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Lottery winner from Lakeland reported missing
By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune

A man who won $31 million in the Florida lottery three years ago is missing, his family is worried and Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies are asking for help to find him.
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Abraham Shakespeare, 43, of Lakeland, was reported missing by his family on Nov. 9, according to PCSO. But Shakespeare was actually last seen by his family in early April, according to deputies.

According to deputies:

Shakespeare won the Florida Lottery jackpot in November 2006. A few months later, he was sued by a co-worker who alleged that Shakespeare stole the tickets from him. Shakespeare won the suit in October 2007.

Shakespeare, who is black, is 6-foot-five, and weights about 190 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.

Anyone with information about Shakespeare's whereabouts is asked to contact Detective David Clark at (863) 534-6379 or (863) 534-6200.
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Lotto winner missing for months

Last Update: 11/12 11:50 pm

LAKELAND, FL -- Abraham Shakespeare made headlines in the Tampa Bay area, when he won a 30-million-dollar lotto jackpot in 2006.

A friend accused him of stealing the lottery ticket so Shakespeare went to court and won, keeping his millions.

"I really would like my old life back where i could walk the streets like a normal person without people coming up asking for money.", he said back in a 2006 interview after the trial.

Shakespeare's mother said after her son won the jackpot people came out of the woodwork, looking for a handout.

"I couldn't even talk with him like 10 minutes his phone was ringing." Elizabeth Walker said, "By the time he'd get off the phone with that one another one would call.

Walker said she's worried because she hasn't seen or spoken to her son in months. In fact, authorities say he's been missing for 6 or 7 months, but the missing persons report was just filed on Monday.

The Sheriff's Office said its possible Shakespeare left on his own and just doesn't want to be found, but his mother isn't sure.

"Well I kind of in a way feel like something could have done happened to him." Walked added.

Property records show a few months before he disappeared Shakespeare sold his home on Red Hawk Bend Drive to a company called American Medical Professionals.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said a friend of Shakespeare claims to have spoken with the jackpot winner on October 6th.

But no one has seen him, including his mother, who's beginning to think the lotto prize may have been a curse.

"I'm just hoping to hear something."

If you have any information you are urged to the Polk County Sheriff's Office at 863-534-6200.
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Reward offered in search for missing Florida Lotto winner
By Associated Press

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

LAKELAND — A $5,000 reward is being offered in the search for a missing Florida Lottery winner from Polk County.

Abraham Shakespeare won $31 million in 2006. The 43-year-old was last seen in the Lakeland area in early April.

The reward was announced Tuesday by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Spokeswoman Donna Wood had previously said that perhaps Shakespeare does not want to be found, but authorities still need to ask for the public's help in locating him.

In April 2007, Shakespeare was sued by a co-worker who alleged that Shakespeare had stolen the tickets from him.

Authorities say Shakespeare won the suit in October 2007.

Anyone with information should call 863-534-6379 or 863-534-6200.

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IMO -- this man does not want to be found.

The Ledger (Lakeland, FL) 
December 6, 2009 Sunday 
 
Woman Says Missing Man Publicity Upended Life
 
LAKELAND | The woman who says she helped missing Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare disappear now says she desperately wants him to come back.

"I felt like I was helping a man that got taken advantage of," Dorice "DeeDee" Moore said, tears streaming down her face. "In the same respect, I ended up with all his mess. That was not worth all the money in the world."

The Polk County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday posted a $5,000 reward for anyone who could help locate Shakespeare. The Sheriff's Office said a cousin reported him missing Nov. 9, and his friends and relatives said they had last seen the 43-year-old Lakeland man in April.

Moore, 37, drew immediate attention because she now lives in and owns Shakespeare's North Lakeland house and other real estate holdings and assets.

She said that was all part of a plan, one she helped Shakespeare craft.

Some people who know Shakespeare expressed doubts and said they questioned parts of her story.

His mother, Elizabeth Walker of Lakeland, said she's not sure what to think and she's just worried about her son.

Over nearly three hours last week, Moore described to The Ledger how Shakespeare's disappearing act was supposed to work and what's gone wrong since he left.


WANTED TO HIDE

"He planned on running. He planned on not coming back," she said. Moore said Shakespeare, whom she met last December, left because he was tired of fighting child-support battles in court and because people kept badgering him for money.

"He intentionally did not want to be found. He didn't care what it took."

An integral part of the plan included using Moore's medical staffing company, American Medical Professionals of Plant City, to buy Shakespeare's assets, including a house he paid $1 million for, she said.

That freed him from obligations and put money in his pocket, anywhere from $800,000 to $1 million, Moore estimated.

"For the way he lives his lifestyle, he's got enough to live the rest of his life out peacefully," Moore said.

Moore said she also helped him set up a power of attorney, which was given to a longtime friend whom she refused to name. That meant there would be someone available to deal with legal issues for Shakespeare without his having to be involved.

There was also a promise to ensure Shakespeare's mother was cared for, Moore said.

But the plan turned out to be a bad one, she said.

Since Shakespeare was reported missing, Moore said she's been treated like a suspect.

She said sheriff's detectives have searched her North Lakeland house, the one where Shakespeare used to live, combed through her Hummer, given her a lie-detector test and questioned her for hours. Those searches included checking the house and car for signs of blood or body fluids, she said.

"They (investigators) looked through all my papers. They took my computers, and downloaded the hard drives. Then, the other day, took it over the top. I had my stuff blue-lighted to look for blood. It wasn't supposed to end up like this," Moore said, crying.

And for months she said she has failed in trying to collect on debts people owed Shakespeare, debts she said she bought as part of the plan to free him to leave.

County records show that in January, Moore filed paperwork to take over five mortgages totaling about $370,000 that had been owed to Shakespeare. And she said there were many more debts she took over that were not recorded with the county.

The problem is that many of the people who borrowed from Shakespeare have refused to pay, Moore said, and she feels threatened by some of them.

To get out of that stressful situation, she said, she's sold those loans - at a loss - to someone she declined to name.

"I want these idiots, these drugheads and these cokeheads to know that I've sold everything," Moore said. "Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life, and I practically gave it away to get mine back."

Instead of everyone treating her like a suspect, Moore said, the focus of any investigation should be on the people who bilked Shakespeare out of his money.

"Because of these people, my life has been turned (upside down) in the last two weeks," Moore said.

Her friends said it's hurt them to see what's happened with Moore. Linda Kickliter, Moore's nail technician, said she can't believe how Moore has been treated. She said Moore has a caring heart and on several occasions Moore has brought needy people to her nail salon to receive services.

"She should be getting good Samaritan of the year, not such bad publicity," Kickliter said.

Brenda White, Moore's childhood friend, said Moore is a hard worker who comes from a good family.

"I hate to see she's been ripped apart," White said. "This country should be about being innocent until proven guilty."

WHERE IS SHAKESPEARE?

The Polk County Sheriff's Office declined to comment on what Moore said about their investigation, including whether they consider her a suspect and whether they have searched her house or vehicle.

For seven months, the Sheriff's Office said, his friends and family haven't seen Shakespeare, who won the $31 million Lotto jackpot in November 2006 and opted for a $17 million lump-sum payment.

Moore has a videotape that's dated April. On it, Shakespeare is seen reviewing footage from security cameras at his former residence at 9340 Redhawk Bend Drive, where Moore now lives, and talking about his problems.

He is heard saying he was tired of people asking him for money. During her video interview with Shakespeare, Moore asked where he wanted to go when he disappeared, asking about California or another country, like Cozumel, Mexico.

Shakespeare's answer is hard to make out, but he appeared to ask, "Are we about to leave?"

Moore said she shot that video so she could show people later that Shakespeare had planned to disappear.

"I wanted some protection," she said. "I did it for my protection because of the amount (of money) and what he was doing with everything. Unfortunately I should have videotaped every step so I didn't have the controversy I had to go through, but it's OK, I'm not like O.J. Simpson. I don't have anything to run from."

Moore would not comment about the last time she either saw or talked to Shakespeare, saying it was under investigation.

For months before Shakespeare was reported missing, Moore had been in contact with The Ledger, saying she could set up an interview with the elusive millionaire. And last week, she said she used to have a way to contact him, but not since the storm of attention stirred up by the missing-person report.

Besides telling The Ledger she could set up a meeting, Shakespeare's mother said Moore also promised one to her.

Walker, who works in the cafeteria at Florida Southern College, said Moore and the woman who has power of attorney for Shakespeare told Walker she would see her son in August. That never happened.

"Another thing that depressed me is ... I feel like he would've called me or put something in the mail," Walker said.

Moore told The Ledger that Shakespeare let his mother know Moore was taking over his assets. But Walker told The Ledger she knew nothing about that.

Walker said Moore has been helpful toward her and Shakespeare, though she did sometimes wonder why someone they had known only briefly was doing so much for them.

Shakespeare did have reasons to want to escape, Walker said, because wealth had brought him problems.

In August, Walker said her nephew, Cedric Edom of Lakeland, hand-delivered a card with a cross and $100 inside and told her it was from Shakespeare. Walker said she recognized the signature on the card to be Shakespeare's, but she said Edom didn't tell her how he got it.

"When my nephew brought me the card, I relaxed that he was out there somewhere," she said.

Walker said she has since given that card to detectives.

The Sheriff's Office said Edom is the person who reported Shakespeare missing, but Edom has adamantly insisted to The Ledger that he didn't. He wouldn't answer when a reporter asked who had given him the card for Walker.

The last time Walker saw any sign of her son, she said, was in September when his cell phone number appeared on her caller ID at home. She said that was unusual, because the call came while she was at work, and Shakespeare would not have called her during the day.

"I called the number back, and it went straight to the voice mail," she said.

MOORE AND SHAKESPEARE

Moore met Shakespeare through Barbara Jackson, a Realtor and former Winter Haven resident. The two talked about the lottery winner when they attended a conference for business people interested in doing work for the government.

Jackson, who was Shakespeare's real estate agent when he bought the Redhawk Bend house, said they discussed Moore writing a story about Jackson and Shakespeare for a local magazine.

Moore said Jackson introduced her to Shakespeare because Moore expressed interest in telling his story in a book.

As Moore grew close to Shakespeare, she said she noticed his business dealings were shaky, and her role expanded from book writer to being an adviser. He allowed her to review his financial books, Moore said.

Jackson said she was shocked when Moore told her she had bought Shakespeare's house.

"I think she saw a cash cow, because the story she said she was going to write never happened," she said. "I really feel like she misled me."

Moore said Jackson and her husband, Franklin, were among the group of people who may have received unrecorded loans from Shakespeare. Moore also said Shakespeare paid too much for the house Jackson helped him buy.

Jackson said she never got any money from Shakespeare; the only money she received was from the purchase of his house.

"I spent so much time with that man for free," she said. "I did nothing but try and help."

David Waller, the listing agent for the house, said the $1.075 million price Shakespeare paid was fair and included the parcel next to it and furniture in the house.

As for the book, Moore said she has already written eight chapters.

