In December 2010, a few days after Christmas, someone won $16.5 million dollars in Iowa's Hot Lotto drawing. The winning ticket was purchased a few days before at a QuikTrip convenience store off of I-80 in North Des Moines. According to video surveillance footage, the mystery man buying the ticket was a heavyset middle-aged white man who wore casual clothing, and a hood pulled over a baseball cap. One whole year went by until someone attempted to claim the winnings but it wasn't the man in the video. And that was because, the man in the video, the Hot Lotto's lucky winner, was Eddie Tipton, who also happened to be the Director of Security for the multi-state lottery. Years later, as Iowa investigated what would become the largest lottery fraud of all time, they realized that this was no simple inside job. This was a debacle that involved unsavory characters, various states, foreign countries, intricate computer hacking systems, Bigfoot Hunting and two convenience store hot dogs. Show Notes: https://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-1/01-the-lucky-winner/https://www.amazon.com/80-Billion-Gamble-Suspicious-Bigfoot/dp/1950790908
