Insider Buzz: Other people involved in lottery winner's slaying, attorney saysRating:Though Dorice Donegan "Dee Dee" Moore is the only person accused in the slaying of Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, "there were other people involved," according to her lawyer.
"From my review of the probable cause affidavit and my investigator's review, I see plenty of room for further investigation to develop evidence that Mrs. Moore was not involved in the murder or not the primary person involved in the murder," said attorney Stephen B. Fisher. He was appointed to represent Moore after the Hillsborough County Public Defender's office said it could not represent Moore because of a conflict of interest.
Investigators say Moore, who first met Shakespeare in December 2008, siphoned off the last $3.5 million of his nearly $13 million after-tax lottery winnings before killing him almost exactly a year ago.
Shakespeare, 43, was shot twice in the chest inside a home at 5732 U.S. 60, near Plant City, according to investigators, and his body was then buried under a concrete slab on the property next door owned by Moore and her boyfriend, Shar Krasniqi.
Shakespeare's body was found Jan. 28. Moore was arrested Feb. 2 and eventually charged with first-degree murder. She is at the Orient Road Jail with no bail set.
In a Feb. 1 interview with The Tampa Tribune/TBO.com and in a letter to the newspaper last month, Moore maintained her innocence. She has given investigators at least five versions of who killed Shakespeare, including herself, in self-defense. The common thread was that in each case, Moore said she was there, investigators say.
"There is no credible evidence linking anyone other than Dee Dee Moore to the homicide of Abraham Shakespeare," according to Moore's probable cause affidavit.
Fisher, however, said Moore was not alone the night Shakespeare was killed.
"It appears to me that there were other people involved in Shakespeare's murder," Fisher said. "I think it is quite possible from the evidence I have seen that someone else pulled the trigger and did so without Mrs. Moore's knowledge."
Fisher would not say who else he thinks was inside the house with Moore the night Shakespeare was shot, nor would he name anyone else he thinks might be involved in either killing Shakespeare, burying him or taking his money.
Investigators do not want to comment about Fisher's assertion that someone other than Moore pulled the trigger.
"We are plugging away," said Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Col. Albert Frost, who is leading the investigation into Shakespeare's death. "This is kind of a complicated case and we are slowly digging. We are looking at all angles and not ruling out that possibility, but we are not going to comment on it."
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