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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 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 1 year ago

bedewed

TIL a word. This is masterful wordplay.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago

That's methed up, man.

[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll look out for that interview.

[–] SimplyChad@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I stayed in Holly Hill for like a week....what a fucking shithole 😂

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

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Florida

Yup that right there is the problem

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She poured diet Mountain Dew all over her body

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

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Hector_McG@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] p0ppe@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Florida woman

[–] addie@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

What a shockingly Florida headline

[–] kingcarlosxiii@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Just Florida things

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Neck tattoos. A clear sign of a stable and smart individual.

[–] zik@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

She really was in a sticky situation.

[–] Sguilly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

In another life she would have been a keeper.

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Florida you say???

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What the...reads Florida...ohh...

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Kim Deal nooooo

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Blademax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Red Bull's what gives you Wings. She could have gotten away with it.

[–] LexaMaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Florida meeting those expectations, without fail. As usual.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

#letfloridasink

[–] Im14abeer@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mmmeth kills you and the ones around you.

[–] SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

Is Mugshawtys on Mastodon yet?

[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Dewderella claims another victim