David Edwards. From $41 Million To Living In A Storage Room

46 year old, out of work ex-con David Edwards struck gold in August 2001 when he took a one-thirdshare od the Powerball prize. His $41 Million dollar share came to an after tax check for $27 million!

Just 6 short years later it was all gone.

Hey, when living large it is hard to get by on just $4.5 million dolars a year.

After winning the huge pile of cash David claimed he would hire a financial advisor to plan for himself and his children. Instead he took on an entourage and went on a buying spree. I remember seeing David on TV showing off ridiculous little statues that he had bought tens of thousands of dollars and thinking that there'e a future poor man.

In 2007 Edwards was evicted from his $1.2 million home in Palm Beach Garden, Fla. for not paying his association dues. Shortly thereafter, Edwards was evicted from a storage unit that he was apparently living in. The items in storage were auctioned to pay Edwards’ storage fees.

In addition his wife Shawna Edwards, 32, was in the county jail for nearly a month after she was arrested on a warrant charging her with failing to make child support payments on two children she had previous to her marriage to David Edwards. She also served 10 days in jail for giving police officers a false name when she was arrested.

That's not all. Along the way Shawna Edwards was arrested for domestic battery in 2004 after her husband told authorities she had tried to stab him with a crack pipe.

Both Shawna and David were arrested in 2005 when police found cocaine and heroin in their bedroom.

David Edwards pleaded guilty to a drug paraphernalia possession charge and the cocaine charge was dropped.

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Kevin Louie. He Wins $250,000! Wife Asks For An Extra $100 For Christmas Shopping.

If you won a lottery prize of $250,000 would your wife be satisfied with an extra $100 for Christmas shopping?

Here's a funny story.
On December 17, 2009 Kevin Louie stopped in at BF’s Food Store in Oakland, Maryland for a little lunch.
Before lunch he decided to purchase a King Size Cash scratch-off. Then he relaxed and ate his meal. After lunch, he scratched the ticket and saw that he had won $250,000!

The 51-year-old immediately called his wife. Kevin said, “She asked me if that meant she could have $100 for Christmas shopping. It took me a minute to realize that she must have thought I said $250, not $250,000. When she realized, she started screaming!”

Prior to this win, the largest Lottery prize Kevin has collected was $5,000. Hey, multiple wins! That's awesome Kevin, you lucky devil!

With his winnings, he plans to pay bills, save some money and have a great Christmas.

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Billie Harrell. $31 Million Dollar Winner Commits Suicide!

Billie Harrell of Humble, Texas won 31 million dollars in the June 1997 Texas Lotto!
20 months later he lay dead from a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the chest!

What makes this story unique here at 'They Won The Lottery' is that I personally knew Billie and worked with him at the Humble, Texas 'Home Depot' store. Like all good stereotypes he was a very nice and hard working fellow, and everyone would say that if they couldn't win the lottery at least it was Billie. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

According to news stories Billie was in pretty dire financial times trying to support his wife and three teenage children. Until he landed that 31 million dollar prize.

"I wasn't going to give up," said Harrell, then 47. "Everyone kept telling me it would get better. I didn't realize it would get this much better."

After the first of 25 annual checks for $1.24 million was given to him Billie donated large sums of money to his church, bought a ranch, and a half-dozen homes for various family members.

Seems Billie was a bit too nice and an easy touch and his excess giving put a strain on his marriage. It is said that he spent so much that he was forced to trade away a large part of his future checks for a one time lump sum payment. Over $6 million in future payments for $2.35 in cash.

His wife was talking to a divorce attorney, and it seems Billie had found a young girlfriend at the pharmacy where he filled prescriptions for high blood pressure, depression, and acid reflux. Billie's weight dropped from 220 pounds to 170. Not much of a vision of lottery millionaire bliss.

