When Abraham Lee Shakespeare won US$30 million (A$46 million) in the lottery on November 15, 2006, his life changed forever.

But the massive sum of money ended up ruining his life, before he was murdered just three years later.

Shakespeare had given co-worker Michael Ford two dollars and asked him to buy him two lottery tickets at a convenience store in Florida.

But when Shakespeare won the big prize, he was sued by Ford.

Ford claimed Shakespeare had stolen the winning ticket from his wallet. A jury thought otherwise.

But for the remaining years of his life, he found himself continually approached by friends, hangers-on and strangers wanting money from him.

"I'd have been better off broke," he told his brother.

In 2008, a woman named Dee Dee Moore approached Shakespeare, ostensibly

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