She Murdered a Lottery Winner for $30 Million | Millionaire Murders | Forensic Files

[theme music] DAVID CLARK: Polk County is what most people consider a rural county.
We have a lot of orange groves. We have a lot of cow pastures, a lot of houses with large acreage, but we also have Metropolitan areas
such as the city of Lakeland. Lakeland is a very diverse city. You have pockets of Lakeland that are influential people,
very affluent people. The crime rate in Polk County is one of the lower counties in Florida.
We don't have a lot of violent crime. On the spectrum of Florida, I would put us in the lower 10%
GREG THOMAS: The Polk County Sheriff's Office advised that they may need our assistance in our county,
as they were investigating the disappearance of Abraham Shakespeare in their jurisdiction.
DAVID CLARK: It's a bit of a high profile case, could become a little complex. Abraham Shakespeare won $31, 32 million.
And he accepted a payout after taxes, which would equate to about $17 million. Me and Abraham was basically childhood friends.
To describe Abraham as a person, he was a gentle, kind, loving person. He was heartfelt, hard giving.
If he had it, he was willing to share it. I heard Abraham won the lottery by TV,
and the news, and the streets. Let's put it that way. He didn't grab his wealth and immediately run.
He stayed in the community where he lived. MERISSA GREEN: I would say probably a year
and a half passed after Abraham won the Florida Lottery. And it just got real quiet.
So the last time he seen in around April of 2009, family, his mother, his close friends, his cousins
that he was close with were calling his cell phone in hopes of reaching him and talking to him.
Abraham wasn't answering his cell phones. GREG MASSEY: I want to say, like, about two or three months,
that Abraham been missing before the report was made that he was now a missing person.
The missing persons report on Abraham Shakespeare came out from the Polk County Sheriff's Office
on November 9, 2009. That is when we learned that he was officially missing. [tense music]
DAVID CLARK: I knew who Abraham Shakespeare was. Whenever a person in the community
or in the county you live in wins $30 plus million dollars in the lottery, it makes, at least,
local news. GREG THOMAS: He had purchased this small mansion in a very wealthy area of Lakeland, a state-of-the-art
home with all the nice fixtures, and so forth, pool, and whatnot. The home was beyond his wildest dreams
because it had everything that he wasn't even used to. GREG MASSEY: Everybody knew Abraham, who he was.
And everybody talked about Abraham winning such a large amount of money. MERISSA GREEN: He was able to wear designer labels.
He really cleaned himself up. And he looked like a different person from what he used to look like before winning the lottery.
And had pretty much been a day laborer his whole life. You know, he would take odds and ends jobs, sweeping up
floors of different businesses. Abraham Shakespeare couldn't read or write, so he really did not understand how much money he really had.
What he did know was that he now had the resources to pretty much do whatever he wanted.
He could come and go and do just about anything. GREG THOMAS: He was known to just give out handfuls of cash
to homeless people. At grocery stores, he would buy groceries for, like, a single mother with children.
MERISSA GREEN: Abraham became the Bank of the hood. So he would loan people in the community money
with the verbal agreement, hey, you must pay me back. GREG THOMAS: He would even have parties.
And he would suspend nets of cash up in the ceiling and make it rain down money.
After seeing Abraham for the first time after officially knowing he won, my conversation with Abraham
was be mindful. A saying that we have is that everything that's shine isn't gold.
And everybody that smiles isn't in the best interest for you. My thought when they said Abraham was missing
that he was just somewhere remotely that he didn't want to be bothered. MERISSA GREEN: He told me he had to change
his cellular number several times because people were pestering him for money. He also told me how people would wait
for him outside of his mother's home, hoping to get a glimpse or catch him. DAVID CLARK: At that point, we met
with the Missing Persons Unit. And we got all the information they had. And we sat down and reviewed what they had.
