Webin 1935 oil tycoon h. Webleah’s uncle ray hunt, the only second family son, started running hunt oil after his father died, in 1974, and today he is worth between five and six billion dollars. Weba desperate hunt turned to murder, killing two wealthy men in a futile attempt to steal their money. It all fell apart when investigators found a key piece of evidence at the scene of. Webin reality, levin set up fake accounts using hunt’s name after convincing a brokerage company that the purpose of the accounts was to provide him with information for a. Webone of her grandchildren, albert galatyn hill iii, sued almost the entire family, accusing his relatives of conspiring to plunder the family trusts and defraud the. Webthe making and unmaking of a fortune since dallas oilman h. Hunt parlayed a $5,000 inheritance into a $2 billion dollar empire in 1954, the hunt. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.