Bad Luck: The Murder of Abraham Shakespeare, Pt 1

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In his play King John, William Shakespeare wrote, “There is no sure foundation set on blood; no certain life achieved by others’ death.” It’s a shame the killer in today’s story didn’t get the memo on that. Money is one of the oldest, most common motives for murder, and in our opinion, one of the coldest. It requires the killer to look at a living, laughing, vital human being and break that life—all the likes and loves and pet peeves, all the dad jokes and kindnesses and little heartbreaks—into dollars and cents. I mean, most of us like money. Most of us daydream of scoring big someday so we can live out our passions, support the people we love, see the world, not have to worry any more. But a sudden change in fortune often brings more trouble than it’s worth. Most people would never consider hurting anyone else just to add some zeros to their bank balance. But for one kindhearted man, all his sudden windfall did for him was put a target on his back.Sources:Book, Unlucky Number by Deborah MathisCNBC's "American Greed," Episode "The Lady Killer"ABC's "20/20," Episode "Lotto Hangover: Big Money, Big Problems"Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes a day early, ad-free, an extra episode a month, a free sticker and more!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfireFacebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime
0:03.7	campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney. And we're
0:08.6	here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're
0:12.2	roasting murderers and marshmallows
0:13.7	around the true crime campfire.
0:19.1	In his play, King John, William Shakespeare wrote,
0:23.5	There is no sure foundation set on blood,
0:26.5	no certain life achieved by others' death.
0:29.5	It's a shame that the killer in today's story didn't get the memo on that. Money is one of the
0:35.2	oldest most common motives for murder and in our opinion one of the coldest. It requires
0:42.0	the killer to look at a living, laughing, vital human being and break that life.
0:47.0	All the likes and loves and pet peeves, all the dad jokes and kindnesses and little heartbreaks, into dollars and cents.
0:56.7	I mean, most of us like money.
1:00.7	Most of us daydream of scoring big someday so we can live out our passions, support the people we love, see the world, not have to worry anymore.
1:09.0	But a sudden change in fortune often brings more trouble than it's worth.
1:14.0	Most people would never consider hurting anyone else just to add some zeros to their bank balance.
1:22.0	But for one kind-hearted man, all his sudden windfall did for him was put a target on his
1:28.0	back.
1:29.9	This is bad luck, the murder of Abraham Shakespeare. So, campers, were in Lakeland, Florida, 2006.
1:54.0	A guy named Abraham Shakespeare, 40-year-old delivery assistant for a food distribution company,
1:59.4	was out on his lunch break with his co-worker when they stopped for gas.
2:03.0	Abraham knew there was a big lottery drawing coming up, so he gave his coworker a few bucks
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