Illinois man killed by cyanide poisoning after striking it rich in lottery
[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Illinois man killed by cyanide poisoning after striking it rich in lottery[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"](CNN) -- One day, Urooj Khan literally jumped for joy after scoring a $1 million winner on an Illinois lottery scratch ticket.
The next month, he was dead.
The Cook County medical examiner's office initially ruled Khan's manner of death natural. But after being prompted by a relative, the office revisited the case and eventually determined there was a lethal amount of cyanide in Khan's system.
"That ... led us to issue an amended death certificate that (established) cyanide toxicity as the cause of death, and the manner of death as homicide," Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Steve Cina said Monday.
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I highly recommend you read the whole article on this one- I didn't even bother trying to prune out the most interesting bits. Aside from the obvious sad tale of a hard-working American striking it rich and dying shortly thereafter, the article raises numerous questions including just how apparently easy it is to murder someone and get away with it.
In these days where we're innundated with CSI-style forensic media, it kind of makes you wonder...
Made me wonder, anyway. I feel really sorry for this guy. There have been a number of people murdered after winning the jackpot including Abraham Shakespeare, who came to mind as soon as I read this story.
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