Sept. 1, 2025

Fatal Fortune: Abraham Shakespeare

Fatal Fortune: Abraham Shakespeare
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Season 1

Abraham Shakespeare was a casual laborer who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing, and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance. 
 
Timestamps
00:19 Abraham Shakespeare Wins the Florida Lottery
16:35 Dee Dee Moore’s Deception 
29:33 The Undercover Sting
35:19 The Trial of Dee Dee Moore
36:52 Still in Denial 

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Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and today I

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am bringing you another subject in the Fatal Fortune series.

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You're gonna hear about the tragic demise of Abraham Shakespeare. Now,

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as I like to do, we're gonna jump right into it,

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and I'm gonna bring you to Polk County, Florida. And

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that may sound familiar to you. That is home of America's.

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Sheriff, Grady Judd.

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And we're gonna go specifically to the city of Lakeland. Now,

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Lakeland is a metropolitan area of Polk County and very diverse.

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Have pockets of the community where people have a lot

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of money, and you have pockets of the community that

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are a little less privileged, much like you know any

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city in America these days. Now, the crime rate in

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Polk County is very low, especially as it relates to

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violent crime. I would say primarily that's due to the

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job that Sheriff jud has done in his many decades

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as sheriff. So stories like the one that I'm about

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to tell you, they don't happen often in the county.

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And this story centers around a man by the name

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of Abraham Shakespeare. So let's get into who this guy

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is and what made him a target. In two thousand

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and six, Abraham's life completely changed when he won the

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Florida Lottery, which at that point that he one it

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was up to thirty million dollars. Now, Abraham, prior to this,

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you might as well call hi a miracle of winning

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the lottery, was a man of pretty modest means. Friends

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would describe him as very respectful, very easy going, and

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although he wasn't formally educated, he had a really good

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work ethic and he worked various odd jobs around the community. Now,

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he had dropped out of school in the seventh grade,

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so he wasn't going to perform heart surgeries for people.

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But this guy worked his ass off and he was

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a good dude. He would do things like unloading trucks,

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he would clean barber shops, and despite his limited financial means,

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he was content with his life and he was a

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lifelong resident of Lakeland, Florida. He was proud of his

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black heritage. He did not smoke, he did not drink,

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he did not do drugs, and at the time that

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he won the lottery, this miracle in his life.

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He was forty years.

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Old and he was making eight dollars an hour as

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a mover's assistant on a truck. So you can imagine

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how mind blown he was when he found out, Hey,

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I'm thirty million dollars richer. Now, word got around fast

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that Abraham had won, and of course people start circling

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the wagons, right, they start coming out of the woodwork.

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They wanted a piece of that thirty million dollar pie,

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if you will. And a coworker actually sued Abraham, claiming

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that this coworker was the rightful owner of the ticket. Now,

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this guy's name was Michael Ford, and there was no

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denying that he was the one who rolled into a

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convenience store and he purchased two quick pick tickets from

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the cashier. However, there are always two sides to every story, right,

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And according to Michael Ford, after he bought the tickets,

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which he purchased while he and Shakespeare were making deliveries

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in that delivery truck, somehow Abraham must have got them

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out of his wallet, according to Michael Ford. However, Shakespeare

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he told a different story. He said that he asked

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Ford to get the tickets. When Ford stopped at the

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convenience store to buy a drink, and he gave him

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the money, the whole deal, And in the end a

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jury believed Abraham's story and he was ruled the rightful

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owner of that winning thirty million dollar lottery ticket. So,

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as with any time that someone wins the lottery, there

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are decisions to make. Right first and foremost is how

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you will actually get paid out that money, and there

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are typically two options.

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Now.

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The first option is to get an annuity, and what

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that means is the payout is spread out over a

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set period of years. Usually it's like thirty years. Basically

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in Abraham's case, one million dollars every year minus taxes,

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so around seven hundred thousand a year for thirty years.

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Ton of money, especially for a guy of the limited

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means that Abraham had. But he did what most people do,

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and I would probably.

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Be included in this.

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I want the lump some payment because I'm to get

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hit by a truck tomorrow, right, And.

