Confessed Killer Angela Stoldt Gets Life For Stabbing, Dismembering, And Cooking Neighbor
Confirmed killer Angela Stoldt was sentenced this week for the murder and dismemberment of a next-door neighbor, the Daily Mail reports, adding that she will get life in prison. This isn’t the first time the Inquisitr has told you about her, but as a refresher, here are the details of the case.
In mid-November, Bradley Ryder reported that a grand jury in Daytona Beach upgraded Angela Stoldt’s second-degree murder charges to first-degree. The Florida woman confessed to killing James Sheaffer by strangling him, dismembering his body, and cooking his remains back in 2013.
Stoldt initially claimed self-defense and tried using the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law, but as the facts of the case became more horrific, it became apparent that wasn’t going to stand.
In early November, jury members heard new evidence for the first time of the woman’s confession. According to documents in the case, the man vanished on April 3 after dropping off a client in Tampa.
He was a limousine driver.
On that day, he went to the defendant’s home in Deltona, where she mixed him a fatal alcoholic cocktail, infused with prescription medication. Stoldt then drove the man to a cemetery where things took a fatal turn.
In September, when the case first came to light, Angela Stoldt alleged she and her kids had received death threats from Sheaffer. She said the victim “depended on her for financial support” and had “asked her to borrow several thousand dollars.”
During the loan discussion, an argument ensued.
Stoldt said she feared for her life and grabbed a nearby ice pick. During the fight, she stabbed Sheaffer in the eye, then grabbed a cord, wrapped it around his neck and strangled him. She wrapped his head in Saran wrap and when it was clear he was dead, she claimed that she panicked and “hatched the idea to dismember him” to dispose of evidence.
Angela Stoldt drove Sheaffer’s body to her home in Deltona and placed his corpse into a kiddie pool in the garage. The next day, she hacked him apart, separated the pieces into a second pool, and “tried cremating him” in the oven
Not surprisingly, the judge rejected this “Stand Your Ground” defense, which states that a person being attacked has no duty “to retreat (from) an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present.”
Angela Stoldt was spared the death penalty for confessing to the crime. Good punishment or too lenient?
