Florida Woman Charged With First-degree Murder After STABBING MOTHER MULTIPLE TIMES
A 37-year-old lady from Florida was arrested last week for the “gruesome” stabbing death of her elderly mother in Bay County.
According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were alerted to a woman “appearing to be in distress” while wandering along US 231 on Wednesday. The deputy who spoke with Tiffany Braddock claimed that she “began making statements to him that she had killed her mother at their shared home.”
Deputies did a welfare check at the home and discovered 73-year-old Elizabeth Braddock deceased “with signs of foul play.”
“We made entry into the house and discovered a female, Elizabeth Braddock, deceased,” Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford told WJHG. “There are obvious indicators of foul play. “Pretty gruesome scene.” According to Ford, Braddock admitted to deputies “her involvement in the death of her mother.”
According to Law&Crime, deputies saw Braddock roaming along the roadway, “speaking to herself and swinging her arms around,” two days after killing her mother and leaving her lying on a recliner in the home.
The deputy who responded to the Braddocks’ home “observed the front door to be cracked open, with the victim sitting in a recliner deceased with multiple stab wounds,” according to the affidavit.
Braddock told authorities in an interview that she stabbed her mother with a hunting knife on Monday but “did not believe the victim to be deceased, so she stabbed the victim several more times.”
Deputies discovered the weapon while executing a search warrant.
“The defendant stated she murdered her mother because the mother was abusive to her,” officers wrote in the affidavit. “The defendant stated the victim was abusive due to the victim using curses on her, but did not define any form of physical violence.”
Braddock reportedly claimed she had planned to kill her mother for two years and that the murder was “premeditated.”
“The defendant stated she did not have remorse and was laughing while describing how she murdered the victim,” according to the declaration.
Braddock is accused of first-degree murder and is being held without bond, according to jail records.