for the next break through beauty in a land where they start themdown, very young and then we ride along with a group of boundty hunters that are sure to catch you by surprise. that's next week on "nightline prime". tonight on "20/20." >> bum luck. >> the one winning ticket was sold right here. >> winning the lottery. but be careful what you wish for. >> we certainly hope abraham is alive and well. >> he went from dead broke to multi million air to just plain dead. >> you get tired of people ask ugg for money all of the time? >> but who was mooching? >> she said i can help you clean him out. >> who was murdering. >> devious, manipulative. evil. >> tonight, follow a cat and mouse game to smoke out the killer. crazy character. >> all right, lord.

>> this is the stuff that's pretty much room temperature. >> secret confessions caught on tape. >> i'm so deep in this with you right now. if you go down, i go down. and one of the most outrageous showdowns we've ever recorded. >> a man is dead. he's been murdered and you're laughing. >> plus this week's megamillions lottery topping 400 million. is there a way to pick out the luckiest numbers to play? >> i've never seen somebody win the lottery and not jump for joy. one in three promote that. >> we're putting to the test, dumb luck. putting to the test, barbara walters. >> are you one of the big millionaires splitting $400 million from this week's lottery which is the third largest in the game's history. if you didn't win, don't feel bad. along with that big check the winners should get a warning that saying, be careful what you

wish for. our matt gutman recently found out when someone's good luck turned into bum luck and murder. >> here are tonight's winning numbers, 12 -- >> 6 -- >> 13. >> reporter: six numbers. >> 34, 42 -- >> reporter: just random digits. >> 52. >> reporter: 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. >> he used to come round the shop, i'd let him work, get paid or buy him something to eatyou know, that's how i first met him. >> reporter: his name, abraham shakespeare, conjures up 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. >> action news. >> breaking lottery news, you're not going to believe this -- >> reporter: and one fateful day, the fairy tale came true! of all people, abraham shakespeare won a jackpot worth 30 million bucks! >> one day he came to the barber shop and he was like, "greg, um, listen. 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 was that he had given money to everybody. >> 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 even said she wanted to write a book about him. >> i did a book on "organize me now" it's a finance book on organizing your finances and everything. i never went ahead and 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 dee's 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: once she had an 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 kept having problems with his financing, and that's when he had asked me to help him. >> this is, this is somebody with pretty much of a room temperature iq. and, uh, yet 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 all the time abe? 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 his past dee dee asks shakespeare about his future. >> so where you want to go? >> it don't matter to me. i'm not a particular person. >> california? you want a foreign country? cozumel. >> reporter: later on, this video would be critical when detectives would come to suspect something sinister. >> are you going to miss your home? >> i'm going to 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.

>> reporter: detective david wallace and his team of investigators entered the picture soon after. 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 talk to me, i don't what nobody to track me, and i'll come back every so often. >> 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 has simply left on his own. >> we certainly hope abraham is alive and we and he has successfully hidden himself away, but our investigation doesn't lead us to believe that at this time. >> reporter: its 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 some bank issues, and i was waiting for the bank to give me a loan and he was like well why don't you just pay me back. 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 shakespeare's mother, elizabeth, when dee dee's phone rings. she says it's abraham. calling from wherever he is. but in reality, the caller is none other than greg smith, abraham's friend and boss from the barber shop now in cahoots with dee dee. >> i was like, "mom, how you doing? this is abraham. i'm okay.

i just want you to let you know i'm okay," and i hung up. >> reporter: so that's how he spoke? >> that's just how he talked. very slow and haltingly. >> that's how he talked. >> reporter: why would smith do such a cruel thing? he says he thought it was okay because it would make april ham's mother feel better. what he didn't know was that the cops were already all over dee dee. their surveillance tracks his phone and a short time later they pulls him over. >> reporter: and this is right after you made that phone call? >> yeah and they was like, "get out the car." i said, "oh lord!" i'm like, "lord jesus im going to jail!" >> reporter: so now the cops are questioning the barber, and still following the blonde, dee dee. at that point no one could have predicted where the case would go, or that the big break would come from a little can of red bull! stay with us. what are you doing? uh, well we are fine tuning these small cells that improve coverage, capacity and quality of the network.