"I don't feel like I lost anything because the book is going to be phenomenal, Moore said. "I don't care what they say. The book is priceless."

But in the end, Moore said, helping Shakespeare wasn't worth what she has had to go through in recent weeks.

"Nobody should have to endure that in a lifetime, all over trying to help somebody else," she said.
 
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Fla. Sheriff Fears Missing Lottery Winner Killed
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press Writer
Posted: 5:30 am EST January 6, 2010
Updated: 5:36 am EST January 6, 2010

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LAKELAND, Fla. -- In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare -- a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother -- won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.

Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from all the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.

The sheriff has a more ominous theory: Shakespeare was killed.

"There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case," Sheriff Grady Judd said. "We fear and are preparing for the worst. We're working this case as if it were a homicide."

Shakespeare, 43, won the big jackpot after buying a lottery ticket at a convenience store in a town called Frostproof, claiming later that he gave the last $3 in his pocket to a homeless man just before the winning numbers were announced.

Shakespeare -- who had a criminal record that included arrests and prison time for burglary, battery and not paying child support -- took a lump-sum payment of $16.9 million instead of annual installments.

He bought a Nissan Altima, a Rolex from a pawn shop, a $1 million home in a gated community. He talked about starting a foundation for the poor and insisted the money wouldn't change him.

"I'm not a material person," he said in 2007. "I don't let material things run me. I'm on a tight budget."

The money quickly caused him problems.

A former co-worker sued him in 2007, accusing Shakespeare of stealing the winning ticket from him. Six months later, a jury ruled the ticket was Shakespeare's.

Then there were the people constantly asking him for a piece of his fortune.

"They didn't wait. They just came right after they found out he won this money," his mother, Elizabeth Walker, said recently.

She said her son was generous, paying for funerals, lending money to friends starting businesses and even giving a million dollars to a guy known only as "Big Man."

Not long after he bought the million-dollar home in early 2007, he was approached by a woman named Dee Dee Moore, said family and officials.

Moore -- who could not be reached by The Associated Press -- said she was interested in writing a book about Shakespeare's life. She became something of a financial adviser to Shakespeare, who never graduated high school.

Property records show that Moore's company, American Medical Professionals, bought Shakespeare's home for $655,000 last January. His mother said the last time she saw him was shortly afterward, around her birthday in February.

The sheriff said the last time anyone saw Shakespeare was in April -- but it wasn't until Nov. 9 that he was reported missing, by a police informant.

And the story gets more bizarre.

According to The Ledger of Lakeland, the 37-year-old Moore contacted reporters at the newspaper in April, saying Shakespeare was "laying low" because people tried to suck money out of him.

That made sense to Shakespeare's mother -- sort of. "I remember once, talking with me over the phone, he said he might go to Jamaica," she said.

On Dec. 5, a sobbing Moore told The Ledger that she helped Shakespeare disappear, but now wants him to return because detectives were searching her home and car and looking for blood on her belongings.

One reason he wanted to leave, she said, was a child support case for a child he allegedly fathered after winning the lottery. "Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life," she told the paper.

She even gave the paper a video that she said she took of Abraham. In the video, he says he is tired of people asking him for money. "They don't take no for an answer," he says.

"So where you wanna go to?" Moore asks in the video.

"It don't matter to me. I'm not a picky person," Shakespeare replies.

Moore told the paper that she took the video to "protect herself."

Moore said she filed paperwork to take over five mortgages totaling about $370,000 that had been owed to Shakespeare. She said she sold the loans at a loss to another person. She added that many of the people who borrowed from Shakespeare have refused to pay, and she feels threatened by some of them.

Moore's past includes a year of probation after she was charged with falsely reporting that she was carjacked and raped in 2001. Officials said she concocted the scheme so her insurance company would reimburse her for the SUV, which she claimed had been stolen.

The woman did not answer several calls placed to a number listed for her in public records. During a recent visit to the home she bought from Shakespeare, a security box rang to a phone number that had been disconnected.

Sheriff's officials won't comment on Moore's involvement in Shakespeare's life.

The sheriff said that Shakespeare spent the bulk of his lottery winnings. The fact that he didn't call his mother on Christmas reinforces the theory that Shakespeare is not just hiding, Judd said.

"I hope so much that he is alive somewhere," said his mother. "And I want people to know, if they ever win the lottery, I hope they know how to handle the people that come after them. They can be dangerous."

Was missing Florida lottery winner killed?
‘Odd and bizarre circumstances’ make sheriff fear for the worst

updated 54 minutes ago
LAKELAND, Fla. - In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare — a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother — won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.

Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from all the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.

The sheriff has a more ominous theory: Shakespeare was killed.

"There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case," Sheriff Grady Judd said. "We fear and are preparing for the worst. We're working this case as if it were a homicide."

Shakespeare, 43, won the big jackpot after buying a lottery ticket at a convenience store in a town called Frostproof, claiming later that he gave the last $3 in his pocket to a homeless man just before the winning numbers were announced.

Shakespeare — who had a criminal record that included arrests and prison time for burglary, battery and not paying child support — took a lump-sum payment of $16.9 million instead of annual installments.

He bought a Nissan Altima, a Rolex from a pawn shop, a $1 million home in a gated community. He talked about starting a foundation for the poor and insisted the money wouldn't change him.

"I'm not a material person," he said in 2007. "I don't let material things run me. I'm on a tight budget."

Money brings trouble
The money quickly caused him problems.

A former co-worker sued him in 2007, accusing Shakespeare of stealing the winning ticket from him. Six months later, a jury ruled the ticket was Shakespeare's.

Then there were the people constantly asking him for a piece of his fortune.

"They didn't wait. They just came right after they found out he won this money," his mother, Elizabeth Walker, said recently.

She said her son was generous, paying for funerals, lending money to friends starting businesses and even giving a million dollars to a guy known only as "Big Man."

Not long after he bought the million-dollar home in early 2007, he was approached by a woman named Dee Dee Moore, said family and officials.

Moore — who could not be reached by The Associated Press — said she was interested in writing a book about Shakespeare's life. She became something of a financial adviser to Shakespeare, who never graduated high school.

Property records show that Moore's company, American Medical Professionals, bought Shakespeare's home for $655,000 last January. His mother said the last time she saw him was shortly afterward, around her birthday in February.

Last seen in April, 2009
The sheriff said the last time anyone saw Shakespeare was in April — but it wasn't until Nov. 9 that he was reported missing, by a police informant.

And the story gets more bizarre.

According to The Ledger of Lakeland, the 37-year-old Moore contacted reporters at the newspaper in April, saying Shakespeare was "laying low" because people tried to suck money out of him.

That made sense to Shakespeare's mother — sort of. "I remember once, talking with me over the phone, he said he might go to Jamaica," she said.

On Dec. 5, a sobbing Moore told The Ledger that she helped Shakespeare disappear, but now wants him to return because detectives were searching her home and car and looking for blood on her belongings.

Child support case
One reason he wanted to leave, she said, was a child support case for a child he allegedly fathered after winning the lottery. "Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life," she told the paper.

She even gave the paper a video that she said she took of Abraham. In the video, he says he is tired of people asking him for money. "They don't take no for an answer," he says.

"So where you wanna go to?" Moore asks in the video.

"It don't matter to me. I'm not a picky person," Shakespeare replies.

Moore told the paper that she took the video to "protect herself."

Moore said she filed paperwork to take over five mortgages totaling about $370,000 that had been owed to Shakespeare. She said she sold the loans at a loss to another person. She added that many of the people who borrowed from Shakespeare have refused to pay, and she feels threatened by some of them.

Moore's past includes a year of probation after she was charged with falsely reporting that she was carjacked and raped in 2001. Officials said she concocted the scheme so her insurance company would reimburse her for the SUV, which she claimed had been stolen.

Number disconnected
The woman did not answer several calls placed to a number listed for her in public records. During a recent visit to the home she bought from Shakespeare, a security box rang to a phone number that had been disconnected.

Sheriff's officials won't comment on Moore's involvement in Shakespeare's life.

The sheriff said that Shakespeare spent the bulk of his lottery winnings. The fact that he didn't call his mother on Christmas reinforces the theory that Shakespeare is not just hiding, Judd said.

"I hope so much that he is alive somewhere," said his mother. "And I want people to know, if they ever win the lottery, I hope they know how to handle the people that come after them. They can be dangerous."

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1418686.html
Posted on Monday, 01.11.10
POLK COUNTY
Man hits the jackpot, then vanishes
A Lakeland man who won $30 million in the Florida Lottery in 2006 said his good luck wouldn't change him. Now police believe he might have been killed.
BY TAMARA LUSH
Associated Press

LAKELAND -- In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare, a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother, won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.

Shakespeare vanished almost a year ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.

The sheriff has a more-ominous theory: Shakespeare was killed.

``There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case,'' Sheriff Grady Judd said. ``We fear and are preparing for the worst. We're working this case as if it were a homicide.''

On Wednesday, Judd said investigators had a ``person of interest'' in the disappearance: a 37-year-old woman who befriended Shakespeare after he won the lottery.

Judd said Dorice Donegan ``DeeDee'' Moore has information about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, 43, won the jackpot after buying a lottery ticket at a convenience store in Frostproof.

Shakespeare -- who had a criminal record that included arrests and prison time for burglary, battery and not paying child support -- took a lump-sum payment of $16.9 million instead of annual $1 million installments.

He bought a Nissan Altima, a Rolex from a pawn shop and a $1 million home in a gated community. He talked about starting a foundation for the poor and insisted the money wouldn't change him.
I'm not a material person,'' he said in 2007. ``I don't let material things run me. I'm on a tight budget.''

The money quickly caused him problems anyway. A former co-worker sued him in 2007, accusing Shakespeare of stealing the winning ticket from him. Six months later, a jury ruled the ticket was Shakespeare's. Then there were the people constantly asking him for a piece of his fortune. ``They didn't wait. They just came right after they found out he won this money,'' his mother, Elizabeth Walker, said recently.

She said her son was generous, paying for funerals, lending money to friends starting businesses and even giving a million dollars to a guy known only as ``Big Man.''

Not long after he bought the million-dollar home in early 2007, he was approached by Moore, family members and officials said.

Moore -- who could not be reached by The Associated Press -- said she was interested in writing a book about Shakespeare's life. She became something of a financial advisor to Shakespeare.

Property records show that Moore's company, American Medical Professionals, bought Shakespeare's home for $655,000 last January. His mother said the last time she saw him was shortly afterward, around her birthday in February. Detectives said Wednesday in a news release that Moore began using Shakespeare's cellphone in April 2009 to text the man's relatives and friends to have them believe it was Shakespeare trying to contact them.
A PRICEY GIVEAWAY

Officials also said Moore is believed to have offered to give away a home worth approximately $200,000 in exchange for making a false report to law enforcement regarding an alleged recent sighting of Shakespeare.

Detectives say Moore also paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000 to hand-deliver a birthday card containing cash to Shakespeare's mother suggesting that the card was from her son.

