A Florida woman used cooking oil in one bizarre plot that left her boyfriend furious

Love makes people do crazy things, but this Florida woman took things way too far.

She thought she could get away with the perfect crime.

And a Florida woman used cooking oil in one bizarre plot that left her boyfriend furious.

Florida woman turns cooking oil into a weapon of revenge

When relationships go south, most people just pack their bags and leave.

But 38-year-old Natasha Killebrew of Bradenton had a different idea for dealing with her relationship problems.

On Monday night around 8:20 p.m., firefighters and police rushed to a scene on 9th Street West near 20th Avenue West that looked like something out of an action movie.

A Nissan Altima was completely engulfed in flames, and the fire was spreading dangerously close to a nearby apartment building.

“Police said witnesses reported that Natasha Killebrew was seen near the car,” according to the Bradenton Police Department’s report. “She was at the scene when police arrived and told officers the car belonged to her boyfriend, whom she lives with.”

The apartment that was nearly caught in the blaze was the same one where Killebrew and her boyfriend lived together.

That’s when things got really interesting.

Killebrew’s story kept changing as the flames went out

When police first questioned Killebrew about the blazing car, she played innocent and denied having anything to do with starting the fire.

But as anyone who’s ever watched a crime show knows, the cover-up is often worse than the crime itself.

“While Killebrew initially denied starting the fire, police said she ultimately claimed that she had thrown a lit cigarette near the car,” the police report stated.

A lit cigarette causing that kind of massive fire damage?

Even the officers weren’t buying that story.

So Killebrew tried again with an even more outrageous explanation.

“Police said Killebrew ‘changed her story again’ and told officers that she had doused herself and the car in cooking oil and also tried to set herself on fire,” according to the official police statement.

Now we’re getting to the truth of what really happened.

The cooking oil plot falls apart under investigation

Killebrew’s final story was that she had covered both herself and her boyfriend’s car in cooking oil before attempting to set everything on fire, including herself.

But there was one major problem with this dramatic tale of attempted self-destruction.

“Police said Killebrew did not have any burn marks on her body or clothing,” the report noted.

If someone really had doused themselves in cooking oil and tried to set themselves on fire, there would be obvious evidence on their body and clothes.

The fact that Killebrew was completely unharmed told officers everything they needed to know about her changing stories.

Body camera footage released by the Bradenton Police Department showed the devastating damage to the Nissan Altima, with “heavy fire damage throughout its interior.”

The car was completely destroyed, and the nearby apartment building came dangerously close to going up in flames as well.

Killebrew faces serious consequences for her cooking oil caper

Once firefighters extinguished the blaze and officers sorted through Killebrew’s multiple stories, she was taken into custody.

The Bradenton Police Department didn’t mince words about the situation, writing on Facebook: “Once the excuses were snuffed out, Killebrew was arrested and booked into jail.”

Killebrew now faces serious charges including arson and violation of probation, with one source also reporting domestic battery charges.

The arson charge alone is a serious felony that can carry significant prison time in Florida.

What started as a relationship dispute turned into a dangerous situation that could have resulted in serious injuries or even deaths if the fire had spread to occupied apartments.

Using cooking oil as an accelerant shows this wasn’t a crime of passion but a calculated act of revenge that put innocent neighbors at risk.

The Manatee County Jail now has one more resident, and one Florida man is looking for a new car and probably a new girlfriend.

Police haven’t revealed what led up to the incident, but whatever caused the relationship problems, burning down someone’s car definitely isn’t the solution.

This case serves as a reminder that when relationships go bad, it’s better to walk away than to reach for the cooking oil and matches.