>> announcer: tonight on "20/20," crazy stupid luck. >> the one winning ticket was sold right here. >> announcer: winning the lottery. be careful what you wish for. >> we certainly hope abraham is alive and well. >> announcer: he went from dead broke to multimillionaire to just plain dead. >> you get tired of people asking for money all the time. >> they don't take no for an answer. >> announcer: who was mooching. >> she was like i can help you clean him out. >> announcer: who was murdering. >> devious, manipulative. evil. >> announcer: tonight follow a cat and mouse game to smoke out the killer. crazy characters. >> i'm going to go to jail. >> this is somebody with a room temperature iq. >> announcer: secret confessions caught on tape.

>> i'm so deep in this [ bleep ], if you go down, i go down. >> announcer: one of the most outrageous showdowns we've ever recorded. >> why are you laughing? a man is dead. he's been murdered and you're laughing. >> yes. >> announcer: here now david muir and elizabeth vargas. >> good evening, want to get rich quick? easy, win the lottery jackpot. the number of people who do these days is staggering, 1600 instant millionaires a year and the jackpots seem to be getting bigger and bigger. most of us are grieving over not winning that $448 million jackpot a month ago. >> that's why we're still here. along with that big check the winner should get the warning, be careful what you wish for. we've all heard the stories about friends and families being torn apart over newfound wealth but murdered. matt gutman on the case in florida tonight when crazy stupid luck runs out. >> tonight's winning numbers. 12 -- >> 6. >> 13.

>> reporter: six numbers. >> 34 -- >> 42. >> reporter: just random digits -- until sometime later, when those six numbers -- put a man six feet under. his body eventually discovered buried under a concrete slab in a backyard. the incredible story begins far from the glitz and beaches most of us think of as florida, past the citrus fields in the middle of the state, all the way to the outskirts of the sleepy town of lakeland. and the doorway of this barber shop. it's here where owner greg smith first met a 42-year-old man with the colorful name of abraham shakespeare. >> so he used to come around the shop, i'd let him work, get paid or buy him something to eat -- you know, that's how i first met him. >> reporter: his name, abraham shakespeare, evokes both the old testament and elizabethan plays. but our modern day tragic hero would have read neither.

he was illiterate and down on his luck. >> you know, he was a less fortunate person. >> reporter: you couldn't make it up. shakespeare was a like a living breathing lotto commercial, the kind of guy you'd love to see moving from the poor house to the penthouse overnight. >> reporter: and one fateful day, the fairy tale came true. of all people, abraham shakespeare won a jackpot worth $30 million. >> one day, he came to the barber shop and he was like, greg, "um, i'm fixing to buy me a new car. i hit the lottery." i was like, "man, get out of my face! you didn't hit no lottery!" >> reporter: oh yes, he did. shakespeare bought himself that new car, a fancy new house and lots more. but, as so often happens, this lotto winner's drama didn't stick to the script.

that's because the money also brought unwanted attention. novelist and long-time florida crime writer carl hiassen has seen it before. >> all of a sudden you have friends you didn't know you have, and they are crawling out of every rat hole you can imagine. >> reporter: did you know that he was losing his fortune? did you know that all his money was being frittered away? >> we had heard. the rumors were in the community that he had given money to everyone. >> reporter: greg's sister sonji says abraham was so sweet natured he couldn't say no to the endless mooching. and as shakespeare's millions slipped away, so did his sunny disposition. >> every day he come to the barber shop, he was like, i wish i could go back to my old self, i wish i didn't even have no money. >> reporter: he was serious when he said that? >> he was dead serious. >> reporter: then one day, a woman magically appears on the stage. no one knows exactly how she found shakespeare, but it would not have been hard. he was all over the news.

