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 WinnerAbraham 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 asks him to pick up two tickets for that nights 30 million florida lotto drawing, then he waits. So, tonights florida lotto winning numbers are 12, 13, 42, 6, 52, and 34. Narrator after years of playing the lotto, shakespeare finally hits the jackpot. He takes home a lumpsum payment of nearly 13 million. Dave clark is a detective in the Polk County Sheriffs Office. I think it was the best thing that ever happened to him and the worst thing that ever happened to him. Narrator shakespeare treats himself. He purchases a 1. 1 million mansion and a bmw worth 100,000. But Sentorria Butler, shakespeares former girlfriend and the mother of his youngest son, says he was always more interested in spending the money on others. He went from being considered a nobody to Everybody Needs him all of a sudden. Narrator shakespeare reportedly gives out money to random strangers at the bank he frequents. He pays for peoples burials, groceries, rents, and helps those in danger of losing their homes. People that barely knew him you know, former coworkers would go to abraham with a sad story and say, hey, you know, i have a family, my house is about to get foreclosed on, and hed say, how much do you owe on it . Narrator according to polk county detective chris lynn, he buys approximately 10 homes, then has the owners make payments directly to him. I didnt necessarily see it as a moneymaking scheme. He wasnt charging these people any more money than what they could afford. It was just generosity on his part. Narrator but the way shakespeare doles out money may be attributed to something more than plain generosity. With nothing more than an 8thgrade education, its said that he has difficulties with large numbers and financial concepts. Merissa green covers shakespeares story for the lakeland ledgfrom the time he wins the lotto. It was so easy for people to take advantage of shakespeare. Matter of fact, everybody who knew him did. Narrator michael ford, the driver of the truck who picked up the winning ticket, claims in a lawsuit that shakespeare stole the ticket from him. A jury sides with shakespeare, but he is hardly relieved. His mother says he changes his phone number, and he reportedly says, id have been better off broke. By the end of 2008, hes lent out, given out, or spent all but 1. 5 million of his 13 million jackpot. That october, hes introduced to Dee Dee Moore at a red lobster restaurant. Shes been researching him and asks his realtor to set up the meeting. According to polk county detective dave wallace. Abraham sees this white lady whos driving a nice car, whos dressing well. She appears as kind of the knight in shining armor. Narrator moore says she runs a nursing Staffing Company thats made her a very wealthy woman. She tells the lotto winner she wants to write a book about how people are taking advantage of him. To shakespeare, she must appear to be a successful businesswoman someone who doesnt want or need a handout. She would do stuff like, oh, lets go to the casino, and she would pull up in a limousine. Being that he always took everything at first sight, i think he believed that she really had money. Narrator the lotto winner brings moore to his mansion. She learns that even though hes a millionaire, shakespeare is behind on his mortgage. In what appears to be a selfless act of kindness, she makes the approximately 7,000 payment for him. Everybody asked him for money. Nobody ever gave him anything, and here she steps in. A person on the outside looking in might say thats a nice gesture. Thats a caring person. But that was part of her whole plan. I mean, that was the hook, and she was setting it. Narrator up next on american greed, see how Dee Dee Moore gets her hooks into Abraham Shakespeares fortune. This was the key that unlocked the door. 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Narrator when she befriends lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare, Dee Dee Moore claimed shes doing it out of the goodness of her heart. But what shakespeare doesnt know is that she has a history of lies and frauds. As her father will later put it, she tells the fibbiest fibs. Look here. Its definitely her signature. Narrator detectives who investigate her see it in a slightly harsher light. I think Dee Dee Moore was the most manipulative, cunning, pure con artist, evil person ive ever come across. Narrator in one instance, moore is alleged to have set a fire to avoid an embezzlement investigation. In another case, after falling behind on a car payment, she hatches a plan. She ties herself up, throws herself in a ditch, and calls and says that she was carjacked, and some hispanic guys attempted to rape her and left her for dead in a ditch. None of that happened. She had set this whole thing up, basically as an Insurance Fraud to get a payoff on the car and to keep the car. Narrator moore pleads guilty to making a false report, and a judge gives her a year of probation. With shakespeare, she has her own plan. She convinces him the i. R. S. Is going to come after him for the unreported loans hes been making. And she stokes the fear that his onetime girlfriend Sentorria Butler is going to sue him for child support. So, she scares abraham