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A Volusia County woman suspected of killing her 79-year-old roommate allegedly doused herself in soda in an attempt to erase possible evidence on her body, according to an arrest affidavit.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Her DNA was later found on the handle of a bloody knife found lying next to the victim's body at the Daytona Beach home they shared, the affidavit stated.

And she would have gotten away with it if she'd bedewed the knife!

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

bedewed

TIL a word. This is masterful wordplay.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Apparently, she wouldn’t have had time since she bedewed herself AFTER she got arrested!

[-] SimplyChad@lemm.ee 41 points 2 years ago

Not to dox myself but it’s always nice to see news about my home town as a reminder to never return

[-] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I have also been much happier since I left the Salt Life behind. Desantis can keep it.

You should throw in some untrue details about your location from time to time, just to throw off the scent.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From the beginning of the 2009 Dunning-Kruger paper Unskilled and unaware of it:

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from surveillance cameras were broadcast on the 11 o'clock news. When police later showed him the surveillance tapes, Mr. Wheeler stared in incredulity. “But I wore the juice,” he mumbled. Apparently, Mr. Wheeler was under the impression that rubbing one's face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to videotape cameras (Fuocco, 1996).

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There was also the guy who robbed a bank after he paid a wizard to make him invisible, and he was pretty mad at that wizard when he found out the invisibility spell was bunk.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

This is the best reference possible. Btw, you can hear either Dunning or Kruger (can't remember which) on an ep of the You Are Not So Smart podcast, which I no longer listen to, but it's an interesting interview.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I'll look out for that interview.

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 26 points 2 years ago

She poured diet Mountain Dew all over her body

Everyone knows that this is a job for Diet Double Dew.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know, I would choose Voltage for cleaning up a crime scene. Blue things clean better.

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No, that's just for cleaning windows, you nincompoop.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yup. Purples are best for general cleaning.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Lidl store brand blue raspberry energy drink works too

[-] Hector_McG@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

Just because it tasted like bleach doesn’t mean it’s going to clean up like bleach.

[-] p0ppe@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

Florida woman

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Florida

Yup that right there is the problem

[-] kingcarlosxiii@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Don’t do the dew if you can’t do the time…

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What the...reads Florida...ahh...

[-] addie@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

DNA evidence being all the blood that she was covered with when the police caught her wandering around barefoot with a knife and hammer, outside a burger joint at half three in the morning? I’m sure that if she’d just had a moment longer to rinse it off, then her cast-iron ‘I usually carry stuff like that’ defence would have worked, and she wouldn’t have had to start fighting the police. So close to being the perfect crime.

[-] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

What a shockingly Florida headline

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

#LetFloridaSink

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] pm_me_your_trash@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah only blue works I thought everyone knew that...

[-] epsilonneighbor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Brawndo has electrolytes.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Just Florida things

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

tampering with evidence

I mean, attempted tampering with evidence…

edit: j/k she also tried to burn the house down. That will get rid of evidence.

[-] zik@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

She really was in a sticky situation.

[-] Sguilly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

In another life she would have been a keeper.

[-] Im14abeer@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

In her defense, she saw what it had done to her teeth, destroying DNA is a logical progression.

[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Kim Deal nooooo

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago

That's not how the verification can works, you have to dance for it.

[-] LexaMaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Florida meeting those expectations, without fail. As usual.

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, why am I not surprised it's Florida. ಠ_ಠ

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mmmeth kills you and the ones around you.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm, lil suspicious that scientists haven't come out with tests to disprove this theory

[-] Cantankerousnuts@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Is Mugshawtys on Mastodon yet?

[-] SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"Roommate," lol, she was probably banging the old guy as rent so she could stay at his place. I've seen that arrangement way more than once.

[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Dewderella claims another victim

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