>> it is so difficult. it is not going to happen again. they are just memories. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> inatalie morales. >> this is dateline. >> she was a phenomenal person. she loved those girls. they were sweet little twins. their pride and joy. i'm sorry. it is really hard. >> pretty, posed, perfect, her twins with her world. >> they were so precious. the three of them were a title unit. they were all she had. she was all they had.

>> then that awful day. >> these two beautiful girls came home and found their mother murdered. >> they were rocking back and forth, traumatized. disturbed. >> we were told that she had a boyfriend. a second boyfriend. >> jealousy. rage. >> she had contacted the police. >> what secret would they reveal. >> could this have happened? >> you couldn't even imagine. welcome to dateline.

nikki whitehead found murdered. her death left her teenaged girls. in the end, difficult for even the veteran detectives to believe. here is keith morrison with bad blood. >> once in a while in a complicated life, a woman can get lucky. why you are looking at a sweet town called conyers, georgia. pure luck that brought nikki whitehead to this house. just far enough away from atlanta. here, she could give her beautiful twin daughters a better life than hers. but of course luck, fortune,

fate can go either way. sometimes in ways very hard to comprehend. >> everything about this goes against nature. >> how could somebody do that? >> it was definitely the bloodiest crime scene i had been to. >> you'll learn when it happened, how it happened. the real question is why it happened. the answer to that, as you will see is kind of complicated but that's how nikki whiteheads life was. >> i loved everything about nikki. >> she grew up with her. >> to me, she was a phenomenal, amazing person. >> he haver ves ans who said her mother. bigger than life. >> the kind of a person when she comes in a room, she just takes over the space with her

personality, her laughter. >> when nikki was 12, a handful. >> linda was a single mom with other kids. she agreed to let her move in with della, her grandmother. she let the girl one wild. >> we grew up kind of fast. she became pregnant at 18 or 19. >> we moved kind of fast. >> pregnant with identical twins whom she named jasmiyah and tasmiyah. jazz and taz. her father wasn't around. >> i wanted nikki to get her own place, establish her own life. my mom would discurbage that and

find ways to tell her, no, you are better off here. >> nikki learned how to style hair and was doing well. eventually saw the possibility of independence. >> she eventually wanted to get out from della's control? >> she did. as the girls got older, she wanted to take control of her life. >> one day in 2000, nikki was shopping at the mall. robert head happened to be in exactly the right spot. >> i was sitting on the fountain one afternoon about 6:00, there was nikki coming into the mall. >> your eye caught her. >> yes. i can't let her get away. >> that he was old enough to be her father, didn't matter. >> robert was in love. >> he persuaded her to go to

dinner. took her dancing. bought her nice things and treated her like a lady. >> my movie star. >> his movie star with two sweet daughters he loved like his own. >> that's how they came here. this is robert's house how they created a family. unusual as you'll hear. it was nice. everything clicked just right. >> while she kept her job as a hairstylist, she enrolled in bauder college to study fashion design. >> that's where i learned she was a hairstylist. >> rhonda taught a couple of classes. she thought nikki had a purpose. >> i came in early one day. she looked at me and said miss

anderson, what is going on with her hair? she asked me, do you have a hair stri stylist. does she know your hair is looking like that today. she said i'm goiving her one moe chance and then i'm taking over for her. >> she loved her girls. >> their teachers describe them as almost angelic, sweet, happy, engaged. there is pictures of them one on each of her arms. >> katie beck is a reporter at nbc affiliate in atlanta. >> teachers describe them that way that they had a sweet demeanor in their classroom with classmates. almost timid. >> when they reached their teens, they changed somehow. the way children often do and the way nikki did.

>> just like nikki, the twins were sent to live with della. in 2010 when nikki welcomed jazz and taz back all together in robert's house. nikki turned up beaming. >> she looked great. she had a new look of her hair. she had braids in. she was happy. >> as if the braids in her hair were kind of an announcement. her girls were back. >> they were pretty much her pride and joy. >> you start thinking about her? >> it is hard. really hard. >> january 13, 2010. the girls had just come home from school.

