Woman befriended $30million Florida lottery winner before killing him and stealing his money

A woman convicted of murdering Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare has said she isn't guilty - and blames her legal team for the verdict.

Dee Dee Moore said that she "would never harm another human being" and that she "likes Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Disney." The 41-year-old gave her interview to ABC News while at prison , in a cell block cafeteria at the Lowell Correctional Institute in Florida, where she is currently serving a life sentence.

However, the woman continues to maintain her innocence , and has done so since the beginning of her trial more than a decade ago. In 2012, De De Moore was found guilty of first-degree murder and possessing and discharging a firearm after prosecutors argued that she swindled and then killed Shakespeare - who was 47.

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Throughout the trial, Moore did not testify, and instead blamed her legal team for her conviction. She said: "I wanted my witnesses to take the stand. For me to take the stand, my lawyers said we didn't need it."

Meanwhile, Byron Heilman, Moore's lawyer, told ABC News' 20/20 that Moore's choice to testify was hers and not his. She said: "She made the decision not to do that."

The jury at Moore's trial took only three hours to deliver a guilty verdict, which Moore continues to contest. She added: "I think people are complete idiots that think I had anything to do with it. I think they have no brain cells."

Moore became friends with Shakespeare before he disappeared in 2009, three years after winning $30million in the Florida lottery. By 2009, Shakespeare had used much of his winnings to pay off the mortgages of family and friends. At times, he simply just gave money away to those who asked for it.

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Moore had agreed to manage the little money he had left, but instead, prosecutors said, she stole his winnings and killed him. Authorities said he was shot twice in the chest with a .38-caliber pistol in April 2009.

He wasn't reported missing until November 2009. His dead body was found on January 2010 under a lab of cement - after authorities spent days digging in the woods on a rural property in the region.

Shakespeare's friend and boss at the barbershop where he worked - Greg Smith - gave strong evidence in the trial. He helped police as a secret undercover operative to gather evidence against her, using an audio recording device that he fashioned himself in a Red Bull can to record his conversations with Moore. In an interview with "20/20," Smith showed how he rigged the can. He said: "That's the Dee Dee Moore catch can."