thinking, hey, youre gonna lose more money. The only person you can trust is me because look what i did. I paid your mortgage off. Narrator having put shakespeare on edge, moore begins transferring his assets out of harms way. In january, she gets him to give her a quartermillion Dollars Money she says she will pass on to the i. R. S. , and she makes a token payment. I believe at that time, the i. R. S. Is given a check, but its not for 250,000. It might be for 20,000. Narrator the rest of the cash is hers. Next, she targets his home and the i. O. U. S that are owed to him. She tells abraham, you know, listen you need to get out of it so that the i. R. S. Cant personally come after you. Narrator moore says he should sell everything. Luckily, she has a buyer in mind Dee Dee Moore. In january 2009, she agrees to pay shakespeare 655,000 for his 1. 1 million mansion. She also agrees to pay him an additional 185,000 and gets more than 3. 5 million in Additional Real Estate and uncollected i. O. U. S hes holding. For every 1 of Abraham Shakespeares, miss moore was gonna pay him 5 cents. Now, that seems to be a pretty good investment, and, on paper, its a great investment. Narrator for her. But she never even pays him. Moore doesnt stop there. Next, she targets more than 1 million that shakespeare has in an annuity account. In early february, she files paperwork opening a company which she controls called Abraham Shakespeare, llc. She says that if shakespeare moves his money into this limited liability corporation, its protected from his exgirlfriend, Sentorria Butler. Moore goes alone to a local bank of america, where she gives thenmanager doug hancock a different story for why shes opening the account. She was talking about that she was doing it to help him pay his incometax debts. Narrator though the llc is named after shakespeare, moore has control of its bank account. When she shows up the next day with the lotto winner to deposit his 1 million, he has questions. He was very adamant, saying, you know, am i gonna be able to get to my money . He wanted to make sure that her being on the account wasnt gonna keep him or restrict his access. To settle shakespeares concerns, moore has with her minutes of an llc meeting, adding his name as a signer. She gives them to the bank, and he deposits his check. But when shakespeare steps out, Dee Dee Moore has a special request. She said, you know, i wont be able to help him if he takes all the money out, so can you tell me before he takes any money or not let him get to the money . Which, of course, i said, you know, dee dee, hes a signer on the account now. He has full access, same as you. Narrator hancock tells her if she wants to restrict shakespeares access to the account, she just needs to provide the right paperwork. A few days later, she brings in another set of meeting minutes. The minutes state that as the companys manager, she alone has decided to remove him from the account. The bank gives her sole signing authority. Once she presented us with this, she had complete control. He had no access, and he had no way of even knowing what she did with the money from that moment on. Narrator she continues her ruse to make it look like shes helping him with his tax problems. She obtains a cashiers check from the corporate account made out to the i. R. S. For 250,000, but they never get it. Instead, she exploits a banking policy for redepositing unused cashiers checks and pockets the money. On the back of the check, she notes that its not needed for its intended purpose and then just deposits the money into her account. Narrator moores attempts to keep shakespeare in the dark arent over. She tries to give hancock a 20,000 check as an apparent bribe. He turns the check in and passes the matter on to corporate security. Well, i went home and told my wife. I said, youre not gonna believe this, and she said, oh, shes trying to steal all his money. I said, thats absolutely what shes doing. Narrator over the next 11 days, moore drains the milliondollar account of all but 44,000 dollars. When asked about the matter, bank of america would not comment on their internal policies or the investigation. But hancock says that he wishes things had gone differently. I wish that when i turned it over to corporate security, that maybe some other type of investigation could have stopped her from taking the money, and, you know, maybe then it wouldnt have led to what it did. Narrator up next on american greed, his money is gone and so is Abraham Shakespeare. Thrusters at 30 i cant get her to warp. Losing thrusters. I need more power. Give me more power [ mainframe ] located. Ge deepsea fuel technology. A 50,000pound, ingeniously wired machine that optimizes raw data to help safely discover and maximize resources in extreme conditions. Our Current Situation seems rather extreme. Why cant we maximize our. Ready. Brilliant. Lets get out of here. Warp speed. But with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive,y first. I saw my doctor. A blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. We talked about axiron. The only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. Axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or Breast Cancer. Women especially those who are or who may become pregnant and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may