I was a chilling crime. It is the story of two teenage twin sisters that viciously killed their mother and told police they were the victims.
Earlier this year, Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead signed a plea agreement in their case. Their confession was exchanged for 30 years behind bars. But what came before their confessions case evidence shows was a twisted web of lies.
While their fate is sealed, their case file is not. Through an open records request 11Alive has obtained critical evidence that never made it to a courtroom: crime scene photos, interrogation tapes, surveillance video and, finally, the girls' taped confessions.
The identical twins share everything: birthdays, clothing -- even DNA. However, twin sisters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead also share a dark past. They admitted to killing their mother -- a confession that came after months of lying to cover it up.
The teary-eyed twins, Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead, initially told police that they walked into a blood-soaked Conyers home — located about 25 miles east of Atlanta — and found their dead mother, Jarmecca, in January 2010.
And at first glance, detectives had no reason to suspect the 16-year-old sisters had anything to do with the vicious stabbing and even tried to console the girls during questioning.
“It was the bloodiest scene I think I’d ever been to,” Conyers Police Department Lt. Chris Moon told WXIA-TV.
“As soon as you opened the door, you could smell the blood — the copper-iron smell in the air.”The 34-year-old mother’s body was submerged in a bathtub. She had been stabbed multiple times in the chest, back and neck — where her spinal cord was partially severed.
The local NBC affiliate obtained footage from a surveillance camera inside an interrogation room as detectives spoke to the teens after the murder.
“We were treating them as victims, witnesses who had come home and found their mother dead,” Moon said.
Jasmiyah told police that she found her mother’s body in the tub after they returned home from school and followed the blood trail to the bathroom.“I went into her room and I saw blood all over the floor, and I went in there and I seen her and I touched her,” she told investigators, according to the clips aired by the news station.
At one point, the two girls were left alone in the room and they continued to cry crocodile tears.
“I want my mommy,” Jasmiyah wailed.
“You’ve gotta be strong, because I’m going to make sure they find the person who did it,” her sister said.
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