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

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

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

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

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help protect what's left.

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

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out of the blue.

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

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herself.

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Everything that Mr.

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Shakespeare has ever owned now belongs
to Dee Dee Moore.

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When he goes missing, all eyes turn to
her.

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

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human being.

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

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truth.

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

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your mind, it's greed.

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

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January 25, 2010.

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

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to locate lottery winner Abraham
Shakespeare.

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

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along a busy rural highway.

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

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

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

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would not even believe it if she was not
living through it firsthand.

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On November 15, 2006, Abraham
Shakespeare is working on a truck as a

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

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for 40 years.

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The truck's driver, Michael Ford, stops
at this convenience store in the nearby

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town of Frostproof to buy a drink and
cigarettes.

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Shakespeare asks him to pick up two
tickets for that night's $30 million

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lotto drawing.

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Then he waits.

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

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

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

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

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

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ever happened to him.

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Shakespeare treats himself.

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

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But Centoria Butler, Shakespeare's
former girlfriend and the mother of his

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youngest son, says he was always more
interested in spending the money on

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others. He went from being considered a
nobody to everybody needs him all of a

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sudden.

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

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

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danger of losing their homes.

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People that barely knew him, you know,
former co -workers, would go to Abraham

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with a sad story and say, hey, you know,
I have a family, my house is about to

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get foreclosed on, and he'd say, how
much do you owe on it?

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

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then has the owners make payments
directly to him.

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

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people any more money than what they
could afford.

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It was just generosity on his part.

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

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plain generosity.

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

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difficulties with large numbers and
financial concepts.

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

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he wins the lotto.

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It was so easy for people to take
advantage of Shakespeare.

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Matter of fact, everybody who knew him
did.

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Michael Ford, the driver of the truck
who picked up the winning ticket, claims

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in a lawsuit that Shakespeare stole the
ticket from him.

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A jury sides with Shakespeare, but he is
hardly relieved.

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His mother says he changes his phone
number, and he reportedly says, I'd have

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been better off broke.

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

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his $13 million jackpot.

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

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

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

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

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in shining armor.

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

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

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taking advantage of him.

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

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doesn't want or need a handout.

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She would do stuff like, oh, let's go to
the casino, and she would pull up in a

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limousine. Being that he always took
everything at first sight, I think he

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believed that she really had money.

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The lotto winner brings more to his
mansion.

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

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mortgage.

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In what appears to be a selfless act of
kindness, she makes the approximately $7

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,000 payment for him.

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Everybody asked him for money. Nobody
ever gave him anything.

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And here she steps in, and a person on
the outside looking in might say that's

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

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

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Up next on American Greed.

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

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

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to stop her.

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

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doing it out of the goodness of her
heart.

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

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

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look here, it's definitely her
signature.

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Detectives who investigate her see it in
a slightly harsher light.

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I think Dee Dee Moore was the most
manipulative, cunning,

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pure con artist, evil person I've ever
come across.

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In one instance, Moore is alleged to
have set a fire to avoid an embezzlement

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investigation.

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In another case, after falling behind on
a car payment, she hatches a plan.

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She ties herself up, throws herself in a
ditch, and calls and says that she was

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carjacked and some Hispanic guys
attempted to rape her and left her for

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a ditch.

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None of that happened.

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

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on the car and to keep the car.

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Moore pleads guilty to making a false
report, and a judge gives her a year of

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probation.

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With Shakespeare, she has her own plan.

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She convinces him the IRS is going to
come after him for the unreported loans

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

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

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

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

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Look what I did. I paid your mortgage
off.

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

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harm's way.

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

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

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

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might be for $20 ,000.

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The rest of the cash is hers.

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

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

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can't personally come after you.

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Moore says he should sell everything.

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Luckily, she has a buyer in mind,

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Dee Dee Moore.

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In January 2009, she agrees to pay
Shakespeare $655 ,000 for his $1

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.1 million mansion.

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She also agrees to pay him an additional
$185 ,000 and gets more than $3 .5

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million in additional real estate and
uncollected IOUs he's holding.

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

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Now, that seems to be a pretty good
investment.

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And on paper, it's a great investment.

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For her.

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But she never even pays him.

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Moore doesn't stop there.

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Next, he targets more than $1 million
that Shakespeare has in an annuity

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account.