And then made a determination that we were just going to start over, start interviews over, and just
get to the bottom of the case. GREG THOMAS: They start looking at everything surrounding
the fact that he was a known person in the Lakeland, Florida area because he was a lottery winner,
that he was generous with his money. And obviously beginning the background into everybody
associated with him. DAVID CLARK: Abraham had a older child that he had fathered prior to winning the lottery
by the name of Jeremiah. We knew one thing that he did was when he won the lottery was
he got $1 million bond for him that he could have when he was 18. We knew after winning the lottery, he had met a young lady
and fathered a child with her. And I think the child was less than a year old or maybe a year.
And they were a little bit estranged. Their relationship was one of a lot of domestic
arguing, fussing, fighting. So while we're looking into all this, we're talking to everybody, his mother, everybody that we can.
GREG MASSEY: Abraham and his mom was very close. The relationship with a mom and a son is a very bonding thing.
Abraham has other siblings, but Abraham and his mom, was very close. He did everything consistently over, and over, and over again,
including calling to check up on his mother. So when he went from all of a sudden,
his mom was able to talk to him every day to all of a sudden, it went radio silent, that was very odd for her.
DAVID CLARK: Once we reviewed everything from the missing persons case, we knew that we needed to talk to the person who
reported him missing. GREG THOMAS: In about November of 2009, the cousin decided to approach the Polk County Sheriff's Office
and make a report of a missing person. DAVID CLARK: Cedric tells us he last saw him in early April
and hasn't heard from him since, but there was this lady that hears from him all the time.
GREG THOMAS: Dee Dee Moore was a local businesswoman. She had actually owned a pretty successful nurse staffing
business, and had some pretty large contracts, and was doing financially well. She had her own designer labels and the like.
She pulled no punches on the type of lifestyle that she lived. She went on lavish vacations to Las Vegas.
GREG MASSEY: She was very educational. She's a nice looking woman, very attractive, business oriented,
business sense. So she knew how to conduct and handle herself. She had approached Abraham Shakespeare about a year prior
and said that she wanted to write a book about him winning the Florida Lottery. GREG MASSEY: She studied Abraham.
And she knew what he wanted and what she felt he might want. So she knew exactly how to maneuver
herself directly into his life. Let's call Dee Dee Moore in. And then that's the next person we talked to.
In the first hour of the interview with Dee Dee and talking to her, we kind of feel,
well, maybe she is helping him. And on the up and up, she tells us that she talks to Abraham on a at least weekly basis,
sometimes on a daily basis. And that he's fine, that he wanted to get away from all these people asking him for money.
She told us that he had went off, went on a cruise. And that he was just traveling on his own,
that she didn't know his exact location. Dee Dee told us that she was enlisted by Abraham to help him
escape Polk County so that people wouldn't be pestering him for money. DAVID CLARK: And then we sit there and watch her.
She sends him a text message. Abraham, I need to talk to you. Please call me. And so we take her at her word.
And she's like, he'll call me. Don't worry. So I guess, probably, in that first day, we're like, well,
maybe it's going to work out. So we said, hey, meet back up in the morning and let us know.
Which she did. And she said, I haven't heard back from him. Now we got to find out why.
[tense music] We start looking at the financial aspect of everything. Pulling Abraham's finances, pulling Dee Dee' finances.
Dee Dee played a more prominent role in his life, with his finances and everything else,
to help collect on a lot of his bad debts. DAVID CLARK: Abraham's assets included a million dollar home
that he had bought in Lakeland, which was his dream home, numerous other homes that he
bought to help people out. Once he got the things that he needed, he said that I want to help other people.
MERISSA GREEN: She started to look at his financial records and was saying, hey, you need to do this and do that.
GREG THOMAS: She was able to gain control of all his assets through what was known as an asset purchase agreement.
I think she said she paid $875,000 cash for all of his assets, so we got suspicious of that.
At that point, we knew we probably needed to do a full financial investigation. [tense music]
GREG THOMAS: So she totally took advantage of him and started moving the large sums of money
from the different banking institutions into her accounts, her business accounts, and so forth.
