How amateur web sleuths helped solve the case of missing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare
In 2009, a web forum began digging for info on a missing lottery winner. A new show features the case and others solved with the help of amateur sleuths online. Florida resident Abraham Shakespeare went from rags to riches after winning $30 million in the lottery in 2006. The newfound fortune brought the 40-year-old from Lakeland out of poverty and allowed him to give back to his community, but he started to feel burdened by the number of people who came to him expecting a piece of the pie, according to Shakespeare's friend Greg Smith and others who knew Shakespeare. Greg Smith, a friend of Abraham Shakespeare who worked as an informant with police, is shown during an interview in the first episode of "Web of Death" airing on Hulu. Courtesy ABC News Studios "When Abraham first won that money, it wasn't only Abraham Shakespeare. It was the community won the lottery," Smith said. So when Shakespeare went missing three years later, it didn't take long for ...