Hot! Florida Lotto Murder Trial

The Florida lotto murder trial is under way after jury was selected this week to determine if Dee Dee Moore is guilty of killing Abraham Shakespeare. The defense contends that Moore shot and buried Shakespeare in her backyard after stealing the last of his winnings.

The prosecution described a horrific tale, saying that in 2008 Moore asked Shakespeare if she could write a book on how people were taking advantage of him after winning $17 million. Shakespeare, 42, who could only write in block letters, reportedly loaned money to many friends who never paid him back. Moore slowly and cunningly stole the last money in Shakespeare's money, attorneys said, and then viciously murdered him. But the defense insists the evidence is circumstantial.

"There are no eyewitnesses who can testify that Ms. Moore shot and killed Mr. Shakespeare or was present when he was shot and killed or had any part carrying out his murder," said defense attorney Byron Hileman. The defense also contends that there was no DNA evidence recovered.

The fact that the victim has the last name Shakespeare has only added to the movie-like drama of Elizabethan proportions. The dramatic details include evidence that Moore buried Shakespeare under a concrete slab in her backyard. After he was missing for months, police found the body in January 2010 in the backyard of Moore's east Hillsborough home.

"The evidence will show you within 60 days of having been divested of everything he owns to Dee Dee Moore, all that's left of Abraham Shakespeare is his decaying body in a grave under a concrete slab behind a house that (Moore) bought on highway 60 in Plant City, Fla.," the prosecutor said.

On Wednesday afternoon, a Polk County detective testified that Moore told investigators that Shakespeare was in Jamaica - or somewhere in the Caribbean - when Shakespeare's cousin reported him missing in the summer of 2009. Moore's ex-husband, James Moore, also testified.

"She called me one afternoon, told me she had some debris and stuff from the house that she was remodeling," James Moore, 39, said. He recounted a tale of a desperate woman asking him to come and help her fill a hole in the backyard. He came to help her, pushed dirt back in the hole, he said, but didn't realize what was beneath.

Observers said Moore didn't look stable during opening statements. Instead of being reserved, she smiled and nodded, as if the trial were funny. Tell us: Do you think Dee Dee Moore should be convicted?