her name was dee dee moore. how would you describe dee dee as a person? >> she was the type of person you just couldn't put your finger on. >> reporter: dee dee was surely different, unlike everyone else clamoring for his money, dee dee claimed to be interested in shakespeare himself. she seen said she wanted to write a book about him. >> i did a book -- a finance book, organizing your finances and everything. i never got it published, but it's copyrighted. >> reporter: she seemed perfect to help shakespeare. a money manager who came from central florida, she was married and supposedly running a nursing staffing agency. but had shakespeare checked into her background, he would have found some huge red flags -- convictions for writing bad checks and making up a false story of a violent carjacking. >> but i think there is a lot of dee dees out there. you would go to any, any city in

florida and a dee dee would pop up if you won the lottery. maybe more than one. >> reporter: why do you think he trusted her? what was it in her that got him to trust her? >> his illiteracy, his kind heart. >> reporter: when she had that introduction, dee dee convinced shakespeare she had the financial chops to salvage what was left of his winnings. >> as we were talking about the book, he had problems with his financing and that's when he had asked me to help him out some. >> this is -- this is somebody with pretty much of a room temperature iq. and here she moves in. >> reporter: shakespeare purchased this house to be her office. but the book never materialized. the only pen to paper appeared to be dee dee writing checks in shakespeare's name. >> you get tired of people asking you for money? >> they don't take no for an answer. >> reporter: but pay close attention to this -- the only video of dee dee and shakespeare together. you'll notice instead of talking about the past, dee dee asks shakespeare about his future. >> so where you want to go?

>> doesn't matter to me, i'm not a picky person. >> california? you want a foreign country? cozumel? >> reporter: later on, this video would become critical when detectives came to suspect something sinister. >> are you going to miss your home? >> i might miss it, but life goes on. >> reporter: or does it? not long after this interview, the man who was everywhere was suddenly nowhere. shakespeare stopped coming into the barber shop. no one saw him driving around town with dee dee anymore either. where was he? how many cases do you think you've worked? >> 60 to 100. >> reporter: where does the abraham shakespeare one rank? >> it definitely has to rank number one. i mean, it's the one that stands out the most. detective david wallace and his team of investigators entered the picture soon after. >> reporter: you knew something was fishy, but it seemed like you didn't have enough evidence? >> correct. >> reporter: with everyone wondering what had happened, dee dee was the only one with an answer. >> i don't want nobody to be

able to talk to me. i don't want nobody to be able to track me. i'll come back every so oven. >> reporter: she explained to the detectives and anyone else who asked that shakespeare had skipped town, tired of people hounding him for cash just as that video tape she created seemed to suggest. >> are you going to miss your home? >> i'm going to miss it but life goes on. >> reporter: only one problem. the cops find no corroborating evidence shakespeare simply left on his own. >> we certainly hope abraham is alive and well and he has successfully hidden himself away but our investigation doesn't lead us to believe that at this time. >> reporter: it's about this time that dee dee reaches out to greg smith. turns out, greg isn't just abraham's boss. he's one of his borrowers, too. he owes shakespeare 63 grand. >> i was going through bank

issues and waiting on the bank to give me a loan. he was like, well, why don't you just pay me back. the next thing i know he had papers drawn up and a $63,000 check. >> reporter: the cops would learn that dee dee now has a proposal for greg, help her avoid the heat and she'll help him avoid his debt. fast forward a few weeks to a most unusual night at the local cracker barrel. dee dee is having dinner with shake pierce's mother when dee dee's phone rings. the caller is none other than greg smith, abraham's friend and boss at the barber shop now in cahoots with dee dee. i said, hi mom. this is abraham.

i'm okay. i just want to let you know i'm okay and hung up. >> that's how he spoke, slowly and halting? >> that's just how he talks. >> reporter: why would smith do such a cruel thing? he thought it was okay because it would make abraham's mother feel better. what he didn't know is that the cops were all over dee dee. their surveillance tracks his phone and a short time later they pull him over. >> this is right after you made that phone call. >> yeah. they was like get out of the car. i was like oh, lord jesus, i'm going to go to jail. >> reporter: now the cops are questioning the barber and still following the blonde, dee dee. at that point no one would have predicted where the case would goo or that the big break would come from a little can of red bull. stay with us.