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>> 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. >> florida, it really is a magnet. it's a magnet for predators. it's a magnet for scammers. it's, it's a -- it's a magnet for sleaze. 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 vanishes 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. 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. >> dee dee moore was the supposed financial planner abe hired to manage his money. detectives suspected her and decide instead of putting greg smith behind bars they'll put him to work in a convoluted cat and mouse game to catch 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 shopping centers all around lakeland, an ordinary car like this would pull up and an extraordinary encounter would begin. >> 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, hey, he's come to a bad way. but nobody had any evidence. >> i didn't set 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. >> but an extremely dell cant microphone as well. >> that's the dee dee moore catch can. >> he had devised this "catch can" himself -- a recording device inside a red bull can. >> there was no drones, there was no sophisticated eavesdropping. she was shooting off her mouth >> and, and, and, uh -- the guy is talking into a red bull can. but it's perfect. >> i worked undercover narcotics for eight years, and i wouldn't

have come up with this. >> 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 bout greg's loyalty. remember cops say she told him that 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 that abraham was 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! >> i'm going to do this right now. >> are you sure he's not going to know your voice? because if that's blown, we're [ bleep ].

>> i got you. >> reporter: dee dee's name, of course, is 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 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 some 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 killed him. >> 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 harms 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 and blandly named "ronald." >> and im like "who's ronald?" you know what i'm saying? who is ronald? >> ronald is the guy, the drug dealer from miami that saw shakespeare. >> im 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 another conversatoin 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?" >> see the makes would see what i'm doing. we don't have time for that [ bleep ]. we don't have [ bleep ] time. this mother can come out today, tomorrow night, till when, this morning? >> reporter: he heard it right. greg says he's -- suddenly realizes the truth -- he is speaking to abraham shakespeares killer. but he keeps up his charade, volunteering to help her move the body. >> yeah, but the thing is, it's kind of out in the woods, the neighbors would be able to see what i am doing. >> they wont be able to see because i'm gonna hit that [ inadubile ] spot about six in the morning. >> reporter: you heard it right. dee dee has just reveald to greg, and the cops she knows where the body is. greg says he suddenly realizes the truth, he's speaking to abraham'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? >> he

but even more damning, he convinces her to give him the .38 smith & wesson pistol used to shoot shakespeare. >> she trusted you so much that she handed you the murder weapon? >> exactly. >> course we can't just run out there and arrest her. i mean, we still don't have everybody. >> 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 the body, she was -- it was over. he didn't crawl in there himself. and the only one who had a motive to do that was her. 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. >> reporter: tearing a page from the jodi arias playbook, dee dee says a drug dealer named ronald was the real killer who threatened to kill her if she said anything. >> dee dee, your mind is moving 100 miles an hour and it's not feasible what youre telling me. what youre 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 ronal. >> exactly. >> and you know that he's imaginary. >> exactly. she forgot i was ronald! >> not that smart after all. >> reporter: and imagine her shock when she finds out greg's been working with the cops all along. >> dee dee we talked to him ten 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 about how shakespeare lost his wallet before she lost his life. >> she made it sound like she wanted to clean him out. >> stay with us.

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bum luck continues with matt gutman. 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 no way it was gonna end well. now, who, who knew it was gonna end this badly? >> state of florida versus dorice donigan moore. reporter: this is where it ended up -- a courtroom and a murder trial for dee dee moore. >> reporter: yup, that's dee dee, cut off from clairol and custody, she's now a brunette. 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 cut off the microphones but the judge still had distinctly negative reviews. >> ma'am just a moment, i'm going to tell you once again. you need to compose yourself. do you understand that? >> reporter: dee dee has reason to be upset witness after witness damn her from the stand. everything in this investigation pointed in the direction of one person, miss moore. >> she would pop up at the oddest times with the oddest story. >> the mother of the youngest child testify was the key witness. 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's how prosectutors 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 the hole and finally, paid a concrete hold to cover it up. >> 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 with mr. smith. >> did he ask if he's okay or whatever? >> yeah, yeah. >> 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 yeah, he's still living. if anybody want to 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. >> but 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. she probably forgot that she already asked greg 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. and you call ronald and you tell [ bleep ] listen here, we gonna get you out of this -- we need to know where this -- is at and if he done it where he at so i can take care of it. >> reporter: it may seem hard to follow, the plot of the play in dee dee's mind but it was 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 the guy ronald, the imaginary character she made up. >> reporter: greg testifies how dee dee thought she could fool everyone. for example, when she con contacted a fake letter.

