A woman took over a $30 million lottery winner's money, and police found him buried under a concrete slab

A Florida Lotto ticket sold at a Town Star store in Frostproof on 15 November 2006 won a $30 million jackpot. Abraham Shakespeare took a lump sum of $17 million^†. In late 2008 Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore befriended him, saying she was writing a book about people who exploited him. She became his financial adviser and took control of what was left: his house, debts owed to him and a $1.5 million annuity. She set up Abraham Shakespeare LLC with herself in control of its funds. On 9 January 2009 his house was transferred to her company, American Medical Professionals; there is no evidence she paid for it. He was last seen in April 2009, and detectives put his death on 6 or 7 April. His family reported him missing in November 2009. On 27 January 2010 police found his body under a newly poured concrete slab behind a house in Plant City. Prosecutors said Moore shot him after he learned of the theft and threatened her. She was arrested on 2 February 2010 and charged with first-degree murder on 19 February. On 10 December 2012 a jury convicted her. Judge Emmett Battles called her "cold, calculating and cruel" and sentenced her to life without parole plus a minimum 25 years for using a gun. Prosecutors said she withdrew $1 million and bought a Hummer and a Corvette. She says she is innocent. In 2023 a judge denied her third bid for a new trial.