A telephone number connected to Moore was disconnected Wednesday.

The sheriff said the last time anyone saw Shakespeare was in April -- but it wasn't until Nov. 9 that he was reported missing -- by a police informant.
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Officer arrested in lotto winner's disappearance

Updated: Monday, 25 Jan 2010, 10:50 PM EST

Ten months ago, Abraham Shakespeare simply vanished, along with all of his money: $12 million he won in the Florida Lottery.

"We fear he's died a sinister death with sinister motives," said Polk Sheriff Grady Judd.

Now investigators have arrested a fellow law enforcement officer.

Troy Young, a 20-year veteran of the Lakeland Police Department, is accused of selling confidential information about Shakespeare to a woman who is now considered a person of interest in the case.

"He's a very well-liked guy. He's a personable guy, well-liked by fellow officers and well-liked by people in the community," said Lakeland Police spokesman Jack Gillen.

Detectives say Officer Young sold the information to 37 year old Dee Dee Moore.

Investigators say they met through a mutual friend, and that she claimed she was writing a book about the millionaire.

They say she paid the officer $200 and a plane ticket to run tag numbers and searches through law enforcement databases.

"For very little amount of money and Troy's bad judgment, Dee Dee Moore ruined his career in her overall confidence scheme," said Polk Sheriff Grady Judd.

The sheriff calls Moore a con artist who befriended Shakespeare and Officer Young -- a law enforcement veteran whose record was spotless, until now.

"Troy Young may not have known her ultimate sinister motive. But he knows as a police officer, it is illegal to run tag numbers and provide that data our of the confidential systems to the public," Judd said.

Young is charged with unlawful compensation, a 2nd degree felony; and misuse of confidential information, a misdemeanor.
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Deputies' dig may be related to missing lotto winner
Updated: Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010, 11:43 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010, 11:01 AM EST

PLANT CITY - Law enforcement officials from Hillsborough and Polk counties are converging on an area near Farkas Road and Highway 60, just west of Turkey Creek Road.

Detectives, crime scene vans, and metal detectors are combing the scene. However, investigators would not confirm what they are looking for.

FOX 13 has learned that they are looking for evidence after a possible body was found at the site,, and the Lakeland Ledger is reporting that the dig is in connection to the case of long-missing lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare.

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Tip leads to search for missing lottery winner's body

Last Update: 7:14 pm
PLANT CITY, FL -- Investigators brought out heavy machinery and started digging behind a Plant City home for the second day after they say they got a that tip missing millionaire Abraham Shakespeare was buried there.

"The only way to know if this is a credible tip is to work this case like it's a crime scene," said Sheriff Grady Judd.

Until around noon Wednesday, investigators were just picking at the dirt behind 5802 State Road 60, but around noon that all changed. The group began turning their heads in the direction behind the home.

According to tax records, the owner of the home is the man investigators identified as Dee Dee Moore's boyfriend.

Moore is the person of interest in the case of the missing millionaire.


Sheriff Grady Judd wouldn't say whether the agency found something or came up empty-handed, but his homicide detectives and Hillsborough County investigators were looking at something behind that house. They were snapping photographs and suddenly an excavator began making it's way near the driveway.

"Hillsborough Sheriff's detectives are removing concrete. There is a concrete slab and we'll be searching under that slab," said Sheriff Judd.

Crime scene technicians placed a tarp over the area once the excavator came through. Sheriff Grady Judd and Sheriff David Gee left the scene around 5:00pm. Crews are still processing the scene.

Investigators are releasing very little information in the case.
"The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is assisting the Polk County Sheriff's Office in an active criminal investigation. We can't release any details at this point. We are working together. We're going to be here several days,"  said Colonel Albert Frost with the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office.

Earlier this month, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he believed Shakespeare had been killed.

Shakespeare took a lump sum payout of $17 million after winning the Florida lottery in 2007.  He has been missing since April 2009.

On Monday, a Lakeland police officer was arrested by homicide detectives and charged with illegally passing information to Dee Dee Moore. Troy McKay, 42, is also charged with receiving unlawful compensation.

Detectives say Young provided Moore with information through law enforcement databases and received money in exchange. The unlawful compensation charge is a 2nd degree felony.

Moore was named a person of interest in the case earlier this month.

According to a sheriff's report, Moore met young in August 2009 through a mutual acquaintance. Moore told detectives she was writing a book about Shakespeare and "wanted Young to corroborate as he was a police officer and his credibility was greater than others with whom she had spoken."

She said she paid Young on different occasions.  Young admitted to the crimes, according to the statement.

He was jailed on a $5,500 bond.

Detectives say Moore used Shakespeare's cell phone to text Shakespeare's relatives in an effort to make them believe the messages were from Shakespeare himself.

The report goes on to say that Moore paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000.00 to deliver a birthday card containing cash to Shakespeare's mother, suggesting that the card was from her son.

Moore has told investigators that she believes Shakespeare is alive.  She said Shakespeare told her he just wanted to get away.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/mostpopular/story/Tip-leads-to-search-for-missing-lottery-winners/VHYO0F6lTEe5qNHePOFY5A.cspx

Remains found in search for missing lotto winner
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Plant City, Florida - Investigators searching for the body of a missing lottery winner from Polk County have found remains on a property off Highway 60 near Plant City.

The medical examiner will have to determine if they belong to Abraham Shakespeare.

On Wednesday afternoon a large excavator began breaking up a cement slab in back of the house. According to county records, the house is owned by Shar Krasniqi. Judd has called Krasniqi the boyfriend of DeeDee Moore.

Moore befriended Shakespeare and Judd says Moore acquired nearly $2 million worth of Shakespeare's cash and assets. Shakespeare was last seen in April and Moore is considered a "person of interest" in his disappearance.

"She has a lawyer and is not cooperating at this time," Judd says of Moore.

While all this searching goes on, longtime friends of Shakespeare in Lakeland worry about his welfare. "We all love him and we miss him dearly," says Nathaniel Thomas. "We're praying and our hearts go out to his family members - his children, his mother."

Friends say Shakespeare used to come to a neighborhood food market nearly every day just to chat and hangout with friends. Those visits continued even after he took a lump sum payout of $17 million from the lottery.

"He didn't dress fancy. He did things out of the kindness of his heart and I think people took advantage of that," says friend Terry Denson.

Shakespeare hasn't been seen since April 2009 and while his friends long for answers, with investigators digging for a body, they dread the answer they might just get.

Thomas admits, "It doesn't seem or look good right now."

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I'm glad they've found his body.  Now they need to lock up this Moore woman and her boyfriend for life.  They took advantage of him then murdered him.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/22370918/detail.html
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Body Found In Search For Missing Lotto Winner
Remains Have Not Been Identified

POSTED: Thursday, January 28, 2010
UPDATED: 7:18 pm EST January 28, 2010
Abraham Shakespeare
Abraham Shakespeare, 43.
PLANT CITY, Fla. -- Human remains been found near a Plant City house where investigators were looking for the body of a missing Florida Lottery winner.

The body found Thursday has not been identified, but a medical examiner was at the scene. Authorities had suspected they might find the remains of Abraham Shakespeare, who was last seen in April.

The house is owned by the boyfriend of Dorice Moore, who authorities have called a "person of interest."

Moore has said she doesn't know where Shakespeare is, but authorities say she transferred more than $1 million from his bank account into hers. She said the money was a gift. No charges have been filed.

Shakespeare won $31 million in 2006.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100128/NEWS/1285066/1410?Title=Judd-DeeDee-Moore-Offered-Money-for-Lies-About-Shakespeare
missing lottery winner
Judd: DeeDee Moore Offered Money for Lies About Shakespeare
Sheriff says Dorice Moore, a person of interest in disappearance, tried to pay people to say they saw Abraham Shakespeare.
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Sentorria Butler with her son Jeremiah at her home, Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Jeremiah is the son of Abraham Shakespeare.
By Merissa Green
THE LEDGER

Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 11:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 11:58 p.m.

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LAKELAND | When Sheriff Grady Judd named Dorice "DeeDee" Moore as a person of interest in the disappearance of Abraham Shakespeare earlier this month, he said Moore offered money to people to say they had seen the missing Florida Lottery winner.
Sentorria Butler, the mother of Shakespeare's 1-year-old son, Jeremiyah, says she was one of those people.

Butler, 25, said in a recent interview with The Ledger that Moore helped her move into a rented house Sept. 1, 2008, and get a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria. Butler said she accepted the help because she was in desperate need, but she reported Moore's plans to investigators.

Butler said Moore later offered to buy her a house so she would no longer have to rent the Southwest Lakeland home Moore helped her get.

"The last time I talked to DeeDee is when this investigation got started," Butler said, which was in November. "She had to have some kind of proof that she was doing something for Abraham."
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DeeDee Moore
Butler said Moore wanted her to call Shakespeare's mother, Elizabeth Walker of Lakeland, and tell her she had seen her son, but Butler said she refused and called investigators, instead.

Detectives on Thursday unearthed a body behind a Plant City house at 5802 State Road 60 E. where Judd had said Shakespeare, 43, might be buried. Judd and Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee said Thursday it will take time to identify the body.

The two-story home there houses the office of Howard Stitzel, a lawyer with connections to both Shakespeare and Moore.

Although Judd said investigators are interested in 37-year-old Moore of Lakeland, she has not been charged with anything.

Moore could not be reached for comment Thursday.

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This ignorant trampy POS is going down!   ::MonkeyMad::(Dee Dee)

Body has been positively identified as Shakespeare

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-missing-millionaire-body-20100129,0,2562847.story

Confirmed: Dead body is that of missing Lottery winner

By Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel

3:09 PM EST, January 29, 2010

Hilllsborough County officials confirmed this afternoon that the body they dug up Thursday night in Plant City is that of missing former Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, who had not been seen since April and was reported missing in November, was ID'd through fingerprint analysis, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

Officials are not saying how Shakespeare died, but law enforcement officials have said they are investigating the death as a homicide.

Investigators have removed earth-moving equipment from where the remains were discovered on State Road 60 in Plant City.

Abraham Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver's assistant, won a $31 million lottery jackpot in 2006, opting for a lump sum payment of nearly $17 million.

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Rest in peace, Abraham Shakespeare.     ::MonkeyAngel::         And now I hope there will be justice for him.    ::MonkeyJustice::

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/29/florida.missing.lotto.winner/?hpt=T1

Police: Remains buried under driveway are lottery winner
By Mallory Simon, CNN
January 29, 2010 3:40 p.m. EST

CNN) -- Police have identified human remains found buried under recently added concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida, as missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare, police said Friday.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department said that a cause of death hadn't been determined and that it would probably be Monday before it could say how he was killed.

Deputies made the discovery of remains Thursday after a tip came in, suggesting that investigators would find a body near a home in Plant City, according to CNN affiliate WFTV.

However, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said the investigation and information specifically led authorities to the area after they began to believe that he might be dead because of "sinister means and motives."

"Our indications were it would be there," Gee said Thursday night.

