Morbid - Episode 298: The Murder of Abraham Shakespeare

Episode Date: February 10, 2022

In November of 2006 a man named Abraham Shakespeare won the lottery jackpot worth $31 million. Abraham was known as a generous, kind man who would do anything to help his friends, family or children out. Unfortunately a cold-blooded, manipulative woman by the name of Dee Dee Moore would make the acquaintance of Abraham Shakespeare and swindle him out of his millions. Before long, people stopped hearing from Abraham, and some feared the worst. Was he murdered or simply trying to get away from the pressure of it all? As always, thank you to our sponsors: HelloFresh: Get sixteen free meals, plus three gifts, with code morbid16 at HELLOFRESH.com/slashmorbid16 Noom: Start building better habits today. Sign up for your trial at Noom.com/MORBID Babbel: Right now, when you purchase a 3-month Babbel subscription, you’ll get an additional 3 months for FREE.  Just go to BABBEL.com and use promo code MORBID BetterHelp: Morbid listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com/morbid BestFiends: Download Best Fiends FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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It's wild. It's always been mind-boggling, but somehow, like, and you would never think that it could somehow get more mind-boggling. Yeah. But with every passing step, it just blows my fucking mind with what Arkansas is doing to these people. It's wild. So, Damian Eccles tweeted yesterday, the prosecutor in our case, Keith

Krestman, has now filed a motion asking the judge to refuse our request to test evidence in order to reveal the actual murderer. And he wrote Arkansas continues to follow the path of corruption they set out on the very beginning of this case. They don't want to test evidence to find the actual murderer of three eight year old boys. And it makes no sense because it like in the Alfred plea like Damien, Jesse and Jason, Jason, Jessie, and Jason. Jason, sorry, I just totally lost a drink. They can't sue Arkansas, like because of the Alfred police. So Arkansas really has nothing to lose.

You know what they have to lose? All the egos of the fucking assholes who work this case and who that judge was such a dick on the original case, they had, this is egos and this is covering something up. I don't know, it's, something is so stinky here. And we all know it and we're all seeing it happening, but no one can stop it and it's infuriating to me. That's why I was like yesterday I was like,

what can we do? Like what, honestly? Well, that's the thing. Like we were just sitting here saying like, like Elena was like, I want to do something. Like can we do something? Yeah, I would love to. I would we were just sitting here saying, like, like, Alain was like, I want to do something. Like, can we do something? Yeah, I would love to.

I would love to. But what do we do? I don't know what we can do because it's for Jason, it's for Damian, it's for Jesse, but it's also for Michael, Christopher, and Stevie. Absolutely. It's like, guys, there needs to be like, we know they didn't do it. It's very clear. Arkansas would not have allowed these three men to walk out the door.

If they were child murderers, they knew they were child murders and two, they had the evidence to keep them. Mm-hmm. So it's like, come on. No, it's very close. And the fact that they are not willing to test this, if they thought that these men did it, then they would test the fuck out of this evidence to further prove that they were right. That's what they would do.

They would confirm, look, so we were right. Another fucking, like, level up on America. Exactly. But they know that this is going to point to someone else. They know that there's DNA on those ligatures, which they have the fucking technology. It's like a vacuum kind of thing that takes more DNA out of it. And that's what they want to use. That's what Damian is proposing they use. They won't of it. And that's what they want to use. Like that's what Damien is proposing they use. They won't do it. And it's like if they they know that once they vacuum out that fucking DNA that it's going to point to someone, I don't I'm not going to say any names, but I think we all think in the same thing. We're all reading the same book.

We're all reading Calvin and Hobbes, you know. So like we all we all know what we're talking about here. It's also just like, why would Damien be fighting so hard for this evidence to be tested? It was gonna get proven guilty. It makes no sense. All of them are. Like Jason is like, they're all, why would they all be trying to prove their own guilt?

That doesn't make sense. No. They would not fight this hard. It just goes to show that this is Arkansas being like, nope, sorry. This is not even sorry. Just like, nope, go this hard. It just goes to show that this is Arkansas being like no, sorry. This is not Sorry, just go fuck yourself. It's outrageous. And this is egos. This is that Gary Getchell wanted to get this case closed the second that he was on it. And for a second, I was like, Okay, I understand you want to get like child murderers off the streets. You want to make everybody safe again. And like

That's a big deal. That's clearly what you want. You did it at the expense of three innocent people's lives. Right. And at the expense of these three eight-year-olds who are brutally murdered in their entire families. Because he wanted it to look that way. It was all of a thought. It was not actually serving justice. Yeah, it just... Oh, I can't... This case...

I can't get it on. I can't let this go. Like, I'm officially at the point where I'm't, this case, I can't get a loan. I can't let this go. Like, I'm officially at the point where I'm like, all right, I'm contacting people. I'm gonna figure out how we can get involved in this because are we gonna fly to Arkansas? I'll do what I have to do here because I, actually, I can't just watch this anymore and like just talk about it on the podcast.

I'm like, what, I gotta do something. Like, give me, give me gloves. Let me do something. I don't know. Like, I'm like, I gotta do something. Like, give me, give me gloves, let me do something. I don't know, I feel so helpless in this and this case means like a lot in my brain and I just need, so I'm gonna figure out what we can do. Well, because at the center, I'm gonna let you guys know if you can do anything too, if you feel like you want to.

Yeah, and it's like, again, at the center of this case are three little boys, eight-year-old boys, and like, who are brutally murdered? They've been served no justice. None, and their families have been, I mean, it's just, ugh, it's, and presumably whoever did this is just fucking walking around.

Yeah, they could still be alive and, well, hurting other people, hurting other kids potentially. You don't look, we don't know. Abled, and just able to exist in life. These boys didn't even get to, I mean, Jesus, they were eight. There's so many things they didn't get to do. Like they just literally babies became frozen in time. Yeah.

The eight year olds. Eight year olds for life. And this person is just going to keep walking around free. And these three men are going to keep having the stigma of people being like, well, you're still guilty on them. And yeah, and they're trying so hard to prove that they're not and no one's allowing them the chance. And it's because Arkansas doesn't wanna have fucking egg on its face.

Well, guess what? You have fucking an entire omelet on your fucking faces. True. And everyone can see it. We all know it's true. And you're proving again and again that you are fucking covering something up. Mm-hmm. Oh!

The frustrating isn't even the word for it. There needs to be a new word for that. Yeah, it truly does. Because it goes so far beyond frustration. I'm gonna, I gotta like contact some people so I can like get my hands dirty in this because I feel very helpless and I feel like I'm not doing enough.

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Talk to Maggie. Talk Maggie. Talk to Maggie. Talk to Maggie. Talk to Maggie. happen. Something's got to give. Like I know it's like taking a lot of push but I think eventually like the truth comes out and justice hopefully prevails. Oh god you hope. Like you just have to hold. So far you don't hold so far you got nothing but well I think justice doesn't always prevail just by itself. It needs to be aggressively pushed. Exactly. For sure. I think we need to do that.

We need the combination. The combination. All right. Well, with that being said, obviously that was very important to get out there. With that being screamed, looking yelled into your ear meat. Now, I actually have a pretty long case for us today. I'm ready. And we are going to be talking about the murder

of Abraham Shakespeare. I have heard of this one. I think if you're like a super true crime head, you've definitely heard of this one. I hope I can bring you something new. Should new light. I found a lot of court documents. Ooh.

I found like a search morons. They found like a bunch of stuff. So I was like in this fucking case Yeah, cuz I know this one like generally. I don't know a lot of details or anything So this will be a new experience for me. Well, I'm excited to give you that experience So this week we are going down to Florida Florida and you've probably heard us cover like the fun somewhat light-hearted Florida man stories on crime countdown But this case is like a far cry from any fun light lighthearted Florida man stories on crime countdown. But this case is like a far cry from any fun

lighthearted Florida man. And instead we're gonna hear about this sick twisted manipulative cold-blooded Florida woman. Cool, her name is Doris Donigan Moore, but over the years, people simply came to know her as Dee Dee. So she is Dee Dee more. And strangely enough, in her younger years, Dee Dee had dreams of like helping people which when we learn a lot more about her life, you're like you wanted to help people at one point in a time? Yeah question mark.

Sure. When she was little, she was in the brownies, she did Girl Scouts, she even went to like different Bible studies with this group of younger girls that called themselves the missionettes. Oh, that's fucking adorable. And growing up, Dee Dee knew that she always wanted to become a nurse. And when the time came to go to school for that, she excelled in her classes and she got her license to practice as a CNA just like her mom Linda. Nice. And Dee Dee said that she wanted to do a job where she could help people but also make

a good living because throughout her childhood, especially I think when she hit like middle school and high school, she became very hyper aware of the fact that her family wasn't necessarily as well off as some of her friends' families, and it was like a very big source of contention in her life. Okay. Because she hated the idea of people thinking that she was poor, she would make her parents drop her off like a block away from whatever she was going to, whether it was like school or a slumber party. Oh, that's really sad.

Yeah, and that just sucks for your parents. Yeah, that's really like, you'd feel so embarrassed by that. Yeah, like I grew up pretty poor and like my mom's cars were always really embarrassing, but I was like, check out that ugly car. Like, it's a car. My mom's happy we got here, no? But unfortunately for Dee Dee, it was gonna take some time to work her way up to getting the salary that she felt was good enough. And for a while,

her and her husband James struggled to make ends meet. Dee Dee though, she was a crafty lady who came up with some very alarming schemes to make the family the money that she was so desperate for. A scheme is never good. No, don't be scheming. Don't be calling things a scheme. And she wasn't, but she was scheming on the low. Yeah, on high really. On the high, really. So in the clouds, essentially. She was scheming on cloud. Yeah. Now in the early 90s, she went to work for a medical staffing company. And the people who were in the company were like, wow, she's a natural at this.

Like, she's actually very business savvy. She's got a good head on her shoulders. And at this point, she's in her early 20s. So they were pretty impressed with her and her business skills. And one of her fellow employees was a woman named Karen DeSalvo. And she knew that Dee Dee had a side hustle. Dee Dee was working for Nextel. Like, way back for Nextel. Like way back

to Nextel. Do you remember the little beep beep and you could yeah like the walkie-talkie thing? Yeah I do. I also remember like not the same thing but motor rollers and it was like hello Motel. Like a triggering sound. Triggering sound. But so she and this was like probably right around when like cell phones were really become a big thing. So her side hustle, she was selling these next cell phones and like different phone plans that went along with them. Okay. What makes a person a murderer?