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That's exactly what he did. He took that.

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Lump sum payment, which meant that after taxes, he would

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get a check for about twelve million dollars. Actually it

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was twelve million, seven hundred thousand, so a ton of money,

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and people in his inner circle they would take advantage

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in Shakespeare, being the guy that he was, he would

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help them out. Personally, he didn't splurge on himself nearly

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as much. He paid cash for a million dollar home,

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he bought a used car, he purchased a used roleax,

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mind you, from a pawnshop. But outside of that, he

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used a lot of the money just to help people.

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He just struggled to tell people no when they would

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ask him for money. So in two thousand and eight,

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he meets a woman and her name is d D.

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Moore, and d D.

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Moore had a friend who knew Shakespeare. In d D

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found out that her friend had known him, and she

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asked that friend for an ear introduction. Now this was

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under the pretense of helping Shakespeare write a book on

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his life story. And keep in mind that D. D

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had absolutely no experience in book publishing or writing of

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any kind. But despite that, she was introduced to Shakespeare

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under that pretense. So let me tell you a little

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bit about D. D.

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Moore.

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Her first name was Dorriese, her nickname was d D.

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And she was a local businesswoman in the Lakeland, Florida area,

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and she owned a pretty successful business. She would manage

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nursing home contracts and she had some pretty large contracts.

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So she was financially pretty well off. So on paper,

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it didn't necessarily look like DD was trying to take

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advantage of Shakespeare. I mean, she had her own money.

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It wasn't that much millions like that, but it was.

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She was comfortable and she lived like it too. She

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went on lavish vacations, she bought high end designer clothing.

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She was very smart, and she was very business savvy.

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She was a nice looking lady.

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So this lady knew how to conduct herself.

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So she meets Shakespeare again under the pretense of writing

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that book, and it was during that meeting that she

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discovered Shakespeare had given away a substantial portion of his

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lottery winnings. As I said, he helped numerous people. He

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gave his stepfather over a million dollars. As a matter

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of fact, at the time Shakespeare met d d in

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two thousand and eight, just two years after winning and

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taking home that seventeen million dollar payout, he only had

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about one point five million in cash and about three

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million in assets left. He convinces Shakespeare to let her

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become kind of like his manager, his money manager of sorts,

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his personal assistant, all those things. And she says, look,

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you've only got this much money left before you lose

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all of your remaining money. Let's help each other out here.

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So Shakespeare, he's down with it. As I said, she's

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a smart lady. She handles herself well, she takes care

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of herself, she's got a successful business. He had no

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reason to think it was anything nefarious, and she was convincing.

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Now time moves on and something strange happens. In November

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of two thousand and nine, Shakespeare's family contacts police. Then

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they were concerned because they had not spoke to Abraham

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since April of two thousand and nine, seven months prior

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to when they reported this. Now you may be thinking

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the same thing I was. Why would it take seven

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months for someone to report him missing? Well, as I

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told you earlier, a ton of people were constantly hitting

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Abraham up for money, and he would bitch about it

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to family and friends more than once, and he would

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say things when he was venting, if you will, like,

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I just want to get away for a little while

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where no one could call me or find me. So

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his family they assumed that's what he did, went off

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to some island somewhere to decompress and get away from

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all these hands reaching in this man's pocket. But after

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seven months of time, they figured, m it may be

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time to contact police because one thing about Abraham was

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he was very close to his mother, and he hadn't

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called his mother in seven months either, which was very strange.

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So police they start investigating, and of course you art

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with the people closest to Abraham. You start in that

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inner circle and you move your way out. And police

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discover that Abraham actually had an older child. His name

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was Jeremiah, and Jeremiah had a trust fund that Abraham

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had set up. He had actually put a million dollars

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in that trust fund account and that would be collectible

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to his child when that child turned eighteen. It was

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also discovered that after winning the lottery, he had fathered

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another child who was just a year old when Abraham

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went missing. Now that relationship not so good, at least

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with the mother of that child. In Abraham, they were

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a little bit as strange when he went missing at

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the time, But they investigate all those leads and it

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turned up nothing as far as foul play would be

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concerned with these people. So one of the people that

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they already looking into was Deedy Moore and they called

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her into the station to speak with her.