Police scanned the newly finished concrete slabs near the home on Wednesday and removed them. On Thursday, Gee said that they discovered the remains buried 5 feet below the surface and that it appeared they had been there for a while.

Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver, won a $31 million Florida lottery prize in 2006. A year later, he won a court challenge from a fellow trucker who accused Shakespeare of snatching the winning ticket out of his wallet while the two were delivering meat to Miami restaurants.

Shakespeare's family reported him missing November 9, telling the Polk County sheriff's office that they hadn't seen him since April.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said that when his investigation began, authorities had hoped to find Shakespeare alive "and he truly had just wanted to hide from those who were asking him for money."

"As our investigation continued, the information we developed led us to believe he may very well have ended up with an untimely death," Judd said.

Both Judd and Gee would not comment on whether anything else was found inside the man-made grave or whether a previous person of interest was connected to the area. The home, according to WFTV, belongs to the boyfriend of a person of interest in the disappearance of Shakespeare.

Police said they were now shifting their focus to a murder investigation.

"It's painfully obvious he didn't get there by himself," Judd said.

Gee said police from Polk and Hillsborough counties were already working with prosecutors on the case and hope to bring to justice the person responsible for what they say is clearly cold-blooded murder.

"Somebody put that body in that hole," Gee said. "This isn't by any means just where we find someone on the side of the road. Somebody has obviously put him there."

I was surprised to read that he was identified using fingerprints after almost one year. I'm hoping that there's a good chance in determining c.o.d., and these P.O.S. get what's coming to them!  ::MonkeyHang::

It makes me so mad that people came out of the woodwork after he won, and I wonder if they're now remorseful for not even attempting to pay him back. Probably not.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-woman-linked-lotto-millionaire-covered20100202,0,4170933.story

Report: Woman linked to Abraham Shakespeare admits covering up death, denies pulling trigger

9:35 AM EST, February 2, 2010
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A woman considered a person of interest in the death of Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare of Lakeland told a newspaper she was not the one who "pulled the trigger" though she acknowledges covering up his death. His body was found under a slab Thursday.

A woman considered a person of interest in the death of Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare of Polk County told a newspaper she covered up his death but was not the one who "pulled the trigger."

Shakespeare's body was found last week under a concrete slab at a house in Plant City in Hillsborough County.

"God knows I did not pull that trigger and the court system will prove that," Dorice "DeeDee" Moore told the Lakeland Ledger. "I'm guilty of covering up his death. I will go to jail and I will prove my innocence."

Moore told the newspaper that she has told investigators who pulled the trigger, though she didn't tell the newspaper. She said his death came after a robbery.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation into his disappearance in November after a relative said Shakespeare had not been seen since April.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is taking the lead now because that's where the body was found.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Moore was a "person of interest,'' though she has not been charged.

http://www.wftv.com/news/22411863/detail.html

Lottery Winner Died Of "Homicidal Violence"

Posted: 1:12 pm EST February 2, 2010Updated: 2:00 pm EST February 2, 2010

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TAMPA, Fla. -- A 43-year-old man who had won millions in a lottery jackpot before he went missing nine months ago died of "homicidal violence," Florida authorities said Tuesday.

Further information on how Abraham Shakespeare died would not be released, Hillsborough County Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said in a news release. The body of the former truck driver's assistant who won $30 million in the lottery in 2006 was found Thursday, buried behind a home beneath a concrete slab.

Shakespeare, of Lakeland, was last seen in April of 2009 and officials in Polk County -- where he lived and was reported missing -- have long thought he was slain.

No arrests have been made in the case.

In January, Polk officials named a "person of interest" in Shakespeare's disappearance: Dorice "DeeDee" Moore, who befriended the lottery winner after he claimed the winning ticket and took a $17 million lump sum payment.

Moore said she wanted to write a book about Shakespeare, but officials said she actually scammed him out of money. Property records show she bought a $1 million home from Shakespeare for $655,000 and she acknowledged moving $2 million of his money into her bank account.

In an interview Monday with the Tampa Tribune, Moore said she anticipates being arrested because she and her boyfriend own the home where Shakespeare's body was found.

Moore told the paper that she ordered the concrete slab poured on the property for use as a boat and camper skirt.

However, Moore said she never hurt Shakespeare.

"I would never take another human's life. No amount of money in the world is worth that," she said.

Family members say Shakespeare was barely literate, and people constantly hounded him for a piece of his lottery winnings.

He told his family and friends that he wished he had never won.

Last Modified: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:17 p.m.

'Person of Interest' in Shakespeare Slaying Detained
Moore Lawyer Doesn't Know Why or Where She Is

LAKELAND | Dorice “DeeDee” Moore, the woman called the person of interest in the death of Lakeland Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare, is being detained by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office tonight and her lawyer says he doesn't know why.

Bartow lawyer John Liguori said the last time he talked to Moore was at 5 p.m. and her whereabouts can't be accounted for now.

“I'm very concerned the way this went down,” he said. “She was stopped and no one has addressed where she is being held.”

Liguori said he has called the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office dispatch and told officials Moore is not to be questioned without her lawyer present.

“It's just another piece to a tragic puzzle,” Liguori said. “It will all shake out at sometime.”

Shakespeare died of “homicidal violence,” the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said earlier today, but the agency wouldn't release how he was killed.

“To protect the integrity of this investigation there will be no other information released at this time,'' said Debbie Carter, HCSO spokeswoman. Mark Cox, spokesman with the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office, would not comment about when someone will be arrested in this case.

“We are continuing our investigation,” Cox said. “We're working with all law enforcement as we go forward. We are working diligently on this case day and night.”

Moore told The Ledger late Monday night that she has told investigators what happened to the Lakeland lottery winner.

Moore, 37, denied that she “pulled the trigger.”

“God knows I did not pull that trigger and the court system will prove that,” she said. “I'm guilty of covering up his death. I will go to jail and I will prove my innocence.”

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http://www.theledger.com/article/20100201/NEWS/100209970/1410?Title=-Person-of-Interest-in-Shakespeare-Slaying-Detained

I just noticed that there's a segment about this case coming up on ABC's Nightline.

From Nut44x4's link:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100201/NEWS/100209970/1410?Title=-Person-of-Interest-in-Shakespeare-Slaying-Detained

DeeDee Moore Arrested in Shakespeare Slaying
Hillsborough County Sheriff Says More Arrests to Come

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DeeDee Moore

By Merissa Green
The Ledger

Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 11:31 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:17 p.m.


TAMPA | Dorice “DeeDee” Moore has been arrested by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, charged with being an accessory after the fact regarding a first degree murder in the death of Lakeland Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare.

 
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Abraham Shakespeare
Shakespeare died of “homicidal violence,” the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said earlier today, but did not release how he was killed. Ledger sources have confirmed he was shot.

Hillsorough Sheriff David Gee said tonight that in April 2009, Moore had used the services of an unnamed person with a back hoe to cover up Shakespeare's body at a home at 5802 State Road 60 E., Plant City. His body was found Thursday underneath a concrete slab there.

Gee said officers are now at the house with a search warrant.

Other details from Gee include allegations that Moore used cell phones to text messages to Shakespeare's family and friends pretending to be him and that she offered $50,000 to an unnamed person to claim responsibility for the murder.

Gee said Moore has made references to a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and made arrangements to dig up Shakespeare's body.

Moore told The Ledger late Monday night that she has told investigators what happened to the Lakeland lottery winner.

Moore, 37, denied that she “pulled the trigger.”

“God knows I did not pull that trigger and the court system will prove that,” she said. “I'm guilty of covering up his death. I will go to jail and I will prove my innocence.”

The 43-year-old Shakespeare won a $17 million lump sum Lotto payout in November 2006. His body was found Thursday underneath a concrete slab at a

Plant City house located at 5802 State Road 60 E.

Moore said she has told investigators who killed Shakespeare.

The investigation into the disappearance of Shakespeare began in November when a cousin, Cedric Edom, reported him missing to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Shakespeare was last seen in April.

The investigation was turned over to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office after his body was found. Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee said the remains were found more than 5 feet beneath the ground in a 30-by-30-foot area where homicide investigators had been told to look for the body.

He was identified by fingerprints.

Shakespeare's family told The Ledger that rumors began circulating last summer that Shakespeare was dead, that he was battling AIDS or that the FBI was looking for him.

Moore told The Ledger in November that she helped Shakespeare disappear and filmed him on video saying he wanted to get away from people pestering him for money and child support problems.

Moore said she befriended Shakespeare in December 2008. She acquired his house at 9340 Redhawk Bend Drive through a quitclaim deed on Jan. 9, 2009, according to Polk County Property Appraiser records. The house was held in the name of Moore's company, American Medical Professionals Inc.

However, court documents show that American Medical Professionals, PEO, LLC transferred the property to Eva Williams of Lakeland on Jan. 13 through a quitclaim deed.

The Plant City property where Shakespeare's body was buried is owned by Shar Krasniqi, according to Hillsborough property records.

Sheriff Judd has identified Krasniqi, 26, as Moore's boyfriend. Lawyer Howard Stitzel operates his firm at the house. Stitzel previously told The Ledger that he last talked to Shakespeare in October. He said he had been told last summer that Shakespeare was having health problems and was out of the country.

[ Merissa Green can be reached at merissa.green@theledger.com or 863-401-6968. ]

In the last minute of the show.  Very brief summary, and short video of Dee Dee Moore  ::MonkeyRoll:: ::MonkeyMad::. 

That was it.

Amen...poor guy.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.wesh.com/news/22412790/detail.html
'Person Of Interest' In Shakespeare Case Arrested
Late Lottery Winner's Cause Of Death Ruled Homicidal Violence
POSTED: 2:39 pm EST February 2, 2010
UPDATED: 7:09 am EST February 3, 2010
PLANT CITY, Fla. --
Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, a suspect in the disappearance of missing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, was arrested and charged in the case, officials said.

Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee in a news conference said Moore was a person of interest in the case and acted like a financial adviser to Shakespeare. Gee said Moore was arrested and charged with accessory after murder.

The Hillsborough Sheriff's Office on Tuesday listed Shakespeare's cause of death as homicidal violence. It did not release any other details.

Dee Moore interview   http://www.wesh.com/video/22415183/index.html
Shakespeare, a 43-year-old Lakeland resident, won $30 million in the Florida Lottery in 2006. He has been missing since April, but his disappearance was not reported for several months.
Moore spoke outside the home she bought from Shakespeare. She spoke about Shakespeare's lottery winnings and the negative effect she believes they had on his life.

"The money was like a curse to him, and it's become a curse to me," Moore said.

Moore said she first approached Moore because she was writing a book about money.

Moore said Shakespeare hired her to help him with his lottery winnings.

"Abraham had a life of drama," she said. "He had a very hard life of drama because of the money."

Shakespeare's body was found buried beneath a slab of concrete behind an eastern Hillsborough County home Friday.

Moore admitted she knew more information than she could tell reporters but did say she knew Shakespeare was shot in the head.