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>> announcer: "20/20" continues with crazy stupid luck. once again, matt gutman. >> once they started doing lottery in florida, all of us who had lived here our whole lives knew that it was, it was just gonna be a recipe for disaster for some people. >> reporter: carl hiaasen knows all about bizarre florida murders, the real ones he covers in the "miami herald" plus the

ones he makes up in novels like "lucky you" where a florida lottery winner ends up dead. >> well, florida, it really is a magnet. it's a magnet for predators. it's a magnet for scammers. it's a magnet for sleez. it also makes for stories that are beyond what you would even think of writing in a novel. >> reporter: like this story. abraham shakespeare, an illiterate worker in a lakeland florida barber shop has won the lottery. and then vanished. his boss, greg smith, has been pulled over by the cops after he made a fake phone call to shakespeare's mother pretending to be abraham. but right away, they realize, he's no criminal. were you ever suspicious of greg? >> well that first day obviously, but it became clear in that first interview that he was a victim of dee dee moore's manipulation. >> reporter: dee dee moore was the supposed financial planner abe hired to manage his money. detectives suspected her and

decided instead of putting greg smith behind bars, they'll put him to work in a convoluted cat and mouse game to trap dee dee. >> he actually turned the tables on her and he actually scammed her. and that's the beauty of it. >> reporter: from that moment on, in non-descript back lots, or major shopping centers all around lakeland florida, an ordinary car like this would pull up, and an extraordinary encounter would begin. >> i'm talking to -- getting ready to talk to dee dee. i'll give you a call as soon as we leave here. >> reporter: with no police experience whatsoever, barber greg smith had become a sunshine state serpico -- a top secret undercover police operative gathering evidence on dee dee moore. the trap is set! >> everybody in town seemed to think that, you know, abe has come, that he has come to a bad way. but nobody had any evidence. >> i didn't set out a plan to go catch her. i just told them, i'll see what i can do.

>> reporter: what he did was record hour after hour of conversations with dee dee moore, tricking her with a homemade spy system straight out of james bond. >> an extremely delicate microphone. >> reporter: that's brilliant. >> that's the dee dee moore catch can. >> reporter: he had devised this "catch can" himself, a recording device inside a red bull can, an idea he got -- where else? from watching tv! >> there was no drones, there was no sophisticated eavesdropping. she was shooting off her mouth and the guy is talking into a red bull can. but it's perfect. >> i worked in narcotics for eight years and i wouldn't have come up with it. >> reporter: how critical was greg's red bull can with the microphone inside? >> it was great because it got those conversations. i mean 90% of those tapes speak for themselves. >> reporter: dee dee thought she had bought greg's loyalty. remember, cops say she was telling him if he helped her out, she would help him out -- forgiving the $63,000 loan he had taken from abraham. >> if they ever come back to you, a guy paid you to do this for abraham.

>> reporter: in this conversation she wants greg to call a man who had been telling the cops shakespeare was dead, and using a fake voice, convince him abraham is alive and well. >> see, he keeps telling everybody abrahams's [ bleep ] dead! the other day he went around to the [ bleep ] bar and said all kinds of [ bleep ]. he's killing me, man! >> well, i'm fixing to go do this here right now. >> and make sure he's not gonna know your voice cause if that's blown, we're [ bleep ]. >> i got you. >> reporter: dee dee's name is of course, not to be brought up. >> well, they'll never know about you anyway, i'll never give you up. you know what i'm saying? ever. >> reporter: this is one of the many recordings revealing dee's dee's plots and unguarded thoughts. >> i'm so deep in this [ bleep ] with you right now. if you go down, i go down. you don't understand, if you go, i go. and that's the way it is. >> i'm not gonna get caught. >> doing this type of [ bleep ]. >> i've got them on abraham. i just need time. >> reporter: dee dee never suspected anything, believing they had that business arrangement.