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So she goes.

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In to interview and she tells police that Abraham is

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not missing. As a matter of fact, she says that

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she talks to him on a weekly basis, and she

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tells police that he's fine and that he just wanted

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to get away from all these people that are constantly

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asking him for money. And her story was that he

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went on a cruise and that he was traveling to

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several different areas of the world after that cruise, and

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she even sends him a text in front of the

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police at the police station, and basically that text said

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for him to call her, that she needed to talk

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to him, that the police were concerned something was wrong

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with him, and she was pretty convincing in this interview

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with the police. So at this point they are pretty

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much much buying what d Edie Moore.

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Is selling them.

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And the police said, Hey, meet back with us in

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the morning after Abraham gets back to you and let

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you know where he's at and how we can contact him,

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so she agrees to do that. The next morning, she

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does return to the police station, but she tells police

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that Abraham never texted her back, so police they get

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a little.

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Suspicious of dB at this point.

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The story she was telling them the day before is

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that she talked to him via text all the time,

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and even he would call her sometimes, but it was

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always a weekly thing, and when she would text him,

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he would get back with her promptly. And then she's

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coming back and she's saying, he won't even respond back

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to me, and police knew, well, if you talk to

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him all the time and you tell him the police

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have hauled you in to question you and he just

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needs to kind of like check in with the police,

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he would have done that. So at this point she

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leaves the police station again and they're like, yeah, we

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need to start looking into d. D. Moore. And the

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first thing they do is they start kind of looking

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into the financial aspects of the relationship between Abraham and d. D. Moore,

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and they discover that d D was able to gain

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control of all of Abraham's assets through what is known

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as a asset purchase agreement. She paid eight hundred and

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seventy five thousand dollars cash for all of his assets. Well,

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that raised a red flag because his home alone was

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worth over a million dollars.

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As I told you earlier.

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He had over three point one million dollars in assets,

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and she basically bought control of all of that for

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less than a million dollars. And when they asked d

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D about this, she claimed it was so he could

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avoid paying a gift tax. Now, look, this makes zero sense.

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So the police at this point they knew we need

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to do like a forensic audit of all of Abraham's finances.

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And this is no simple, easy, quick process. I mean

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a forensic audit is like going through all of your

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financial records with a fine tooth comb, tracking every single cent,

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and you're talking mins of dollars. In this case, most

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of it not tracked with a receipt of any sort.

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I mean, he had loans out that he had loaned

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people money, and there was no paper trail there. So

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this was quite the task.

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Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy

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as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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You know what, we should do a podcast about it,

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and with that we did.

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in the description of this podcast. But they do that,

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and they find that d D had started moving large

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sums of money from Abraham's accounts into her accounts, and

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this money was used to pay for vehicles, It was

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used to pay for vacations, clothes, you name it. She

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was using that money to pay for that stuff. So

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it wasn't going into a nest egg or an investment somewhere.

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Now it gets even more wild as police continue investigating

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and they discover that while Abraham had been missing all

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this time, de D had actually moved into Abraham's home.

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Not only herself, her son and her boyfriend also moved

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in to Abraham's home. Now she also moved anything Abraham

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related inside of that home out of the home, all

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his shit. Then she moved all her stuff in there

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was basically no sign that Abraham had ever even lived

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in this million dollar home. If you walked in there,

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it was just D. D.

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Moore's shit.

