Thursday, December 04, 2014

FLORIDA MOTHER STABBED HER NEIGHBOR THROUGH THE EYE WITH AN ICE PICK AND COOKED HIS REMAINS

Angela Stoldt had her children help dispose of the body, telling them she had run over a deer

The depravity of Angela Stoldt is hard to imagine. She stabbed her neighbor in the eye with an ice pick, then strangled him to death with a cord. After that she took the ice pick and stabbed him in the other eye. She then dismembered him with a hacksaw and cooked the body parts. She bagged the remains and then dumped them in several places. And she claims she acted in self defense.

WOMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING, COOKING DELTONA NEIGHB ON TRIAL
Much of Deltona limo driver’s body wasn’t recovered

By Frank Fernandez

The Daytona Beach News-Journal
December 3, 2014

DELAND — James Sheaffer's head has never been found. And only 56 of the Deltona limo driver's 206 bones were recovered, a medical examiner testified at the trial of the woman accused of killing him.

Angela Stoldt, 42, who charged with first-degree murder in the killing of James Sheaffer, 36, on April 3, 2013, sat next to her defense attorney and betrayed no emotions as the grisly details were recounted.

After the killing prosecutors say Stoldt cut up Sheaffer's body and first tried to cook it to conceal it then bagged the remains and dumped them in several places.

Stoldt is accused of first drugging Sheaffer, then driving him to the Osteen cemetery. That's where Prosecutor Ryan Will told a jury in Circuit Judge Randell H. Rowe III's courtroom that she stabbed a sleeping Sheaffer in the eye and then strangled him with a cord. Then she stabbed him in the other eye.

“You'll hear that when he stopped moving that she pulled the ice pick out of his eye and she jammed it in his other one just to be sure, her words not mine,” Will said.

Stoldt then wrapped Sheaffer's head in plastic, which she had bought at Wal-Mart along with some rubber gloves, just hours before the killing, Will said. She wrapped his head in plastic and drove back home, Sheaffer's body in the front seat, ice pick still in one eye.

Sheaffer, who had three children with his girlfriend and also a stepson, lived across the street from Stoldt in Deltona. Sheaffer had asked Stoldt to be the payee on his Social Security benefit checks but he kept overdrawing the account, which angered Stoldt, Will said.

So Stoldt stole some of her father's prescription-only muscle relaxant medicine, prosecutors said, then she picked up Sheaffer from his job and drove him to her house where she served him an alcoholic drink spiked with the drug, a combination that could have put him to sleep.

She told him to come with her to her parents' house where she would get some money to put in the overdrawn account.

“She tricked Jimmy and led him to a place of seclusion and vulnerability,” Will said. “Instead of going to get the money she drove him to the cemetery in the middle of the night.”

Stoldt had the ice pick and a cord in the backseat of her car. Stoldt told the police that she killed Sheaffer during a fight but she told her family that she ended his life as he slept, Will said.

Then she drove to her garage and she cut up Sheaffer's body using knives and a saw. She moved the body from her garage to her kitchen.

“She took him into the house piece by piece. ... The very same house she shares with her two teenage children and she cooked him in her oven and stove. She started with the oven but when the smoke and smell became unbearable she realized that she might get caught.”

So she took the body parts and put them in pots and boiled them, a foot, a leg, arms, Will said.

Stoldt told her family that she had hit a deer and asked them to help her get rid of it, Will said. So Stoldt and her two children went out and spread the body and his possessions throughout the county.

“She cooked him on Thursday and you'll hear her say she trashed him on Friday, Will said.

Sheaffer's head and torso were not found, testified Dr. Marie Herrmann, the medical examiner for Volusia County.

She also testified that she would not expect to find a lot of blood in Stoldt's car if Sheaffer had been stabbed in the eye, because there would not be a lot of bleeding. Will said that no blood was found in her car.

Herrmann testified that among the things recovered was a soup pot containing Sheaffer's thigh bone, knee cap and some soft tissue.

Angela Stoldt's sister, April Leach, testified that Stoldt told her and other family members that Sheaffer became angry and threatened to kill her when she told him she was going to close their bank account. She said she got behind Sheaffer and strangled him with the climbing device.

Stoldt asked how much time she had before Leach would call police. Leach said she told her sister she was going to call immediately.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ice pick? I haven't seen an ice pick in 25 years. It had to be an antique.