Eddie Tipton
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Can I wave your hand, dawgs?
Can I wave your hand, dawgs?
Can I wave your hand, dawgs?
Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts. Each month, Apple Podcasts highlights one series worth your attention, and they call these series essentials. This month, they recommend Wondery's Ghost Story, a seven-part series that follows journalist Tristan Redman as he tries to get to the bottom of a ghostly presence in his childhood home.
His investigation takes him on a journey involving homicide detectives, ghost hunters, and even psychic mediums, and leads him to a dark secret about his own family. Check out Ghost Story, a series essential pick, completely ad-free on Apple Podcasts. Very soon, I get to do my favorite thing. Go on tour and meet so many of you.
This month, Criminal is coming to Austin, Tucson, Boulder, Portland, Oregon, Detroit, Madison, Northampton, and Atlanta. If you didn't get to come and see our 10-year anniversary show earlier this year, this is your last chance. You'll get to hear seven brand new stories, most of which will probably make you laugh. I'll even try to come and say hi at the merch table.
Get your tickets while they last at thisiscriminal.com slash live. You might know that the criminal team loves to find great spots to eat lunch on tour. So when we're back on the road this fall, we plan to use the new app from our friends at Eater. It's free, and it uses your location to show you nearby restaurants recommended by Eater's editors.
More than 10,000 restaurants in more than 100 cities around the world. You can even search by the type of food. I've already found two good-looking spots near our shows in Portland and Atlanta. You can download it too at eater.com slash app.
On December 23, 2010, a $16.5 million hot lotto ticket was sold at a quick-trip gas station on the northeast side of Des Moines, Iowa. The buyer of the ticket had matched all five numbers, plus the hot lotto number. The ticket read 3-12-16-26-33 and hot ball 11. The news made local headlines all throughout the state after the numbers were drawn six days later.
The Muscatine Journal's headline read, Someone is suddenly a millionaire. But then, no one showed up with the winning ticket.
Someone called in to say that his friend, who was a religious hot lotto player, had just died in a car accident. He asked whether he should go to the junkyard to look through the wrecked car. But each time someone called in, the lottery officials would ask for the 15-digit serial number on the back of the ticket. And each time, those numbers didn't match the winning ticket.
By early November, almost 11 months had passed with no winner. The ticket was only valid through the end of December. Mary Neubauer, who works for Iowa's lottery, said, I was convinced it would never be claimed. And then she answered a call that came into the lottery office. It was from a man named Philip Johnston, and he had the correct 15-digit serial number.
About a month later, the man called a second time. This time he told Mary that he had, quote, fibbed the first time. He said he was actually a lawyer calling to help his client claim the ticket, but he couldn't disclose the name of his client. He proposed various ways his client could receive the money, but Mary told him that according to Iowa lottery rules, a winner has to identify themselves.
Philip Johnston stopped calling after that. And then on the day the ticket was set to expire, about two hours before the end of the claim period, two attorneys showed up in person at the Iowa Lottery office with the actual winning ticket in hand. They said the ticket belonged to their client, a man in New York named Crawford Shaw.
Crawford Shaw requested that the money be paid to Hexham Investments, a trust in Belize.
We'll be right back. Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts. Each month, Apple Podcasts highlights one series worth your attention, and they call these series essentials. This month, they recommend Wondery's Ghost Story, a seven-part series that follows journalist Tristan Redman as he tries to get to the bottom of a ghostly presence in his childhood home.