Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead were 16 years old when they stabbed their mother to death.
Jarmecca ‘Nikki’ Whitehead, 34, was stabbed so violently she severed her spinal cord and also suffered stab wounds to her lung, jugular and back of the neck in her daughters’ attack.
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.
They recounted chilling details of the attack in confessions recorded about a decade ago, revealing that their mother told her daughters she hated them as she bled to death in the bathtub, according to 11 live.
Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah admitted to the brutal murder of their mother and were sentenced to 30 years in prison.
But what has happened to the sisters since their admission and where are they now?
Tasimyah Whitehead (pictured left) and her twin sister Jasmiyah were sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to the brutal murder of their mother in January 2010.
The teens initially lied and said they found their mother dead, but Tasmiyah later admitted to murdering her mother.
He is currently serving his sentence at Arrendale State Prison.
Jasmiyah then did the same, confessed to her crime and is now serving her sentence at Pulaski State Prison, about a three-and-a-half hour drive from her sister.
Because the couple was in prison for more than three years before being sentenced, they were both eligible for parole in 2017.
Tasmiyah was placed on one month of interim parole in May 2025, which is where the Board will complete a final review of the offender’s case and, if appropriate, set a parole date.
Jasmiyah had one month of provisional parole in September 2027. The month of provisional parole is conditional on good behavior in prison.
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, while they, in turn, accused her of using illegal drugs.
Rockdale District Attorney Richard R. Read previously said: ‘Nikki believed they were sexually active, using marijuana and skipping school.
“They believed she was a hypocrite because she was promiscuous and used marijuana.”
Two years before she was killed, Nikki and the twins got into a fight and were forced by juvenile court to live with their great-grandmother, Della Frasier.
They returned to their mother a week before the murder.
In the days before the violent attack, tensions rose when Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah had previously told a counselor that if they were forced to return to their mother’s home they would kill her, according to a prosecutor in 2014.
The twins told prosecutors they had been involved in a verbal argument with Nikki that morning and claimed she was holding a pot at the time to threaten them.
Jarmecca Whitehead (pictured), 34, was violently murdered by her twin daughters and left to die in the bathtub.
Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead were 16 years old when they stabbed their mother to death.
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.
When the twins tried to take the pot from their mother, the fight turned violent.
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.
The twins carried their injured mother to the bathtub which was filled with water.
As she lay dying, her daughters watched and Nikki 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.
‘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.
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.
Before Nikki was murdered, the twins had written in their diaries their desire to ‘get rid’ of their mother.
The twins stabbed their mother in the lungs, jugular and back of the head after an argument on January 13, 2010.
Pictured: Jasmiyah Whitehead and Tasmiyah Whitehead following the death of their 34-year-old mother.
The girls then called a Rockdale County sheriff’s deputy who was passing by their house and found Nikki submerged in the bathtub.
The officer said at the time he could “smell blood” in the air in the home.
Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah initially 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.
The twins regretted not calling the police and helping their injured mother.
A former police captain who worked on the case recently 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.”
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.
Nikki’s mother, Lydia Whitehead, told the court in 2014 that she was heartbroken by her daughter’s death but that she forgave the twins and loved them.
“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.”
