Murder Suspect Allegedly Tries To Wash Away DNA Evidence With Diet Mountain Dew After Death Of 79-Year-Old Roommate!

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A Florida girl is being accused of homicide within the stabbing loss of life of her 79-year-old roommate — and cops say she allegedly tried to scrub key proof off her physique with Diet Mountain Dew.

According to a number of media experiences, 35-year-old Nichole Maks has been booked into Volusia County Jail on a cost of first-degree homicide. The case has been percolating for some time; the homicide Maks is accused of committing occurred again in early July when cops found the physique of 79-year-old Michael Cerasoli in a Daytona Beach dwelling.

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First responders had been known as to a home fireplace on the night time of July 1, per FOX 35 News. After firefighters doused the flames, cops went in and situated the physique of a person later recognized as Cerasoli. He had been stabbed within the torso. Next to him within the room the place he died had been two cell telephones and a bloody knife, in keeping with CBS Miami.

Police began trying into Cerasoli’s recognized associates and acquaintances, and discovered that he’d been dwelling with Maks. Wanting to speak to her contemplating her roommate was simply murdered, cops tracked Nichole down the subsequent morning within the neighboring city of Holly Hill. There, they found Maks had each a hammer and a bloody knife in her possession, in addition to “blood on her leg,” in keeping with CBS Miami.

With their curiosity piqued, cops questioned Maks about her identification. She reportedly “gave conflicting answers” about who she was and the place she lived, in keeping with the police affidavit within the case as seen by WESH 2 News. When police advised the lady they’d take a look at her DNA to verify her identification, and that additionally they needed to check the supply of the blood on her leg, she requested police for a drink.

They handed her a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew, when — proper in entrance of the cops — Maks allegedly poured the soda onto her leg!!! Per the arrest affidavit, police say the Diet Mountain Dew bathe was “an attempt to wash the blood from her leg” earlier than assessments may very well be accomplished.

Thankfully, cops had been in a position to cease her earlier than she washed all of it off. They took swabs of the blood on Maks’ leg, and different blood on the knife deal with and blade that was in her possession when she was taken into custody. This week, testing got here again confirming that DNA from each Maks and Cerasoli had been on the knife, in addition to Cerasoli’s DNA within the blood on Maks’ leg.

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Now, Maks is being held with out bond within the Volusia County Jail. She has been charged with tampering with proof for her reported Diet Mountain Dew stunt, to go together with the first-degree homicide rap and a 3rd cost of resisting arrest with violence.

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