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In early February, she files paperwork
opening a company which she controls

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called Abraham Shakespeare LLC.

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She says that if Shakespeare moves his
money into this limited liability

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

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

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

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

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

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

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million, he has questions.

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

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

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him or restrict his access.

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To settle Shakespeare's concerns, Moore
has with her minutes of an LLC meeting,

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adding his name as a signer.

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She gives them to the bank, and he
deposits his check.

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But when Shakespeare steps out, Dee Dee
Moore has a special request.

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She said, you know, I won't be able to
help him if he takes all the money out.

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So can you tell me before he takes any
money or not let him get to the money?

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Which, of course, I said, you know, Dee
Dee, he's a signer on the account now.

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He has full access, same as you.

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

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She just needs to provide the right
paperwork.

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A few days later, she brings in another
set of meeting minutes.

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The minutes state that as the company's
manager, she alone has decided to remove

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him from the account.

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The bank gives her sole signing
authority.

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Once she presented us with this, she had
complete control.

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He had no access, and he had no way of
even knowing what she did with the money

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from that moment on.

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

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

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

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

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and pockets the money.

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

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purpose, and then just...

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deposits the money into her account.

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Moore's attempts to keep Shakespeare in
the dark aren't over.

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She tries to give Hancock a $20 ,000
check as an apparent bribe.

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He turns the check in and passes the
matter on to corporate security.

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Well, I went home and told my wife. I
said, you're not going to believe this.

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

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what she's doing.

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

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,000.

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

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policies or the investigation.

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But Hancock says that he wishes things
had gone differently.

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I wish that when I turned it over to
corporate security that maybe some other

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type of investigation could have stopped
her from taking the money and, you

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know, maybe then it wouldn't have...

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led to what it did.

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

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Are you going to miss your home?

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Yes, I miss it, but life goes on.

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

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hanging out at the Super Choice Foods
market in Lakeland.

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But in April 2009, he stops coming
around.

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

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but never shows up.

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Over the next few months, stories begin
to spread about where he is.

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Well, he finally got tired of people
pestering him for money, and so he got

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of Dodge.

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

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

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

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have in common.

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First, none of them are true.

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

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Shakespeare on the phone,

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Deedee Moore.

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Oddly, while he can't be found, she
seems to be living large.

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At the center of her new life is her new
mansion, the one that once belonged to

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Shakespeare.

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

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much younger boyfriend a $70 ,000
Corvette.

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

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renovations, including pouring...

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an oddly placed concrete slab.

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

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doesn't seem quite right.

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I would call and call and call, and
nobody would answer.

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But I would keep getting texts, and it
would have big words in it. I'd be like,

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this ain't Abraham.

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He can't even say that word.

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

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whereabouts, his mother, Elizabeth
Walker.

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

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

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80 -year -old woman who loves her son?

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

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birthday card to Walker. It's signed
with the missing man's name.

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and contains a cross and $100.

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For nearly seven months, no one comes
forward to report Shakespeare missing.

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Not his mom, who Moore has been
manipulating.

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Not his ex -girlfriend, Centoria Butler,
who has been told he's trying to escape

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from her.

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

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there's one simple reason for that.

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Greed. Everybody, all they wanted from
Abraham?

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It was money.

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

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you're at? No.

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

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cousin. It's not a smart move
considering the dirt he has on her.

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He comes forward with quite a story to
tell.

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Dee Dee Moore has purchased all
Shakespeare's assets and she's living in

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house.

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Within days, detectives bring more in
for questioning.

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She tells them Shakespeare wanted to get
away from all the people bothering him.

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She purchased his home and his assets to
give him the cash he needed to move.

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She plays them a video that she says
proves this.

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

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Give me your opinion on it.

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Are you going to miss your home?

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Yes, I miss it, but life goes on.

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

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has the money to leave.

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Detectives find no record that Moore
ever paid him for his assets.

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When she says she paid him in cash, they
see that her business was not that

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profitable. Unless you believe that D
.D. Moore had a hundred and something

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thousand dollars cash.

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

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

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she didn't have that money.

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Detective Chris Lynn sees that the
Abraham Shakespeare LLC account has been

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liquidated. When we confronted her about
these checks, of course, you know, the

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continued lies.

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I did everything to help the man.

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

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

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Meanwhile, detectives Clark and Wallace
start looking at Shakespeare's phone

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records. They notice that he stopped
making calls after April 6th.