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wednesday afternoon, january 13, 2010. a gated community 16-year-old twins arrive home from school. walk in the front door, followed a bloody trail and there she was in the bathtub, their mother, 34-year-old nikki whitehead. very, very dead. >> the mess that found the police detective told a terrible story. >> this was a long drawn out fight. nikki was fighting for her life for several minutes. she fought here, was struck in the back of the head. >> blood on the door like she was trying to get out.

>> you could see the bloody imprint of hair braids. which she had braids. the most severe attack was here the assay lent got on top of her and started stabbing her. >> she was dead or near dead when the a ssailant dragged her to the bathtub where her daughters found her. >> you get here and have these two beautiful 16-year-old girls who discovered their mother murdered. >> he noticed them hurting themselves. >> one of them was biting their

arm. i said why are you doing that? she said, i do that. >> how do you get that from children who just left their dead mother. >> they were going out of fits of tears and crying. asking for their mom. they both were rocking back and forth. traumatized. disturbed. >> we'll be okay. we'll be okay. >> i can remember thinking, man, i hope there is a suitable family member to adopt those girls. they really need somebody to reach out and be good parents for them. >> word spread. a friend called harris. >> she asked me the last time i

talked to nikki. i said i talked to nikki saturday. she said you may want to go over to her house because the helicopters were there and news reporters. >> what did you think? >> it was like slow motion. >> she called her mother. told her something bad had gone on. >> i was so nervous, i didn't know what to do. i was like, oh, my god. shaken. >> drove into the neighborhood and saw the police officer. i said, can you pull over there? i said, no. i need to go to my daughter's house. ma'am will you just pull over there. i pulled to the side. i said what is going on? they said, ma'am, the only thing

i can tell you is your daughter has expired. >> there is no getting over a thing like that. investigators set to work figuring out who did this. the girls said their mother was still in the room with the door locked when they left for school at 7:30. >> we missed the bus. we had to walk. >> the crime scene would reveal more clues than the girls would. >> we were looking for cell phone or computer. usually victims had a call or spoke with their assailant. >> it was so violent. >> that suggested rage. when you look at a rage murder, it is usually someone very, very

close. >> naturally, the first person they wanted to talk to was the man of the house was robert. nikki's boyfriend. he wasn't around. >> when was the last time you saw robert? >> robert was a long-haul truck driver which explains his absence. >> we had to find robert and check on his gps. >> that takes a while, right? >> yes, sir. >> detectives spread out through the neighborhood knocking on doors. >> a couple of neighbors said they saw a red car in the neighborhood that afternoon. a car they had not seen before. a black car too. they asked the girls who could have been there? >> did your mom have any other

friends. >> men. the only one i would hear her talk about was joe. >> joe? who was joe? >> we were told nikki had a second boyfriend, joe carter. >> two boyfriends. >> time to dig a little deeper into the life of nikki whitehead. >> coming up, was there bad blood involved. >> they had an argument. he was an immediate person of interest. dateline continues.

>> detectives in conyers, georgia were getting a look inside the life of nikki whitehead who lived with her live-in boyfriend and twin daughters. >> they would put their arms around each other. it is going to be okay. we'll find out who did this. they were clearly relying on each other. >> they were able to convey some is information. >> any idea who she was talking to? >> joe a local barber who had a

shop right next to her salon. a love triangle. they talked to robert who was on the road. >> how did he react? >> he was devastated. >> easy enough to check on robert. gps records put him a full day away. when they met him, you could see his grief was real. >> that was my better half. she was gone. it was a hard thing. >> this is how detectives discovered the unusual nature. >> robert told them he knew about the other boyfriend. wasn't a secret. he didn't mind. said he wanted her to be happy. >> he's a truck driver. when he was home, he expected

her and him to be a couple. when he was away, he realized she would have other relationships. >> but how did joe feel about that? he was upset about something. >> the night before the murder, joe and nikki had a loud argument. >> all she told joe was he couldn't come over. >> that's what we thought. he was an immediate person of interest. he was. >> remember, a neighbor spotted a black car near nikki's house the day. joe's car? >> do you know what joe drives? >> no. there was a car in the driveway. it was a black car. >> we need to look at joe carter. they had been in an argument.

