UNLUCKIEST LUCKY LOTTERY WINNERS

UNLUCKIEST LUCKY LOTTERY WINNERS:

6 true stories from 6 different people who were unlucky to win a lottery. Perhaps these Hurley numbers should have kept unused, you be the judge.

1. Few hours after winning $57,000 from The "Hoosier Millionaire" game show, the winner Carl D. Atwood, 73, was hit by a truck. That led to his death later at a hospital. His last words were: “Now I can purchase a very nice car."

2. Wayne Schenk, 51, wins $1 million from a $5 scratch-off ticket 5 weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He had received just $34,000 of his win by the time of his death.

3. Jeffrey Dampier, who won $20 million, was kidnapped and murdered by his own sister-in-law.

4. Billie Bob Harrell, Jr., who won $37 million a Texas lottery in 1997, committed suicide less than two years later after his spending habits had spiraled out of control and strained his marriage severely. Shortly before his death, Harrell confided to a financial adviser: “Winning the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

5. Merrill Whynot, 66, dies one week after picking his $117,000 cheque from Atlantic Lottery Corp.

6. A woman who won a $65.4 million Powerball jackpot with her husband was found dead at her home overlooking the Ohio River. Police said she had been dead for days before anyone found her.