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And Karen realized that D.D. like wasn't really doing so bad with the cell phone hustle. She was being in a good amount of extra dough. And in 2004, the two of them actually came up with the idea to start their own business kind of doing something similar, selling phones and plans, but they did it under a company called all about cellular. So, I don't really understand how that works because I have a good ring to it. It's definitely doesn't. And I don't really know how it worked, because obviously it was in like the early 90s. Yeah.

Now if you want a new phone, like you call Verizon or AT&T, but I think that it was like before all of these, like Verizon and AT&T and Sprint were really a style of aperture. So I think you could kind of have like a small business doing this. All right, I see. And they were doing like pretty well together.

Karen was listed as the president of the company, and Dee Dee was the vice president, and I think Karen's husband was kind of working for the business too. So family affair. It was, but things took a turn for the worst, when Dee Dee got tasked with opening a new branch for the Med Staffing Company. Now, this new branch was actually her idea, and she brought it to the higher ups in the company,

and said, you know, I think opening a location in Plant City, Florida would be really genius and she was like, it's in quote unquote, untapped area. And she was like, I think you would really reap financial benefits if you would just consider letting me do this and helping out with this. Okay. So they were like, oh wow, look at her, such a business savvy woman, taking initiative. I know. Like wow, Dee Dee. So obviously she was given the clear to start the project. And just like most of Dee Dee's projects,

all was well and fine for a short while. But then things started to take a turn and head downhill. Heak. So the company started noticing that there was a lot of money going out of this branch and not a lot coming in. And so they launched an internal investigation because they were like, this isn't adding up. They were like, that's not how business is supposed to work.

No, no, no. And they realized that Dee Dee had taken about $62,000 in an elaborate payroll scheme. So she was like putting extra money in people's checks, but then like taking the difference. It was like very intense. Oh wow. Yeah, but by the time like right around the time they were getting ready to take things to court, the branch had a mysterious fire and all of the files burned that like would have proved everything, but strangely enough just a couple of days before this fire, a lot of expensive equipment and things

that were important to DD moved. But all the files that were really important in this investigation mysteriously burned. Seems legit. Yeah, you know, definitely. I'm not worried about it. No, I think, you know, just like sporadic combustion. Yeah, that's obviously. No, just like sporadic combustion.

Yeah. Obviously. No, just like that's just what happens. Yeah. So, um, Dee Dee was fired. Oh, really? Very quickly. Wow.

And basically, she was supposed to pay the company back about $25,000. But it's unclear if she ever paid that money or not. All right. Yeah. It's unclear. Unclear. And I don't think they were ever able to prove that she started the fire, but everybody was like, yeah,

DD started the fire. Yeah, exactly. So the time between 1999 and 2001 was really rough for DD and her family because not only had she been fired from the Med staffing company, but she had basically been fired from nextel and banned from selling any phones or plans that had anything to do with their company because she was being investigated for another fraud scheme there. All right, you got, sometimes you just gotta like

cut your losses here. Yeah, like and stop being fraudulent. Just, no, no frauds. Yeah, like fraud is not a good thing to begin with and especially when you just eat, you're getting caught over and over again. It's clearly not working out for you. This isn't your path in life, like you're not good at fraud and that's something that's actually a feather in your cap. You can you can say that I'm not good at being fraudulent. I don't like I don't enjoy being

fraudulent. Don't don't keep trucking with it. Just get it get it regular like you're seeing I like get on the straight narrow. You don't get like a ton of money doing that but you can work your way up and it's hard work yeah and usually most things in life you have to work your way to the top truth a lot of people don't want to do that dd dd did not want to do that so she can't saw these next cell phones anymore the business with Karen is gone because Karen's like I don't trust you anymore Karen's like no they she can't sell the phones so real real bad. And then she was also arrested multiple times. One time she was arrested for shoplifting.

And then the next time she was arrested for writing a bad check to the county tax collector, which just like write this down, you don't want to do that. Again, that's when you're really bad at being fraudulent. Like tax collectors. When you do shit like that, we'll always find the money. I mean, it's that whole thing that only certain things are very certain in life. And taxes is one of them.

Like, yeah, so don't fuck with it. It always breaks. It's gonna come back, etch it always is. Yeah, so she kind of rested for that. And she sure did. Both of those arrests actually only led to probation time. But the bad times just kept rolling in. Because in 2001, this is sad.

Dee Dee and her husband, and by this point, they had a young son together. They were all evicted from the house that they were leasing because they'd fallen too far behind on the payments. Oh. Dee Dee, excuse me, I was about to say my own name, Dee Dee. Dee Dee tried to gain the landlord's sympathy by saying that there was someone after her family and she dove into like this wild story about someone leaving her a warning sign on the front porch that they were gonna get her and like hoping that the way I would be like well I can't kick you out now. Dude you got to do to stay in your house I guess. Exactly but he was like

listen I've heard plenty of your weird stories. I've heard all your weird excuses. We're not, no, get out. Like, I don't believe you. I do not believe you. He was not the only one that was tired of these excuses and stories because Dede had also bought a $50,000 Lincoln navigator a while back, but she was getting very far behind on those payments as well.

And finally, the loan officer was like, listen, we're repossessing your cart, like you're way too far behind on these payments as well. And finally, the loan officer was like, listen, we're repossessing your car, like you're way too far behind on these payments. And she basically told him, over my dead body, you're taking my car, and I will quote unquote, do anything I have to to keep that car. Uh-oh. And that was the truth. When somebody says that, it never ends well. Do anything I have to. When it's for something like material, right, you're like, ooh, nope, that's not a good sign. Like I'll do anything for love.

But even some people won't do that. I meet loaf, right. He said he wouldn't, he had linens. So, you would do anything, but he wasn't gonna do that. Should have linets, you should. I have linets like meat loaf. Yeah, and Dee Dee didn't get that though. Because a few days after that phone called,

Dee Dee Moore was found in a ditch alongside a road in Womama, Florida. I hope I said that right. I did look it up and it said Womama. Womama. Womama. Now, a man had been driving by when he spotted her and she looked like she had been through the ringer.

Her wrists were tied together. Her clothes were super dirty, and she was like in hysterics. Damn. She told the man trigger warning that she had been carjacked and also raped. Oh. So he immediately drove her to the hospital. They processed a rape kit and the police quickly came to the hospital to like get her story and everything. Jeez. So she told them that she'd been driving her Lincoln navigator when all of a sudden, quote unquote, three tattooed Hispanic men held her at gunpoint and told her that they were going to take her car and kill her. She said they raped her and they said they were gonna kill her. But then

whoever was sitting in the back seat with her decided not to kill her. He was like, let's not kill her. He told her she needed to die her hair blonde and that he better never see her again if they let her go and then they tossed her out of the car. This is like reminiscent of that Sherry Papini case. Do you remember you probably would know it if if I heard more detail? But her voice. She's like it was a recent one. Oh, okay. And it was the mom, the young blonde mom, who was kidnapped and then returned. And so it was two Hispanic women. It was just very similar.

They still don't really know what happened there and just a weird, same kind of vibes of what is going on. So they were like, okay, like we're gonna take down this information. She described the three men. So they got the description of them and they kind of start trying to investigate the case. But something about the story just isn't adding up. And then they start looking into Deede's background and they see that there's a lot more to this woman than meets the eye. Because she obviously by this point had been involved in multiple fraud schemes. And they had to wonder, was this another scheme because she was about to lose this car? So they got their answer days later when a very confused man called into the police station.

And he said, that navigator is parked in my garage. And in a acquaintance of mine brought it by just days earlier So this man who called his name's Michael Anthony Davis and he was told that he would get $500 Simply to just have this car in his garage and he was like you have to go talk to Steve Radella So the police tracked down the second man who drove the car there He said he drove the car there for D.D. because she told him she was going to frame one of her previous employees that worked for her next cell business because D.D. said I had to fire her because she was

like doing something messed up and now I need to like pin something on her because she's threatened to kill me. So she was like I need her to like go to prison so that she doesn't kill me. So this guy thinks he's being a hero. Oh my God. So we have the Lincoln Navigator parked in Michael Anthony Davis' garage, and then we have Steve Radella who drove it there thinking that he's helping Dee Dee because this woman has threatened to kill her that she had to like fire from her next tell business, which she doesn't have anymore.

My goodness. Now, there's another man because these two men are not the only people who go forward to the police telling the story. Multiple other people had been told a similar tale. So finally, they tracked down another man who was the one to drive DD out to Wamaama. His name was Clemente Bonilla. He drove along this country road as she tied her own risks to risk together, gagged herself, and then she told him to slow down so she could throw herself from his Chevy Blazer and into a ditch that she had spotted along the way. How?

So all of these men come forward like with little tiny puzzle pieces of this and then finally Clemente has like, oh yeah, like I drove her, like I didn't, you know, I was just driving. I was just there to drive. I was just driving. I think she'd like they all got paid

a little bit of money. Of course, which is like you need money. So you're paying all these people to do this elaborate thing that takes tons of hard work and planning and commitment. Thank you. But you won't just like, I don't know. You have a CNA. The distance you have a CNA license. Yes. Like, work. Correct. Like, I don't, what are you doing? That's the thing. So ultimately, she's charged with insurance fraud like again. Yeah. And this time falsely reporting a crime I also just need to know how this woman had the charm to convince three men to help her carry out this elaborate scheme

But like obviously like I wish that she would just work But like also you didn't have the charm to just ask them if you could borrow some money from each other Just to make the payment on your fucking car and then you wouldn't lose it. If they were willing to literally commit fraud, thank you. And like false police reporting with you. They'd be like, give you a hundred bucks. I'm sure. And also, like, you know, maybe don't buy a $50,000 car when like you're in the middle of like multiple fraud schemes and you're probably going to get caught and lose your job.

And you're paying these guys to do this for you instead of just paying your car. Right, just pay, just use that money towards your car payment. So confusing. Instead of to these random guys to throw you out of a car. Correct. This is wild. Wild already.

I don't, this is all I just said. Only like the beginning of D.D. Wow. Wow, D.D. She also only got one year of probation for this. Okay. Like 45 elaborate schemes later and this lady is still just getting slapped on the wrist. Look at the perfect examples in this episode of the Justice System at work.

