Deltona woman accused of cooking neighbor to hide evidence (with WYHI)

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DELTONA --

A Volusia County woman is accused of cooking her neighbor after strangling and dismembering him in order to hide evidence.

Angela Stoldt, 42, was arrested in April 2013 in connection to the death of her neighbor, 36-year-old James Sheaffer.

Volusia County deputies said last year that Stoldt confessed to stabbing and strangling Sheaffer.

According to new court documents, Stoldt tried to cremate Sheaffer's body by putting several body parts in an oven and in pots on the stove.

When that didn't work, Stoldt put the man's body parts in bags and threw them in the trash.

Stoldt and Sheaffer lived across the street from each other. Sheaffer was a limo driver, and the two had a financial agreement that stated Stoldt was listed as the payee on a joint bank account for despity of Sheaffer's Social Security disability checks.

According to the documents, Stoldt drugged Sheaffer by spiking his cocktails with a muscle relaxant and then drove him to a nearby cemetery. When at the cemetery, the two began talking about money. Stoldt told investigators that Sheaffer threatened to kill her, and she wasn't sure if he meant it.

"He starts coming at me and ... he didn't even really hit me, but he scared ... me, and I just snapped," Stoldt told investigators. "He came at me, and I stabbed him."

According to the documents, Stoldt stabbed Sheaffer in both eyes with an ice pick and used a grabbed a tree-climbing tool she made to strangle him. She then drove back to her home and cut the man's body up using a hacksaw the following morning, documents state.

A grand jury in Daytona Beach last week upgraded Stoldt's charges to first-degree murder. She was initially charged with second-degree murder last year.

She's currently being held without bond.

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