if you win, you should never.... ever.... ever.... tell anyone..... it makes you one hell of a target, especially if you have no experience in handling money or the con artists that come out when they know you have it...

you file for the cash... get set.... and them maybe you tell a few people... but probably not

The wife did it...

I'm phoning Lieutenant Columbo, just in case...

I agree, the wife did it.

Poor man.

His relatives are the ones who alerted police to the suspicion of murder. I doubt his wife murdered him. Probably an ungrateful kid.

loving wifey fixed him his favorite meal to celebrate.... wait...... to celebrate that she can kick back and eat Bon Bons in peace now

Because the wife just happened to have cyanide lying around? Tell me all, do you know where to get your hands on cyanide? Because I don't.

Maybe it is best not to win.

It is 10 times more likely that his siblings did it rather than the wife. Indian wives are generally quite faithful and attached. My 2 cents.

Has to be the wife because the wife supersedes the siblings. The wife stands more to gain if her husband dies. Plus I base my conclusion on my daily dose of watching Investigation Discovery channel, so there.

I agree! Why does death always bring out the greed and evil in family members, I know why, because that is who they truly are.

iKnowzero,

Potassium cyanides are found in pesticides, toilet bowl cleaner, acetone, bleaching solutions,gasoline,hair straightening products, and others.

His life, his precious life - destroyed over this BS! I seriously want to cry. Who could be so heartless?

Why should the brother and sister get a thing? Doesn't all property go to the wife? It's suspicious. Like I would expect anything from my siblings! Anything someone has should go to their spouse, kids, and grandkids, or even to pets, before a brother or sister inherits it. They're adults; they can stand on their own two feet.

He seems like he was a nice guy; he came to America and made good. Either you believe in yourself, or you don't. Greed is fear. I've never made that much money in my life, and it's a tough economy for my profession (library, archives), but I could never be that afraid. If you have skills, you can live on little money and be happy.

All of you saying the wife did it... You are not using common sense. The death was originally thought to have occurred from natural causes. If the wife did it, why would she be the one to ask that he be exhumed and tested to see if he had been poisoned?

This guy already made a very good living with three dry cleaners and 5 condos. And why is there a battle for his estate, it goes to his wife. If his relatives are trying to grab a piece of his estate makes me think it's them rather than the wife.

I bet her boyfriend said the same as her. He had no enemy's.

Lovely, where does it say his wife was the one who asked for the cyanide check? I read it was his brother..

Anyone ever see the Urooj Khan dance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCSr4UIqACw

The wife didn't request the autopsy, the brother didn't request the autopsy, an un-named relative requested the autopsy. I believe the wife was estranged, and a divorce was imminent. She was around after the win however. She may have disliked him enough, but just how do you get a hold of cyanide and then get the victim to ingest it in a large enough amount to kill him. He might have been force fed which probably leaves the wife out.

Bullet, while originally the stories said it was an un-named source, eventually it was said that it was the brother.

See post 1.12 about the cyanide.

He was married, and after having a daughter, divorced. But I don't believe the wife being discussed in this story is that same wife. This is his new wife. He was estranged from his old wife, and she hadn't heard from him or their daughter in 10 years.

Why in the name of.....I do not know their religion, POLICE did not assumed (to say the least) ,this man died suspiciously of foul play ,after he won the million .He was buried after three days (previous article said ).....my God !!!.

In Indian culture property doesn't automatically flow to the wife. It actually flows to the brother. I was made aware of this recently when a friend that happened to be Indian died suddenly. The estate goes to the brothers. Of course American law prevails should she fight it, but as PJ above noted, the typical Indian wife isn't likely to take that path.

FIRST OF ALL PEOPLE CAN U PLEASE STOP ACCUSING PEOPLE WITHOUT PROOFS, IT COULD BE THE SCRATCHING CARDS COATINGS ARE VERY POISONOUS TOOOOO AND HE PLAYS SO MUCH IT COULD BE THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE TESTS FOR HIS NAILS. PLEASE REFER TO THIS "ATTENTION. .....Medical
research Authority of the US have found that new cancer in human beings caused
by 'Silver Nitro oxide'. Whenever u buy recharge cards or calling cards don't
scratch them with ur nail as it contain 'silver nitro oxide' coating and can
cause skin cancer." IT COULD CAUSE FATAL HEALTH ISSUES TOOOOOO OR HE MIGHT ATE SOMETHING THAT COULD CAUSE HIM DEATH

Dumb wife - she should have made sure his will was completed and had good life insurance policy on him first. Then she wouldn't be in a battle with the rest of the family over the money!