We have the beginning where it's just completely shitting the bed in Arkansas. Yep. And then we have this woman who's just committing fraud, left and right, and just getting nothing. So it's just getting nothing. Wilding on the five schemes. We've seen that tale. It's a tale as old as time. Yup.

You could write a Beauty and the Beast song about it. You certainly could. Because every episode where I was like, yeah, and then they slipped through the cracks 15,000 times. Crazy. Until they murdered 100 people and then all of a sudden they were like, oh man, we should have picked them up

before hand. Should have looked back on that. Probably should have looked at that. Probably should have lost that paperwork. I was just gonna say it was always lost paperwork. Made that clerical error. Now, always an admin error. Yeah.

So then we're gonna go to 2002. So that's all between like the late 90s to the early 2000s. Now we're 2002, still around the early. Indeedee and her husband filed for bankruptcy, which helped her get out of multiple other civil suits that had been brought against her. She owed $3,600 in background to a landlord, $21,000 to a radio station for advertising.

Oh my God. And she had stolen other money from various people claiming she was going to put it into start-up businesses for them. At one point, she had a couple had given her $600 grand and she just never gave it back to them. They never got a return on their investment. Oh my god. So flash forward to 2004.

Dee Dee seems to have some of her shit together. Not really, but she's able to open an LLC for a company called American Medical Professionals on her own. Now, this company was similar to the one that she had worked at previously. It's a Med Staffing company. Like you know, similar to the one that may have low at previously. It's a Med Staffing company. Like, you know, similar to the one that may have low keyburned down. Yeah, that one.

So basically any of the hospitals in the area that were in need of nurses or other medical professionals, they would call this company that Dee Dee now, it was her company. So she would find somebody available for the job and send them out there. Okay. Now, the company was doing really well

and Dee Dee was making some serious coin doing this. And it seems like a legit business. Like, it does. You could run that legitimately. Yeah. Like, that is a need. I mean, no one need that you can fill. Yeah.

Legitimately. The one that she was working out before was like a very like actual, reputable company. Medical staff and companies are a real thing before she started like basically taking all their money. Why, why? So she's making some serious Quinten probably not legally at all, but you know, we've realized that by now, but she's taking in about 200 grand a year Yeah, that's a great salary and especially in the early 2000s. Yeah, like 200 grand is a bomb salary now

Yeah, whoa So she and her family move into this beautiful home, but before long she and her husband James decided to separate and eventually they got divorced. He was probably like tired of all the fraud. Perhaps not into the fraud. Just a guess I had. Now in 2006, D.D. meets her new boyfriend. His name is Shah Krasniki and he is 11 years younger than her and the son of one of her employees.

Okay. So Shah moves into her house about a year into their relationship and this guy just pretty much lived like the life of Riley, especially after Dee Dee met and became close to a man named Abraham Shakespeare. So Abraham Shakespeare, let's get a little into who he is. He was born on April 23rd 1966 in Seabring, Florida. Just like Dee Dee Moore, he would spend in Seabring, Florida. Just like Deede Moore, he would spend his whole entire life in Florida.

His mother, Elizabeth Walker, was a single mom, just trying to make ends meet and raise, like, I think she had three children. And if Deede thought that she had grown up poor, she should have walked a mile in Abraham's shoes, because he dropped out of school right around seventh grade, feeling like it was more important to help his family make ends meet than to finish school.

Oh, that hurts my heart. Because they were really struggling so much that he was like, you know, I think he was kind of like the man of the house and felt like he needed, but like a duty at that young age. He needed to contribute. I mean, what are you like 12 or 13 in seventh grade? Like, come on. That hurts my heart.

So because he dropped out at such a young age, excuse me, he barely knew how to read or write and he would have trouble getting a good, quote unquote, good job later on in life because of that. Yeah, of course. Like, those are some skills that you really need for a lot of jobs. So for the time being though,

he went to work in the orange groves with his dad James, turn some extra cash. And he would take whatever money he made back to his mom to help support the family. But unfortunately, the extra help did not last long, because when Abraham was 13 years old, he actually ended up getting sent to Juvie because he was convicted of theft.

I couldn't find a ton of information on that. In some sources, I saw that he was involved in a string of burglary's. Okay, but overall just convicted of theft. Yeah. So he got sentenced to five years and he didn't get out of prison until he was 18 years old. Wow. So that's like your whole teenage. Yeah, that's gone right there. Big developmental stage gone. And that's a really hefty sentence to give a 13-year-old. I know it's it's those things are always so hard to determine what's right and what's wrong there.

Yeah, I would have to know more about the case to really have a full-fledged opinion, but it definitely does. It's so young. Yeah. 13 is young. It's very young. So once he was out of Juvie Abraham,

needed to get some kind of job to make ends meet. But like I said earlier, that was going to prove to be difficult for him because he dropped out at such a young age and he had spent all pretty much all of his teenage years behind bars instead of being able to learn like a trade or skill or something. Yeah. So he did odd jobs to make ends meet. He would literally just walk around town and stop into the different shops and ask these owners if they needed help with anything. Like, could he do anything for them? And a couple of the business owners did need help.

The owner of Super Way Foods in Lakeland, Florida was one of these guys. His name was Jimmard Yusef Zayed, but to Abraham and the local guys like around town, he was simply Poppy. But I love that. I love it so much. So Poppy had Abraham run different errands for him.

He had like Abraham do deliveries of groceries to people and he gave Abraham a cell phone so that he could get a hold of him if need be. And look at this, this is like Abraham is like hustling. Thank you. He's like, I can't read or write through because I had to stop school early to help my family. I made a mistake.

I did time for it. I'm now out. I don't, again. I'm now out. Again, I'm still, I'm behind on all this, and it's keeping me back. But I'm gonna walk around, and I'm going to try to legitimately earn some money by trying to help businesses

and see if I can get somewhere. Exactly. And Poppy wasn't the only business owner that he was helping. Like, he was hustling. Yeah. Because another business owner who needed some help around his shop was Gregory Smith. He was like the local barber in the town, and Abraham worked there a few days a week

just sweeping up hair and like doing other little odd jobs. Yeah. And Abraham was like a really likable guy. Everybody who was friends with him was like, he was just a kind person. Yeah, I mean, that's probably part of what made these business owners like take to him and want to help him. Yeah. So over time, that's cool that they did that. It is really cool. And it's just like such a sense of community. Yeah, it really is. So over time, he grew really close with both of these guys and their friendships even lasted when Abraham moved on to other jobs or when he had to spend another stint behind bars because he wasn't able to make child support payments. Eek.

Because he had a son named Moses in 1998 with his girlfriend Antoinette Andrews. The two of them had like a really on again, off again relationship, but I guess by all accounts Abraham was like a really, really good dad. Even if him and Antoinette were not together at the time, he spent a ton of time with his son. He always wanted to make sure that he could offer Antoinette what he had But he didn't have a lot because it was really hard to get a job So there were times when he did fall behind on child support and ended up in jail

And it sounds like it's not one of those cases where he just doesn't pay it It's just he didn't have the money and like be an asshole. It's like he literally just didn't have it right So he ended up spending a little bit of time in prison for that. And when he gets out, he's like, I have to get a better job. Like I need a steady income because I want to be able to support Moses. Like I have my son. So that's when he started working for a food delivery company called MBM. Now Abraham didn't have a driver's license. So he would be the passenger while his partner Michael Ford drove the truck to various delivery locations and then the two of them would like unload the deliveries together. So they were getting ready to make their day of deliveries

on the morning of November 15th 2006, but they decided to just make a quick stop at a convenience store because Michael just wanted to grab a couple of drinks and probably a snack or something for the road. So they park, he's like, Hey Abraham, do you want anything? And Abraham was like, oh yeah, like grab me two lottery tickets and he handed them a few bucks from his wallet. So Mike came back out to the truck, gave Abraham the tickets and the two of them just headed out for another mundane day of the deliveries. Now Abraham didn't know it yet, but obviously we all know. Later that night, he would learn that he had one of the winning tickets to a lottery jackpot valued at $31 million. Holy shit.

Like imagine getting home from a regular old day, turning the TV on and just like, you know how people play the lottery all the time and you just watch the numbers like yeah Whatever. Yeah, and then you're like you're like wait. Oh shit. I Yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah, and back then it's like you couldn't even rewind the TV to make sure you heard it right You're just like what the fuck? And like especially for Abraham after all those years of trying to get a steady income He must have felt like he was like the king of the world. Oh my god. I can't even imagine. I can't. Yeah. That's, and coming from where he came from to that is out. I mean, that's like a fairy tale. Absolutely. Yeah. But it's a fairy tale for sure. But if

you've ever heard about the curse of the lottery, you will not be surprised to find out that these hits started coming and they started coming quickly. So when you win the lottery, you got two options. Obviously, you know this, but for those who don't, you can do one lump sum payment where all the taxes get taken out and you end up with a smaller amount, still like a crazy number, but definitely significantly less than what you won. Of course. Or you can do an annuity payment where you get smaller payouts over time. So for example, if you win the power ball or like mega millions, you can choose to get that lump sum with the taxes taken out, or you can go with the annuity payment.

And I think how it works is they pay you 30 annuity payments over a period of 29 years. Okay. And I think you end up getting more if you do like the lump sum, but it's like, it's very confusing how it works. Yeah, I have no idea. Yeah, but it works. And it's like, honestly, there's, I think it depends like when you hit the lottery because there's

different tax rates and stuff like that. And it's where you hit it because there's different rules. So so far. But Abraham decided he was going to go with the one lump sum option. OK. So after taxes were taken out and also They had to take out some back child support payments make sense. He ended up with 12.7 million and the amount of money

They take in taxes, man. It's crazy wild, but wouldn't you know it? Michael Ford wanted some of that money because he technically was the one who bought the tickets But Abraham, the only happens. That's always happened. I used to work. So, I never watched someone buy you a lottery ticket. Nope, I used to work at a restaurant and we would buy lottery tickets together all the time.

