Remove and Stake

All Stefan has to do at this point is remove Stefan's ring and leave him out in the sun (or stake him quickly, just to ensure no slip-ups).

Source: Series / The Vampire Diaries
In a deliberate version, powerful members of the Setite clan in Vampire: The Masquerade can remove their hearts and store them for safekeeping, which prevents the automatic paralysis that results from a stake through the heart (unless an enemy can find where the heart is being kept).

Source: Organ Dodge
In reality, they've already found the murder weapon, and thus just have to stake out the place along the freeway where it was found and wait for the killer to show up and try to remove it before the police can find it.

Source: Bluffing the Murderer

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