All language subtitles for American Greed s07e12 The Lady Killer

In this episode of American Greed,
Abraham Shakespeare strikes it rich,

millions in the lotto, and lets most of
it slip away.

I often tell people that Abraham
Shakespeare was Lakeland's stimulus

With his fortune dwindling, a woman
named Dee Dee Moore steps in and

help protect what's left.

I mean, he's been in the hood all his
life, and all of a sudden this woman

out of the blue.

Okay. But instead of looking after the
lotto winner, Moore only looks after

herself.

Everything that Mr.

Shakespeare has ever owned now belongs
to Dee Dee Moore.

When he goes missing, all eyes turn to
her.

They're saying that I took a gun, put it
up, and killed another

human being.

And it would never, ever, ever do that.
And investigators work to uncover the

truth.

If there's something about you, there's
something deep down in your heart or in

your mind, it's greed.

And it just gets to you. And you need
more and more and more.

January 25, 2010.

For nearly three months, investigators
in Polk County, Florida, have been

to locate lottery winner Abraham
Shakespeare.

Now they've found his body beneath a
concrete slab behind a simple brick

along a busy rural highway.

And they're talking to the woman who
they think put it there, Dee Dee Moore.

More stories start years earlier in the
quiet town of Lakeland, Florida.

In a letter to American Greed, she says
it's a tale so far -fetched 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

assistant for a food distribution
company in central Florida, where he's

for 40 years.

The truck's 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 night's $30 million

lotto drawing.

Then he waits.

So tonight's Florida lotto winning
numbers are 12, 13, 42, 6, 52, and 34.

After years of playing the lotto,
Shakespeare finally hits the jackpot.

He takes home a lump sum payment of
nearly $13 million.

Dave Clark is a detective in the Polk
County Sheriff's Office.

I think it was the best thing that ever
happened to him and the worst thing that

ever happened to him.

Shakespeare treats himself.

He purchases a $1 .1 million mansion and
a BMW worth $100 ,000.

But Centoria Butler, Shakespeare's
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.

Shakespeare reportedly gives out money
to random strangers at the bank he

frequents. He pays for people's burials,
groceries, rents, and helps those in

danger of losing their homes.

People that barely knew him, you know,
former co -workers, 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 he'd say, how
much do you owe on it?

According to Polk County Detective Chris
Lynn, he buys approximately 10 homes,

then has the owners make payments
directly to him.

I didn't necessarily see it as a money
-making scheme. He wasn't charging these

people any more money than what they
could afford.

It was just generosity on his part.

But the way Shakespeare doles out money
may be attributed to something more than

plain generosity.

With nothing more than an eighth -grade
education, it's said that he has

difficulties with large numbers and
financial concepts.

Marissa Green covers Shakespeare's story
for the Lakeland Ledger from 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.

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, I'd have

been better off broke.

By the end of 2008, he's lent out, given
out, or spent all but $1 .5 million of

his $13 million jackpot.

That October, he's introduced to Dee Dee
Moore at a Red Lobster restaurant.

She's been researching him and asks his
realtor to set up the meeting.

According to Polk County Detective Dave
Wallace... Abraham sees this white lady

who's driving a nice car, who's dressing
well. She appears as kind of the knight

in shining armor.

Moore says she runs a nursing staffing
company that's made her a very wealthy

woman. She tells the lotto winner she
wants to write a book about how people

taking advantage of him.

To Shakespeare, she must appear to be a
successful businesswoman, someone who

doesn't want or need a handout.

She would do stuff like, oh, let's 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.

The lotto winner brings more to his
mansion.

She learns that even though he's a
millionaire, Shakespeare is behind on

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, and a person on
the outside looking in might say that's

nice gesture, that's a caring person.
But that was part of her whole plan. I

mean, that was the hook, and she was
setting it.

Up next on American Greed.

See how Dee Dee Moore gets her hooks
into Abraham Shakespeare's fortune.

This was the key that unlocked the door.
From this point on, there was nothing

to stop her.

When she befriends lotto winner Abraham
Shakespeare, Dee Dee Moore claims she's

doing it out of the goodness of her
heart.

But what Shakespeare doesn't know... is
that she has a history of lies and

frauds. As her father will later put it,
she tells the fibbiest fibs. If you

look here, it's definitely her
signature.

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 I've ever
come across.

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

a ditch.

