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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 79 points 10 months 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 11 points 10 months ago

bedewed

TIL a word. This is masterful wordplay.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 75 points 10 months ago
[-] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Sarah Lynn?... Sarah Lynn...?

[-] SimplyChad@lemm.ee 47 points 10 months ago

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 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Holly Hill is arguably the worst zip code in Volusia County. We called it Holy Hell.

[-] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 7 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Thanks! I'll look out for that interview.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

Florida

Yup that right there is the problem

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 29 points 10 months ago

She poured diet Mountain Dew all over her body

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

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yup. Purples are best for general cleaning.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Lidl store brand blue raspberry energy drink works too

[-] Hector_McG@programming.dev 26 points 10 months ago

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

[-] p0ppe@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

Florida woman

[-] kingcarlosxiii@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

From one sticky situation to another.

[-] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

What a shockingly Florida headline

[-] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months 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.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Just Florida things

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] pm_me_your_trash@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] zik@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago

She really was in a sticky situation.

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago
[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

#LetFloridaSink

[-] epsilonneighbor@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Brawndo has electrolytes.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Sguilly@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

In another life she would have been a keeper.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] Im14abeer@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Kim Deal nooooo

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] LexaMaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Florida meeting those expectations, without fail. As usual.

[-] Blademax@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

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

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