>> i'm gonna go see if i can get you that money. i'll call you in just a few minutes. >> reporter: at this point were you convinced that abraham was dead? >> not yet still. >> reporter: not yet? >> nope, because she hadn't really shown any signs that he was dead. >> reporter: even though the police said they suspected her of murdering him -- >> they had a suspicion, but they didn't know. >> what did you think about this damn detective wallace when i called him? >> he's still trying to frame me up for it. he's still trying to say i've done something to him. >> reporter: so every time he met with her, you were there watching? >> with the exception of one or two times. >> reporter: was there ever a point where you felt like greg smith was in danger or threatened? >> yeah, there were times that he put himself you know, just by helping us out, probably did put himself in harm's way. >> reporter: smith turns into dee dee's "yes" man, agreeing to anything she suggested, even posing as a dangerous drug dealer. dee dee fabricated blandly named ronald. >> and i'm like "who's ronald?" you know what i'm saying? who is ronald?

>> reporter: ronald is the guy -- the drug dealer from miami that saw shakespeare. >> i'm ronald. >> ronald's imaginary! oh, what a tangled web dee dee was weaving! ronald's connection to everything would be unclear for some time. >> i don't even know ronald's last name. >> reporter: not until after another conversation in greg's car that january. dee dee had come not to mourn abe shakespeare, but to re-bury him. >> and just like we dug my mother's septic tank, all you got to do is dig some steps in the wall to come out. she asks me would i help her move abraham's body. i was like, "huh?" >> yeah, but the thing is, it's kind of out in the wood [ inaudible ] neighbors would be able to see what i am doing. >> they won't be able to see because i'm gonna hit that [ bleep ] spot about 6:00 in the morning. >> reporter: you heard that right! dee dee has just revealed to greg, and the cops, she knows where the body is and greg says he suddenly realizes the truth, he is speaking to abraham

shakespeare's killer! >> she goes on to say, "i can show you where the body's at, but the problem is the body's on my property." >> all right, just like i figured, the [ bleep ] body still on their property! we're moving the body, we're moving the body tonight! >> reporter: when you first heard that, what was your reaction? >> i mean, i felt like we won the football game at that point. >> reporter: the evidence mounts. on this wal-mart security tape, dee dee is seen buying a tarp and other items greg told her he would need, but even more damning, he convinces her to give him the .38 smith and wesson pistol used to shoot shakespeare. she trusted you so much that she handed you the murder weapon? >> exactly. >> whatcha gonna do about that? get that [ bleep ] and grind all the serial numbers off it. >> of course we can't just run out there and arrest her. i mean, we still don't have everything. >> reporter: they still need that body, but soon, thanks to greg, they dig it up right where dee dee had told him it would be, on her property, under a concrete slab. cause of death -- two shots from a .38. >> once they found the body, she

was -- it was over. you know, it was over. he didn't crawl in there himself. and the only one who had a motive to do that was her. >> are you going to arrest me? >> that's up to you. i want to know what happened. but that's up to you. >> reporter: the jig is up, but dee dee is still dancing. on this interrogation tape, she tries to blame the murder on someone else. >> that's a common defense tactic is, is to come up with a "mysterious intruder," a "mysterious person," a "killer," a bad guy who comes and does the deed and vanishes. >> reporter: tearing a page from the jodi arias playbook, dee dee says that drug dealer named ronald was the real killer, who threatened to kill her if she said anything. >> that's honestly what he called himself, ronald. >> dee dee, your mind is moving 100 miles an hour and its not feasible what you are telling me. what you're saying is impossible! >> reporter: no one buys the story. dee dee apparently forgot she had asked greg to pretend to be ronald the drug dealer.