And we would always, like beforehand, we would like write something down and we'd all sign it like this. We win like this, like it was like a concoction. You have to. Yeah. So, he, Michael Ford, asked Abraham for a million dollars and I guess Abraham didn't want to give it to him So Michael Ford came out and was like listen those tickets were actually mine and Abraham stole them out of my wallet

While we were making these deliveries So he ended up suing Abraham for the winnings in November of 2007 But Abraham was found not guilty and did not have to give him a dime. Wow. Can you just like, like what, that's such a shitty thing. It's just like, actually those are mine and he stole them. And it's like, it's, money makes people do crazy things, man. Yeah, it really does.

Like, because even just that, it's like, just, I don't know, it's just like going after that is just like such a pointless thing. It's just greed. Yeah, that's what it is. It's so yucky. What you get out of it is like money can't, you know, like they say, but money can't buy you happiness.

It's not gonna fix everything. And like, it's gonna fix some stuff. Money can't buy a class. Thank you, you know. You know? But it's like when you come out of this whole thing and you're fighting your friend and like your co it's like yeah it's just yeah sure you might have money at the end of it but it's like was it worth it. Don't you feel gross? Like I don't know

it's just like some things it's just yucky. A lottery always makes me feel like exactly because it never turns out well. No it doesn't. Not at all. So he, Abraham, was very, very generous to his actual friends and his family. He loaned out money to pretty much all of his friends and most of his family whenever they asked for it. Poppy, the one who had given him a job, took out a million dollar loan with Abraham.

Greg Smith from the barbershop borrowed money. Abraham's cousin, Cedric borrowed money so that he could get a house in a car, and Abraham got to spending too. Which, you know, he has the right to, for sure. But it was a lot, a lot. But you want to get it under control quick. And you definitely, I think, like, it would be who you to get a financial advisor for sure. You win much money. And at that point, you can afford one. Exactly.

So now you can afford one, so get somebody to just help you out. Right. But I also don't think he was necessarily very educated when it came to finance. I was just going to say it's not like he's been taught this stuff. He didn't have the opportunity to, if you don't know, you don't know. And a lot of shady people are now going to come forward

and try to tell you what to do with them. Yeah. And you might end up with them. Yeah. And you might end up trusting the wrong person. That's basically the moral of this entire story. Yeah. So, this is great. The first thing that he did actually was set up a million dollar trust for his son

Moses. Oh, that's awesome. Which I was like, you clearly love you. Yeah, that's really cool. Any, I watched a couple of different shows and I read a bunch of different things about this. And the one main constant thing was like how much of a family man he was and how much he loved his kids. Oh, and I like broke my heart.

Oh, he breaks my heart. So he sets up this fund for Moses. He buys a BMW, which like go off. He buys a house, he goes on cruises, he rents halls and has like parties with all of his friends, and he's handing out like $100 bills to people. My god, I like that. He's just, he's feeling himself. He's living for a minute.

He's geeking. Yeah. So he wanted to buy his mama house too, or have her move in with the one that he ended up buying. Oh, she did not want any part of it. She did not like the new house that Abraham had bought. She was like, it's too big that I just don't like it. It's an agated community that is not what I'm used to.

Like, she liked her space. Yeah. And she didn't need more. And she said, I wouldn't, she said, quote, I wouldn't have been able to pay for insurance for a house like that or taxes on a house. Yeah, that's true. It seems like she was pretty financially like, like, she knew what she was doing. Yeah, it's like when people win like brand new cars on like game shows, they can't pay for it. Right. Exactly. So it's not a and they can't pay for it. Right. Exactly. So it's not a gift. You're winning an expense.

Exactly. You're winning a bill. Exactly. So she had the right idea, Elizabeth, because slowly but surely, all of Abraham's money was being spent or loaned away. And by the time he made the acquaintance of D.D. Moore, he only had about $1.3 million left for cash. He had assets that were around like three to four million, but only $1.3 in cash. Just from that massive sum. Yeah. Because that's the thing I'm saying only, but like,

I'm saying only in comparison to having about $12 million. Right. Right. Although actually like 13 really. Yeah. So, Dee Dee and Abraham were introduced by Abraham's real estate agent, Barbara Jackson. Now, Barbara was really inspired by Abraham's quote-unquote like, rags-to-riches story. Yeah. And the fact that he was not only enjoying the good life, but he was making sure that all his friends and family were taken care of too. So, she was talking to a group of people one day. I guess she was on this panel, and she was telling Abraham's story. And one of the people listening to that story was D.D. Moore.

D.D. introduced herself to Barbara, and then explained that she would love to meet this inspirational man, because you know, she too had come from nothing, and she was such an honest woman who worked her way to the top, and actually she had written a book about her story, and she would such an honest woman who worked her way to the top and actually she had written a book about her story and she would love, love, love, love to talk to Abraham and get a book written about his story. How wonderful would that be. Okay. Now she said, is there any way you could connect the two of us? And Barbara said, of course, like what a great idea. I have a book written about Abraham. He's this great guy. He deserves the recognition.

Let's figure this out. So they make plans to reconnect and Abraham's going to be there. And it's about two weeks after this panel. So they decided to meet at a red lobster restaurant in Lakeland, which Hell yeah, red lobster. So this was in October of 2008. Now the day that Barbara had spoken with this D.D. woman,

she was in a wheelchair, D.D. and said that she had been in a pretty bad car accident pretty recently and she suffered various injuries. You know, some people just have bad luck. It's the worst luck. The worst. It was weird though, because like two weeks later when she rolled up to Red Lobster and like her nice shiny SUV,

she hopped out of that car, we're in a nice dress and super high heels and she just strolled on over like she hadn't been wheelchair bound three minutes earlier. Maybe, you know, maybe she knows Hulieta from Encanto and she gave her anorepa and it healed her. Maybe, maybe. Barbara asked her and she didn't say Hul had to help. She did not. She did, however, say that she had been doing scuba therapy. And that's, it was just like speedy recovery. Same. Scuba therapy. Same. Couldn't explain how it worked at all, but it was like scuba. I don't need to know how it works. Diving. Yeah, I believe it checks out my aqua marine.

Yes, I am a mermaid. Yeah, like I fully believe I'm cured. Yes You just go with air be okay, okay? All right So Barbara felt like we did I think she was like I I'm out of questions What do I even ask? That's the thing like it and I think did he knew that I think in saying scuba therapy What fucking question how do you follow that up? That's you know it? It's like and there's a Gilmore Girls episode where they're trying to confuse Taylor

in the middle of a town meeting. And Laura Lyce says, like, baby diapers and dorsal fins. And he's like, what? And she's like, I just say words. She's gonna be his him and then eventually, he'll move on. That was D-D's.

He just said, way of living. Scooby therapy. She just said baby diapers and dorsal fins. She moved on. I mean, pretty much the same theme. Yeah. So Abraham and D-D meet and dorsal fins. She moved on. I mean, pretty much the same theme. Yeah. So Abraham and Dee Dee meet and they hit it off. It seems like a very unlikely pair to most of the people who knew Abraham?

To me as well. But, you know, they hit it off. It worked out. She asked him questions about how his life had changed since winning the lottery. And he explained to that there was a lot of people who had borrowed money from him and not paid him back. And he said there was a lot of people that were just coming out of the woodwork now wanting to like hang out with him like oh man Haven't talked to you in so long like what's up?

That just hadn't been around for years of course He also mentioned and I like hate this he mentioned that he had to change his phone number like multiple times because His phone would just ring at all hours. Like people were constantly calling, pestering him for money. Oh, that's terrible. It's like, man, go to work, shut up. Why don't we suck so much as a species of human? Why don't we really suck this much?

So, Dee Dee is like, you know, playing like she's so concerned for Abraham. And she's like, oh my gosh, like I'm so sorry that you're going through all this. You know, how much money have you lent out to people? And she was shocked that he had gone through nearly all of his money. Like I said earlier, in cash only about 1.3 left and in assets, D.D. realized that there was still about three to four million dollars. Yeah. So she was like, all right, it's not all gone. The thing about D.D. was that she was very, all right, it's not working. I can't work on that. The thing about Dee Dee was that she was very manipulative. And the way that she approached the situation in the beginning was like, very careful. Like, I'm your friend and I'm here to help you.

Of course. She was ready to play the long game if she needed to. But I think she also knew that it was not going to be that hard to trick Abraham, because he didn't have a very vast knowledge when it came to finances. Again, he could only read and write up to a certain point and she knew that. So I think she was praying upon his weaknesses. Of course she was. I know she was.

I was going to say. Now all of his friends said that when they would text him, they would, that he would just call them back to talk about whatever they had, like, texted him about. And his most recent girlfriend, Centoria Butler, said that she usually had to read text to him. So it was like, you know, he wasn't like gonna text people all the time. Like, clearly that was, yeah, it was hard. It was a well-known thing. So Dee Dee got to work quickly acting as a hero in Abraham's life. She told him that they were gonna wait on the book for now, and then in the meantime, she was gonna help him get back control of his finances.

So the first thing was first she was going to track down all the people who had borrowed money from him and start getting them on these payment plans so that Abraham could bake his money back. Right here you're like oh okay yeah awesome of course like I need somebody to do that for me for sure. So she told the amount that people owed him to be about $2 million, which is bananas. Now people started talking about the quote-unquote white lady coming around because they were not used to Abraham being involved with a white woman. Yeah. And it was kind of like a big, like it was like that's strange. Like he's usually not comfortable with that. Yeah. And since this is out of the ordinary, they're like, what's happening?

Exactly. It was just, it felt strange because people felt like not only was the situation strange, but that there was something off about this woman. And they couldn't put their finger on it. But a lot of people were urging Abraham to maybe think twice about letting this, I mean, brand new woman run his finances. Yeah, somebody you don't know. Right. But Abraham seemed to be at a breaking point

with handling the finances. He didn't want to deal with it. He's not that stressful. Yeah, I mean, his love to deal with. Is ringing at all hours of the night and he's just fucking tired of it. Yeah. And I think he was just like, you know what?

Dee Dee's helping help. And I believe it. And I don't want to hear anything about it. He actually even had a couple of falling outs with friends who warned him about Dee Dee because he was just like, I can't like, no, just stop. Like, I just want to do this. Let me do what I want to do. Now running around and trying to collect debts was only one step in Dee Dee's master plan.

She next had Abraham liquidate an annuity account that had about $250,000 in it. And she told him that she needed that cash to pay his taxes. But strangely enough, that $250,000 ended up in her American medical professional's account and was used for a quote unquote payroll. Like was written off as used for payroll. Okay. So she didn't pay his taxes. Nope.