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Though no one else has spoken to him,
for months, Moore insists that the lotto

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winner has been calling her from his
phone.

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Records show that their phones have, in
fact, connected.

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But when they do, they're both in pretty
much the same location.

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

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

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happens to be close by?

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You could tell she didn't have any way
to explain it.

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So she finally said, okay, I had his
phone.

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I had his phone the whole time, but he
wanted me to have his phone. That was

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plan.

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

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

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

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

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with, he signed over to you.

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Where's Abraham?

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

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starting to think maybe Abraham's dead.

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Abraham's not dead.

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

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

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

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

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been coming by his shop to sweep up.

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

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there.

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Smith borrowed $63 ,000 from the lotto
winner.

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

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IOUs.

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

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She'll pay him $350.

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if he will make a phone call.

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What do you want me to say?

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Just say that you saw Abraham down in
Miami.

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Smith places the call.

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

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tell you, I saw Abraham down in Miami.

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

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Well, how did you see his ID?

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

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just knew all about this.

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Well, how'd you get my number?

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Well, I got to go.

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

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familiar with him.

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

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

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

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They'll have Detective Dave Clark talk
to Moore.

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

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himself.

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

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

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

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you much longer.

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The plan works.

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Moore takes the bait.

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

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I want you to call Abraham's mother.

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

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

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

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to Greg Smith here at the Lakeland
Square Mall.

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

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Dee Dee Moore is there with him.

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handing him some cash.

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

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

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

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Before long, they are talking to Greg
Smith.

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Dave Wallace was the first one to say
something.

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

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Did you call Dave Wallace?

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I said, yeah.

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

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

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helps her out.

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

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

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we've got somebody on the inside.

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Smith figures out the perfect way to
help.

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

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

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She has no idea.

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

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

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right now.

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

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

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

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She was like, come in, come in.

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

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

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

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rockers.

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

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

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

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

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

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Detectives retrieve it before she sees
it.

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

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

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

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interest in the case.

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They make one thing clear.

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Investigators don't believe her stories.

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

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the hamster rolling in her head.

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

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

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story.

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

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

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

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

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

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know, black.

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

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

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where she presents a bold new way out.

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

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Abraham would be back real soon.

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

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

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

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

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blame for the right price.

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Hello.

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Yeah,

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

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Moore blames the killing on the drug
dealer, Ronald.

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

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cops will get off her back.

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

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needs more info so his confession will
seem believable.

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

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

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Okay.

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Deal.

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

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helping her conceal her crime.

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

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Lake Wells Police Department.

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

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

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It was a drug deal, but it went back.

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

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today or yesterday.

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

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for killing Abraham Shakespeare.

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

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help make the Fall Guys story
believable.

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She has the gun that killed Shakespeare.

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

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It's on her property.

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

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He needs to move Shakespeare's remains.

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

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

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

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shopping spree.

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

455
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,020
unearth a body, dispose of a body.

456
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:44,460
At Walmart, she buys a roll of plastic
sheeting, Lysol, rubber gloves.

457
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,160
and a Frappuccino.

458
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:53,980
The next day, January 25th, Smith and
Moore meet and she hands over the

459
00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:55,360
used to shoot Shakespeare.

460
00:30:55,820 --> 00:31:01,040
It's a .38 caliber with a laser sight
attached, registered in her name.

461
00:31:01,460 --> 00:31:05,100
She wants to make sure Smith gets all
her fingerprints off it.

462
00:31:20,020 --> 00:31:24,620
Later that day, Moore meets Smith again
to show him one more thing.

463
00:31:25,660 --> 00:31:30,200
She drives him to her home in Plant City
and takes him to the slab of concrete

464
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,500
she paid to have poured a week after the
lotto winner went missing.

465
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:41,060
She got out of her truck and she walked
on top of the concrete with that iron

466
00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:42,060
piece of metal.

467
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,920
And she said, I'm going to put this
medal right where he's buried.

468
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,920
Confident he's got the killer, Detective
Dave Clark brings her in.

469
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,300
She has another story to tell.

470
00:31:58,860 --> 00:32:01,880
She's caught the killer. It's her old
buddy, Greg Smith.

471
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,200
But her attempt to implicate him falls
flat.