"Everybody has that one tragedy and they feel bad and don't know what decision to make when they are scared," Moore said. "Let the courts be the judge of that. Let them do their job and they will bring justice to the right person."
Although Moore was listed as a person of interest in the disappearance, she denied any involvement in his killing, saying that she did not help to cover it up. Investigators said Moore took steps to make it look like Shakespeare was still alive, including using his phone.

Moore claims that he had gone through nearly his entire lottery millions by the time she met him.
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Dee Dee Moore, a person of interest in the disappearance of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, gets emotional when speaking to reporters.

Her bond should have been 30 million  ::rhino::

Moore held on $1 million bail in case of dead lottery winner

Dorice "DeeDee" Moore, was charged Tuesday with trying to conceal the slaying of the man who disappeared after winning millions. Today, a Hillsborough County judge ordered her held on $1 million bail. The dead man, Abraham Shakespeare, was last seen in April - more than two years after he took a lump-sum payment of $17 million on a $30 million jackpot.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/feb/03/moore-held-1-million-bond-case-dead-lottery-winner/news-breaking/

http://www.wftv.com/news/22488958/detail.html
Funeral Services Held For Slain Lottery Winner

Posted: 11:04 pm EST February 6, 2010Updated: 4:10 am EST February 7, 2010
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Family and friends said their good-byes Saturday to Abraham Shakespeare, a murdered lottery winner from Polk County. Shakespeare's funeral services were held at the New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lakeland.

Deputies found his remains found buried under a concrete slab last week at a home in Plant City. The home belongs to the boyfriend of a woman who befriended Shakespeare in 2007.

That woman, Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, is in the Hillsborough County jail and is charged with accessory after the fact in first degree murder of Shakespeare. Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee says the investigation is far from over and that she could face additional charges.

Moore's bond has been set at $1 million dollars.

Shakespeare won $30 million playing the Florida Lottery in 2006 and took home a lump sum of $17 million. He was last seen in April. Investigators say he was murdered, but his cause of death hasn't been released.

http://www.wftv.com/news/22507722/detail.html
Informant Led Police To Lotto Winner's Body

Posted: 7:47 am EST February 9, 2010Updated: 1:15 pm EST February 9, 2010

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POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- A confidential informant is talking about how a Polk County woman tried to hide the murder of a lottery winner. The man says he is the one who led investigators Abraham Shakespeare's body.

Gregory Todd Smith says "DeeDee" Moore asked him if he knew anyone who could take a murder charge for her in exchange for $50,000. Smith says Moore even took him and another man to the area where Shakespeare's body was buried.

"It was actually a point of relief that it's done. You know, it's over. We see what's going on, we don't have to guestimate anymore," said Smith, informant.

Investigators say Gregory Smith was never a person of interest.

Moore is charged as an accomplice in Shakespeare's murder, but detectives have not said who they think actually killed him.

Video at link...  http://www.wftv.com/news/22507722/detail.html

Moore Charged With Killing Abraham Shakespeare  ::MonkeyGavel::

2/19/10
Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee announced Friday night that detectives have added first-degree murder charges to Dorice ëDeeDee' Moore in connection with the homicide of Lakeland lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare.

'There is no credible evidence linking anyone other than DeeDee Moore to the homicide of Abraham Shakespeare,' according to a 22-page criminal affidavit report released Friday night. 'Ms. Moore had a financial motive to kill Abraham Shakespeare and to conceal the truth concerning his murder and disappearance.'

The report detailed how Moore took control over assets and debts owed to Shakespeare. The report also mentioned Judy Haggins, who had power of attorney for Shakespeare and had the authority to close accounts.

Haggins told investigators that a month before Shakespeare disappeared, he approached her about what Moore was doing with his money.

Haggins also said Moore told her not to let Shakespeare go to the bank because some of the money was not there.

In January, Moore admitted to detectives that she did not pay any money for his home or the purchase of his assets.

Hillsborough officials would not comment on the upgrading of charges and would not give any further details.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100219/NEWS/100219702/1338

2/19/10
TAMPA, FL -- Investigators have now charged Dee Dee Moore with 1st degree murder in the case of murdered lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.  She will make her first court appearance on these charges this morning.

She previously only been charged as an accessory to the crime. This come as sources say Moore's Lakeland attorney, John Liguori, dropped her as a client today.

According to Moore's arrest affidavit, she has given multiple accounts on how Shakespeare was killed.

In one account she said that unknown "drug dealers" had come with Shakespeare to her Plant City office, to get $200,000 of the lottery winner's money.

She claimed one those drug dealers had killed Moore with her gun, which happened to be unsecured in her open gun safe, the report states.

She later identified one of them as "Ronald", who detectives say was a fictitious person Moore made up.  In the same interview she also blamed her 14-year-old son for shooting Shakespeare.

On January 29th, the day after the body was found, Moore contacted the Sheriff's Office and blamed more people for Shakespeare's death, including his cousin Cedric Edom, her attorney David Stitzel, "Ronald", and again her son RJ.

In one instance she claimed she shot Shakespeare in self-defense. In every story, Moore consistently told detectives two shots were fired at him, and she was always present when he was killed.

Two bullets were recovered from Shakespeare's body, the report states.

Detectives say there was no credible evidence linking anyone other that Moore to Shakespeare's death.

The affidavit also says her ex-husband James Moore said she asked him what type of equipment could be used to clear a plot of land, and paid him to pick up backhoe that she bought at an auction.

James Moore said he dug a home at the home where Shakespeare's body was later found, and then was called by his ex-wife several hours later to fill the hole.

He never saw the body, the report says.

Detectives say Moore paid Gregory Smith to find someone to take the blame for the murder in exchange for $50,000. Smith, who was acting as a police informant, says Moore took him to the home in Plant City and told him that Shakespeare was buried there. 

She told Smith he had been killed in her office, and provided him with .38 caliber handgun used to shoot him.

In a previous interview with ABC Action News, she admitted to having a role in the location where Shakespeare's body was found but denied killing him.

Moore, who approached Shakespeare about writing a book about his life, became a defacto financial adviser to the lottery winner.

Property records show her company, American Medical Professionals, bought his home for $655,000 in January 2009. In February, she helped him open a company and gave herself the ability to sign for money, Polk County detectives said, including a $1 million withdrawal.

Moore told detectives Shakespeare gave her the cash as a gift. She bought a Hummer, a Corvette and a truck, and went on vacation.

Three months later, her boyfriend Shar Krasniqi bought the home in Plant City that Shakespeare's body was found behind.

She initially claimed that she helped him disappear to get away from people who were constantly asking him for money.

Polk detectives said Moore tried to make it appear that he was alive for several months, at one point using his phone to text his relatives and friends.

Detectives say Moore also paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000 to deliver a birthday card with cash to Shakespeare's mother, suggesting it was from her son.

Shakespeare was reported missing by his mother last year.

snippets from
http://www.abcactionnews.com/mostpopular/story/DeeDee-Moore-due-in-court-Saturday-morning/iGJ2Zxavtkux7lA1za0HSg.cspx

 ::MonkeyGavel::

DeeDee Moore Denied Bond in Murder Charge

Hillsborough County Judge James Dominguez denied bond for first-degree murder suspect Dorice "DeeDee" Moore early this morning. Moore smiled as the judge made his ruling.

Moore has been charged in the the homicide of Lakeland lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare.

'There is no credible evidence linking anyone other than DeeDee Moore to the homicide of Abraham Shakespeare,' according to a 22-page criminal affidavit report released Friday night. 'Ms. Moore had a financial motive to kill Abraham Shakespeare and to conceal the truth concerning his murder and disappearance.'

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100219/NEWS/100219702/1410?Title=DeeDee-Moore-Denied-Bond-in-Murder-Charge

http://www.wesh.com/news/22636523/detail.html
Investigators: Bullets Match Moore's Gun
Dee Dee Moore Charged With First-Degree Murder

POSTED: 4:46 pm EST February 22, 2010
UPDATED: 5:42 pm EST February 22, 2010
PLANT CITY, Fla. --
Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore appeared before a Hillsborough County judge Saturday morning and was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond.

Investigators believe they have substantial evidence against Moore in connection with the homicide of a Florida Lottery winner.

Hillsborough County detectives said two bullets found in Abraham Shakespeare's body were fired from Moore's gun.

Investigators said Moore offered bribes to people to say they had seen Shakespeare alive or even pretend to be him over the phone well after his death.
Moore shot and uploaded a video to YouTube that investigators said depicts Shakespeare's frustration with people who ask him for money.

In the video, Moore can be heard suggesting far-off places Shakespeare might go to get away.

Investigators claim to have video of Moore buying items to conceal Shakespeare's killing.

According to detectives, Moore was controlling all of Shakespeare's lottery winnings he had not already lost or given away.

Shakespeare's body was found on Jan. 29 buried beneath a slab of concrete behind a home Moore owns with her boyfriend. Court records said Shakespeare was likely killed on April 6 or 7.

According to an arrest report, Moore provided several accounts as to how Shakespeare was killed. She admitted to being present in each account.
Detectives said Moore also paid someone$50,000 to take the blame for Abraham's death. The report said Moore had financial motive to kill Shakespeare and conceal the truth concerning his death and disappearance.

Moore had previously been charged as an accessory to Shakespeare's murder.

Moore, who is being held at the Hillsborough County Jail, had previously said she did not kill Shakespeare. No one else has been charged in connection with the death.

Shakespeare initially told Shakespeare she wanted to write a book about his life. There is no evidence that Moore has been a writer in the past.

Video at link.

This is such a sad story.  It is sad that his disappearance wasn't questioned sooner and that the family took the word of this manipulative scum as the gospel.  I don't mean that in a judging way...I just wish that they would have questioned things sooner.  I have lived here in Lakeland for nearly thirteen years...Our Sheriff Grady Judd doesn't play around.  He didn't just push this case aside...saying well, he was being bothered by everyone for money and the family is saying that they get calls...so let's check into but let's not make it a priority!  He acted on this and followed through.  A deputy was fired because he gave DeeDee information...I knew from the first time that I saw the news of Mr. Shakespeare missing, that something wasn't right...her story just didn't sit well.  Plus, she reminds me of the Borderline Personality Disorder patients that I work with...It is sad that he lost his life.  I hope that this will reach the ears of others--be very cautious who you allow in your life--and always check things out when they don't feel right!  Don't be afraid to question things...even if you are benefiting from it.

Moore Indicted on First-Degree Murder Charge
Suspect in Abraham Shakespeare's death also is accused of illegal wiretapping.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8:42 p.m.

TAMPA | A grand jury in Hillsborough County on Thursday indicted Dorice "DeeDee" Moore on a charge of first-degree premeditated murder in the slaying of Lakeland lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.

Moore, 37, was arrested in early February and was charged with being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. She still faces that charge.

During a brief Thursday court hearing, Moore was informed she also has a new charge of illegal wiretapping.

A Plant City Police Department report describes Moore's secretly recording an interview between Polk County investigators and two confidential informants.

