See No Evil (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 13 - Whitehead - full transcript
A YOUNG MOTHER STABBED
TO DEATH IN HER OWN HOME...
THIS WAS, BY FAR,
THE WORST CRIME SCENE
I HAD EVER WALKED INTO.
A FAMILY TORN APART...
SHE WAS A GREAT MOM.
HER TWIN
DAUGHTERS LEFT ALONE...
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NO CHILD
SHOULD EVER HAVE TO ENDURE.
POLICE RUN DOWN
LEAD AFTER LEAD.
BUT THEY CAN'T FIND THE KILLER.
HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
BUT THERE'S ONE WITNESS
THAT BLOWS THE CASE
WIDE-OPEN...
A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN THE CASE.
THERE WAS A SENSE OF,
"OKAY, THIS IS
GOING SOMEWHERE NOW."
A WITNESS THAT
PROVIDES CLUES
TO THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT
WHO KILLED NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010,
STARTED OUT AS JUST
ANOTHER DAY ON PATROL
FOR ROCKDALE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICE DEPUTY AL IRWIN...
HELP!
...UNTIL TWIN SISTERS
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH WHITEHEAD
FLAG IRWIN DOWN IN A PANIC.
THEY TELL IRWIN, THEIR MOTHER,
NIKKI, HAS BEEN MURDERED.
RIGHT. WHAT'S GOING ON?
WHAT'S GOING ON?
THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!
THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!
GIRLS, WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS?
WHERE IS SHE?
SEND BACKUP
TO 17 ELM STREET NORTHWEST.
COME ON, GIRLS, IN THE CAR.
UNIT 770 RESPONDING.
IRWIN CALLS FOR
BACKUP AND TAKES THE TWINS
BACK TO THE GATED COMMUNITY
WHERE THEY LIVE.
HEY, GIRLS.
JUST HANG TIGHT.
EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE
OKAY, ALL RIGHT?
DETECTIVES KEN SWIFT
AND JACKIE DUNN
ARE FIRST THROUGH THE DOOR.
LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
WHEN WE WALKED
INTO THE HOUSE,
YOU COULD IMMEDIATELY SEE
THE POOLS OF BLOOD
ON THE CARPET,
THE DRAG MARKS IN THE CARPET
FROM THE CARPET
INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM.
YOU COULD SEE
THE BLOOD SPLATTER,
THE DROPLETS THAT WERE
ON THE WALLS, ON THE COUCH,
ON THE CEILING,
ON COFFEE TABLES.
SHE HAD BEEN BRUTALLY MURDERED.
YOU COULD SMELL THE BLOOD
EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE,
LIKE WET, RUSTING METAL
IN THE AIR.
IT WAS THAT STRONG.
THIS WAS, BY FAR,
THE WORST CRIME SCENE
I HAD EVER WALKED INTO.
PAMELA WHITE SPEAKING.
JUST ONE MOMENT, PLEASE.
25 MILES AWAY,
IN ATLANTA,
NIKKI'S MOTHER,
LYNDA WHITEHEAD,
GETS THE CALL THAT
EVERY PARENT DREADS.
HELLO?
MRS. WHITEHEAD.
I ANSWERED THE PHONE, AND THAT
WAS THE WORST PHONE CALL
I HAVE EVER RECEIVED IN MY LIFE.
YACKER,
WHO WAS MY DAUGHTER'S FRIEND,
WAS ON THE OTHER END.
AND SHE WAS TELLING ME
THAT SOMETHING
HAD HAPPENED TO NIKKI
WHEN SHE WAS AT HOME.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS SO NERVOUS.
I WAS SHAKING.
I WAS JUST CRYING.
I JUST -- I JUST...
I COULDN'T CONTAIN MYSELF.
WE RODE OUT TO CONYERS.
I SAW A WHOLE LOT OF POLICE.
AND I WAS TRYING
TO GO THROUGH THE GATE.
AND POLICE ASKED ME, HE SAID,
"MA'AM, DO YOU STAY HERE?"
AND I SAID, "NO.
MY DAUGHTER DOES."
AND HE SAID, "MS. WHITEHEAD."
HE SAID, "WELL, THE ONLY THING
I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT...
SHE HAS EXPIRED."
I WAS SO NUMB AND...
JUST...
I JUST THOUGHT THE ONLY
THING I COULD THINK ABOUT
WAS MY CHILD NOT BEING HERE.
NIKKI WHITEHEAD WAS
A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF TWO.
SHE WAS DEVOTED
TO HER TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH.
SHE WAS A GREAT MOM.
SHE WAS CONCERNED
ABOUT THEIR MANNERS,
HOW THEY LOOKED.
THEY ATTENDED CHURCH.
SHE HAD THEM IN TENNIS.
SHE HAD THEM IN BALLET,
PIANO LESSONS.
SHE WAS A GREAT, GREAT MOTHER.
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?
NIKKI'S FAMILY
IS RACKED WITH SHOCK AND GRIEF.
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE
ON THE SCENE HERE,
AND WE ARE GOING
TO FIND OUT...
INVESTIGATORS HAVE TO START
HUNTING DOWN A KILLER.
THE BRUTALITY OF THE KILLING
CONVINCES POLICE
THAT THIS CRIME
WAS PERSONAL BUSINESS.
WHOEVER WAS STABBING HER
WAS REALLY EXPRESSING
THEIR ANGER IN THIS STABBING,
WHICH IS ONE OF THE CLUES.
NOT A STRANGER.
MORE THAN LIKELY, SOMEBODY
THAT'S GONNA BE CLOSE TO HER.
THE FIRST PERSON
POLICE NEED TO SPEAK TO
IS THE MAN NIKKI
AND THE TWINS LIVED WITH,
A TRUCK DRIVER
NAMED ROBERT HEAD.
THEY HAD BEEN TOGETHER
FOR QUITE SOME TIME,
AND HE RAISED
JAS AND TAS LIKE HIS OWN.
I MEAN, HE LOVED JAS AND TAS.
BUT ROBERT HEAD HAS LEFT TOWN.
THE DETECTIVES
NEED TO SPEAK TO HIM.
WE BEGAN TO CALL
ROBERT IMMEDIATELY,
AND WERE UNABLE TO GET
AHOLD OF HIS CELLPHONE.
YOU?
YOU GOT ANYTHING?
WHILE THE INVESTIGATION TEAM
TRIES TO GET HOLD OF HEAD,
FORENSIC TEAMS SWARM THE HOUSE,
LOOKING FOR ANYTHING THAT WILL
LEAD THEM TO THE KILLER.
ANY TIME YOU HAVE
A SITUATION LIKE THIS,
ESPECIALLY A MURDER,
THE CLOCK ALWAYS STARTS TICKING.
THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS
THAT BEGIN TO DETERIORATE
VERY QUICKLY OVER
A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
ESPECIALLY CONCERNING BLOOD
AND OTHER BODILY FLUIDS.
THAT CLOCK IS ALWAYS TICKING
IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD.
THE APPARENT MURDER WEAPON
WAS JUST A VASE.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN...
JUST THE VASE?
...FAIRLY QUIETLY.
ALL THE WINDOWS ARE CLOSED.
TAKE A LOOK.
THERE'S NO SIGN OF A BREAK-IN.
YOU GOT SOMETHING
THERE, TECH?
AND IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE
EVEN TRIED TO CLEAN UP.
WE TOOK LUMINOL AND SPRAYED IT.
IT'S A CHEMICAL
THAT REVEALS BLOOD.
EVEN IF SOMEBODY'S
TRIED TO CLEAN IT UP,
YOU'LL USUALLY SEE IT.
SO WE KNOW THERE WAS SOME TIME
SPENT TRYING TO
CLEAN UP A LITTLE BIT.
WHILE CSI PROCESSES THE SCENE,
THE DETECTIVES NEED TO FIND OUT
IF ANY OF THE NEIGHBORS
SAW OR HEARD ANYTHING THAT WILL
HELP THEM FIND THE KILLER.
I HAVE A SPECIAL OPERATIONS
UNIT,
AND I CALLED THEM IN,
AND I GOT THEM TO BEGIN
CANVASSING DOOR TO DOOR
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU SEE THIS, DETECTIVE?
AS WE WERE DOING THE CANVASS,
WE NOTICED A BLOTCH OF BLOOD
ON THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE.
I WANT PHOTOGRAPHS.
YEAH.
AND I WANT TO MAKE
SURE FORENSICS
GETS A GOOD LOOK AT THIS
BEFORE IT GETS SPOILED
IN ANY WAY, SHAPE,
OR FORM, OKAY?
ALL RIGHT.
BLOOD ON THE NEIGHBOR'S DOOR.
THE POLICE HAVE TO WONDER
WHAT HAPPENED ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT DOOR.
LOOK FOR SOME CAMERAS.
OBVIOUSLY,
PEOPLE HAVE CAMERAS.
WHERE?
HAVE A LOOK.
BUT THEN, THEY SEE SOMETHING
THAT MIGHT GIVE THEM
THEIR FIRST BIG CLUE.
WHAT'S THAT RIGHT THERE?
THAT SECURITY CAMERA
JUST MIGHT SHOW WHAT HAPPENED
DURING NIKKI WHITEHEAD'S
LAST MOMENTS ALIVE.
POLICE IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT
WHO BRUTALLY MURDERED
MOTHER-OF-TWO NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
INVESTIGATORS HAVE
TWO MAJOR LEADS IN THE CASE.
FIRST, THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND
NIKKI'S MISSING PARTNER,
ROBERT HEAD.
AND THEY'VE JUST FOUND BLOOD
IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE --
THE FRONT DOOR
OF NIKKI'S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR.
GOOD MORNING.
EVERYBODY IS A SUSPECT AT FIRST.
FRIENDS, FAMILY, BOYFRIENDS,
HUSBANDS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
I DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THAT.
YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT?
ANYTHING STRANGE HAPPEN
HERE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS?
INVESTIGATORS
QUESTION THE NEIGHBOR.
SO, WE TALKED
TO THE NEIGHBOR.
THE NEIGHBOR REMEMBERED THAT
HE WAS STILL IN BED THAT MORNING
AND THAT HE HAD HEARD
SOMEBODY KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
DID YOU COME TO THE DOOR
AND ANSWER IT
AND SEE WHO WAS
AT THAT DOOR?
AND HE HAD JUST DISCOUNTED IT.
THE NEIGHBOR
SAYS HE HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH NIKKI'S MURDER.
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE
TO TAKE HIS WORD FOR IT.
HE AGREES TO TURN OVER VIDEO
FROM HIS SURVEILLANCE CAMERA.
LET ME KNOW
THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY
GOT SOME FOOTAGE
FOR US TO LOOK AT.
SO FINGERS CROSSED HERE.
LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
THE NEIGHBOR SAYS
SOMEONE KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR
EARLIER THAT MORNING.
OKAY.
THE TAPE COULD RULE THE NEIGHBOR
OUT OR IN AS A SUSPECT.
THE FOOTAGE IS USELESS.
