Missing FL Lotto Winner Murdered?
Poe
This case is kind of interesting, because this Dee Dee Moore (name
sounds REALLY familiar) seems to be trying to make it seem like he's
still alive, texting from his cell phone, etc. pretending to be him...
LE just confirmed she is indeed a POI.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6942386/Police-launch-murder-inquiry-after-disappearance-of-Florida-lottery-winner.html
http://tinyurl.com/yax9tub
A man who disappeared after winning $30 million (�19 million) in the
Florida lottery may have been murdered for his fortune, police believe.
By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 4:45PM GMT 06 Jan 2010
Three years after Abraham Shakespeare, 43, hit the jackpot, police are
discounting his mother's optimistic theory that he is hiding away from
hangers-on in the Caribbean and are instead treating his disappearance
as homicide.
"There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case," said
Grady Judd, a sheriff in Polk County.
He said it was particularly suspicious that Mr Shakespeare did not even
ring his mother at Christmas.
"We fear and are preparing for the worst. We're working this case as if
it were a homicide."
According to his family, the lorry driver's problems only began when he
bought a winning lottery ticket at a convenience store in a town called
Frostproof.
Choosing to take a $16.9 million lump sum rather than the full amount in
instalments, he bought a new car, a Rolex from a pawn shop and a $1
million home in a gated community.
Mr Shakespeare - who has a criminal record for burglary, battery and not
paying child support - talked of setting up a foundation for the poor.
However, his luck started to change when a colleague sued him over
allegations that Mr Shakespeare stole the winning ticket from his wallet
as they drove to Miami.
Mr Shakespeare won the case but rapidly became a target for people
asking him for money.
Elizabeth Walker, his mother, said he was generous, paying for funerals,
lending money to friends starting businesses and giving $1 million to a
friend. Police believe he has already spent the bulk of his winnings.
Officials and relatives say that shortly after buying his new house in
2007, he was approached by a woman named Dee Dee Moore who said she
wanted to write a book about him.
She became his financial adviser and bought Mr Shakespeare's home for
$655,000 last January.
According to police, he has not been seen since April when Miss Moore,
37, told a local newspaper he was "laying low" to avoid people asking
him for money. She filmed Mr Shakespeare saying he wanted to disappear
because he was being hounded by other people and was tired of it. She
said she had produced the video in order to "protect" herself.
In December, she told the newspaper she wanted him to reappear because
police were searching her home and looking for blood on her belongings.
Sheriffs would not comment further on her involvement in Mr
Shakespeare's life.
"I hope so much that he is alive somewhere," said Mr Shakespeare's mother.
Chocolic
"Poe" <hau...@terrible-thought.com> wrote in message
news:7qkcgr...@mid.individual.net...
Interesting story. Why would Miss Moore go on the defensive stating she was
filming Shakespeare stating he wanted to "disappear..." to "protect"
herself. Was that before or after she was considered a person of interest
when she said that.
Chocolic