At least Louis hadn't discarded the artifacts the family had collected over the years.

In 2009, he hired a hit man to kill him so his family would collect insurance.

By September, the family had collected $25,000 in donations to pay for her medical care.

The family collected $41 million of the $90 million that the company paid out last year.

The family would collect the state and federal gas taxes, but keep the money instead.

However, it does not seem likely that the 9/11 families will ever collect money from Osama's trust fund.

Such families now cannot collect aid if one parent works more than 100 hours a month.

The family collected money from relatives, friends and his tribe.

Now that he is gone, families are finding the numbers, matching them to the plates and finally collecting their dead.

Even if those awards stand up, they leave the far trickier question of what the families will collect.