Body of Florida lottery winner found

Friday, 01.29.10

Body in backyard is missing Fla. lottery winner's

By TAMARA LUSH
Associated Press Writer

PLANT CITY, Fla. -- Winning $30 million in the Florida Lottery should have been the best thing that ever happened to Abraham Shakespeare. But with his newfound wealth came a string of bad choices and hangers-on who constantly hit him up for money. Nine months ago, he vanished. Friends and family hoped he was on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean. On Friday, detectives confirmed that a body buried under a concrete slab in a rural backyard was his.

The home Shakespeare was found behind belongs to the boyfriend of a woman who befriended him in 2007, the year after he won the lottery. Authorities believe he was murdered and the woman may know something about it, but they do not yet know how he died and have not arrested anyone.

Shakespeare's brother, Robert Brown, said Friday that Shakespeare often wished he had never bought the winning ticket.

"'I'd have been better off broke.' He said that to me all the time," Brown said.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's detectives used fingerprints to identify Shakespeare's body, which they found buried 5 feet deep and covered by a 30-by-30 concrete slab in the backyard of a two-story ranch house. There are no neighbors, save for an empty trailer next door and an orange grove across the street.

When Shakespeare won the lottery, he was an assistant truck driver who lived with his mother in a rural county east of Tampa. He was barely literate, had a criminal record and was extremely generous with his newly acquired wealth.

"He really didn't understand it at all," said Samuel Jones, who has known Shakespeare since both were 12. "It was moving so fast. It changed his life in a bad way."

Jones said Friday that Abraham told him in March that he wanted to get out of Lakeland, where he had bought a million-dollar home. After he chose a lump sum payment of nearly $17 million, people gathered outside his mother's home, clamoring for cash.

Jones said Abraham would tell him, "I thought all these people were my friends, but then I realized all they want is just money."

Among those new friends was Dorice Donegan "DeeDee" Moore. Shakespeare met her in 2007, shortly after he bought his home. She told him she was interested in writing a book about his life.

But officials said she was interested in his money.

"DeeDee Moore is a con artist, and if she tried to sell me anything, I certainly wouldn't buy it," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release earlier this month. "DeeDee Moore has cheated Abraham Shakespeare out of his money, and possibly his life."

Moore - whose known phone numbers were all disconnected Friday - became something of a financial adviser to Shakespeare.

Property records show her company, American Medical Professionals, bought his home for $655,000 in January 2009. In February, she helped him open a company and gave herself the ability to sign for money, detectives said, including a $1 million withdrawal.

Moore told detectives Shakespeare gave her the cash as a gift. She bought a Hummer, a Corvette and a truck, and went on vacation.

Three months later, 26-year-old Shar Krasniqi - identified by Judd as Moore's boyfriend - bought the home in Plant City that Shakespeare's body was found behind. A tip led detectives there this week.

Howard Stitzel, who happened to be Shakespeare's lawyer in a child support case, started working out Krasniqi's home after Shakespeare disappeared.

Stitzel said he could not comment when reached by The Associated Press on Friday. His lawyer, Glenn Lansky, said Stitzel rented space in the home in mid-2009.

"The landlord was DeeDee Moore," Lansky said. "If the police have any questions, we'll answer them."

A phone number listed in public records for Krasniqi rang to Stitzel's law firm Friday.

Shakespeare was last seen in April. Moore, who spoke several times to the Lakeland Ledger newspaper last year about his disappearance, said he was "laying low" because people constantly tried to get money out of him.

She also told the paper she helped Shakespeare disappear. But Polk detectives say she tried to make it appear that he was alive for several months, at one point using his phone to text his relatives and friends.

Detectives say Moore also paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000 to deliver a birthday card with cash to Shakespeare's mother, suggesting it was from her son.

So far, only one person has faced charges in the case, but not for Shakespeare's disappearance or death. Troy McKay Young, 42, a Lakeland police officer, was charged with unlawful compensation and misuse of confidential information after detectives said he provided Moore with information he obtained through law enforcement databases.

Meanwhile, friends and family puzzled Friday over Shakespeare's rapid rise and fall. Jones said his friend lived a humble life, and just before he bought the winning ticket he joined a church and was baptized.

"When he won the lottery," Jones said, "he forgot about being saved."

