I still remember being shocked when I first heard about Nikki Whitehead – it was so tragic that she lost her life at just 34, and it happened right in her own home. Now, over twenty years later, ITV is taking another look at everything surrounding her murder with a new series called Twisted Twins. Honestly, I’m really curious to find out what ever became of the people who did this to her.
Jarmecca Yvonne Whitehead, known as Nikki, was a single mother living in Conyers, Georgia, with her identical twin daughters, Jasmiyah (called Jas) and Tasmiyah (called Tas). She worked as a beautician.
On January 13, 2010, two 16-year-old girls came home to a shocking discovery: their mother’s body in the bathtub, covered in blood. Police found she had been stabbed nearly 80 times with a kitchen knife, and her spine was almost completely cut through.
Investigators initially suspected the twins’ father, but it turned out he couldn’t have been involved. He had a solid alibi – he was living in Canada when the crime happened.
Tas and Jas later told police their mother had been seeing two men, which led investigators to explore whether a romantic rivalry might have caused her death. However, this line of inquiry didn’t produce any results.
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Investigators began focusing on Jas and Tas, noticing that the girls seemed unable to express genuine sadness over their mother’s situation. In a 2016 interview with Crime Watch Daily, Conyers Police Captain Jackie Dunn recalled, “They would often cry, but there were no tears. And when I asked them about their mother, they spoke very disrespectfully about her.”
Even before questioning the twin sisters, detectives observed unusual behavior from them. During the ride to the police station, one of the girls, Tas, was seen biting her arm – seemingly to calm herself down.
Dunn told us they witnessed the woman biting her own arm. When they asked her why, she said it was something she did whenever she felt stressed or angry.
Police quickly found evidence linking both twins to the crime. In Tas’s room, they discovered a shoebox containing a pair of bloody brown boots, and a clump of hair was found stuck inside one of them. This discovery helped detectives begin to understand what really happened.
The twins’ stories quickly fell apart when police investigated where they had been on the day of the murder. Tas and Jas claimed they left for school at 7:30am, but security camera footage from a local gas station proved they hadn’t actually gone.
Security footage from the high school proved the twins were actually in a hallway several hours before they claimed to have gotten to school, according to their statements to police.
Captain Dunn said they found out the students had arrived around mid-morning and reported being just ten minutes tardy to school.
Okay, so things got really dark in this case. The cops finally figured out Tas was actually biting her own arm, trying to make it look like someone else did it! They proved it was her by matching a bite mark on her arm to Nikki’s teeth – seriously, they did a dental exam. And the autopsy? Even worse. They found human hair stuck between Nikki’s teeth. It was pretty conclusive evidence.
Tas and Jas were arrested in May 2010, just four months after the murder, and quickly accused of being responsible.
Initially, the two women denied any wrongdoing. However, in 2014 they both changed their pleas to guilty of voluntary manslaughter and received a 30-year prison sentence. They were held at different prisons but became eligible for parole after three years, in 2017.
Tasmiyah is currently incarcerated at Pulaski State Prison, while Jasmiyah is staying at the Metro Transitional Center. As of June 2026, Jasmiyah was waiting to hear back from the Parole Board regarding her release, and Tasmiyah has a tentative parole date set for August.
Before they were convicted of crimes, Tas and Jas were both high-achieving students and active in the Girl Scouts. They were primarily raised by their great-grandmother, Della Frazier, who said that their mother, Nikki Whitehead, wasn’t consistently involved in their upbringing.
In 2007, Whitehead asked to become the primary caregiver for his twin daughters, even though their relationship had been strained by frequent arguments. The twins often clashed with their mother over her rules, and these disagreements sometimes became physical, leading to counseling and involvement with the juvenile court system.
Though Frazier initially had custody of the girls, Whitehead regained it on January 5, 2010, even though the children objected. The court had arranged a two-week trial living situation for them and their mother, but tragically, Whitehead died just days after that began.
2026-07-23 00:51