None of that happened.

She had set this whole thing up
basically as an insurance fraud to get a

on the car and to keep the car.

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 IRS is going to
come after him for the unreported loans

he's been making, and she stokes the
fear that his one -time girlfriend,

Centoria Butler, is going to sue him for
child support.

So she scares Abraham, thinking, hey,
you're going to lose more money.

The only person you can trust is me,
because...

Look what I did. I paid your mortgage
off.

Having put Shakespeare on edge, Moore
begins transferring his assets out of

harm's way.

In January, she gets him to give her a
quarter million dollars, money she says

she will pass on to the IRS, and she
makes a token payment.

I believe at that time the IRS has given
a check, but it's not for $250 ,000. It

might be for $20 ,000.

The rest of the cash is hers.

Next, she targets his home and the IOUs
that are owed to him.

She tells Abraham, you know, listen, you
need to get out of it so that the IRS

can't personally come after you.

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 IOUs he's holding.

For every $1 of Abraham Shakespeare's,
Ms. Moore was going to pay him 5 cents.

Now, that seems to be a pretty good
investment.

And on paper, it's a great investment.

For her.

But she never even pays him.

Moore doesn't stop there.

Next, he 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, it's protected from his ex
-girlfriend, Centoria Butler.

Moore goes alone to a local bank of
America, where she gives then -manager

Hancock a different story for why she's
opening the account.

She was talking about that she was doing
it to help him pay his income tax debt.

Though the LLC is named after
Shakespeare, Moore has control of its

account. When she shows up the next day
with the lotto winner to deposit his $1

million, he has questions.

She was very adamant, saying, you know,
am I going to be able to get to my

money? I want to make sure that her
being on the account wasn't going to

him or restrict his access.

To settle Shakespeare's 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 won't 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, he's a signer on the account now.

He has full access, same as you.

Hancock tells her if she wants to
restrict Shakespeare's access to the

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 company's
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.

She continues her ruse to make it look
like she's helping him with his tax

problems. She obtains a cashier's check
from the corporate account made out to

the IRS for $250 ,000, but they never
get it.

Instead, she exploits a banking policy
for redepositing unused cashier's checks

and pockets the money.

On the back of the check, she notes that
it's not needed for its intended

purpose, and then just...

deposits the money into her account.

Moore's attempts to keep Shakespeare in
the dark aren't 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, you're not going to believe this.

And she said, oh, she's trying to steal
all his money. I said, that's absolutely

what she's doing.

Over the next 11 days, Moore drains the
million -dollar account of all but $44

,000.

When asked about the matter, Bank of
America would not comment on their

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 wouldn't have...

led to what it did.

Up next on American Greed, his money is
gone, and so is Abraham Shakespeare.

Are you going to miss your home?

Yes, I miss it, but life goes on.

Even after winning millions in the
lotto, Abraham Shakespeare is often

hanging out at the Super Choice Foods
market in Lakeland.

But in April 2009, he stops coming
around.

On April 6th, he's supposed to meet
friends at the Hard Rock Casino in

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

of Dodge.

He was in Haiti and got killed in a
Haitian earthquake.

He had AIDS. He was getting treatment
for AIDS. He was dying. He was on his

deathbed. As investigators will later
learn, there are two things these

have in common.

First, none of them are true.

Second, they all can be traced to the
one person who says she's spoken with

Shakespeare on the phone,

Deedee Moore.

Oddly, while he can't 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.

She's seen driving a new Hummer and a
shiny new pickup truck, and she buys her

much younger boyfriend a $70 ,000
Corvette.

She also purchases this home in nearby
Plant City, where she spends thousands

renovations, including pouring...

an oddly placed concrete slab.

Though no one has seen Shakespeare, many
people hear from him, but in a way that

doesn't 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. I'd be like,

this ain't Abraham.

He can't even say that word.

Moore spends time with the one person
most likely to worry about Shakespeare's

whereabouts, his mother, Elizabeth
Walker.

She went and picked up Abraham's mother
and prayed with her and, you know, made

Abraham's mother think that Abraham was
fine. I mean, how do you do that to an

80 -year -old woman who loves her son?

In August, Moore pays Shakespeare's
cousin, Cedric Edom, $5 ,000 to deliver

birthday card to Walker. It's signed
with the missing man's 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 ex -girlfriend, Centoria Butler,
who has been told he's trying to escape

from her.

