Narrator: The luckiest day in a man's life...
He won $31 million.
Narrator: ...Turns him into a neighborhood hero.
He bought us a house and he had that heart to give.
Narrator: But when no one hears from him for months...
I talk to him every day
And he hasn't been returning my call.
Narrator: ...A bizarre phone call deepens the mystery.
His voice sounds a little funny.
Somebody could have robbed him.
David: Of course, he's bitter.
He lost a lawsuit involving millions of dollars.
Narrator: And an undercover operation...
There was a recording device sitting in a empty can of red bull.
Narrator: ...Sends police looking for answers
Hidden below the surface of a quiet florida town.
She takes a piece of angle iron,
Sticks in the ground, and whispers,
"tell your boy to dig six feet down."
Andrew: And this is where the plot thickens.
[♪♪]
Narrator: Plant city is a rural patch of florida
Back road where life is simple
And agriculture is king.
Plant city is known for strawberry farms.
It's in between tampa,
The beautiful golf coast beaches,
And the theme parks of orlando.
You see, in plant city, it's country.
Most people here that wanna hear the news,
They go up onto the tree
And sit on milk craze and baguettes,
And have conversation about what could have been
And what's not today.
Narrator: On a January morning in 2010,
The conversation in plant city
Is all about the law enforcement
That's descended on an unassuming house in the town.
The police are responding to a tip in a case
That has puzzled this community for months.
There are news cameras all around
Trying to get just a glimpse of what law enforcement finds.
And the police have reason to believe that the body
Is buried deep in the earth in the backyard.
Narrator: The forensic team focuses on something
That seems out of place in the rural backyard,
A large cement slab.
That morning we began breaking up the concrete slab.
We finally get down to about six feet, two inches.
And one of the crime scene technicians says,
"I think I've got something."
We carefully start wiping away the dirt
And we realize that it's a body lean.
Andrew: The body had been there for nine months.
You can almost imagine the smell and the stench.
They can immediately determine that it's human remains
But they have to see whose remains they are.
Narrator: The investigators believe they finally uncovered
The evidence they've been seeking of a brutal murder.
This murder was the tragic finale
To a rags to riches story
That ended up with a person buried in the backyard.
Narrator: The chances of winning florida's lottery
Are an astounding fifteen million to one.
But in places like the hardscrabble community
Of lakeland, florida, dreams about hitting it big
Provide a welcome break from reality.
In our community, we don't have too many things
That we can get into without getting into a little mischief.
Greg: A lot of people play lottery.
You dream hitting the lottery.
I dream hitting the lottery.
Narrator: For greg smith's friend,
Abraham shakespeare, that dream
Is one of the few things that keep his spirits high.
I think he wished and hoped and prayed
That he would hit the lottery.
But abraham wasn't a real fortunate person.
He left school to go to work
To see what he can do about helping his family.
He started out in the orange groves,
Picking fruit, mowing yards, raking yards,
And whatever money he made, he helped his family with it.
Abraham stayed with his mother and, um,
Helped her with the bills and-- and--
And was pretty content being a day laborer.
And his life was based around his mother
And taking care of her.
Tammy: Abraham would sit on the porch
And he would just tell us,
You know, if he had money, what he would do,
And he would like say what big house he wanted
Or nice cars.
And, you know, yeah, he was a dreamer.
Andrew: On November 15th, 2006,
Abraham is working some odd jobs
With a man named michael ford,
And they stopped at a local convenience store
To pick up some food and drinks.
Cedric: The guy asked him if he wanted a soda, um,
And abraham said, "no, just give me two lottery tickets."
That night, they got it on the store,
He came to my house.
He said, "your cousin just hit the lottery."
He won $31 million.
Narrator: Abraham decides to take
A one-time payout of $16.9 million.
The money lets him show a generous side
That he never could before.
Tammy: He bought us a house.
He had that heart to give.
He just felt like that's what he needed to do,
Just help people.
