Missing Thundercats writer murdered because he won the lottery?

Missing Thundercats writer murdered because he won the lottery?

In a strange twist, Stephen Perry may have won $10,000,000 and may been murdered for his ticket.

By Keven - Jun 22, 2010 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Thundercats
Source: www.myfoxtampabay.com

"Thundercats" writer Stephen Perry, who is still missing but confirmed to have been murdered, may have ended up winning $10,000,000 the night before he went missing. DNA results are still pending on a human arm found in his abandoned van and other remains found in a dumpster nearby. In a strange twist of events - there's still a case of an unclaimed winning lottery ticket in that very neighborhood.

In Zephyrhills, Florida, Harry's Food Mart, a little convenience store not far from Perry's ransacked and abandoned home, was confirmed to have sold the winning ticket, which totaled a sweet 10 million buckos. The next day police were searching Perry's home. The ticket is still unclaimed. Now it could all be coincidence, but it's such strange timing that it's a good possibility Perry may have ended up winning the lottery and then was murdered for his winnings.

The owner of the grocery store that sold the winning ticket, Peter Patel doesn't remember if Perry came in to buy the ticket, "Too many customers come in the store. I cannot recognize everybody's face," said Patel.

The lottery website's official rules are that you have 180 days to claim the ticket and only 60 to collect it in one lump sum. In the week leading up to Perry's disappearance, his ex girlfriend also mentioned that he had been talking to her on the phone and mentioned that one day a man drove by the house waving a gun out the window yelling that the people in the home 'owe me money,' Perry's two roommates are ex cons, both of whom are currently in custody--one on drug trafficking charges and the other on skipping probation.

Did Perry, a man who had been at times homeless, living in his van, dying from cancer, finally catch a break and win 10 million dollars, only to be murdered for the money?

Only time will tell. Things just keep getting stranger for this poor man.
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Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 6/22/2010, 8:05 AM
Wow! You can't make this stuff up.
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 6/22/2010, 8:19 AM
This is terrible. I'm at a loss for words for how awful this situation is.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 6/22/2010, 8:21 AM
Well, don't know what to say...

Poor man, hopefully they'll get the scumball who did this!
HelaGood
HelaGood - 6/22/2010, 9:17 AM
whoah...
InstigatorGIRL
InstigatorGIRL - 6/22/2010, 9:18 AM
@tea @ LEEE agreed...
InstigatorGIRL
InstigatorGIRL - 6/22/2010, 9:18 AM
I confirm Hela's comment...
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 6/22/2010, 9:21 AM
this society has crumbled a LONG time ago...I feel bad for him...thats why you hide that kind of stuff...or you know we shouldn't air the winners on TV so people don't come looking to leech off you
Betty
Betty - 6/22/2010, 9:23 AM
Weirder and weirder. Sounds like he was surrounded by bad people and wrong place wrong time.
rolanddeschain
rolanddeschain - 6/22/2010, 9:45 AM
what kind of crazy sh*t is this?! I don't play lotto, can you cash in someone elses ticket? If not, then what would be the point of killing him?
Shaman
Shaman - 6/22/2010, 9:50 AM
Very very unfortunate news. He certainly did choose the wrong people to hang out with. It's a pitty.

Hey anyone notice how much he looks like George "The Animal" Steele in that picture up top?
docnoc
docnoc - 6/22/2010, 9:51 AM
what kind of crazy sh*t is this?! I don't play lotto, can you cash in someone elses ticket? If not, then what would be the point of killing him?
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rolanddeschain - 6/22/2010, 9:45 AM

Sign the winning ticket before you turn it in, DO NOT CASH a big winning ticket until you become a corporation, family members tend to spring up from all corners and DON'T ADVERTISE THAT YOU WON! Leeches are everywhere!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 6/22/2010, 9:53 AM
That is jsut too messed up for words. Here's hoping they catch the bastards anyway.
CPBuff22
CPBuff22 - 6/22/2010, 9:55 AM
As bad as the killing was, I feel worse that some how no one on here knew he was living in his van dieing form cancer. You would think at some point this would be reported by the media. And if it had that fans of his work would have come together to help him out. Horrible.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/22/2010, 9:59 AM
wow, thats whack
selinakyle
selinakyle - 6/22/2010, 10:01 AM
Just a lot of misfortune for one person. Not fair. What happened to his family? Why was he homeless? So sad. :(
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 6/22/2010, 10:01 AM
The real bummer here is going to be that the lotto ticket and killing could be (not likely, I know) a coincidence and not related at all.