The report doesn't indicate what was spoken about between the investigators and the informants during the meeting at a park on Dec. 11.

Moore accompanied the informants to the meeting "as she was their friend and they stated they felt comfortable with her there," the report states.

Moore put her purse on the picnic table "and opened it several times, but no one thought she would record the interview for any reason so the purse was not searched," the report said.

A few weeks later, Moore complained to a different Polk County sheriff's detective that information provided at the Dec. 11 meeting wasn't being followed up.

She gave a copy of the recording to that detective who turned it over to one of the deputies at the Dec. 11 meeting in the park.

Authorities proceeded with a charge of "interception of wire or oral communication," a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Moore remains in the Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County, where she is being held without bail on the murder charge.

Last year, Moore told The Ledger and Polk sheriff's investigators that she had helped Shakespeare disappear so he could avoid people who were constantly asking him for money.

Shakespeare had won a $17 million lump-sum payment from the lottery in 2006.

An arrest affidavit says Moore arranged to meet Shakespeare in October 2008 "ostensibly to write a book about his life story" and soon became his primary financial advisor.

Moore is accused of swindling what money Shakespeare had left and killing him, according to the affidavit.

The 43-year-old man's body was found Jan. 28 buried under a concrete slab behind a Plant City house at 5802 State Road 60. He had two .38-caliber bullet wounds to the chest.

The affidavit states Moore told different stories about who killed Shakespeare, including one version in which she said she killed him in self-defense.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100311/NEWS/3115059/1003/NEWS01?Title=Moore-Indicted-on-First-Degree-Murder-Charge

Accused Killer of Lakeland Lottery Winner Pleads Not Guilty
Prosecutors Still Undecided on Seeking Death Penalty Against Dorice "DeeDee" Moore.
 
Dorice "DeeDee" Moore

Ledger staff report

Published: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 9:25 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 9:25 a.m.

TAMPA | Dorice "DeeDee" Moore pleaded not guilty today to charges she killed Lakeland lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.

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Abraham Shakespeare

Moore, 37, was in court this morning for an arraignment on charges in an indictment returned by a Hillsborough County grand jury Thursday. She is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in Shakespeare's slaying.

Prosecutors haven't decided whether to pursue the death penalty against Moore, they indicated today.

Moore also is charged with illegal wiretapping over allegations she secretly recorded an interview between Polk County investigators and two confidential informants on Dec. 11. She remains in the Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County, where she is being held without bail on the murder charge.

Last year, Moore told The Ledger and Polk sheriff's investigators that she had helped Shakespeare disappear so he could avoid people who were constantly asking him for money.

Shakespeare had won a $17 million lump-sum payment from the lottery in 2006.

An arrest affidavit says Moore arranged to meet Shakespeare in October 2008 "ostensibly to write a book about his life story" and soon became his primary financial advisor.

Moore is accused of swindling what money Shakespeare had left and killing him, according to the affidavit.

The 43-year-old man's body was found Jan. 28 buried under a concrete slab behind a Plant City house at 5802 State Road 60. He had two .38-caliber bullet wounds to the chest.

The affidavit states Moore told different stories about who killed Shakespeare, including one version in which she said she killed him in self-defense.

"DeeDee" Moore Gets a New Lawyer

http://www.theledger.com/article/20100315/NEWS/3155067/1410?Title=-DeeDee-Moore-Gets-a-New-Lawyer

Interesting / recent article here that I cannot copy.......

Police reveal financial picture of slain lottery winner
http://www.lotterypost.com/news/216042

http://www.wesh.com/news/25032315/detail.html
Evidence Released In Lotto Winner's Death
4,300 Pages Of Documents Expected Thursday
POSTED: 5:55 am EDT September 16, 2010
UPDATED: 6:11 am EDT September 16, 2010
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. -- A judge released thousands of documents on Wednesday in the case of a slain lottery winner.

Abraham Shakespeare won $17 million in the Florida Lottery.

His body was later found buried under concrete at a home in Plant City that his winnings helped pay for.
VIDEO: Uncut Dee Dee Moore Interview  http://www.wesh.com/video/22415183/detail.html
The woman he entrusted his money to, Dee Dee Moore, was arrested and charged in connection with his death.

The 4,300 pages of documents were released to a private company that is making copies for the media. They are not expected to be available until Thursday morning.

The documents account for more than 90 percent of police incident reports regarding the case.

http://www.wftv.com/news/25036332/detail.html
Information Released In Lotto Winner's Death
Posted: 12:02 pm EDT September 16, 2010
Updated: 12:26 pm EDT September 16, 2010
POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- WFTV obtained new information about the disappearance and murder of a Polk County lottery winner. Authorities released 4,300 pages in the case of Abraham Shakespeare Thursday.

Shakespeare was reported missing in 2009, three years after he won a $30 million lotto jackpot. He was later found dead. Investigators said his friend, Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, stole some of his fortune and then killed him.

Shakespeare's body was found near a house that detectives said was purchased with a check from his bank account shortly after he disappeared.

Prosecutors released on Thursday a 4,300-page paper trail compiled in the case against Moore, who is accused of killing Shakespeare in April 2009. The documents, currently under review by St. Petersburg Times reporters, include hundreds of bank records that show how Moore took control of Shakespeare's assets.

The 42-year-old Polk County day laborer collected about $12.7 million after taxes when he won the Florida lottery in 2006. Shakespeare was last seen in April 2009, but wasn't reported missing until November.

Investigators unearthed Shakespeare's body from beneath a concrete slab in Plant City in January. Moore's boyfriend owned the property where Shakespeare's body was found. Authorities charged Moore with first-degree murder the following month.

Authorities have said Moore had nearly complete control over Shakespeare's money by the time he died. It's a purchase, detectives said, that led them to Moore.

The documents released Thursday include bank statements, police reports, and cell phone records. One document indicates that Moore tried to convince her father to take the rap for the murder. Of course, that didn't happen and Moore is charged with killing the man detectives say she befriended and then stole from after he won the lotto jackpot

http://www.comcast.net/video/details-revealed-in-fla-lotto-winner-s-murder/1593238196/Comcast/1593384837/

http://www.wftv.com/news/25746489/detail.html
No Death Penalty For Woman In Lotto Winner Murder
Posted: 12:57 pm EST November 10, 2010

TAMPA, Fla. -- Prosecutors say they won't pursue the death penalty against Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, accused of killing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, taking his money, and telling his loved ones he was alive and in hiding.

Meanwhile, he was really buried under a concrete slab in Plant City.

Hillsborough County prosecutors announced the decision during a hearing Wednesday.

Moore, 38, has been in jail since she was arrested in February, after authorities say she told detectives conflicting stories about the April 2009 slaying.

Stephen Fisher, Moore's court-appointed attorney, also told the court that he is reviewing 61 computer discs that contain surveillance video, recorded statements by Moore and several hundreds pages of bank records.

Review all you want Mr. Fisher . . . this woman is an insult to humanity.

Evidence released in dead lottery winner case

Posted: 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

TAMPA, Fla. — Gruesome photos of the mummified body of a slain Florida lottery winner are among mountains of evidence released this week by the Hillsborough County State Attorney's office.

More than 20 discs containing photos, videos and other documents were released in the case against Dorice "DeeDee" Moore, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Abraham Shakespeare of Lakeland.

Moore was indicted by a grand jury in March after Shakespeare's body was discovered last January. The remains were found buried under a five-foot deep concrete slab behind a home in Plant City, a rural town east of Tampa.

Detectives said the 43-year-old Shakespeare was killed in sometime April 6 or 7, 2009. Authorities said the man was buried on a property that had been bought by Moore and listed in the name of her boyfriend, according to county records.

Many of the records released by Hillsborough County prosecutors this week revolve around that home and the concrete grave. In one videotaped interview, Moore's ex-husband describes how she asked him to dig a hole on her property with a backhoe in April of 2009 so she could hide chunks of concrete from a building inspector.

"She called me one afternoon, wanted me to come dig that hole, she told me she was going to put the concrete and stuff in it," said James Moore. "I left, she called me back later asked me to come and fill it and that's what I did."

Moore said he knew nothing about Shakespeare's murder or details of his ex-wife's relationship with Shakespeare.

"I've never met the man," he said. "I've never seen the man I never put no body in a hole."

Crime scene photos show details of the properties — everything from close-ups of Shakespeare's desiccated body to seemingly insignificant shots of brown towels.

Moore had befriended Shakespeare after he claimed the $30 million winning ticket in 2006 and took a $17 million lump sum payment. Before winning the lottery, he was a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother.

She said she wanted to write a book about Shakespeare, but officials said she actually scammed him out of money and homes. Property records show she bought a $1 million home from Shakespeare for $655,000 and she acknowledged moving $2 million of his money into her bank account.

Investigators said Moore wrote a letter to Shakespeare's mother, claiming to be him — even though the lottery winner was barely literate. Detectives also said Moore had an unnamed witness make a cell phone call to Shakespeare's mother, pretending to be him. They also said Moore told many lies about Shakespeare, including that he was ill and that he fled the country.

In an interview with The Tampa Tribune, Moore said she anticipated being arrested — but that she never hurt Shakespeare.

"I would never take another human's life. No amount of money in the world is worth that," she said.

Prosecutors have declined to seek the death penalty against Moore, who is being held at the Hillsborough County Jail.

Moore's attorney, Stephen Fisher of Bartow, did not immediately return a telephone call Wednesday to The Associated Press.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/evidence-released-in-dead-lottery-winner-case-1070916.html

Woman on trial in killing of Fla. lottery winner
http://news.msn.com/us/woman-on-trial-in-killing-of-fla-lottery-winner

11 hr ago| By Tamara Lush
A former financial adviser is said to have swindled what was left of her client's $17 million lottery winnings from his bank account in 2009. She is accused of then killing him and burying his body under a concrete slab in her backyard.
 ::snipping2::

During opening statements in Moore's first-degree murder trial in Tampa, assistant state attorney Jay Pruner said Moore swindled what was left of Shakespeare's winnings from his bank account in 2009, then killed him and buried his body under a concrete slab in her backyard.

Pruner said when Shakespeare won the lottery, his life "drastically and dramatically changed" — and that the money caused all sorts of problems, eventually leading to his death. One detective testified that Moore told him that Shakespeare was tired of people asking him for money.

Moore, 40, wore a yellow button-down blouse and black pants to court, and her long, curly hair framed her face as she highlighted notes with a yellow marker during Wednesday's trial.

Her attorney, Byron Hileman, said there is no evidence that ties his client to the gun used to shoot Shakespeare.

"There are no eyewitnesses who can testify that Ms. Moore shot and killed Mr. Shakespeare or was present when he was shot and killed or had any part carrying out his murder," Hileman said, adding that the evidence against Moore is mostly circumstantial.
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Guess she dumped her court-appointed attorney -- POS!

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/29/ng.01.html
NANCY GRACE

Florida Lotto Winner Killed for His Money

Aired November 29, 2012 - 20:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, Lakeland, Florida. Abraham Shakespeare went from washing dishes and working garbage trucks to the good life when he walked into a Florida mini-mart and bought a quick pick ticket that won him $17 million. And he thought he had it made, that all of his problems were over. But then he meets 40-year-old Dee Dee Moore.