And certainly not the friends he's lent
money to. To Detective Dave Wallace,

there's one simple reason for that.

Greed. Everybody, all they wanted from
Abraham?

It was money.

If I owe you $50 ,000 and all of a
sudden you disappear, do I really care

you're at? No.

In November of 2009, Moore repossesses a
vehicle belonging to Shakespeare's

cousin. It's 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
Shakespeare's assets and she's living in

house.

Within days, detectives bring more 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.

You get tired of people asking you for
money all the time, Ed?

Give me your opinion on it.

Are you going to miss your home?

Yes, I miss it, but life goes on.

But there's a problem with Moore's story
that Shakespeare wants to be gone and

has the money to leave.

Detectives find no record that Moore
ever 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 D
.D. Moore had a hundred and something

thousand dollars cash.

hidden in her basement that she can't
explain where she got.

You know, it would have had to have been
dropped down from the heaven. I mean,

she didn't have that money.

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 did everything to help the man.

I was using this money for Mr.
Shakespeare, and yet she can't provide

means of what she was using the money
for to benefit Mr. Shakespeare.

Meanwhile, detectives Clark and Wallace
start looking at Shakespeare's 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, they're both in pretty
much the same location.

According to her in our interviews, she
hadn't seen him in months.

So why has it seemed that the only time
that she's had contact with him, he

happens to be close by?

You could tell she didn't 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

plan.

It's clear that Moore has been using the
missing man's phone to put up smoke

screens for months, and detectives are
quickly drawing one conclusion.

Here's a guy that we can't find.

Here's a guy who won millions of
dollars, who whatever little assets he

with, he signed over to you.

Where's Abraham?

From the outside looking in, and the
more bullshit that I hear, the more I'm

starting to think maybe Abraham's dead.

Abraham's not dead.

Coming up later on American Greed, Dee
Dee Moore makes a stunning admission to

detectives. It was one of the strangest
things I've ever seen. Here's this 38

-year -old woman, mascara running,
crying for her mommy.

Lakeland, Florida barber Greg Smith says
that for years, Abraham Shakespeare has

been coming by his shop to sweep up.

He used to love to come to the
barbershop because there were a lot of

there.

Smith borrowed $63 ,000 from the lotto
winner.

That money is now owed to Dee Dee Moore
since she bought all of Shakespeare's

IOUs.

In mid -December, she approaches her
debtor with an offer.

She'll pay him $350.

if he will make a phone call.

What do you want me to say?

Just say that you saw Abraham down in
Miami.

Smith places the call.

I was driving one night, and my cell
phone rang, and some guy says, I want to

tell you, I saw Abraham down in Miami.

I'm like, well, how do you know it's
him? Well, I saw his ID.

Well, how did you see his ID?

Oh, he was taking it out and it fell
down in front of me and I read it. And I

just knew all about this.

Well, how'd you get my number?

Well, I got to go.

Detectives don't know Smith at the time,
but they're about to become much more

familiar with him.

As Christmas approaches, they are
growing certain that Moore is behind

Shakespeare's disappearance and that
she's now trying to conceal the truth.

To expose her ruse, they set a plan in
motion.

They'll have Detective Dave Clark talk
to Moore.

He'll play good cop and tell her she can
clear her name if Shakespeare reveals

himself.

I told her, look, I believe you, I
believe this guy's alive, but I'm here

tell you that if his family, or
especially his mother, doesn't see or

him, you know, over these Christmas
holidays, I'm not going to be able to

you much longer.

The plan works.

Moore takes the bait.

So she called me. She said, I need you
to make another phone call for me.

I want you to call Abraham's mother.

Elizabeth Walker calls us and says, I
got a call from somebody saying they're

son, but I really don't think it was my
son.

Within hours of talking to Walker,
police traced the call to a phone

to Greg Smith here at the Lakeland
Square Mall.

When they roll up, they find Smith in
his car.

Dee Dee Moore is there with him.

handing him some cash.

I don't think anything could have been
luckier in the world. I mean, we were

just, that timing was the luckiest thing
and the biggest break in the case.

They let Moore drive away, unaware she's
under surveillance.

Before long, they are talking to Greg
Smith.

Dave Wallace was the first one to say
something.

He said, did you call Abraham's mother?
I said, yeah.

Did you call Dave Wallace?

