Americans have been shocked by a 40-year-old woman for swindling a lottery winner out o f tens of billions of won and killing him.
Foreign news reports said that Doris DeeDee Moore shot to death Abraham Shakespeare, who won $30 million (about 32 billion won) in a lottery in 2009, and buried his body in a home yard.
A U.S. court in Florida Monday sentenced the woman to life without parole for murder and use of weapons.
A judge called Moore "cold," 'calculating" and 'the most manipulative person this court has ever seen."
Moore, who stayed around him since shortly before Shakespeare won the lottery, had already swindled his out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
As he was killed, Moore set up a plot to take all his property, including cash, securities and his mansion in Florida.
She thoroughly concealed his death from his relatives and friends, responding calls and letters to Shakespeare, employing agents.
The deceased was nearly illiterate due to low education and thus innocent and simple, The Times reported. Shakespeare worried much about the remaining lottery money with most of them donated or borrowed to neighbors, it added.
Moore endowed “a bomb of gifts” to her boyfriend of 11 years younger with the money. She presented a high-priced deluxe Rolex watch and a sedan worth $45,000 for Valentine’s Day
The man is reported to have lived together with Moore at the home of the victim until recently.