On Christmas Eve in 2016, 87-year-old Chicago man Stankake was found dead at home.
Because he had no children and did not leave a will, the few property under his name was transferred to the government's financial office and became "unclaimed property"...
Just three years after Stankak's death, the financial office began to receive huge sums of money to Stankak, and the money accumulated more and more, with a total of nearly 10 million US dollars...
Stankak's wealth surged, exceeding 11 million US dollars, directly breaking the record of unclaimed property in the United States.
government personnel investigated and found that the sudden huge sum of money was the income of Stankak's investment in mutual funds during his lifetime. After his death, the investment generated a large amount of returns, making him who was no longer alive and become a millionaire...
However, investment company said that the money was only temporarily under Stankak's name. If no one claimed it within three years, tens of millions of dollars would be taken back by the company...
So, Stankak's estate lawyer Kenneth began to look for a legal heir for the inheritance. But after Kenneth studied the existing data, he found that this was a tedious and headache-inducing project...
Stankak's parents were Polish immigrants in the early last century, giving birth to him and six other siblings in Chicago.
Only two of these seven children have married, but like Stankak, neither of them has children, and they themselves died before Stankak passed away.
So at present, Stankak has no immediate family or close relatives alive...
All those who know Stankak know very little about him. No one knows his profession, his private life, and his investments. He only knows that he has always lived in a slightly simple house in the suburbs of Chicago.
In addition to this house, Stankak also has a ship called "Easy". Before he was 80 years old, he would renew his license for the ship every year and would no longer apply for it.
Neighbors said that Stankak has never had any sense of existence and lives a frugal life. He often climbs up and down to repair houses by himself. No one knows that he has a boat, and no one expects that he will become a millionaire...
helpless Kenneth could only start tracking his cousin and distant relatives. In order to ensure accuracy and authenticity, a complete family tree must be made, traced back to the five generations above his parents, and counting all people who are related to Stankak...
Because of the huge project, Kenneth contacted a company that researched unclaimed property to cooperate with.
They spent nearly 3 years to almost dig up all the records of Stankak since his birth, birth certificate , death certificate , marriage records, and even baptism records... Finally, they finally made a 4.5-meter-long family tree scroll, and counted everyone's address and contact information...
On the genealogy, there are 119 legal heirs of Stankak, and they are all over Europe and North America.
From Poland, the United States, Canada to Slovakian , Czech Republic , and the United Kingdom, there are all Stanchak's blood relatives. Within the country, except for Chicago, there are also Iowa , Minnesota , New Jersey and New York .
It is said that these relatives who were notified of inheritance did not know the existence of the person "Stanchuk",
, but each of them would receive $60,000 from him, a huge sum of money that would change his life...