they were breaking up. >> that's a dangerous time in a relationship. >> wasn't hard to track joe down. he was in the barber shop. >> it was around closing time when we were packing up to get out of there. they approached me and my friends and said she had passed away. i was shocked. >> he immediately started weeping. >> he claimed not to know. >> reactions don't always tell the story. >> they asked me and my relationship. i started to realize i was a suspect. >> he did what any good detective would do. he looked for marks on his body. >> looked at his hands, arms, took off his shirt. >> joe was clean.

>> detectives learned that black car outside his house didn't belong. >> they brought him in for questioning and hooked him up and asked point blank if he killed nikki. >> they determined he was not deceptive. >> i wanted to find the killer and i wanted them to know it wasn't me. >> it appeared joe was not involved in the death of nikki whitehead. >> so two boyfriend friends and two dead ends. >> in addition, it could have been a stranger. did you look into that? >> we did. they still wanted to know who owned another car, a red one also seen in nikki's driveway the day of the killing. >> didn't take long to find out. it belonged to a friend.

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offering up any usual suspects. the two men in her life had been eliminated. a home invasion seemed very unlikely in her community. >> no histories of any peeping toms or assaults in her neighborhood. we kept coming up to dead ends. >> they were sure this had to be a rage murder. so violent. which made it very likely it was someone nikki knew, even possibly a family member. >> we started looking at family dynamics. that's when it turned up. an incident in 2007. a brief snip. >> yes, ma'am. i just woke up and my daughter is gone from the house. >> meaning your daughter was abducted? >> i woke up.

i have twin girls. one of them is gone. >> how old is your daughter? >> oh, lord. 13. my worst nightmare. >> she don't do stuff like this. i don't know. >> a few hours later, nikki found out her daughters did do stuff like that. jazz had not been kidnapped. she snuck out to fool around with a boy. >> up until that day, in her mind, she had perfect girls. she found out they weren't the girls she thought they were. >> she was determined not to let them follow in her steps at that age. the following months would be familiar for any teenager. >> one summer night in 2008 a

year after jazz sneaked out of the house. >> a big argument and turned into a fight. >> physical fight. >> it was taz and jazz against her mother. she felt fearful and contacted the police. >> was it the right decision to call the police? >> that ensured the family ended up in juvenile court. nikki asked the judge to help her teach her daughters a lesson. instead, the judge was blaming nikki. >> i guess the judge thought they were too cute. too smart. nah. he did not take it serious. >> what did he decide to do? >> he asked, do you want your kids to come back home. she said, no, your honor, not unless they understand i'm not going to tolerate that kind of

behavior. he said, you mean to tell me, you don't want your kids to come home. >> nikki wanted a court sanctioned demand that they obey the rules. instead, the judge sent the girls to live with della, great grandmother. >> what were they doing there? >> pretty much whatever they want. they ran wild. >> they got in trouble repeatedly in school and out. >> shop lifting, smoking marijuana. seeing the wrong type of boys. >> she didn't want that. going back to when she was that age in her grandmother's custody. >> she knew della had undermined her. >> she really wanted them back. >> how did you know this? >> she said it every day. i want my girls.

i'm going to fight for my girls. >> in january 2010, nikki finally won. the judge ordered the girls back to nikki. jazz and taz did not like it one bit. >> they start screaming and hollering. i don't want to go back. why would you make us go back? >> in court? >> yeah. >> nikki told her mother not to worry. >> she said, i'll be fine. they'll mellow out. >> a few days on a saturday night, she put on a welcome home party for the girls. >> they hugged me and kissed me. that was the last time yucka saw nikki. >> there they were asking the pointed question. seemed a little odd the girls were still wearing outdoor gloves. the detective asked, would you

take them off, please. >> let me see your hands and arms. >> we did see a cut on one hand. >> bruising on a knuckle. skin mark. bite marks. >> we asked them to explain those. >> those could have been self-inflicted. >> the girls were so upset on the way. they were biting themselves. the twins said they had been fighting with each other. >> it was as they told their story detective took a good look at jazz and taz and a disturbing idea settled down. >> i haven't made up my mind but i'm suspicious. >> coming up. suspicious. were there reasons? >> you watch the high school