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So at this point police did something pretty smart. They

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remembered during that first interview with dd that she had

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sent a text in front of them, remember I told

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you about that to Shakespeare, So they knew his number

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was still active, so they would start calling the number

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and they would check to see what cell towers it

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would ping off of, and lo and behold, they discover

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when they would call it, the cell phone pings would

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come from wherever DEDI was at the same time, but

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Abraham was nowhere around her. They knew this because they

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were surveilling her and they would call the cell phone

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as she traveled throughout town. And police also learned that

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Dede would send and get text supposedly from Abraham saying

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he was in this country or he was in that country,

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everywhere but in Lakeland, Florida, and she would pass this

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information along to Abraham's family. However, once again those towers

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would show those texts back and forth were coming from

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the same area. So police they meet with Dede and

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they lay it all out there. They show her actual

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charts of the cell phone pings from cell towers, and

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they tell her they know she is lying, and she

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basically at this point knows she's caught, and she admits

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that she had Abraham's phone, but she tells police that

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Shakespeare told her before he left town that he knew

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this would come up with police at some point, that

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they would start looking for him, and so I'm going

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to leave my cell phone with you so you can

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pretend like it's me. Basically, she was saying this was

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all intentional for him not to take his Again, everyone

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knew that this made absolutely zero sense and that it

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was bullshit, and they just let her keep hanging herself.

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And it's at this time that it is officially announced

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in one of Sheriff Grady Judd's famous press conferences, that

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Abraham Shakespeare is missing, foul play is expected, and the

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police have opened up an official investigation. And it's also

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at this point that police start really amping up the

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pressure on d. D Moore and they go to her

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and they say, look, there's no way that Abraham is

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not going to at the very least contact his mother

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for Christmas.

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As I told you earlier. He was very close with

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his mother.

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The police knew that, all of his family knew that,

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even d D knew that. And Christmas happened to be

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right around the corner from this conversation that police had

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with her. So they tell her, you need to tell

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Abraham to call his mom for Christmas, and if he

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does not, we're going to know that you're responsible for

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this and we're gonna come after you even harder.

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So get this.

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The day after Christmas, Abraham's mom calls the police and

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she said, hey, I spoke to my son, which, honestly,

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this shocks the shit out of the police.

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But she also said it sounded weird.

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It sounded like him, but it was something off about it,

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and she said it could have been him. There was

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just something very strange about his response when he would

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talk to her, and his voice sounded a little bit different.

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So police asked her about what number that he called from,

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and she said it was a block number. However, and

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let this be a lesson to you. Even if you

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block your number, police can subpoena the cell provider and

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they'll supply.

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The actual number.

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So just because it's blocked, when it comes through on

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somebody's end at and Tier, Verizon or whoever you have,

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they know who that number was that.

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Blocked that number.

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So police they subpoena those cell phone records and they

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discover that this number belongs to a guy after they

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traced it by the name of Greg Smith. And not

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only that, but the cell provider also up and says,

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if you would like, we can also give you the

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live GPS track information for the phone that was used

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to call Abraham's mom where the number was blocked.

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And police are like, hell yeah.

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And as luck would have it, when they get that

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GPS tracking information, which was almost immediate as they were

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talking to this cell phone company. The fact at the

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time was only a few minutes away from where the

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police were was at a mall right by the station.

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So the two detectives say, shit, we're going to go

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over there and see who this person is.

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They jump in.

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The car, they pull up at that mall and guess what,

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and this is just crazy timing. They pull up and

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as soon as they do, they look up and there's

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d D. Moore of all people pulling in that mall.

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She parks, she gets out, she walks over to a

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gentleman in a vehicle and she hands him a big,

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thick wad of cash. They talked for a minute, she

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gets back in her car, she pulls out. Well, the

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detectives they kind of let her leave and they start

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following this other car.

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They pull him over and basically they question him. They say,

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how do you know D. D. Moore? What was that

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want of cash? For the whole deal?

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They then tell him you need to come to the station.

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We need to talk to you further. And during this

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conversation slash interviews slash interrogation if you will, they discover

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that he had a long connection with Abraham. This guy

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Greg Smith, he actually owned a barber shop where a

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would sweep up and clean up around the barber shop.

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Remember I told you he did a lot of odd

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jobs before he won the lottery. And he even mentioned

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that after Abraham won the lottery, he borrowed one thousand

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dollars from Abraham to halt a foreclosure from one of

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his properties that this guy Greg Smith owned. So that's

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what kind of guy Abraham was. He even loaned this

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guy money. Now, after hearing this, detectives ask him straight up,

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straight out, why did ded he give you that big

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wat of money, and he responds honestly that he was

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asked by d D to make a phone call and

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pretend to be Abraham. So detectives at this point they

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pretty much tell Greg Smith everything they knew about d D.