THE CCTV CAMERA
WAS POINTING THE WRONG WAY.
WITH NO USABLE VIDEO
AND NO OTHER EVIDENCE,
THE POLICE CAN'T TIE
THE NEIGHBOR TO THE CRIME.
BUT WITH THE CLOCK TICKING
AND A KILLER ON THE LOOSE,
SWIFT AND DUNN TURN TO
NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS.
WE BROUGHT THEM UPSTAIRS
AND SAT THEM DOWN
IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM,
WHERE THEY WERE ABLE
TO JUST KIND OF RELAX.
I KNOW.
WHEN WE FIRST SAW THEM
JASMIYAH WAS VERY DISTRAUGHT,
WAS CRYING YOU KNOW, "I CAN'T
BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED."
WE'LL BE OKAY.
I WANT GRANDMA.
YOU HAVE TWO YOUNG
TWIN DAUGHTERS
WHO COME HOME FROM SCHOOL
TO FIND A GRISLY MURDER SCENE
IN THEIR HOUSE
AND THEIR MOM DECEASED.
YOU CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL
SORRY FOR THEM
AND FEEL LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NO CHILD
SHOULD EVER HAVE TO ENDURE.
WHEN WE GOT THEM HERE,
THE FIRST THING
I ASKED THEM IS,
COULD THEY TELL ME
WHAT HAPPENED?
"JUST START FROM
THE BEGINNING OF YOUR DAY."
MOM?
MOM?
DON'T WE HAVE THAT
SPANISH EXAM TODAY?
YES.
I DIDN'T EVEN
PRACTICE ANYTHING.
THEY LEFT
TO GO CATCH A BUS.
YEAH. WHATEVER.
YEAH. WHATEVER.
WHEN THEY GOT TO THE BUS STOP,
THEY REALIZED
THEY HAD MISSED THE BUS.
AND INSTEAD OF GOING BACK
AND ASKING THEIR MOTHER
FOR A RIDE,
THEY HAD DECIDED
TO WALK TO SCHOOL.
THEY TOLD US THEY WERE
THERE BY FIRST PERIOD.
SO BASICALLY, THEY DIDN'T MISS
ANY OF THEIR DAY'S SCHOOL.
YES.
OKAY.
AND WHEN THEY COME HOME,
ONE OF THE TWINS SAID
THEY WENT INSIDE.
AND WAS LIKE...
- VICKI LIKES EVERYONE.
- YEAH.
IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
NOTICED THE LIGHT
TO HER ROOM WAS ON.
WENT TO HER ROOM AND THEN HEARD
THE OTHER ONE SCREAMING.
AND THEN THAT'S WHEN
THEY RAN OUTSIDE...
AND RAN INTO
A SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DEPUTY
THAT HAPPENED TO BE DRIVING BY.
THE TWINS ARE
OBVIOUSLY VERY DISTRESSED.
IT'S JUST
REALLY GUT-WRENCHING.
IT REALLY PULLS YOUR HEART
BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST
IMAGINE BEING 16
AND COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL
AND NOT JUST
YOUR MOTHER'S MURDER
BUT SUCH A VIOLENT SCENE
THAT YOU HAVE TO SEE.
POLICE ASK THE TWINS
IF THEIR MOM FELT
THREATENED BY ANYONE.
YOU HAVE ANY CLOSE FRIENDS
THAT CAME OVER OFTEN?
THEIR MOM DIDN'T
HAVE ANY ENEMIES.
BUT SHE DID HAVE A SECRET.
- ...WAS COMING IN.
- REALLY?
HIS NAME WAS JOE CARTER.
- YEAH.
- ALL RIGHT.
A BOYFRIEND
HER FIANCé, ROBERT HEAD,
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT.
THE TWINS TOLD US THAT
NIKKI ALSO HAD A BOYFRIEND
ON THE SIDE OTHER THAN ROBERT.
WAS NIKKI WHITEHEAD
INVOLVED IN A DEADLY
LOVE TRIANGLE
WITH ROBERT HEAD AND JOE CARTER?
HOW DID YOUR MOM
AND JOE GET ALONG?
THEY WERE ARGUING.
THEY WERE ARGUING?
YEAH.
THEY HAD HEARD HER
SCREAMING INTO THE PHONE,
TELLING JOE NOT TO
COME TO HER HOUSE.
SHE WAS
STRESSED ABOUT IT.
IT SAYS, "HEY.
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS.
THIS IS...
IT'S TWO JEALOUS MEN,
YOU KNOW, OVER THE SAME WOMAN."
- HE'S LIKE A MEN'S HAIRDRESSER?
- YEAH.
- HE'S A BARBER, YOU MEAN.
- YEAH.
THIS IS A, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS A GOOD CHANCE
OR SOMETHING GOOD
TO FOLLOW UP ON.
IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
DETECTIVES HAVE ANOTHER SUSPECT
IN THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
NIKKI HAS BEEN TWO-TIMING
HER MISSING FIANCé, ROBERT HEAD,
WITH A BARBER NAMED JOE CARTER.
HE'S A SIDE LOVE INTEREST
MUCH YOUNGER THAN MR. HEAD,
WHO IS ABLE TO
PROVIDE MS. WHITEHEAD
WITH A HOME FOR HER
AND HER DAUGHTERS.
SO YES.
HE WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WENT
AND FOUND MR. CARTER
THAT SAME NIGHT.
IT WAS WELL INTO THE EVENING.
THE BARBER SHOP
WAS ACTUALLY CLOSED.
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL
INDIVIDUALS STANDING OUT FRONT.
EVENING, GENTLEMEN.
AND SO SERGEANT MOON
AND I WALKED UP TO THEM
AND MADE CONTACT WITH THEM...
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MAN
BY THE NAME OF JOE CARTER.
WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO
KNOW WHO HE IS?
...TRYING TO SEE IF ONE
OF THEM WAS, IN FACT JOE.
HAVE YOU HEARD
THAT NAME BEFORE?
IF I KNEW IT,
I WOULD TELL YOU.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT THAT.
ALL THE GENTLEMEN
STANDING OUTSIDE,
THEY DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO US.
HAVEN'T HEARD
THAT NAME BEFORE?
NOTHING AT ALL?
NO.
WELL, WE'RE THE COPS...
AND WE JUST SIMPLY
CAME OUT AND SAID IT THAT,
"HEY, WE'RE LOOKING
FOR JOE CARTER.
WE NEED TO SPEAK TO HIM
ABOUT MS. WHITEHEAD.
SHE'S BEEN MURDERED."
AT THAT POINT,
YOU COULD TELL INSTANTLY
WHO MR. CARTER WAS.
THANK YOU FOR
SPEAKING WITH US TONIGHT.
WE JUST HAD A COUPLE
QUESTIONS ABOUT MS. WHITEHEAD.
CARTER APPEARS TO BE SHOCKED.
BUT THE POLICE
WANT TO QUESTION HIM.
WE BEGIN
TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS...
WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WERE
IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER.
WANTED TO ASK YOU WHEN
THE LAST TIME YOU SAW HER WAS.
...WHERE HE HAD BEEN
THE LAST 48 HOURS,
THE NATURE OF HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH MS. WHITEHEAD.
YOU DON'T THINK
I DID IT, DO YOU?
WELL, SIR, WE JUST
GOT TO ASK THE QUESTIONS.
CARTER DOESN'T WANT
TO BE A SUSPECT IN A MURDER.
SHE CAME BY MY PLACE
A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
HE TALKS.
SHE CAME TO MY PLACE.
SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS...
HE TELLS INVESTIGATORS THAT,
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MURDER,
NIKKI HAD COME TO HIS HOUSE
RIGHT AFTER HER
FASHION CLASS WAS OVER.
WE NEED TO TALK.
THAT'S WHERE HE TOLD NIKKI
HE DIDN'T WANT
TO SEE HER ANYMORE.
THEIR RELATIONSHIP HAD BEEN
SUFFERING FROM SOME PROBLEMS.
HOW ARE YOU NOT GETTING THIS?
WE'VE MOVED ON.
I'VE MOVED ON.
PLEASE DO THE SAME.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
NIKKI WAS FURIOUS
AND STORMED OUT OF
HIS APARTMENT BUILDING.
HE SAYS THAT WAS THE LAST TIME
HE EVER SAW
NIKKI WHITEHEAD ALIVE.
IS HE TELLING THE TRUTH?
POLICE DISCOVER
A WAY TO FIND OUT.
IS THERE ANY CHANCE...
SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
TRAINED ON THE FRONT DOOR
TO CARTER'S CONDO BUILDING.
- WHAT DO YOU SEE, SWIFT?
- NOTHING YET.
DETECTIVES SWIFT AND DUNN
FAST-FORWARD TO 10:30 P.M.,
THE TIME WHEN CARTER CLAIMS
THAT NIKKI ARRIVED.
THEY WAIT AND WATCH.
OKAY. THERE SHE IS.
SHE'S ARRIVING.
WHAT TIME IS
THAT ON YOUR SCREEN?
THAT'S HER.
10:30.
JUST LIKE CARTER CLAIMED,
NIKKI ARRIVES AROUND 10:30 P.M.
CAN YOU SPEED IT UP?
LET'S SEE
WHAT TIME SHE LEAVES.
- WHAT TIME IS THAT?
-11:01.
11:01.
SHE'S LEAVING.
THERE YOU GO.
AND HALF AN HOUR LATER,
THERE SHE IS AGAIN,
LEAVING EXACTLY
WHEN CARTER SAID SHE DID.
HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH
ON THAT ONE.
BUT THE POLICE ARE STILL
NOT TOTALLY CONVINCED.
STILL UNEASY ABOUT THAT.
THE CCTV ONLY PROVES NIKKI
WAS THERE WHEN HE SAID SHE WAS.
CARTER COULD STILL
BE THE KILLER.
I STILL SAY WE GET
A POLY ON HIM.
THE POLICE ASK HIM TO
TAKE A POLYGRAPH TEST.
YOU MEET WITH THE POLYGRAPHER.
IN REFERENCE TO NIKKI'S DEATH,
ARE YOU GOING TO ANSWER...
THEN THEY HOOK THEIR PULSE UP
AND DIFFERENT MEASUREMENTS
THAT THEY TAKE.
AND A POLYGRAPHER WILL
ASK THEM THE QUESTION.
AND IT MEASURES A RESPONSE.
THEY'RE VERY SKILLED AT IT.
BEFORE 2009, HAVE YOU EVER
USED A WEAPON TO HURT ANYONE?
CARTER DENIES HE'S THE KILLER.
THE TEST IS COMPLETE.
BUT WHILE INVESTIGATORS
WAIT FOR RESULTS...
I THINK WE SHOULD
GET TO THE CHASE.
THIS WAS A VIOLENT
ENCOUNTER WITH NIKKI.
WHOEVER MURDERED HER
FOUGHT WITH HER.
AND THAT LIFE-AND-DEATH FIGHT
SURELY LEFT TELLTALE MARKS
ON THE KILLER'S BODY.
