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A blood-smudged Florida woman suspected of murder accrued additional charges after she asked police for a soda, then "poured it all over herself" in an attempt to scrub forensic evidence from her body, Daytona Beach police said.
Nichole A. Maks, 35, was charged with tampering with evidence and resisting arrest with violence and premeditated first-degree murder in the death of 79-year-old Michael Cerasoli on Aug. 5, per a probable cause affidavit shared with Fox News Digital by police.
Firefighters were called to a smoldering home on the 600 block of Clark Street at 1:46 a.m. on July 1. Clothes on the second floor had been set on fire, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office told Fox News Digital, but said that they had "no [additional] information on the arson investigation."
After quickly extinguishing the flames, first responders found Cerasoli lying facedown in a blood-spattered room. He had suffered blunt force trauma to the head and stab wounds to the torso, police said.