January 29, 2010 3:16 PM
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Abraham Shakespeare's Body Positively Identified; Lottery Winner Dead
(The Ledger/Pierre DuCharme)
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's office confirmed Friday that remains found a day earlier were those of Shakespeare. Police used fingerprints to identify the 43-year-old truck driver's assistant who won a $31 million lottery jackpot in 2006.
The body was found in Plant City, about 25 miles northeast of Tampa, at a home connected to Dorice Moore, a woman who had befriended him and now lives in the $1 million home he bought with his winnings.
Police have named Moore a "person of interest" in Shakespeare's disappearance but she has not been charged.
In 2006, Shakespeare opted for a lump sum payment of nearly $17 million. He had been missing since April 2009, but his family didn't report it until November.
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