Mm-hmm. I'm shocked. Crazy. Next, she was somehow able to convince Abraham to sign over all of his assets to her. Oh, I knew you were gonna say that. Now, I'm assuming that she most likely lied to him about what he was signing.

Oh, she had to have. And honestly, like if somebody handed me a piece of paper like that, I'd be like, I need to have like somebody else look at this. Yeah. I don't even know what this says. But he doesn't, but he's over it. And he's not thinking that way because he just,

he doesn't have any experience with this. Right. And when you don't have experience with that stuff, when you're being handed, like, you know, the piece is a paper and contract, financial agreements and all that, it's like, that's scary. And you're like, oh, you're doing it out by face. I just wanted to go away.

And so I'm sure she lied to him about what he was signing. And in just a matter of days, between January 9th to January 15th, Abraham had signed over multiple cars, multiple houses, multiple different accounts. The $3 million he had in assets was sold to DD for about $840,000. Wow.

So not an even trade. Wow,000. Wow. So not an even trade. Wow. No. She had said that she bought his house from him, but there was no record of the actual purchase. And she said the house was about like $1.1 million when he bought it. And there was actually this whole big thing

where it was worth, it was worth far less than what he had bought it for. Like it was a really big deal. And he ended up having to make up the difference because that will happen. Oh, what a shit show. And then she bought the house for like, or she quote-unquote bought the house from way less than it was worth, D.D. Great, but they were like, I don't even think she bought it. Yeah. And she wasn't even done yet. She told Abraham that the two of them should set up an investment fund together. Yeah. And that she would put a good portion of his money in there to keep it safe and leave it untouched and it would grow over time. Oh yeah, she's just trying to keep things safe.

Yeah, absolutely. Together, in February of 2009, they set up Abraham Shakespeare LLC, where D.D. was listed as an owner, and Abraham was listed as an authorized signer. Now, when you set up an LLC, if you're unfamiliar with what that is, it's a limited liability company, and it's a quote-unquote business structure in the US that protects its owners from personal responsibility for its debts or liabilities. So there are hybrid entities that combine the characteristics of a corporation with those of a partnership or a sole proprietorship. And that is according to Investopedia.com.

But when you sign an LLC, there can be two owners on it. There was no reason for if this was their LLC together for them both not to be listed as owners. Yeah, I can just be owners. Co owners. Like why was he listed as just an authorized signer? That's basically just an employee. Yes, that's an employee.

So Abraham signed off and the LLC was official. But just two weeks after the LLC became official, Dee Dee took Abraham off of it as an authorized signer, which she had the power to do as the owner of the LLC. And she claimed that it was because of, quote, criminal activity on his part that may lead to charges. And then she started funneling the money that had been in Abraham's accounts to her own business, American medical professionals, and then just closed that LLC.

Oh my gosh. So got rid of it entirely. She's like, beyond. I have never even hold callousness with what she is just fucking with people in their lives is really insane. Like I've never, never seen anything like this. Like I've seen like very different things but I have never seen this specific kind of person.

Wow. Such commitment to this too. Yes. Such commitment. She was living in his house before she even bought it with him. She convinced him to let her live in his house. And then she never bought it from him. She just claimed that she loved course.

So when she had all of his money, she was living in his mansion. She was driving around a couple of new cars herself, including a hammer, a cordette, and a new truck. Around that time where she was doing all these things, people stopped hearing so much for Maiprahem. His mom hadn't seen him in weeks, and she usually saw him pretty often, and the only

semblance of correspondence that anybody would have with him, and especially the only semblance of correspondence that his mom had with him, was when his cousin's sedric stopped by with a card that was signed by Aiprahem. Inside the card was a hundred in cash and a cross. But when Elizabeth asked Cedric who gave him this card to give her, he wouldn't tell her. He didn't say Abraham gave this to me to give you. He said, this is a card for me, Abraham. Somebody told me to give it to you, but he wouldn't say who had told him to bring it.

That should throw up some red flags. And it did to me. And it does. Good as I hope that people are like ding-ding-ding. And the red flags build and build and build over time. Yeah. Because Abraham also stopped coming by to see his children. Because by this point, he didn't only have a son Moses,

but he also had had a child with his girlfriend, Centauria Brown, just like a month's prior. Like this was a newborn. Oh my god. And he was seeing his son all the time. Like him and Centoria kind of had a similar relationship to the one that Abraham had with his other's child's mother. They were pretty off again on again, but no matter what, he stopped by to see that he was a presently. Like he was a presently. Yeah. Absolutely. Now his cousin, Cedric, also hadn't heard a peep from him and neither had close friends like Poppy from the food store.

Oh, I'm worried. Or Greg from the barber shop. But don't worry. I'm worried. I know how it ends and I'm worried. Don't worry because someone is hearing from him. Dee Dee's hearing from him. Oh, good. We should trust that. He's not gonna. He's not gonna.

Everything's fine because Dee Dee will tell you. Yeah, Dee Dee's gonna tell you all you need to know. She would tell anybody who asked for Abraham that, you know, he just needed to get away from for a bit from everything because he was tired of people coming around asking for money. And then people were like, okay, like, where is he? Yeah. And she was like, oh, you know what, I think he's in Jamaica. You know, I think he went to Burbuta. Yeah, I actually, I'm not sure, but he just, he needed to go on vacation. Yeah, know, he's just around. And for a while that worked because people knew that like he had had to change his phone number that he liked to go on vacation. So maybe he just needed to clear his head for a bit.

But then more months were all by. And she says, you know, Abraham actually skipped town because he owed a lot in child support. And he was worried about going to prison again. So she starts painting him in this really shitty light. Because now it's like okay, but he wouldn't leave his kids. Exactly. It's very clear to anybody. Yeah. She also got to the point where she started telling people that he had AIDS and was away taking care of it and was so embarrassed to be around people. That's why he had run away. Oh, when it got sparse, she then said that he, you know, what actually had raped an underage girl and he was leaving town. So she's making up in the beginning. She's like, he's on vacation. So we go from he's on vacation to, you know what, he actually raped an underage girl, just my god, punishing his reputation throughout this town.

Now the stories were not adding up to these people, but about eight months passed before anybody did anything about it. Abraham's cousin, Sedric, after eight months of this bullshit, had had enough. So on November 9th, 2009, it's like really weird. November is like a constant in the story. It really is. Actually just thought of that. But on November 9th, 2009,

Sedric called the police to file a missing persons report. And at first, the police felt like Cedric was being pretty helpful. But the more and more questions they asked him and starting to dig a little deeper, he was clearly getting uncomfortable, he was getting agitated. And finally, he just got to the point where he was like, I can't help you anymore. Like, Abraham's missing, that's all I know, not telling you anything else. Wow. So they're like, that's not shady at all. So they found his behavior shady at first.

So did that. So did that. But then, so they're doing this investigation obviously now because they're like, okay, clearly this man is missing. Something is going on here. And they're starting to talk to people in town and they start hearing this name, Dee Dee, the white lady.

Dee Dee came around. The white lady came around. Dede started the fire. And she's still looking for Abraham's money, even though he's missing. Of course she is. So they're like, okay, and they find out that she's heavily involved

in Abraham's finances. And they said, you know, she was like really involved in his life and like interpersonal relationships. Yeah. And they said right around the time he disappeared is when like things started relationships. Yeah. And they said, right around the time he disappeared is when things started really taking off. Now, then they were able to find out that the reason why Sedrick was being so hot and cold with them

was because Dee Dee had the title to his car and was named on his home loan. He was making mortgage payments to her. Holy shit. And she had the title of his car. So if he pissed her off, he was homeless mortgage payments to her. Holy shit. And she had the title of his car. So if he pissed her off, he was homeless and carless. How is she doing this? I have no idea.

I know, right, Jess. I think it was because originally it was an Abraham's name and she must have had Abraham sign something. And then it became in her name. And then she's collecting all these debts. And Sedrick's mother lived in his house. Like he had a whole hurry. So he had like, so it wasn't just him.

Collateral damage that would have happened, dude. Right. So he was worried that if he went against her, he's just going to lose everything. Damn. So now it was time for investigators to talk to this D.D. lady. Yeah. And tracking her or her tracking her down wouldn't be too hard

because she was still living in his house. I was just going to say she's in his house. So, yep, yep. That he sold to her, even though there's no transaction, no record of transaction. Awesome. So the police got there and they're like, hey, where's Abraham? And she tells the police that what she told everybody in the beginning. She says he's tired of getting asked for money all the time.

And I think he's just, you know, on vacation right now, getting some time to his self. I think I just live in his house. I don't know. Well, she said, actually, I've spoken with him a few times via text message. Remember, I said earlier, he does communicate through text message. No. And she said, you know, I'm going to shoot him another text, but just so you know, it does usually take him like a day or two to get back to me, I think maybe the time difference is.

Um, so I'll let you know when he gets back to me, like I will come to you as soon as he answers. And then they were like, okay, but before we go, we'd like to talk to you about like all these different kind of like financial things. And she was like, well, listen, I was just helping him out. And here I have like this to show you

that this is all official. And she shows them an asset purchase agreement that Abraham had signed off on his signature was right there and it showed that he had sold those $3 million in assets to her. It looked legal, but it was strange. They were like, why would he do that? Yeah, and then just skip town.

It makes no sense. So she's like, listen, you know what, don't even bother coming back here. I'm going to come to you to make that easier. Yeah, don't come back. Yeah, don't come back. I'm going to make this easier for you and I'm going to come right down to the it easier. Yeah, don't come back. Yeah, don't come back. I'm gonna make this easier for you and I'm gonna come right down to the station

as soon as he answers me. Just give me a few days. Give me a few days to come up with what I'm gonna do. Yeah, and they're like, okay. They're like cool. Sounds good. We'll give you a few days to come up with a good day. Our people will call your people.

Yeah, definitely. So in a couple days, they check back. And Dee Dee still hasn't heard from Abraham. But she said, you know, I thought he was just being a stubborn brat. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, surely he'll get back to me soon. But then a few days after checking in, the police get a strange call from Abraham's most

recent girlfriend. I believe when he quote unquote disappeared that he was, they were off. Again, like they weren't necessarily together, but again, they have this child together. Yeah. So they get a call from Centauria Brown. And she tells them that she just got a call from Dee Dee. And that Dee Dee told her, I need you to do something for me.

