Virginia psychopath douses friend in gasoline then sets her on fire as she watched TV on couch

A Virginia pistillate has been arrested aft allegedly dousing her person successful gasoline and mounting her connected occurrence portion she relaxed connected a couch. 

Savannah Adams, 28, is accused of sidesplitting Tiffany Dunford, of Wythe County connected Sunday, successful the horrific incident, according to police. 

Dunford, a mother-of-two, was sitting connected an outdoor sofa astatine her location successful Max Meadows erstwhile Adams - a household person - allegedly drove up, covered the pistillate successful gasoline, acceptable her ablaze and drove off, constabulary said. 

When the Wythe County Sheriff's Office arrived astatine the scene, they discovered Dunford 'suffering from terrible burns covering astir of her body.' 

She was airlifted to a adjacent infirmary wherever she died from her injuries the pursuing day. 

It is unclear precisely wherefore Adams murdered Dunford successful specified a heinous manner, but a mates radical adjacent to Dunford posted astir Adams allegedly hacking 1 of her household members connected Facebook. 

The sheriff's bureau reached retired to the nationalist for assistance uncovering Adams, on with an representation of the metallic 2004 Dodge Neon she fled the country in. 

The section besides shared an aged mugshot of Adams, arsenic she was arrested aggregate times successful the past, according to tribunal records reviewed by WDBJ. 

She was taken into custody connected Monday and has been charged with attempted first-degree execution and felonious assault. 

It is unclear precisely wherefore Adams murdered Dunford successful specified a heinous manner, but a mates radical adjacent to Dunford posted astir Adams allegedly hacking 1 of her household members connected Facebook. 

A charred sofa and different burnt items were recovered astatine the transgression scene. 

Dunford's loved ones shared their unimaginable grief pursuing her tragic death. 

Nancy Reyna, the victim's cousin, told WFXR Dunford 'could airy up a room' and that she 'didn't deserve' to beryllium burned to death. 

'Anybody that knew Tiffany, she could airy up a room, and whether she was successful the close oregon wrong, I don’t care, I inactive loved her, but she didn’t merit to beryllium burned.

'Tiffany is excessively bully of a person, and this is devastating to maine and my family,' Reyna added. 

Reyna noted that her precocious relative loved the outdoors and animals, and was idiosyncratic who would ever assistance others. 

'She meant similar a sister to me. Everybody ever said maine and my relative looked alike, and I cognize the Lord’s looking implicit her present and she’s not suffering successful pain,' she said. 

Another person took to Facebook and said: 'I miss you truthful overmuch tiff.. words volition ne'er beryllium capable to explicate however overmuch you meant to truthful galore people. You touched galore souls, you made an interaction connected radical that volition everlastingly beryllium cherished.' 

'Every azygous clip I saw you, you were smiling. You ever knew however to marque my Caramel Macchiato conscionable perfect! And you were ever blessed to bash it!,' wrote different loved one. 

This is not Adams' archetypal run-in with the instrumentality arsenic she has been deed with insignificant postulation charges, trespassing and a caller battle charge, records showed. 

She was released connected enslaved for allegedly assaulting a idiosyncratic with a metallic tube successful 2023, Law & Crime reported. 

'Savannah was trying to termination me,' the unfortunate reportedly said of Adams, according to tribunal documents, reviewed by the Bristol Herald Courier.   

The repetition offender is presently being held without enslaved astatine New River Valley Regional Jail, according to the Wythe County Sheriff's Office. 

If recovered blameworthy of the people 2 felonies, Adams could beryllium locked up for 20 years to beingness successful prison, and look a $100,000 fine. 

She is owed successful tribunal connected January 31.   

DailyMail.com contacted the Wythe County Sheriff's Office.