Narrator: When abraham learns that a local barber,
His friend and former boss, greg smith
Is trying to get an $87,000 loan from the bank,
He steps in to help.
He bring me this envelope, cashier's check in my name.
I said, "I'm not gonna take this money for free from you.
I'm gonna take the payments that I was gonna do to the bank
And I'll pay you the same amount."
Narrator: After a life spent in poverty,
Abraham treats himself, too.
He bought a home in north lakeland,
Which is a-- was a home he dreamed of.
Tammy: It was scary because he didn't know
How to manage his money.
He had an entourage around him.
But half of those people, he didn't know.
They knew he couldn't read, they know he couldn't write,
They know he can sign them with his name.
He said, "man, every time I turn around,
Somebody want something."
He was their cash cow and they milked him daily.
Tammy: I said it [indistinct] now, so abraham,
You got to think now, you can go through this money.
You got people coming from everywhere,
So you gotta be careful.
But he was so happy not to be poor anymore,
That wasn't even a thought in his mind.
Narrator: By October 2008, less than two years
After winning the jackpot,
Abraham is down to his last $2 million.
Then his luck changes once again,
When a local business woman named dee dee moore
Takes an interest in abraham's rags to riches story.
Dee dee moore was introduced to him by a mutual friend.
He had an interesting story to tell
And she proposed that she write a book on him.
And I think he was very captivated by that.
Narrator: But as the two start to work on the book,
It doesn't take long before dee dee discovers
That abraham is in over his head financially.
She found out that he hadn't paid
The taxes on his house,
That he was behind on certain bills
And so she made a pretty reasonable proposal.
Why don't you let me handle your finances?
Cedric: When I first met dee dee,
She came serious with that attitude.
"listen, I'm abraham's financial adviser.
Money is not being returned
And I'm not here to lose money but to make money."
It made perfect sense.
Narrator: With dee dee handling abraham's finances,
She advises him to stay home
Away from all the outstretched hands
That follow him everywhere.
And he just couldn't turn them away.
He couldn't say no.
But he was really unhappy.
Tammy: We just didn't see him no more.
We thought, well, maybe he didn't wanna be bothered,
So we gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Narrator: After several weeks without any word from abraham,
His family reaches out to the only person they believe
Is still in contact with him, his financial adviser, dee dee.
We called dee dee to find out where abraham was
And, um, she told us that he went out of town.
She was receiving text from him and she shared those texts
With his family to show the family that he was okay.
He did mention wanting to leave town.
We wanted to help him because everybody else dream
He was trying to fulfill,
And he never had time for himself.
Tammy: And months went by, months went by, and no abraham.
His phone wasn't going.
It ring, ring, ring, the answer service come on.
Cedric says, "it just don't seem right.
I'm gonna report this."
Narrator: Seven months after anyone last saw abraham,
His cousin decides the family has waited long enough.
David: In November of 2009, our missing persons unit
Took a call from a gentleman named cedric edom.
Cedric: I said, "listen, my cousin is missing.
I talk to him every day
And he hasn't been returning my call."
David: We reach out to abraham's mother
And find out it was around April
That the last she actually physically saw abraham.
Narrator: Since then, she tells the detectives
She's received only text messages from her son.
But they've left her more troubled than comforted.
Some texts were telling her that he was fine.
He just don't wanna be bothered.
Abraham's mother told us, "we're a little confused.
He can't text message because he can't read or write."
So we had to determine
Were these text messages legitimate?
Was he with someone that was actually
Sending the text for him?
We felt there was something suspicious about the case.
This is more than a missing person's case.
It was a missing person involving
A 30-plus-million-dollar-lottery winner.
Andrew: Abraham was owed money by lots of people,
So you have the potential for people who owed him money
Or people that wanted money from him
Trying to hurt him in some way.
Right from the beginning,
There are lots of different suspects
And really no evidence and no leads.
David: Michael ford filled a lawsuit and alleged
That abraham stole the ticket from him.
Andrew: If this wasn't abraham who called, who was it?
David: We want you to record every conversation.