472
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,800
Now, the unfortunate thing is, I think
you know where I'm going with this,

473
00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:16,820
Diddy.

474
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,280
The gig is up.

475
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,820
Okay? The gig is up.

476
00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:23,980
But Moore won't accept that the gig is
up.

477
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:29,340
Next, she tries to blame Greg Smith's
friend, the driver of a white Yukon who

478
00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:30,740
she says she's just met.

479
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,760
That doesn't work either.

480
00:32:33,220 --> 00:32:34,320
No, he didn't.

481
00:32:34,860 --> 00:32:39,560
You asked him to find someone to take
the rat for this murder, and you're

482
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:45,220
to pay him $50 ,000, DeeDee, because I
got really, really bad news for you.

483
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,760
We heard that, too.

484
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,840
With her back against the wall, Moore
makes an interesting offer.

485
00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:57,880
She will tell detectives who killed
Shakespeare if they will let her keep

486
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,540
assets he sold her.

487
00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:05,790
If you cut a deal, you leave all my...
Because that was true stuff.

488
00:33:05,990 --> 00:33:07,470
Abraham really told me that stuff.

489
00:33:07,850 --> 00:33:10,810
Dee Dee, stop it. No, I want a deal.
Steve, stop it.

490
00:33:11,350 --> 00:33:14,090
Stop it. I want a deal, and I won't give
you the person's name.

491
00:33:14,290 --> 00:33:17,270
If you want a deal for the rest of your
life, that's what you better do.

492
00:33:18,250 --> 00:33:21,690
That's the problem, Dee Dee. You're
worried about money.

493
00:33:22,330 --> 00:33:25,250
When the interview ends, Moore is
allowed to leave.

494
00:33:26,090 --> 00:33:30,530
Detective Clark follows her outside
where he says she collapses and starts

495
00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:33,950
crying. She looks up at me and she says,
my son R .J. did it.

496
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,360
I said, your son, R .J., and she says,
my son shot Abraham.

497
00:33:37,780 --> 00:33:41,820
Abraham was trying to choke me, and R
.J. shot and killed him. He did what any

498
00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:43,920
son would do, protected his mother.

499
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,660
Moore denies ever making this comment
about her teenage son.

500
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:55,000
The next day, January 26th, the
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

501
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,720
search warrants at the property.

502
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,180
Because the body is believed to be in
their county, their sheriff's office

503
00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:03,180
over the investigation.

504
00:34:04,380 --> 00:34:07,320
Detective Gregory Thomas leads the case.

505
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:10,980
When we arrived the next day with the
search warrants in hand, we were very

506
00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:12,980
confident we were going to find the
remains.

507
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:18,460
On the third day of the search, at 5 .05
p .m., investigators make the discovery

508
00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:20,420
they've all known was coming.

509
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:26,600
Six feet down, below the exact spot
Moore marked with a piece of metal for

510
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,420
Smith, they find Abraham Shakespeare.

511
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,780
He's been shot twice in the chest.

512
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,580
The next day, Detectives Greg Thomas and
Dave Wallace have some additional

513
00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:44,219
questions for Moore about how she knew
exactly where his body would be found.

514
00:34:44,739 --> 00:34:47,940
Out of 900 square foot, you picked the
exact spot.

515
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,420
But you didn't know that. Ever so
resting on his left side, decomposed,

516
00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:58,140
with his hair not so long, and no shoes.

517
00:35:02,060 --> 00:35:04,740
You already knew that because it's on
the audio tape. You told Greg.

518
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:06,020
You already knew it.

519
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,480
Interesting. How did you know that?

520
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,440
Moore hasn't shied away from her old
stories.

521
00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:19,340
She tries to blame the killing on
Shakespeare's cousin, on her lawyer, and

522
00:35:19,340 --> 00:35:20,620
the drug dealer named Ronald.

523
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,180
But Detective Wallace breaks some more
bad news.

524
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,120
They know Ronald is another Dee Dee
Moore lie.

525
00:35:28,540 --> 00:35:29,540
It's over.

526
00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:33,000
It is the truth. It's time to come to
grips with the truth.

527
00:35:33,540 --> 00:35:36,900
That man died on April 6th because of
something you did.

528
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,200
I did not have that man killed. There is
no motive. There is no reason why.

529
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,240
There's plenty of motive.

530
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,440
There's plenty of motive.

