A daughter cut out her mother's eyes during a sickening drug-fuelled murder, according to police.
Camille Balla reportedly shouted: "I killed my mother and I need help", when officers arrived at the gruesome scene.
Deputies said the victim's eyes were found in a nearby cardboard box.
According to a police report, Balla also yelled at fire rescue officials: "I’m a murderer, I’m a murderer."
The 32-year-old is accused of gouging out the eyes of her mum Francisca Monteiro-Balla, who was found dead in the garage of a home in Florida, US.
She was found on a path behaving in a frantic manner, covered in blood.
"Both of her eyes had been removed from their sockets," Detective Mathew Orr wrote in the affidavit.
"Several feet away from the victim was a cardboard box which had the victim's eyes found on top."
Montiero-Balla had cuts all over her body following the brutal attack.
The mum had "several large, deep lacerations" to her body, "including her head, arms, chest, stomach and groin", say investigators, and there were also handwritten notes with religious-themed messages about clearing the soul at the scene.
Balla told Palm Beach County Fire Rescue she smoked marijuana she thought might be laced with designer drug flakka, or PCP, before the killing.
Balla reportedly mumbled, screamed, ran around and then fell to the ground, the report states, having already called a colleague and saying she may have killed her mum.
When that friend arrived and saw what had happened in the garage, the police were called in.
Investigators said they also found a blood trail in the living room, kitchen and into the garage.
The scene was littered with broken glass and pools of blood as if Balla kneeled over her mother, a detective wrote in the report.
The news channel said investigators have organised a lab test of marijuana found in the home.
Balla was taken to Palms West Hospital and treated for cuts on her hands and knees. She was then taken to St. Mary's Medical Center after screaming again.
Later, Balla was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and appeared before a judge Monday morning. She started screaming as she entered the courtroom and was removed, the news station said.
The judge ordered Balla to have a mental evaluation and is now being held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder.
In the past, she has been arrested in 2015 for driving under the influence and in 2014 arrested but not prosecuted for possessing marijuana.