Greg: Let me see what we can do to get you out of this
Because I know you didn't kill him.
David: We get our binoculars out, we got our camera out.
We're just like, oh, my god.
This is crazy.
[♪♪]
Narrator: Seven months after multimillion dollar
Lottery winner, abraham shakespeare,
Was last seen,
Investigators are looking for leads
In his disappearance.
David: We began with dee dee moore.
She was, uh, the last person that we knew had seen him.
Andrew: Dee dee says she's in touch with abraham.
Abraham just needed some time away
That he needed a break from everything.
David: Dee dee shows us her phone
Where she's been receiving text message from abraham.
And a text message back from abraham saying,
"I don't wanna be bothered."
Narrator: Dee dee also shows investigators a video
She made of a conversation she had with abraham a few months earlier,
While discussing the book she planned to write about him.
In this video, she speaks to abraham and says,
"are you tired of people asking you for money?
Are you tired of all the stress?"
And abraham says, "yeah, I just wanna get away."
After our initial interview with dee dee,
We started looking at everybody that owed abraham money.
Once we learned the totality of all the money
That abraham had loaned out, given out,
People owing him money, we had our hands full.
We had 20, 30 people that we needed to talk to.
We wanted to explore every avenue we could.
We learned that approximately six months
After abraham won the lottery,
Michael ford, who bought the lottery ticket,
Gave it to abraham, filed a lawsuit,
And took abraham to court
And alleged that abraham stole the ticket from him.
That was investigated and was settled in court.
And it was determined that michael ford
Was not the owner of the ticket,
That abraham did give him the money
And was the rightful owner of the ticket.
Narrator: Investigators recognized that losing out
On $31 million could cause michael ford
To hold a grudge against abraham.
Michael ford was actually living in georgia.
And we actually sent a detective to georgia,
To speak with him in person.
Michael ford, of course, he admitted, yes,
We had a dispute over the lottery ticket.
Of course, he's bitter.
He lost a lawsuit against abraham
Involving millions of dollars.
But michael ford said,
"I lost the dispute and I accepted it.
And I'm not involved."
Narrator: But the detectives can't take his denial
At face value,
Not with a man's life potentially at stake.
So they dig deeper into michael's background.
David: We actually went so far as to pull phone records
Of michael ford to actually see where he was
At the time that we believed abraham he was last seen.
Narrator: As investigators wait
For michael ford's phone records,
The story of the missing lottery winner
Is splashed across the headlines.
The attention generates no shortage of tips.
I mean, we got calls as far as los angeles, california
From people that said they saw abraham
In a cvs pharmacy.
They were so certain it was him.
We called the los angeles county sheriff's office
And had someone go pull the video
From the day this person said they saw him.
Once we saw the video, we-- we knew it wasn't abraham.
You have to weed through, is this true?
Is this not true?
And, you know, you don't wanna miss the tip
That's gonna break it.
Narrator: A few days later, the cell phone records
For michael ford come in and they confirm his alibi.
David: After looking into his phone records,
We were able to determine that michael ford was in georgia
At the time abraham went missing,
And was not involved,
And, um, was no longer a suspect in the case.
Narrator: With no word from abraham and no progress
In the police search for him, those closest to him,
Including his mother, elizabeth, find it hard to hold on to hope.
He was always riding around with different people,
Pulling up the clubs.
Somebody could have robbed him
Because he kept money in his trunk.
It was well known that he had a lot of money
And he carried cash around with him.
Anything was possible.
Narrator: As christmas approaches,
The family finds it difficult
To celebrate the holidays
With abraham still missing.
Then abraham's mother receives an odd phone call.
Abraham's mother was having lunch after christmas
And she gets a call from abraham.
Narrator: He wishes her a merry christmas
And tells his mother that he's fine,
And just wants to be left alone.
Andrew: When she gets off the phone,
Abraham's mom realized something
That it was not abraham that she was talking with.
Like any mother who knows her son's voice,
She knew that someone had called pretending to be abraham.