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Number one, they said, do you realize Abraham's dead? He's

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not really missing, We think d D did it, all

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this sort of stuff. And the truth was, Greg Smith,

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he had no idea Shakespeare was dead. He believed what

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Dede told him and told everybody else that Abraham just

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didn't want to deal with people anymore.

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The investigator makes a proposition at.

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This point to Greg to work with them, and he said, look,

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if you don't work with us, then once we proved

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that Abraham is not missing, that he's actually dead, and

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we're going to get some evidence to prove that, you're

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going to be implicated in the disappearance and murder of

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Shakespeare after the fact. So Greg he's like, fuck that,

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what do you need me to do? And investigators tell Greg, look,

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you're going to have to wear a wire and you're

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going to have to continue talking to DD and of

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course not mentioning anything about ever having a meeting with us,

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and we're going to see what kind of evidence we

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can bring to the table on a recording. So for

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about two weeks, nothing major transpires on that wire. It's

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just kind of bullshit conversations back and forth between d

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D and this guy and then investigators.

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They get another great idea.

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So they called d D and they tell her on

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the phone that something shady was going on because Abraham's

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mom called them and said whoever called her at Christmas

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time did not sound like Abraham. Now they did this

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because they were trying to induce panic in DD, and

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it worked. DD goes straight to Greg Smith and she

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tells him things like you didn't do a good job

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with your voice because his mom did not think you

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were Abraham. And Greg plays it off and he's like, well,

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what do we do now? And d D comes up

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with an idea and it just gets crazier to write

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Abraham's mom a letter. So DEDI rents a hotel room,

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she brings Greg up there, and y'all, she's thinking she's

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covering all the bases, even down to wearing a hairnut

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while typing this letter up to avoid a DNA issue. Now,

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of course, she had no clue that Greg was wired

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up to the gills the entire time, and she types

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his shit up and she dictates it to Greg the

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whole time. So as she's writing a Senate she'll to

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Greg and she's wanted to get feedback from him. You know,

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do you think this makes sense, doesn't make sense, et cetera.

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But keep in mind he's wired up. So police are

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gathering all of this information on recording, and at this

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point the pressure continues to mount. Indeed, he makes her

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biggest mistake yet she loses it with panting. She knows

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the police are closing in and she approaches Greg again

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and this time her idea gets even crazier. And remember

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any conversations with Greg, he's wired up. So she asked

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him if he knew anyone who would take the fall

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for the murder of Abraham. So Greg, he tells d

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D that he knows a guy and this guy is

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going to jail for thirty years on drug charges, but

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that he's wanting to ensure that when he goes to

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jail that his family is going to be taken care of.

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So he tells her she's willing.

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To pay he can get it done. This guy will

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take the right for that. So what police do is

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they have a detective go under cover, and he plays

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this character if you will, and of course he's wired

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to the gills and this character slash undercover police officer.

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He meets with d D and Greg in a parking

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lot and it's in this conversation that d D claims

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that Abraham got killed over a drug deal gone bad.

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That's what she tells this undercover cop. So, mister undercover,

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he tells d D. For fifty grand, I'll take the charge.

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And DD's like done, and she says, can you taken

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in payments? And and he says, look, I want a

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little bit upfront and the rest when it's done. And

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twenty four hours later, she gives him a weapon and

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she says, this is the actual gun that killed Abraham Shakespeare.

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So guess what. Now police have the murder weapon. They

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trace it and they figure out who the original purchaser

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of that gun was and it was none other than

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Dedie Moore. So on June twenty eighth of twenty ten,

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she takes mister undercover out to a wooded area on

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a property that she owned. It was actually in the

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back of a home that she owned, and she tells

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this undercover cop who she thinks is about to go

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to jail, right, she tells him she needs him to

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dig up something that needed to be destroyed. So they

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go in the back of that property. She points to

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an open shed and she says, Abraham's body is underneath

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that slab, and.

