Dude was killed for some other reason by a non-relative and probably woulda been killed even if he hadn't won. But while you're all interviewing the relatives, the real culprit is sneaking out behind your backs completely unsuspected. Or have I been watching too many cop shows?

Nah. This was a suicide. He is setting up everyone who knew him to be suspected of murder. The perfect crime.

To do: 1) Win lottery. 2) Kill self before doing anything with newly-acquired shitload of cash. 3) Profit

Seems legit.

Nope. He mistakes a cyanide pill for a lolly.

edited 8th Jan '13 4:53:52 PM by IraTheSquire

Maybe he was trying to poison everyone else.

It was a science experiment. Topic: what does cyanide taste like?

Or he wanted to test his luck. He obviously failed.

He rolled a 1 for his having a meal check.

Maybe winning the lottery was the last thing on his bucket list.

Can we Armchair Detective? If so my careful reading of that article and my own acute reasoning tells me.... The wife did it.

It was the butler!

He had a butler? Well, I guess if you've just won the lottery, you're going to want to do some extravagant spending.