The Murder of Nikki Whitehead
Twin daughters confess to their mother’s murder
Jarmecca Yvonne “Nikki” Whitehead was a single mother of two twin girls named Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah, known to most as Tas and Jas.
Nikki’s life had begun in prison, where she was born to a mother doing time for drug possession. By the age of 17, she found herself pregnant with twins. After their birth, on November 27, 1993, she and her daughters continued to live with Nikki’s grandmother until they were seven years old.
In 2000, then 25-year-old Nikki met Robert Head, a truck driver who was 30 years her senior. Soon after they began seeing one another, she and her daughters moved into Robert’s Conyers, Georgia home with him.
The twins were very bright and active girls. In their early years, Nikki wasn’t always a constant presence in their lives, being young herself. They were mostly raised by their great-grandmother, Della Frazier. However, in 2007, Nikki asked for full custody to be returned to her. Frazier gave her a chance to be a full-time mother to her children, but it quickly soured.
The twins didn’t get along with their mother. They resented her attempts to keep them on the straight and narrow and thought her rules were far too strict. They argued constantly and soon began having physical fights that…
