Unclaimed $1.5B jackpot mystery: Winner died? Ticket lost? - Statesboro Herald

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Unclaimed $1.5B jackpot mystery: Winner died? Ticket lost?

Theories abound in S.C. town

Jee Patel checks out a customer at the KC Mart on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in Simpsonville, South Carolina. The store sold the only Mega Millions ticket to win the $1.5 billion jackpot in October 2018. The ticket has not been claimed. - photo by Associated Press

Jackpot Mystery.jpg — Jee Patel checks out a customer at the KC Mart on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in Simpsonville, South Carolina. The store sold the only Mega Millions ticket to win the $1.5 billion jackpot in October 2018. The ticket has not been claimed. - photo by Associated Press

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city's billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October?

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