The London Police Service lists January 22, 1996, as his date of death, but the precise circumstances and timing of the killing have not been publicly established.

In the months after his disappearance someone sent communications containing information about Lottery. A March 1996 letter left at the Pillar of Fire Church included a photograph taken from his wallet, and a handwritten letter arrived at the family home in November 1996 on distinctive stationery that investigators later publicized. Human bones recovered along the Thames River beginning in May 1997, and later discoveries in 2003 and 2008, were forensically identified as Lottery’s remains.

Police eventually declared the case a homicide, saying Lottery was specifically targeted by one or more people who knew him and that multiple people may possess relevant information. No arrest, charge or conviction has been publicly disclosed and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Samuel, his routines, or who had access to that distinctive stationery, can you share what you know?