Earleen Tucker: Florida woman killed her mother because 'she was mean to me'

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA: A 58-year-old Florida woman has been detained on suspicion of brutally murdering her own mother, severing the old woman's heart, and hiding it in the hallway for authorities to discover.

According to court documents, Earleen M Tucker was detained last week and charged with one count of first-degree murder in the death of her mother Lucille Tucker.

Earleen Tucker admitted to committing a grievous crime

A probable cause affidavit states that on March 6, at approximately 1:15 pm, Tallahassee Police Department officers were called to a home in the 2300 block of Hartsfield Way in reference to a naked woman who was reportedly trying to enter a delivery driver's car outside the building.

The dispatcher received a second call from someone claiming that the nude woman was their mother and that she was refusing to come inside and change into clothes.

First responders found the woman, later identified as Earleen Tucker, still nude outside her townhouse when they arrived. She "began rambling about ‘free will’ as officers attempted to coax her into the residence to put clothes on," according to the police.

Soon after, Earleen Tucker said, "I have committed a grievous crime," and asked the police to take her to the police station. Then she consented to change into a robe inside.

She "“stood over an apparent human organ" that was on the ground about eight feet inside the door, according to the officers who escorted her inside the house.

Earleen Tucker is reported to have started "breathing heavily and grunting" when police questioned about what it was.

At that moment, an officer searching a room for clothes discovered a woman, subsequently identified as Lucille Tucker, dead from what appeared to be a chest injury.

Earleen Tucker, according to the police, "laughed nervously" after settling down on the couch and started talking nonstop. She declared, "It cannot end, it will not end," according to the affidavit, Law&Crime reported.

“The saga will continue, people, until I am in a jail cell. I have to be in prison for my actions,” she further added.

Earleen Tucker worked in healthcare, and Lucille moved in with her at the Hartsfield Way house because her health had been deteriorating, a family member told the police.

Earleen Tucker arrested for the murder of her mother

The family member also disclosed that Earleen Tucker had been hospitalized for mental health problems approximately thirty to forty years prior, and that she had been hospitalized again for similar problems approximately fifteen years ago.

Detectives said that Earleen "mostly rambled" during an interview at police headquarters before stating that she "could not speak with a White man, but would tell anything to a Black person."

The interview was then taken over by a Black detective. “During that interview, Earleen told (the detectives) she had discovered through investigation that she was a White woman and she could not give up power and control to a Black man,” the affidavit states.

“Earleen then spontaneously uttered, ‘I killed my mother.’ Earleen continued to ramble about killing her mother, saying she was a ‘sacrificial lamb’ and that she was ‘going to die in there with her.'”

Later on in the interview, she is said to have confessed a second time. “I murdered my mom in that house,” she said, per the affidavit. “She was mean to me but I didn’t care. I loved her black color but she didn’t love mine.”

Earleen Tucker reportedly made a statement about "cutting out her mother's heart to inspect it" and then talked to herself "almost non-stop for hours" after the police formally placed her under arrest.

Authorities subsequently verified that Lucille Tucker's heart was the organ discovered inside the house. On Friday, March 8, Earleen Tucker showed up in court and entered a not guilty plea.

She is being held without bond at the Leon County Detention Facility right now. It was not immediately clear when her next court date would be.