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In no time their friendship grew stronger and soon the friends became business partners. Colombo had taken up the traveling part. He would fly around the country taking along the selected friends who had the task of high-value game pieces. Jacobson used to plan it all. All the while Jacobson developed a warm feeling for Colombo’s wife Robin. He began gifting her family including Robin’s father and Brother in law winning game pieces. By the time next year came the family members of Robin had gone millionaires. No doubt, Jacobson had become everyone’s favorite and that is why he was even nicknamed him “Uncle Jerry.” Things were going great so far but there was a big problem lurking for him in the future.
Charity?
The year 1995 proved very lucky for him but in November, the thing began to get stranger. Tammie Murphy working as a donation clerk at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee spotted a shining red envelope. Initially, she took it as a junk mail but got totally astounded when she opened up the envelope and found a small Monopoly game piece inside it. The piece was worth $1 million. She did not waste a second and immediately contacted McDonald’s officials who rushed to the hospital to check the game piece. The discovery triggered an investigation that did find out some answer but the real culprit was yet to be nabbed.
New Twist
You may never have seen a case as filmy as this. As if having the police running after was not enough, he got another shock when his business partner Colombo met a car accident and died. Colombo was with his wife at the time of the accident. Colombo was driving at a very high speed when they lost control and collided with some unidentified object in the spring of 1998. Whereas Colombo lost his life, Robin suffered a few mild injuries. Though that was indeed a blow for Jacobson, he did not step back from the world of the crime. He still was looking for investors and this time he was looking for someone who could replace Colombo too.
Colombo’s Replacement
During his search for Colombo’s replacement, Jacobson met Richard Couturier. Couturier was the owner of a chain of fried-chicken restaurants. Jacobson lied to him in order to have him in his team. He asked him to help him find the actual winners for McDonald’s Monopoly game. Couturier helped him in admitting the random people he came across in order to win high-value game pieces. In the year 1999, the man ended up giving 10 winning game pieces that included cars and big cash as a prize. A couple of the game pieces separately stood for $1 million.
He Recruited An Ex-Convict
On the other hand, Jacobson kept himself busy in recruiting investors. It was during that time he met a Florida resident Andrew Glomb who too had a questionable past. Glomb who had served 12 years in jail was a gambler. He was sentenced for smuggling cocaine from Miami to Dallas. Glomb got very intrigued when he learned about Jacobson’s business and expressed his desire to join him. The man got on board and the first thing he did was to distribute winning game pieces to his old friends.
Dwight Baker
Dwight Baker was a close friend of Jacobson. Baker unlike Jacobson was a highly reputed Mormon and a family man. Jacobson confided in him about his business when Baker told him about his miserable financial condition. Jacobson took advantage of the situation and offered help to him by giving him a $1 million game piece. Initially, Baker was skeptical about this but when he actually entered the cycle he too got tempted by the benefits he received.