I've read just about all of the stories on this thread at one time and had seen that she mentioned "self defense" being a motive. I found an "older" (9/2014) article from
Daily Mail online. It's a British paper/website. While some of their content can be somewhat tabloid-ishy, you get a slightly different slant (and sometimes much more info) on stories that happen in the USA.
This story mentions her planning to use that "
Stand Your Ground" statute in her case!!!
I really don't think George Zimmerman should have gotten off Scot-free for killing Trayvon Martin, which is one of the big cases where SYG was mentioned. He shot an (unarmed) stranger "creeping around" his neighborhood.
Like I said, shooting him wasn't called for, but it actually makes a hell of a lot more sense to bring the SYG law into the situation. That being that he didn't drug Martin, poke his eye out, try to cook him, etc.
If those SYG laws are to be anything but an embarrassment to where they're applicable, they definitely shouldn't apply past the "poke the eye out" part of the crime. Much less the cooking part.
Florida mother-of-two who stabbed neighbor to death with an ICE PICK in the eye claims 'stand your ground' self-defense
(
Daily Mail Online, UK 9/2/2014)
A Florida woman accused of stabbing her neighbor in the eye with an ice pick and then strangling him to death is claiming self-defense under the state's controversial 'stand your ground' law.
Angela Stoldt, of Deltona, has been charged with second-degree murder in the April 2013 killing of 36-year-old James Sheaffer.
Even after he was stabbed in the face, according to the defense, Sheaffer kept coming at Stoldt, who was in fear for her life.
At least 22 states, among them Florida, have laws on the books that allow that 'there is no duty to retreat (from) an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present.'
These laws generally cancel a person's duty to retreat in the face of a serious physical attack.
The 2012 Florida shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman sparked debate over 'stand your ground' laws around the country.
‘She grabbed the first thing she could, which was an ice pick, to protect herself. The ice pick was in a box of camping supplies that was in the backseat of her car behind her,’ the motion stated.
The mother of two plunged the sharp instrument into Shaeffer's eye, but the man allegedly kept coming at her.
The woman, described as fearful for her life, grabbed a cord, wrapped it tightly around the man's neck and continued pulling until he stopped attacking her.
Ms Stoldt then covered Sheaffer’s head with Saran Wrap and disposed of his body.
In an earlier post, I said she was acting like a "serial killer" rather than someone upset about money. I should have been more specific and said "
movie serial killer." And not even a regular movie murderer. What she did was something
Jason Voorhees or
Freddy Kruger would try to do, and they're not really even regular "human beings" in their movies!
What she's done is actually more like something from
Cannibal Holocaust (still banned in parts of the world 35-yrs after its release) or
Cannibal Ferox (which was released with much fanfare as "
Make Them Die Slowly" here in the US).
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I guess when you're at a loss for (sensible) words, you can't help but to rant whatever comes to mind.