Kansas man, Eric Duane Newman, admits killing college professor girlfriend Tamara Tucker last year after he strangled her on a cruise ship and threw her body over the 13th floor balcony
Kansas man, 55, admits to killing his college professor girlfriend, two days after her 50th birthday, when he threw her over the balcony on a cruise ship, 30 miles off the Florida coastline
Eric Duane Newman Tuesday pled guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday in the January 2018 death of his longtime girlfriend Tamara Tucker
Newman of Kansas and his 50-year-old girlfriend were on a Carnival cruise from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Bahamas at the time
On Jan 18 , 2018, one day into their four-day cruise Newman said, the couple started arguing in their 13th deck cabin just before midnight
He said he strangled Tucker then pushed her over the cabin room balcony railing to the 11th deck
Tucker, a full-time faculty member in the social work department at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, died from blunt force trauma caused by the fall
Eric Duane Newman, [photo], pled guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday in the death of his longtime girlfriend Tamara Tucker aboard a Carnival Cruise ship on Jan 18, 2018
A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend by strangling her then pushing her over a balcony on a cruise ship off the coast of Florida last year.
Eric Duane Newman, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday in the January 2018 death of his girlfriend Tamara Tucker.
Newman and his 50-year-old longtime girlfriend, Tucker, were on a Carnival cruise from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Bahamas at the time.
The couple were staying in a cabin on the 13th deck.
Newman admitted during his plea hearing in federal court in Kansas that the couple started arguing in their cabin just before midnight on January 18.
He testified that he strangled Tucker then pushed her over the cabin room balcony railing to the 11th deck, causing fatal head injuries as she hit balconies below.
Eric Newman and his girlfriend Tamara Tucker [photo], were on a Carnival cruise from Jacksonville, Florida, to the Bahamas at the time of her death on Jan 18, last year
Newman admitted he strangled Tucker then pushed her over the cabin room balcony railing to the 11th deck. The couple started arguing in their 13th deck cabin that just before midnight, leading to the incident
Tucker [right], died from blunt force trauma caused by the fall over the ship’s balcony. Newman [left], and his long-term partner were on the four-day Carnival cruise from Florida to the Bahamas at the time murdered her
Tucker died from blunt force trauma caused by the fall.
Reportedly, there were “significant amounts of blood” around Tucker’s body, which was found two days after her 50th birthday.
At the time, the cruise ship was about 30 nautical miles from New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
In the months after her death and prior to being charged, Newman wrote on a Facebook group set up in Tucker’s memory: ‘I miss u more than u will ever know I hope some day soon we can be reunited. Love always and forever,’ he wrote.
Tucker was a full-time faculty member in the social work department at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, from 2012 to 2017 – An obituary stated she had one son. Newman is due to be sentenced on March 18, 2020.
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