His work involved product packages such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and "Making Money Secrets".

The autopsy report stated that he died of blood loss after cutting his throat with a razor blade.

[3] A high-school dropout,[4] Lapre, together with his wife, started a credit repair business called Unknown Concepts in 1990.

Lapre then began selling a 36-page booklet explaining how to recover a Federal Housing Administration insurance refund after paying off a home mortgage.

The principal product was Lapre's "Money Making Secrets", a package of booklets, tapes, and common-sense tips for placing ads and operating a 900-number business.

[12][13] On June 27, 2011, Lapre was arrested in Tempe, Arizona, at a Life Time Fitness center, where he had reportedly lived for two days, with serious self-inflicted knife wounds to his groin.