This Lottery Winner Was Poisoned on His Way to Collect $425,000

In June 2012, 46-year-old Chicago resident Urooj Khan won an instant scratch-off lottery ticket worth $1,000,000. The day before Khan collected the money — in the form of a $425,000 of his $600,000 lump-sum option — he fell ill and died of "natural causes." Amazingly, this coincidence didn't draw further scrutiny until an unnamed family member approached the police with suspicions that Khan's death involved foul play. Those suspicions seem to have been on to something: Chicago's medical examiner announced today that a "more expansive" toxicology test revealed trace amounts of cyanide in Khan's body. It's unclear how it was digested — it's possible, although difficult to believe, that Khan ingested it by accident — and the medical examiner plans to disinter Khan's corpse at a later date.