suspects. the two men in her life, robert head and joe carter had been eliminated. and a home invasion seem very unlikely in her gated community. there was no histories of any peeping tom s. no histories of any unsolved in the neighborhood. so we just kept coming to dead ends. the thing is, they felt sure this had to be a rage murder. so violent, so protracted. which made it very likely it was someone nikki new. even possibly, a family member. we started getting into some of the family dynamics. that s when they ve turned up in police files, this remarkable incident back in 2007. one brief snippet of family history, but an event that changed everything that came to after. conyers 9-1-1, yes ma am i just woke up and my daughter is gone at the house. that was the voice of nikki whitehead. meaning your daughter was abducted? i don t know, man. i woke up the door was unlocked, and she s gone. i have twin girls.
so we persuaded her to go to dinner that very night, took her dancing. he bought her nice things, treated her like a lady. she was my movie star, that s what i called, or my movie star. this movie star with two sweet daughters. he also sue love them as if they were his own. and that is how nikki came here, to safe, secure conyers. this is robert s house, and here they made a family. unusual in some ways as it appeared, but it was nice, really nice. everything clicked just right. and she wanted her life to be even better, so while she kept her job as a hairstylist, she enrolled in atlanta s bauder college, to study fashion design. that s what i really learned that she was a hairstylist. rhonda taught a couple of her classes, she thought nikki had a sense of purpose. whether it was about her kids, passion for other people s hair i came into the class early one day, as i normally do, look
mom working towards a brighter future. but that dream died when nikki was viciously murdered. her teenage girls seemingly inconsolable, and investigators were committed to solving her murder. the answer would prove elusive. 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. which is why you are looking at the sweet little town called conyers, georgia. and deep downtown, with gated communities, and schools, it was pure luck that brought nikki whitehead to this house, in this quiet, safe neighborhood. just far enough away from atlanta, that capital of overheated ambition down the drive. here in conyers, she could give her beautiful twin daughters a better life than hers.
13, 2010. in a gated community in the town of conyers, just east of atlanta, 16-year-old twins jasmiyah and tasmiyah, arrived home from school, walked 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. as we walked in the mess that greeted arrive in conyers police detective chris moon, told a terrible story. this was a long drawn out fight. nikki was fighting for her life for several minutes. this was not a quick attack and over with. she fought here. she was struck in the back of the head. she had a laceration at the back of her head. there was a blood on the door,
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