Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead Video

0:00the tragic end for Nikki Whitehead was the last chapter in a troubled difficult life she was literally born in prison

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9 secondsher mother doing time for drug possession Nikki was raised by her grandmother who had a tough time keeping her on the straight and narrow she

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18 secondsdidn’t have what you call a curfew nikki was able to come and go as you know she pretty much please at only 17 years old

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26 secondsNikki ended up pregnant with twins naming the girls tasmiyah and jasmiyah known as TAS and jazz for 12 years the

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36 secondstrio lived with Nikki’s grandmother that would be the girl’s great-grandmother but Nikki dreamed of giving her

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42 secondsdaughter’s a better life she definitely didn’t want them to go in the same direction that the path that she went

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52 secondsdown so Nikki and the twins moved about 20 miles away to Conyers Georgia the young mom made sure her girls had the

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1 minute, 1 secondadvantages that eluded her putting them in dance and music classes nothing but the best for her beautiful princesses

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1 minute, 8 secondsshe did they hair their makeup and you know it was just for Nikki when it came to her keys it was always a celebration

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1 minute, 17 secondsthe girls were also straight-a students with hopes of one day going to Harvard but their path to success was

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1 minute, 25 secondsdramatically diverted when the girls hit high school it was difficult for them to start hearing and accepting you know the

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1 minute, 34 secondsword know as Nikki became more Stern that’s just something that they couldn’t

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1 minute, 40 secondsthey couldn’t get used to Taz and Jaz bitterly resented their mothers discipline and soon the rage would boil

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1 minute, 49 secondsover when Nikki took away tosses cell phone when she let it be known that you know hey you cannot you know you 14 you

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1 minute, 56 secondscan’t talk to 17 year old guys and you know you can’t be on the phone at a certain time and you can’t stay out or

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2 minutes, 3 secondswhatnot that’s when I think it became a bad but it was clear Nicky was losing

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2 minutes, 10 secondscontrol listen to this frantic 9-1-1 call when she discovered jazz had snuck out in the middle of the night to meet

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2 minutes, 18 secondsher boyfriend – once sweet girls had suddenly morphed

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2 minutes, 29 secondsinto twin terrors officer Myra Scruggs responded to a call from Nicky after yet another blowout I talked with the girls

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2 minutes, 37 secondsat Great Lengths trying to figure out what was going on I actually went in the bedroom with the girls if they had a closet full of beautiful name brand

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2 minutes, 43 secondsclothes beautiful shoes their hair was immaculate I mean these girls really had a good home at the time the twins told

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2 minutes, 52 secondsthe officer they didn’t want to live with their mom and insisted on moving back with their great-grandmother where the rules were relaxed Nicky said they

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3 minutes, 1 secondjust wanted basically wanted their way and it just wasn’t going to happen but after interviewing Nicky Taz and

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3 minutes, 9 secondsjazz Scruggs says she had an unsettling feeling the girl seemed very innocent very sweet these are but the look in

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3 minutes, 17 secondsNikki’s face – she was fearful of those children she knew that they worked together after a few hours everything

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3 minutes, 25 secondsappeared to have calmed down the girls were just ready to okay we’re just gonna go to our rooms and we’re gonna go to bed and maybe what is called you know

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3 minutes, 33 secondstheir great-grandmother tomorrow we can go see her and they left it like it was all okay but officer Scruggs had a gnawing feeling that something just

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3 minutes, 41 secondswasn’t right instead of leaving the subdivision she stayed close I just knew it wasn’t over within I would say three

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3 minutes, 49 secondsor four minutes I could hear screaming coming from the direction of the house both of them jumped on her and the two of them began to beat her

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3 minutes, 58 secondsNicky manages to get away and calls 911 Scruggs rushed back to the house Nicky’s running out of the house with the

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4 minutes, 6 secondscordless phone in her hand hysterical I pulled up asked her what happened she said as soon as I left that the girls

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4 minutes, 14 secondshad attacked her taz and jazz tell an entirely different story the twin said that once they went back in the house after we left that

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4 minutes, 23 secondstheir mother became abusive with them told him that they were not going anywhere and started to beat them

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4 minutes, 30 secondsofficer Scruggs said the physical evidence clearly showed that Nikki was the victim she had scratches on her neck

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4 minutes, 37 secondsthe scratches on her chest and she was hysterical the girls on the other hand had no marks on them no indication that

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4 minutes, 44 secondsreally they had been in any kind of an altercation talking with them I didn’t believe a thing that the girls had said

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4 minutes, 52 secondseven more disturbing she recalls the girls eerie calm after the attacks you could have been two strangers and there

