TAMPA, Fla. — A grand jury indicted Dorice Donegan "Dee Dee" Moore on Thursday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death and disappearance of Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.
Grand jurors returned a one-count indictment against Moore for premeditated murder. It accuses Moore of shooting Shakespeare between April 1 and April 13.
The next step is for Moore to enter a plea to the charge during an arraignment before Circuit Judge Daniel Sleet. That has yet to be scheduled.
Shakespeare was last seen alive in April. He was shot twice in the chest and buried under a concrete slab on a Turkey Creek property owned by Moore.
Moore has given several versions of what happened to Shakespeare, including that she killed him in self-defense, that her son did it and that her attorney, D. Howard Stitzel III, did it.
She has also given several versions of why she took control of what was left of the nearly $13 million Shakespeare took home, after taxes, when he won the Florida Lottery in November 2006. Prosecutors said she siphoned $3.5 million of those winnings.
Prosecutors also added an illegal wiretapping charge against Moore, although it was not part of the grand jury review.
Moore was arrested Feb. 2 on a charge of accessory after the fact to a first-degree murder in Shakespeare's killing.
On Feb. 12, the state attorney's office for Hillsborough County upgraded the charge to first-degree murder.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Walter Heinrich granted a defense request Thursday to reduce her bail on the accessory charge because prosecutors didn't file formal charges within 21 days as required by state law. Heinrich said Moore could be released on her own recognizance on that charge.
However, Heinrich told Moore the ruling did not affect his decision to hold her without bail on the murder charge.
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I thought I liked money as much as anybody but man, not that much.
And then she blames her own son for it? Whoa.
There really are evil people in the world.
"Moore has given several versions of what happened to Shakespeare, including that she killed him in self-defense, that her son did it and that her attorney, D. Howard Stitzel III, did it.
She has also given several versions of why she took control of what was left of the nearly $13 million Shakespeare took home,......."
Any bets an insanity plea?????
I wouldn''t be surprised - She's just "crazy" about money
Oh she does'n look so evil to meeee! She looks like such a sweet and caring woman! She is so Caucasian, so blond so pure so blue-eyed, like the angels! Is not that what the media as thought us, to judge people by appearance by Color, by race, by their Status. I know I may ketch flack for saying this but I don't care!
She better start watching lesbian videos lol, jail is gonna be fun.
You are %100 right Jrosina I get trated like that daily.It's my look,I'm the kindess loving giving person next to GOD there is,my grandfather always said I came to the world trying to save it.People are so cruel........What was wonderful to see is 2000 people gathered in DC in the big snow and had a snow ball fights,,,all perfect strangers just to have fun.Those days will never be again in this world.Now I'm not the one to have a vote in this topic but I do agree with a lady I work with,if there were capital punishment people would stop all these crimes.
I really hope they throw the book at her. This lady can't even keep her story straight with who supposedly killed him.
SATAN comes in many forms!!!!!!
i would like to call her the word that rhymes with witch.
Amen To That !!!!!!!!
Astekblue
I agree, I hope she doesn't get a nice ladies suit and wear her hair back and let the tears fly and get a single digit sentence. It's just not fair knowing that Mr. Shakespeare's family and friends will be without him for the rest of there lives.
She doesn't look sweet and caring to me. She's got that Lorena Bobbitt look in her eyes.
I wonder how she came up with all of those killers..maybe two or more of them did the deed. I am sorry, she looks like TT to me. She is blonde and with all of those lies she is telling..I bet her brain is hurting. She felt like since she was white and all, Shakespear should be beholden to her for taking all of that dirty money off his hands. I wonder how the court case will go but knowing Florida.. she may credit for time served. Prison is only for "them". After all, it wasn't like she was selling drugs or something.
You're absolutely right. I hope she doesn't get away with murder like OJ did.
she ain't no o/j. "brotha"
Whatever she does or doesn't get........it won't bring back an innocent life : (
Oh boy... That is easy to say when it's not your family member!
rdgrnr, It is very Interesting That you would make that comparison, and not all the other Killings That some cops, klan members, have gotten away with,,,hmmmm...very Interesting In deed!
So this makes it ok for OJ to slice up two people??..What is tiggs missing here?..Whatever happen the last 100 years does not make it right for someone to kill someone no matter thier color of skin..