I said, yeah.

He picked his badge up and he said, I'm
Dave Wallace. I said, oh, Lord.

Smith tells detectives that Moore has
offered to forgive his $63 ,000 debt if

helps her out.

When they tell him what they've learned,
he decides to cooperate with police.

So from that point forward, the
investigation definitely takes a turn,

we've got somebody on the inside.

Smith figures out the perfect way to
help.

He removes the top from a Red Bull can
that inserts a digital recorder.

Whenever he meets with Moore, he has it
in his car like it's an ashtray.

She has no idea.

Boy, I never know about you anyway. I
never give you up. You know what I'm

saying? And I'm so deep in this with you
right now. If you go down, I go down

right now.

I didn't want to tell him at the time,
but I'm thinking, damn, that's a good

idea. You know, I wish I had thought
about this back when I was in narcotics.

On January 6th, Moore and Smith meet at
this hotel.

She was like, come in, come in.

She was like, listen, put your gloves
on. I said, put my gloves on.

She was like, I don't want none of your
hair to get stuck in the computer or

like this forensic file type of thing.
I'm like, man, this lady is off her

rockers.

There's a reason she's being so careful.

She's writing a letter from Shakespeare
to his mother.

She doesn't want to leave a trace of who
is actually writing it. But as she

reads from the letter, she has no idea
she's being taped.

Smith then goes with Moore to drop the
letter in Shakespeare's mother's

Detectives retrieve it before she sees
it.

The phone call, the letter, she's just
digging a hole. We thought that that

point would be push her to do something
even to a bigger scale.

The next day, the Polk County Sheriff's
Office names Dee Dee Moore a person of

interest in the case.

They make one thing clear.

Investigators don't believe her stories.

Typical Dee Dee Moore, whenever you get
her into a corner, you can almost see

the hamster rolling in her head.

I've got to change my story. I've got to
come up with something believable.

Days later, Greg Smith has his secret
recorder rolling as Moore tells a new

story.

She admits Abraham might not be missing
of his own will.

He may be dead, but she didn't do it.

A man named Ronald did, and now he's
forcing her to help cover up the crime.

It's racial scapegoating reminiscent of
a story she told years earlier.

I've seen him, but I can't tell you what
he looks like exactly. I know he's, you

know, black.

Moore's world is falling apart, and her
moves are becoming increasingly

desperate. On January 19th, she meets
with the cops inside Mann and at

where she presents a bold new way out.

She asked me did I know somebody that
would take the fall, because she knew

Abraham would be back real soon.

I just need somebody to take the fall
just in case.

Two days later, Smith brings Moore to
the parking lot of a department store

introduces her to this man sitting in a
white GMC Yukon.

Smith says the man is going to jail for
25 years and is willing to take the

blame for the right price.

Hello.

Yeah,

I'm in over my head. I've never been
through nothing like this in my life.

Moore blames the killing on the drug
dealer, Ronald.

She wants someone to take the rap so
Ronald will stop threatening her, and

cops will get off her back.

This new schemer says he'll admit to
killing Shakespeare for $50 ,000, but he

needs more info so his confession will
seem believable.

Dig him up. Okay. And they'll have a
body. It's going to be all on me, and

they're done with the rest of y 'all.
Okay.

Okay.

Deal.

She has no idea that she's just made a
deal with someone who has no interest in

helping her conceal her crime.

What do you need to know? My name is
Michael Smith, and I'm a sergeant with

Lake Wells Police Department.

Coming up on American Greed, more
stories and lies grow ever more

I didn't know. It was a drug deal. Went
back.

It was a drug deal, but it went back.

And the guy's name is... I just found it
out

today or yesterday.

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On January 21st, 2010, Dee Dee Moore
meets a man who says he'll take the

for killing Abraham Shakespeare.

That same day, she lets Greg Smith in on
a secret. She has two things that will

help make the Fall Guys story
believable.

She has the gun that killed Shakespeare.

And she has an idea of where his body is
buried.

It's on her property.

Smith's Red Bull recorder is rolling as
he tells her the obvious.

He needs to move Shakespeare's remains.

That way, when her fall guy takes the
blame, she won't be implicated.

For months, Moore has been spending the
money she stole from Shakespeare to live

large. But on the afternoon of January
24th, she goes on a different kind of

shopping spree.