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5 minuteswould been more emotion shown this time Taz and jazz are taken into custody and charged they are in and out of court for

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5 minutes, 8 secondsyears and ordered along with their mother to undergo counseling it was a living hell for her only because the

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5 minutes, 15 secondskids did not want to be back with her family members knew the twins resented

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5 minutes, 22 secondsNikki but most chalked it up to the rebellious teenage phase but these mother/daughter spats are nothing compared to the next time the cops are

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5 minutes, 30 secondscalled to the house the girls are in an absolute panic as I was pointing out to get to the gate they only stopped me

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5 minutes, 39 secondssaying someone had killed her it was late in the day just after school went

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5 minutes, 47 secondsas and jazz returned home only to find their mother lying dead in a blood-soaked bathtub and a swirl of

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5 minutes, 54 secondsquestions who could have done such a horrendous act you walk in and what happened here to keep you know I’d seen a blood of the

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6 minutes, 3 secondsnew a house of strife has turned into a

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6 minutes, 12 secondshouse of horrors identical twin sisters have come home from school to find their

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6 minutes, 18 secondsmother brutally murdered cops say Nikki Whitehead was stabbed 80 times with a kitchen knife her spinal cord nearly

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6 minutes, 27 secondssevered when I walked in the front door it was the first time I’d ever been on something as horrific as that Nikki and

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6 minutes, 37 secondsher daughter’s had a history of arguments and trouble but it was unfathomable to think these two petite

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6 minutes, 44 secondssixteen year olds were capable of murder these are beautiful young girls very tiny little things they look harmless

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6 minutes, 52 secondsimmediately after the horrendous discovery the twins are consoled by police who are simply looking for

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6 minutes, 59 secondsanswers who would want Nikki dad cops

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7 minutes, 7 secondssoon learned the girls have a father the father you know he had already had a family he was married so that was

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7 minutes, 16 secondssomething else that she had to deal with but he’s got an ironclad alibi he was living in Canada at the time of the

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7 minutes, 23 secondsmurder then the girls themselves tell investigators that Nikki has two boyfriends was a love triangle what

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7 minutes, 32 secondssparked a murder she lived with Robert and she also had a boyfriend named Joe

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7 minutes, 38 secondsthe Twins had indicated that Robert had overheard her speaking to the other boyfriend on the phone and indicated

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7 minutes, 47 secondsthat Robert had confronted Nikki about the infidelity but as cops are tracking

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7 minutes, 55 secondsleads and long before detectives had Taz and jazz in a quiet interrogation room they noticed something odd on the drive

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8 minutes, 2 secondsto headquarters one of the twins we observed in the back of the am as we saw

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8 minutes, 8 secondsher bite her arm we stopped her and asked her hey what are you doing and she explained that she does that when she

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8 minutes, 17 secondsgets upset inside the room tasks can be seen on surveillance camera

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8 minutes, 23 secondsrocking back and forth comforting each other and even sharing a kiss you walked

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8 minutes, 31 secondsin and what happened

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8 minutes, 44 secondsdetectives try to comfort the sisters but then a startling comment takes

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8 minutes, 50 secondsdetective Kent Swift off guard these two girls were you know hugging each other and in each other’s arms and when I said

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8 minutes, 59 secondsyou know what can I do to make this easier for you they turned and looked at me and they said can we watch CSI and

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9 minutes, 9 secondsimmediately the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up essentially it was right then and it was like okay this

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9 minutes, 16 secondsis something was very very off and cops noticed something even more suspicious

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9 minutes, 25 secondsthe girl’s complete lack of empathy for their dead mother they would cry a lot but it was tearless crying when we would

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9 minutes, 34 secondsI would ask them to describe their mother they were very insulting of their mother during the interview detectives observed the twins are still wearing

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9 minutes, 42 secondsgloves I’m here but as they weave their story two cops

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9 minutes, 52 secondsback at the bloody crime scene investigators are uncovering physical evidence evidence yielding valuable

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10 minutes, 1 secondclues the Saints were completely clean and white we found shoes in there and their back

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10 minutes, 8 secondsof their closet and in tasses bedroom what could be the most macabre ease of

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10 minutes, 14 secondsthe murder puzzle I noticed there’s a a pair of brown boots that have a significant amount of blood on them and

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10 minutes, 22 secondsthey’re in a shoe box I found a a clump of hair which normally a clump of hair

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10 minutes, 32 secondsis insignificant in a female’s house simply because there’s hair everywhere but when that clump of hair has been

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10 minutes, 41 secondspulled out of somebody’s head and then has been wrapped in a napkin and stuffed into the toe of a shoe you begin to