MR. CARTER, COULD I PLEASE
ASK YOU TO STAND FOR US?
WE KNOW NIKKI
WAS FIGHTING DEFENSIVELY.
AND SHE HAD FINGERNAILS.
SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE
IF SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE
SCRATCH MARKS,
BITE MARKS, ET CETERA.
AND JUST LIFT
YOUR SHIRT FOR US.
HE LOOKS CLEAN.
THERE ISN'T A MARK ON HIM.
YEAH.
THANK YOU.
BUT WHAT ABOUT
THE POLYGRAPH?
HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
THE POLYGRAPHER
WAS VERY CONFIDENT THAT
JOE WAS BEING TRUTHFUL.
CARTER HAS NO INJURIES,
AND HE'S PASSED
THE LIE DETECTOR TEST.
IT LOOKS LIKE JOE CARTER
IS OFF THE HOOK.
WITH CARTER IN THE CLEAR,
THE POLICE HAVE JUST
ONE SUSPECT LEFT --
NIKKI'S TRUCK DRIVER FIANCé,
ROBERT HEAD.
BUT HEAD LEFT TOWN
ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER
AND HASN'T BEEN
HEARD FROM SINCE.
HIS CELLPHONE ISN'T ANSWERING,
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS.
MURDER VICTIM
NIKKI WHITEHEAD'S SECRET LOVER,
JOE CARTER, IS OFF THE HOOK,
LEAVING INVESTIGATORS
IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
WITHOUT A PRIME SUSPECT.
THAT LEADS THEM
BACK TO SQUARE ONE,
RIGHT WHERE THEY LEFT
NIKKI'S OTHER LOVE INTEREST,
ROBERT HEAD.
IT'S VERY REASONABLE FOR ANYONE
TO THINK THAT ROBERT WOULD BE
FURIOUS FINDING OUT ABOUT JOE.
BUT HEAD HAS BEEN OUT OF TOWN
SINCE THE MORNING OF THE MURDER.
AND WHAT'S MORE, HE'S NOT
ANSWERING HIS CELLPHONE.
THE DETECTIVES NEED
TO SPEAK TO HIM URGENTLY.
AND THEN...
HELLO?
HELLO. YES.
ROBERT HEAD?
YEAH.
THIS IS ROBERT HEAD.
WHO'S THIS?
THIS IS
CAPTAIN JACKIE DUNN.
SO, WE TALKED
TO ROBERT VIA PHONE.
AND HE EXPLAINED TO US THAT
HE WAS OUT IN THE MIDWEST.
YEAH?
WHEN THEY FINALLY TELL HEAD
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FIANCéE,
HE SEEMS GENUINELY SHOCKED.
WHAT?
BUT ROBERT HEAD WOULDN'T
BE THE FIRST KILLER
TO ACT SURPRISED WHEN
FACING POLICE QUESTIONS.
IF HE WAS ON THE ROAD
AND HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY
WHEN NIKKI WAS KILLED,
AS HE CLAIMS,
THERE SHOULD BE A RECORD OF IT.
CHIEF?
YES?
THE GPS COORDINATES.
GREAT. THANK YOU.
HEAD'S TRUCKING COMPANY
SENDS OVER THE GPS DATA.
AND IT CONFIRMS THAT
HIS TRUCK WAS OUT OF STATE
AT THE TIME OF NIKKI'S MURDER.
YEAH. YEAH. I'VE GOT
THAT INFORMATION NOW.
WE NEED TO RUN...
BUT IT DOESN'T PROVE
THAT HEAD WAS DRIVING.
YEAH. 15 MINUTES
TO TOWN. THANK YOU.
IT'S POSSIBLE
SOMEONE ELSE WAS DRIVING,
GIVING ROBERT HEAD AN ALIBI.
THE DATA SHOWS THAT HEAD'S TRUCK
STOPPED FOR GAS
IN SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA,
AT AROUND 8:30
ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER.
AND GAS STATIONS
HAVE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
NOW THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE
WHETHER HEAD WAS ACTUALLY
DRIVING THAT TRUCK.
THEY LOAD UP THE GAS STATION
SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE.
ALL RIGHT, CAN YOU SPEED IT UP
A LITTLE BIT UNTIL WE GET
THE ACTUAL TRUCK IN VIEW?
WHEN HE GETS
OUT OF THAT TRUCK,
I WANT YOU TO
FREEZE ON HIS FACE.
THERE'S NO QUESTION
IT'S ROBERT HEAD.
HE WAS 550 MILES AWAY
FROM CONYERS, IN INDIANA,
WHEN NIKKI WAS MURDERED,
JUST AS HE CLAIMED.
IT'S BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
FOR DUNN AND HIS MEN.
WITH THE CASE STALLING,
INVESTIGATORS GO BACK
TO THE CRIME SCENE,
LOOKING FOR THE ONE THING
THAT MIGHT HELP
THEM SOLVE THIS CASE.
I TOOK SOME OF MY
SPECIAL OPERATION OFFICERS.
AND I HAD THEM LITERALLY
WALK THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND AS THEY WALKED, THEY LOOKED
FOR SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
THEY SPOT A SECURITY CAMERA
AT A GAS STATION
ON WEST AVENUE,
THE ROAD OPPOSITE NIKKI'S
GATED COMMUNITY.
ALL RIGHT.
SO WHAT DO WE GOT, SWIFT?
CAMERA BACK THERE,
CAMERA OVER HERE.
WE'VE HAVE A COUPLE
AROUND HERE.
MAYBE WE CAN CHECK
THE FOOTAGE ON THAT.
WELL, WE NEED TO TALK
TO SOMEBODY ABOUT THAT, RIGHT?
IT'S A LONG SHOT,
BUT INVESTIGATORS
HOPE TO SEE SOMETHING,
ANYTHING THAT LEADS
THEM TO NIKKI'S KILLER.
APPRECIATE YOU
DOING THIS FOR US.
ALL RIGHT, SO YOU GUYS
KEEP THIS ON A 24-HOUR LOOP.
HOW DOES THAT WORK?
THEY BEGIN TO GO
THROUGH THE FOOTAGE
FROM THE MORNING
OF NIKKI'S MURDER.
CAN YOU, UM, REWIND IT?
WE'RE NOT SEEING
ANYTHING RIGHT NOW.
THEY SCROLL BACK.
STILL NOTHING.
NOTHING ON THAT.
NOTHING.
THEY GO FORWARD.
IF ONLY WE HAD
A LUCKY BREAK.
WHAT'S THAT THERE?
OKAY. HOLD IT.
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE.
IT'S NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH.
LOOK AT THAT, SWIFT.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THEIR
VIDEO, WE SEE THE TWINS
GO UP TO A VEHICLE AND SPEAK
TO THE DRIVER FOR A MINUTE
AND THEN GET INTO
THE VEHICLE AND DRIVE AWAY.
WHO'S DRIVING THE CAR?
AND WHAT CONNECTION DOES HE HAVE
TO NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS?
WE'RE GONNA NEED TO GET
A COPY OF THIS TAPE
'CAUSE WE GOT TO
BRING IT BACK.
WE GOT TO BLOW IT UP.
IT WAS A BIG BREAKTHROUGH
IN THE CASE.
THERE WAS A SENSE OF, "OKAY.
THIS IS GOING SOMEWHERE NOW."
WE COULD TELL THAT
THE CAR WAS UNIQUE --
WHITE HOOD WITH A BLUE BUMPER.
SO WE DISTRIBUTED WHAT IS
COMMONLY KNOWN AS A BOLO
IF YOU SEE THIS CAR, PLEASE
IMMEDIATELY GIVE US A CALL.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
IT'S NOT LONG BEFORE THE CAR
IS SPOTTED IN THE NEXT TOWN.
THE DRIVER IS A MIDDLE-AGED MAN
NAMED ROBERT LEONARD.
WHEN WE WERE ABLE
TO TALK TO MR. LEONARD
HE CONFIRMED THAT HE WAS
JUST FILLING UP GAS
WHEN BOTH JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
APPROACHED HIM AND ASKED HIM
FOR A RIDE TO SCHOOL.
LEONARD SAYS
HE DROPPED THE TWINS OFF
AT SCHOOL ABOUT
FIVE MINUTES LATER.
THE POLICE DON'T BUY
LEONARD'S STORY.
YOU HAVE A GROWN MAN DRIVING
A CAR AT A GAS STATION,
AND TWO COMPLETELY UNFAMILIAR
16-YEAR-OLD GIRLS COME UP TO YOU
AND ASK YOU FOR A RIDE.
I WOULD GUESS THAT
MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY NO.
LEONARD AGREES TO LET
THE POLICE SEARCH HIS CAR.
IT'S CLEAN. NO BLOOD,
NO SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE.
BUT HE'S NOT OFF THE HOOK.
IF HE DROPPED THE GIRLS
OFF AT SCHOOL,
THEN THERE'S GOING
TO BE A RECORD OF IT.
PEOPLE CAN LIE.
VIDEO CAMERAS DON'T.
AND ROCKDALE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
HAS EXCELLENT CCTV.
- HERE, YOUR SHOT, YOU HAVE...
- THAT'S THE ONE RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S THE ONE?
'CAUSE WE'LL NEED
TO SEE THE PARKING LOT.
THEY CUE
THE TAPE UP TO 8:00 A.M.,
THE TIME THE TWINS
SAID THEY GOT TO SCHOOL.
THERE'S NO SIGN OF LEONARD'S CAR
OR THE TWINS.
8:30, STILL NO SIGN
OF THE CAR.
9:30...
10:00...
WHERE IS LEONARD'S CAR?
AND WHERE ARE
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH?
CAN YOU REWIND THAT?
DO YOU RECOGNIZE
THAT CAR?
SURE DO.
LEONARD'S CAR.
AT 10:16,
THEY SEE LEONARD'S CAR
WITH ITS DISTINCTIVE
WHITE HOOD AND BLUE BUMPER
PULL UP AT THE SCHOOL GATE.
10:16.25.
10:16.25.
OKAY. UM, WE'RE GONNA NEED
A SHOT OF THE FRONT FOYER
TO SEE WHO GETS
OUT OF THAT CAR.
CAN YOU DO THAT?
YES, WE CAN.
IT'LL BE ABOUT A MINUTE AFTER.
SO CAN YOU PLAY IT FROM...
RIGHT HERE?
...10:17?
YEAH. IS THAT
THE FRONT FOYER?
YES.
IT'S JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
WALKING INTO THEIR SCHOOL.
LEONARD IS TELLING THE TRUTH.
BUT SOMETHING IS BOTHERING DUNN.
DURING THEIR INVESTIGATION,
THE GIRLS CLAIMED
THEY'D ARRIVED AT SCHOOL
AT 8:00 A.M.
BUT THE TAPE SHOWS
THEY WALKED IN AT 10:17 A.M.
SO THEY MISSED TWO CLASSES.