>> she forgets that she had put you up to be ronald. >> exactly. >> reporter: and you know that he's imaginary. >> exactly! she forgot i was ronald! >> reporter: and imagine her shock when she finds out greg's been working with the cops all along. >> dee dee, we talked to him 10 times a day! we know every move you make. >> you start telling so many lies that you trip over your lies. but that's, that's very common. this is just about greed. it's all about greed. >> reporter: next, a jury hears how shakespeare lost his wallet before he lost his life. >> she made it sound like she wanted to clean him out. >> stay with us >> if you won as much money as abraham did, would you let everyone know or keep it a secret? let us know on twitter. use the hashtag abc "20/20" and we'll be right back. ♪ every breed, every need. every age, every stage. at petsmart, we care about your pet's happiness as much as you do. that's why we carry

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>> tonight the largest jackpot in powerball history could be yours. >> reporter: it was just a matter of months from when lottery winner abraham shakespeare met dee dee moore to when he wound up dead. >> abe shakespeare was a sitting duck. there was just -- there was no -- just no way it was gonna end well. now, who knew it was going to end this badly? >> reporter: this is where it ended up a courtroom and a murder trial for dee dee moore. yup that's dee dee. cut off from clairol in custody. she's now brunette. >> she could extreme steps to avoid detection. >> reporter: dee dee pleads not guilty and though she never takes the stand, jurors still hear plenty from her in court. in a stream of dramatic, emotional outbursts, court

officials mercifully turned off the microphones. but the judge still had distinctly negative reviews. >> just a moment, ma'am, you need to come pose yourself. >> reporter: dee dee has reason to be upset. witness after witness seem to condemn her from the stand. >> she popped up with the oddest stories. >> the mother of shakespeare's youngest child became a key witness. >> she made it sound like she wanted to clean him out. >> why do you say that? >> because she wanted to know about all of his assets and she was like i can help you clean him out. >> reporter: here is how prosecutors say dee dee did it. she had her ex husband john moore, who knew nothing about the evil intent, dig a hole in her backyard supposedly to bury garbage. later that day, she shot shakespeare, put him in a hole, and finally paid a concrete crew to cover it up. >> ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are about to hear recorded conversation. the conversations are proper evidence. >> reporter: but the case is really all about those secretly recorded audio tapes made by shakespeare's old friend, greg smith.

that's ms. moore getting back in the car with mr. smith. >> so did you tell him, "yeah, he's still living?" >> reporter: the jury hears dee dee moore continuing to instruct smith to tell people shakespeare was alive even though he now knew his gentle friend was dead. >> yeah, i told him he's still living. i said, "anybody wanna know if he's still living? yeah, he's still living." >> reporter: prosecutors say the recordings show dee dee's efforts to cover up murder. >> i guarantee you that ronald has killed him. i just know it because the man threatened to kill my son. >> reporter: here she sounds confused. she's telling greg about ronald the supposed drug dealer who she claims killed shakespeare. but she probably forgot she had already asked him to pretend to be ronald. >> they were doing a big drug deal and i think ronald killed him for the money abraham had on him. >> you call ronald and you tell this mother [ bleep ] listen

here we gonna get you out of this [ bleep ] we need to know where this mother [ bleep ] is at and if he did it. >> reporter: it may be hard to follow the plot of the play in dee dee's mind. but its crystal clear to greg there is no drug dealer named ronald. >> did miss moore address who to blame if you got caught? >> yes. she was addressing a guy ronald, the imaginary character she made up. >> reporter: greg testifies how dee dee thought she could fool everyone. for example when she concocted a fake letter. >> im going to go to the hotel and write that [ bleep ], going to throw it in there and that will be it. >> reporter: it was supposed to be from abraham himself. dee dee wanted greg to deliver the letter to shakepeare's mother. she reads it back to him when she's done writing. >> i just need some time. i will see you, i promise. just give me some time. >> reporter: remember, detectives first recruited greg after he had already made a fake phone call to shakesmpeare's mom pretending to be abraham. now he reads the fake letter in court.