 

What has "snowbird" and "Porcelain" got to do with you when you are a BLACK LADY huh porcelainsnowbird ?? why do you use such screename ? who do you think you are fooling ? The BM Mr shakespeare who won the lottery was not bright, he was uneducated man from the ghetto stupid BM who didn't know any better common sense will tell you that when you are poor BM and suddenly win 30 million you should be suspicious of everyone but unfortunately that is something shakespeare lacked ,,,,,, and the woman he was attracted to Ms DeeDee moore was .......hmmmm let me check who she is hmmm ---- is she black ? hold on let me see her picture......

OH MY GOD SHE IS WHITE


HOLY COW I DON'T BELIEVE THIS


OH MY GOSH let me catch my breath......wheew



Dear porcelain, I am really shocked lol, every BM wether educated or ignorant like Mr.shakespeare should be be very suspicious of the devilish ww and her motives lol, especially fat ones who are white boy rejects like Ms Dee Dee

Porcelain, even though you have almost left this forum after I exposed you what a fraud you are but could not wait to come back to share this incredible story of fat ww taking the money of stupid BM who is now implicated in his murder, once cops call someone person of interest that is it you're suspect it's PC term cops use nowadays. so you saw this story somewhere realized Ms Dee Dee was white and couldn't wait to come here and warn the guys of the forum the risks of involving with ww YEAH every ww is a monster LOL in a nutshell that is the rationale behind your cut-and-paste story You knew guys on here will dig a little bit to find who Dee Dee is and once they do that your mission is done, do you see how silly you are ? I have connected the dots for anyone who is reading this to show why you posted this story on here I have no problem with ppl who standup for what they believe in but you r timid and spineless coward who thinks by calling yourself porcelainsnowbird you'll be perceived as ww. You are anti IR black woman who is afraid of getting flack from others...

BTW HERE IS THE CLIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdPBSB2aJ0

 

Now now, Maruti. You know we White Women are all snakes, just biding our time and waiting for opportunities to betray Black Men.

 

I like the white devil. :smt077

 

:smt005

 

Homeboy has associated himself with a woman who was bad for him and paid a great price for it.

 

And *remember*, PorcelainSnowBird, it COULD have been a female of ANY race!


By the way, BEFORE *we* saw the identity of this Fatal Femme Fatale involved....I bet there were LOTS of people that woulda SWORE it WAS a "Sista" that *did* this travesty to the poor bloke..

But that's NOT the issue here..not *quite*, anyway...............





Note to PSB:

You've got issues.

You have God Damned ISSUES.

See a doctor or something....FREAK!


















OpinionsCartoonStudios@Yahoo.Co.UK

 

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Lakeland police officer arrested by homicide detectives

Reported by: Cary Williams
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Last Update: 1/25

POLK COUNTY, FL -- A Lakeland police officer was arrested Monday and charged with illegally passing information to a 'person of interest' in the case of a missing lottery winner. Troy McKay, 42, is also charged with receiving unlawful compensation.

Detectives say Young provided Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore with information through law enforcement databases and received money in exchange. The unlawful compensation charge is a 2nd degree felony.

Moore was named a person of interest in the case of Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, who's been missing since April 2009.

According to a sheriff's report, Moore met young in August 2009 through a mutual acquaintance. Moore told detectives she was writing a book about Shakespeare and "wanted Young to corroborate as he was a police officer and his credibility was greater than others with whom she had spoken."
She said she paid Young on different occasions. Young admitted to the crimes, according to the statement.

He was jailed on a $5,500 bond.

Shakespeare, 43, was officially reported missing by his family in Novermber. Moore became a person of interest earlier this month.
Detectives say she used Shakespeare's cell phone to text Shakespeare's relatives in an effort to make them believe the messages were from Shakespeare himself.

The report goes on to say that Moore paid one of Shakespeare's relatives $5,000.00 to deliver a birthday card containing cash to Shakespeare's mother, suggesting that the card was from her son.

Shakespeare is described as a black male, with brown eyes, black hair, approximately 6 foot 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 190 pounds.
A $10,000.00 reward is being offered offered. Call Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-TIPS or visit ***********8c1111]www.heartlandcrimestoppers.com[/color].

 

Speaking of false perceptions, guess who the public was initially lead to believe committed this heinous crime? In fact, some still believe Shaun Gayle was behind this, but it's highly doubtful he was.

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Police Chief Sliozis: After a pretty extensive interview, several hours, she finally did admit that Marni had discussed with her a plan to kill her, to kill Rhoni Reuter. And then also discussed with her, after the fact, how she did it and what she did.

