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Lotto case suspect DeeDee Moore has record of staging schemes
By Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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TAMPA She said she was carjacked, kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint. She described her abductors in detail, down to one man's green tattoos. She underwent a rape exam.
Two months later, detectives said that Dorice "DeeDee" Moore made up the whole thing.
Moore, 37, is in the news now because Hillsborough and Polk County authorities say she went to great lengths to cover up the killing of Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare and convince his family that he was still alive.
But this isn't the first time law enforcement has accused the Plant City native of staging an elaborate scheme.
Investigative files reviewed Tuesday by the St. Petersburg Times show that detectives quickly quashed the rape and kidnapping allegations Moore made in June 2001. As her story unraveled, they found they were dealing with a woman who was the subject of an internal fraud investigation at work, who owed thousands of dollars to her credit union and landlord, and who said she would do anything to keep her fancy car.
Moore had purchased the $50,796 black 2000 Lincoln Navigator the year before. On financing documents, she reported pulling in $10,000 a month from her job as a Nextel regional saleswoman and about $30,000 a year selling Mary Kay products.
She traded in a '98 Ford Explorer, put down $5,000 cash and took out a $45,000 loan to get the new vehicle.
Pretty soon, she fell behind on car payments.
The first time it happened, Moore told a GTE Federal Credit Union loan officer that her money had been stolen. She never provided a police report case number, according to Hills*borough sheriff's investigative records, but avoided repossession by making a payment in January 2001.
The credit union came calling again in June. This time, Moore had a negative balance in a business checking account and overdue payments on the car and a personal credit card. She owed nearly $6,500, investigative records show.
The loan officer told Moore so during a phone conversation on June 14, 2001.
"You're not taking my car," Moore said, according to the loan officer. "I'll do anything I have to to keep it."
Six days later, Moore filed what Hillsborough sheriff's detectives later determined to be a false crime report. She ultimately pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to a year of probation.
But not before she concocted a story rich with detail ...........
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