If you tell the police that you've seen Abraham recently, there's a $200,000 house in it for you and your baby. Good for Centauria Brown for calling the police. A stand up gal. What a fucking rock star for just like, not that I'm saying, like good for her for not taking that money and just like saying what he would. But a lot of people would.

Absolutely. And it's like so I'm really glad that she was like, fuck you. Sometimes you have to good people clops for things that don't necessarily create a clops, but it does. But it does. But good for her because she had a brand new baby. Yeah.

I'm sure it flashed her the remind that there's a lot of money that can help, so it's like good for her. You saw Gladion people who actually gave a shit about him. Yeah, absolutely. And that just goes to show what kind of person he was. That the women he had children with were ready to back him still. Yeah. So all, all centauria would have to do said, said, D.D. was called the police and say that Abraham came by in the middle of the night recently.

And that you were talking to each other through the window, but you got in this fight. And then by the time you went outside to go talk to him, he was gone, vanished. And sentory of a fight called this woman. Yeah. And said for her to do this. Is it wild to me? Yeah, sentory is like, oh my gosh, a D.D. like for sure. Absolutely. I'll do that. Of course, girlfriend. That is not strange and unusual at all. And then she said, hello 911, I'd like to report an emergency. Wow. So D.D DD was very evidently up to no good and then the police start to look at her past rap sheet full of insurance fraud and

like possible arson. Oh they started to look at that now that's nice. Yeah and we're still in the beginning so you know they're working yeah we're doing it. Yeah so it made them feel worse though when they checked some cell phone records to see if they could locate a tower that Abraham's phone was heading off of When he was supposedly sending supposedly sending all of these text messages Now they were able to check DD's phone records as well. Now up until April 6, 2009 there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of outgoing and incoming phone calls to Abraham's phone because he strictly communicates through via phone call. Yeah. Now his last and girlfriend, Centuria said he wasn't a

textur. Anytime he got a text, I had to read it to him and then I would like help him come up with the response or he would just call the person back. He's out a textur. So why on April 6th did he just go from hundreds and hundreds of phone calls to only communicating via text message on April 6th? He did. That's how. Well, yeah, because in looking at the phone records, they were able to determine that every time Abraham's cell phone hit a tower when it set a text message, Dee Dee's phone

hit the same tower. What a coincidence. They were like, fire. The same tower, traveling in the same directions at the same speed. And they were like the phones literally had to have been sitting right next to each other while these messages are being sent. Yeah.

Dee Dee Moore was texting herself and texting other people posing as Abraham to make it seem like he was still alive and well. That's shocking. Why was she trying to make it seem like he was still alive if he was only just on vacation? Why? Why? So around this time, the police put a tracking device on D.D. Moore's car. Hell yeah, they did. They're keeping tabs on her.

So as all the investigators are piecing all of this strange ass information together, the weird and suspicious behavior only continues. In the beginning of December, Abraham's mother Elizabeth got a letter that was supposed to have been written by Abraham, but it was lengthy and it was detailed and she was like, there's literally no way you wrote this. I was going to say, how are we failing to like just like, she really just trying to play this off like that? Oh yeah, and not only that, like, I've seen some of these letters and she's using words

that she thought Abraham would have used, but she's using the N word. Oh my God. Writing it down and like just saying horrific things, she's admitting to like, you know, these things that you supposedly is doing, but like clearly would never have done. Wow, she's an evil son of a bitch. She's fucked. So then Christmas came and went without hearing a word from Abraham.

So he definitely would have seen his mom on Christmas. Of course. So she's like heartbroken and she's like, where is my son? And his children. And his children. You're not seeing his children on Christmas? Yeah, absolutely.

So two days after Christmas, Dee Dee stops by Elizabeth's house. This is Abraham's mother and she's like, let's go out for a bite to eat. I like, oh my god, how dare her. How dare she, yeah, thank you. Oh. She's like, let's go out for a bite to eat.

I know that you're feeling down and like I want you to feel better. So Elizabeth agrees and while the two of them are eating together, someone calls Elizabeth. The caller claimed to be Abraham, but Elizabeth knew better because a mother knows her child's voice. Of course. And she was certain this was not her son on the other line and actually said that to whoever this caller was. And how convenient that she's sitting with Dee Dee. How did Dee Dee suddenly

decided to take her out for? Oh, crazy. Yeah, so convenient. Crazy. What a convenient alibi. Yeah, so the call is immediately reported to the police. Elizabeth is like, that's not my fucking son. I don't know who that was. Now, the police are able to track the location of the call to a local mall. They start making their way to the mall and wouldn't you know it as they're pulling into the mall getting ready to figure out like exactly where this phone is and track down the caller. and track down the collar. DD Moore's big ass hammer pulls into the same mall parking lot and up to another driver. So they're like, well, we're just kind of hanging back here and watch what the fuck goes down.

Brent Roche seats to this show. She gets out of her car and into this other car and seems to him the driver a lot of what looks like cash. Now the detectives watch this whole interaction go down and they wait for Dee Dee's hammer to pull back out of the mall and then they approach the driver of the car where she was just stupid. My God, this is amazing.

It's like not even real, but it is. So they approach this man and they're like, hey, who the fuck are you? What's going on? And this guy says, my name's Greg Smith. Hi, Greg Smith. Do you know Greg Smith? Greg Smith. The barber. Oh, Greg Smith. Abraham's friend. Yeah. Greg Smith says, stop. Dee Dee had paid him to make the call to Elizabeth. Stop it. And that she was going to pay him to make further calls. The wall of cash that she had just handed him was $5,000 to call Elizabeth and pretend to be Abraham

and explain why he had missed Christmas. To call Abraham's mother and pretend to be her missing son. Who you claim to be your friend? Holy shit. Yep. The shitty? Wow, I just can't. That's wow. So it was then that the police had their in the worst species. They say to Greg Well, your friends with Abraham aren't you and he's like, yeah, like that's like my brother No, and they say okay, if that's your brother then you want to wear a wire and help us catch this lady and Greg agrees So that he's gonna continue meeting with GD

He's gonna come he's gonna completely turn on her and wear a wire now every single time Because this was not the only time and we'll get a little further into it toward the end This was not the only thing that he had done with her. Oh damn So the next time Greg meets up with Dee Dee, he's wired up. He actually put the wire in an empty sports can drink and just held onto it while he talked to her. Which would stress me out because like, what if it clanks? I know. What if it clanks? What if it clanks? He was able to ask a little bit more about Abraham. And Dee Dee explained to him, these cops are trying to pin this on me. They think that Abraham is dead. And now I'm not hearing back from him anymore. And here's

where he could be. He could be doing this and this and yada yada yada. But you know what? I have to come clean about something. Abraham Shakespeare is dead, but I didn't do it. That's what she says. The fact that she just fucking was like, you know what? Let me just admit this while you have a wire on. Well, he's not that she knows, but it's just like the one time he has a wire on. She's like, you know what? He's dead. Full confession. Full blow.

But not full confession because according to her, it was a drug dealer named Ronald that had committed this murder. She said Abraham was working with this drug dealer, Ronald. There was this elaborate drug ring that he was involved in. They were moving about 40 kilos of cocaine. And something had gone down between Abraham and this guy, Ronald, and Abraham had ended up dead. But according to D.D., she was trying to make it seem like Abraham was still alive because this Ronald guy had been threatening her. Or he's gonna hurt her.

He's gonna hurt so many people threatening her. I know everybody is always threatening Dee. She's always so threatened. Now the whole story sounded weird as fuck to Greg because anybody who knew Abraham knew that not only was he not involved in drugs whatsoever, he barely touched alcohol. He was not even a drinker. So then, Dee Dee said something that he was just not ready for. He was like, well, whoops, like, taking a back. Does he know anybody who would confess to a murder

so that she wouldn't have to spend time in prison for a crime that she just simply didn't commit? Do you know anybody who would take the rap for this, Greg? The boldness of this woman, of this snake is outrageous. The fact that she is just calling people being like, hey, will you just say you talk to this guy who's been missing forever?

And like, hey, will you just call his mother and pretend to be him? Like she's just, she's so fucking bold. And then she's like, hey, do you know anyone that would like say that they murdered someone? Oh, I don't have to one so here's the thing. What why do you think that Greg knows somebody who would take the rap for murder? But you don't that's the thing. I'm like if anybody knows someone you do you probably take some but I'm like she was racist As fuck like that's literally raised 100% like you're being like, oh, do you know anybody Greg?

Do you know anybody rap for murder? Like go fuck your son. People would believe murdered. Exactly. That's what it is. It pissed me off a lot. That's wow. So Greg was like, you know, I have to think about it because nobody's name comes to mind right now.

I'm going to have to think about it. But I'm going to get back to you because I'm sure I can come up with somebody because you know, I'm Greg, so I must know somebody that could fucking take the ripper. They didn't commit. So after that meeting that he goes back to the detectives and they're like wow she sucks. She's really murdered him but like let's fucking play the long game. If TD's gonna play the long game so are we. Yeah. So they come up with a plan. They're gonna send an undercover officer the next time that Greg and TD meet up. And the undercover officer is going to pretend like he's Greg's cousin.

And he's going to tell D.D. You know what, I'll take the wrap for you, but I need a little more detail about this first because if they're gonna ask me questions about this murder, and I need to know. I need to know. I need to know. This is amazing.

It's fucking great. It's also absolutely horrible that this had to happen. But it's amazing how they were able to, how they did it. How they did it. How they did it. How they did it. they were able to like how they did it. So in January 21st the three of these people have their meeting. Greg and detective Mike Smith get into D.D.'s car and Greg says oh this is Mike this is my cousin. And Mike tells D.D. Hey like yeah I'm going to prison soon on drug charges I got like a pretty lengthy sentence so

I'll take the wrap for this like it'll give me like prison cred or something like that yeah and you know like I'm already gonna be there for a while so cool but I'm not doing this for free I need $50,000 yeah and she's like okay yeah I'll give you $50,000 of Abraham's money to say that you killed him sounds good cool and he says okay I also need to know where the body is. Do you know where the body is? Because how am I gonna say I killed somebody and then not tell them where the body is? Because the body is.