Now the lotto winner brings in the ticket and is arrested on suspicion of first degree murder.
mk
mk - 6/22/2010, 10:21 AM
Wow..
Shaman
Shaman - 6/22/2010, 10:36 AM
docnoc- What do you mean by "DO NOT CASH a big winning ticket until you become a corporation"? I just don't understand what you mean by that.
rolanddeschain
rolanddeschain - 6/22/2010, 10:44 AM
shaman@ dude, you have me feeling really guilty for laughing at the george the animal steele comparison...lol
Shaman
Shaman - 6/22/2010, 10:52 AM
rolanddeschain- I know right? LOL I laughed at that in shame too :P

But i still can't believe how such a talented guy could live in a van. Goddamn the world sucks sometimes.
MisterJoshua
MisterJoshua - 6/22/2010, 11:01 AM
"Hey anyone notice how much he looks like George "The Animal" Steele in that picture up top? "


Drop the glasses, and add profuse back hair...and he's a ringer for Steele.



On a side note, living with two ex-cons, in a neighborhood where people drive by waving guns and screaming at residents...something in that equation -had- to give. It's disheartening to hear how someone who was such a part of my childhood had something so indignifying done to him. It boils the blood, and raises the adrenaline...


...I do hope that the sonnovabitch, (or sonsovabitch) that is responsible for this atrocity are caught, shaved, given their final meal and shower, and then have enough current run through them to power Central Florida. A bit brutish, to be sure, but the puishment should fit the crime.
Shaman
Shaman - 6/22/2010, 11:05 AM
MisterJoshua- Definitely! I agree with everything you said.
Nemesys
Nemesys - 6/22/2010, 11:14 AM
According to what I read here locally in Tampa, his van and the arm were found at a hotel here in the city, and I doubt that he drove up to Zephyrhills (about a half hours ride depending) just to buy a lottery ticket. Strange, but unlikely. Sucks that he won't be around to see the new anime their doing of his work and the possible live action movie.
MisterJoshua
MisterJoshua - 6/22/2010, 11:28 AM
@Shaman: Would you agree if I went the way I wanted to? Removal of the safety precautions that prevent the inmate from catching fire, having their eyeballs pop, or vomit, piss, and shit on themselves? That's what my initial desire for these bastards was...but hey, we're not barbarians, are we?
Shaman
Shaman - 6/22/2010, 11:38 AM
MisterJoshua- A part of me would... but then another part would say that we aren't the barbarians that do these very murders either. But for such an offense, i wouldn't be against the DP, that's for sure.
Nemesys
Nemesys - 6/22/2010, 12:25 PM
@Keven - That's my point. I don't think he had the lottery ticket since it was bought in Zephyrhills. And as a semi-homeless guy possibly living out of his van, he probably wouldn't have made the drive. Very sad either way, doubly sad if indeed he did have the ticket
rolanddeschain
rolanddeschain - 6/22/2010, 12:34 PM
docnoc@ so you're saying that you have to incorporate yourself in order to cash in a lotto jackpot?

Did this guy have a mental disorder, like schizophrenia, or something? To be living in those kind of conditions, but to be a talented writer at the same time would suggest that, at least to me
SuperPowered
SuperPowered - 6/22/2010, 12:36 PM
I haven't heard anything about this on the news, it definitely has the making of a CSI show.
BillyBlack
BillyBlack - 6/22/2010, 12:37 PM
What a massive kick in the pants.

Now how the hell am I gonna cash in this lottery ticket?

Boooooo. OK I'm a dick. Bad joke aside, this is just piling on now. If this is truly how the events played out, he has one of the baddest beats I've ever heard. If karma plays in, I hope he comes back as an eagle, or a dragon... or Jude Law.
BrotherJohnson
BrotherJohnson - 6/22/2010, 12:48 PM
And this is why you don't tell anyone that you've won the lotto. Sad news.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/22/2010, 12:58 PM
@ hawksblueyes

lol

"The real bummer here is going to be that the lotto ticket and killing could be (not likely, I know) a coincidence and not related at all."

I thought the real bummer is that this guy got murdered for a lottery ticket, lolololol. j/k
SHHH
SHHH - 6/22/2010, 12:59 PM
If Karma was around.... These guy's are monster's only 1 way ta handle people like this...

StevilNYC
StevilNYC - 6/22/2010, 1:28 PM
What a nightmare! I pray for his family.
odie00
odie00 - 6/22/2010, 2:41 PM
wiw thats crazy stuff. i had a friend that just died yesterday in a car accident. people just keep dying...
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