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found their mother's body. watched their eyes, their tearless sob and saw their bruc bruises and cuts. >> they weren't like somebody who found their mother murdered. >> thinking could they be involved. remembering how angry the twins were a week earlier when the court sent them back. >> when jazz came out, she looked over at my daughter and said if i have to go home with you, i'm going to kill you. >> you heard this? >> i heard this and it stunned me. >> the detective fact checked the twin's version of events starting with their claim that they had to walk to school that morning. >> they told us that they had

overslept and missed the bus and had walked to school. >> it was a rush but they did get to school on time. >> you made all your classes today? >> yes. >> cops did what cops do. they checked surveillance tape. >> what do you know. >> law enforcement had noticed the girls walking down the road a little after 10:00 a.m. that morning. >> nowhere near that time as the school surveillance camera confirmed. >> we watched high school cameras showing they showed up about two hours after. >> so they were caught in a lie. a big one. they flatly denied. >> put in separate rooms, they presented a united twin front

joochblt they would never sway. they never said a negative comment. >> getting one to flip on the other was never going to happen. >> they released the court and farmed them out to family and friends. police sent their dna and photos of their injury off to the lab and then they waited. pretty sure science would tell them that these sweet little girls were anything but. >> did they appear man ip tiff to you? >> absolutely. one in one room, taken to a smaller. >> it is apparent, she knows there is a camera and recording system. she starts to pray. >> i really want to thank god. she knew at some point somebody would watch that video and see a young, innocent, sweet girl

asking law enforcement to find who did this. >> meanwhile, the crime lab worked on the dna and poured over those photos of the bite marks. one was the impression of a big ugly bite. compared to contours of a mold of nikki's mouth. uncanny. >> nikki was most likely the source. >> had their mother bitten them to fend off the attack. >> would consist they had her mother in a choke hold from behind. >> when detectives saw them biting themselves after. >> maybe that was to cover up evidence. they knew they would find nikki's blood. >> sure enough, in a smear of

nikki's blood, a match. it belonged to one of the twins but which one? >> they are identical twins with identical dna, couldn't tell. >> by this time, the twin hz been out in the world without a word from the police for five months. >> wxai reporter katie beck. >> i think those five months built a confidence, an ar owe against that we are gooding to get away with this. >> you can imagine may 21, 2010 just after school. >> how did they react to being arrested? >> shocked. they thought it was over with. it had been five months. >> the arrest was big news. two sweet girls charged with the murder of their mother. who would have thought? >> people were riff eted by this story. >> yes, they were.

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lots to do, if you're a prosecutor preparing a murder case against pretty, twin teenagers. so, d.a. richard reid was interested, when one day, defense attorneys suggested, they wanted to make a deal. >> my response is, it's great to hear it from you. but i want to hear it from them. and so, i'd like to talk to your clients. i'd like to ask them questions. >> that's how d.a. reid met them, now 19 years old, and heard them confess they did kill their mother. but was it a confession, really? in fact, said the twins, it wasn't their fault. she started it. >> she started cursing and stuff. i think she was mad about us being late. >> reporter: that morning, they said she was furious they were late for school and picked up a pot in the kitchen, they said, and swung it at them. >> she was calling us whores and

sluts and everything like that, stupid and everything like that. and she threatened us. and i know we are all going to die today. >> so, you took the pot away from your mom. what happened then? >> she just kind of charged forward. i didn't meet her. >> now, she had a knife, said the girls. they tumbled room-to-room, trying to get it away from her, before she cut one of them. >> i kept telling her to stop. just stop. just stop. >> reporter: but she didn't, they said. >> i was trying to punch her, i guess. i think she stabbed her. >> at this point in time, how many times did she stab her? >> just once.

