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Bizarre News - November 19, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros:I was going to tell you a story about a New Jersey cop who liked to pull motorists over so he could show them his junk, but then I saw the following nightmare-inducing report of a Florida murderess.
42-year-old Angela Stoldt of Deltona, Florida is accused of killing her neighbor, a limousine driver named James Sheaffer, last year.
According to court documents, Sheaffer had come to Stoldt's house to discuss a delinquent loan he had taken from her father. The discussion apparently was not going well, so Stoldt served Sheaffer a cocktail of vodka and peach schnapps, laced with her father's prescription muscle relaxer.
It was after the drugs and alcohol made Sheaffer drowsy and confused that Stoldt took him to Osteen Cemetery. You have to think that she had something in mind by this point.
At the cemetery the argument became violent. Sheaffer began swinging his arms and yelling, so Stoldt stabbed him in the eye with an ice pick. Seems reasonable.
That didn't quite do the trick, so she strangled him with a cord. Hey, I have always been an advocate of keeping emergency supplies in my car.
While brutal, this murder is no more unusual or inhuman than hundreds of other murders that occur all over the country every year, but what she did next is.
It would seem like leaving the body in the cemetery would be a no-brainer, but Stoldt was more than a little obsessed with getting rid of the body.
At first, she placed the body in a baby pool in her garage. The next day she took a hacksaw to her neighbor's body and tried to cook away evidence. One leg went in the oven. Other parts went into pots.
Stoldt's house smelled of burning flesh, but she assured her daughter it was just a rat broiling in the oven, which apparently is something people in Deltona do.
"Thursday is when I was cooking him," Stoldt told investigators. "Friday is when I was dumping him."
Three weeks after the death, Stoldt showed up suicidal at her parents' house confessing to the killing. It was Stoldt's sister who called authorities and led investigators to further question her.
She is being held without bail in Daytona Beach.
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Email Lewis* Police: Woman fled through hospital ceiling *ALBUQUERQUE (UPI) - Police in New Mexico said a woman accused of possessing a stolen truck attempted to escape custody through the ceiling of a hospital room. New Mexico State Police said Shylen Salazer, 34, was arrested alongside a male suspect Tuesday when they were found near a stolen vehicle and while in holding Salazer told officers she had swallowed drugs and needed medical attention. Salazer, who was found to be concealing a pipe in her bra, was taken to Presbyterian Hospital, where she was found to be missing later in the evening. Police searched the hospital for about an hour before discovering Salazer was hiding in the ceiling of her hospital room. Salazer, who police said admitted to possessing the stolen truck for nearly two months, was charged with escape and receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle.
*-- Florida man unsuccessfully resists arrest by hugging tree --*GREENACRES, Fla. (UPI) - A man in South Florida was arrested Thursday for multiple crimes, including resisting arrest when he latched onto a nearby tree, according to authorities. Police say Homer Stacey, 50, acted feisty and confrontational when officers arrived at his home in response to a disturbance, The Palm Beach Post reports. An arrest report suggests that Stacey claimed he would cause problems and that he would get his friends to help. At least one family member told police that the suspect was drunk, to which Stacey admitted. After Stacey yelled at one officer, police attempted to arrest him, but he held onto a nearby palm tree and reportedly yelled, "You're not going to [expletive] take me!" Police used a taser on the suspect's ribs. He let go of the tree and was apprehended, but not before trying unsuccessfully to tackle one officer. "If you take these cuffs off me, I'm going to kill you!" Stacey said as he was put into a patrol car, police said. The Greenacres resident was booked into jail and charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and threatening an officer.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Dear Lewis; Good idea. Maternity leave should be included along with food and health care. Unfortunatly, this would trigger tax raising for politicians that don't need the extra money.
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If you equate "Maternity leave" with incarceration, then, yeah.]
China is busy trying to cut their birth rate by allowing only one child per woman. It seems the USA is intent on giving us more kids to drive us nuts. And the kids; once they reach school, are medicated so they will sit lethargically at their desk. Anything so they don't make noise or (God forbid) act like kids.
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China has over a billion people. They can't afford all of them. It's either one child per woman or go to war with Mongolia. Plus, the birth rate in the U.S. is below replacement level (for most demographics).]
Hey Lewis, you don't exaggerate much do you? The cases you described for anti-abortion are certainly not the usual. The law is murky at best. I used to be pro-abortion until I saw, with my own daughters, people using abortion as birth control. -Patty
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I made that very comment. That was not the point I was trying to make. The point is that people should not be criminalized for their health choices.]
Just read your article (Nov 15) about Abortion laws in various states putting pregnant women in 'detention' or forcing operations on them and that WAS pretty Bizarre, Lewis. On one hand people vote for the government to make laws supposedly to protect us but on the other hand we want less government to control our lives. I was confused before but this article really confused me even more.
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Maybe it is because government is supposed to protect our freedom.]
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