AND IN THEIR INTERVIEWS WITH US,
THEY WERE ADAMANT THAT
THEY DIDN'T MISS ANY CLASSES
AND THAT THEY GOT THERE,
YOU KNOW, SHORTLY AFTER 8:00.
SOMEONE'S
NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
THEIR STORIES
ARE NOT ADDING UP.
WHEN THEY GAVE US THIS STORY
THAT DECEIVED US AS TO TIME,
THEN OBVIOUSLY
WE'RE BEGINNING TO SAY,
"WE NEED TO LOOK AT
THE TWINS A LOT CLOSER."
CONYERS DETECTIVES ARE
INVESTIGATING THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
THEY HAVE NO LEADS
AND NO SUSPECTS.
BUT THEY'VE JUST DISCOVERED
THAT HIGH SCHOOL CCTV FOOTAGE
HAS PROVED THAT
NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH,
LIED TO THEM ABOUT
THE TIME THEY ARRIVED AT SCHOOL
ON THE DAY OF THE MURDER.
SOMETHING IS NOT ADDING UP.
DETECTIVE CARSON AND I JUST NEED
TO BACK THIS UP A LITTLE BIT
BECAUSE WE'RE A LITTLE UNCLEAR
ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT YOU'VE TOLD US.
LET'S JUST GO
BACK THROUGH IT. SO...
HE ASKS THEM AGAIN WHAT TIME
THEY SHOWED UP FOR SCHOOL.
YOU DIDN'T GET TO SCHOOL
TILL 10:30.
IT WAS 10:30, RIGHT?
10:15. YEAH.
10:15.
THIS TIME, JAS AND TAS TELL
POLICE THAT THEY'D ACTUALLY
OVERSLEPT ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
AND WENT INTO SCHOOL LATE.
WHY DIDN'T YOU
TELL ME THIS BEFORE?
THIS IS ALL BRAND-NEW
INFORMATION, THOUGH, ISN'T IT?
SWIFT PROBES DEEPER.
AND THAT'S WHEN THE TWINS
CHANGE THEIR STORY ONCE AGAIN.
MISSING THREE CLASSES,
WHICH YOU NEGLECTED TO TELL US.
THEY SAY THAT THEY'D ARGUED
WITH THEIR MOM, NIKKI,
THE VERY MORNING
SHE WAS MURDERED.
REAL MURDERER, OKAY?
YEAH.
IT'S SOMETHING
THEY NEVER MENTIONED BEFORE.
- EXACTLY.
- YEAH, SO LET'S FIND OUT
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
WE JUST LOST OUR MOM.
AND NOW, YOU'RE -- YOU'RE...
WE TALKED TO THEM
KIND OF INTO THE NIGHT,
DISCUSSING ALL THIS
BUT KIND OF CONFRONTING
WITH SOME OF
THEIR DISCREPANCIES.
WE BEGIN TRYING TACTICS,
INTERVIEW TACTICS SUCH AS
WE'LL TELL JAS,
"HEY, JAS. TAS SAID THIS"...
TRYING TO SEE IF THAT WILL
THROW THEM OFF
AND GET THEM TO COME TO
A DIFFERENT STATEMENT.
AS THE IMPLICATION
OF THE CCTV FOOTAGE
BECOMES CLEAR,
THE TWINS' STORY KEEPS CHANGING.
DUNN BRINGS THE TWINS
BACK TOGETHER.
WHY ARE THEY LYING?
I BEGAN TO TURN IT MORE INTO
AN INTERROGATION
WHERE I WAS CONFRONTING THEM
WITH THE DISCREPANCIES.
AS THE PRESSURE
BUILDS ON THE GIRLS,
THEIR ATTITUDE CHANGES.
THE FOOTAGE ON
THE CAMERAS DO NOT LIE.
THIS IS SOME KIND
OF **** JOKE, RIGHT?
THAT CHARM
LEFT THEM REAL QUICK.
- ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
- SERIOUSLY?
DO I LOOK LIKE
I'M KIDDING?
AND THEY TURNED INTO
TWO LITTLE HOSTILE,
YOUNG LADIES
THAT I WAS AMAZED
AT HOW MUCH HOSTILITY
COULD COME OUT OF THEM
AND HOW MUCH CONTRAST THAT WAS
TO HOW SWEET
THEY HAD BEEN EARLIER
WHEN THEY WERE TRYING
TO MANIPULATE.
- MY ATTITUDE.
- THERE'S NOTHING WRONG
WITH OUR ATTITUDE.
AND THERE'S SOMETHING
THAT MAKES THEM
EVEN MORE SUSPICIOUS.
THE ENTIRE TIME I'M
INTERVIEWING, WE'RE INSIDE.
IT'S A COMFORTABLE ATMOSPHERE.
THEY'RE WEARING GLOVES
AND STILL HAVE THEIR JACKET ON.
AND I KNEW, EVENTUALLY,
I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET HER
TO TAKE THOSE GLOVES OFF
AND GET THAT JACKET OFF
SO I CAN LOOK AT
HER HANDS AND ARMS.
DETECTIVE CARSON
ISOLATES THE TWINS
FROM EACH OTHER AGAIN.
THEN, HE ASKS JAS TO TAKE OFF
HER GLOVES AND COAT.
EVENTUALLY, I HAD TO REMOVE
THE GLOVES AND THE JACKET.
AND THERE, I COULD SEE SCRATCHES
AND BITE MARKS ON HER ARM.
THE VETERAN DETECTIVE HAS SEEN
MARKS LIKE THESE BEFORE.
THEY LOOK LIKE DEFENSIVE WOUNDS,
THE KIND SOMEONE MAKES WHEN
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE.
AND BOTH TWINS HAVE THEM.
THE NATURE OF THE INJURY
WAS SUCH THAT IT WAS CAUSED
BY SOMEONE WHO HAD
A PARTICULAR SET OF TEETH...
...SPECIFICALLY
A GAP IN THE TEETH.
BOTH JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
DID NOT HAVE THAT GAP
IN THEIR TEETH.
AND NIKKI DID.
IT'S ALMOST
TOO HORRIFIC TO BE TRUE.
BUT JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
JUST BECAME PRIME SUSPECTS
IN THE STABBING
OF THEIR OWN MOTHER.
THIS IS WHAT --
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO I -- I GOT
THEM IN THE...
POLICE RETURN ONCE MORE
TO THE WHITEHEADS' HOME,
THIS TIME TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE
LINKING NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS
TO THE KILLING.
BEFORE LONG,
THEY UNCOVER SOMETHING
THAT LAYS OUT THEIR PLAN
ALMOST WORD FOR WORD.
IN ONE OF THEIR
JOURNALS, WE CAN SEE WHERE,
AT A POINT THEY WERE WRITING,
YOU COULD SEE THE TWO DIFFERENT
HANDWRITING IN IT.
ONE WOULD WRITE,
AND ONE WOULD RESPOND.
THE POLICE CAN HARDLY
BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE READING.
AND THEY ACTUALLY WROTE THAT,
"WE'VE GOT TO DO IT.
WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF HER."
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE AGREES.
"WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF HER
AND GOT TO GET RID OF HER ASAP."
THE LIES,
THE DEFENSIVE WOUNDS...
...AND NOW
CHILLING JOURNAL ENTRIES
INCRIMINATING
THESE 16-YEAR-OLD TWINS.
WE HAD A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE
THAT ALL POINTED BACK
TO THE TWO OF THEM.
TAS.
ONCE THE TWINS WERE ARRESTED,
THEY WERE PLACED
INTO THE BACK SEAT
OF POLICE CARS, WHERE...
...WE ALWAYS HAVE
AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING,
ESPECIALLY IN A CASE LIKE THIS.
THE AUDIO IN THE CAR,
IT WAS JUST, FOR US,
AS POLICE OFFICERS
AND DETECTIVES,
IT WAS JUST THE FINAL NAIL
AND ANOTHER CONFIRMATION
THAT WE HAD IT RIGHT.
WHEN THE TRUTH
IS FINALLY REVEALED,
THIS NIGHTMARE
NIKKI'S FAMILY ARE LIVING
SOMEHOW GETS EVEN WORSE.
I'VE LOST MY OLDEST CHILD,
AND I LOST MY FIRST SET
OF GRANDKIDS.
I ALWAYS SAW THEM
AT HARVARD OR YALE
AND NEVER WOULD
I HAVE EVER IMAGINED,
THAT THEY WOULD BE
SITTING IN A JAIL CELL
FOR KILLING THEIR MOTHER.
FACING A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE,
THE TWINS FINALLY
ADMIT WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
LIKE MANY PARENTS,
NIKKI HAS BEEN STRUGGLING
WITH HER TEENAGE DAUGHTERS.
WHAT THE HELL
IS WRONG WITH YOU?
BUT THEN,
ON THE 13th OF JANUARY,
THINGS BOIL OVER
WHEN JAS AND TAS
ARE LATE FOR SCHOOL.
THEN, SIMMERING
TEENAGE RESENTMENT
SOON BLOWS UP INTO
AN EXPLOSIVE FIGHT.
YOU CUT ME!
AAH!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A --
YEAH? WHY?
NO!
GET OUT!
NO! MOM, YOU NEED TO
**** GET OUT!
I HATE YOU!
EVERYONE, GET OUT!
NIKKI PROBABLY HAD SOME
RESERVE IN DEFENDING HERSELF.
THESE WERE HER DAUGHTERS.
SHE PROBABLY DIDN'T
WANT TO HIT THEM
AND BE VIOLENT WITH THEM
AS YOU WOULD NEED TO BE TO
FEND OFF THIS KIND OF ATTACK.
AND SO THAT RESERVE, PROBABLY,
AND THAT LOVE AND HESITATION
TO FIGHT BACK
PROBABLY COST HER HER LIFE.
- NO!
- GIVE IT BACK!
THESE TWO GIRLS STABBED HER
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
50-SOMETHING TIMES.
STOP YELLING.
THE TWINS THEN DRAG
HER DEAD BODY INTO THE BATH TUB.
I DON'T KNOW HOW ANY 16-YEAR-OLD
CAN LOOK AT THEIR MOTHER
AND DECIDE TO END HER LIFE.
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH WHITEHEAD
PLEAD GUILTY TO
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
AND ARE BOTH SENTENCED
TO 30 YEARS BEHIND BARS,
TWIN SENTENCES FOR THESE
TWISTED TWIN KILLERS.
CCTV PLAYED A KEY ROLE
IN THE CONVICTION
OF TAS AND JAS WHITEHEAD.
THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
WAS THE FIRST PROOF
THAT THEY WERE BEING
DECEPTIVE TO US.
IT GAVE US THE EVIDENCE THAT
WE NEEDED TO FOCUS ON THEM.
I'M AFRAID FOR OTHERS
WHEN THEY GET OUT.
YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY
THAT THEY WOULD NEVER
KILL AGAIN, YOU KNOW,
BECAUSE IF YOU CAN DO THIS
TO YOUR OWN MOTHER,
YOU KNOW, GOD HELP US ALL.
TO DEATH IN HER OWN HOME...