She went and bought all the tools that
were needed to move a body, bury a body,

unearth a body, dispose of a body.

At Walmart, she buys a roll of plastic
sheeting, Lysol, rubber gloves.

and a Frappuccino.

The next day, January 25th, Smith and
Moore meet and she hands over the

used to shoot Shakespeare.

It's a .38 caliber with a laser sight
attached, registered in her name.

She wants to make sure Smith gets all
her fingerprints off it.

Later that day, Moore meets Smith again
to show him one more thing.

She drives him to her home in Plant City
and takes him to the slab of concrete

she paid to have poured a week after the
lotto winner went missing.

She got out of her truck and she walked
on top of the concrete with that iron

piece of metal.

And she said, I'm going to put this
medal right where he's buried.

Confident he's got the killer, Detective
Dave Clark brings her in.

She has another story to tell.

She's caught the killer. It's her old
buddy, Greg Smith.

But her attempt to implicate him falls
flat.

Now, the unfortunate thing is, I think
you know where I'm going with this,

Diddy.

The gig is up.

Okay? The gig is up.

But Moore won't accept that the gig is
up.

Next, she tries to blame Greg Smith's
friend, the driver of a white Yukon who

she says she's just met.

That doesn't work either.

No, he didn't.

You asked him to find someone to take
the rat for this murder, and you're

to pay him $50 ,000, DeeDee, because I
got really, really bad news for you.

We heard that, too.

With her back against the wall, Moore
makes an interesting offer.

She will tell detectives who killed
Shakespeare if they will let her keep

assets he sold her.

If you cut a deal, you leave all my...
Because that was true stuff.

Abraham really told me that stuff.

Dee Dee, stop it. No, I want a deal.
Steve, stop it.

Stop it. I want a deal, and I won't give
you the person's name.

If you want a deal for the rest of your
life, that's what you better do.

That's the problem, Dee Dee. You're
worried about money.

When the interview ends, Moore is
allowed to leave.

Detective Clark follows her outside
where he says she collapses and starts

crying. She looks up at me and she says,
my son R .J. did it.

I said, your son, R .J., and she says,
my son shot Abraham.

Abraham was trying to choke me, and R
.J. shot and killed him. He did what any

son would do, protected his mother.

Moore denies ever making this comment
about her teenage son.

The next day, January 26th, the
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

search warrants at the property.

Because the body is believed to be in
their county, their sheriff's office

over the investigation.

Detective Gregory Thomas leads the case.

When we arrived the next day with the
search warrants in hand, we were very

confident we were going to find the
remains.

On the third day of the search, at 5 .05
p .m., investigators make the discovery

they've all known was coming.

Six feet down, below the exact spot
Moore marked with a piece of metal for

Smith, they find Abraham Shakespeare.

He's been shot twice in the chest.

The next day, Detectives Greg Thomas and
Dave Wallace have some additional

questions for Moore about how she knew
exactly where his body would be found.

Out of 900 square foot, you picked the
exact spot.

But you didn't know that. Ever so
resting on his left side, decomposed,

with his hair not so long, and no shoes.

You already knew that because it's on
the audio tape. You told Greg.

You already knew it.

Interesting. How did you know that?

Moore hasn't shied away from her old
stories.

She tries to blame the killing on
Shakespeare's cousin, on her lawyer, and

the drug dealer named Ronald.

But Detective Wallace breaks some more
bad news.

They know Ronald is another Dee Dee
Moore lie.

It's over.

It is the truth. It's time to come to
grips with the truth.

That man died on April 6th because of
something you did.

I did not have that man killed. There is
no motive. There is no reason why.

There's plenty of motive.

There's plenty of motive.

There's over $3 million worth of assets
of motive. You know what? Then I'm going

to go to jail for it and put an innocent
victim in jail.

Detectives remind Moore there's only one
innocent victim, and she killed him,

and they know why.

If there's something about you, there's
something deep down in your heart or in

your mind, it's greed.

And it just gets to you. And you need
more and more and more.

By now, investigators have a clear idea
of what happened the night Shakespeare

was killed.

I think he confronted her about his
access to the money.

An argument ensued.

They get to the Plant City house.

She opens up the safe, and that's where
she kept a gun.

Then she doesn't get money out. She gets
the gun out and shoots and kills him.

She realized what she had done, stored
his body until the following day when

can contact her ex -husband.

