CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – Mirlande Wilson didn’t solve the mystery about the March 30, 2012 Mega Millions winners today. Officials tell news that Mirlande Wilson (photos below) did not present a winning ticket to them in Maryland Thursday. During a midday news conference, Maryland heads confirmed that neither Mirlande Wilson nor anyone else has presented them a Maryland winning ticket. The news comes one day after Wilson’s own attorney could not confirm that she was in possession of a winning Maryland ticket.

Mirlande Wilson initially told news that she was the Maryland winner of the March 30, 2012 Mega Millions draw. Three total winners, from three different states, had the winning numbers that night. In a news interview days later with the New York Post, Wilson proclaimed herself the winner, never showing a winning ticket. Since then, when approached by local news, even her own attorney, Mirlande Wilson wouldn’t show anyone the purported ticket.

Officials in a news conference today confirmed they know when the winning ticket was sold in Maryland, and where it was sold. But there is confusion about whether a man or woman purchased the ticket.

Officials during Thursday’s news briefing reassured national news that they have watched the surveillance video recording inside the 7-11 at the time the ticket was sold. They claim the time stamp between the video and the ticket purchase do not match.

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But Maryland Lottery director Stephen Martino would not tell news the relevancy of the time-stamp. Even if the videotape’s time clock was different that ticket machine’s time clock, were there other people making purchases at the same time? Martino’s implied there was.

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Martino tells news that people who bought tickets in the 7-11 on Liberty Avenue in Baltimore at around 7:15 pm on March 30 to reexamine their ticket. Martino said he fears that someone may have bought the ticket and thrown it away. “We look forward to the day when the winner comes forward and we get an opportunity to meet them and hear their story,” Martino said.

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Could the ticket been thrown away? That remains to be seen. And did Wilson ever have the ticket? That remains unanswered. Edward Smith Jr. tells news that represents Wilson, that he hasn’t seen the ticket, and he isn’t sure if she even owns such a ticket. “I have not seen the ticket, nor do I want to see the ticket. We believe it to be a legitimate claim. When it is time to present the ticket or whatever it is that needs to be presented to the lottery commissioner, I am sure that we will be there.”

The due date to present winning tickets from the March 30, 2012 Mega Million is Sept. 28, Martino told news.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Mirlande Wilson claims her Mega Millions March 30, 2012 winning ticket is hidden amongst Big Macs and McDonalds’ secret sauce. Is Mirlande Wilson really a winner of the Mega Millions March 30 draw? That mystery grew even bigger today. Wilson told news that she has not produced her ticket to officials. Her attorney told news he hasn’t seen the ticket, and he doesn’t want to. And Wilson told news that she has hidden the winning ticket inside a local McDonalds, near the side of french fries (seriously). Call it the Mega Millions Mess, or the McMess of 2012, but this story is getting stranger by the hour.

He told news “I have not seen it, and in fact I don’t think I want to see it until the lottery people have it in their hot little hands”.  Smith added “All I’m doing is defending this lady. Obviously there’s going to be a challenge.” Smith wouldn’t answer questions. So what “challenge” is he referring to?

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Three tickets from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois had the winning numbers from March 30, 2012. Does Wilson have one of the tickets? Since her story erupted in the New York Post, Wilson has been turning to the publication for her exclusives. But the publication has been cautious, not to call her a winner but a purported winner.

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And if she has the winning ticket, where is it? ” “I left my ticket there, and it’s somewhere safe that only I know about,” she told The Post through a Creole-speaking translator.” She added “I’m waiting for things to calm down so I can go back to McDonald’s and get it. The people [at McDonald’s] are too excited. I want their heads to cool down before I go back.”

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Who hides a winning ticket worth one third of $656 million inside a McDonalds? Apparently she does. “And she’s apparently not worried about the Hamburglar — or any of the employees who say she’s trying to stiff them out of a pool jackpot” says the Post.

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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – Mirlande Wilson (photos below) has been revealed while three Mega Millions March 30, 2012 winners remain missing. Mirlande Wilson is not a confirmed Mega Millions March 30, 2012  winner, yet, representatives confirm to news. But moments ago, Mirlande Wilson told news that she is not producing the ticket she claimed she had. Wilson is set to address news in a press conference Wednesday.

Is Mirlande Wilson one of the three Mega Millions winners who had six of six winning numbers from Friday March 30, 2012 draw? That still remains a mystery today. Initially, Mirlande Wilson told news she had one of three tickets. But after those statements, Mega Millions officials told national news their own opinion of the situation. They said that frequently people come forward to news reporters claiming to own a winning ticket. They said the only proof of winning is showing up with the ticket at Mega Millions headquarters.

Wilson’s home has been documented on several local news broadcasts. Reporters have been seen knocking on her front door, right on the street, asking for news comments, and pushing video cameras toward Wilson as she peers out from inside her simple home. British news, fascinated by the controversy, have been running images from Mirlande Wilson’s Facebook profile.