THIS WAS, BY FAR,
THE WORST CRIME SCENE
I HAD EVER WALKED INTO.
A FAMILY TORN APART...
SHE WAS A GREAT MOM.
HER TWIN
DAUGHTERS LEFT ALONE...
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NO CHILD
SHOULD EVER HAVE TO ENDURE.
POLICE RUN DOWN
LEAD AFTER LEAD.
BUT THEY CAN'T FIND THE KILLER.
HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
BUT THERE'S ONE WITNESS
THAT BLOWS THE CASE
WIDE-OPEN...
A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN THE CASE.
THERE WAS A SENSE OF,
"OKAY, THIS IS
GOING SOMEWHERE NOW."
A WITNESS THAT
PROVIDES CLUES
TO THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT
WHO KILLED NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010,
STARTED OUT AS JUST
ANOTHER DAY ON PATROL
FOR ROCKDALE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICE DEPUTY AL IRWIN...
HELP!
...UNTIL TWIN SISTERS
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH WHITEHEAD
FLAG IRWIN DOWN IN A PANIC.
THEY TELL IRWIN, THEIR MOTHER,
NIKKI, HAS BEEN MURDERED.
RIGHT. WHAT'S GOING ON?
WHAT'S GOING ON?
THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!
THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD!
GIRLS, WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS?
WHERE IS SHE?
SEND BACKUP
TO 17 ELM STREET NORTHWEST.
COME ON, GIRLS, IN THE CAR.
UNIT 770 RESPONDING.
IRWIN CALLS FOR
BACKUP AND TAKES THE TWINS
BACK TO THE GATED COMMUNITY
WHERE THEY LIVE.
HEY, GIRLS.
JUST HANG TIGHT.
EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE
OKAY, ALL RIGHT?
DETECTIVES KEN SWIFT
AND JACKIE DUNN
ARE FIRST THROUGH THE DOOR.
LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
WHEN WE WALKED
INTO THE HOUSE,
YOU COULD IMMEDIATELY SEE
THE POOLS OF BLOOD
ON THE CARPET,
THE DRAG MARKS IN THE CARPET
FROM THE CARPET
INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM.
YOU COULD SEE
THE BLOOD SPLATTER,
THE DROPLETS THAT WERE
ON THE WALLS, ON THE COUCH,
ON THE CEILING,
ON COFFEE TABLES.
SHE HAD BEEN BRUTALLY MURDERED.
YOU COULD SMELL THE BLOOD
EVERYWHERE IN THE HOUSE,
LIKE WET, RUSTING METAL
IN THE AIR.
IT WAS THAT STRONG.
THIS WAS, BY FAR,
THE WORST CRIME SCENE
I HAD EVER WALKED INTO.
PAMELA WHITE SPEAKING.
JUST ONE MOMENT, PLEASE.
25 MILES AWAY,
IN ATLANTA,
NIKKI'S MOTHER,
LYNDA WHITEHEAD,
GETS THE CALL THAT
EVERY PARENT DREADS.
HELLO?
MRS. WHITEHEAD.
I ANSWERED THE PHONE, AND THAT
WAS THE WORST PHONE CALL
I HAVE EVER RECEIVED IN MY LIFE.
YACKER,
WHO WAS MY DAUGHTER'S FRIEND,
WAS ON THE OTHER END.
AND SHE WAS TELLING ME
THAT SOMETHING
HAD HAPPENED TO NIKKI
WHEN SHE WAS AT HOME.
AT THAT POINT, I WAS SO NERVOUS.
I WAS SHAKING.
I WAS JUST CRYING.
I JUST -- I JUST...
I COULDN'T CONTAIN MYSELF.
WE RODE OUT TO CONYERS.
I SAW A WHOLE LOT OF POLICE.
AND I WAS TRYING
TO GO THROUGH THE GATE.
AND POLICE ASKED ME, HE SAID,
"MA'AM, DO YOU STAY HERE?"
AND I SAID, "NO.
MY DAUGHTER DOES."
AND HE SAID, "MS. WHITEHEAD."
HE SAID, "WELL, THE ONLY THING
I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT...
SHE HAS EXPIRED."
I WAS SO NUMB AND...
JUST...
I JUST THOUGHT THE ONLY
THING I COULD THINK ABOUT
WAS MY CHILD NOT BEING HERE.
NIKKI WHITEHEAD WAS
A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF TWO.
SHE WAS DEVOTED
TO HER TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH.
SHE WAS A GREAT MOM.
SHE WAS CONCERNED
ABOUT THEIR MANNERS,
HOW THEY LOOKED.
THEY ATTENDED CHURCH.
SHE HAD THEM IN TENNIS.
SHE HAD THEM IN BALLET,
PIANO LESSONS.
SHE WAS A GREAT, GREAT MOTHER.
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?
NIKKI'S FAMILY
IS RACKED WITH SHOCK AND GRIEF.
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE
ON THE SCENE HERE,
AND WE ARE GOING
TO FIND OUT...
INVESTIGATORS HAVE TO START
HUNTING DOWN A KILLER.
THE BRUTALITY OF THE KILLING
CONVINCES POLICE
THAT THIS CRIME
WAS PERSONAL BUSINESS.
WHOEVER WAS STABBING HER
WAS REALLY EXPRESSING
THEIR ANGER IN THIS STABBING,
WHICH IS ONE OF THE CLUES.
NOT A STRANGER.
MORE THAN LIKELY, SOMEBODY
THAT'S GONNA BE CLOSE TO HER.
THE FIRST PERSON
POLICE NEED TO SPEAK TO
IS THE MAN NIKKI
AND THE TWINS LIVED WITH,
A TRUCK DRIVER
NAMED ROBERT HEAD.
THEY HAD BEEN TOGETHER
FOR QUITE SOME TIME,
AND HE RAISED
JAS AND TAS LIKE HIS OWN.
I MEAN, HE LOVED JAS AND TAS.
BUT ROBERT HEAD HAS LEFT TOWN.
THE DETECTIVES
NEED TO SPEAK TO HIM.
WE BEGAN TO CALL
ROBERT IMMEDIATELY,
AND WERE UNABLE TO GET
AHOLD OF HIS CELLPHONE.
YOU?
YOU GOT ANYTHING?
WHILE THE INVESTIGATION TEAM
TRIES TO GET HOLD OF HEAD,
FORENSIC TEAMS SWARM THE HOUSE,
LOOKING FOR ANYTHING THAT WILL
LEAD THEM TO THE KILLER.
ANY TIME YOU HAVE
A SITUATION LIKE THIS,
ESPECIALLY A MURDER,
THE CLOCK ALWAYS STARTS TICKING.
THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS
THAT BEGIN TO DETERIORATE
VERY QUICKLY OVER
A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
ESPECIALLY CONCERNING BLOOD
AND OTHER BODILY FLUIDS.
THAT CLOCK IS ALWAYS TICKING
IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD.
THE APPARENT MURDER WEAPON
WAS JUST A VASE.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN...
JUST THE VASE?
...FAIRLY QUIETLY.
ALL THE WINDOWS ARE CLOSED.
TAKE A LOOK.
THERE'S NO SIGN OF A BREAK-IN.
YOU GOT SOMETHING
THERE, TECH?
AND IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE
EVEN TRIED TO CLEAN UP.
WE TOOK LUMINOL AND SPRAYED IT.
IT'S A CHEMICAL
THAT REVEALS BLOOD.
EVEN IF SOMEBODY'S
TRIED TO CLEAN IT UP,
YOU'LL USUALLY SEE IT.
SO WE KNOW THERE WAS SOME TIME
SPENT TRYING TO
CLEAN UP A LITTLE BIT.
WHILE CSI PROCESSES THE SCENE,
THE DETECTIVES NEED TO FIND OUT
IF ANY OF THE NEIGHBORS
SAW OR HEARD ANYTHING THAT WILL
HELP THEM FIND THE KILLER.
I HAVE A SPECIAL OPERATIONS
UNIT,
AND I CALLED THEM IN,
AND I GOT THEM TO BEGIN
CANVASSING DOOR TO DOOR
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU SEE THIS, DETECTIVE?
AS WE WERE DOING THE CANVASS,
WE NOTICED A BLOTCH OF BLOOD
ON THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE.
I WANT PHOTOGRAPHS.
YEAH.
AND I WANT TO MAKE
SURE FORENSICS
GETS A GOOD LOOK AT THIS
BEFORE IT GETS SPOILED
IN ANY WAY, SHAPE,
OR FORM, OKAY?
ALL RIGHT.
BLOOD ON THE NEIGHBOR'S DOOR.
THE POLICE HAVE TO WONDER
WHAT HAPPENED ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT DOOR.
LOOK FOR SOME CAMERAS.
OBVIOUSLY,
PEOPLE HAVE CAMERAS.
WHERE?
HAVE A LOOK.
BUT THEN, THEY SEE SOMETHING
THAT MIGHT GIVE THEM
THEIR FIRST BIG CLUE.
WHAT'S THAT RIGHT THERE?
THAT SECURITY CAMERA
JUST MIGHT SHOW WHAT HAPPENED
DURING NIKKI WHITEHEAD'S
LAST MOMENTS ALIVE.
POLICE IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT
WHO BRUTALLY MURDERED
MOTHER-OF-TWO NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
INVESTIGATORS HAVE
TWO MAJOR LEADS IN THE CASE.
FIRST, THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND
NIKKI'S MISSING PARTNER,
ROBERT HEAD.
AND THEY'VE JUST FOUND BLOOD
IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE --
THE FRONT DOOR
OF NIKKI'S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR.
GOOD MORNING.
EVERYBODY IS A SUSPECT AT FIRST.
FRIENDS, FAMILY, BOYFRIENDS,
HUSBANDS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
I DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THAT.
YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT?
ANYTHING STRANGE HAPPEN
HERE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS?
INVESTIGATORS
QUESTION THE NEIGHBOR.
SO, WE TALKED
TO THE NEIGHBOR.
THE NEIGHBOR REMEMBERED THAT
HE WAS STILL IN BED THAT MORNING
AND THAT HE HAD HEARD
SOMEBODY KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
DID YOU COME TO THE DOOR
AND ANSWER IT
AND SEE WHO WAS
AT THAT DOOR?
AND HE HAD JUST DISCOUNTED IT.
THE NEIGHBOR
SAYS HE HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH NIKKI'S MURDER.
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE
TO TAKE HIS WORD FOR IT.
HE AGREES TO TURN OVER VIDEO
FROM HIS SURVEILLANCE CAMERA.
LET ME KNOW
THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY
GOT SOME FOOTAGE
FOR US TO LOOK AT.
SO FINGERS CROSSED HERE.
LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
THE NEIGHBOR SAYS
SOMEONE KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR
EARLIER THAT MORNING.
OKAY.
THE TAPE COULD RULE THE NEIGHBOR
OUT OR IN AS A SUSPECT.
THE FOOTAGE IS USELESS.
THE CCTV CAMERA
WAS POINTING THE WRONG WAY.
