What happened to Twisted Twins Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead?

Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead were 16 years old when they stabbed their mother to death.  

Jarmecca 'Nikki' Whitehead, 34, was knifed so violently that it severed her spinal cord and she also suffered stab wounds to her lung, jugular and the back of her neck in the attack by her daughters. 

The twins, now 30, turned on their parent following an argument on January 13, 2010, at their home in Conyers, Georgia - after getting up late for school. 

They recounted chilling details of the attack in taped confessions around a decade ago, revealing that their mother told her daughters she hated them as she bled to death in the bathtub, according to 11alive

Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah admitted to the brutal murder of their mother and were sentenced to 30 years in prison. 

But what has become of the sisters since their admission and where are they now? 

Tasmiyah Whitehead is pictured
Tasimyah Whitehead (pictured left) and identical twin sister Jasmiyah were sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to the brutal murder of their mother in January 2010
Jasmiyah Whitehead is pictured

The teens initially lied and said they found their mother dead, but then Tasmiyah later admitted to murdering her mother. 

She is currently serving her sentence in Arrendale State Prison. 

Jasmiyah then followed suit, confessing to her crime, and is now serving her sentence in Pulaski State Prison, around a three and a half hour drive away from her sister. 

As the pair were in jail for more than three years before they were sentenced, they were both eligible for parole in 2017.

Tasmiyah had a Tentative Parole Month of May 2025, which is where the Board will complete a final review of the offender's case and, if appropriate, set a parole release date.

Jasmiyah had a Tentative Parole Month of September 2027. The Tentative Parole Month is conditioned on good conduct in prison.

The family had a violent history prior to the fight, which escalated to murder.

Nikki had accused her daughters of smoking pot and being sexually active while they in turn had 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 a juvenile court to live with their great-grandmother, Della Frasier.

They moved back with their mother a week before the murder. 

In the days leading up to the violent attack, tensions rose as Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah had previously told a counsellor that if forced to go back to their mother's home they would kill her, according to a prosecutor in 2014.

The twins told prosecutors they had become 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
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
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 individuals who worked on the case as well as friends of the family of the mother-of-two
ITV's Twisted Twins revisits the murder, and hears from individuals who worked on the case as well as friends of the family of the mother-of-two

As the twins tried to take the pot away from their mother, the fight became violent.

During her filmed statement, Jasmiyah said: 'We all yelling, we all mad. Somehow, someway I don't know where she got it from, I don't even remember a knife block but she has a knife.'

Jasmiyah admitted she broke a vase over her mother's head while Tasmiyah grabbed the pot and hit her with it.

In the chaos, the knife ended up being held by Tasmiyah who stabbed her mother as her twin strangled her with a ribbon. Jasmiyah then took the knife and continued to stab 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 watched their mother sink below the surface and knew that she was dead, they said in statements.

'My state of mind at the time was defend yourself. It wasn't like a fight on the street, it was more like a fight until somebody dies,' said Jasmiyah during the interview. 

After the murder, the girls collected their mom's purse and phone along with the pot and knife in a plastic bag, and then went to school.

Before Nikki was murdered, the twins had written in their diaries about their desire to 'get rid' of their mother
Before Nikki was murdered, the twins had written in their diaries about their desire to 'get rid' of their mother
The twin stabbed their mother in the lungs, jugular, and the back of her neck, after getting into an argument on January 13, 2010
The twin stabbed their mother in the lungs, jugular, and the back of her neck, after getting into an argument on January 13, 2010
Pictured: Jasmiyah Whitehead and Tasmiyah Whitehead following the death of their 34-year-old mother
Pictured: Jasmiyah Whitehead and Tasmiyah Whitehead following the death of their 34-year-old mother

The girls then summoned a Rockdale County Sheriff's deputy who was driving by their home and he found Nikki submerged in the bathtub. 

The officer said at the time that he could 'smell the blood' in the air at the home.

Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah initially lied and said they found their mother dead.

Police initially treated them as victims but found that the 16-year-olds had cuts and bite marks, implicating their involvement in a vicious fight.

The twins both expressed regret that they had not called the police and helped their injured mother. 

A former police captain who worked on the case recently unveiled Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah's chilling messages written to one another ahead of the brutal killing.

Speaking in ITV's Twisted Twins, forensic police officer Jackie Dunn revealed the passage that stuck out to him the most, explaining: 'When we were processing the scene, we found a journal'.

Before reading the diary entry, Jackie said: 'We were able to find a number of calls from Nikki to 911 saying that the twins are aggressive towards her.

'Nikki Whitehead, she was trying to implement rules and give them a curfew, and the twins they didn't like that, and they became aggressive.'

When they discovered the diary, they noted: 'If you look through this journal, you see a paragraph of this handwriting, a paragraph of this handwriting [pointing to each of the twins writing]'.

'This paragraph sticks out to me, it says, ''it hit me hard last night too, we've got to get rid of her'', the response to that, ''I know, that's what I think also, she [has] gotta go ASAP.'

'That might be premeditation, but we couldn't just go a hunch, we needed something concrete,' they added.

Nikki's mother, Lydia Whitehead, told the court in 2014 that she was heartbroken over her daughter's death but that she forgave the twins and loves them.

'Unfortunately, my grandchildren never learned right from wrong… and that's why we are here,' she said. 'They should be in college, not sitting somewhere in jail.'

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