$1 Million Home, Assets Returned To Estate of Slain Lakeland Lottery Winner
No evidence DeeDee Moore ever paid for slain lottery winner's home
The former home of Abraham Shakespeare returns to his heirs, a judge has ruled.
SCOTT WHEELER | THE LEDGER (2010)
SCOTT WHEELER | THE LEDGER (2010)
Published: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 8:51 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 8:51 p.m.
BARTOW | A judge has ordered that an expensive home and other assets be returned to the estate of slain Lakeland lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare and stripped from the woman convicted of killing him.
In a six-page order, Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance wrote that there was no evidence Dorice "DeeDee" Moore ever paid Shakespeare for his home on Red Hawk Bend Drive in Lakeland.
Shakespeare paid about $1 million for the Lakeland house when he bought it in 2007.
In addition, the judge ordered that some mortgages also be transferred back to Shakespeare's estate.
Stephen Martin, a Lakeland lawyer representing the estate, has been seeking assets on behalf of Shakespeare's two sons.
He received a copy of the judge's decision on Wednesday.
Martin said the Red Hawk Bend Drive home is expected to be sold, and efforts will be made to collect on the mortgages.
Shakespeare won a $17 million lump-sum lottery payment in 2006. He spent, lent or gave away much of his fortune.
Shakespeare disappeared in April 2009. His body was found Jan. 28, 2010, buried underneath a concrete slab behind a Plant City home that Moore had purchased. He had been shot twice in the chest.
In December, a jury found Moore guilty of first-degree murder in Shakespeare's death. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.
During the trial, prosecutors argued Moore killed Shakespeare after she took control of his remaining wealth, including his Lakeland home.
[ Jason Geary can be reached at jason.geary@theledger.com or 863-802-7536. ]
Shakespeare paid about $1 million for the Lakeland house when he bought it in 2007.
In addition, the judge ordered that some mortgages also be transferred back to Shakespeare's estate.
Stephen Martin, a Lakeland lawyer representing the estate, has been seeking assets on behalf of Shakespeare's two sons.
He received a copy of the judge's decision on Wednesday.
Martin said the Red Hawk Bend Drive home is expected to be sold, and efforts will be made to collect on the mortgages.
Shakespeare won a $17 million lump-sum lottery payment in 2006. He spent, lent or gave away much of his fortune.
Shakespeare disappeared in April 2009. His body was found Jan. 28, 2010, buried underneath a concrete slab behind a Plant City home that Moore had purchased. He had been shot twice in the chest.
In December, a jury found Moore guilty of first-degree murder in Shakespeare's death. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.
During the trial, prosecutors argued Moore killed Shakespeare after she took control of his remaining wealth, including his Lakeland home.
[ Jason Geary can be reached at jason.geary@theledger.com or 863-802-7536. ]
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