occur. Report these symptoms to your doctor. Tell your doctor about all medical conditions and medications. Serious side effects could include increased risk of prostate cancer; worsening prostate symptoms; decreased sperm count; ankle, feet or body swelling; enlarged or painful breasts; problems breathing while sleeping; and blood clots in the legs. Common side effects include skin redness or irritation where applied, increased red blood cell count, headache, diarrhea, vomiting and increase in psa. Ask your doctor about axiron. Narrator even after winning millions in the lotto, Abraham Shakespeare is often found hanging out at the super choice foods market in lakeland. But in april 2009, he stopped coming around. On april 6th, hes supposed to meet friends at the hard rock casino in tampa, but never shows up. Over the next few months, stories begin to spread about where he is. Well, he finally got tired of people pestering him for money, and so he got out of dodge. He was in haiti and got killed in the haitian earthquake. He had a. I. D. S. He was getting treatment for a. I. D. S. He was dying. He was on his deathbed. Narrator as investigators will later learn, there are two things these stories have in common. First, none of them are true. Second, they all can be traced to the one person who says shes spoken with shakespeare on the phone Dee Dee Moore. Oddly, while he cant be found, she seems to be living large. At the center of her new life is her new mansion the one that once belonged to shakespeare. Shes seen driving a new hummer and a shiny new pickup truck. And she buys her muchyounger boyfriend a 70,000 corvette. She also purchases this home in nearby plant city, where she spends thousands on renovations including pouring an oddly placed concrete slab. Though no one has seen shakespeare, many people hear from him, but in a way that doesnt seem quite right. I would call and call and call, and nobody would answer, but i would keep getting texts. And it would have big words in it. Id be like, this aint abraham he cant even say that word narrator moore spends time with the one person most likely to worry about shakespeares whereabouts his mother, elizabeth walker. She went, picked up abrahams mother and prayed with her and, you know, made abrahams mother think that abraham was fine. I mean, how do you do that to an 80yearold woman who loves her son . Narrator in august, moore pays shakespeares cousin cedric edom 5,000 to deliver a birthday card to walker. Its signed with the missing mans name and contains a cross and 100. For nearly seven months, no one comes forward to report shakespeare missing not his mom, who moore has been manipulating, not his exgirlfriend Sentorria Butler, who has been told hes trying to escape from her, and certainly not the friends hes lent money to. To detective dave wallace, theres one simple reason for that. Greed. Everybody all they wanted from abraham was money. If i owe you 50,000 and all of a sudden you disappear, do i really care where youre at . No. Narrator in november of 2009, moore repossesses a vehicle belonging to shakespeares cousin. Its not a smart move considering the dirt he has on her. He comes forward with quite a story to tell. Dee dee moore has purchased all of shakespeares assets, and shes living in his house. Within days, detectives bring moore in for questioning. She tells them shakespeare wanted to get away from all the people bothering him. She purchased his home and his assets to give him the cash he needed to move. She plays them a video that she says proves this. But theres a problem with moores story that shakespeare wants to be gone and has the money to leave. Detectives find no record that moore every paid him for his assets. When she says she paid him in cash, they see that her business was not that profitable. Unless you believe that Dee Dee Moore had 800,000andsomeodd cash hidden in her basement that she cant explain where she got you know, it would have had to have been dropped down from the heavens. I mean, she didnt have that money. Narrator detective chris lynn sees that the Abraham Shakespeare llc account has been liquidated. When we confronted her about these checks, of course, you know, the continued lies. I was using this money for mr. Shakespeare. And yet she cant provide reasons or means of what she was using the money for to benefit mr. Shakespeare. Narrator meanwhile, detectives clark and wallace start looking at shakespeares phone records. They notice that he stopped making calls after april 6th. Though no one else has spoken to him, for months, moore insists that the lotto winner has been calling her from his phone. Records show that their phones have, in fact, connected. But when they do, theyre both in pretty much the same location. According to her, in our interviews, she hadnt seen him in months. So, why does it seem that the only time shes had contact with him, he happens to be closeby . You could tell she didnt have any way to explain it. So, she finally said, okay, i had his phone. I had his phone the whole time, but he wanted me to have his phone. That was his plan. Narrator its clear that moore has been using the missing mans phone to put up smoke screens for months, and detectives are quickly drawing one conclusion. Coming up later on american greed, Dee Dee