And the story she told was a bombshell...the black teenager seen leaving the scene of the crime was really Marni Yang, she said...wearing a corn row wig, baggy clothes and black makeup. And she said Marni told her she'd encased the murder weapon in cement and thrown it in a dumpster. And there was another detail police say only the killer could know.

 

The plot thickens.

 

She purchased the gun, bags of lime and offered $50,000 for someone else to take the rap...yet she claims no court will convict her.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/2/3/578110.html

$1 million bond set in lottery murder case Wednesday, February 3, 2010

POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- Making her first appearance in court Wednesday morning, Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore had her bond set at $1 million.

Previously a person of interest in a homicide case involving Polk County lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, Moore became a suspect when she was arrested Tuesday.

With the $1 million bond, Moore would need $100,000 in bail funds to be released from the Hillsborough County Jail.

Moore is charged with being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder in the death of Shakespeare.

According to officials, Moore gave investigators a variety of stories of what may have happened to Shakespeare, including that her own 14-year-old son was involved.

She also said that Shakespeare could have been killed by his cousin or a drug dealer. She later changed the story to say that she killed Shakespeare in self-defense, according to officials.

In her first televised interview, Moore told Bay News 9 Tuesday that she did not kill Shakespeare.

"Let the courts be the judge of that, let the investigators do their jobs, and they'll bring justice to the right person," she said.

In an earlier interview with Bay News 9's partner paper, the Ledger, Moore had said she knew who killed Shakespeare. However, her new attorney said she can no longer comment on specifics of the case. She refused to comment on her earlier statement.

"I would be glad to talk to all of you, tell you the complete story," she said. "But my lawyer says I cannot comment on anything."

Shakespeare was last seen alive on April 2009, about two years after he won $30 million in the Florida Lottery. He was reported missing by his family in November 2009.

Last week, his remains were found beneath a slab of concrete, behind a Plant City house owned by Moore's boyfriend.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has executed a search warrant at the home.
Investigators said the cause of death was homicidal violence.

Moore has been considered a person of interest in the case for several weeks, but Bay News 9 declined to identify her until now because she had not been charged with a crime.

"They're saying that I took a gun, put it up and killed another human being and I would never, ever, ever do that," Moore said.

Gee said more charges against Moore could follow.

Lakeland police officer Troy Young was arrested last month after investigators said he gave information from a law enforcement database to Moore in exchange for money and a plane ticket.

Events that occurred as described in the probable cause affidavit:
- April 6-7, 2009 Abraham Shakespeare was murdered at the residence at 5732 Highway 60 East in Plant City.

- Moore arranged for an undisclosed witness to dig a hole to bury construction debris behind the residence at 5802 Highway 60 East in Plant City. She later had him come back to fill the hole.

- December 2009 Moore wrote a letter to Shakespeare's mother claiming to be the victim and to be okay. Moore also used Shakespeare's cell phone to send texts to his friends and family.

- Dec. 27, 2009 Moore had an undisclosed witness make a cell phone call to Shakespeare's mother, claiming he was Shakespeare, telling her he was okay. Moore later admitted to deputies that she took steps to make it appear Shakespeare was still alive.

- Between Dec. 28, 2009 and Jan. 21, 2010 Moore approached an undisclosed witness asking if there was anyone awaiting sentencing that would admit to killing Shakespeare in exchange for $50,000. Moore told the witness that he and another person would have to dig up body and move it to another location.

- Jan. 25, 2010 Moore met with the undisclosed witness and provided a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver and told him it was the weapon that killed Shakespeare.

- Moore then took the witness to 5802 Highway 60 East in Plant City and pointed to the location under a concrete slab where the victim was buried. She placed a piece of steel on the slab to mark where the body was and they agreed the body would be removed at 8 p.m.

- Moore told the witness she would leave a white Ford F-150 with a trailer to be used to transport the body. She gave the keys to the witness. The trailer contained a galvanized trough, bleach, gloves and plastic sheeting.

- Jan. 25, 2010 Moore admitted to Polk County sheriff's detectives that she had purchased bags of lime to be placed over the body when it was buried.

- Jan. 28, 2010 Members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office recovered remains from under the concrete slab where Moore had placed the piece of steel. The remains were identified to be Shakespeare's.

- The medical examiner determined Shakespeare died as a result of homicidal violence.