One afternoon, a delivery driver called the police to report a Tallahassee woman who was seen dancing hysterically outside while naked. By the time the police arrived, the woman in question had led them to a grisly scene like that straight out of a horror film: her mother stabbed to death and her heart pulled from her chest.
No, this is not Creepypasta lore. This is real.
Tallahassee police said 58-year-old Earleen Tucker was a former certified nursing assistant who was looking after her mother, Lucille, who moved into her townhome after suffering various health issues. However, Tucker was known to have her own share of health issues with mental illness, her family told the cops. They said she was hospitalized almost three decades ago for mental illness. Though she was never given a diagnosis, she was suspected of having schizophrenia.
On March 6, officers responded to her home on Hartsfield Way. The delivery driver who reported her noted frenzied behavior saying Tucker tried to enter her vehicle while naked, per the Tallahassee Democrat. Tucker’s daughter also called the police saying she refused to go inside and put on clothes.
When officers approached Tucker, court documents say she was rambling to herself. Eventually, she began begging the police to take her into custody.
“I have committed a grievous crime,” she said just before leading them inside the home to a scene nothing could’ve prepared them for.
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“Once inside the residence, Earleen stood over an apparent human organ, which was on the ground approximately 6-8 feet in the residence past the front door,” the probable cause affidavit says. “Earleen began breathing heavily and grunting as the officer asked her what that was.”
One officer stayed with her as another went to find clothes. After knocking on a closed bedroom door and asking if anyone was inside, the officer found Lucille Tucker’s body on a blood-soaked bed with “multiple sharp force injuries” to the middle of her chest. Police said her injuries were “consistent with an evisceration of the heart” and that the organ found on the living room floor was “confirmed to be the majority of a heart.”
According to court records, police found traces of blood in a bathroom sink, the hallway leading to her mother’s bedroom and on a knife found on a nearby dresser.
After taking Tucker down to the station, police said she talked to herself for hours in the interview room, confessing repeatedly to killing her mother and calling her a “sacrificial lamb,” per court documents.
Tucker is being held without bond at the Leon County Detention Facility. On March 8, she entered a conditional not guilty plea and is currently waiting for a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she’s competent for trial.