Bombshell tonight. After she takes over as his, quote, "money manager," he goes missing for months, sending sporadic texts, a phone call, even a typed letter to his mother back home. Dee Dee Moore claims Abe was just laying low to avoid hometown mooches hitting him up for money.

But then, based on a tip, cops find Abe, dishwasher turned multi- millionaire, buried six feet under a concrete slab. Tonight, we unravel the mystery.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, Dee Dee, they`re calling you a murderer. Are you a murderer?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Accused of swindling a jackpot winner out of millions before shooting him in cold blood.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: God knows, I would never take another human being`s life!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Abraham Shakespeare`s remains were unearthed five feet below concrete.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s this surveillance video from a Florida Walmart, where police say she`s rushing to buy large amounts of duct tape, trash bags and plastic sheeting.

GRACE: When`s the last time you bought duct tape and sheet metal at the Walmart?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Recorded interviews with detectives, interviews where Moore constantly changes her story.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you kill him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely not.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you innocent?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is Dee Dee`s tears begin to flow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Moore did break down and started crying as the prosecution was speaking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was revealed Moore has told detectives an unnamed drug dealer using her gun fatally shot Shakespeare at her home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. To Lakeland, Florida. Abraham Shakespeare went from washing dishes to the good life when he walked into a Florida convenience store and bought a quick pick ticket, a ticket that won him $17 million.

He thought his problems were over, but then he meets Dee Dee Moore. After she takes over as his money manager, he goes missing for months.

Joining me live on the scene, Bill Logan, reporter with CNN affiliate WFTS. How did he get tangled up with Dee Dee Moore?

BILL LOGAN, WFTS CORRESPONDENT: I guess the initial thing is that Dee Dee said she wanted to write a life story or a book about him, kind of a rags to riches story. And then she said out of the goodness of her heart, she wanted to help him take care of his money.

GRACE: The goodness of her heart. All right. So what, she approaches him, Bill Logan, and says, Let me help you? Did they know each other before he bought that quick pick ticket?

LOGAN: Not that we know of, not that anybody here can ascertain. And if that does happen or happened to be the case, it`ll certainly come out in the court proceedings that are scheduled to start, starting today.

GRACE: You know, Bill Logan, this is quite a tangled web. And oh, what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive. Pardon the pun, the use of Shakespeare in this case. But Bill Logan, it gets crazier and crazier because after Dee Dee Moore starts managing his money, he goes missing. He goes off the radar. Nobody can find him for months on end.

What is her story about where Abraham is during that time?

LOGAN: The story about where Abraham was during that time is contained in text messages and other messages that family members of Mr. Shakespeare received, purportedly messages that were typed in and texted by Dee Dee to kind of throw them off the trail after he was killed in April of 2009.

GRACE: Wow. So his family thinks they`re getting text messages from him. They think that they get a letter to his mother delivered to the mailbox from him. In fact, isn`t it true, Bill Logan with WFTS, joining me on the scene tonight -- isn`t true, Bill, that his mother is sitting at a restaurant with the money manager, Dee Dee Moore, and she gets a phone call and that phone call is from her son, Abraham Shakespeare, the lotto winner. And he talks to her on the phone.

But there`s one little problem. The mother doesn`t recognize Abraham`s voice. Is that correct?

LOGAN: That`s what we`re hearing. I wasn`t at that particular meeting. I did not hear that conversation. But yes, that`s one of the anecdotal stories that we`re hearing in this whole case of her trying to...

GRACE: Bill Logan...

LOGAN: ... throw the relatives off the case and try and let them know that he`s still alive.

GRACE: Bill Logan, do you have children?

LOGAN: Yes, I do.

GRACE: It will be a cold day in H-E-L-L that I don`t recognize the voice of John David or Lucy, all right? I`m just putting that out there. I know that`s not admissible in court. But when a mother hears her son, her adult son on the phone -- he`s been gone, laying low because everybody`s got their hand out trying to get his millions. So he goes out of town and hides, all right? I get it.

She finally talks to her son, and she doesn`t recognize his voice? But then she gets a typed letter.

LOGAN: Yes, that would be the first clue.

GRACE: Yes. She gets a typed letter. And what does the letter say?

LOGAN: I`m not sure. I have not seen that letter. Again, that`s going to something that comes out in the court proceedings. It`s going to be something that is part of this mountain of circumstantial evidence that`s going to have to be piece by piece by piece meted out during this court proceeding...

GRACE: Well, Bill Logan...

LOGAN: ... to try and get Dee Dee Moore...

GRACE: Let me tell you...

LOGAN: ... to stay behind bars.

GRACE: ... my sources are telling me that the letter actually says to the mother, Hey, I can`t believe you didn`t recognize my voice. And interesting, that letter was typed. It wasn`t handwritten. So we don`t have a handwriting comparison.

All right, where did we finally find Abraham Shakespeare, the $17 million lottery winner?

LOGAN: He was under about five feet of concrete in a piece of property in Plant City, which is about 20 miles east of here and Tampa, about halfway between Lakeland, where he lived, and here in Tampa, Florida. And it was a piece of property that was owned by a boyfriend of Dee Dee Moore. So the plot tends to thicken a lot there.

GRACE: You know, Bill Logan, it is heart-breaking really because at a time when everybody is just trying to make a living, trying to get a job, trying to hold onto a job, worried about how you`re going to send your children to school, how you`re going to make ends meet. And this guy, who`s been basically washing dishes and working garbage trucks, trying to make a living, hits the lottery. He hits the lottery. He hits it big only to end up six feet under a cement slab.

Now, what was his cause of death, Bill Logan?
LOGAN: At this point, they are saying it was upper body trauma. That`s the police euphemism for gunshot wounds to the upper body. And there was a .38-caliber weapon found. It was a weapon that belonged to Dee Dee Moore. She did identify it, and she says she was present when he was killed but says she did not do it.

GRACE: Well, Bill Logan, isn`t it true that she`s given, like, four different versions of what she knows, including that her 14-year-old son killed Abraham, that a drug dealer killed Abraham -- I guess that`s the same dope dealer that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Laci Peterson -- that his own lawyer...

GRACE: Gets around here in Florida, yes.

GRACE: Yes, his own lawyer killed him, and that she pulled the trigger in self-defense. She`s given quite a few stories, has she not.

LOGAN: She has given quite a few stories, and those have been to the investigators. Those have been in that time leading up to this trial. So once it goes to trial, this jury is going to get to hear one story. And at this point, we`re not sure which one that`s going to be.

GRACE: You know what`s interesting, Bill Logan, is that Dee Dee Moore had a very -- my goodness! She certainly had a makeover for trial! What happened to that blond head of hair? She had a very lucrative job...

LOGAN: You know, when you`re in jail, you don`t really have that access to the, you know, hair products that you would on the outside, so she`s gone back to a more normal color. She`s still got that, you know, very wavy hair.

GRACE: But you know what`s interesting, Matt Zarrell, she had a very -- oh, my, a glamour shot! She had a very, very lucrative job in the medical field. I believe she was, like, a head hunter or a job placement person for nurses, which are in very high demand right now. She was pulling down about $200,000 a year all on her own. So what`s her motive?

MATT ZARRELL, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, prosecutors are saying that what happened was is that she got involved with Abraham Shakespeare, initially saying she wanted to write a book for him, even though she has no writing experience whatsoever. And during that time, she siphoned off over $3 million into accounts that she controlled and used that money to go on, reportedly, a shopping spree at Gucci and a number of other items, including a luxury car for her boyfriend.

GRACE: And now to you, Willie Gary. You represented Abraham when somebody sued him to try to get his money that he won. It just hurts me because this guy wasn`t laying around on the sofa, eating chips, waiting for us to support him. He was out working. He was riding a garbage truck. He was washing dishes. He was doing everything he could to make ends meet. And when he finally hits money, everybody was just like leeches on him, including this woman, Dee Dee Moore.

What was he like, Willie Gary? I mean, you represented him, successfully, I might add -- Willie joining me out of Miami, a very successful trial lawyer there. What was he like as a person?

WILLIE GARY, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR VICTIM: Nancy, he was one of the best people you`d ever want to meet. He`d give you the shirt off of his back. And it doesn`t surprise me that he just got into this position to be taken advantage of because he believed in people.

I mean, he gave money to people he didn`t know, if he thought they were losing a home or they were in deep financial trouble. He gave money to families that didn`t have money to buy toys for the kids for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinners. That was -- Abraham was just like that. He was just a nice guy.

And as a matter of fact, it was his friend, a co-worker, that sued him trying to claim that the tickets were not Abraham`s but were the friend`s tickets, the co-worker`s tickets. And we tried that case in Polk County, and Abraham got...

GRACE: And you won.

GARY: ... a favorable verdict. Right. But he was just a great guy, and I -- you know...

GRACE: It just hurts me. And I got to tell you something. What hurts me is it reminds me -- his disposition reminds me a little bit of my father, you know, who would get up at 5:00 o`clock in the morning and go work on the railroad...

GARY: Right.

GRACE: ... all kind of crazy hours, crazy, crazy hours, to try to make ends meet, and my mom up, leaving the house at 7:00 o`clock in the morning to drive 30 miles to get to work...

GARY: Right. Right.

GRACE: ... their whole lives. And then come along, all these people just sucking him dry. Were you surprised when you heard Abraham is dead, six feet under a cement slab?

GARY: Yes. Well, you know, you never want to hear anything like that. But I knew he was the kind of guy that he was so free-hearted. He would open up to people. He trusted people. He trusted people that he shouldn`t have trusted. But that was just the nature of Abraham.

He didn`t catch amnesia after he came into some money, even though, like you said, he worked on garbage trucks, delivery trucks. And as a matter of fact, he even worked after he won the lottery with the same company. So he was the kind of guy that would reach out to people.

And it`s just -- it`s not surprising that he got in a position that someone could take advantage of him because he was just good-hearted.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: We are taking your calls. A $17 million quick pick lottery winner -- he goes missing after tons of people approach him with their hand out, trying to get the millions that he won. He goes off the radar, so to speak. But then texts emerge, a typed letter to his mother, even a phone call suggesting he`s alive.

Well, Abraham Shakespeare is found, all right, six feet under a cement slab. And at the center of this controversy, the kind-hearted friend who helped him, money manager Dee Dee Moore. Here she is.

We are taking your calls. I want to go out to you again. Dave Mack, how did suspicion turn on her?

DAVE MACK, WAAX CLEAR CHANNEL: Because the police actually got a good -- once they realized the family knew he was not -- he wasn`t communicating in a normal way, they were able to talk to Dee Dee Moore. And she was her own worst enemy. And as a matter of fact, Nancy, on a network television show, she revealed that she was not the type of person that would have shot the man. And at that point, police had never mentioned about the gunshot wounds.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers, Kirby Clements and Randy Zelin. All right, first to you, Randy Zelin. What evidence do you think they`ve got that they can get into the jury room? What can they actually present to the jury? And what`s the defense?

