Abraham Shakespeare Writer
Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 23, 1966 – 2009) was an American casual laborer who won a $30 million lottery jackpot, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing, and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance. Shakespeare's troubles began after winning the lottery. The case was profiled in the American E! television program Curse of the Lottery; and also was made the subject of an episode of "Snapped," on Oxygen Channel, DTV, on March 16, 2014 as well as the subject of an 2013 episode of American Greed.