The heartbreaking diary entries written by identical twins who murdered their mother have been revealed in a documentary.
Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead were 16 when they stabbed Jarmecca ‘Nikki’ Whitehead, 34, so violently that her spinal cord was severed. He also suffered stab wounds to the lung, jugular and neck.
The twins, now 30, turned on their parents after an argument on January 13, 2010, at their home in Conyers, Georgia, after waking up late for school.
Now, a former police captain who worked on the case has revealed the chilling messages Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah wrote to each other before the brutal murder.
Speaking on ITV’s Twisted Twins, forensic police officer Jackie Dunn revealed the passage that stood out to him the most, explaining: “When we were processing the scene, we found a diary.”
Diary entries written by Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead (pictured) before murdering their mother have been revealed in an ITV documentary.
Before reading the diary entry, Jackie said: ‘We were able to find several calls from Nikki to 911 saying that the twins are aggressive towards her.
“Nikki Whitehead was trying to implement rules and give them a curfew, and the twins didn’t like that and became aggressive.”
When they discovered the diary, they noted: “If you look at this diary, you will see a paragraph of this letter, a paragraph of this letter (pointing to the handwriting of each of the twins).”
“This paragraph catches my attention, it says, “last night also affected me a lot, we have to get rid of her”, the response to that, “I know, that’s what I think too, she (Has) to leave as soon as possible. ‘
“It may be premeditation, but we couldn’t let ourselves be carried away by a hunch, we needed something concrete,” they added.
In 2015, 11alive said the sisters recounted chilling details of the knife attack in confessions, revealing that their mother told her daughters she hated them as she bled to death in the bathtub.
‘My mood at the time was to defend myself. It wasn’t like a fight in the street, it was more like a fight until someone dies,” Jasmiyah said during the interview.
The twins told prosecutors that they had gotten into a verbal argument with their mother that morning, who at the time was holding a pot to threaten them. They stated that when they tried to take the pot from their mother, the fight turned violent.
Jarmecca Whitehead (pictured), 34, was violently murdered by her twin daughters and left to die in the bathtub.
Pictured: Jasmiyah Whitehead and Tasmiyah Whitehead following the death of their 34-year-old mother.
Speaking on ITV’s Twisted Twins, forensic police officer Jackie Dunn (pictured), who worked on the case, revealed the passage from the twins’ diary that stood out to him the most.
Before Nikki was murdered, the twins had written in their diaries their desire to ‘get rid’ of their mother.
During her filmed statement, Jasmiyah said: ‘We are all screaming, we are all angry. Somehow, I don’t know where she got it from, I don’t even remember a wad of a knife, but she has a knife.’
Jasmiyah admitted that she broke a vase over her mother’s head while Tasmiyah grabbed the vase and hit her with it.
In the chaos, the knife ended up in the hands of Tasmiyah, who stabbed her mother while her twin strangled her with a tape. Jasmiyah then took the knife and continued stabbing her.
They carried their injured mother to the bathtub, which was full of water. As she lay dying, her daughters watched and the mother told them she hated them, 11alive reported.
The twins saw their mother sink below the surface and knew she was dead, they said in statements.
After the murder, the girls collected their mother’s purse and phone along with the pot and knife in a plastic bag and then headed to school.
It wasn’t until later that day that the girls called a Rockdale County sheriff’s deputy who was passing by their house.
He found the victim submerged in the bathtub. The officer said at the time he could “smell blood” in the air in the home.
The teens lied and said they found their mother dead.
Police initially treated them as victims, but discovered that the 16-year-olds had cuts and bite marks, implying their involvement in a vicious fight.
Both girls initially pleaded not guilty when they were arrested and charged four months later.
The twins regretted not calling the police and helping their injured mother.
ITV’s Twisted Twins revisits the murder and hears from people who worked on the case, as well as friends of the mother-of-two’s family.
The twins stabbed their mother in the lungs, jugular and back of the head after an argument on January 13, 2010.
The family had a violent history before the fight, which led to murder. Nikki had accused her daughters of smoking marijuana and being sexually active, and they in turn had accused her of using illegal drugs.
The twins quarreled with their mother in 2008 and were forced by a juvenile court to live with their great-grandmother, Della Frasier.
They returned to their mother a week before the murder. The twins had told a counselor that if they were forced to return to their mother’s house they would kill her, according to a prosecutor in 2014.
Jarmecca Whitehead’s mother, Lydia Whitehead, told the court in 2014 that she was heartbroken by her daughter’s death, but that she loves and forgives the twins.
“Unfortunately, my grandchildren never learned about right and wrong… and that’s why we’re here,” he said. “They should be in college, not somewhere in jail.”
Twisted Twins airs on ITV on Tuesday 8 October at 9pm and is also available on ITVX.