RANDY ZELIN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It doesn`t seem right now that there`s a lot of that. And quite frankly, from everything that we`ve talked about, perhaps the prosecution can convict this woman of stealing and being a swindler, but not of the homicide.

There is a lack of physical evidence which links her. There is a lack of -- there`s no audio, there`s no surveillance. There really isn`t even a confession. She may be a whack-job and that may be a great appeal issue, whether or not she`s actually competent. But from the standpoint of evidence that can go into the jury room, convicting this woman of homicide? Being a thief maybe. Homicide, I don`t see it.

GRACE: OK, Randy Zelin, there she is at Walmart buying duct tape, sheet metal. When`s the last time you trotted over to Walmart to buy duct tape and sheet metal, Zelin?
ELIN: Well, I have to tell you, Nancy, we have seen a couple cases where people have bought garbage bags and duct tape. And last time I checked, garbage bags have a perfectly legitimate use. Duct tape has a perfectly legitimate use. So merely because she`s at Walmart buying this stuff, open and notoriously...

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: Straight out to CNN affiliate WFTS`s Bill Logan. Bill Logan, what is some of the evidence the state plans to bring on against Dee Dee Moore?

LOGAN: It`s a whole host of items, I mean, from those texts to the actual location where the body was found, incriminating voicemails, all sorts of things that is going to have to build this circumstantial case. It is going to be piece by piece, brick by brick, mortar by mortar that they`re going to have to bring this whole thing out to the jury. It`s going to be a long process.

GRACE: Tell me about the jury.

LOGAN: We have eight men, four women. It was a very long process to get that jury selected yesterday. They went 12 hours on Tuesday, after a full day Monday. So the jury is in place and they`re hearing the opening arguments and the trial is beginning right now.

GRACE: You know, so much controversy has surrounded this case. What is Dee Dee Moore`s story about where Shakespeare was all those months? And why did he disappear, Bill Logan?

LOGAN: Those are the stories that we`ve heard many different variations on. And it`s going to be very interesting to hear what she says in court. There has been some discussion that she`s even going to disregard the advice of her attorney and take the stand so that she can tell her story. Which story that is, we don`t know.

GRACE: Well, that`s the kiss of death, to take the stand and tell your own story, because she`s apparently given several stories.

Bill Logan, is it true that a lot of people approached Abraham Shakespeare for money, for handouts after he won the lottery?

LOGAN: That`s his story. And he has been interviewed numerous times saying that he would just like to be able to walk down the street without having people come up with their hand out. That`s not an atypical story for a lotto winner or someone who comes into a great deal of cash. But his story just especially tragic because the one person who got her hooks into him for the most money is now charged with his death.

GRACE: Who was asking for money, and how much money did they want? Is it true he paid off his mom`s house note and several relatives` house notes?
LOGAN: Several mortgages were paid off through the estate of Abraham Shakespeare before his money started being managed by Dee Dee. After that, there was not so much of his money available to him.

GRACE: Everybody, we are taking your call. And with me there at the courthouse in Tampa, Florida, Bill Logan from WFTS.

So Bill, everywhere he would go, people would come up to him and ask for money. I`m talking about big sums of money to pay off mortgages. (INAUDIBLE) like $250,000, $50,000 here. He bought people cars because these were his friends, his relatives that would come up and want money, and he was so kind-hearted, he just couldn`t say no.

LOGAN: A kind-hearted guy that was very much generous with his winnings and very compassionate to the people who did come up with a story of woe or a tale of some sort of problem that befell them, especially if they were relatives or people he knew.

It doesn`t appear that he knew Dee Dee Moore up until she approached him in 2008 with that offer to write a book. Again, she had no writing experience. But she wanted to get close to this big-time winner.

GRACE: Hey, Bill -- Bill, how does she work her magic on men? Because didn`t she convince her ex-husband to come dig a hole to bury the body?

LOGAN: That`s one of those things that is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. How Dee Dee Moore works her charms, what charms they are, I have not been privy to personally. But obviously, she has been able to get men to do things she wants them to do.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the stuff of dreams.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Abe Shakespeare...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Walked into this Florida mini-mart and bought the quick pick ticket that won him $17 million.

GRACE: And then he runs into Dee Dee Moore.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A woman who met Shakespeare and wound up owning his million-dollar properties the same month he disappeared.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have people coming up, asking for money.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The manner of death of Abraham Shakespeare was homicidal violence.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Those cliches, money can`t buy you happiness -- there`s some truth to them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How did Shakespeare die?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you want to shut the cameras off now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dee Dee says Shakespeare hired her to help with his lotto winnings.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Suddenly your life changing, all your bills are paid. You think everything is going to be great. And then he runs into Dee Dee Moore.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The sheriff`s department found Shakespeare`s body at her boyfriend`s house, buried under a concrete slab.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They`re saying that I took a gun, put it up and killed another human being. And I would never, ever, ever do that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In an emotional interview, Dee Dee Moore laid it all out there for the TV crews gathered around her pickup truck.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would never take another human being`s life. So if I can live with that, then I can live with anything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The medical examiner positively identified Abraham Shakespeare`s remains were unearthed five feet below concrete at 5802 State Road 60. The person of interest in this case is Dee Dee Moore, a woman who met Shakespeare in January 2009 and wound up owning his million-dollar properties the same month he disappeared. Butler said Moore paid her first and last month rent on this home. And then bought her this white Crown Victoria to get the young mother with the new baby on her feet.

But in November, Butler said Moore asked her for a favor in exchange for a $200,000 home. The idea had Butler wondering if Shakespeare was missing or murdered.

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GRACE: With the Powerball reaching $500 million, this is a cautionary tale that the love of money is the root of all evil.

Abraham Shakespeare was a dishwasher. He rode a garbage truck trying to make ends meet, and finally he hit it big. After buying a Quick Pick ticket at a convenience store there in Florida, he thought his problems were over. But everywhere he went, he saw a handout, a handout for money. Friends, relatives, got their homes paid off. Got new cars. You name it. And then he goes missing. He drops off the radar. Why? He says he just wants to live a peaceful life. He tells people that to their face.


But relatives become concerned when months go by. But then they began getting text messages. Even a typed letter from him. A phone call saying he is alive and well, and just don`t worry. But then he is found. He is found, all right. Six feet under a cement slab. Out to you, Bill Logan. Joining me at the scene. WFTS. What`s the latest?

LOGAN: At this point, the jury has been selected. It took them all day. And it is eight men and four women. That`s the jury pool at this point.

GRACE: We are taking your calls. Out to Jack in Florida. Hi, Jack, what`s your question?

CALLER: Hi there, Nancy. I have a quick comment and then a question. I have some familiarity with the lottery because at one point I won $100,000 on Play Four (ph).

GRACE: On what?

CALLER: $100,000 playing a game called Play Four. Four numbers in the right order. And no one ever --

GRACE: Just out of curiosity, what numbers did you play?

CALLER: Well, believe it or not, I had forgotten what number. It could have been 1931, which is a number that is personal to me.

The point is that no one ever asked me for a dime, although I gave some of that money away. But my question is, I wonder if anybody has tracked her financial situation in terms of money that she was using, and if there is a trail of money that she used besides taking over his house.

GRACE: Good question, good question. To Dave Mack. What did she do if anything with the money she was, quote, managing for him?

MACK: You know, she took total advantage of him. By the time Dee Dee Moore got involved, he was down to about $3.5 million in cash and real estate assets. That she then was able to get transferred into her name through her nursing staffing company. And on top of that, she actually made some transfer purchases, where she paid about 5 cents on the dollar. She bled him dry. But all of it is trackable. The police have all the documents and they`ve tied all of it to her banking accounts through her nursing staffing company.

GRACE: That on top of the black Corvette for her then boyfriend. And a $3,000 shopping spree at Gucci. Joining me right now is a special guest. Michael Boone is with us, a financial planner to lottery winners, and also with me, Willie Gary, who actually represented Abraham Shakespeare in a lawsuit where somebody tried to sue him over the lottery winnings, and Shakespeare won, thanks to Willie Gary.

First to you, Michael Boone, financial planner to lottery winners. Why is it, I guess it is just human nature. When somebody wins the lottery, they get besieged by requests for money?

MICHAEL BOONE, FINANCIAL PLANNER TO LOTTERY WINNERS: You know, Nancy, I think you hit it with your quote there of your buddy Tim (ph). The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. When people see those large dollar signs, crazy things start to happen. And as you know, lottery winners are by and large publicized. That`s part of the deal you make with most lotteries, that if you win it, you have got to be part of their marketing campaign, so everybody knows what you have, and that includes everything from relatives to second cousins to people you don`t know to even the charities. And the pressure can be unbelievable.

GRACE: You know, Michael Boone, are you telling me that Abraham`s story is not uncommon? You counsel lottery winners. And everybody came up to him. He paid off, I don`t know how many homes for his mom, for relatives. He bought cars for friends. Out of, you know, not necessarily about the mother, because I understand that. But some misplaced sense of loyalty. That happens all the time, doesn`t it?

BOONE: Oh, it is the rule. It`s not the exception. Clearly we`ve heard story after story of this happening. It is not just lottery winners. You`re talking about professional athletes. Anybody comes into a large sum of money. Particularly if they`re young, if they are immature, if they haven`t handled money before. They`re complete marks for the worst elements in society.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fla-woman-found-guilty-murder-lottery-death-17929713
Fla. Woman Found Guilty of Murder in Lottery Death
December 11, 2012

A Florida woman was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the slaying of a lottery winner in central Florida.

Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore showed no emotion as the verdict was read. Judge Emmett Battles sentenced her to mandatory life without parole for the murder and an additional minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years for using a gun in the commission of a felony.

Battles called Moore "the most manipulative person" he had ever seen, describing her as "cold, calculating and cruel."

Earlier, he had instructed the jury that it could convict her of a lesser charge. Jurors deliberated for more than three hours before finding Moore guilty of murdering Abraham Shakespeare, who won millions in 2006. Shakespeare's mother was in the courtroom, but showed no emotion.
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Moore was briefly banned from the Tampa courtroom Monday over concerns that she may have threatened jurors. She was back a short time later for closing arguments, but said she did not want to take the stand in order to protect her family.

At times, the defendant closed her eyes and averted her face from the jury as prosecutors played audio recordings made by an undercover officer posing as a criminal who would take the fall for Shakespeare's murder.

Prosecutors said the 40-year-old Moore befriended Shakespeare in late 2008, claiming she was writing a book about how people were taking advantage of him. They claim Moore later became his financial adviser, eventually controlling every asset he had left, including an expensive home, the debt owed to him and a $1.5 million annuity. She ultimately swindled Shakespeare out of his dwindling fortune, then shot him and buried his body under a concrete slab in her backyard, Pruner said.
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Finally, some justice!
This poor man.  May he rest in peace!