Heres abcs linsey davis for our series, crime and punishment. Reporter Abraham Shakespeare probably thought he was the luckiest man in the world when he won 30 million in the Florida Lottery in november of 2006. But his luck would change in a horrific way. And now, this woman, Doris Dee Dee moore, is on trial for his murder. Moore sobbed in court today, after jurors listened to audio recordings of her allegedly agreeing to a scheme in which another man would take the blame for shakespeares death. It was the latest bombshell in a scandalous trial. There was a person he knew who was willing to take the rap for his disappearance, for what i think reports say is about 50,000. Reporter shakespeare went from washing dishes and working garbage trucks in lakeland, florida, a suburb of tampa, to what he thought was the good life. But that quick pick ticket quickly turned his life upside down. I really would like my old life back, where i could walk the streets, like a normal person. Reporter he
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Gun, put it up, and killed another human being, and i would never, ever, ever do that. Narrator and investigators work to uncover the truth. January 25, 2010. For nearly three months, investigators in polk county, florida, have been trying to locate Lottery Winner Abraham Shakespeare. Now theyve found his body beneath a concrete slab behind a simple brick house along a busy rural highway. And theyre talking to the woman who they think put it there, Dee Dee Moore. Moores story starts years earlier in the quiet town of lakeland, florida. In a letter to american greed, she says its a tale so farfetched, that she would not even believe it if she was not living through it firsthand. On november 15, 2006, Abraham Shakespeare is working on a truck as a delivery assistant for a fooddistribution company in central florida, where hes lived for 40 years. The trucks driver, michael ford, stops at this Convenience Store in the nearby town of frostproof to buy a drink and cigarettes. Shakespeare ask