>> i'm grown and don't have to come back. >> reporter: it takes him 20 minutes to read this forged shakespearean soliloquy. but one large problem with the plan. shakespeare's mom would have known abraham couldn't read or write. >> i been through a lot, mom. you should understand more than anyone. i just need time. >> how do you do this to a woman, a 70-year-old woman who hasn't seen her son in months? i mean, devious, manipulative, evil. >> i like being missing. just not all over the news. >> i think the defense, uh, had its work cut out for it. >> reporter: dee dee's defense to all this? her lawyers describe the case as "circumstantial." >> there is no direct evidence against her. >> reporter: no witnesses, dna or fingerprints directly linking her to the shooting. >> all the evidence taken

together is legally insufficient to establish a prima facia case of premeditated 1st degree murder against the defendant. >> has the jury reached a verdict? please hand that verdict to the bailiff. >> reporter: but thanks to all those tapes, the jurors needed only three hours. >> the defendant is guilty of 1st degree murder. the defendant did possess and discharge a firearm. >> reporter: still even when the jury convicted her, dee dee continued to maintain her innocence. >> you never see the last of these people, and so she is sitting in jail thinking she can still be smarter than everybody else. this is the sociopathic mind. i had a little slip-up. but i'll get out of this somehow. and i'll give an interview. >> reporter: sure enough. she gave one to us. >> i'll still get into heaven god is one person who knows i'm innocent. >> reporter: as that other shakespeare wrote, "false face must hide what the false heart doth know." >> i think people are complete idiots that think i had anything

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edition of "20/20," crazy stupid luck, continues. >> reporter: convicted murderers rarely talk while they still have appeals left. but dee dee moore isn't your run-of-the-mill killer.

>> i'm not nervous. i don't get nervous. >> reporter: 20/20 was granted an exclusive interview with dee dee here in her cell block's cafeteria. upon arrival we quickly learned that for ms. moore, all the world's a stage. and she, a player, sauntering in ready for showtime. >> i've been on tv before. >> reporter: was i about to hear an apology for her role in this shakespeare's tragedy? maybe remorse about his death? hardly. this shrew had not been tamed. >> i think people are complete idiots that think i had anything to do with it, i really do. i think they have no brain cells. that's just my opinion. >> did you murder abraham shakespeare? >> absolutely not! >> did you bury him in your backyard? >> absolutely not!! >> why are you laughing? a man is dead, he was clearly murdered and you're laughing. >> because i find it entertaining that people are that ignorant. because there's so many things that proves my innocence. >> reporter: detectives say she's a woman who believes she can convince anyone of anything.

>> you ended up in his house, with all the rest of his money. then he ended up dead on your property shot by your gun. you don't find any of that unusual or odd? >> absolutely not, considering the people he hung around. i knew only this man 4 months so i think that everything that people are saying is very ignorant. i knew this man four months and i'm going to -- oh, my goodness i met this man and you know what? i'm going to plot a murder in four months. >> reporter: welcome to dee dee's world. a place where she is the star and heroine. >> let me show you this. >> this is fan mail? >> i have more than just fan mail. i have places wanting to do a big screen. a movie producer doing a big tv screen production of my case. they want to reenact my whole case. >> reporter: like any decent actress, she could switch emotions on a dime. at times full of bluster -- >> i made good money myself, i didn't need abraham shakespeare's money.