And basically started spending the money, buying expensive vehicles, taking expensive vacations
with her boyfriend. One thing that really caught their attention was that Abraham Shakespeare obviously
was nowhere to be found. And that Dee Dee Moore had actually moved into his home.
She just emptied it out like all his personal belongings, basically just trying to wipe his existence out of that home
and make it her home. She moves her son in there, her boyfriend. Yeah, she totally just moved in like it was nothing.
Like he didn't ever exist. They started to use cell phone technology to see the placement of Abraham Shakespeare's cell phone,
pinging off of this particular tower, knowing that it was with Dee Dee Moore at the same time.
And they would do surveillance and not see Abraham Shakespeare with her. So they knew something was awry.
DAVID CLARK: Now they've got text messages from him or they've heard that he was in Jamaica.
They've heard that he is in Orlando. They've heard that he went to the Cayman Islands.
They heard he's in Cozumel, Mexico. And then we also learned that every bit of these rumors
or what have you, it all goes back to Dee Dee Moore. All this information has came from Dee Dee Moore.
Abraham was getting 3, 4, 500 calls a day. It was just crazy. After April 4, that stops.
And the only person that phone communicates with after April 4 is Dee Dee Moore.
The cell phone tower data gives us the location of the phones when they're communicating.
MERISSA GREEN: We learned that the phone that Dee Dee was using to communicate with Shakespeare was
in the same vicinity of Shakespeare's cell phone, was pinging from the same tower.
Which basically says that either Dee Dee and Abraham are sitting in a car next to each other driving,
texting each other back and forth or Dee Dee has Abraham's phone. We say, Dee Dee, listen.
We're a little smarter than you give us credit for. We've pulled all this data. And we had a chart made up, color coded chart and show her.
So at this point, she's just lied about everything. And we're pretty confident that Abraham's probably not alive.
And she kind of puts her head down and she's like, OK, you got me. I have Abraham's phone.
Before he went missing, he told me, police are going to do this. They do cell phone investigations.
Ding ding. Oh, my god. And so he wanted us-- he wanted me to use his phone to send out messages
to make it look like it. So yeah, this was all planned. And we're like, this makes no sense, Dee Dee.
But I mean, what evidence do we have. I mean, we don't have a body. We don't have anything other than this scatterbrained lady
that's giving us a million different stories. So we kind of sit down collectively
and maybe we can bait her into some stuff. We hope that would put some pressure on her.
And it did. We had our Sheriff hold a press conference and officially announced Abraham's
missing and officially announced that we think that he's met with foul play. MERISSA GREEN: And so one day when
I was sitting in the newsroom, I received a phone call. And who would you know it was?
Dee Dee Moore. I said, you know, Dee Dee, I'm hearing a lot of stories from people in the community that Abraham is missing.
And so she emphatically said, well, he's not dead. And I said oh, really? Well, I need to prove that he's still
alive because these stories are running very rampant. And I need some proof that he's OK.
And so she said, oh, I can set up the interview for you. And I said, OK, now I want to do this next week.
And I just felt better about the interview because I just heard so many different rumors.
So I was very excited that Dee Dee said that she could help me reconnect with Abraham so I
could prove that he was alive. And so I tried several times to get in contact with her
and I didn't get a response and didn't know why. So it just made me really mad that, OK, we went from I can
produce him to, all of a sudden, I can't get in contact with him. DAVID CLARK: So we kind of wanted
to create something in Dee Dee's mind where we knew we put pressure on her. So a few days before Christmas, I called Dee Dee up.
So I actually wore a wire that day. I actually put a recording device on. And I know that Abraham loved his mother.
So we have the Christmas holidays coming up. And if you can do anything to get Abraham to at least call his mother, that would really help.
But if Abraham doesn't call his mother or reach out to his mother during Christmas,
I'm going to probably believe what my partner is saying and what the press conference said, that you're
a person of interest. The day after Christmas, Abraham's mother called me. And she told me that she had spoken with her son.
