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Jeff Miller
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Location: Mental Ward for the Mentaly Unstable 6th floor, Saint John's 1615 Delaware Longview Washington 98632
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 Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:28 pm Hows this for creepy? |
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| Quote: | Home Burglarized While Dead Man Lay Inside
WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday.
Whittaker was not home at the time, and Chief Deputy John Dailey said the death of Jesse Joe Tribble, 18, was not related to the burglary and was not a homicide. It may have been drug-related, Dailey said.
``We're pretty sure they knew he was dead. That's why they went inside and took the stuff,'' Dailey said.
The break-in took place Thursday night or Friday morning. One of those arrested reported Tribble's death late Friday morning, Dailey said. Tribble was a friend of Whittaker's granddaughter, and all three suspects were acquainted with Tribble.
Dailey would not say how the three knew about Tribble's death.
J.C. Shaver, 20, James Travis Willis, 25, and Jeffrey Dustin Campbell, 20, were charged with larceny and other offenses after being captured on a security camera that Whittaker recently had installed, authorities said.
Police recovered $15,000 worth of items taken from the home, Daily said. He did not give a total for everything stolen.
Whittaker won the largest single jackpot in the nation's history when he hit a $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day 2002. He chose to accept a lump sum of about $113 million after taxes.
Since then, Whittaker's vehicle, business and home have been broken into repeatedly. Last year, a strip club manager and his girlfriend were charged with drugging Whittaker and stealing a briefcase containing more than $500,000 in cash and cashier's checks. The money was recovered.
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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
Joined: 17 Jun 2001
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Location: United States of America
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Sick and depraved, but not creepy...
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Some of us fall by the wayside
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And some of us sail through our troubles
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Kyre
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Joined: 15 Mar 2002
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If he won around $300 million, why did he only walk away with $100 million?
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Link, the Hero of Time
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Joined: 15 Sep 2001
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Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:26 am |
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Taxes. If you win the lotto you get shafted with taxes getting about 1/3 to 1/4 of what you were supposed to have won.
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." President Thomas Jefferson
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck." Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Lord Borg
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Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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its a buch of bull but yeah, or u can deal with taxes and payments over so many years
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