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10 minutes, 50 secondsrealize that the twins we’re not telling us anything that was truthful investigators begin to realize it’s no

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10 minutes, 59 secondsformer boyfriend or husband who carried out this murder The Killers are right under their noses

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11 minutes, 9 secondsthe teenagers seem clueless or is it an act take a look at how Tazz looks directly at the surveillance camera

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11 minutes, 18 secondsknowing she’s being filmed giving an award-winning performance but the twins

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11 minutes, 32 secondslies begin to unravel further when detectives retrace their movements on

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11 minutes, 36 secondsthe day of the murder but surveillance

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11 minutes, 50 secondsvideo from a nearby gas station shows the twins didn’t walk to school that day they actually hitched a ride from a stranger

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11 minutes, 58 secondswe began catching them in in lies concerning their timeframes or their

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12 minutes, 4 secondsdetails they began to be very angry and would become argumentative and very uncooperative

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12 minutes, 12 secondsand the high school surveillance video shows the twins in the hallway hours after they told police they arrived at

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12 minutes, 19 secondsschool we were able to determine that they arrived there mid morning where they told us they were only about 10 minutes late for school

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12 minutes, 30 secondsdetectives separate the twisted inseparable teens putting them in different interrogation rooms being a

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12 minutes, 38 secondspart seems to wear them down

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12 minutes, 54 secondsunfortunately with only circumstantial evidence prior to testing what’s found in the home cops can’t hold the girls who are released to their

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13 minutes, 2 secondsgreat-grandmother for the next four months Tazz and jazz lead a normal life going to school hanging out with friends

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13 minutes, 11 secondseven attending prom meanwhile police are watching waiting and testing the

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13 minutes, 18 secondsevidence quietly building their case we found items in their closet that had

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13 minutes, 24 secondsblood on them and so when we were trying to distinguish whose blood you cannot determine between twins because they

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13 minutes, 32 secondshave the same DNA and then a startling clue almost as if it came from beyond the grave

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13 minutes, 39 secondsto Nikki’s credit she did not go down without a fight and she left evidence on one of her

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13 minutes, 47 secondsgirls as as a marker remember when cops saw ties biting her arm explaining it

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13 minutes, 55 secondsaway as a nervous habit detectives say she was trying to cover up Nikki’s bite mark on her arm

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14 minutes, 3 secondswe had a dental examination of Nikki’s teeth and they matched it to the bite on

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14 minutes, 9 secondsthe twin and autopsy results revealed another grim detail they found human

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14 minutes, 17 secondshair between Nicky’s teeth we would smile as that twin was behind Nikki and had her from around the front Nikki’s

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14 minutes, 25 secondsfighting for her life and bit her arm and that’s how the the hair became embedded in her teeth cops are quickly

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14 minutes, 33 secondszeroing in on what appears to be two Pretty Little Liars and on the last day of school before

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14 minutes, 39 secondssummer break with enough probable cause detectives arrest Taz at her home she’s cuffed and aggressively frisked then

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14 minutes, 48 secondspolice had to rock delhi to nab her sister jazz we decided we were gonna arrest them on the last day of school

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14 minutes, 56 secondsfor fear of they were going to take flight out of the country to avoid the charges the now evil twins are seen here

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15 minutes, 4 secondslooking defiant and arrogant in their mug shots are charged with felony murder and aggravated assault in their mother’s

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15 minutes, 12 secondsdeath now listen as their true natures are revealed on this police car

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15 minutes, 19 secondsrecording please marry with me Indian

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15 minutes, 26 secondsRiver coffee doughnuts the case looked

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15 minutes, 34 secondsto be a slam dunk but would they ever face trial or would they need to everything they said whether it had some

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15 minutes, 44 secondstruth or fiction and it had their self interest at heart identical twin sisters

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15 minutes, 51 secondsknown as Tazz and jazz are caught in a web of lies and incriminating evidence arrested for the brutal slaying of their

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16 minutesmother Nikki Whitehead you know I don’t believe anything they say everything they said whether it had some truth or

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16 minutes, 8 secondsfiction and it had their self-interest at heart the sixteen-year-old girls are hauled off to jail keep being silent about the

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16 minutes, 17 secondschilling crime but after nearly four years awaiting trial the twins finally come forward with a

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16 minutes, 23 secondsstunning admission outright confessing to the brutal attack and murder I think that people and I

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16 minutes, 33 secondsstabbed where did you stab her nothing else they understood it was a lot of times but

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16 minutes, 40 secondsthey got her hair kind of like a joint effort she was

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16 minutes, 50 secondsheavy water was told at some point time

