It took only about three hours of deliberation Dec. 10, before jurors came back with their verdict: Dorice “DeeDee” Moore is guilty of killing Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.
Then, shortly after the verdict was read, Judge Emmet Battles delivered the sentence: life in prison without parole. Battles had harsh words for Moore, whose emotional outbursts disrupted the two-week trial daily.
“Cold, calculated, cruel — they all apply,” Battles said. “Manipulative … probably the most manipulative person that this court has seen. Abraham Shakespeare was your prey and your victim. Money was the route of the evil you brought to Abraham.”
Moore was on trial for killing Shakespeare in 2009. Shakespeare, of Lakeland, won $17 million in 2006. Three years later, his family reported him missing.
Shakespeare’s body was found in January 2010 under a concrete slab at a Turkey Creek home owned by Shar Krasniqi, Moore’s boyfriend. He had been shot twice in the chest.
Moore had launched a business with Shakespeare, Abraham Shakespeare LLC, and gave herself control of the firm’s funds.