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    Phil Keating reports from Florida

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All right -- the murder trial from man accused of cozying up and then killing.

Big lottery winner is about to get under way Phil Keating is live on this story for us from Miami so you know what happened.

-- that this should have been a wonderful story rags to riches a guy in and out of unemployment in and out of trouble with the law -- to the quick pick takes a seventy million dollar cash payout.

And within a few years Abraham Shakespeare is dead and prosecutors believe it's all because of a woman dean -- more.

Who is now about -- begin her first degree murder trial defense.

Who they say bamboozled Shakespeare by station wanted to write a book about his rags to riches story but then swindled him out of -- remaining millions of dollars and shot two times.

In the chat you see -- crying in the courtroom yesterday that was that the judge admonished her for making eye contact with prospective jurors in an effort to sway them.

As for Shakespeare his heart was actually so big -- -- spent any of his lottery winnings on himself.

Giving away millions to family and friends and hangers on everybody who needed help and a bailout and -- check.

The opening statements in the murder trial love you more begin in just a few minutes in downtown -- quite a story so what kind of evidence -- they have against her now.

Prosecutors that they have an abundance of evidence first of all all of the financial records showing.

Do you Moore got Shakespeare to sign over all of his remaining three and a half million dollars in assets she was living in this million dollar mansion that involved as lottery tickets.

And in fact once they discovered his body his remains underneath the concrete slab.

-- in -- back yard outside of the Tampa Bay Area.

Well that was a house bought four with his lottery winnings but all along.

-- Moore has denied all guilt.

Every one knows I would never hurt them in -- -- You martyr Abraham Shakespeare absolutely not.

So those critical evidence that prosecutors will show there's jury in the next couple weeks is Wal-Mart surveillance video showing.

Do you more buying duct tape trash bags and cheating.

Which prosecutors say it was all for the purpose of disposing of Shakespeare's body -- Mac what a story fell thank you very much -- -- -- that I'm always in Florida.

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