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In the hours after Tiffanie Lucas murdered her young sons, she swore up and down she wasn’t “crazy.” But the things she said…
Last week, the Kentucky mother of two was hit with double life sentences for the murder of her sons Jayden, 9, and Maurice Jr., 6, in November of 2023. Detective Richard Beahl was among the officers who responded to the home where she fatally shot both boys in the head. He testified in court that she told him she “would never do anything like this unless someone manipulated” her, and that she claimed she was “being manipulated through Facebook” and “through the internet” and “Wi-Fi” to commit the double murders.
And we now have more insight into exactly what she said.
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In footage from her interrogation posted by Law & Crime on Monday, Tiffanie is heard trying to convince officers she’s “not crazy.” She says:
“I know I look crazy but I’m not crazy. I love my children. I love my boys so much. I wouldn’t hurt them but I just felt like I was letting them play the video games and I wasn’t like focusing how I was supposed to, you know?”
The 33-year-old then doubled down on her argument that the “Internet” made her do it, explaining:
“Video games and the YouTube and the kids, it just messes their minds up to where people can manipulate their parents or do whatever they want. I feel like someone put something upon my house or me or something. I just don’t feel right. I don’t do this. I love my kids.”
So eerie. Despite her desperate attempts to defend her mental health, she was clearly in a compromised state. Elsewhere in the video, she fixated on the slight movement of an officer’s finger. She can be seen complaining:
“I’m watching you on camera move your fingers several times. You keep moving them. Stop. I’m watching. It’s not right. Stop!”
The murderer also became disturbed by a phone going off as an officer entered the room:
“Why is it doing that? Soon as you walk in the door, that’s weird. As soon as you walk, it’s not right. Every time I say something, your phone is going off.”
You can watch the full interrogation HERE.
Such a tragic situation. We just wish someone had gotten to her before she could act on these pervasive ideas…
If you have sincere cause to suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org
[Images via Bullitt County Detention Center & Tiffanie Lucas/Facebook]