And this is where the plot thickens
With this strange call to abraham's mother.
So that's where law enforcement starts looking
With a one strong piece of evidence they have.
And they're trying to figure out
If this wasn't abraham, who called, who was it?
[♪♪]
Narrator: No one has heard from florida lottery winner
Abraham shakespeare for nearly eight months.
Then just after christmas 2009,
His mother receives a phone call
From someone claiming to be her son.
David: Abraham's mother said,
"his voice sounds a little funny."
I'm like, "what's the phone number he called you from?"
She says, "well, it was a private number."
I met with my partner.
And we knew we could subpoena her phone records
And we're gonna be able to see what number called.
Usually it takes a day or two to get anything.
But with this subpoena, 20 minutes later,
Which is unheard of,
We have an email
With the gps location of the phone.
Narrator: They also learn who the phone belongs to.
And it's a big surprise.
It doesn't belong to abraham, but to someone close to him.
This phone is registered to greg smith.
Andrew: Greg smith was a barber in polk county,
And abraham had lent greg smith $87,000
After he'd won the lottery.
Narrator: The gps coordinates placed the phone
At a local shopping mall.
And detectives realize it could still be at that location.
We stopped what we're doing.
We jump in our car
And we drive to the lakeland mall.
It's the day after christmas.
Thousands of cars there.
We pull in there and we parked,
And we both looked at each other like,
"what are we gonna do? What are we looking for?"
We sit there for about five minutes.
And we look up and in comes
Dee dee moore's car.
We just like, oh, my god, this is crazy.
So dee dee's car pulls up next to another car.
She gets out of her car.
She gets in the passenger seat of this car.
We get our binoculars out, we got our camera out.
We can't tell who it is.
Dee dee hands this gentleman a lot of cash.
She gets in her car and leaves.
So we're like, let's follow him.
We cut the car off.
I have my badge out. I go,
"hey, I'm a homicide detective with the sheriff's office.
We need to talk to you.
We don't need nobody to know we're talking to you.
What do you wanna do?"
So this gentleman says, "I guess I'm gonna cooperate."
We identify him as greg smith.
He's the one that made the phone call to abraham's mother.
Greg: I say this, "I made that telephone call.
A lady paid me $5,000 to call
And say I was abraham shakespeare."
I'm thinking abraham don't wanna talk to her no more
And she tried to get in contact with him.
Narrator: But investigators wonder
Whether he's telling the whole story.
We realized that greg actually owes abraham
Over a hundred thousand dollars.
Greg was very suspicious to us.
So we sit and talk to greg a little more.
Narrator: According to greg, the plan was hatched
When dee dee came to him to collect on abraham's loan.
Dee dee was putting pressure on him
To pay this debt.
Then on the other hand, she was offering money
To do these phone calls.
When we told greg
That something was going on with abraham,
He did genuinely seem surprised.
Greg: He say, "you made a telephone call
And impersonated somebody else,"
And that's all.
Narrator: The detectives have nothing to charge greg with.
So he's free to go home.
But now they wanna know more
About why dee dee who everyone believes
Has been helping abraham would set up a phony phone call.
They begin digging into her background.
Law enforcement quickly realized
That dee dee did not have a squeaky clean past.
Dee dee had been accused of stealing
From the business that she worked.
David: A mysterious fire in the office started
Which burned all the records.
We also found that she was arrested
For insurance fraud
Where she claimed that some guys carjacked her,
Robbed her, and tried to rape her,
Threw her in the ditch and stole her car.
Narrator: Given her past, the detectives now consider
A disturbing possibility, rather than helping abraham,
Was dee dee methodically stealing from him?
To help find the answer,
The investigators go back to greg smith
And asked for help.
David: We told greg we want you to be part of our team.
We want you to continue talking to dee dee,
But we want you to record every conversation.
Greg: And he say, "let's go meet with her
And see what she got to say."
I say, "serious, man,
I ain't trying to chase that woman."