Of course, I was shocked. MERISSA GREEN: She said, that did not sound like her son.
One thing a mother knows if they don't know anything else is their child's voice.
DAVID CLARK: She said that he was very short, but he said he was fine, that he knew the police were looking
for him, but he just wanted her to know that he loved her and that Merry Christmas.
I said, well, what number did he call you from? And she said, well, it said private.
But I can subpoena those records and find out what number it is. It belongs to a guy by the name of Greg Smith.
And here's the live GPS tracking location of it. The phone is at the Lakeland Square Mall.
So I tell my partner, oh, my god. I can tell you where this phone is. Let's go. So we jump in the car.
We drive to the Lakeland Square Mall. Pull into a spot and we just sit there. It's like the gods were with us.
We look up and we see Dee Dee Moore pulling in the dang parking lot. She parks next to this car.
And she gets out and she meets-- and the only thing we can see is that it's a black gentleman in the car.
Well, we see her hand a wad of cash to this guy. And they talk for a minute. The car with the guy in it, it turns to the north.
Her car turns to the south. So we follow the guy. Your heart's beating. You don't know, I mean, who is this?
What are we running into? I mean, is this a contract killer? So we say, hey, let's stop the car.
We grab the guy and throw him in our car. And now we're going to go talk to him and find out what's going on with him.
MERISSA GREEN: Investigators learn that it was Greg Smith. And he owned a barber shop.
And him and Shakespeare were really good friends. GREG MASSEY: Gregory Smith was the barber
that Abraham attended, that he went to get his hair cut. I began to go there because I was with Abraham every day.
Gregory Smith also borrowed $63,000 from Abraham to pay off some land they had in Plant City, a property, to stop
from being in foreclosure. And I'm the one who did the contract. I didn't look at him as being anything
but just an admirable man who was in need of some help. DAVID CLARK: So we asked him straight up,
why did Dee Dee give you money? And he said, well, she asked me to make a phone call.
I called Abraham's mother and pretended to be Abraham. We don't give him all of our investigation,
but we tell him everything. And he truly was a little surprised by it. Investigators made a proposition to Greg Smith.
Hey, you either play on our team or if you continue to play on Dee Dee's team, you're going to jail.
And he stepped back and said, what do you want me to do? We want you to continue talking to Dee Dee.
And we want you to wear a wire. MERISSA GREEN: Greg chose wisely and decided to work
on behalf of the investigators. DAVID CLARK: For probably the next 11 days, that went on.
And we could tell that through those conversations that Dee Dee was very trustworthy of Greg.
We know we have to push something because we're not really getting any evidence that he's dead, or alive,
or whatever. And so I tell Dee Dee, listen, there's something shady going on here.
Abraham's mother said she got a call from Abraham, but she says that it wasn't Abraham.
That she feels like somebody's playing a game with her. And she's like, oh, my goodness.
You know Abraham's mother, she's elderly. I'm sure it was Abraham. Lo and behold, she meets with Greg.
We're listening. And she tells Greg, you didn't do a good job with your voice because she knew it wasn't you.
And she told the cops that she didn't think it was. And Greg's like, oh, my god.
What are we going to do now? So then comes the elaborate letter scheme. MERISSA GREEN: She purchased a laptop and a printer
to write a phony letter to his mother. Rents a hotel room, brings Greg up there, all while we're
listening, and types up this elaborate letter while wearing a hairnet to keep her DNA off gloves
and basically types this letter in what she thinks is Abraham's voice. And she's literally dictating this letter
to Gregg, what she's typing, while we're listening to it. So we, of course, retrieve the letter.
Then we call Greg in. And we say, Greg, we know she's stressed out. We can tell from talking to you.
At this point, we want you to completely interject yourself in this. They decided to deploy their confidential informant
as their ruse had started to take effect, which would have been about January 24, 25.
