Rebellious Teen Twins Kill Mother to Avoid School

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Welcome to No Tears.
For black girls.

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A true crime series created,
written and produced by

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award-winning writer Jon
Reedberg and hosted by Samantha

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Paul.
We begin today with a single mom

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in Georgia savagely murdered and
discovered by her twin teenage

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daughters in the bathtub.
The clues will lead detectives

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to the most surprising suspects
of all.

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Nikki Whitehead's tragic end was
the final chapter in a troubled

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life.
She named the girls Tasmaya and

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Jasmaya, Taz and Jazz for short.
For 12 years, the trio lived

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with Nikki's grandmother, but
Nikki wanted more for her

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daughters.
She worked long hours and saved

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up enough to move the girls to a
better neighborhood in Conyers.

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Nikki enrolled Taz and Jazz and
Dance and Music lessons,

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determined to give them
opportunities she never had.

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In 2000, 25 year old Nicky met
55 year old truck driver Robert

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Head.
Before long, she and the girls

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moved in with Head in Conyers,
GA Tasmia and Jasmaya were both

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honor roll students and Girl
Scouts.

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Their great grandmother, Della
Frazier, initially raised the

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girls.
Frazier said that Whitehead

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sporadically drifted in and out
of her children's lives.

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In 2007, when the twins were 13,
Whitehead requested custody of

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them.
Whitehead and the twins

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instantly clashed.
Frazier said that the twins

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viewed their mother's attempts
to control them as hypocritical.

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The conflicts devolved into
physical altercations that

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landed them in counseling and
juvenile court.

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Frazier regained custody only to
have Whitehead return it on

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January 5th, 2010.
The girls protested the

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decision, but the court ordered
them and their mother to live

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together for a two week trial
period.

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Fights erupted when Nikki set
boundaries, like taking away

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Taz's phone privileges.
You're 14, you can't talk to 17

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year old boys or stay out late.
Nikki lectured, but the girls

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saw it as a declaration of war.
Officer Myra Scruggs arrived

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after one of the many blowout
arguments at the house.

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She took in the girls designer
clothes, spotless rooms and well

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kept hair.
These girls had a good home,

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Scruggs observed, but Taz and
Jazz complained about their

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mom's rules and demanded to live
with their great grandmother

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instead.
After interviewing the family

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officer, Scruggs felt a dark
unease.

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The girls acted innocent and
sweet, but genuine fear

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flickered in Nikki's eyes.
She knew those girls meant

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trouble.
Together, Scruggs recalled, both

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girls had jumped, Nikki punching
and beating their mother.

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Nikki barely managed to escape
and redial 911 as Officer

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Scruggs raced back.
But Taz and Jazz spun a

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different story, accusing Nikki
of abusing them.

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The evidence told the real tale.
Deep scratches marred Nikki's

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neck and chest.
Not a mark showed on either

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girl.
I didn't believe a word out of

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their mouths.
Scruggs said.

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Even more chilling was the utter
lack of remorse the girls showed

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after brutally assaulting their
mother.

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The family chalked up the
conflict to a defiant teenage

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phase.
But those early arguments paled

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in comparison to the final 911
call from the Whitehead home.

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Tazz and Jazz had returned home
from school to find Nikki dead

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in a blood soaked bathtub,
stabbed over 80 times, her spine

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severed.
But as the case unfolded,

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suspicion shifted to the two
unlikely culprits, Nikki's own

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daughters.
Discovered by her twin teenage

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daughters in the bathtub.
And the clues will lead

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detectives to the most
surprising places of all.

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The tragic end for Nikki
Whitehead was the last chapter

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in a troubled, difficult life.
She was literally born in

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prison, her mother doing time
for drug possession.

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Nikki was raised by her
grandmother, who had a tough

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time keeping her on the straight
and narrow.

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She didn't have what you call a
curfew.

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Nikki was able to come and go as
she pretty much pleased.

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And at only 17 years old, Nikki
ended up pregnant with twins.

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She named them Tasmia and
Jasmia, known as Taz and Jazz.

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For 12 years, the trio lived
with Nikki's grandmother, but

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Nikki dreamed of giving her
daughters a better life.

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Nikki worked hard and eventually
the three moved about 20 miles

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away to Conyers, GA.
The young mother wanted her

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girls to have advantages that
eluded her, putting them in

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dance and music classes.
Nothing but the best for her

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baby girls.
She did their hair, their makeup

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and for Nikki, when it came to
her kids, it was always a

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celebration.
The girls were also straight A

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students with hopes of one day
going to Harvard, but their path

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to success was dramatically
diverted when the girls hit high

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school.
It was difficult for them to

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start hearing and accepting the
word no.

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Teenage Taz and Jazz bitterly
resented their mother's

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discipline.
The rage boiled over when Nikki

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took away Taz's cell phone.
When she let it be known that

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you're 14, you can't talk to 17
year old guys and you can't be

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on the phone at a certain time
and you can't stay out or

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whatnot, that's when I think it
became a battle.

