Lotto winner killed in crash

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Lottery winner received check the day she died

Motorist kills Ohio woman who had been celebrating her $5,520 winnings

Deborah McDonald on the Ohio Lottery's Cash Explosion. The Ohio woman died after being struck by a car while she was walking in Margaretta Township on Tuesday.
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SANDUSKY, Ohio - A lottery winner who was struck and killed by a car in northern Ohio on the day she got her check had just spent some of the money on wedding rings for her and her husband.
The Ohio Highway Patrol says 47-year-old Deborah McDonald of Crystal Rock was walking home from a bar when she was hit by a car.
McDonald had been drinking and celebrating her winnings before she died, investigators said
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i'm guessing there wasn't much of the money left, either..i am wondering if there was a will...if so...and if she had kids...there wouldn't be anything left for them...this is sad..

the message i wanted to convey here, is that selling an asset, and winning the lottery is the same thing..a means to quick cash, which means nothing for the long term, as one could be left with nothing, because it's too hard to save liquid cash, even though people say otherwise..
but an asset keeps money flowing forever.

the asset minded mentality is what Michael ascribed to.
there were people who thought selling an asset, or making himself available to actual cash, was the 'solution to his debt'. but his idea insured his kids for life. so, it obviously took care of him, too.

making one's self available to 'needed' quick cash really amounts to being left with nothing..


anyway..this whole story is tragic, right here...

 

[JoeyMJFan]

Wow, very sad. Sad day for lottery winners. I'd just read this article on CNN:

Police think remains buried under concrete are lottery winner

(CNN) -- Human remains found buried under recently added concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida, are likely those of missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare, police said Thursday.

Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said the body was slowly being uncovered. They are awaiting positive identification.

However, Gee said their investigation and information specifically led them to the area after they began to believe he might be dead because of "sinister means and motives."

"Our indications were it would be there," Gee said during a press conference Thursday night.

Police on Wednesday had scanned the newly finished concrete slabs near the home on Wednesday and removed it. On Thursday, Gee said they discovered the remains buried five feet below the surface, and it appeared the remains had been there for awhile.

Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver, won a $31 million Florida lottery prize in 2006. A year later, he won a court challenge from a fellow trucker who accused Shakespeare of snatching the winning ticket out of his wallet while the two were delivering meat to Miami restaurants.

Shakespeare's family reported him missing on November 9, telling the Polk County sheriff's office they hadn't seen him since April.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said when their investigation began, they had hoped to find Shakespeare alive "and he truly had just wanted to hide from those who were asking him for money."

"As our investigation continued, the information we developed led us to believe he may very well have ended up with an untimely death," Judd said.

Both Judd and Gee said they would not comment on whether anything else was found inside the manmade grave, or whether a previous person of interest was connected to the area.

While they await identification of the remains, police said they would begin to shift their focus to a murder investigation.

"It's painfully obvious he didn't get there by himself," Judd said.

Gee said police from Polk and Hillsborough Counties were already working with prosecutors on the case and hope to bring to justice the person responsible for what they believe is clearly cold-blooded murder.

"Somebody put that body in that hole," Gee said. "This isn't by any means just where we find someone on the side of the road. Somebody has obviously put him there."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/28/florida.missing.lotto.winner/index.html?hpt=T1