3. Urooj Khan

Legal Indian immigrant Urooj Khan moved to America in the ‘80s, eventually settling in Chicago. The legal immigrant opened his own dry cleaner that eventually grew to a chain of three small businesses. He was a “workaholic” that swore off of gambling after taking his Hajj, a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in 2010. That is what makes him buying two scratchers such a random occurrence, but the $30 tickets won him a total of $424,000 (he opted for the lump sum). At the usual presser for lottery winners, Khan spoke excitedly about the investments that he would make in his dry cleaning business as well as some chances of money being donated to St. Jude’s Children’s hospital. Unfortunately after eating a traditional Indian meal of lamb curry with his wife, father-in-law, and daughter he was rushed to the hospital. The death was ruled natural until Khan’s brother petitioned the office to take a closer look. This is when cyanide was found in his system. The death goes unsolved and Khan is just another victim of the curse of being a lottery winner.

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