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And it was clear Nikki was
losing control of her beautiful

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princesses.
Find your family one.

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Where's your emergency?
Just listen to this frantic 911

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call.
When she discovered Jazz had

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snuck out in the middle of the
night to meet her boyfriend, I.

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Just woke up and my daughter's
gone at the house.

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How old is your daughter?
Oh no.

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At 13, two once sweet and
obedient girls suddenly morphed

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into two twin terrors.
Officer Myra Scruggs responded

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to a call from Nikki after yet
another blowout.

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I talked with the girls at great
length trying to figure out what

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was going on.
I actually went in the bedroom

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with the girls in a closet full
of beautiful name brand clothes,

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beautiful shoes, their hair was
Immaculate.

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I mean, these girls really had a
good home.

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At the time, the twins told
officers Scruggs they didn't

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want to live with their mother
and insisted on moving back with

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their great grandmother where
the rules were relaxed.

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Nikki said they wanted their way
and it just wasn't going to

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happen.
But after interviewing Nikki Taz

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and Jazz, Scruggs says she had
an unsettling feeling.

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The girls seemed very innocent,
very sweet, but the look in

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Nikki's face, she was fearful of
those children.

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She knew that they worked
together.

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After a few hours, everything
appeared to have calmed down.

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The girls were just ready to go
to bed.

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And maybe we'll just call, you
know, their great grandmother

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tomorrow.
We can go see her.

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And they left it like it was all
OK.

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But Officer Scruggs had a
gnawing feeling that something

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just wasn't right.
Instead of leaving the

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subdivision, she stayed.
Close.

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I just knew it wasn't over.
Within I would say 3 or 4

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minutes, I could hear screaming
coming from the direction of the

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house.
Both of them jumped on her and

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the two of them began to beat
her.

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Nikki manages to get away and
calls 911 again.

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Officer Scruggs rushed back to
the house.

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Nikki's running out of the house
with a cordless phone in her

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hand, hysterical.
She said as soon as I left that

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the girls had attacked her.
Taz and Jazz tell an entirely

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different story.
The twins said that once they

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went back in the house after we
left that their mother became

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abusive with them, told them
that they were not going

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anywhere and started to beat
them.

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But Officer Scruggs said the
physical evidence clearly showed

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Nikki was the victim.
She had scratches on her neck,

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scratches on her chest and she
was hysterical.

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The girls, on the other hand,
had no marks on them, no

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indication that really they had
been in any kind of an

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altercation talking with them.
I didn't believe a thing that

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the girls had said.
Even more disturbing, she

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recalls the girl's eerie calm
after the attack.

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You could have been 2 strangers
and there would have been more

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emotion shown.
This time, Taz and Jazz are

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taken into custody and charged
for years.

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The two are in and out of court,
ordered along with their mother

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to undergo counselling.
But in fact, a previous court

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order had actually forced the
twins and their mom to live

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together for a trial period.
It was a living hell for her

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only because the kids did not
want to be back with her.

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Most family members talked about
the resentment for mom to a

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rebellious teenage phase, but
the early spats were nothing

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compared to the last time cops
are called to the house, the

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girls in absolute panic.
As I was pulling out to get to

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the gate, the young lady stopped
me saying someone had killed her

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mother.
It was late in the day, just

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after school, when Taz and Jazz
returned home to find a

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horrifying scene.
Nikki Whitehead is lying dead in

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a blood soaked bathtub and a
swirl of questions.

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Who could have done such a
horrendous act?

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Cops immediately take the twins
in, mostly to console their

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grief.
Investigators carefully navigate

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the situation, but they need
answers.

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When I walked in the front door,
it was the first time I'd ever

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been on something as horrific as
that.

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You walked.
In and what?

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What happened?
The kitchen?

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On the surface, it seemed almost
unlikely the two young girls

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could be suspected of such
brutal violence, and police soon

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heard something eyebrow raising
about Nikki directly from Jazz

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and Tazz.
Nikki was dating two different

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men.
She lived with Robert and that

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she also had a boyfriend named
Joe.

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The twins had indicated that
Robert had overheard her

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speaking to the other boyfriend
on the phone and indicated that

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Robert had confronted Nikki
about the infidelity.

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The first cops wondered if a
love triangle may have led to

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Nicky's demise, but they were
also too perplexed about the odd

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behavior of Jazz and Taz.
In the back of the hamlet we saw

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one of the twins bite her arm.
We stopped her and asked her

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hey, what are you doing?
And she explained that she does

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that when she gets upset.
Inside the interrogation room,

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Tazz can be seen on surveillance
camera rocking back and forth,

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comforting each other and even
sharing a kiss.

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Then a startling comment takes
Detective Ken Swift completely

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off guard.
These two girls were hugging

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each other and when I said, you
know, what can I do to make this

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easier for you?
They turned and looked at me and

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they said can we watch CSI?
The hairs on the back of my neck

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stood straight up.
Essentially it was right then

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and it was like something was
very, very off.