GREG MASSEY: She entrusted Gregory Smith to find someone she said that was willing to take a fall
for Abraham's disappearing. MERISSA GREEN: Greg told Dee Dee that, hey, he knows somebody
who was going to jail for life. And he could take the rap for Abraham's disappearance.
And Greg did a great job. He did just that. And we listen. And he tells Dee Dee, hey, what's going on?
Is Abraham dead or alive? I really don't care at this point because I'm all in. And she's like, well, what do you mean?
He's like, well, if he's dead, I got a cousin that just got popped and is about to go
to prison for 30 years in the federal system on drug charges. If you got money and you obviously got money, Dee Dee,
he'll take a murder rap. She agreed to it. And I mean, we are, like, secretly high fiving each other.
We're like, yes, it worked. What's our next step? And so we know we have to find someone that Greg
can introduce to Dee Dee. Mike Smith was the best undercover narcotics cop ever.
I mean, when you look at him, you think he's coming to kill you. GREG THOMAS: He had covert recording devices
placed on him by the detective. So we had all the evidence. We had all the recorded interaction.
We knew this was a real thing. DAVID CLARK: So Dee Dee meets with Mike and Greg in the parking lot.
And we're listening to the whole thing. So she tells Mike Smith that there's a drug dealer by the name of Ronald
that shot Abraham and killed him. So Mike's, like, keeping it business. I tell you what, I want 50 grand.
50 grand, I'll take care of my family. You give me 50 grand, I'll take it. She's like, done.
And Dee Dee's like, give me 24 hours. And it wasn't even 24 hours. Probably 16 hours later, she calls Mike and she says,
I need to meet with you. [tense music] So she meets him in a gas station parking lot.
GREG THOMAS: She hands Greg Smith this weapon. So at this point, he knows, OK, this is probably
truly the murder weapon. DAVID CLARK: 38 caliber handgun. And she tells him this is it.
This is it. This is what killed him. So now we have the murder weapon. The original purchaser of that gun
was Dorice Donegan Moore, Dee Dee Moore. [tense music] GREG THOMAS: Evening of January 25, 2010.
She took the confidential informant out to a wooded area, behind one of the properties that she owned.
GREG MASSEY: She enlisted him to come to where Abraham had been buried and indicate she needed him
to basically dig up something that needed to be destroyed. They get out. And they walk towards the far back of the house.
And she says, Abraham's body is right here, right underneath this concrete slab.
And Greg says, OK. We're going to do it tonight. They part ways. And we follow Dee Dee.
Dee Dee tells Greg to meet her in the parking lot of the mall. We rush in. We throw Greg into handcuffs.
And I go to Dee Dee. I go, Dee Dee, we've got some problems. She goes, yes, we do.
[tense music] GREG THOMAS: That night, we put all the information together. We were able to get it approved through the state attorney's
office in my jurisdiction. At that point, when the search warrants are physically
signed by the judge, we were able to take control of that property. MERISSA GREEN: There was yellow tape everywhere.
There was law enforcement all over that property. GREG THOMAS: We had arranged that night
to have county maintenance services bring out heavy equipment, because we knew we were dealing
with a large plank of concrete that had to be broken up and removed. It took them three days to find his body.
They dug for three days beneath a concrete slab. We came down to a point in the exhumation
where we started to smell decomposition of human remains. After his body was placed in this grave that was dug,
Dee Dee Moore then put on top of the body some bags of lime, maybe limit the smell of decomposition
and so forth. We also found receipts and video surveillance of her purchasing the lime.
And they had to go through the necessary steps, you know, taking the remains to the coroner
to determine if who they had was indeed Abraham Shakespeare. I drove to Florida Southern College, where
Abraham's mother was, let her know that we had recovered a body. Didn't want her to go home and see it on the news.
And that we were pretty confident it was Abraham. She was emotional, but I mean, I think, she was prepared for it.