And dang! The government sacks you for nearly 60% of the winnings on a million dollars! Bastards!!!

1,000,000 -----> 424,449. There is definitely something wrong with this. He didn't even get to keep 50%....

About the "how do you get a hold of cyanide? ----> read about pitted fruit seeds.

TF, you are correct at 1.21. It was the new wife. I read in a newspaper last month that the reason why his relatives are getting involved is that they think the new wife is trying to prevent his daughter from getting any money. To my knowledge, if there is no will, the daughter is supposed to get a certain amount as does the new wife.

I think a disgruntled cyanide salesman did it.

I think they should investigate his widow and his brother and sister who are battling over his estate to see whether any of them purchased any cyanide lately. There must be a record of that somewhere. It doesn't seem to me that you can just walk into any store and say, "Give me a quart of cyanide." without there being any trace of that purchase. At least I hope not. Otherwise, I'm going to have to hire a food taster.

iknowzero

Some plants are full of it. If prepared wrong , it is still in there

Some plants are full of it.

So are many people here... lol sorry couldn't help it.

Lottery winnings are meant to be used for fun. So I guess if the 60% the government steals from you is provided to Secret Servicemen and other agencies for the purpose of hiring prostitutes or something, then that's okay. Our government will just find a way to waste that money on something useless anyhow, like paying Congressmen.

Where are Feisty and Seeking and Bev? OMG this cannot happen in their backyard!!! They are all such liberal "everybody wins" people after all.

And Khan, GovCo only takes 32%. If you are going to post, please do a little research first

1,000,000 -----> 424,449. There is definitely something wrong with this. He didn't even get to keep 50%

Believe if you take the buyout in most lotteries, you only get a percentage to start, the full amount is paid if a annunity

right frank, I believe it's based on the value of an annuity which is it's purchase value at the time it is paid out (1 mill $ lottery winning over 20 or 30 years) and that is what is taxed.

I disagree that the wife did it. Also the man did have quite a lot of experience handling money; read the article again (or perhaps, for the first time).

Has to be the wife because the wife supersedes the siblings. The wife stands more to gain if her husband dies.

JoAnne Actually if they use Indian culture to settle his estate the 1st born son supersedes the wife. To the Indians the women/wives are second class citizens. If settled in court then the money should goto the wife unless culture came some how change this. Well is it goes to court then there would most likely only be a few bucks let after the sharks(lawyers) get involved.

@T2tH - Jeesh, dude, get that corn cob out of your butt - can't someone make a joke? He got paid a bit more than $400K - that's a bit over 40% of the overall winnings of $1M. I realize the Lottery Commission doesn't give the full winnings on a one-time payment, but going into all of that would ruin the joke.

Lovely-2035151, read the article again...it was not the wife that requested the autopsy. All she says is that "he has no enemies". Something tells me it was the wife who did this to him. That is my opinion otherwise why wouldn't she have suggested it in the first place. Someone else made the suggestion without going to the wife. There was not even a mention that she was all for the autopsy.

The coroner never mentioned a crime, homiside is not a crime, murder is. As far as I can see it no one has even said a crime was commited. I am not saying it was not a murder but no one has said so yet. When ever one person kills another person it is a homicide, if it is not justified it is a murder.

Is there Cyanide in any dry cleaning chemicals?

TFNJ -

You having a moment, Amused Muse?

WTF is that supposed to mean? You're full of it yourself.

@ Amused Muse,

You did have a moment!!

That is so @!$%#ed-up*

*never used the f-bomb on this forum, but this deserves it..guess it wont let me...but you get the point

It's the brother and sister scheme to take control of his assets. Things aren't going well between them and the wife, so one has suggested they pin the murder on the wife to eliminate her chances of getting the estate.

Yet: The wife's father is in a lot of debt, so the money would help.

The relatives are fighting for his daughter whom they think will get cheated out of an inheritance (daughter is a teenager I believe).

The estate executor cashed the check. The prime suspect(s) will be determined by who inherits.

Truth always stranger than fiction. Or do we pre-write our own destiny?

Shaka Khan, Shaka Khan, wants yoes moneys.......

you, like Alanis, don't understand the meaning of 'irony'. clever post, but not ironic by any stretch.

Won the lottery and dies the next day. Yep I'd say that was irony. Isn't it ironic?

He did not win a million dollars, he won $425,000 dollars ..... sure not much to kill a person for.

He did win 1 million dollars Dennis, but after taxes, yeah that figure is just about what he got.

Did the person receiving the money have to pay taxes also?