But when authorities told me he's a missing man,
I believe that.
So I said, "I tell you what,
What you need me to do to help you out?"
Andrew: So police ended up wiring greg smith
And sending him back out to meet with dee dee moore.
Greg: I get the phone call,
"hey, meet me at the gas station."
So I said, "okay. It's on."
David: He says, "if you want me to do this,
I need the body."
[♪♪]
Narrator: Eight months after abraham shakespeare disappeared,
His friend greg smith has agreed to help police
By wearing a wire
And meeting with abraham's financial adviser
Who has emerged as a possible suspect.
David: At this point, we feel
That abraham might be the victim of foul play
And dee dee is a suspect in the case.
So once we knew that greg was in there with dee dee,
Our strategy was, okay, let's put pressure on dee dee
And see what happens.
Narrator: Ready to start their sting operation,
Greg smith sets up a meeting with dee dee moore.
Andrew: There was a recording device
Sitting in a empty can of redbull.
And greg and dee dee were talking.
Greg: I reached dee dee, I say, "hey, man, listen,
Where is abraham at?
Where is he at? I ain't heard from him."
She says, "everybody thinks I did something to abraham."
I say, "think you did something to abraham,
What are you talking about?"
Andrew: Dee dee tells greg
That she needs to find someone
Who's willing to take the rap for abraham's disappearance,
And that she'll pay someone to do it.
There is no evidence of foul play at this point.
But now police have her red-handed,
Offering money to help cover up abraham's disappearance.
Narrator: Dee dee's incriminating statements
Give the detectives the probable cause they need
To do a deeper investigative dive.
David: We sent out subpoenas
For dee dee's phone and abraham's phone.
Prior to April 7th,
Abraham averaged 200 calls a day on his phone.
And the only communication he has after April 7th
Is with dee dee moore.
Narrator: The combined phone records reveal
Another alarming detail.
Tamara: Anytime texts were coming from
Abraham shakespeare's phone,
The cell phone towers
That his alleged texts were coming from
Were pinging from the same towers
As where dee dee moore was at the time.
David: It became evident at that point
That unless they're sitting in the car next to each other,
Texting each other,
Dee dee has abraham's phone.
Narrator: But investigators need solid proof
Of dee dee's involvement in abraham's disappearance
Or worse before they can charge her with anything.
So they once again call up their man on the inside,
Greg smith.
They instruct him to call dee dee with an offer.
David: We called greg smith and we say, "hey, listen,
We want you to tell dee dee
If there happens to be any chance abraham's dead,
Any chance something happened abraham,
I have a solution."
Greg: I reached dee dee, I say, "hey, is abraham dead?
It's a reverse psychology thing.
I know you didn't kill him.
What happened?
And let me see what we can do
To get you out of this
Because I know you didn't kill him."
I say, "you know what, I got somebody,
He'll take the fall for-- for killing abraham."
David: And he tells her, "I have a cousin
Who's about to be sentenced to 30 plus years
And for the right amount of money,
My cousin will take a murder rap."
I say, "in order for you to get rid of all this,
You got to tell me where the body at."
David: And dee dee without admitting anything
Just says, "well, I wanna meet him."
[♪♪]
Narrator: At the detective's direction,
Greg smith sets up another meeting with dee dee.
But this time, the police also send
An undercover cop named mike smith,
Who poses as greg's cousin.
Greg: Me and mike, we went out and met dee dee.
David: We set it up in lakeland mall parking lot.
Greg pulls up with mike smith.
They get in dee dee's car.
She says, "I don't know
If anything's happened to abraham.
I can't get a hold of him. He won't return my calls."
So, mike starts pressing her.
You know, "what do you mean? You think something,
Either something happened to him or didn't?"
In that conversation, she finally admits that
She believes abraham's dead.
And that somebody shot him.
[♪♪]
Andrew: Prior to this meeting, there was no evidence
That abraham shakespeare was dead.
He could have been missing and this was all just
A cover up for him being gone.
David: And mike says, "well, he's dead.