WITH NO USABLE VIDEO
AND NO OTHER EVIDENCE,
THE POLICE CAN'T TIE
THE NEIGHBOR TO THE CRIME.
BUT WITH THE CLOCK TICKING
AND A KILLER ON THE LOOSE,
SWIFT AND DUNN TURN TO
NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS.
WE BROUGHT THEM UPSTAIRS
AND SAT THEM DOWN
IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM,
WHERE THEY WERE ABLE
TO JUST KIND OF RELAX.
I KNOW.
WHEN WE FIRST SAW THEM
JASMIYAH WAS VERY DISTRAUGHT,
WAS CRYING YOU KNOW, "I CAN'T
BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED."
WE'LL BE OKAY.
I WANT GRANDMA.
YOU HAVE TWO YOUNG
TWIN DAUGHTERS
WHO COME HOME FROM SCHOOL
TO FIND A GRISLY MURDER SCENE
IN THEIR HOUSE
AND THEIR MOM DECEASED.
YOU CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL
SORRY FOR THEM
AND FEEL LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NO CHILD
SHOULD EVER HAVE TO ENDURE.
WHEN WE GOT THEM HERE,
THE FIRST THING
I ASKED THEM IS,
COULD THEY TELL ME
WHAT HAPPENED?
"JUST START FROM
THE BEGINNING OF YOUR DAY."
MOM?
MOM?
DON'T WE HAVE THAT
SPANISH EXAM TODAY?
YES.
I DIDN'T EVEN
PRACTICE ANYTHING.
THEY LEFT
TO GO CATCH A BUS.
YEAH. WHATEVER.
YEAH. WHATEVER.
WHEN THEY GOT TO THE BUS STOP,
THEY REALIZED
THEY HAD MISSED THE BUS.
AND INSTEAD OF GOING BACK
AND ASKING THEIR MOTHER
FOR A RIDE,
THEY HAD DECIDED
TO WALK TO SCHOOL.
THEY TOLD US THEY WERE
THERE BY FIRST PERIOD.
SO BASICALLY, THEY DIDN'T MISS
ANY OF THEIR DAY'S SCHOOL.
YES.
OKAY.
AND WHEN THEY COME HOME,
ONE OF THE TWINS SAID
THEY WENT INSIDE.
AND WAS LIKE...
- VICKI LIKES EVERYONE.
- YEAH.
IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
NOTICED THE LIGHT
TO HER ROOM WAS ON.
WENT TO HER ROOM AND THEN HEARD
THE OTHER ONE SCREAMING.
AND THEN THAT'S WHEN
THEY RAN OUTSIDE...
AND RAN INTO
A SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DEPUTY
THAT HAPPENED TO BE DRIVING BY.
THE TWINS ARE
OBVIOUSLY VERY DISTRESSED.
IT'S JUST
REALLY GUT-WRENCHING.
IT REALLY PULLS YOUR HEART
BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST
IMAGINE BEING 16
AND COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL
AND NOT JUST
YOUR MOTHER'S MURDER
BUT SUCH A VIOLENT SCENE
THAT YOU HAVE TO SEE.
POLICE ASK THE TWINS
IF THEIR MOM FELT
THREATENED BY ANYONE.
YOU HAVE ANY CLOSE FRIENDS
THAT CAME OVER OFTEN?
THEIR MOM DIDN'T
HAVE ANY ENEMIES.
BUT SHE DID HAVE A SECRET.
- ...WAS COMING IN.
- REALLY?
HIS NAME WAS JOE CARTER.
- YEAH.
- ALL RIGHT.
A BOYFRIEND
HER FIANCé, ROBERT HEAD,
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT.
THE TWINS TOLD US THAT
NIKKI ALSO HAD A BOYFRIEND
ON THE SIDE OTHER THAN ROBERT.
WAS NIKKI WHITEHEAD
INVOLVED IN A DEADLY
LOVE TRIANGLE
WITH ROBERT HEAD AND JOE CARTER?
HOW DID YOUR MOM
AND JOE GET ALONG?
THEY WERE ARGUING.
THEY WERE ARGUING?
YEAH.
THEY HAD HEARD HER
SCREAMING INTO THE PHONE,
TELLING JOE NOT TO
COME TO HER HOUSE.
SHE WAS
STRESSED ABOUT IT.
IT SAYS, "HEY.
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS.
THIS IS...
IT'S TWO JEALOUS MEN,
YOU KNOW, OVER THE SAME WOMAN."
- HE'S LIKE A MEN'S HAIRDRESSER?
- YEAH.
- HE'S A BARBER, YOU MEAN.
- YEAH.
THIS IS A, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS A GOOD CHANCE
OR SOMETHING GOOD
TO FOLLOW UP ON.
IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
DETECTIVES HAVE ANOTHER SUSPECT
IN THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
NIKKI HAS BEEN TWO-TIMING
HER MISSING FIANCé, ROBERT HEAD,
WITH A BARBER NAMED JOE CARTER.
HE'S A SIDE LOVE INTEREST
MUCH YOUNGER THAN MR. HEAD,
WHO IS ABLE TO
PROVIDE MS. WHITEHEAD
WITH A HOME FOR HER
AND HER DAUGHTERS.
SO YES.
HE WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WENT
AND FOUND MR. CARTER
THAT SAME NIGHT.
IT WAS WELL INTO THE EVENING.
THE BARBER SHOP
WAS ACTUALLY CLOSED.
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL
INDIVIDUALS STANDING OUT FRONT.
EVENING, GENTLEMEN.
AND SO SERGEANT MOON
AND I WALKED UP TO THEM
AND MADE CONTACT WITH THEM...
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MAN
BY THE NAME OF JOE CARTER.
WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO
KNOW WHO HE IS?
...TRYING TO SEE IF ONE
OF THEM WAS, IN FACT JOE.
HAVE YOU HEARD
THAT NAME BEFORE?
IF I KNEW IT,
I WOULD TELL YOU.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT THAT.
ALL THE GENTLEMEN
STANDING OUTSIDE,
THEY DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO US.
HAVEN'T HEARD
THAT NAME BEFORE?
NOTHING AT ALL?
NO.
WELL, WE'RE THE COPS...
AND WE JUST SIMPLY
CAME OUT AND SAID IT THAT,
"HEY, WE'RE LOOKING
FOR JOE CARTER.
WE NEED TO SPEAK TO HIM
ABOUT MS. WHITEHEAD.
SHE'S BEEN MURDERED."
AT THAT POINT,
YOU COULD TELL INSTANTLY
WHO MR. CARTER WAS.
THANK YOU FOR
SPEAKING WITH US TONIGHT.
WE JUST HAD A COUPLE
QUESTIONS ABOUT MS. WHITEHEAD.
CARTER APPEARS TO BE SHOCKED.
BUT THE POLICE
WANT TO QUESTION HIM.
WE BEGIN
TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS...
WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WERE
IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER.
WANTED TO ASK YOU WHEN
THE LAST TIME YOU SAW HER WAS.
...WHERE HE HAD BEEN
THE LAST 48 HOURS,
THE NATURE OF HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH MS. WHITEHEAD.
YOU DON'T THINK
I DID IT, DO YOU?
WELL, SIR, WE JUST
GOT TO ASK THE QUESTIONS.
CARTER DOESN'T WANT
TO BE A SUSPECT IN A MURDER.
SHE CAME BY MY PLACE
A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
HE TALKS.
SHE CAME TO MY PLACE.
SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS...
HE TELLS INVESTIGATORS THAT,
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MURDER,
NIKKI HAD COME TO HIS HOUSE
RIGHT AFTER HER
FASHION CLASS WAS OVER.
WE NEED TO TALK.
THAT'S WHERE HE TOLD NIKKI
HE DIDN'T WANT
TO SEE HER ANYMORE.
THEIR RELATIONSHIP HAD BEEN
SUFFERING FROM SOME PROBLEMS.
HOW ARE YOU NOT GETTING THIS?
WE'VE MOVED ON.
I'VE MOVED ON.
PLEASE DO THE SAME.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
NIKKI WAS FURIOUS
AND STORMED OUT OF
HIS APARTMENT BUILDING.
HE SAYS THAT WAS THE LAST TIME
HE EVER SAW
NIKKI WHITEHEAD ALIVE.
IS HE TELLING THE TRUTH?
POLICE DISCOVER
A WAY TO FIND OUT.
IS THERE ANY CHANCE...
SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
TRAINED ON THE FRONT DOOR
TO CARTER'S CONDO BUILDING.
- WHAT DO YOU SEE, SWIFT?
- NOTHING YET.
DETECTIVES SWIFT AND DUNN
FAST-FORWARD TO 10:30 P.M.,
THE TIME WHEN CARTER CLAIMS
THAT NIKKI ARRIVED.
THEY WAIT AND WATCH.
OKAY. THERE SHE IS.
SHE'S ARRIVING.
WHAT TIME IS
THAT ON YOUR SCREEN?
THAT'S HER.
10:30.
JUST LIKE CARTER CLAIMED,
NIKKI ARRIVES AROUND 10:30 P.M.
CAN YOU SPEED IT UP?
LET'S SEE
WHAT TIME SHE LEAVES.
- WHAT TIME IS THAT?
-11:01.
11:01.
SHE'S LEAVING.
THERE YOU GO.
AND HALF AN HOUR LATER,
THERE SHE IS AGAIN,
LEAVING EXACTLY
WHEN CARTER SAID SHE DID.
HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH
ON THAT ONE.
BUT THE POLICE ARE STILL
NOT TOTALLY CONVINCED.
STILL UNEASY ABOUT THAT.
THE CCTV ONLY PROVES NIKKI
WAS THERE WHEN HE SAID SHE WAS.
CARTER COULD STILL
BE THE KILLER.
I STILL SAY WE GET
A POLY ON HIM.
THE POLICE ASK HIM TO
TAKE A POLYGRAPH TEST.
YOU MEET WITH THE POLYGRAPHER.
IN REFERENCE TO NIKKI'S DEATH,
ARE YOU GOING TO ANSWER...
THEN THEY HOOK THEIR PULSE UP
AND DIFFERENT MEASUREMENTS
THAT THEY TAKE.
AND A POLYGRAPHER WILL
ASK THEM THE QUESTION.
AND IT MEASURES A RESPONSE.
THEY'RE VERY SKILLED AT IT.
BEFORE 2009, HAVE YOU EVER
USED A WEAPON TO HURT ANYONE?
CARTER DENIES HE'S THE KILLER.
THE TEST IS COMPLETE.
BUT WHILE INVESTIGATORS
WAIT FOR RESULTS...
I THINK WE SHOULD
GET TO THE CHASE.
THIS WAS A VIOLENT
ENCOUNTER WITH NIKKI.
WHOEVER MURDERED HER
FOUGHT WITH HER.
AND THAT LIFE-AND-DEATH FIGHT
SURELY LEFT TELLTALE MARKS
ON THE KILLER'S BODY.
MR. CARTER, COULD I PLEASE
ASK YOU TO STAND FOR US?