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16 minutes, 57 secondsyou did realize that morning your mom’s death as part of a deal with the state to avoid trial Tazz and jazz pleaded

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17 minutes, 6 secondsguilty to voluntary manslaughter both were sentenced to 30 years in prison but the question remains what really

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17 minutes, 14 secondshappened that dark day by their account they were up to two or three o’clock in the morning they didn’t want to get up

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17 minutes, 21 secondswhen they were awakened to go to school for their by their mother and I think that’s what’s partly attacked the

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17 minutes, 29 secondsconfrontation and they killed their mother and then they spent a couple of hours fabricating parts of the crime

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17 minutes, 36 secondsscene and cleaning it up and then they went to school so they would have an alibi detectives say they found a

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17 minutes, 43 secondsjournal in the home it revealed a premeditated plan to murder their mother for some time and they would write back

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17 minutes, 51 secondsand forth to each other how much they just like their mother and even to the point that they said in their writings

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17 minutes, 58 secondsthat if they didn’t get rid of her soon they weren’t gonna be able to this was an act of rage it was the two girls had

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18 minutes, 8 secondsplanned for this event cops believe Nikki never stood a chance in the savage attack the bloody path even extends to

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18 minutes, 17 secondsoutside the home suggesting Nikki managed to get away but the girls dragged her back to the house to finish

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18 minutes, 25 secondsher off at some point Nikki escaped made it to that house next door when we interviewed that resident

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18 minutes, 32 secondshe recalled someone yelling and he heard someone ring his doorbell he was in bed

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18 minutes, 39 secondsat the time and he didn’t get up to go investigate I said we could see where Nikki’s bare feet exited and re-entered

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18 minutes, 47 secondsthrough that door in blood so we would surmise that she was pulled back into the house where the attack resumed

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18 minutes, 56 secondsback in the house the heinous assault continued the girl smashing their mother over the head with a pot stabbing her

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19 minutes, 3 secondswith a kitchen knife choking her with the ribbon of a medal then dragging her body into the tub where they left her to

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19 minutes, 11 secondsdie what does she say when she’s in the

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19 minutes, 13 secondstown I’m sure that their confession was

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19 minutes, 27 secondsself-interested they were looking out for themselves and had been coached by attorneys and they said enough to live up to their part of the plea by the time

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19 minutes, 37 secondsthey served their 30-year sentence the Twins will be in their 40s in the meantime jazz has traded in her

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19 minutes, 45 secondsjailhouse jumpsuit for a different uniform at least for a day she’s graduated high school in the slammer and

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19 minutes, 52 secondseven served as class valedictorian stayed up all night some days cleaning some things that gave me

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20 minutesand despite jazz and tasks admitting to slaughtering their own mother Nikki’s own grandmother the girl’s

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20 minutes, 7 secondsgreat-grandmother della Frazier is unbelievably beaming with pride at the accomplishments jazz is making while

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20 minutes, 15 secondsbehind bars I always wanted to see this

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20 minutes, 23 secondstake off that she graduated and moved on to things that she want to do in life

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20 minutes, 31 secondshow she is a very gifted carer fair and yet underneath the proud smile is a

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20 minutes, 40 secondscold-blooded killer part of an evil duo who viciously killed the very woman who gave them life she had fought for her

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20 minutes, 48 secondslife you know that her last few moments of life had to be horrible she was being

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20 minutes, 55 secondsmurdered by her own daughter’s twin daughters and that she fought for her life and lost but you try to get inside

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21 minutes, 5 secondsthe minds of jazzing tez whitehead we brought in forensic psychiatrist dr.

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21 minutes, 9 secondsDaniel barber doc thanks for being with us thanks Chris you ever see a case quite like this where you have twins good students active kids murder their mother

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21 minutes, 17 secondsChris this is a relatively rare phenomenon only about 2% of homicides are what we call Patra sites or cases where kids kill their parents and out of

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21 minutes, 25 secondsthat 2% only 15% are daughters that kill their parents the mother was stabbed some 80 times that’s sending a message

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21 minutes, 34 secondsyou know it’s interesting that you say that because the majority of the cases where daughters kill their mothers you see this quite often where there’ll be

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21 minutes, 41 secondsstabbing 60 70 80 times there’s just so much rage especially where the daughters kill their mothers are they able to be

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21 minutes, 48 secondsrehabilitated obviously will depend how they do when they’re in prison are there any violent episodes while they’re incarcerated but absent that I do think

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21 minutes, 56 secondsthat when they come back into society if they had the right supports there would be a good probability for rehabilitation doctor thank you very much for thanks

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22 minutes, 2 secondsChristopher J thank you