I'll take the murder rap."
He says, "I want $50,000.
But if you want me to do this, I need the body."
Andrew: The undercover is saying,
"for my story to law enforcement
To be credible if I'm going to confess to this crime,
I need to know details."
Dee dee tells the undercover.
She can identify where the body is.
And that abraham was killed
With a 38 caliber smith & wesson revolver,
And that she has the gun.
Narrator: Dee dee leaves mike and greg,
But later that evening, she calls greg
And wants to see him alone.
So, I get the phone call.
"hey, meet me at the gas station."
So I said, "okay. It's on."
I gotta be on my guards at all time.
I don't know what to expect from her.
[♪♪]
Andrew: Law enforcement laid this great trap for dee dee.
They end up getting her to admit
That abraham shakespeare is dead,
That she has the gun
And she knows where the body is buried.
David: She takes greg smith to plant city
Off of highway 60,
Where we had identified a house
That she had purchased out there.
Greg: When we pull up to that house,
She said, "I'm gonna get out the car
And I'm gonna show you exactly where the body is."
David: She walks him to the very far back of the house
And there's a concrete slab back there.
And she takes a piece of angle iron,
Sticks it in the ground,
And whispers to greg,
"tell your boy to dig six feet down
And you'll find abraham's body."
Andrew: And dee dee actually hands greg smith
A smith & wesson 38 caliber revolver.
David: She says, "this is the gun
That was used to kill abraham.
I was able to get it from the person that killed abraham."
The first thing we do
Is we secure a search warrant for that property.
We need the body.
[♪♪]
Narrator: On January 25th, 2010,
Police move into the backyard of the home
Just outside plant city, florida,
Abraham's hometown.
David: When the sun came up, we began digging.
The first part we had to break apart
A 30 by 30 concrete slab.
As we're breaking apart the concrete slab,
We have to look for any evidence
And then we begin layer by layer
Taking the dirt away.
We're putting in a sifter,
Looking for any evidence,
And another layer and another layer.
So the first day, nothing.
The second day, we continue
And still we have nothing.
So some of us were like,
Have we been spoofed again by dee dee moore?
And then about an hour later,
One of the crime scene technicians says,
"I think I got something."
Andrew: They find the decomposed remains
Of a human who they believed to be abraham shakespeare.
David: The body still had dreads in place.
Abraham was most known for his long dreadlocks.
The medical examiner was able to examine
Abraham's body.
The body had decomposed badly
To the point where it was almost difficult for them
To determine some of the evidence around it.
There were bullets found.
The other thing was that the clothes they found him in
Were the same clothes he was wearing in a goodbye video
Dee dee showed to the police.
And without a doubt, it was abraham.
I attended the autopsy of abraham
And it was determined that abraham died
Of two gunshot wounds.
After we dug abraham's body up,
I drove to where abraham's mother worked.
I had to tell her that we had found a body.
I told her, "it's your son."
That is one the hardest things I've had to do.
Tammy: When we found out abraham was buried
Up on a slab in the backyard,
It's just devastating
And I couldn't take it.
I mean, you know, it was just too--
Too sad.
It was just too sad.
Greg: He didn't steal nothing.
He didn't take nothing.
He literally won the lottery
And he had to pay his life for what was his.
Narrator: With the body confirmed to be abraham,
Dee dee moore is arrested at the million-dollar home
That she claims abraham had sold to her.
Detective: Hi.
Narrator: The detectives can finally confront her
With what they believe happened to abraham shakespeare.
Andrew: At this point of the investigation,
Dee dee is the one that knows where the body is buried.
She's the one who knows about the gun,
But there's nothing actually connecting her
To the murder of abraham shakespeare.
Narrator: Though she led them to the body,
If investigators can't prove she pulled the trigger,
Dee dee moore could walk.
They run ballistics tests on the gun
Dee dee handed to greg smith,
Hoping that they might provide the connection they need.
Andrew: The police cannot determine definitively
That the bullets used to kill abraham had come from that gun.