WE KNOW NIKKI
WAS FIGHTING DEFENSIVELY.
AND SHE HAD FINGERNAILS.
SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE
IF SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE
SCRATCH MARKS,
BITE MARKS, ET CETERA.
AND JUST LIFT
YOUR SHIRT FOR US.
HE LOOKS CLEAN.
THERE ISN'T A MARK ON HIM.
YEAH.
THANK YOU.
BUT WHAT ABOUT
THE POLYGRAPH?
HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
THE POLYGRAPHER
WAS VERY CONFIDENT THAT
JOE WAS BEING TRUTHFUL.
CARTER HAS NO INJURIES,
AND HE'S PASSED
THE LIE DETECTOR TEST.
IT LOOKS LIKE JOE CARTER
IS OFF THE HOOK.
WITH CARTER IN THE CLEAR,
THE POLICE HAVE JUST
ONE SUSPECT LEFT --
NIKKI'S TRUCK DRIVER FIANCé,
ROBERT HEAD.
BUT HEAD LEFT TOWN
ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER
AND HASN'T BEEN
HEARD FROM SINCE.
HIS CELLPHONE ISN'T ANSWERING,
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS.
MURDER VICTIM
NIKKI WHITEHEAD'S SECRET LOVER,
JOE CARTER, IS OFF THE HOOK,
LEAVING INVESTIGATORS
IN CONYERS, GEORGIA,
WITHOUT A PRIME SUSPECT.
THAT LEADS THEM
BACK TO SQUARE ONE,
RIGHT WHERE THEY LEFT
NIKKI'S OTHER LOVE INTEREST,
ROBERT HEAD.
IT'S VERY REASONABLE FOR ANYONE
TO THINK THAT ROBERT WOULD BE
FURIOUS FINDING OUT ABOUT JOE.
BUT HEAD HAS BEEN OUT OF TOWN
SINCE THE MORNING OF THE MURDER.
AND WHAT'S MORE, HE'S NOT
ANSWERING HIS CELLPHONE.
THE DETECTIVES NEED
TO SPEAK TO HIM URGENTLY.
AND THEN...
HELLO?
HELLO. YES.
ROBERT HEAD?
YEAH.
THIS IS ROBERT HEAD.
WHO'S THIS?
THIS IS
CAPTAIN JACKIE DUNN.
SO, WE TALKED
TO ROBERT VIA PHONE.
AND HE EXPLAINED TO US THAT
HE WAS OUT IN THE MIDWEST.
YEAH?
WHEN THEY FINALLY TELL HEAD
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FIANCéE,
HE SEEMS GENUINELY SHOCKED.
WHAT?
BUT ROBERT HEAD WOULDN'T
BE THE FIRST KILLER
TO ACT SURPRISED WHEN
FACING POLICE QUESTIONS.
IF HE WAS ON THE ROAD
AND HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY
WHEN NIKKI WAS KILLED,
AS HE CLAIMS,
THERE SHOULD BE A RECORD OF IT.
CHIEF?
YES?
THE GPS COORDINATES.
GREAT. THANK YOU.
HEAD'S TRUCKING COMPANY
SENDS OVER THE GPS DATA.
AND IT CONFIRMS THAT
HIS TRUCK WAS OUT OF STATE
AT THE TIME OF NIKKI'S MURDER.
YEAH. YEAH. I'VE GOT
THAT INFORMATION NOW.
WE NEED TO RUN...
BUT IT DOESN'T PROVE
THAT HEAD WAS DRIVING.
YEAH. 15 MINUTES
TO TOWN. THANK YOU.
IT'S POSSIBLE
SOMEONE ELSE WAS DRIVING,
GIVING ROBERT HEAD AN ALIBI.
THE DATA SHOWS THAT HEAD'S TRUCK
STOPPED FOR GAS
IN SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA,
AT AROUND 8:30
ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER.
AND GAS STATIONS
HAVE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
NOW THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE
WHETHER HEAD WAS ACTUALLY
DRIVING THAT TRUCK.
THEY LOAD UP THE GAS STATION
SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE.
ALL RIGHT, CAN YOU SPEED IT UP
A LITTLE BIT UNTIL WE GET
THE ACTUAL TRUCK IN VIEW?
WHEN HE GETS
OUT OF THAT TRUCK,
I WANT YOU TO
FREEZE ON HIS FACE.
THERE'S NO QUESTION
IT'S ROBERT HEAD.
HE WAS 550 MILES AWAY
FROM CONYERS, IN INDIANA,
WHEN NIKKI WAS MURDERED,
JUST AS HE CLAIMED.
IT'S BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
FOR DUNN AND HIS MEN.
WITH THE CASE STALLING,
INVESTIGATORS GO BACK
TO THE CRIME SCENE,
LOOKING FOR THE ONE THING
THAT MIGHT HELP
THEM SOLVE THIS CASE.
I TOOK SOME OF MY
SPECIAL OPERATION OFFICERS.
AND I HAD THEM LITERALLY
WALK THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND AS THEY WALKED, THEY LOOKED
FOR SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
THEY SPOT A SECURITY CAMERA
AT A GAS STATION
ON WEST AVENUE,
THE ROAD OPPOSITE NIKKI'S
GATED COMMUNITY.
ALL RIGHT.
SO WHAT DO WE GOT, SWIFT?
CAMERA BACK THERE,
CAMERA OVER HERE.
WE'VE HAVE A COUPLE
AROUND HERE.
MAYBE WE CAN CHECK
THE FOOTAGE ON THAT.
WELL, WE NEED TO TALK
TO SOMEBODY ABOUT THAT, RIGHT?
IT'S A LONG SHOT,
BUT INVESTIGATORS
HOPE TO SEE SOMETHING,
ANYTHING THAT LEADS
THEM TO NIKKI'S KILLER.
APPRECIATE YOU
DOING THIS FOR US.
ALL RIGHT, SO YOU GUYS
KEEP THIS ON A 24-HOUR LOOP.
HOW DOES THAT WORK?
THEY BEGIN TO GO
THROUGH THE FOOTAGE
FROM THE MORNING
OF NIKKI'S MURDER.
CAN YOU, UM, REWIND IT?
WE'RE NOT SEEING
ANYTHING RIGHT NOW.
THEY SCROLL BACK.
STILL NOTHING.
NOTHING ON THAT.
NOTHING.
THEY GO FORWARD.
IF ONLY WE HAD
A LUCKY BREAK.
WHAT'S THAT THERE?
OKAY. HOLD IT.
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE.
IT'S NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH.
LOOK AT THAT, SWIFT.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THEIR
VIDEO, WE SEE THE TWINS
GO UP TO A VEHICLE AND SPEAK
TO THE DRIVER FOR A MINUTE
AND THEN GET INTO
THE VEHICLE AND DRIVE AWAY.
WHO'S DRIVING THE CAR?
AND WHAT CONNECTION DOES HE HAVE
TO NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS?
WE'RE GONNA NEED TO GET
A COPY OF THIS TAPE
'CAUSE WE GOT TO
BRING IT BACK.
WE GOT TO BLOW IT UP.
IT WAS A BIG BREAKTHROUGH
IN THE CASE.
THERE WAS A SENSE OF, "OKAY.
THIS IS GOING SOMEWHERE NOW."
WE COULD TELL THAT
THE CAR WAS UNIQUE --
WHITE HOOD WITH A BLUE BUMPER.
SO WE DISTRIBUTED WHAT IS
COMMONLY KNOWN AS A BOLO
IF YOU SEE THIS CAR, PLEASE
IMMEDIATELY GIVE US A CALL.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
IT'S NOT LONG BEFORE THE CAR
IS SPOTTED IN THE NEXT TOWN.
THE DRIVER IS A MIDDLE-AGED MAN
NAMED ROBERT LEONARD.
WHEN WE WERE ABLE
TO TALK TO MR. LEONARD
HE CONFIRMED THAT HE WAS
JUST FILLING UP GAS
WHEN BOTH JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
APPROACHED HIM AND ASKED HIM
FOR A RIDE TO SCHOOL.
LEONARD SAYS
HE DROPPED THE TWINS OFF
AT SCHOOL ABOUT
FIVE MINUTES LATER.
THE POLICE DON'T BUY
LEONARD'S STORY.
YOU HAVE A GROWN MAN DRIVING
A CAR AT A GAS STATION,
AND TWO COMPLETELY UNFAMILIAR
16-YEAR-OLD GIRLS COME UP TO YOU
AND ASK YOU FOR A RIDE.
I WOULD GUESS THAT
MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY NO.
LEONARD AGREES TO LET
THE POLICE SEARCH HIS CAR.
IT'S CLEAN. NO BLOOD,
NO SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE.
BUT HE'S NOT OFF THE HOOK.
IF HE DROPPED THE GIRLS
OFF AT SCHOOL,
THEN THERE'S GOING
TO BE A RECORD OF IT.
PEOPLE CAN LIE.
VIDEO CAMERAS DON'T.
AND ROCKDALE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
HAS EXCELLENT CCTV.
- HERE, YOUR SHOT, YOU HAVE...
- THAT'S THE ONE RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S THE ONE?
'CAUSE WE'LL NEED
TO SEE THE PARKING LOT.
THEY CUE
THE TAPE UP TO 8:00 A.M.,
THE TIME THE TWINS
SAID THEY GOT TO SCHOOL.
THERE'S NO SIGN OF LEONARD'S CAR
OR THE TWINS.
8:30, STILL NO SIGN
OF THE CAR.
9:30...
10:00...
WHERE IS LEONARD'S CAR?
AND WHERE ARE
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH?
CAN YOU REWIND THAT?
DO YOU RECOGNIZE
THAT CAR?
SURE DO.
LEONARD'S CAR.
AT 10:16,
THEY SEE LEONARD'S CAR
WITH ITS DISTINCTIVE
WHITE HOOD AND BLUE BUMPER
PULL UP AT THE SCHOOL GATE.
10:16.25.
10:16.25.
OKAY. UM, WE'RE GONNA NEED
A SHOT OF THE FRONT FOYER
TO SEE WHO GETS
OUT OF THAT CAR.
CAN YOU DO THAT?
YES, WE CAN.
IT'LL BE ABOUT A MINUTE AFTER.
SO CAN YOU PLAY IT FROM...
RIGHT HERE?
...10:17?
YEAH. IS THAT
THE FRONT FOYER?
YES.
IT'S JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
WALKING INTO THEIR SCHOOL.
LEONARD IS TELLING THE TRUTH.
BUT SOMETHING IS BOTHERING DUNN.
DURING THEIR INVESTIGATION,
THE GIRLS CLAIMED
THEY'D ARRIVED AT SCHOOL
AT 8:00 A.M.
BUT THE TAPE SHOWS
THEY WALKED IN AT 10:17 A.M.
SO THEY MISSED TWO CLASSES.
AND IN THEIR INTERVIEWS WITH US,
THEY WERE ADAMANT THAT
THEY DIDN'T MISS ANY CLASSES
AND THAT THEY GOT THERE,
YOU KNOW, SHORTLY AFTER 8:00.