Rosie,
We don't know each other's race so we can discuss freely the facts. Nobody has killed more black people than black people. People can focus on the Klan or cops or whatever and add them all together and they won't match up with black on black killing. Outrage over white on black killing is disingenuous while ignoring or condoning the real atrocity. I know you're much too smart to fall for the propaganda from the left. There is wholesale slaughter going on in the big cities and it is black on black, let's not stick our heads in the sand.
I don't see any reason to think she might get away with it, but let's assume it's a possibility. What other murder cases from the last 20 years resulted in an acquittal of somebody that was almost certainly guilty, and got so much media coverage that everybody in the country knows about it?
This thread could turn into something it shoud not, so this may be a good place to share some words of wisdom my father put on paper several years ago.
Enjoy! I aways thought this was one of his better poems.
Colorless
By the color of their skin.
And choose to forget in Noah's time
They were the closest kin.
Although man's color range
From white to dark as coal,
To our knowledge there is no difference
In the color of our souls.
You see GOD included all in sin
To show mercy through his son
And there are no stipulations
Regarding what color of man can come.
Does the color of our skins
Determine how we feel?
Does joy, pain or love
Become in anyway less real?
Hey, did you choose your race? no?
Nor did any other man.
Because those things have always been
In the Father's hands.
So if in your journey through this life
You wish to do your part
Love every man as yourself,
And GOD with all your heart.
WELL SAID!!!!
Here is where you are DEAD wrong, "White" people have been killing "Black" people for centuries, it was called "Slavery".
As matter of fact, "White" people have been killing "RED" people and nearly wiped them out, that was called the Westward exspansion. Look at where the RED people are now.
I can go on and on, don't get me started.
Hey, someone does a crime they are guilty, not their race not their sex, not anybody else but them. Anyone who sees anything different is a racist, sexist ignorant fool.
No, I don't want to get you started mj. I'm quite sure you can go on and on. People of your apparent bias and/or lack of common sense are always quite capable of going on and on if nothing else.
But this is a lottery forum and I can hear your Politically Correct viewpoint anytime I want from the major news media.
Go back through this thread and look at my first two posts and pay close attention to see who brings up race and let them know that your last two sentences are directed at them. Is your outrage directed at them for bringing up her race and blonde hair and blue eyes or just me for responding? Are those the people you're trying to impress? I see people as good or bad. I don't care what color they are.
I'd pull the switch on Abraham's killer just as quick as I'd pull it on OJ and sleep like a baby, not caring a whit about what color they were.
If you're as concerned about slavery as you profess please hop a plane to North Africa because slavery is still running rampant over there.
There's your chance to do something.
Or are you just all talk?
It's obvious where you are coming from so let's take this off-line, I'd be happy to debate you anytime!
What you and others like you should do is embrace the truth, and stop running from it. Is life for you and your kind all about OJ, he was acquitted of murder you know so get over it.
No need to debate anything mj. I've had enough debate with sound-byte intellectuals like you to last me two lifetimes. Nothing ever gets accomplished with your type because you don't know when you've been bested and wouldn't admit it if you did. Your cookie-cutter, politically correct, rhetorical approach showed me all I need to know.
I could show Al Gore scientific statistical data that proves there are more Polar Bears now than ever before in history. Although he knows it's true, he would deny it and call me a liar and all his toadies and sycophants like you would rally round and back him up. Debating you would be like debating him - no point, nothing accomplished, waste of time.
Unfortunately, I've known too many people like you. Guilt-ridden, limp-wristed, hand-wringing, emasculated approval-seekers. You and your ilk used to enrage me. As of late, you just bore me. I could write your side of the debate if you so wished. It's like a book I've read so many times I know it by rote. I could quote you before you speak.
Boring.
By your fruits I know ye mj and you are condescending as is typical and expected. But arrogance is the last vestige of a fool.
It's too bad you feel it necessary to sell out your principles to be a politically correct people-pleaser. Don't want to be caught being insensitive, do we? Gag... Puke...
There are still real men in this country mj, who call 'em like they see 'em. They don't worry about making sure nobody anywhere in the world is offended by what they say. They just tell the truth and don't give two <snips> what anybody thinks about it as long as it's true.
You ain't one of 'em.
Now let's get back to the lottery.