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All of this of course on wire.

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So he says he'll take care of that, but they

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need to meet up and exchange money, and at that

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point they agreed to meet up later on that night

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in a parking lot, which they do and police are

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waiting and they arrest D. D.

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Moore.

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So over the next three days they concentrate on digging

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that slab up, and after those three days they start

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smelling human remains and sure enough, the body of Abraham Shakespeare. Now,

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the cause of death was determined to be a gunshot

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00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.720
to the chest area, which police had the gun and

479
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:02.960
kind of a weird thing here, but police knew D. D.

480
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:06.640
Could not have dug that hole. It was really deep.

481
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:08.359
It was like nine feet deep.

482
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:09.920
They discovered that her ex.

483
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:13.079
Husband, a guy by the name of James, had actually

484
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:17.000
dug that hole. So they go to James and they say,

485
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:21.359
what do you know about this? And Apparently this wasn't

486
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:23.640
uncommon for James to do.

487
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:24.160
He did.

488
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:27.160
He used to do favors for d D quite often

489
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.640
around her home for cash. And so he told them

490
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:34.599
that she called him one day and said she needed

491
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.720
to dig a hole to bury trash. And she said

492
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:41.079
it was hazardous material type stuff that she couldn't throw

493
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:44.279
in a trash can or a dumpster, and she wanted

494
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.079
to bury it in the ground. And he knew how

495
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:50.640
to run a back hoe, and so he dug a

496
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.720
nine foot hole for her, and she paid him one

497
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:59.519
hundred dollars cash to do that, and police knew this

498
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.440
guy had nothing to do with it. So to tell

499
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.759
you how clueless that Dede was about the evidence that

500
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:12.800
police compiled during this investigation. When police questioned her again,

501
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:17.119
she attempted to tell them she attempted to blame everything

502
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.039
on the undercover that she did not know was an

503
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.639
undercover cop. She basically said, oh, no, he's the one

504
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:26.840
who killed Abraham, and so he's trying to pin all

505
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:30.559
this on me now. And when police tell her, uh,

506
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:33.000
you know, you got a problem here because he works

507
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:36.199
for us, he's an undercover cop and he definitely did

508
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:40.639
not kill Abraham he's been wired up this whole time.

509
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.159
We have you on recording. Her face was absolutely priceless.

510
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:50.280
When she found that out, she had no clue at all.

511
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:54.960
So this chick tries to then blame her own son

512
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:59.280
for the murder. She said that Abraham shoved her in

513
00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:03.239
an argum and her son pulled out a gun and

514
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:06.639
shot him, I mean her own son. Now, when it

515
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:10.480
was all said and done, she blamed five or six

516
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.679
different people. This woman was an absolute pathological liar. And

517
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.559
of course police they weren't buying any of his shit.

518
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:23.840
And Didy Moore she goes into jail and she is

519
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:30.360
arrested for first degree murder. Now, police theorized that Abraham

520
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:35.599
noticed that money was being shuffled from one account to

521
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.639
her account and another account to her account, and he

522
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:43.360
confronted her about this and she shot him and killed him.

523
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:47.800
So she goes to trial in twenty twelve, and it

524
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.039
runs about two and a half weeks that trial, and

525
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:56.800
in the end, all of that recorded wiretap information, of course,

526
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:01.280
was played in trial, and they had a body, and

527
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.960
they had a gun that was registered to her, and

528
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:10.719
all of that was enough to convict d. D. Moore

529
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:17.239
in the killing of Abraham Shakespeare. So d D is

530
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:22.079
sentenced to life in prison with no parole. So I'm

531
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.880
going to play a quick clip for you.

532
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.519
This is only about a minute in length, but it's

533
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:28.960
d D.

534
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:35.519
Moore in prison many years after she was convicted, and

535
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:40.000
she talks about Abraham Shakespeare and her.

536
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.239
Thoughts several years later. Listen to this, Hey.

537
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.599
How are you. I'm fine.

538
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.400
I've been working on my case and I've got my

539
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.679
appeals out, so I'm waiting patiently.