>> i don't understand how you went from being a potential biographer to somehow being his money manager and confidante. >> that's just my nature. i tend to help people out when they're in need. so when abe needed help i just jumped in and helped. >> how did you get yourself into this mess? >> stupidity. um, i am not a person to hang around drug dealers. i'm not a person to hang around bad, mean, evil people. i wouldn't say naïve i just was not street smart. >> reporter: then she would melt into utter despair. >> reporter: when the guilty verdict was read -- >> the defendant is guilty of first degree murder. the defendant did actually pose and discharge a firearm causing death. >> reporter: what went through your mind? they murdered me by the hands of

justice. i am murdered. you might as well kill me, because this is no type of living in here. i would never harm another human being! i would never hurt nobody! i liked mickey mouse and donald duck, and disney! i like tinker bell and kind things. i am not a mean person. i know i'll go to heaven, god knows i am innocent. that is one person who knows i'm innocent. >> reporter: if god believes her, why didn't the jury? she blames a bad lawyer. >> i personally would have convicted myself for what they got to hear. they didn't get to hear my side, they didn't get to see my evidence. they didn't get to hear my witnesses. >> why didn't you take the stand then? you had every opportunity to defend yourself. >> i wanted my witnesses to take the stand. for me to take the stand, my lawyers said we didn't need it. >> your lawyer was that convinced you were going to win? >> yes. >> reporter: however, the lawyer, byron heilman, told us the decision not to testify was dee dee's. >> we discussed with ms. moore whether she wished to testify. that discussion had gone on for quite some time and she made the decision not to do that.

>> reporter: nevertheless, since she claims her case was not presented in court, she laid it out for us. sort of. >> people were trying to frame you? >> absolutely. >> why? >> because, first of all, i was an easy target. >> reporter: a target, she claims, for drug dealers. still sticking to that story about the so called drug dealer ronald. she explained that his band of killers threatened her. >> they were going to take my son and kill him and chop him up and put him on my doorstep. >> who? >> these guys that the sheriff's department says didn't exist. that we have witnesses that they do exist. and there is blood dna at the crime scene of them. i cant make up dna! i'm not a magician! >> reporter: detectives say they didn't ignore blood at the scene. but say it proved nothing about "ronald." perhaps most ludicrous this. >> did you ever propose that you would have a sexual relationship with the detectives? >> absolutely. ronald was telling me the

detectives were playing bad cop good cop and he purposely made me flirt with him. he said you can tell that he's recording you because he's not flirting with you when he's recording you. he said flirt with him and you'll know when he's recording you. i had to. my life was at stake. >> do you understand how listening to you sounds bewildering? >> do you understand how listening to you sounds like a bunch of stupidity? >> you're going around and around. you don't make any sense. >> that's because you're looking at it the way the court system wants you to. you're trying to convict me. >> reporter: as for those witnesses who corroborated her story, dee dee says she has witnesses but she wouldn't show us their names. >> what are your witnesses? can we take their names? >> i would have to ask my lawyers. >> maybe they might. >> the thing is, i have to ask their permission because they are witnesses in an on going case.

this is one -- just so you can see it from far away. this is stuff not in my discovery. these are witness statements. >> these witnesses don't exist and that certainly looks like your handwriting. >> what do you mean? >> it looks like your handwriting. what you said were witness notes looks like your handwriting. i don't think these witnesses exist. >> as our time ran out and dee dee saw the curtain fall on her performance -- >> why don't you give us the witnesses and we'll have ronald existing. >> she dangled one name as she exited stage right. >> her first name is deanna. i'll give you that. >> reporter: we asked the detectives about deanna. they say it was dee dee's final concoction, a final lie from a convicted murder who is set to spend the rest of her life behind bars. as for greg smith, the man who played the fool in order to put dee dee away, you can find him

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>> announcer: "20/20" returns with crazy stupid luck. >> all right. i've got good news and bad news. let's start with the good. you've just won a big lottery. now the bad. you've got to split it with everyone in your office. so take a look at this before you chip in on the next office pool where you could be swimming with the sharks. here's cecilia vega. how would you react if you won the lottery? >> ahh! >> like this, right? >> well, check out these folks.

from toms river, new jersey, they call themselves ocean's 16. they're a group of 16 government workers who just last month announced to the world they were millionaires. >> we're very happy. happy happy, as some of my friends would say. >> they banded together to buy a ticket for the $448 million powerball drawing, and lo and behold, they won. ocean's 16 looks an awful lot like this group, the lucky seven, seven coworkers from queens whose ship also just sailed in. >> how do you feel winning all that money? >> all in all, pretty damn lucky. >> the truth is, though, these folks are all actors, the stars of the new abc tv program "lucky 7." but on the show, premiering in two weeks, winning the lottery isn't the end of the story. it's just the beginning.

