A Georgia lady who admitted to killing her mom alongside her twin sister once they had been youngsters – later incomes the chilling nickname “Twisted Twins” – was launched from jail, having solely served a portion of her sentence.
Tasmiyah Whitehead was freed on parole from Pulaski State Jail on August 5 after she was ordered to spend 30 years behind bars for homicide, in line with jail data seen by The Submit.
Whitehead – alongside along with her sister Jasmiyah – stabbed their mom Jarmecca “Nikki” Whitehead between 50 and 80 instances throughout a struggle inside her Rockdale County residence on January 13, 2010.
Whitehead, who’s now 33 years previous and goes by the nickname Tas, was launched as a part of the plea deal that lowered a homicide cost to voluntary manslaughter, in accordance to WSB-TV.
Tasmiyah had been sentenced to twenty years in jail for the manslaughter cost, plus 5 years for possession of a knife throughout against the law and one other 5 for false statements to the federal government.
She had served 16 years in jail between pre-trial detention and the 12 years after her conviction.
The sentencing the women acquired angered their grandmother, who claimed the court docket didn’t care about Nikki Whitehead.
“You provide somebody 30 years with parole?” Lynda Whitehead stated throughout her granddaughter’s trials in 2014, in line with WSB-TV. “It’s like she will not be vital, she is the sufferer, it’s like nobody is anxious with what occurred to her.”
Tasmiyah had been eligible for parole since 2017, however served an extra 9 years earlier than the parole board granted her eligibility, the outlet reported.
Jasmiyah isn’t eligible for parole till Might 2028, regardless of taking the identical plea deal as her sister.
The demented sisters had solely been again dwelling with their mom for per week as a result of they’d change into violent and too exhausting to deal with for her, in January 2010.
The three bought right into a struggle after the twins awoke late for varsity and had been informed by their mom, “You’re late for varsity, you’re not going to do what you need to do, it’s a must to stay by my guidelines,” in line with 11Alive.
The twins claimed their mom threatened them with a cooking pot earlier than they tackled her, igniting a full-out brawl.
Tasmiyah admitted to investigators that she hit her mom within the head with a pot through the struggle, earlier than grabbing a knife from the knife block.
She then stabbed her mom after her sister was bit within the chest.
“She bit me within the chest and like I stated, I’m not that that large, so when she bit me she latched on to me and I attempted to get her off as a result of it hurts so I’m making an attempt to punch her, I assume that then Tas stabs her. She stabbed her,” Jasmiyah informed police.
The twins continued stabbing and hitting their mom earlier than dragging her bloody physique into the toilet and dumping her within the bathtub, submerging her in water.
Police allege Nikki Whitehead was nonetheless alive when her daughters moved her into the tub.
The twins headed to highschool after the homicide however referred to as police once they bought again residence.
Officers discovered the mom’s physique within the bathtub and initially handled the twins as victims who had simply returned residence from faculty.
Investigators described the scene as “the bloodiest scene I feel I’ve ever been to.”
The twins had performed harmless, distracting detectives from apparent indicators of proof on them together with hiding chew marks and scratches they sustained within the struggle by sporting gloves indoors or claiming the marks had been self-inflicted stress reduction as a result of their mom had simply died.
The lies grew till they had been arrested 4 months later.
Investigators partially uncovered the ruse once they positioned each sisters inside a automotive with a microphone and caught them speaking in regards to the “lack of proof” they’d on them as a result of they couldn’t discover the homicide weapon.
The women initially pleaded not responsible to the homicide cost earlier than accepting the plea offers in 2014.
“Simply actually want it didn’t occur like that and I want I might have solved one thing. I do I want…sorry…It was simply confusion and turmoil and it by no means stopped,” Tasmiyah cried, in line with the outlet.