531
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,380
There's over $3 million worth of assets
of motive. You know what? Then I'm going

532
00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:52,380
to go to jail for it and put an innocent
victim in jail.

533
00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:57,900
Detectives remind Moore there's only one
innocent victim, and she killed him,

534
00:35:57,980 --> 00:35:59,100
and they know why.

535
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,540
If there's something about you, there's
something deep down in your heart or in

536
00:36:02,540 --> 00:36:03,840
your mind, it's greed.

537
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,340
And it just gets to you. And you need
more and more and more.

538
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:13,720
By now, investigators have a clear idea
of what happened the night Shakespeare

539
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:14,720
was killed.

540
00:36:14,980 --> 00:36:19,720
I think he confronted her about his
access to the money.

541
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,380
An argument ensued.

542
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,480
They get to the Plant City house.

543
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,640
She opens up the safe, and that's where
she kept a gun.

544
00:36:29,050 --> 00:36:32,130
Then she doesn't get money out. She gets
the gun out and shoots and kills him.

545
00:36:32,550 --> 00:36:37,630
She realized what she had done, stored
his body until the following day when

546
00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:39,350
can contact her ex -husband.

547
00:36:39,930 --> 00:36:42,950
She said, hey, I need a hole dug because
I need to throw some trash in there and

548
00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:43,729
bury it up.

549
00:36:43,730 --> 00:36:47,790
So he comes over, he digs the hole,
which is actually where Abraham's body

550
00:36:47,790 --> 00:36:49,010
found, and he just leaves.

551
00:36:49,590 --> 00:36:53,690
She had access to an ATV four -wheeler
on her property with an open -ended

552
00:36:53,690 --> 00:36:57,350
trailer that she could have simply
lifted the body onto and move it to the

553
00:36:57,350 --> 00:36:58,350
to bury herself.

554
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,620
As her arrest grows ever nearer, Moore
maintains her innocence.

555
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:08,700
I'm not scared of going to jail for
murder because there is no jury that's

556
00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:09,700
to convict me.

557
00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:16,580
They're saying that I took a gun, put it
up, and killed another human being,

558
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,660
and I would never, ever, ever do that.

559
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,180
On February 1, 2010, Shakespeare's death
is deemed a homicide.

560
00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:30,880
The next day, Moore is arrested and
booked into the Hillsborough County

561
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,180
Next on American Greed, G .D. Moore goes
to trial.

562
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,440
We're talking about potential death
penalty cases.

563
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:40,700
That's not fair.

564
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,840
I didn't shoot him. It's not fair. It's
not fair somewhere where you eat cotton

565
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,340
candy and ride on a Ferris wheel.

566
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,140
Get up. This is life.

567
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:05,540
On Saturday, February 6th, almost a year
after D .D. Moore steals his house, his

568
00:38:05,540 --> 00:38:10,500
assets, and the remainder of his lotto
winnings, Abraham Shakespeare gets the

569
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,180
funeral she never gave him.

570
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,620
There was a sense of closure for
everyone.

571
00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:17,860
He finally came back home.

572
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:24,980
But it was also sad to know that if he
would have indeed

573
00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:26,100
moved away,

574
00:38:26,910 --> 00:38:31,830
outside of the area where no one could
pester him, then maybe he could still be

575
00:38:31,830 --> 00:38:32,830
alive today.

576
00:38:33,670 --> 00:38:39,050
At the church, there are calls for
justice and even the electric chair, but

577
00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:40,050
will have to wait.

578
00:38:40,790 --> 00:38:46,330
It's not until late November 2012 that
Moore's trial gets underway at Tampa's

579
00:38:46,330 --> 00:38:47,410
downtown courthouse.

580
00:38:47,830 --> 00:38:51,030
He is now a brunette and appears to have
lost weight.

581
00:38:51,730 --> 00:38:56,250
Over the course of 11 days, prosecutors
lay out the case against Moore.

582
00:38:56,670 --> 00:38:58,770
who at times breaks down in tears.

583
00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:02,310
Moore's defense lasts only five minutes.

584
00:39:02,850 --> 00:39:07,590
Her lawyer, Byron Heilman, points out
that it's a case based purely on

585
00:39:07,590 --> 00:39:08,730
circumstantial evidence.