And on May 22, 1999, 20 months after hitting lottery pay dirt, Harrell locked himself inside an upstairs bedroom of his fashionable Kingwood, Texas home and stood at the point of no return. Investigators say he stripped away his clothes, pressed a shotgun barrel against his chest and fired.

Shortly before his death, Harrell confided to a financial adviser: "Winning the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

Rest In Peace, Billie.

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Tim Schultz. 21 Years Old, 28 Million Dollars!

Back in 1999 the Powerball drawing stood at $28 million and on February 10 Timothy E. Schultz, 21, became one of the youngest lottery winners in history!

Tim was working tons of hours at the Coastal Mart convenience store for $7.50 an hour and trying to get by, living in a cramped efficiency apartment with no bedroom. Not having a proper bedroom didn't seem so bad as Tim only had an air matress to sleep on.
Money had gotten so tight he had moved back into his parent's house so he could afford to attend the local community college part time.

One night Tim let the computer pick his numbers; 10, 20, 27, 31, 42 and the Powerball 26. With odds at the time of 1 in 80 million he went home to his parent's house and went to sleep.
"My father woke me up and told me to check the numbers," Tims said. Seems someone bought the winning ticket at the store Tim worked at. Guess who?

"It's like a dream and I still can't believe it." Tim was accompanied at the news conference by his father, mother, brother and attorneys. "I am going to take a trip to the Bahamas, take some time to travel to some other places and attend school full-time as opposed to part-time," he said.
Tim decided to take the cash value option and received a check in teh neighborhood of $15.9 million!
That's a nice neighborhood to be in.

It's in Tim's plans to attend college full time now. He has purchased a relatively normal size home and is not very flashy with his money. Wisely he knows that might attract the wrong kind of girl.

Always interested in performing and entertaining Tim is working on a documentary about ghosts. Interesting!

On a side note it later came out that the front of the ticket had the words 'Sarah's Tim' written on it. Tim said that a co-worker named Sarah had given him 50 cents and he used that to pay for the ticket. Iowa law says you can win the lottery before you are 21 years old BUT you cannot buy a ticket until you are of legal age. Wow!
Tim's win was put on hold while they decided if Sarah had illegally bought a ticket or not. Luckily for Tim the judge decided in his favor.
Now we are wondering how it is that Sarah didn't claim half of the winnings as her own?

Good reason to know the contest and rules of the games you play and make sure all of your ducks are ina row as to who is playing and such.

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William Harvey. Almost Unbelievable! Lottery Winner Buys 700 Tickets All With The Same Number And They All Hit!

This has to be the most amazing, almost unbelievable lottery story we have ever heard!

How do you pick your lottery numbers?
We as players scratch through the frequency charts, devise systems, play important dates in our lives, and quite often let the quick pick function choose our numbers for us.
But do you ever buy tickets based on a dream?

William Harvey of Manalapan, New Jersey, hit the Win 4 jackpot an amazing 70 times. He purchased 70 separate Win 4 tickets, with 10 games on each ticket. Harvey’s Win 4 prize totaled an incredible $3,500,000 for the November 22nd midday drawing.

Who does that?

Harvey is married and he is a self-employed construction worker. “I had a dream about my late mother; the next day I decided to play her birth date. I purchased $700 in Win 4 tickets and played the number 2912. When I found out how much I won, I was speechless,” said Harvey. He plans to buy a new house and pay bills with his prize.

Harvey purchased his winning Win 4 tickets at Billy Food Stores, 65 Page Avenue in Staten Island. The Win 4 midday numbers for November 22nd were:

2 – 9 – 1 – 2

Now don't run out and foolishly spend the grocery money on hundreds of tickets all with the same number. Lucky for William he didn't ask us what we thought of his buying 700 tickets!

Doesn't this story sound just a bit fishy?
Who would ever buy 700 alike tickets?
If we had not seen the story on the New York Lottery page we would not believe it.
Even still, most folks we tell this story to instantly say the lottery must be "fixed".
What do you think?

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