SOMEONE'S
NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
THEIR STORIES
ARE NOT ADDING UP.
WHEN THEY GAVE US THIS STORY
THAT DECEIVED US AS TO TIME,
THEN OBVIOUSLY
WE'RE BEGINNING TO SAY,
"WE NEED TO LOOK AT
THE TWINS A LOT CLOSER."
CONYERS DETECTIVES ARE
INVESTIGATING THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF NIKKI WHITEHEAD.
THEY HAVE NO LEADS
AND NO SUSPECTS.
BUT THEY'VE JUST DISCOVERED
THAT HIGH SCHOOL CCTV FOOTAGE
HAS PROVED THAT
NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS,
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH,
LIED TO THEM ABOUT
THE TIME THEY ARRIVED AT SCHOOL
ON THE DAY OF THE MURDER.
SOMETHING IS NOT ADDING UP.
DETECTIVE CARSON AND I JUST NEED
TO BACK THIS UP A LITTLE BIT
BECAUSE WE'RE A LITTLE UNCLEAR
ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT YOU'VE TOLD US.
LET'S JUST GO
BACK THROUGH IT. SO...
HE ASKS THEM AGAIN WHAT TIME
THEY SHOWED UP FOR SCHOOL.
YOU DIDN'T GET TO SCHOOL
TILL 10:30.
IT WAS 10:30, RIGHT?
10:15. YEAH.
10:15.
THIS TIME, JAS AND TAS TELL
POLICE THAT THEY'D ACTUALLY
OVERSLEPT ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
AND WENT INTO SCHOOL LATE.
WHY DIDN'T YOU
TELL ME THIS BEFORE?
THIS IS ALL BRAND-NEW
INFORMATION, THOUGH, ISN'T IT?
SWIFT PROBES DEEPER.
AND THAT'S WHEN THE TWINS
CHANGE THEIR STORY ONCE AGAIN.
MISSING THREE CLASSES,
WHICH YOU NEGLECTED TO TELL US.
THEY SAY THAT THEY'D ARGUED
WITH THEIR MOM, NIKKI,
THE VERY MORNING
SHE WAS MURDERED.
REAL MURDERER, OKAY?
YEAH.
IT'S SOMETHING
THEY NEVER MENTIONED BEFORE.
- EXACTLY.
- YEAH, SO LET'S FIND OUT
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
WE JUST LOST OUR MOM.
AND NOW, YOU'RE -- YOU'RE...
WE TALKED TO THEM
KIND OF INTO THE NIGHT,
DISCUSSING ALL THIS
BUT KIND OF CONFRONTING
WITH SOME OF
THEIR DISCREPANCIES.
WE BEGIN TRYING TACTICS,
INTERVIEW TACTICS SUCH AS
WE'LL TELL JAS,
"HEY, JAS. TAS SAID THIS"...
TRYING TO SEE IF THAT WILL
THROW THEM OFF
AND GET THEM TO COME TO
A DIFFERENT STATEMENT.
AS THE IMPLICATION
OF THE CCTV FOOTAGE
BECOMES CLEAR,
THE TWINS' STORY KEEPS CHANGING.
DUNN BRINGS THE TWINS
BACK TOGETHER.
WHY ARE THEY LYING?
I BEGAN TO TURN IT MORE INTO
AN INTERROGATION
WHERE I WAS CONFRONTING THEM
WITH THE DISCREPANCIES.
AS THE PRESSURE
BUILDS ON THE GIRLS,
THEIR ATTITUDE CHANGES.
THE FOOTAGE ON
THE CAMERAS DO NOT LIE.
THIS IS SOME KIND
OF **** JOKE, RIGHT?
THAT CHARM
LEFT THEM REAL QUICK.
- ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
- SERIOUSLY?
DO I LOOK LIKE
I'M KIDDING?
AND THEY TURNED INTO
TWO LITTLE HOSTILE,
YOUNG LADIES
THAT I WAS AMAZED
AT HOW MUCH HOSTILITY
COULD COME OUT OF THEM
AND HOW MUCH CONTRAST THAT WAS
TO HOW SWEET
THEY HAD BEEN EARLIER
WHEN THEY WERE TRYING
TO MANIPULATE.
- MY ATTITUDE.
- THERE'S NOTHING WRONG
WITH OUR ATTITUDE.
AND THERE'S SOMETHING
THAT MAKES THEM
EVEN MORE SUSPICIOUS.
THE ENTIRE TIME I'M
INTERVIEWING, WE'RE INSIDE.
IT'S A COMFORTABLE ATMOSPHERE.
THEY'RE WEARING GLOVES
AND STILL HAVE THEIR JACKET ON.
AND I KNEW, EVENTUALLY,
I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET HER
TO TAKE THOSE GLOVES OFF
AND GET THAT JACKET OFF
SO I CAN LOOK AT
HER HANDS AND ARMS.
DETECTIVE CARSON
ISOLATES THE TWINS
FROM EACH OTHER AGAIN.
THEN, HE ASKS JAS TO TAKE OFF
HER GLOVES AND COAT.
EVENTUALLY, I HAD TO REMOVE
THE GLOVES AND THE JACKET.
AND THERE, I COULD SEE SCRATCHES
AND BITE MARKS ON HER ARM.
THE VETERAN DETECTIVE HAS SEEN
MARKS LIKE THESE BEFORE.
THEY LOOK LIKE DEFENSIVE WOUNDS,
THE KIND SOMEONE MAKES WHEN
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE.
AND BOTH TWINS HAVE THEM.
THE NATURE OF THE INJURY
WAS SUCH THAT IT WAS CAUSED
BY SOMEONE WHO HAD
A PARTICULAR SET OF TEETH...
...SPECIFICALLY
A GAP IN THE TEETH.
BOTH JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
DID NOT HAVE THAT GAP
IN THEIR TEETH.
AND NIKKI DID.
IT'S ALMOST
TOO HORRIFIC TO BE TRUE.
BUT JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH
JUST BECAME PRIME SUSPECTS
IN THE STABBING
OF THEIR OWN MOTHER.
THIS IS WHAT --
THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO I -- I GOT
THEM IN THE...
POLICE RETURN ONCE MORE
TO THE WHITEHEADS' HOME,
THIS TIME TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE
LINKING NIKKI'S TWIN DAUGHTERS
TO THE KILLING.
BEFORE LONG,
THEY UNCOVER SOMETHING
THAT LAYS OUT THEIR PLAN
ALMOST WORD FOR WORD.
IN ONE OF THEIR
JOURNALS, WE CAN SEE WHERE,
AT A POINT THEY WERE WRITING,
YOU COULD SEE THE TWO DIFFERENT
HANDWRITING IN IT.
ONE WOULD WRITE,
AND ONE WOULD RESPOND.
THE POLICE CAN HARDLY
BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE READING.
AND THEY ACTUALLY WROTE THAT,
"WE'VE GOT TO DO IT.
WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF HER."
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE AGREES.
"WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF HER
AND GOT TO GET RID OF HER ASAP."
THE LIES,
THE DEFENSIVE WOUNDS...
...AND NOW
CHILLING JOURNAL ENTRIES
INCRIMINATING
THESE 16-YEAR-OLD TWINS.
WE HAD A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE
THAT ALL POINTED BACK
TO THE TWO OF THEM.
TAS.
ONCE THE TWINS WERE ARRESTED,
THEY WERE PLACED
INTO THE BACK SEAT
OF POLICE CARS, WHERE...
...WE ALWAYS HAVE
AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING,
ESPECIALLY IN A CASE LIKE THIS.
THE AUDIO IN THE CAR,
IT WAS JUST, FOR US,
AS POLICE OFFICERS
AND DETECTIVES,
IT WAS JUST THE FINAL NAIL
AND ANOTHER CONFIRMATION
THAT WE HAD IT RIGHT.
WHEN THE TRUTH
IS FINALLY REVEALED,
THIS NIGHTMARE
NIKKI'S FAMILY ARE LIVING
SOMEHOW GETS EVEN WORSE.
I'VE LOST MY OLDEST CHILD,
AND I LOST MY FIRST SET
OF GRANDKIDS.
I ALWAYS SAW THEM
AT HARVARD OR YALE
AND NEVER WOULD
I HAVE EVER IMAGINED,
THAT THEY WOULD BE
SITTING IN A JAIL CELL
FOR KILLING THEIR MOTHER.
FACING A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE,
THE TWINS FINALLY
ADMIT WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
LIKE MANY PARENTS,
NIKKI HAS BEEN STRUGGLING
WITH HER TEENAGE DAUGHTERS.
WHAT THE HELL
IS WRONG WITH YOU?
BUT THEN,
ON THE 13th OF JANUARY,
THINGS BOIL OVER
WHEN JAS AND TAS
ARE LATE FOR SCHOOL.
THEN, SIMMERING
TEENAGE RESENTMENT
SOON BLOWS UP INTO
AN EXPLOSIVE FIGHT.
YOU CUT ME!
AAH!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A --
YEAH? WHY?
NO!
GET OUT!
NO! MOM, YOU NEED TO
**** GET OUT!
I HATE YOU!
EVERYONE, GET OUT!
NIKKI PROBABLY HAD SOME
RESERVE IN DEFENDING HERSELF.
THESE WERE HER DAUGHTERS.
SHE PROBABLY DIDN'T
WANT TO HIT THEM
AND BE VIOLENT WITH THEM
AS YOU WOULD NEED TO BE TO
FEND OFF THIS KIND OF ATTACK.
AND SO THAT RESERVE, PROBABLY,
AND THAT LOVE AND HESITATION
TO FIGHT BACK
PROBABLY COST HER HER LIFE.
- NO!
- GIVE IT BACK!
THESE TWO GIRLS STABBED HER
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
50-SOMETHING TIMES.
STOP YELLING.
THE TWINS THEN DRAG
HER DEAD BODY INTO THE BATH TUB.
I DON'T KNOW HOW ANY 16-YEAR-OLD
CAN LOOK AT THEIR MOTHER
AND DECIDE TO END HER LIFE.
JASMIYAH AND TASMIYAH WHITEHEAD
PLEAD GUILTY TO
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
AND ARE BOTH SENTENCED
TO 30 YEARS BEHIND BARS,
TWIN SENTENCES FOR THESE
TWISTED TWIN KILLERS.
CCTV PLAYED A KEY ROLE
IN THE CONVICTION
OF TAS AND JAS WHITEHEAD.
THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
WAS THE FIRST PROOF
THAT THEY WERE BEING
DECEPTIVE TO US.
IT GAVE US THE EVIDENCE THAT
WE NEEDED TO FOCUS ON THEM.
I'M AFRAID FOR OTHERS
WHEN THEY GET OUT.
YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY
THAT THEY WOULD NEVER
KILL AGAIN, YOU KNOW,
BECAUSE IF YOU CAN DO THIS
TO YOUR OWN MOTHER,
YOU KNOW, GOD HELP US ALL.