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Maryland Lottery official Carole Everette says that everyone can speculate as much as they want about Wilson. But until Wilson shows up with the ticket, there is no answer to the mystery. In total, all three ticket holders haven’t appeared.

But if Wilson has the ticket, there are two other mysteries to her story. First, unconfirmed reports claim that the purported ticket was purchased by Wilson’s alleged male companion, not Wilson. Officials allegedly are aware of video surveillance inside the 7-Eleven showing who exactly made the ticket purchase, Wilson or the male.

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Second, if Wilson does have the winning ticket, and if she made the purchase herself, will she have to share the ticket with people in her pool? She claims that she is part of a pool of workers at McDonalds. But she asserts that, when tickets are bought for the pool, everyone gets a copy of the ticket numbers to verify the pool tickets. She says the pool participants knew which tickets were pool tickets far before March 30.

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So did Wilson buy a winning ticket? Did her mystery man buy the ticket instead? And will the pool be entitled to share in the proceeds? Wilson is set to hold a news conference today to address these and more unanswered questions in the Mega Millions Mess of 2012.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Mega Millions mess winner Mirlande Wilson (photos below) has prompted a McDonald’s pool controversy. Dubbed the protagonist of the Mega Millions Mess 2012 or the Mega Mess of the decade, Mirlande Wilson will hold a news conference today April 4, 2012 to address the controversy, the winning tickets, and her McDonalds pool scandal.

On March 30, 2012, Mega millions officials confirmed that two issues to news. First, the sum for that night was all time record for the organization. Second, three people bought winning tickets and would share in the six hundred fifty-six million dollar prize. But as of last night, Mega Millions officials still confirm to news that no one has come forward with the three winning tickets. Could that change today?

Mega Millions Mess protagonist Mirlande Wilson has since told news that she will hold a press conference today. She initially told New York news that she has one the winning tickets. Officials later said that they had reviewed security video footage of where Wilson claimed to have bought the ticket. Based upon that video, they were skeptical of her story. Since then, local news has found Mirlande Wilson. And in statements yesterday, Wilson suggested to news that she doesn’t have the winning ticket.

So does Mirlande Wilson have a winning ticket? And if so, was it her sole ticket, a pool-bought ticket, or something else? Officials fear the answer could be something else. They claim video footage shows Mirlande Wilson’s male companion, not her, buying the ticket. So who is Wilson’s mysterious male companion?

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“Until or unless someone walks through the door with that ticket, and it’s verified as the winner, we don’t have any lead on anybody,” Maryland Lottery spokeswoman Carole Everett said in a news statement to FOX yesterday. “There is a winner somewhere, but we don’t know who they are yet.”

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McDonald’s franchise owner, Birul Desai, doesn’t believe she has the winning ticket. Members of her pool are furious at her. “She can’ t do this to us!” Suleiman Osman Husein, a shift manager who was one of the 15 members of the McDonald’s pool, told the New York Post. “We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!”

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So does she really have the winning ticket? When asked for comment by local news yesterday, Wilson appeared on camera with her hair newly done, wearing a shining necklace, and backtracking on her story. “I don’t know where all this is coming from. It’s too much. It’s confusing, very confusing.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Mirlande Wilson (photos below) is at the center of the “McDonalds Pool Mega Millions Mess” of March 30, 2012, as local news is now calling it. Mirlande Wilson, Davon Wilson and Suleiman Osman Husein and fifteen total McDonalds employees in Maryland bought tickets for the Mega Millions last Friday. They were part of a pool grabbing tickets at the Milford Mill, Maryland 7-11 store. But now that Mega Millions mess, and unidentified mystery man, are prompting a news story that sounds more fitting for a movie-of-the-week.

Last Friday, Mirlande Wilson walked into a 7-Eleven with an unidentified man. She and the man appear on security footage. Unconfirmed news reports claim that the Wilson is seen buying at least one lottery ticket, and the man buying another ticket. So who had the winning ticket?

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Yohannes Michael, a clerk at the 7-Eleven, tells the NY Post that he believes the man, not Wilson, had the winning ticket. But after the winning numbers were announced, Mirlande Wilson called up her McDonalds employer and screamed that she has won.

There is only one problem. Mirlande Wilson was part of a lottery pool at work. She was sent to the 7-Eleven to buy pool tickets that night. The 15-person pool included Davon Wilson and Suleiman Osman Husein. “She can’ t do this to us!” said Suleiman to the Post. “We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!”

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But the story doesn’t end there. Neither Wilson nor the mystery man may have a winning ticket after all. Carole Everett, director of communications for the Maryland lottery, tells ABCNews that no one in the Post’s story won the lottery. “Everyone says they know [the winner] is their cousin, mother, friend, guy up the street or guy who mows the lawn… But the proof has to be in front of us.”

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So who won the $656 million prize? The three winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Kansas and Illinois and none of the real winners have come forward.

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