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Dressed in a prison jumpsuit, a woman with curly, brown hair looks tearfully into the camera lens and protests her innocence.

Locked up in Florida, US, Dorice 'Dee Dee' Moore will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being convicted of murdering a lottery winner.

The 45-year-old befriended truck driver Abraham Shakespeare after he won a staggering $30million (then, £18,000) jackpot in 2006.

She swindled the 42-year-old out of his money and took control of his mansion and BMW, before murdering him in a cold blood, a court heard.

She was jailed for life, without the possibility of parole, in 2012 after Shakespeare's body was found under a concrete slab behind one of her homes.

But despite her murder conviction and sentence, Moore insists she is innocent, eight years after she was caught in a police sting operaiton.

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Appearing on Channel 4's documentary Women Who Kill tonight, she claims: "I am not a manipulator-type person, I didn’t deserve this."

Sitting in Lowell Correctional Institution, she adds: "I used to think that everybody that was in prison deserved to be here for whatever they were here for.

"And that we had a bunch of murderers that we needed to keep out of society... but I learned that there are a lot of people here for stupid reasons."

Moore insists that if her "facts" came out during her trial, she would be free.

She says on the programme: "In my case, none of my facts came out or I would not be here. If my facts came out, I would have never got convicted."

Shakespeare went missing after befriending Moore, who had told him that, as a successful businesswoman, she could solve his financial problems.

Before his disappearance, the truck driver had generously bought homes and vehicles for fellow locals in Polk County, Florida, with his lottery winnings.

This had led to people queuing outside his mansion, asking for handouts.

Friend Greg Massey says the lottery winner "was overwhelmed with people" asking for gifts and eventually became "aggravated".

Befriending Shakespeare, Moore assured him that she could help him to protect his wealth, before transferring his assets into her name.

"Now you have somebody saying, 'I don't need you, I can help you'," Greg explains, appearing on the Episode 2 of the Channel 4 series.

He adds: "It started with the BMW... Then the house, then his money."

However, speaking from behind bars, Moore insists she is "not greedy", declaring: "I had money, I didn't need money like this, I had plenty of money."

She continues: "Abraham was worth more to me alive than dead."

In the months after Shakespeare's disappearance, Moore protested her innocence to police, at one point telling them: "He wants to be missing."

However, she ended up revealing that she knew the location of the victim's body to an undercover officer during the successful police sting.

She subsequently led police to Shakespeare's remains in 2010, which were buried under a concrete slab in woodland behind one of her houses.

However, appearing in the show, she claims the undercover cop "manipulated her" and says: "Why would I lead them back there? Do I look that stupid?"

Moore was convicted by a jury unanimously of first-degree murder in December 2012 and sentenced to life in prison.

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She will spend the rest of her life behind bars.

In Women Who Kill, Greg Thomas, a Hillsborough County detective, says the convicted murderer was "very arrogant and cocky" to police.

He explains: "Obviously it wasn't going to work. I think in her mind she thought she could continue to pull one over on us."

He adds: "I've been in law enforcement for just over 18 years now and of all the suspects, defendants, individuals that I've encountered there will never be another defendant like 'Dee Dee' Moore. She's a pathological liar."

Moore appears on the programme alongside Celeste Beard-Johnson, who was found guilty of killing her millionaire husband in 2003.

The two murderers, dubbed 'black widows', are both alleged to have carried out their horrific crimes over money.

Like Moore, Beard-Johnson also maintains she is innocent.

She says: "I just can't believe that I'm going to be stuck here for 40 years for something I didn't do."

She adds: "I just have to believe that's not going to happen because if I do, I might as well just die."

Beard-Johnson who is locked up in a Texas prison, was convicted of manipulating her female lover into shooting her husband, Steven, while he was asleep.