The feeling that I got knowing is that Abraham was now gone was a feeling of disbelief.
The relationship he had with his mother was now gone. The relationship with the community
had now-- was now gone. The relationship he had with the people that he reached out and helped was now gone.
The question was, why? GREG THOMAS: The cause of death was the gunshot wounds to his chest region with the perforation of his lung
and I think the liver was the actual cause of death. Then they positively identified
Abraham by dental records. We know he was shot. We know that deed gave us the gun,
but we don't know if there's anyone else involved or how did this hole get dug? How did this happen?
So Dee Dee's ex-husband, James. We had talked to him early in the investigation for a very
only on just preliminary stuff about, what was your relationship like with Dee Dee?
So we're like, let's go talk-- let's go talk to James. Maybe James has some more information.
She asked him to come over and dig a hole with her front end loader so that she could bury trash.
And this was not out of the swords. He would come over and do this for $100 cash, periodically.
So her ex-husband hops on the front end loader, digs a hole about 9 or 10 feet deep
and then leaves the property. He would have had no reason to stay and assist her with anything.
Plus, we felt very confident in his interviews. We didn't need to press him any further.
Dee Dee Moore had an open, great metal trailer that was hooked up to the ATV. And it appeared that she might have placed
his body in this open trailer. And it would be nothing for her to basically roll him out of the trailer and put him in this hole.
So what does she do? She calls her ex-husband. Hey, I need you to come back and push the dirt back
in and fill the hole in. It's getting dark. He arrives in his truck. He goes to get on the front end loader
and never looked into the hole because he's assuming it's just garbage in there.
Collects his $200 that she was paying him and goes home. Never saw anything in the hole.
Never realized what he just buried. We drive to our substation. Take her to an interview room.
Sit her down. She's like, I am just so grateful. You guys are such great detectives.
The guy you just handcuffed, he killed Abraham. And I'm so scared for my life and my family's life.
Thank God. Make sure this guy goes to prison forever. He killed Abraham. And I said, you're talking about Greg Smith.
She's like, yes. Is that his name? That's the guy you handcuffed? And I said, yeah.
She's like, yes. And I go, well, you got bad news, Dee Dee. How do you think I know his name?
I know Greg Smith. Ever since that day that you paid him to make that phone call to Abraham's mother.
I've heard every conversation you've had with him. Every time you talk to him, I listen to the recordings.
I know everything. And she completely pivoted right away. She's like, yeah, but I was only doing all
that because I'm scared of him. He has a cousin. And his cousin is a dangerous drug dealing guy.
He's going to prison. And I go, yeah. His name is Mike Smith, Dee Dee. I know him, too.
I used to work with him. He's an undercover cop. And I said, Dee Dee, you're done.
GREG THOMAS: She wanted to profess her innocence, that she had nothing to do with this.
She would put on the sob story. She would cry. You know, Abraham was my friend. I wouldn't harm him.
And she gave several accounts of what happened. She gave one story of her 14-year-old son at the time
shooting Abraham Shakespeare, because her account was she was arguing with Abraham.
Abraham had placed hands on her, becoming violent. Her son was scared for her safety.
So he reached into her open safe and pulled out her 38 caliber Smith and Wesson handgun--
--and shot him twice in his chest area. She gave us probably about five or six different versions
of what occurred, but blaming other people for the shooting. But they all took place in her office.
I ended up authoring a 21 page charging document, 17 search warrants for bank accounts, for properties, for computers,
for video cameras, cell phones, you name it, to basically continue to link Dee Dee Moore to the homicide.
She finally snapped out of it. And then just was like, I want to go home. Can I go home?
And I go, yeah, I mean, you can go home, Dee Dee. We let her go home, but we are not
letting her out of our sight. I know, eventually, she's going to be going to jail.
So once we had confirmation on the body, we had the gun, we had everything. We had Mike Smith.
