Woman’s Rich Boss Found Buried in Her Backyard After $30M Lottery Win

six winning numbers brought one man endless misfortune hitting the jackpot should come with a warning label the lottery could change your life or it could end it I wouldn't pay for a man to get killed over it's the end of the road in six feet under a concrete slab it's old an entire community in southern Florida feels like winners when one man hits the jackpot 43-year-old Lakeland Florida resident Abraham Lee Shakespeare works out jobs to get by mostly in construction but there's not a lot you'll say no to and Friday November 15th 2006 is no different on the way to Miami Shakespeare and co-worker make a stop at town star convenience store in Frost for Florida when his co-worker goes inside Shakespeare asks him to make a purchase that ends up changing his life forever a soda and a couple of lottery tickets one of those lottery tickets Shakespeare purchased turned out to be a winner for thirty million dollars after taxes the 43-year-old laborer took home seventeen million dollars in one large lump sum it was a classic rags to riches story but it wasn't all fancy homes and fast cars Shakespeare received hundreds of phone calls each day from people asking for money and when his community called he answered Shakespeare covered rent for struggling families helped friends and strangers get out of debt by 2008 Shakespeare was left with only 1.5 million in cash that's around the same time he met D.D. Moore a 37-year-old business owner in nearby Hillsboro County more claimed she wanted to write a book about Shakespeare's climb from poverty to prosperity Shakespeare didn't know how to read but he liked the idea Shakespeare hired more as a sort of less than qualified financial advisor that's when his struggles went from bad to worse by April 2009 Abraham Shakespeare seemingly disappears by November a suspicious phone call to Shakespeare's mother sparks an investigation into his whereabouts detectives trace the call to a man named Greg and he tells them a much different story than the one D.D. Moore wants everyone to believe you think all these people are going to lie to you because while you're standing there and you're giving them money to do this and that they're going to do it but when the rubber hits the road honey it don't happen okay they tell the truth and guess what I can believe them because guess what it pans out every single time to find the truth about what happens to Abraham Shakespeare all investigators have to do is follow the money you stole the money okay I can prove it okay you look at me look at me I can prove it with paperwork okay you drew all that paper work up okay you how might have had him signed it even okay and I don't know why I don't know the reason why I don't know why you can how you convince them to give you everything without paying for what it is Moore tells investigators she hasn't stolen a dime but according to Greg detectives shouldn't let her walk free anytime soon because that strange call to Shakespeare's mother that kick started the investigation well Greg admits that he's the one who placed it because dd Moore hired him he went to radio site again and this time Greg bought three new boost mobile phones one of them was for you one of them was for Greg and I asked her who the other one was for okay I thought that we lived in society that people wanted a crap okay the truth is you had something to do with it and now I'm telling you the truth you don't want a listen you don't care no you don't you don't want the truth Greg tells investigators that Moore asked him to impersonate Shakespeare on the phone and tell his mother not to worry because he wasn't missing that part is true Shakespeare isn't missing in fact Greg knows exactly where investigators can find him we have been at your property since fricking Monday night do you understand you've had two shares offices and multiple crimes seen investigators out there for a week and we're not done yet Abraham Shakespeare is at dd Moore's boy friend's house buried under a newly poured concrete patio in the backyard with two bullet wounds to the chest and Greg says it was dd Moore Shakespeare's friend and financial advisor who put him there we're gonna play around there some more and get exactly what we need do you think we're just you think we're just out there in barbecue and have a good time when you need I didn't do it so take me to jail it sure so it looks like you did I'm relying on the investigation that we have done think I would direct him all the way it by myself over to a hole that's clear across across the way I'm seeing it the side of fricking blood Moore tells investigators it wasn't her who killed Shakespeare and hit his body on her boyfriend's property but she knows who did tell me here's the problem there may have been somebody else but it's not like you're saying okay he was buried until April 7 okay so you're gonna tell me you see a guy get killed in front of you in your place with your gun and then you come back the next day to two guys that are still waiting for you with a dead body okay you don't call the police you don't do anything okay none of that you're gonna actually think that a jury is gonna believe that crap Moore claims two mysterious men and an untraceable mastermind named Ronald are who really killed Abraham Shakespeare and left her alive to gain access to his fortune to believe your story two murderous thugs kill but they're gonna leave you a witness alive they didn't care about you you can still get a more money out of the bank look at that amount of checks I wrote out looking where did I even any money at that point was 20 20 and look at all that cash and look at how many times I took cash out so they could get more money from me that they would come up and get baby I know we're all the money I got a whole list of where your money went bank statements show that Moore was using her company American medical professionals to funnel Shakespeare's money into accounts only she had access to knowing Abraham Shakespeare was a literate Moore convinced him to sign documents selling millions of dollars worth of assets over to her company for only one hundred eighty five thousand dollars you stole every dime of that you took nice trips to Vegas you did all these things okay you never had beans for all that before you know you got greedy you got greedy trying to get a new home or it's time to get a new this it's time to buy a house down on highway 60 okay I have financial records for all of that every single fit of it records show that in December of 2008 Shakespeare liquidated an annuities account containing a quarter of a million dollars the following month that same amount was transferred to the business account of American medical professionals dd Moore's company dd claims the money was for taxes but investigators don't find any evidence that any of the money pulled out of Shakespeare's accounts was paid to the IRS they do track the disbursement of those funds to several individuals close to more like her boyfriend char whose new concrete patio happened to be poured over the missing millionaires dead body and who just happened to be driving a brand new corvette 250 thousand dollars goes to Charles company 250 thousand goes here 200 thousand goes there to learn from American medical professionals all