And he said, and I need to know exactly how he was killed because they're gonna ask me, and I need my story to match up with the manner of death. So that this can be like a cut and dry case. Because like, you know, we heard last week with Elena's story without a body, it can be pretty hard. It can be tough. It can pretty hard. It can be tough.

Like, it can be tough. It can be tough. So, unreal. If DD knew where Abraham was buried, it was pretty obvious how involved in this murder she had been. So this is why they're trying to save this. Of course. So she told them, I actually know exactly where Abraham is buried.

Wow. He is buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of a house owned by my boyfriend, Char. Oh, if you didn't kill him, why is he buried in your backyard? Holy shit! So they say, okay, we're gonna have to come by in the coming days and move that body because if the police think that you're involved and then he's found in your backyard It's gonna fuck this whole thing up. We have to move him like he's in your backyard you fucking idiot girlfriend you fucking what idiot?

Like I'm happy you're fine. He's of shit. So they're like listen We got to come back up so that you're not linked to this at all and she said oh You know what guys? Thank you so much. I think she also told the officer that he was going to be a legend. And that he might end up on the Oprah show. Because Oprah just has murderers on the show all the time. She works that. Yeah, that's totally Oprah's fucking thing. Yeah, that's when the stay show.

Probably not. For sure. So they make plans to me a day or a couple days later. A day or so later, Greg meets up with Dee Dee again. And this time she hands him a 38 Smith & Wesson and she says, this is the gun that they used to kill Abraham. And he's like, why do you have the gun that they used to kill Abraham? And she said, well, it is my gun, but Ronald took it from the safe

while he and Abraham were arguing inside of the home office and that Ronald used it to shoot Abraham. And then she led Greg out to the backyard of her boyfriend's home to a concrete slab that had been like pretty freshly poured. And she pointed to some metal tool laying on the slab and said, Abraham, excuse me, she said, your boy is under there about five feet down. She literally said that. That sounds like someone who had nothing to do with it. Yeah, definitely. Very far removed totally.

There was also a trailer parked in front of the slab to hide the area from the street. And then Dee Dee said that she was going to hitch the trailer to a truck that night so they could drive the body away. And then she was like, let me show you, I got a bunch of stuff for you guys. Like party favors got to help you out. Yeah, definitely. She took Greg inside of the trailer and showed him all the supplies that she had gathered for them.

There was plastic sheeting, duct tape, multiple bottles of chlorox bleach, a lice-all kit, plastic gloves, and a metal tub where she said, you can put Abraham's body in there while you drive, which is body to the new location. You can put him in that metal tub over there. For someone who didn't murder this man, you know an awful lot about transporting a murdered body, and you know an awful lot about the murder, and you seem very comfortable with a murdered body. And you know an awful lot about the murder, and you seem very comfortable

with a murdered body of a friend of yours. I'm nodding so hard right now. Yeah, that's just, I think, to my head is going to just, like, flip off and, like, go out that skylight right there. Wow. So later on in the investigation, just to give you a piece of, a piece of, like, information about how fucking horrible

this woman is, if I already hadn't made that point clear. The detectives were able to get surveillance of DD buying all of these items at Walmart. Of course. Because Walmart has surveillance you fucking idiot. They sure do. Thank God. And they also got the receipt, and it showed that she bought all of these items. And this is what I found when I like found the court documents, and I was really excited to find this, but also horrified. She bought all of these items, and also bought a fucking Frappuccino drink from Starbucks. Wow. You know those little ones that you can get

at the grocery store. She bought all of these, like every item in the world, you could possibly get to dispose of a body. And then while she was at it, she said, you know what? Let me have a little afternoon treat and get a frappuccino along with all of this. This woman is repugnant. Repugnant is a perfect word for her. Are you kidding me? That's a fucking frappuccino. I can't, I can't even. I literally can't

even hate it. So just one day later, investigators were able to start digging at that site because hello wires because hi, hi. And after about 48 hours spent excavating the area, they found 43-year-old Abraham Shakespeare lying on his side about five feet below the concrete slab. He'd been shot twice in the chest and later he was positively IDed through fingerprints. All of the metal parts of the concrete slab. He'd been shot twice in the chest, and later he was positively IDed through fingerprints. All of the metal parts of the clothes that he was wearing, like the buttons on his jacket,

the zipper on his jeans, any buttons on his pants, and a belt buckle that he had been wearing, any metal had been cut off. So that anybody metal detecting in the area wouldn't have found him. Wow. Wonder why.

Wonder why somebody would go to such great lengths to do something like that. That is a lot of lengths to go to. Now, you might be thinking, Elena, that I'm going to tell you that this is the point in time where DD gets arrested. And don't worry, yes, we are getting to that point. But before I get there, I have to tell you that the day Abraham's body was found buried in the backyard of her boyfriend's house, DD drove herself to the police station and told them she was finally ready to come clean. Oh, I'm so glad that what you you have a heart,

but it wasn't her fault Delayna. No, she did not do this. No, she didn't. She said, I've been scared this whole time, but now that you have his body, I have to tell you the truth. Do these not scared of shit? No, she's not. She's not scared of anything. She's also, if you watch like anything where she's interviewed, she's the most terrifying human being on the screen.

Yeah, she's not scared of shit. Because she comes off like a lady that you would meet at Sears that would help you find a dress for an upcoming occasion and you'd be like, wow, that lady was so nice. Wow. But really, she murdered somebody and buried them in her boyfriend's backyard. Wow. Like the way she comes off, you're like, what? Oh, that's how she manipulates people.

Oh, cool. Those people can just turn it on. She's incredibly manipulating. Yeah. So she's ready to come clean. She tells them that the night Abraham died, he and three men had come into her office located inside of the house that Abraham one-soned and still lived in.

But at this point, D.D. had already taken ownership. And they walk in and they say that they're going to rob her. Now the man she knew as Ronald went into her safe. He must have just known the password. Yeah, he just went in there. And took out the 38 Smith and Wesson. But as they were going to rob D.edy, Abraham and Ronald got into a fight and Ronald just took the gun and shot Abraham twice in the chest. And she explained the story through

tears while the investigators just blankly stare at her and say, we know that you're lying. Like, we know that's not the truth. And she starts sobbing at this point. And I can't believe you're not going to help me. I'm telling you the truth and you're not doing anything to help me. And I'm scared for my life. And she gets so serious for one point in this interview. And she goes, I was so scared. They put the gun in my mouth.

And I peed my pants. And then she repeated, I peed my pants. Like, I have to be clear about this. She's going this far. I was scared. The detectives were not impressed and they were like, why would they keep you alive if you just witnessed murder? The murder somebody right in front of you.

Like, what good are you to have around? And she was like, well, I could continue to pay them. And they're like, well, they're moving 40 kilos of cocaine, so why the fuck do they need your money? And she's like, clearly, this story is not working. So she goes, no, no, no, no, okay, that's not the truth. No, it's not, Deety. It was my son. Oh, my God. It was my son, RJ, my 14 year old son, RJ. He shot Abraham. What? He walked into the office and he saw that Abraham was assaulting me.

So he was, he's a good boy and he was doing the right thing and he was protecting me. And he shot Abraham because Abraham was assaulting me. Again the investigators were like, we know that your son did not do this. Did you did? And she's like, I cannot believe that you are treating me this way. And she just gets up and storms out of the police station, which at that point, that day at least she could do that because literally as those doors closed behind her, they started writing up an arrest warrant.

Of course they did. Now, before getting to the arrest, though, they had one more person that they wanted to talk to. DeeDee's ex-husband, James Moore. He came down to the station to talk and said that around the beginning of April, which as you remember, the last text message, or excuse me, the last phone calls of Abraham's phone and on April 6th. Yes. So sometime around the beginning of April, DeeDee called her ex-husband, and she said, I need you to dig a hole out on my boyfriend's property so that we can bury some trash and cement in it.

Now, I don't know if that's like a thing that people do. She had recently purchased a backhoe for the job, and James had said that he had done this before for her. Okay, so I don't know if that's like a thing that people do. I have no idea. But she had recently purchased a new backhoe for this specific job.

So he said he did this for Dee Dee. He came over, he dug the hole for her and then he left. And he was like, I thought she was just going to put some trash in it and some cement. That's what she told me. But then she called him about two hours later and said, you know what? Fuck, I need you to come back and fill in this hole because we have an inspector coming the next day. And if they see this hole, it's gonna fuck things up.

So he said when he got back to the house, it was dark by that point. And he said, Dedy looked really tired. Like she had just gotten done doing something strung-uous and that she was also slightly dirty and sweating. Okay. And he was like, I don't know, maybe she was like, they had a lot of trash to put in this hole

and she was like really going after it. He was like, wow, you really have a lot of trash. But he also was like, you're my ex-wife. And like, I honestly don't even wanna know what the fuck you're doing. Like, I'm just gonna fill in this hole and she was like really going after it. He's like, wow, you really have a lot of trash. But he also was like, you're my ex-wife. I honestly don't even want to know what the fuck you're doing. Like, I'm just going to fill in this hole for you because I think that it's just trash. Your shady is fuck. I don't know what it's going on. Personally, I wouldn't want to do anything for D.D. especially not dig a hole. Now fill it in two hours later, but you know, hindsight is 2020. It truly is. So he just went out back and he said he filled in this hole that he had just dug hours before.

And he said he didn't see anything inside the hole, except maybe like a little bit of cement, which there was cement over it. Like she covered his body with cement. Oh, shit. But it was so dark outside that James said he really didn't know what he was looking at. Well, and I don't think you're immediately going to be like,

she probably put a body in there that she is not like you. You know, you know that she's done like insurance schemes and stuff like that, but I don't think you would think of her as a murderer. She's the mother of your child. I don't think a lot of people think that their person that they were once married to could be capable of murdering someone. Yeah, exactly. So he was like, out by.

And then so the police were like, that's very helpful information. Thank you. You're free to go. Now days later on February 2nd, D.D. Moore was arrested and eventually charged with first-degree murder. Her arrest was like somewhat theatrical because literally right before she got arrested, like moments before she got arrested, she was doing an interview with reporters like right outside of the gated community that she lived in because of Abraham.