586
00:39:09,090 --> 00:39:13,850
He reminds jurors of Moore's Ronald
story, saying that there were two things

587
00:39:13,850 --> 00:39:15,010
client feared most.

588
00:39:15,510 --> 00:39:21,310
One, the ostensible threats from the
drug dealers if she told the police the

589
00:39:21,310 --> 00:39:23,210
truth once the investigation had begun.

590
00:39:24,590 --> 00:39:25,790
And two...

591
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:33,300
The fact that she felt whoever had done
this killing had

592
00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:37,960
clearly put her in a position where she
would almost surely be blamed for it. In

593
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,960
his closing argument, Prosecutor Jay
Pruner has his own words about Ronald.

594
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:50,840
Ronald is in fact all of her bad conduct
put upon

595
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,220
and transferred to a fictional
character.

596
00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:58,840
Pruner plays jurors a video clip, which
he calls the most truthful thing Moore

597
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,680
said. Closing two, please.

598
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,140
Who shot Abraham?

599
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,520
You know who shot him. No, no, no.

600
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,820
Who shot Abraham?

601
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:13,740
You know who shot him. Tell me who shot
Abraham, D .D.

602
00:40:14,740 --> 00:40:16,340
You know who shot him.

603
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:22,360
Because of the circumstantial evidence
presented to you in this case, ladies

604
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,680
gentlemen, You know who shot Abraham.

605
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,340
You know who shot Abraham. You know who
shot Abraham.

606
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:36,160
The jury takes just three hours to find
Moore guilty of first -degree murder.

607
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:42,500
Throughout the trial, she has at times
appeared unhinged. Now she seems calm.

608
00:40:42,940 --> 00:40:47,640
As the judge prepares to read Moore's
sentence, he seems to have no doubt what

609
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:48,960
brought her here, greed.

610
00:40:50,020 --> 00:40:53,540
Abraham Shakespeare was your prey and
your victim.

611
00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:57,240
Money was the root of the evil that you
brought to Abraham.

612
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:02,140
And now I'm going to pronounce the
sentence. For the murder of Abraham

613
00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:05,520
Shakespeare, you are sentenced to life
imprisonment. You shall not be eligible

614
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:06,520
for parole.

615
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,700
In a letter from jail, Moore tells
American Greed that she's the one who

616
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:14,660
murdered by the hand of justice.

617
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,760
Always the con artist.

618
00:41:17,290 --> 00:41:22,450
She hints that she needs $250 ,000 for
her defense team, but she says she'll

619
00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:25,450
settle for $399 ,000 as good faith
money.

620
00:41:26,110 --> 00:41:27,890
It's signed with a smiley face.

621
00:41:29,190 --> 00:41:33,410
To this day, she has never said what
really happened the night Shakespeare

622
00:41:33,410 --> 00:41:37,290
killed, and detectives doubt she ever
will.

623
00:41:38,410 --> 00:41:42,290
I think if you went to Dee Dee and told
her, you would let her out of jail today

624
00:41:42,290 --> 00:41:45,510
if she told you the truth on how Abraham
Shakespeare was killed.

625
00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:46,870
I don't think she would tell you.

626
00:41:47,890 --> 00:41:52,970
Meanwhile, a second courtroom battle is
unfolding, a fight to recover

627
00:41:52,970 --> 00:41:56,250
Shakespeare's assets for the two sons he
left behind.

628
00:41:57,810 --> 00:42:02,450
Despite her imprisonment, Moore
continues to scavenge over the remainder

629
00:42:02,450 --> 00:42:07,150
Shakespeare's lotto winnings, saying
she's entitled to the house she stole

630
00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:11,890
him. In a letter to the judge, she
writes that if she loses it to

631
00:42:11,890 --> 00:42:14,210
sons, evil will have triumphed.

632
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,120
To me, she's big.

633
00:42:19,020 --> 00:42:20,340
She really is.

634
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:21,600
She's a big individual.

635
00:42:22,140 --> 00:42:26,920
12, 13, 42, 6, 52, 34.

636
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,120
Everyone wanted to be Abraham
Shakespeare's friend when he got those

637
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,120
right.

638
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:39,460
Now his remains rest here, alone in a
quiet corner of a public cemetery.

639
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:44,900
On his grave marker is an inscription
bearing his birth date.

640
00:42:45,220 --> 00:42:47,720
The number is off by one day.