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Florida woman accused of cooking neighbor to hide evidence

Nov 19, 2014

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


A Florida woman is accused of cooking her neighbor after strangling and dismembering him in order to hide evidence, authorities said.

According to reports, Angela Stoldt tried to cremate her neighbor's body by putting several body parts in an oven and in pots on the stove. When that didn't work, she put his body parts in bags and threw them in the trash, authorities said.

The report stated that Stoldt's house "smelled of burning flesh." She told her daughter the smell was just a rat broiling in the oven.

Officials said a grand jury in Daytona Beach last week upgraded Stoldt's charges to first-degree murder from second-degree murder in the death of her neighbor, James Sheaffer.

Law enforcement officials said Stoldt relied on Sheaffer for money, although their relationship was platonic, and that money was the motive for the killing.

Stoldt is being held without bail.

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