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And cops noticed something even
more suspicious.

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They would cry a lot, but it was
tearless crying.

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When I would ask them to
describe their mother, they were

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very insulting of their mother.
During the interview, detectives

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observed the twins still wearing
gloves.

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I.
Need to see.

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Your hands and.
Your arms?

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What?
Happened here to a fight.

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You can.
Fight with As they weaved their

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story back at the bloody crime
scene, investigators uncovered

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physical evidence.
The sinks were completely clean

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and white.
We found shoes in back of their

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closet that had blood on them.
And in Taz's bedroom.

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There's a pair of brown boots
that have a significant amount

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of blood on them.
I found a clump of hair.

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Normally a clump of hair is
insignificant in a female's

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house, simply because there's
hair everywhere.

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But when that clump of hair is
attached to a substantial amount

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of flesh that has been pulled
out of somebody's head and then

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has been wrapped in a napkin and
stuffed into the toe of a shoe,

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you begin to realize that the
twins were not telling us

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anything that was truthful.
Investigators quickly determined

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that they had their main
suspects, and Clueless didn't

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even begin to describe the
situation.

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Right now, we've got these
trolls.

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They can.
Catch the.

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Parts of Community take a look
at how Taz looks directly at the

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surveillance camera, knowing
she's being recorded giving an

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award-winning performance.
I'm never going to be happy.

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Now.
It's 'cause somebody that felt

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she took my mom away.
From me.

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Then the lies unravel when
detectives retrace their moments

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on the day of the murder.
What time did you all leave the

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house this morning?
We missed the bus, so we hit

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the.
Wall.

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But surveillance video from a
nearby gas station shows they

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didn't walk to school.
They actually hitched a ride

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from a stranger.
We began catching them in lies

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concerning their time frames or
their details.

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They began to be very angry and
uncooperative.

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Detectives separate the twins
and being apart seems to work.

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You think we did it?
I don't think I did nothing.

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Why you say that?
Good.

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It seemed like it.
Who?

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Who's that?
Then it just seemed like how

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y'all questioned nothing.
Something just seemed like y'all

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think we did it prior to testing
evidence found at the home.

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Cops can't hold the girls who
are released to their great

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grandmother.
For the next four months, Taz

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and Jazz lead a normal life,
going to school, even attending

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the prom.
Meanwhile, police quietly build

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their case.
We found items in their closet

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that had blood on them.
So when we were trying to

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distinguish whose blood, you
cannot determine between twins

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because they have the same DNA.
And then a startling clue,

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almost coming from beyond the
grave.

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To Nikki's credit, she did not
go down without a fight and she

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left evidence on one of her
girls as a marker.

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Remember when cops saw Taz
biting her arm, explaining in a

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way as a nervous habit?
Detectives say she was trying to

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cover up Nikki's bite mark on
her arm.

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We had a dental examination of
Nikki's teeth and they matched

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it to the bite on the twin.
And autopsy results revealed

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another grim detail.
They found human hair between

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Nikki's teeth.
We would smile.

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That twin was behind Nikki and
had her from around the front.

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Nikki's fighting for her life
and bit her arm and that's how

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the hair became embedded in her
teeth.

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On the last day of school before
summer break, detectives

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arrested Taz at home, then head
to Rockdale High School to nab

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her sister Jazz.
We decided we were going to

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arrest them on the last day of
school for fear of they were

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going to take flight out of the
country to avoid the charges.

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The heavy metal doors clanged
shut behind Tasmia as she

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stepped into the cold, sterile
confines of Arendale State

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Prison in January 2014.
Her heart raced, palm slick with

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sweat, as the reality of her 30
year sentence for voluntary

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manslaughter settled like a
weight on her shoulders.

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Just one month later, Jasmaya
met a similar fate, her

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footsteps echoing through the
halls of Pulaski State Prison as

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she began serving an identical
sentence.

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Though the twins crimes bound
them together, the Georgia

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Department of Corrections
ensured they would remain apart,

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their paths diverging as they
navigated the labyrinthine

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prison system.
The years stretched out before

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them, a seemingly endless
expanse of time to contemplate

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their actions and the
devastating impact on their

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family.
With over three years already

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spent behind bars awaiting their
fate, a glimmer of hope emerged

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in 2017 when the sisters became
eligible for parole.

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But as the months turned into
years, that hope dimmed.

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Tasmia's tentative parole month
remained stubbornly fixed in

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March 2026, while Jasmaya faced
an even longer wait until

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September 2027.
As the twins marked the passing

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of time with scratches on the
walls of their cells, they

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grappled with the weight of
their choices and the

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realization that their paths,
once so intertwined, had

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irrevocably diverged.
The distance between them, both

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physical and emotional, seem to
grow with each passing day, a

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chasm that even the bond of
sisterhood could not bridge.

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