The E! Network's True Hollywood Stories Investigates "Curse of the Lottery" looked into the tragic stories of lottery winners who's lives took sad turns.   Jim Zura and the Total Video crew went to various locations in southeast Texas to shoot interviews and B-roll to tell the story of Billy Bob Harrell.
Down on his luck, barely able to support his family with his job at Home Depot, Billy Bob suddenly struck it rich, as the sole winner of a 31-million dollar Texas Lottery jackpot.

                  

Billy Bob went on the inevitable spending spree.  Cars, homes, charitable donations, pinball machines...
The sudden limelight, change in lifestyle and cavorting led to a divorce.   While he enjoyed living "high on the hog" for a while, he grew to want his wife and family back.

The newspaper reporter who initially broke this story

The Medical Examiner who pronounced Billy Bob's death as suicide
Billie Bob went to his ex-wife and family's home in Kingwood, Texas, with a big bouquet of flowers.   They were not home.   An hour later they arrived, and his oldest son found him in a locked upstairs bedroom, dead.  A shotgun laid at his feet.   Desperate love notes were found at the scene.  This was less than two years after winning the lottery.
               

Friends, neighbors and co-workers discuss Billy Bob's tragedy.  Shortly before his death, he said: "Winning the lottery was the worst thing that ever happened to me."
"When you get a call to do a network shoot, you frequently don't know in advance the details of what you're about to experience.  It's often a fun outing, working with a celebrity; or a rewarding thing with a notable person who has made a medical or socioeconomic breakthrough.  Then there's the profoundly sad stories of life.  You don't absorb the gravity of it while shooting, but on the ride home from Montgomery County, it all sinks in..."   - Jim Zura