540
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:55.480
How long have you been incarcerated in jail and in

541
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:58.679
prison at this point fourteen years? You still do not

542
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:02.760
admit that you murder to Abe Shakespeare. Absolutely not. I

543
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.320
didn't fourteen years. There's a lot of time to think.

544
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:08.679
Do you ever go back and think about Abe? About

545
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.840
Abraham Shakespeare?

546
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:15.320
Absolutely it was wrong.

547
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:17.880
There was no reason for him to.

548
00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:21.760
Pass away over money, but for them to lie in

549
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.000
public and say.

550
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:26.480
That I took his money. The whole situation was so stupid.

551
00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:31.519
You murdered him, and you've taken zero responsibility, and you're saying,

552
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:33.960
like in past tense, that he's so said he had

553
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.800
to pass away. Abraham Shakespeare did not pass away. Abraham

554
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.000
Shakespeare was shot at close range. Everything they said in

555
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:46.239
jury trials was not true. I thought that you might,

556
00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.000
more than a decade after our interview, have some yeah,

557
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:56.039
some remorse, some reflection about what had happened, that maybe

558
00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.199
there was a little bit of softness in your heart

559
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.920
about Abraham and about your responsibility here.

560
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.440
There is plenty of softness in my heart. So there

561
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.199
you have it.

562
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:16.559
Still denying this after four teen years just crazy to me.

563
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:19.679
So there you have it.

564
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:26.599
The case of Abraham Shakespeare another fatal fortune subject. I

565
00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:30.280
hope you enjoyed that. Thank you so much for listening.

566
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:33.800
If you're so inclined, check out Crime Wire Weekly. It's

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on its own channel. We play previews on this particular feed,

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usually between an hour and an hour and a half

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in length. It drops every Friday. You have to go

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There's no cost for it, but it'll alert you when

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we drop episodes. I hope everyone had a fantastic labor day.

574
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.119
I hope you didn't work too hard. I'm actually recording

575
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:09.360
this on a Friday, so I don't know if my

576
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:12.880
team LSU won or not this weekend, but it is

577
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:18.079
the opening up football season, my favorite season of the year,

578
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:20.840
and they got a lot of good games this weekend.

579
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.039
So although I can't talk about my team winning or

580
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:26.559
losing or any of the other games, I hope you

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00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:27.159
enjoyed it.

582
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:29.039
I hope you had at least.

583
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:33.519
Sometime with family and friends this past weekend and of

584
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:35.800
course over the Labor Day holiday.

585
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:37.719
I appreciate y'all so much.

586
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:43.639
Check out the Patreon commercial free early releases, bonus episodes, clips,

587
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:50.079
all kinds of stuff files, Patreon dot com, slash exposed

588
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:54.599
podcast files. I'm actually putting a substantial amount of files

589
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:58.280
on there concerning this case that I didn't even cover

590
00:39:58.840 --> 00:39:59.679
on this episode.

591
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.320
We had a ton of letters the d D.

592
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:06.119
Moore wrote to the judge that are just unbelievable. She

593
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.000
drove this guy completely crazy, so much so I'm like,

594
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:12.440
I don't even need to cover all this. Just trust me.

595
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.159
She's a nutcase, this lady, and you'll see what.

596
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:16.840
I'm talking about.

597
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.679
Check it out on Patreon before I close out today.

598
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:25.880
I'm late on my quarterly gifts for my Patreon members,

599
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:30.239
but there's a legit reason for this. The company that

600
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.519
I deal with for my printing and all of my

601
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:42.199
swag stuff. Actually screwed up my order and they misspelled

602
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:47.559
the name of my podcast on nearly one hundred different items,

603
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:50.599
so I had to send all that back. It took

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00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.159
several weeks to even get it back to them before

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00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:58.039
they would credit me back and start the process pretty

606
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.800
much all over again. So I'm on that, but I

607
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:04.639
promise you'd give me just a couple of weeks and

608
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:09.199
we will get those to you as well. Thank you

609
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:13.280
so much for listening, and until next time, I'm Jim Chapman,

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00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.079
your host of Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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Much love,