And she was sobbing and saying that she was a good person who would never kill someone and the truth was gonna come out yada yada yada yada. What? And literally less than a mile away, the police were waiting to arrest her murderous ass. Wow. So on November 28th, 2012, the case goes to trial. Now the prosecution had a lot on their side, specifically Greg, who worry wire, yeah, and also the undercover officer Mike Young. But while he was on trial, Greg went into detail about all the things that he had been a part of while being paid by Dee Dee to make it seem like Abraham was still alive. He testified, this is bananas. Banana. Banana.

He testified that at one point in time, he and Dee Dee had gone to a comfort inn where she typed up a letter to give to Abraham's mother, Elizabeth, pretending to be Abraham, another letter. My God. And Greg said she had plastic type gloves on, like picture like cleaning gloves, and that she wrapped her hair up

in some kind of scarf thing for extra protection not wanting to like leave any evidence I guess. Oh my god. And that she had even purchased a new laptop to write this letter on. She really went all out. Yep. And the police were able to confirm this because at that point they already had the tracker on Dee Dee's car and they saw that she was headed to the house and they were trailing behind her and they actually intercepted this letter before Elizabeth ever got it. Good.

Which I'm thankful for because she already had to read way too many things that were not even from her side. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Unreal. He also, Greg also testified that Dee Dee had made him go into a store at one point and buy multiple cell phones and that she wanted him to put one in somebody, in Robert's name, like put one of these phone in a Robert's name. In this fictional person's name. Yes, so that she could call herself with the phone, and the call would be tracked to somebody named Robert. Clearly, she didn't know about how cell phone towers work.

Holy shit, so she's just sitting around, like fully scheming every last bit of this. Yes. Holy shit. Like she literally was like addicted to it. Like she was having fun with this because she was getting so much enjoyment of this. There's no reason to go through this much trouble. No.

There's no reason at all. This is insanity. It's crazy. Yeah, this is somebody who enjoys this. This search warrant that they got for one of the houses, there was two houses that she got when she stole everything from Abraham. One of the search warrants for one of the houses was crazy amount of pages long. Eight pages of the search warrant was just jewelry that they had taken. Eight pages of the search warrant was just jewelry and like coach bags. Oh my god. That she had

just bought with this man's money who she had murdered. She had murdered and buried in her boyfriend's backyard. Unreal. So Greg finishes up his testimony and then the prosecution calls a financial advisor on the stand like this like really like well-known financial advisor he asked. And he went through all of Abraham's accounts and was able to confirm that every last penny had been given to quote, unquote, given to Dee Dee or deposited into her American medical professionals account. Wow. Then they called a previous personal assistant to Abraham who testified that in the days leading up

to Abraham's disappearance, he was starting to catch on to what Dee Dee had been doing and that he had plans to confront her. And this personal assistant told Dee Dee, like he knows what's going on. Not thinking obviously that she's gonna kill him, but like tip turn on. Right.

Like this, you were a personal assistant to him. You don't owe Dee Dee shit. Oh, that's shit. That is a shitty person. I don't give a shit if you didn't think something.D. Shit. Oh, that's shit. That is a shitty person. I don't give a shit if you didn't think something like this would happen. That's really fucked. Fucked.

Because she's very clearly a dangerous person. If she's very clearly a shady person. Right. And if that's between them. If she's capable of taking total basically four to five million dollars away from somebody and swindling them into signing shit and just like All the crazy links she went to and you were like you're gonna tip her off like he knows money makes people fucking crazy

And it's like this woman is clearly only run by that. She's not even shit about anyone. That's fucked up It is so the prosecution the prosecution excuse me put all of the testimony together and they came to the conclusion that Abraham probably was catching onto what Deity had been doing and the day he was killed was the day he most likely went to confront her. Oh. And she felt like she had no other option but to get rid of him. And it must have gone down in that home office because they were able to find blood evidence in there, but they couldn't find like a full sample

because sections of the carpet in the home office, excuse me, in the home office had been cut out. Holy shit. So she even went to that length. She was delusional enough to think that she would get away with murder, probably because her past had shown her that she'd gotten away with the three people away

with everything and lying and lying for years and years. Wow. But they were able to piece that whole story together based on and honestly like for me, I'm like, yeah, that's I would be pretty confident in saying that's probably most likely what happened. One hundred percent. And the defense didn't really have a lot. Yeah, what do you have to defend, DD?

So they went with the story about the guy named Ronald. They said she the reason she went to all these great lengths was to make it seem... the reason she went to all the great lengths to make it seem like Abraham was alive was because she was scared for her own life. No. Yeah. That's no. The jury felt the same no that we felt. No. And on December 10th they came back with their verdict. Doris D. Doniganmore was found guilty of first-degree murder. And the judge Emmett Battles looked at D.D. before sentencing and said, quote, "'Mist more, after listening to all of this over two weeks, words were said here, cold, calculated, cruel.

They all apply. Probably the most manipulative person that this court has ever seen. Abraham Shakespeare was your prey and your victim. Money was the root of evil that you brought to Abraham, and now I'm going to pronounce the sentence. And then he dropped his gavel. And he sentenced her to life and prison without the possibility of parole, and added on 25 years for the use of a firearm and a violent felony. By D. Devi, she is still serving her sentence at the low correctional facility in Ocala, Fulorita. Holy shit.

And to this day, she is maintaining her innocence and says that she's the one who got murdered. I shit you not, this woman literally said, quote, I believe I was murdered by the hands of the justice and my life, my life you fucking narcissist, is what they have to live with. They have to live with murdering me. Ma'am, you are still alive. No one fired two bullets into your chest in an attempt to live a life of luxury after stealing all your money. And you're the one who has blood on their hands.

Wow. You were murdered? Mm. The things I would love to say. That's so courageous. And she said that it's all her lawyer's fault that she didn't win the case because she had a witness

who was going to testify on her behalf, but that her attorney just never called that witness. Yeah, totally. She also completely abandoned the Ronald story and all the other stories that came along the way and said, actually. Oh, okay, actually. But wait, there's more.

It was Greg who killed Abraham. Oh, okay. It was Greg. She said, Abraham was having an affair with Greg's wife. So Greg lost his mind and killed Abraham when he found out. Okay. And she also said, I'm a people person. I'm a friendly person. I like good things and happy thoughts and good times.

I don't plot to murder people for money. Are you kidding me? I like rainbows and butterflies and puppies. Like at one point, she literally said, like, I like Disney. I like good stuff. Okay. Okay. Cool.

Yeah. Like a lot of shitty people like fun things. Absolutely they stuff. Okay. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Like a lot of shitty people, like fun things. Absolutely they do. You're one of them. And also I love how you sat in a car with Greg while he was wired up. And literally talked about it like someone else did it. The delusion.

But now he's sitting there and saying that Greg was just like, play acting there. Or the delusions from him. You were just play acting together. So deep. Like, you can't explain that. You can't be like, play acting there. The delusions run. You were just play acting together. So deep in her. Like you can't explain that. You can't be like, yeah, I sat with him in a car and we talked about it like he didn't do it. Right.

When I didn't know he was wearing a wire, but like, you also can't say that like your 14 year old son did it when you told everybody that those like some guy named Ronald. That's it. It's like, okay, so you're blaming him. He was a big son.

He was a big son. But like, what do you have to say about you, just pinning it on your 14 year old son? Like, you don't have anything to say about that? She was so delusional. During one of her interviews, the man's name was Detective Clark, that was like, he was one of the detectives on the case.

She tried to say that, like she was like, after all of this is over you and I should rent a hotel room and have a good time together. Like, she say that, like she was like after all of this is over you and I should rent a hotel or a hotel room and have a good time together. Like she thought that she was like gonna prove somehow that she was innocent and this detective who was investigating her for like murder was going to have a good time with her in a hotel room while investigating her for murder. What movie is she living in? It's shitty. She also was like reprimanded countless times

while in the courtroom. She would nod and like, she would nod and like shake her head and stuff with certain testimonies and she would make faces at the jury, like the judge fucking hated her. She also said that her tongue went into anaphylactic shock because of a medicine that she had to take, because there were so many cuts and stuff on her wrists

and her ankles that she had to take this medicine, but then the medicine caused her tongue to go into anaphylactic shock. And the judge was like, I literally don't give a shit. I stop. Oh. You're on trial for murder. Nobody gives a fuq. What the fuck? Nobody gives a shit. I stop. Oh. You're on trial for murder. Nobody gives a fuk.

What the fuk? Nobody gives a single flying fuk. What the fuk? So now just to end this, because I usually like to end this on the victim side of things, just, you know, there are representatives of Abraham's estate now, like good representatives, who are trying to track down all of the stolen money to see if they can get anything back

for like his fucking children. Yeah, and This is crazy Strangely enough in 2017 the mother of Abraham's older son Moses and Twina Andrews $1 million on a lottery jackpot. The odds were apparently one in 1,140,000 Holy shit, and she won a million dollars. And she said when she won, she was scared. But all she wants to do is pay her bills

by her son a new truck and get herself and her daughter a home. And that's all she wants. Good for her. I'm like, I hope that's what, damn. I'm like, I feel like, like, I'm just like, weirdly like spiritual. And I think Abraham is out there somewhere

still taking care of his family. I know, I don't like that space. I think that's what makes me feel. That was a little, for you. That was a little thing there. I like that. So that is the, Oh my God.

Banana story of the Abraham Shakespeare murder. Dede Moore is the one of the most deplorable, repugnant human beings on this planet. There's not even words for her, which really isn't. It's unreal. Rot in hell. Yeah, you're We're terrible. We're wherever. I hope she has hemorrhids. Yeah, I Hope she has hang now every day. Yeah, I hope that her contract. I hope she wears contacts

And I hope that they're so dry every single day and there's no eye lubricant available I also hope that like she always has the sneeze and it gets right to that point and then she loses it over and over and over again so her nose gets really stuffed up. I hope she always has a headache like in her temple. Oh yeah. Yeah, those are the worst. Yeah, I hope that. I hope that.

She falls asleep and gets into a really great awesome sleep and is having a really great dream and then she wakes up every single time. She has a falling thing where she just sleeps. Every time. Yeah, where your heart is racing. Yeah, I hope that. And lots of other things. Yeah, for sure.

Bye. Bye. Bye. So yeah, guys, that was wild. I'm actually very, like, happy to have my mind be rid of that because I was full of hatred for D.D. Moore for the past couple of weeks. Yes. So with that, we hope you keep listening.

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