Joey Coyle

Joey Coyle

Joseph "Joey" Coyle was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the middle of the street after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car. His story was made into the movie "Money for Nothing" starring John Cusack and also a book written by Mark Bowden titled "".

Joey struggled with a drug addiction for most of his adult life. He committed suicide by hanging himself in his basement on August 15, 1993.

References

* [http://www.amk.ca/books/h/Finders_Keepers Book Review]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DE103EF935A2575BC0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print Death Notice of Joseph William Coyle]

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