“I said: ‘Well, I gotta tell you, somebody must have broken into your house and used your computer, because the IP address on this email matches the IP address of the person posting,’” Griffith says. But the pressure on her mounted, and eventually Griffith received a private email from Moore claiming that the person posting on the website was not her. She signed up to the site in a bid to clear her name, using the forum to suggest that Shakespeare had moved and did not want to be found. “One of our members was able to get Moore’s bank records,” Griffith says, “and that’s when a detective called to thank me.”īut it wasn’t only the detectives on the case who were following the forum’s discourse – so was the chief suspect, Moore. Not long after his disappearance, Websleuth members began discussing the case, and many became suspicious of Shakespeare’s business partner, Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore, who had come into possession of Shakespeare’s wealth and assets. The call she took from the detective was about Abraham Shakespeare, a casual labourer who’d won $30m on the Florida lottery in 2006, before going missing in 2009. In 2008, and in her late-40s, she had given up a 25-year career in radio to work full-time on, an online forum whose members band together from all over the world to investigate unsolved crimes. I t was the phone call from a police detective that told Tricia Griffith she had been right all along.
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