Man Wins $17m lottery Jackpot, His Lifeless Body Found Under Concrete Slab 3yrs Later
A FORMER lottery winner murdered three years after collecting their winnings had started to regret having the millions in cash.
In 2006, Abraham Lee Shakespeare, 43, won the Florida lottery jackpot of $17million.
Shakespeare publicly collected his winnings and soon began to dislike the side effects of coming into a large fortune.
On one occasion, he even told his brother, Robert Brown, that it would have been better had he not won anything.
“‘I’d have been better off broke.’ He said that to me all the time,” Brown explained to The St. Augustine Record in 2010.
At the time of winning the lottery jackpot, Shakespeare was living with his mother and worked as an assistant truck driver.
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The 43-year-old reportedly struggled with literacy and was very generous to everyone after acquiring his millions.
Samuel Jones, a childhood friend, also told the publication that people would gather outside Shakespeare’s mother’s house asking for money.
“He really didn’t understand it at all,” Jones said.
“It was moving so fast. It changed his life in a bad way.”
Credit: Opera News