Joshua Francis Saulteaux won a million dollars on a scratch-and-win ticket. Several weeks later, he vanished.
And now his family in the Northern Alberta community where the 25-year-old was last seen fears the win might have something to do with his disappearance.
“It’s more of a curse than a blessing,” his uncle, Francis Morin, tells 660 NewsRadio.
Saulteaux was last seen on May 5. The next day, one of his cousins went to look for him in his new RV, a purchase made possible by his lottery win. The RV was parked by his mother’s house in White Fish Lake First Nations, located about 220 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
Morin says they found a disturbing scene, including blood splattered inside and no sign of the young man.
That was just a few weeks after his big win and a day after he t