>> 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 shakespeare'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 letter, 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 know you should understand more than anyone i just need time. >> how do you do this to a woman? 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 of 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 first degree pre medicated murder against the defendant. >> has the jury reached a verdict? >> reporter: but thanks to all those tapes the jurors needed only four hours. >> the defendant is guilty of 1st degree murder, the defendant did actually posses and discharge a firearm causing death. >> reporter: still, even when the jury convicted her, dee dee continued to maintain her innocence. >> you never see the last of these people so she is sitting in jail thinking she can still be smarter than everybody else. this is -- this is the sociopathic mind. i had a little slip-up. but i can get out of this, somehow. and i'll give an interview. >> reporter: sure enough, she gave one to us. >> i know i'll go to heaven. god knows i'm innocent.

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once again, "20/20's" bum luck. here's matt gutman. >> reporter: convicted murders rarely talk while they still have appeals left. but dee dee moore isn't your run of the mill killer. >> 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 tragedy? 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's been clearly murdered and you're laughing! >> yes, yes, yes. 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 only knew this man for four months. i think everything that people are saying is very ignorant. i knew this man for four months, and i just -- oh, my goodness, i just met this man and you know what? i'm gonna 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 and this is fan mail, this is people? >> i have more than fan mail, i have places wanting to do a big screen, a movie producer doing a big tv screen pro druduction ony case, they want to reenact my whole case. >> i made good money myself. i didn't need abraham shakespeares money.

>> i don't understand how you went from being a potential biographer for shakespeare to being somehow his money manager and confidant. >> because that's just my nature, i tend to help people out, when they're in need. so when abraham needed help, i just jumped in and helped. >> reporter: how did you g yourself into this mess? >> stupidity. i am not a person to hang around drug dealers. i am 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. >> reporter: what went through your mind. >> they murdered me -- by the hands of the 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 like 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'm 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. but 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 if she wanted to testify, you heard that clearly, 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 i was a target. >> reporter: a target, she claims, for drug dealers. still sticking to her story about that 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 who say 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." but perhaps most ludicrous, this -- did you ever propose that you would have any sort of sexual relationship with the detective? >> absolutely. because ronald was telling me the detective was playing bad cop, good cop. he purposely made me flirt with him. he said you can tell when he's recording you. he said he's not recording you when he's flirting with you.

he says flirt back with him and you'll know when he's recording you. so, i had to, my life was at stake. >> do you understand how listening to you is bewildering? >> well do you understand how listening to you it, sounds like a bunch of stupidity? >> i mean you're just going around and around, i mean listening to me sounds like a bunch of stupidity but you're not making any sense. >> okay. that's because you're looking at it the way the court system wants you to look at it, you're trying to convict me. >> reporter: as for those witnesses who corroborated her story, dee dee claimed these papers are from some of them, but she wouldn't show us or reveal their names. >> can we talk to your witnesses? who are they? do you mind if we take down their names and maybe contact them? >> i'd have to ask my lawyer. i don't know if any of them will talk to you. >> greg smith talked to us, so maybe they might. >> but the thing is, i'd have to ask their permission because they are witnesses in an ongoing case. just so you can see this from far away, this is stuff that's not in my discovery these are

witness statements. >> reporter: these witnesses don't exist and that certainly looks like your handwriting. >> what do you mean? >> that looks like your handwriting what you said were your witnesses notes looks like your handwriting. i don't think these witnesses exist. >> as our time ran out, and dee dee saw the curtain falling on this performance. >> we are just trying to help you. >> yeah, no you're not. >> you want us to get your story straight, i'm happy to investigate. why don't you give us the witnesses and then we will have evidence of ronald actually existing. she dangled one name as she exited stage right. her first name is deanna. i'll give you that. >> we asked the detectives of deanna. they say it was just dee dee's latest concoction. a final parting lie from a convicted murderer, 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 back in the barber shop, still cutting hair. and just a couple miles down the road, a simple resting place for fortune's least favored son, abraham shakespeare. a man who just played the lotto hoping for good luck, and found out the hard way that indeed, "some rise by sin, and some by

