A video has captured the chilling words of a Kentucky mother following the cold-blooded murder of her two young children.
Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas, 32, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences after the shooting deaths of her sons, Maurice ‘Peanut’ Baker Jr., 6, and her half-brother, Jayden Howard, 9, in Shepherdsville.
Bodycam images obtained by Law and Crime revealed the strange answer he gave when asked why he murdered his two young children.
“I love my children,” the convicted murderer said.
“I love my children very much,” he added. “It wouldn’t have hurt them, but I felt like I was letting them play the video games and I didn’t want to concentrate like I was supposed to, you know?”
He then blamed his evil act on wild theories about technology “manipulating” his children through video games, WiFi and YouTube.
‘Video games, YouTube and children just confuse them to the point where people can manipulate their parents or do whatever they want.
‘I feel like someone put something on my house or on me or something. I just don’t feel good. I don’t do this. I love my children.’
Tiffanie Lucas, 32, was charged with two counts of murder for shooting her two sons, 6-year-old Maurice Baker Jr., and his 9-year-old half-brother Jayden Howard.
She was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences after the shooting deaths of her children
Lucas showed what appeared to be a lack of remorse and instead became obsessed with the movements of an agent’s fingers during interrogation.
“I’m watching you on camera move your fingers several times,” he told an officer in the video. ‘Keep moving them. Arrest. I’m looking. It’s not right.’
“I know I sound crazy, but I’m not,” Lucas told detectives in a rambling interview just hours after allegedly killing her own children.
After the officer left the room, Lucas allegedly admitted to firing four shots in 30 seconds, insisting the shooting “was an accident,” according to the outlet.
She said she was ‘manipulated through Facebook, the Internet or Wi-Fi (…) into doing what she did.’
The tragedy occurred on November 8, 2023, when Lucas’ neighbor called 911 after she collapsed in her driveway, hysterically screaming that her children were “dying.”
Police responded to the scene on Brentwood Drive and discovered that the two children had been fatally shot in the head.
Bodycam footage obtained by Law and Crime revealed the bizarre response he gave when asked why he murdered his two young children in shocking police interrogation footage.
He then blamed his evil act on wild theories about technology “manipulating” his children through video games, Wi-Fi and YouTube.
She was then charged with two counts of capital murder, as the stepmother of one of the two children said the family would accept nothing less than the death penalty.
His neighbor stopped in his driveway when he saw Lucas coming down the steps from his porch and told him his “kids were dying” before collapsing.
The children were discovered inside the house with gunshot wounds and a gun left on the bed, after four gunshots were heard on footage from a neighbor’s Ring camera.
Lucas had said he was given the gun and admitted that no one else had been home that day. When police questioned her, she said she was “in a very bad situation” and claimed the shooting was an accident.
“I’m so stupid,” she added. “I would never do something like that unless someone manipulated me.”
Lucas showed what appeared to be a lack of remorse and instead became obsessed with the movements of an agent’s fingers during interrogation.
The children’s bodies were discovered when a neighbor entered their home and found them in a bedroom with a gun on the bed.
Bullitt County Detective Richard Beahl testified that Lucas “made statements that she was being manipulated via Facebook, the Internet or Wi-Fi … into doing what she did.”
The children were taken to a hospital in Louisville and ultimately died from their injuries.
‘We loved them. We would have welcomed them with open arms. We loved them so much,” said Jayden’s brother, Durrell Howard.
On Facebook, Lucas often posted heavily edited photos of herself and her two children.
“I love my babies every day of the year, I will always use any excuse to celebrate them and show them how special they are,” she wrote on Valentine’s Day 2022.
In another post, she proclaimed: ‘I love my kings different and that’s why Jayden and Peanut are different types of kids. They are SENT BY GOD and every wrong I have committed or any pain I have caused, I am so focused on correcting them and loving them longer and deeper.’
She continued: ‘I can’t guarantee many things in life, BUT I can guarantee the mother I will always be, the love I will always share and the best I can give and do I WILL PROMISE to you, my love, Jayden. And peanuts!’
Tiffanie Lucas (pictured), 32, intends to plead insanity at the trial for the shooting of her two young sons in November 2023.
Michelle Rice, Maurice’s stepmother, says Lucas should be executed.
Rice said the smiling photos were nothing more than an act designed to fool others that she was “normal.”
“A lot of people see his side on social media, but it’s not really how he was off camera. In his personal relationships you could see his crazy side,” Rice explained.
“She did things because she wanted people to see her a certain way, but she wasn’t like that. This is how I wanted to be seen on social media.
“No one knew about his drug problems. She never had a job. She never worked. Things like that. The children were previously taken from her when they were younger due to drugs.’
Police said the mother initially claimed the shooting was an accident and that she was manipulated into doing it.
In court, Lucas’ lawyers played a video revealing images of her and her two children at a waffle shop the day before the brutal murder, showing her apparently unstable mental state.
Waffle House staff recalled that she acted like she was in her “own world” and couldn’t understand what was going on, as reported by WLKY.
She also reportedly asked a neighbor for help, telling him that God was “talking to her.”
‘Do you need me?’ the neighbor asked.
‘I need an anchor. I need a good friend. I need a good person in my life,’ Lucas responded.
Lucas pleaded guilty in October to two counts of first-degree murder after initially trying to mount an insanity defense.