Dennis, are you kidding? There are people who would kill you for $10.

Actually, the $1 million payout is only if you agree to take the money in 20 annual installments (which nobody does). That way, they can leave it in an annuity, which will generate the remaining amount of the prize in interest.

The $425,000 will probably now be taxed as part of the estate.

My thoughts exactly, Mykeeb33!

Anyone who watches the news knows that people lose their lives for far less than $400K. Muggers who wait for people coming out of the bank aren't even expecting to get $400k.... but heaven help you if you don't let that purse go!!!

Who needs enemies when you have siblings?

He won a million dollars but only gets $424,000 after taxes. What a joke this country has become.

Actually, it was $424,000, after accepting the one-payment option and taxes. The one-time payment options are always smaller than when you take the multi-payment one.

That is another Illinois bill that will be kicked down the road. Without the lottery revenue the state would snap in half. I think that you'll have to look outside the family and usual suspects to find his killer. Cyanide has been around for awhile but someone with some serious know how did this. Like a contractor with no known ties to the community.

The 575,000 is not in taxes! It is in interest that he would have earned on the winnings, if he had not taken the 425,000 lump sum payment. He would still have to pay taxes on the lump sum if it wasn't automatically already taken out of the winnings which most states do. To get the million he would take it in 20 installments. He would have to pay taxes on each of the 20 payments, that would amount to about 39%. So he'd get more than 1/2 if he had lived.

He lost a 1/3 of it because he took it early then he lost with Fed and State tax about another 1/3 (or a little more) of the money and it would come down to about $425,000. Same as you would receive if you won 100 million on Power Ball or any of them you would end up with maybe 40% or 40 million dollars not 100. Taxes and lump sum really eats it up.

What he got was the current price of a 20-year annuity totaling $1 million. Most of the time it makes more sense to take the lump sum (the net present value of the $1mil, imputing some interest rate) because you can usually find investments giving a higher interest rate than that used to calculate the lump payment.

Whether he gets 425k or 610k, the government is gonna get or in this case, keep theirs. Even if he would have taken the annuity, 39% is just too much to pay the government. Especially the government that will not keep gas prices down by outlawing speculation and letting us drill more. Or the gov. that signed NAFTA. Or the gov. that taps into Social Security, etc, etc.

What bank allows someone to cash a 400,000 dollar check not made payable to them? Only the executor of his estate could deposit that money and then they are held accountable for it's safe keeping

Sounds like he should have hidden the news from his wife and her relatives.

I do not know about that state rules, but the ones I am familiar with you are not allowed to remain anonymous. I would imagine it is so a citizen can verify that the prise was indeed won and not part of another government money scam. Besides, just how much of a "spree" could one have with just $425,000 out of a million?

True. In Illinois all winners are made public, unless there is some mitigating factor as to why the state should make an exception. In fact, last I checked just 6 states allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.

Ok, I'd hire a food taster then, just like medieval kings had... lol

chitownandy,

You are correct, but because of several previous incidents very similar to this, there is litigation pending to make all states allow lottery winners to remain anonymous.

Back to India/Pakistan/whatever?

the father of the wife was said to be in enormous debt to the IRS, so it makes more sense that the wife did it to help the father get out of debt. he eats a meal that the wife prepares and not long after is heard screaming from excruiaitng stomach pain. there is no way that some outside person poisoned him before he arrived home. Do the research? Cyanide doesn't just lay around in the system like a slow release pain reliever capsule. It's fast acting and deprieves the individual of oxygen to vital organs.

I'd say whoever prepared his last meal did it, especially if it had curry powder in it. Curry is very popular in Indian dishes, and it masks everything. Originally used to mask the taste of rotten meat.

Why can't the cops trace those in his family purchasing cyanide products on the day he won? Doesn't sound terribly hard to do.

Now it's a "who done it"

wasn't me maybe the wifey did it

Maybe.. or maybe the brother, or business partner, or... the list goes on.

Why did someone suggest they check for cyanide? Was there reason to suspect? And if so, from whom?

that's a good question makes me wonder

that's a good question makes me wonder

It sounds like too much of a random thought to ask for a cyanide check, unless there was specific reason.

agreed

It doens't say someone asked for a cyanide test. It says they conducted further tests after a relative asked. One if those tests found cyanide.

Yes, yes it is...

All states will with hold an estimated tax amount usually around 39% for that kind of a payout.

I read that in an Abu voice.

Wow, that's a lot of taxes. Winning 1 million is not even that much. And definitely not enough to kill for.

The police have no case until someone admits to it or they can find cyanide in their possession, my guess it was the wife.