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Report: Poisoned lotto winner ate final meal alone

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    Trace Gallagher reports from Los Angeles

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A case of that Lotto winner who drop dead of cyanide poisoning were -- guy's wife put together the food for his final meal but -- immediately.

Only he did.

Remember investigators -- somebody -- this man one day after he cashed in that ticket worth a million bucks before taxes.

Officials first ruled.

And here's the guy's wife according to my -- Chicago a police source says the guy will -- got violently ill after he ate dinner.

Which she had made for him.

The source says neither -- nor the daughter had any thing not a bite but police have not said that either person -- a suspect.

Of course nobody's ever suspect anymore Trace Gallagher is -- this tonight Trace the family clearly thinks the wife did it.

Yeah and the family says they're not pointing fingers yet ship that's right after the family begins pointing fingers mostly at the -- for rouge Khan's wife of course they have accused -- trying to cash.

That lottery -- very quickly shortly after he died of course she failed to do that and because there was no well the family has already filed court papers to make sure that -- seventeen year old daughter gets half of the estate including.

The lottery money and as for who poisoned a -- -- The brother said this list.

-- my -- this that's sort of investigation and I cannot find via.

Like it's just never think oh my goodness nobody in the house.

It may have wanted people are some people people and we're confident and like we'll have to get -- -- -- -- Only the husband and the wife were there the police have not yet ruled out that the lottery money was in fact the motive for murder.

We should also point out that Khan's father in law -- 120000 dollars in back taxes -- -- admit they've been talking for days now about digging up the bodies that happening.

Yeah I mean the examiner doesn't know medical examiner does know exactly when the body will be -- what they're hoping that the autopsy will be completed.

By Friday the latest now -- Khan's wife says that she's very eager to find out the truth about exactly how her husband died.

The first thing the autopsy will look at.

Is what was in his stomach if his last meal truly was poison now remember cyanide can be swallowed inhaled or injected and legal experts say the autopsy could be surprising listen.

We're all assuming that it was something that was prepared -- dinner put into his meal and then he died several hours later.

It's possible that that isn't what happened that's possibly had another meal or somebody else had access to him and gave him the cyanide.

So that's also evidence that may or may not come -- an autopsy.

Interesting today when the judge ruled the body could be exhumed not a single member of the -- family objected to that -- -- Trace Gallagher live in Los Angeles thanks.