Interesting and Question

[spazzychic]

I am doing a presentation on gambling for class. I found this fact sheet, and I've checked most of them and they seem to be true. BUT, I haven't found anywhere credible, or anyplace that lists the source of this material. Does anyone know? Does anyone see a discrepency or any reason why I shouldn't use this in class if I can figure out who to credit?

Timeline
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.

Comments

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Well, if you can find credit I don't see any reason why the list shouldn't be used. They look like news paper clippings.

[sbjames.livejournal.com]

Google each name/date/etc. and see if you can find it on a credible news source and then credit them. If so, use it; if not, I would suggest not.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

I have googled them all and found news stories for all. However, that would imply that the creatuion of the list to begin with was mine, and it's not.

[procyon112.livejournal.com]

Well, if you've googled them all then create your own list! :D

[fritters.livejournal.com]

I would also check (I have no idea how) the actual PERCENTAGE of time this happens. Anyone can create a list of things that all seem connected, but only if you actually check the REAL numbers can you be sure. And what was the base number for this list? 20 mil? Or 1?