3. Jeffrey Dampier
The details of Jeffrey Dampier’s death following his Illinois state lottery win of 20 million big ones actually made it on an episode of ‘Killer Couples’, a show that airs on Oxygen. It’s quite fitting because the story behind his murder is much like a movie you would find on Lifetime.
His stroke of luck should have been the end of his troublesome life, but instead brought it to an end and unveiled a slew of family secrets along the way. Aside from opening his own gourmet popcorn business, he began to shower his mistress, who was also his sister-in-law, with expensive gifts. His mistress, Victoria, was also cheating on her boyfriend with Jeffrey who ranks 3rd on our list of worst lottery winner horror stories. Unable to explain her costly new items, she had to come clean to her boyfriend. Enraged, he plotted to kill Jeffrey and forced Victoria to do the dirty work.
With a gun pointed at him, Jeffrey begged for his life and offered to give the angry couple whatever they wanted. Of course, they wanted his money, but revenge may have played a small role, as well. Victoria’s boyfriend ordered her to shoot Jeffrey and threatened that it was his life, or hers. Technically speaking, her life ended, too that day, for she is now facing life in prison.
