Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you? Really good. It's been another week. My life's so boring. I'm like, nothing happened this week. Well, not anymore. I know you have all these things going on, these mom things where you take your kids to do stuff. Oh, that's boring. It's very boring for me. It's good for them. It's busy. Yes, it's very busy. But I hate to say that because some people have way busier things. And I'm like, oh, two things in one day. I hate this.

Yeah. So I'm trying to be quiet about that. But yeah, life is fun. It's always exciting. Always an adventure. Not really. All right, Mandy. Let's do this.

So everybody's heard stories about how winning the lottery really is not all that it's cracked up to be. There's actually been some TV shows even about this. One of them was called The Curse of the Lottery. Have you ever seen any episodes of that, Melissa? I've heard of it. Maybe it was just one episode and they had a bunch of different stories on there. Yeah. I remember I've watched it. I watched it like years ago all these stories about people who won big on their local

lotteries and then have gone on to have just not great things happen in their life.

So it's a thing, the curse of the lottery.

Yeah.

So not only do about 70% of lottery winners go broke within the first few years, but suddenly they

have all of these people coming out of the woodwork, you know, everybody wants to be their friend,

even their own family members are looking for a handout sometimes. And money, as we've seen

in a lot of true crime stories, drives people to do absolutely insane things. And that is what

we're talking about this week. Today's story is about a man named

Abraham Shakespeare and it comes to us from our home state of Florida in the city of Lakeland.

And before we get into what happened involving Abraham, we're going to tell you all about Lakeland,

Florida in this week's segment of we Googled this city. Lakeland has a population of around

100,000 residents as of the 2013 U.S. Census Bureau.

That's honestly more than I thought. Like five times, maybe a hundred times as much.

Yeah. I did not think it was that big. No, I didn't either. It seems like a very, very small town.

And people will tell us, we don't know the definition of a small town. I get that. But like in my mind,

10,000 and under is a small town but i would have probably classified lakeland before this as a pretty small town right yeah lakeland was not actually the original name for the town and lakeland sits

kind of between orlando and tampa right am i my thinking of my map, right? It's that-ish.

Yeah. Kind of sort of. If you don't know the map of Florida, you won't even know. So Lakeland

became incorporated on January 1st, 1885, and some of the names that were tossed around before

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