- Angela Stoldt, 42, confessed to killing limo driver James Sheaffer, 36, in April 2013 by stabbing him in the face and strangling him with a cord
- She then dismembered the slain man with a hacksaw and knife and tried to dispose of remains by cooking some of them in pots and in the oven
- She showed no remorse as she was sentenced Friday to life in prison
- Stoldt's lawyer claimed in September that she killed Sheaffer in self-defense because he attacked her and threatened to kill her
- The prosecution said it was premeditated and followed a money dispute
- Only 56 of Sheaffer's 206 bones were recovered
- Police never found his head or torso
- Stoldt's sister turned her into police after she became suicidal
A
Florida mom convicted of cooking her neighbor after stabbing, strangling
and dismembering him following an apparent money has been sentenced to
life in prison.
Angela
Stoldt, 42, will now die behind behind bars after being sentenced in
Volusia County on Friday, but showed no remorse as the decision was
handed down.
Authorities
say Stoldt tried to cremate 36-year-old James Sheaffer's body in April
2013 by putting several body parts in an oven and in pots on the
stove, including a foot, a leg and both arms.
When
that didn't work, she put his body parts in bags and had her teenage
children help her scatter them in different places near their home in
Deltona, telling them she was trying to dispose of a deer she had hit
with the car.
Life in prison: Angela Stoldt, 42, of
Deltona, showed no remorse in court Friday as she was sentenced to life
for murdering, dismembering and disposing neighbor James Sheaffer, 36,
following a dispute about money
Gruesome
murder: Angela Stoldt, 42 (left), stabbed neighbor James Sheaffer, 36
(right), with an ice pick, strangled him and then tried to dispose of
his body by hacking it to pieces and cooking the remains
Crime scene: Stoldt got into an argument with Sheaffer while sitting in her car at the Osteen Cemetery in Deltona in April 2013
The
prosecution say Stoldt drugged her neighbor Sheaffer before driving him
to Osteen Cemetery in Deltona, stabbing him in both eyes with an ice
pick, and choking him with a cord.
In
September, Stold's attorney filed a motion claiming self defense under
Florida's controversial 'stand your ground' law, but Judge Randell Rowe
III rejected the motion.
Court documents obtained by Daytona News-Journal previously
showed Sheaffer, a married father of three, had asked Stoldt to act as
the payee on his Social Security disability benefits, but he kept
overdrawing their joint account.
He also wanted Stoldt to ask her father for a $4,000 loan.
Stoldt relied on their financial relationship for money, but the two were platonic.
On
the morning of April 3, 2013, Stoldt, with her two children in tow,
picked up her neighbor from his work at Blue Diamond Limousines and
drove to her home on Horseshoe Terrace, where the two drank vodka and
peach schnapps cocktails.
But
according to court filings, the mother of two spiked her neighbor's
beverage with a prescription pain medication, which she had stolen from
her father knowing that it causes drowsiness, especially when mixed with
alcohol.
Stoldt
then allegedly loaded the drugged man into her car and drove to the
Osteen Cemetery after dropping the kids off at her parents'.
Husband and father: Sheaffer, who was
married with three kids, was stabbed in the eye and then strangled;
police were never able to locate all of his remains
While
Stoldt had previously claimed Sheaffer 'came at her and said that he
was going to kill Ms. Stoldt as well as her children', according to her
strand-your-ground, Prosecutor Ryan Will told the jury she had planned
to kill Sheaffer all along.
She reached to the backseat for the ice pick and stabbed Sheaffer in the right eye.
She then grabbed a cord with two handles and used it to strangle Sheaffer by wrapping it tightly around his neck, Will said.
After the man stopped moving, the mother grabbed the ice pick again and drove it through Sheaffer's left eye.
She then wrapped the man's head in Saran Wrap to keep him from bleeding all over the car interior.
The News-Journal reported that Stoldt had bought the plastic, as well as rubber gloves, from Wal-Mart just hours before the killing.
She then drove home, with Sheaffer's corpse propped up in the passenger seat, the ice pick still protruding from his face.
Will said Stoldt then drove to her home and parked in the garage, where she cut up Sheaffer's body using a knife and a saw.
She then moved the body parts one by one into her kitchen.
Life and death situation: Stoldt's
attorney filed a motion claiming that the woman was in fear for her life
because Sheaffer was threatening to kill her and her two children
'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,' Will told the court.
Thats when Stoldt allegedly began boiling some parts on the stove.
Sheaffer's head and torso were not found, testified Dr. Marie Herrmann, the medical examiner for Volusia County.
However a soup pot was recovered that contained Sheaffer's thigh bone, knee cap and some soft tissue, Hermann testified.
Stoldt
dumped other mutilated body parts in trash bags and disposed of them
with the help of her teenage son, who was led to believe that they were
getting rid of a deer his mother had killed with her car the night
before.
To
cover up the murder, Miss Stoldt then buried her neighbor's cellphone
and driver’s license in different parks, and got rid of the pots and
pans used to boil human flesh.
When
Stoldt's daughter, who is now 16 years old, asked her about the foul
smell lingering in the house, the 42-year-old woman initially lied that a
rat had gotten trapped inside the oven.
But
she eventually came clean to the girl, telling her that she had drugged
and killed James Sheaffer after he threatened to kill her.
However,
it was not until three weeks later that Angela Stoldt confessed to the
rest of her family, prompting her sister to call 911 on April 21 because
she was afraid the distraught, sleep-deprived woman might commit
suicide.
In the course of her questioning, Miss Stoldt spoke without hesitation of her attempts to dispose of her neighbor's corpse.
'Thursday is when I was cooking him. Friday is when I was dumping him,' she was quoted as saying.
The woman showed little remorse for her actions, telling police she believed at the time Sheaffer was going to ruin her life.
‘I’m sorry, but I put Jimmie where he belonged, in my opinion at the time,’ she told detectives.
Ms
Stoldt eventually led sheriff's deputies to various locations around
Volusia County to help recover James Sheaffer's remains, but officials
said they were never able to locate all of Sheaffer's body parts.
Confrontation: Sheaffer, a limo
driver, allegedly attacked Stoldt while sitting in her car and would not
let go of her until she wrapped a cord around his neck
Investigators
who canvassed Sheaffer’s Deltona neighborhood looking for the missing
man before Stoldt’s confession had talked to the woman on more than one
occasion. She acknowledged being friends with Sheaffer and said she
handled some of his financial affairs for him.
She told investigators that she last saw Sheaffer on April 5 and 15, even though family members hadn’t seen him since April 2.
The
investigation took a turn April 20 when Stoldt’s sister called 911
saying that the mother of two was acting suicidal and had admitted to
killing James Sheaffer.
The caller told the Sheriff’s office that Stoldt was hugging her children and saying goodbye.
‘Why’s
she hugging her kids goodbye?’ the emergency dispatcher asked. ‘Because
she came to the house and she told my parents that she committed a
crime and that she’s being investigated for it,’ the woman’s sister
replied.
Ms
Stoldt initially declined to talk to investigators and was taken in for
a mental health evaluation. But officials were able to obtain a search
warrant to enter her house, where they came upon evidence indicating a
crime had been committed there.
A
short time later, Angela Stoldt confessed to stabbing and strangling
Sheaffer, and then disposing of his body. Stoldt then led investigators
to a location where human remains were recovered.
Ms Stoldt is being held without bail.
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