Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Unlucky number : the murder of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare / Deborah Mathis, with Gregory Todd Smith.

by Mathis, Deborah.

View full image

Berkley Books, 2015.

Shakespeare, Abraham Lee -- Death and burial.

Moore, Dee Dee -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Murder -- Florida -- Case studies.

Lottery winners -- Florida -- Crimes against.

Men, Black -- Florida -- Biography.

9780425274910 (pbk.)

0425274918 (pbk.)

Berkley premium edition.

viii, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

It sounded like a fairy tale: in 2006, a homeless Black man, Abraham Shakespeare spent his last dollars on a Florida State lottery ticket -- and miraculously won $31 million. He chose to take his winnings in the form of a single immediate lump sum of $17 million. Unprepared for his newfound fortune, Abraham hired Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore to help manage his winnings and field the numerous requests for loans and assistance that he received. But somehow, Dee Dee was the only one benefitting. When Abraham quietly disappeared from his home in Florida, friends and family grew suspicious -- though he could not read or write, his only form of contact was through odd letters and texts. But it wasn't until investigators began to question Dee Dee about her role in Abraham's finances that a complicated web of lies -- and the desperate lengths to which one woman would go to cover it up -- was exposed.

Smith, Gregory Todd.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal