You Win Some, You Lose Some: Lottery Winners Who Lost Everything

Murdered For Money

In an awful and sad story, Urooj Khan never even got to see or spend the $1 million he won in the lottery in 2012. Planning to expand his dry-cleaning business, Khan would have received a lump-sum of $424,500 but was sadly poisoned and murdered just one day before he got the check in the mail. They never found the suspect.

“I keep getting the same answer — they are looking for a witness. How long is it going to take?” Khan’s older brother, Imtiaz, said in his thick Indian accent during an interview last week at his west suburban home. “Who could be the witness?”