Her death left 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, good 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. but of course, luck, fortune
But the only one i ve been hearing her talk to lately is joe. joe? who was joe? we are also told by the twins that nikki had a second boyfriend, joel carter. two? boyfriends two boyfriends. now that got the investigators attention. time to dig a little deeper into the life of nikki whitehead. coming up. jealousy or by blood involved? there clearly have an argument, the elegant streaming over the phone. he was in the media person of interest. when dateline continues. the time. today s a good day. i screened with cologuard and did it my way! cologuard is a one-of-a kind way to screen for colon cancer that s effective and non-invasive. it s for people 45 plus at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider for cologuard. i did it my way!
And fate can go either way. sometimes, in ways very hard to comprehend. everything about this goes against nature. how can somebody do that? it was definitely the bloodiest crime scene i had ever been to. in the next few minutes you will know exactly when it happened, where it happened, how it happened. but of course, the real question is why it happened. and the answer to that, as you will see, is kind of complicated. that is how nikki whitehead s life was. i love everything about her. debra harris grew up with nikki, she was a wild child, pretty, fun and irresistible. nikki, to me, she was a phenomenal, amazing person. she says she was effervescent, said nikki s mother, linda. bigger than life. she was the kind of person, when she comes in a room, she just takes over the space, you know, with her personality, her laughter. but when nikki was 12, she was a handful.
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, the door handle. as if as if she was trying to get out? trying to get out. and then along this will, you can see a bloody imprint of here breeds. nikki had her here in breeds
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.