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how many of you bought tickets for this week's huge lottery and how did you come up with what you hope to be your lucky numbers? is there a way that you can actually increase your odds of winning, some method to the madness. our paula faris went on the lookout to see if there is a winning formula. reporter: buying tickets for the next big lottery drawing? many of you are, myself included. so many, in fact, that jackpots are now in excess of $300 million. so you may be wondering, "what are my lucky numbers?" you know, numbers that will give you more of this and less of this. do you have lucky numbers? >> my mother's birthday and my son's birthday. >> four, two, ten, seven. >> my house address, my license plate. >> 9 and 30.

my girlfriend's birthday. i love you, kelly. >> reporter: yes, you're a person with a plan. you're not going to just let the computer pick numbers for you. boring. >> i would say it is better for a person to pick their own numbers only because you will intuitively get a feeling of what's good for you. >> reporter: glynis mccants is known as the numbers lady, appearing on shows like dr. phil as a numerologist. she'll explain. >> numerology is a science of numbers. when you look at someone's numbers, this is how you get them -- your name has three numbers. your birthday has three numbers. and that can give you a numerology blueprint of who you are. so somebody born 1-6-1960. what you do is take the full date of birth and reduce it to one digit. so one plus six plus one plus nine plus six plus zero becomes 23. but in numerology, you want to reduce it to one digit. so two plus three is five. so this person's a five life path. so this person is a five life

path. >> reporter: glynis says people with a "five life path" seek freedom, fun and adventure. fine, you say. but how does your life path number determine what lottery numbers you should pick? >> a woman who was a one life path -- she picked 1, 10, 28, 37. well, those are all ones. she won $120,000. so do you see what i mean? >> reporter: no. now we know we're 85 seconds into the story and haven't introduced our skeptic. so before all you skeptics get your undies in a bundle, here he is, america, your skeptic. ucla mathematician skip garibaldi. >> numerology is in no way a science. numerology is lacking two crucial factors that we expect in science. so, one is, why should adding up the digits in your birth date have any effect, any correlation whatsoever, with what's going to happen to you in the next year? and the second thing it's lacking is controlled experiment

to test the claims. >> rorter: oh, party pooper. still, we wanted to know, do some lottery numbers come up more frequently than others, making them by definition lucky numbers? my "20/20" colleague, melissa, did a little research. so what'd you do? >> so out of the 50 most recent drawings over 100 million dollars i took, all the winning numbers and tallied up how many times they all showed up. the number 10 came up 10 times number 31, 12 times. those have to be lucky numbers. on the other hand, the number two came up just twice. and the number 40? just once. glynis isn't surprised. >> it is literally the breakdown of the number. 'cause here's what's interesting. the number four. but the purity of the number four can have hard lessons attached. so i'm not surprised it doesn't show up very often. >> reporter: but the number 31 showed up 12 times. i have never seen somebody win the lottery and not jump for

joy. >> reporter: i'm so glad they're happy. hard to know where these ideas are coming from. but back to our study because our skeptic is starting to get annoyed. >> if you looked in the next 50 drawings and you had exactly the opposite frequencies, the uncommon numbers in the previous 50 showed up a lot in the second 50, that would seem totally normal to me. >> like my colleague melissa has nothing better to do. >> well, i did as he said, and i took the next 50 drawings over 100 million dollars and tallied up those winning numbers and got some different results. >> reporter: skip said we'd find that uncommon numbers in the first 50 drawings might now show up a lot in the second 50 drawings. in the first set of drawings, the number two came up twice but in the second set, it came up seven times. the number 40 came up only once in the first set, now eight times. and you're probably not shocked that some numbers that were common in the first set of drawing, specifically 31 and 10 were now hard to find in the second set. it's all about the size of your sample.

powerball did its own math on every drawing from the past 16 years, and as predicted -- >> each numbered ball in the lottery has an equal chance of being called. >> reporter: that info could put our numberologist out of business. but it probably won't. >> so eight plus three plus two plus zero plus one plus three becomes 17. one plus seven is eight. >> it doesn't surprise me at all that people find patterns in numbers. or significance in numbers. because our brains naturally find patterns even where no patterns exist. >> reporter: so you'd think professor garibaldi would be above buying tickets for this week's jackpot? >> i enjoy thinking about, "what would it be like to win all that money?" i'm going to go and buy a couple tickets, too. but i expect to not win a single cent. >> reporter: yeah, me neither. those tickets i bought won me exactly zero dollars and zero cents. so, looks like i'll be seeing you at work tomorrow.

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