Mystery of Missing Florida Lottery Winner Abraham Shakespeare
I’m not religious about it, but I do like to buy lottery tickets when the jackpot is up around the $30-million range, and I don’t spend more than five bucks.
I haven’t won much, less than a hundred dollars I figure, but if I did win the big one, I don’t think I would have the kind of problems Abraham Shakespeare of Florida had when he won a $30-million jackpot.
He’s missing now and is presumed dead.
If it turns out that Sheriff Grady Judd is right, there is no shortage of suspects in this murder mystery.
Abraham, 43, won the lottery after he purchased a ticket at a convenience store and settled on a lump-sum payout of $16.9-million. Not bad for a guy who for most of his life has been living a criminal lifestyle.
After collecting his money Abraham, being the non-material guy he said he was in an interview, bought a car, a used Rolex, and a $1-million home in a gated community. Not too shabby for a guy who also claimed to be on a tight budget.
Then his life went to shit, though one would think that $16-million would buy a lot of love and peace for the guy, not to mention some top-notch security to keep the vultures away. That didn’t happen for Abraham though.
There was the former co-worker who claimed that Abraham stole the winning lottery ticket from him, but that worked out in Abraham’s favor, a jury ruling that the winning lottery ticket was his.
There were the people who always had their hand out, his mother for example, not to mention a guy who was only known as “Big Man.” He got a million dollars out of Abraham, so the story goes anyway.
Then of course, there are the funerals he paid for, his leetchy friends who wanted to start businesses, and last but certainly not least there is Dee Moore, a woman who approached Abraham about writing his life story and who offered to be his financial adviser.
There is no doubt that Sheriff Judd should be considering her his prime suspect in the disappearance of Abraham. He would be a fool not to make Ms. Moore his prime suspect in Abraham’s sudden and mysterious disappearance.
Not much is really known about Moore except that her company, American Medical Professionals, bought that million-dollar home Abraham bought for
$655-thousand last January, and that she is apparently living in it, and then there’s the small matter of criminal offense committed in 2001, which I make mention of later in this ridiculously long blog entry.
Abraham’s mother says that she hasn’t heard from her son since shortly after that, about the time of her birthday, and the sheriff is saying that nobody has seen him since last April. You know, he wasn’t reported until November 9, so supposing he was killed back in April, the evidence is long gone and unless there is a body this case is going to be forever open, unless of course somebody slips up and shoots off his or her mouth.
Of course following the money trail might lead to the truth, in fact, CG knows following the $16-million money trail will lead right to the person who is benefiting the most from the money these days, Dee Dee Moore.
I think it is somewhat obvious that she knows exactly what has gone down, otherwise she wouldn’t have contacted The Ledger of Lakeland newspaper and told a reporter there that Abraham was “laying low” because he was sick and tired of people trying to suck money out of him. Yet another reason for Sheriff Judd to make Ms. Moore his number one suspect in this particular missing person case.
In a strange twist, Abraham’s mother appears to buying into the story Ms. Moore is telling about her son. Hmm, that is curious–assuming of course that the mother barely knows about Ms. Moore, or anything about her.
I would be hard-pressed to believe that if Abraham’s mother barely knew Ms. Moore, she would be buying into the story she is telling The Ledger, not unless Ms. Moore and her were in [it] together.
That isn’t out of the realm of possibilities either you know.
What was it Abraham’s mother said, “What Ms. Moore says make sense because I recall having a conversation with my son, and he mentioned something about heading off to Jamaica?” Yeah, that’s what she said, or words to that effect anyway.
Boy when Ms. Moore heard that, she must have breathed a big sigh of relief and grinned from ear to ear. Thank you very much Abraham’s mother she must have thought to herself.
I don’t know Sheriff Judd, but now you can add his mother’s name to the list of your suspects.
CG is convinced that Ms. Moore and Abraham’s mother are in cahoots, that they conspired to kill Abraham and get rid of his body so that they could spend his money, and that the sheriff just hasn’t been able to put two and two together yet.
Floridians know all to well how useless law enforcement officers are in their community.
Turning on the waterworks on December 5, Ms. Moore put on quite a show for The Ledger because detectives had been searching her home, through her belongings and in her car looking for traces of blood. She was so distraught over that that she told The Ledger she helped Abraham to disappear. Yes, I’m sure she did, and where is it exactly she helped him pack is bags for again?
Moore told reporters that one of the reasons he wanted to leave Florida was because of a pending child support case, something about him having fathered a child after winning the lottery.
She also told reporters that Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life, and she produced a video in which Abraham can be heard saying he is tired of people asking him for money and not taking no for an answer. Ms Moore then asks, “So where you gonna go?” to which Abraham replies, “It don’t matter to me. I’m not a picky person.”
Apparently, Ms. Moore made the video to protect herself, so she told the newspaper. Protect herself from what I wonder. Obviously, she knew she was going to be involved in what has now become a criminal investigation.
The money thing, that’s where truth lies when it comes to Abraham’s fate, and since his disappearance Ms. Moore has had quite a lot to do with the missing man’s financial affairs, including filing paper work to take over mortgages totaling almost $400-thousand owed to Abraham’s estate.
According to her, she later sold those loans at a loss to another person, and that she is in fear of others Abraham loaned money to and who are refusing to repay those loans.
FYI-Ms. Moore’s criminal history includes a lie she told about being carjacked and raped back in 2001. She concocted that story to collect insurance money on her SUV, which she said had been stolen. That crime should definitely raise eyebrows in the sheriff’s department while they are considering suspects in Abraham’s disappearance, right?
Watch, if she gets charged in relation to Abraham’s disappearance, she is going to claim that he was trying to rape her and that she killed him in self-defense, if this missing person case goes that far.
Meanwhile Sheriff Judd seems to think that Abraham has spent the bulk of his lottery winnings, and the fact that he didn’t call his mother on Christmas reinforces his theory that there is more to Abraham’s disappearance than just hiding. NO F***ING SHIT SHERLOCK!
CG has some advice for you though, how about considering the possibility that Ms. Moore and Abraham’s mother both have something to do with his disappearance, the fact that he had been missing several months before he was reported missing being the red flag in this case.
Then there’s that curious little thing about Abraham’s mother buying into the story that Ms. Moore is telling about her son moving to Jamaica without telling her. That’s something the sheriff might want to ponder too during his investigation.
To close this case before Sheriff Judd does; CG thinks that the mother and Ms. Moore conspired to do away with Abraham and steal his money, what was left of it anyway, and that unless Abraham turns up on somebody’s doorstep eyes blinking, and breathing, that’s exactly what happened.
As for this “Big Man”–either CG’s thinking that he doesn’t exist, or that he does exist has a relationship with Ms. Moore.
Sooner or later, the truth is going to come out.