She said, hey, I need a hole dug because
I need to throw some trash in there and

bury it up.

So he comes over, he digs the hole,
which is actually where Abraham's body

found, and he just leaves.

She had access to an ATV four -wheeler
on her property with an open -ended

trailer that she could have simply
lifted the body onto and move it to the

to bury herself.

As her arrest grows ever nearer, Moore
maintains her innocence.

I'm not scared of going to jail for
murder because there is no jury that's

to convict me.

They're saying that I took a gun, put it
up, and killed another human being,

and I would never, ever, ever do that.

On February 1, 2010, Shakespeare's death
is deemed a homicide.

The next day, Moore is arrested and
booked into the Hillsborough County

Next on American Greed, G .D. Moore goes
to trial.

We're talking about potential death
penalty cases.

That's not fair.

I didn't shoot him. It's not fair. It's
not fair somewhere where you eat cotton

candy and ride on a Ferris wheel.

Get up. This is life.

On Saturday, February 6th, almost a year
after D .D. Moore steals his house, his

assets, and the remainder of his lotto
winnings, Abraham Shakespeare gets the

funeral she never gave him.

There was a sense of closure for
everyone.

He finally came back home.

But it was also sad to know that if he
would have indeed

moved away,

outside of the area where no one could
pester him, then maybe he could still be

alive today.

At the church, there are calls for
justice and even the electric chair, but

will have to wait.

It's not until late November 2012 that
Moore's trial gets underway at Tampa's

downtown courthouse.

He is now a brunette and appears to have
lost weight.

Over the course of 11 days, prosecutors
lay out the case against Moore.

who at times breaks down in tears.

Moore's defense lasts only five minutes.

Her lawyer, Byron Heilman, points out
that it's a case based purely on

circumstantial evidence.

He reminds jurors of Moore's Ronald
story, saying that there were two things

client feared most.

One, the ostensible threats from the
drug dealers if she told the police the

truth once the investigation had begun.

And two...

The fact that she felt whoever had done
this killing had

clearly put her in a position where she
would almost surely be blamed for it. In

his closing argument, Prosecutor Jay
Pruner has his own words about Ronald.

Ronald is in fact all of her bad conduct
put upon

and transferred to a fictional
character.

Pruner plays jurors a video clip, which
he calls the most truthful thing Moore

said. Closing two, please.

Who shot Abraham?

You know who shot him. No, no, no.

Who shot Abraham?

You know who shot him. Tell me who shot
Abraham, D .D.

You know who shot him.

Because of the circumstantial evidence
presented to you in this case, ladies

gentlemen, You know who shot Abraham.

You know who shot Abraham. You know who
shot Abraham.

The jury takes just three hours to find
Moore guilty of first -degree murder.

Throughout the trial, she has at times
appeared unhinged. Now she seems calm.

As the judge prepares to read Moore's
sentence, he seems to have no doubt what

brought her here, greed.

Abraham Shakespeare was your prey and
your victim.

Money was the root of the evil that you
brought to Abraham.

And now I'm going to pronounce the
sentence. For the murder of Abraham

Shakespeare, you are sentenced to life
imprisonment. You shall not be eligible

for parole.

In a letter from jail, Moore tells
American Greed that she's the one who

murdered by the hand of justice.

Always the con artist.

She hints that she needs $250 ,000 for
her defense team, but she says she'll

settle for $399 ,000 as good faith
money.

It's signed with a smiley face.

To this day, she has never said what
really happened the night Shakespeare

killed, and detectives doubt she ever
will.

I think if you went to Dee Dee and told
her, you would let her out of jail today

if she told you the truth on how Abraham
Shakespeare was killed.

I don't think she would tell you.

Meanwhile, a second courtroom battle is
unfolding, a fight to recover

Shakespeare's assets for the two sons he
left behind.

Despite her imprisonment, Moore
continues to scavenge over the remainder

Shakespeare's lotto winnings, saying
she's entitled to the house she stole

him. In a letter to the judge, she
writes that if she loses it to

sons, evil will have triumphed.

To me, she's big.

She really is.

She's a big individual.

12, 13, 42, 6, 52, 34.

Everyone wanted to be Abraham
Shakespeare's friend when he got those

right.

Now his remains rest here, alone in a
quiet corner of a public cemetery.

On his grave marker is an inscription
bearing his birth date.

The number is off by one day.