We had Greg Smith. We had all these people together. We put it all into an arrest affidavit,
took it to the judge who approved an arrest affidavit. We had 24 hour surveillance on her.
And it just so happened that she was leaving her complex where she lived, in Abraham's mansion.
Stopped her vehicle and took her into custody and charged her with first degree murder.
GREG THOMAS: The Polk County detectives and myself theorize that Abraham Shakespeare started to catch on
that he was being swindled, that he was being taken advantage of because he would go to an ATM and not
be able to withdraw money. The account was closed. The account was empty. The money had been moved, such as that.
So we theorized that he confronted Dee Dee Moore about this. And as a result, she shot and killed him.
[gun shots] It was theorized that this argument around April 6 of 2009, when he was last seen, took place in one of the residences
on the property where he was exhumed from. Dee Dee, herself, had a large office area in this residence.
And she had a large gun safe at one end of the wall. And so she was known to keep this particular firearm, which
turned out to be a Smith and Wesson 38 caliber revolver in this safe. So I think what simply sums up the motive or the reason
for this case was access to his millions of dollars or what money was left over.
He went from the payout of $17 million down to maybe 1.5 million, maybe 2. And she was trying to get every penny of that.
The trial took place towards the end of 2012. The total length of the trial, it was about 2 and 1/2 weeks.
The most critical evidence that I think the jury saw was, number one, the numerous stories she told.
Number two, the complete control over the finances she had for this guy. And just the vast amount of lies she told, of excuses she gave.
But you basically hand the police the murder weapon, the gun that killed a man, and then you go and show
him where a body is buried. How much more definitive or stronger can the case get?
So once the jury saw these recordings from our interview room and just how she acted, they could
tell how manipulative she was. Lack of empathy, just didn't care. Only cared about herself.
Closing arguments were presented. And then the jury goes out to deliberate. It was only probably about three hours of deliberation.
So at that point, we're trying to decide, well, is that a good sign or a bad sign.
The jury is brought back in. The jury foreman presents the verdict to the clerk.
And the judge announced that she was guilty of first degree murder. The sentence was life in prison
without the chance of parole. And that's because it was a first degree murder with a firearm.
She's not eligible for parole. GREG THOMAS: I think it was Judge Battle. He looked at her and said, you are
one of the most sickest, manipulative persons I've ever had in my courtroom. [somber music]
Everybody wanted to see this woman go down, including me because we knew she was guilty.
We knew. We just needed everything to come together, all of the pieces to the puzzle, to get that conviction.
It was very gratifying, very gratifying. She got what she deserved. To kill a man helplessly who had been there
to do so great things for the people in the community, it wasn't really enough. She should have gotten the death penalty.
He was manipulated, taken advantage of for his money by just an evil person. And she thought she could get away
with it, outsmart everybody. And she didn't. She got caught. Abraham never hurt no one.
Never tried to hurt no one. Just a simple man that didn't deserve this. And in the end, you know, winning
this money took his life. [theme music]

Abraham Shakespeare won $30 million in 2006 but faced leeches exploiting his generosity. In 2009, Dee Dee Moore befriended him with deadly consequences.

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Brief Summary

Abraham Shakespeare, a lottery winner, was murdered by Dee Dee Moore, who manipulated him for his money before being arrested and convicted.

Key points

The Disappearance of Abraham Shakespeare. Abraham Shakespeare, a lottery winner, goes missing under mysterious circumstances.
Dee Dee Moore's Involvement. Dee Dee Moore claims to help Abraham escape from his past life, but is she hiding something?
The Investigation Unfolds. As investigators dig deeper, they uncover troubling financial dealings and suspicious behavior.
The Shocking Phone Call. Abraham's mother receives a call from someone claiming to be her son, raising suspicions.
The Elaborate Letter Scheme. Dee Dee attempts to cover her tracks by writing a fake letter in Abraham's voice.
The Murder Weapon Revealed. Dee Dee hands over the gun that killed Abraham, confirming its significance.

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