>> you okay back there? >> the drama is what happens next. in real life, it's a story you don't hear that often. what happens for all those people we all see on tv once the jumping up and down and smiling for the cameras comes to an end? it was a bit of a surprise for this group, also known as the lucky 7, coworkers in a medical lab in orange county, california. >> and i'm looking at the numbers, and i'm looking at the ticket and i said, "holy [ bleep ], i think we won the lottery!" >> jennifer habib says the first big shock about winning was how uncomfortable she quickly felt. >> i was paranoid about going out of the house for a while. our pictures by that time had been taken and we're in the paper and i didn't want to be identified. >> that's part of why she and all her coworkers soon quit. sure, they didn't need the job, but they say being there made them uneasy. >> when you win the lottery, it throws you into such a conundrum

of other problems that you can't even begin to anticipate. and it's really hard when you have never been exposed to that kind of money at any one time. >> with their newfound freedom, one coworker split the money with a spouse and promptly got divorced. one moved to the philippines and took up pig farming. none of them anticipated getting sued for a share of the loot, but it happened. a jealous coworker tried to convince a judge that he was part of the group even though he was off the day they purchased the ticket. the judge didn't buy it. turns out, its not uncommon. in elizabeth, new jersey, the hardhatted five construction workers weren't fighting someone outside of their group, but the guy who bought their winning ticket in the first place. he tried to claim he picked the lucky numbers separately from his group purchase. but he couldn't prove it in court and everyone kept their booty. but in indianapolis, indiana, the sensational stylists are

still waiting for a judge to sort out who gets what in the case of a group of hairdressers in a similar tangle -- they can't agree if the winning ticket was bought for the group or not. at this real estate office in plantation, florida, though, it's a very different story for the good samaritans. >> there it is! our $1 million powerball check. >> when a group of workers here got their powerball winnings, there were no lawsuits. >> this is what i bought with my money. >> with my money, i brought a new car. >> i got lasik eye surgery, now i'm 20-15 perfect vision. >> beyond the normal life-changing purchases for themselves, though, these folks made life different for others. first, there was jen maldonado. >> there's our lucky charm. >> she was brand new to the office and hadn't contributed to the pool, yet after they won, everyone agreed to cut her in just because. >> well, that was very emotional.

who gives money to new people who you just met, you know? >> we were nice and did that right thing. >> but that was only the start. it became a huge pay it forward campaign. they gave money to strangers. a $100 tip to a waiter, big contributions to charity. >> it's a feeling i can't even explain. it's a such a warm feeling inside, it makes you feel like i'm changing somebody's life by something so minor. >> they say it was the most significant change to their own lives. so this month, when these two new workers started at the office, they decided it was a sign. >> we are going to buy 160 powerball tickets. >> they pooled up once again, the goal being not just to win, but to have so much more money to give to others. >> i won't forget about you. we made our last clerk really happy. we have got our, in this pile somewhere, a winning powerball ticket. >> alas, much as we would like to tell you they won again, they did not. but the good vibes at the office go on.

and as for "lucky 7," well, you'll have to tune in two weeks from tonight to find out what is ahead for those folks. >> nice to see it ended well for a change. after seeing this, would you participate in your next office lottery pool. let us know on twitter. use the hashtag abc "20/20." >> two weeks from now the premier of the new abc series lucky 7. ♪ le freak, c'est chic ♪ freak out ♪ aw ♪

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