the money starts going around for sure he left he moved him back in with his cousin because he feels like I should have turned this guy in if I knew that he could have hurt he thinks that I should have done it back then instead of waiting and being scared of him and so what if that guy killed me you know if he killed I should have done something then about it if I knew about it Moore's story also implicates her ex-husband James who Moore says unknowingly dug Shakespeare's grave I had James dig a hole and he dug it I went back inside and the two guys that were in the house told me they were going to take care of the stuff and I said okay what stuff are you referring to talking about they had some towels and stuff that they had got blood on and stuff and I said okay they went over there and um Um, did what they did and they said they were going to put dirt over it. So just telling he, they buried concrete and stuff. So I put, they put some dirt over it and all they put or you put. No, I didn't. Um, why were you hot and sweaty when James came back? Like he's been working because I had been crying. They put me going in my mouth, I pee, my pants, I pee, my pants, I was skating. Moore says that James believed the hole was part of a landscaping project and Shah, he was oblivious to it all. He's never would do anything wrong in his life. What do you want me to say? Do you want me to take the target away and say I murdered him so that he doesn't get far? I want the truth from you for the first time since November. I told you the truth. I don't know some guys. He came in and he didn't even have it. You have not. Quit yelling at me. I've been nice to you the whole time. You want me to tell you a lie. So you tell me what lie you want me to tell you and then James can stay there because that's not fair to him. He did not know anything. He is innocent in all of this and so you're going to put an innocent beauty in a lot. You are not. You are not. You want me to admit that I. You are not. Unfortunately, I paid some crazy man to kill and that is not true. I wouldn't pay for a man to get killed over fucking money. What is the truth? The investigation spreads across two counties and proves that this case is full of holes. You took the guy's money. You got everything in your name and all of a sudden, wow, it comes up to April time. You know, not only does he get killed, he gets killed. It's your office. He gets killed with your gun. He gets carried on your property and you pour a slab within a week later right over where he's at. You had a human being carried on your property and that he didn't deserve that. So this crime that you're doing now, I don't even know if I can believe that or not. He didn't. The man with a human being, it wouldn't have frickin' shallow grave for rock. He deserved that. He didn't. And tell us the truth, sweetie. Moore's romantic partners are just a few of the men she asked to help her cover up her crimes. She has a whole list of other people to blame. Some she invented and some she recruited. Like Greg, Moore's hyory turned informant. If I hadn't told you that we had the audio tape, you were going to tell us the ****. You weren't going to tell us? Yes, you were. No, I wasn't. Oh, GD. I was not. I was saying that I thought there was somebody that knew what kind of money was out there. There was somebody, either family, friends, something new, what kind of money was out there. And that's whoever knew. Get them out there. In an interview with law enforcement, Greg tells them everything. Not only does he lead them to Shakespeare's body, but he also reveals the location of the murder weapon. Greg tells investigators that he learned all the details of the crime directly from the person who orchestrated it. And it comes as no shock to investigators that Greg never spoke to anyone named Ronald. He claims that Moore asked him to pretend to be Ronald in a phone call with her. To try and build the narrative she would later spin for investigators. You're going to use this phone and you're going to be Ronald. And hey, if we get caught, we're going to tell him that Ronald did this. That's all you two. Interesting how Ronald is the vicious drug dealer, a robber of kind of guy. You're the only one drama. Do you think we like working around the clock all week, being away from our own personal lives? Do you think I like digging up a dead black man from April? Do you think I enjoyed it that time? No, he does not. Do you think I enjoyed it the last time when I just smelled his rotting carcass? Do you really think I enjoyed it? Do you think any human being deserves to be put in a shallow grave on property? I know it's not right. He doesn't belong there. It wasn't right. I didn't put him there. One of the biggest pieces of evidence pointing to Moore's involvement is what she did after the crime. Following Shakespeare's death in April, D.D. Moore moved into his home. The minute this guy dies, you move into the house. You're a bright masked person who's just been killed in front of me. Let me move my 15-year-old son in there and put him up in a guest suite apartment all by myself. It's so safe around these drug dealer robber guys that just murdered somebody. I did not move right in. You gotta look at the date. I was not in there and moved in. I didn't move into like a month later. Her motive is clear. Money. They just want to hear her say it. Listen to me. Listen to me. And don't make these dramatic. Stop, stop, stop, stop. The tears and all that don't work. Why do I want to be dead? Why? Tell me. Because they got you caught. And who got me caught? You got yourself caught. For what? For the murder. Despite all the evidence that points at D.D. Moore as the killer, she's still playing games. Maybe in hopes that she'll hit the lottery. And someone will believe her inconsistent stories. Tell the truth and save everybody a lot of grief. Let that man rest in peace. Let his mom know what happened. Do it. It's the end of the road. It's 6 feet under a concrete slab. It's time. It's over. Doris D.D. Moore is charged with first-degree premeditated murder. None of the other people Moore tried to incriminate have been charged in connection to Shakespeare's murder. I'm going to lose everything. And why should I lose everything when I need to kill the man? I'll kill that man. I'll tell you the truth. Can I keep my stuff? But no, the money's off the motive. But no, there's a guy that I don't know his name. That I call this guy Ronald. That I was going to pay another guy to be Ronald. And then it's up and takes money off the back porch. D.D. come on, come on. This isn't the world we live in. You know it. Nobody lives in that world. Nobody. In December 2012, more than three years after the murder of Abraham Shakespeare, D.D. Moore is found guilty by a jury of her peers and is sentenced by a judge to life in prison without parole. She is currently serving at the Lowell Correctional Facility in Ocala, Florida. In the years following her conviction, Moore continues to proclaim her innocence, loudly. In one TV interview, Moore calls the trial one-sided and insists she was not involved in Shakespeare's death. Even claiming the law enforcement agents who were assigned to the case are corrupt. Moore has tried to appeal her conviction several times in the last 14 years. All of her appeals have been denied.