TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press Writer
LAKELAND, Fla. – In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare – a truck driver’s assistant who lived with his mother – won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.
Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from all the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.
The sheriff has a more ominous theory: Shakespeare was killed.
“There are a lot of odd and bizarre circumstances in this case,” Sheriff Grady Judd said. “We fear and are preparing for the worst. We’re working this case as if it were a homicide.”