it s the largest lottery jackpot ever. and tonight, california announced the lucky winner. his name is edwin castro. he s opting for the lump sum, which totals 997.6 million, which is a total rip off, by the way. because that is like half of what he actually won. if i were edwin, i would be pretty upset. castro does not want to speak publicly, but did say in a statement that he was shocked and ecstatic, i think that the real winner is the california public school system that will also receive 156 point $3 million in supplemental funds. but we think actually edwin castro is the real winner tonight. thank you so much for watching. our coverage continues.
a long awaited mystery is now over. the name of the person who is the only player to match all six numbers of the historic powerball drawing last november is edwin castro. not kaitlan collins. edwin castro. lucky california lottery winner who hit the $2 billion jackpot. he opted for the lump sum payment of $997.6 million. just to give you an idea of how much money edwin has won, it is enough money to spend $190 a minute every minute of every day for ten years. enough to buy a 1.3 million house every day for the next two years, it s almost the gdp of
arrived in northern california. it was tuesday, 52 hours after kaylee disappeared. aundreah maes and or kidnap, or edwin lara had been on the road eight hours. her car was overheating. he told me, we are going to have to get a new car, this one is not going to make it. 5 am, lara pulled off the road in yreka, california, at this super eight motel, where he saw man unloading his car, checking into his room. he grabbed aundreah, drag her along, and burst in on the man. that s when it happened. the guy was, like you have the wrong room, you need to leave. and edwin is like, we just need your car, we re not gonna hurt you, we just need to get out of here. the guy was like, no, help, help. and what happened? that s when he told him to stop yelling and he told him if he didn t stop, he would kill him. and he just kept yelling for help, and the gun just went off, and everything just one black
we go through the house, and i m immediately drawn to a music room, where there are pictures of edwin and isabel inside. various musical instruments. they found youtube videos. lara singing love songs, but also evidence that lara was a member of his church s warship group. and here, on laura s bedside table, was a well worn bible. you preach from the bible? i have. so you know what it looks like? there were things written on certain pages, certain scriptures, so i believed, at this point, this is one of the focal points of his life. when the detective found evidence in a note, lara that was tithing, giving 10% of his income to the church, he began thinking ahead. what did you think as you were looking at that bible? are you seeing that he s clearly, highly engaged in his religion and his could middlemen to it?
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