Law enforcement knew without any eye witnesses to the murder,
Without any compelling physical evidence,
They have to build strong cases they can
On the circumstantial evidence.
Narrator: Investigators dig deeper
Into all of dee dee's relationships
In a quest to connect her further
To the crime scene.
We go to dee dee moore's ex-husband house
And we asked him,
"what do you know about the property
That she had there?"
And he said, "I went out there
Sometime around April
And she asked me to dig a hole for her."
So he dug the hole and he said,
"when the sun went down that day,"
He said he went back and he filled in the hole,
And he's like, "all I remember is it looked like
It was full of concrete and trees and brush,
But it was dark and I just pushed the dirt over it."
She ended up building the concrete slab over it
And parked the motorhome on it.
He didn't know anything about abraham.
He had never even met abraham.
Narrator: The case against dee dee
Is getting stronger by the day.
But then as planning for her trial begins,
She makes a startling claim that she is a victim
Of a crime herself and desperately needs help.
Dee dee tells law enforcement
That abraham was killed
In a drug dispute with a man named ron watson.
And that ron watson threatened dee dee
And said that he would kill her
And kill her family if she didn't cover up
Abraham's disappearance.
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Narrator: Dee dee moore is under arrest for the murder
Of abraham shakespeare,
But as she is interrogated,
She makes a startling claim
That she too is a victim in this case
And has been forced to cover up someone else's crime.
David: She says, "I was taking abraham
To that house in plant city
And, um, I was just gonna get money out of the safe
And all of a sudden, these drug dealers show up.
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And they shoot abraham.
She says a drug dealer named ronald watson did it.
Andrew: Dee dee is pleading with law enforcement
To help her claiming that this guy
Was threatening her and gonna kill her family.
Narrator: If what dee dee claims is true,
It would change everything police and prosecutors think
They know about this murder.
Police ended up following up on that ron watson lead.
And they realized that there was no one with any drug history
In florida named ron watson
Who fit the profile of what dee dee was saying.
Narrator: When police prove there is no ronald watson,
Dee dee's story falls apart.
Prosecutors continue with their plans
To bring her to trial.
In the fall of 2012,
Nearly six years after abraham shakespeare
Hit a 30 million dollar jackpot
Then disappeared.
Dee dee moore stands trial for his murder.
Our prosecutor told the jury,
This was a crime motivated by pure greed.
Greed that transformed into evil.
Dee dee moore dug a deep hole,
Buried abraham shakespeare in the earth
And covered over the hole with a concrete slab.
David: She purchased a $70,000 corvette for her boyfriend,
A $30,000 truck for herself.
She bought rolexes.
She bought diamond rings
And just went through abraham's money
Like it was nothing.
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Andrew: By the time abraham's body was found
In January of 2010,
It was determined that he only had
About $10,000 left in his name.
Dee dee was living large on abraham's dime.
She had stolen money from him.
She was getting rich off of him
And it appears that
He may have figured it out and confronted her.
But it's never gonna be known for sure.
All we know for sure is that she killed him,
She buried him,
And she spent the better part
Of eight months covering it up.
Narrator: After two weeks of testimony,
The jury leaves to deliberate.
It took the jury a little more than three hours to deliberate.
And they found her guilty of first degree murder.
She never once showed any remorse,
Never once showed any compassion.
When the verdict came out,
She started to cry
And that's the only emotion I saw from her.
This is unfair.
David: She didn't cry for abraham.
She didn't cry for abraham's mother.
She cried for her damn self.
The judge made a comment to dee dee
That she was one of the most manipulative people
He has ever sentenced
And, um, sentenced her to life in prison
Without the possibility of parole.
Tammy: For her to kill him,
It was just like why?
He would have bought you anything.
He would have gave you what you wanted.
To me, that was senseless.
Greg: Abraham had a heart of gold.
You couldn't change his heart no matter what he had.
Cedric: I miss him every day.
All I can say is, cuzz,
Justice is served for now.
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