>> reporter: they were exhausted. they said they called a truce. >> they asked for the knife. and when she does, it's on again. >> reporter: finally, said the girls, they overpowered their mother, who stopped struggling and moaned she was cold. they put her in a warm tub and tried to soothe her. >> kill me now. and i'll kill y'all. >> reporter: eventually, they said, she stopped talking, drifted off in the warm water and died. so, what did the d.a. think after listening to the girls' tale of self-defense against a mother gone berserk? did you believe them? >> no. >> reporter: the idea that she launched an attack on her own daughters. difficult to believe, said the d.a. nonsense is what her mother called it. >> my daughter never hit her kids. they never had a spanking.

anybody that knows her, knows that wasn't her behavior. >> reporter: it was very clear, said the detectives that worked the case, that, she was the victim of an unprovoked attack. she had 45 stab wounds. her spinal cord was almost severed. >> she fought for her life. she is on her back, some of the times, fighting off people attacking her from above with knives. >> reporter: as for the girls' claim, they put their dying mother in the tub to keep her warm, as they watched her fade away, fiction through and through, said the police. >> we think she was dead before she was placed in the tub. or she would have been bleeding in the water. they were putting her in the water to wash off the crime scene, wash off the evidence. >> reporter: in truth, said the detectives, these girls were remorseful and defiant.

remember how they sounded just after their mother's death. >> i really hope they catch this person. >> reporter: listen to the little darlings when they didn't know they were playing for the cameras. this was recorded in the back of a squad car, after their arrest. sweet little girls? hardly. >> we can [ bleep ] evidence like this. >> i mean, get real. is there a murder not with fingerprints? i thought they said a murder weapon. >> they are aggressive, athat angry. they are combative. >> reporter: and one more thing, tucked away in one of the bedrooms, police found this journal. inside, in childish handwriting, a death sentence.

they were notes to each other, written just before the killing. she won't care. she's selfish. we have to get rid of her. the other twin responds, that's what i think also. she gotta go, asap. >> it may be the most telling piece of evidence, that the whole death of mom may have been premedita premeditated. >> reporter: still, the d.a. could maybe spin the history, the two boyfriends and somehow sell a jury on self-defense. >> it would have been an ugly trial. to some extent, would have been a misrepresentation of her life. >> reporter: he didn't like it much, but he let them plead to the lesser charge, voluntary manslaughter. >> they killed my child brutally. and you're going to give them 30 years? they shouldn't be able to walk the street.

i know these are my grandkids. if they can do this to their mom, god help us all. >> reporter: the questions that go over in your head, are what? >> how everything about this goes against nature. how the person who provides for you and raises you and loves you and gives birth to you, how you could watch that person die in a bathtub and lie about it. >> reporter: it was wxia reporter, that brought the story to an atlanta horrified and fascinated. she first secured access to all of the videotapes, exposing these pretty little liars for all of the world to see. >> it suddenly becomes clear these girls have multiple personalities. that they can be whoever they need to be.

they can morph into a demonized criminal. >> reporter: those girls you knew? those sweet little girls, what happened to them? >> it's hard for me to even -- i don't know. >> reporter: and nicki's mom, carries the helpless grief with her every day, every sleepless night, without the daughter, without the go aheranddaughters thought she knew. >> they would talk about what college they wanted to go to. i'm sorry. >> it's okay. >> it sitting here and everybody gone. >> reporter: that's an awful tough road. >> you can't imagine. every morning i wake up and i think about my daughter and my grandkids. it's just a tragedy.

>> reporter: one about a mother, who dared dream her sweet gemini twins would surpass her. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ♪ first up on msnbc, single digits. we're down to just nine days until the election. both candidates on the trail this weekend, making their closing pitch to voters and trading barbs. >> i have dealt with guys like trump my whole life. and so have you. guys that look down on you because they have a lot of money. guys who think they're better than you. guys that inherit everything in life and then squander it. guys who stiff electricians and plumbers and contractors, working at