NEW YORK — Florida resident Abraham Shakespeare went from rags to riches after winning $30 million in the lottery in 2006.
The newfound fortune brought the 40-year-old from Lakeland out of poverty and allowed him to give back to his community, but he started to feel burdened by the number of people who came to him expecting a piece of the pie, according to Shakespeare's friend Greg Smith and others who knew Shakespeare.
Meanwhile, the news of Shakespeare's disappearance was gaining momentum in a bustling online forum called Websleuths. Tricia Griffith, a voiceover artist, owns the discussion platform where users scour the internet for clues and post their findings about unsolved cases. That woman was Dorice"Dee Dee" Moore. The web sleuths discovered that Moore's company, American Medical Professionals, was now the owner of Shakespeare's million-dollar home, Griffith said.
"I get on the internet and I come across this Websleuths forum. You have 10 or 15 people finding property purchase agreements, financial records. I questioned how are they getting this information? I need a subpoena to get it, but they've got it," Clark said. "Dee Dee thought she was smarter than everybody, but I knew that she wasn't as smart as these people," Clark said.
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