Video footage has captured the chilling words of a Kentucky mother after the cold-blooded murder of her two young sons.
Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas, 32, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences after the fatal shootings of her sons, Maurice “Peanut” Baker Jr., 6, and his half-brother, Jayden Howard, 9, in Shepherdsville.
Bodycam footage obtained by Law and Crime revealed the bizarre response she gave when asked why she killed her two young sons.
“I love my children,” the convicted killer said.
“I love my boys so much,” she added. “I wouldn’t have hurt them, but I just felt like I was letting them play the video games and I didn’t feel like focusing on how to do that, you know?”
She then blamed her evil act on wild theories about technology “manipulating” her children through video games, WiFi and YouTube.
“Video games and YouTube and the kids, it confuses their minds because people can manipulate their parents or do whatever they want.
“I feel like someone put something on my house, or on me, or something. I just don’t feel well. I’m not doing this. I love my children.’
Tiffanie Lucas, 32, was charged with two counts of murder for shooting her two children Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and his half-brother Jayden Howard, 9
She was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences after the fatal shooting of her sons
Lucas showed what appeared to be a lack of remorse and instead focused on a deputy’s finger movements during the interrogation.
“I see you on camera moving your fingers several times,” she told an officer in the video. ‘You just keep moving them. Stop. I look. It’s not right.’
“I know I look crazy, but I’m not crazy,” Lucas told investigators in a wide-ranging interview just hours after she allegedly killed her own children.
After the deputy left the room, Lucas reportedly admitted to firing four shots within 30 seconds, insisting the shooting was “an accident,” according to the outlet.
She said she was “manipulated via Facebook, the Internet or Wi-Fi […] to do what she did.”
The tragedy occurred on November 8, 2023, when Lucas’ neighbor called 911 after collapsing in their driveway, hysterically screaming that her children were “dying.”
Police rushed to the scene on Brentwood Drive and found the two boys had been fatally shot in the head.
Bodycam footage obtained by Law and Crime revealed the bizarre response she gave when asked why she killed her two young sons in shocking footage of police interrogations
She then blamed her evil act on wild theories about technology “manipulating” her children through video games, Wi-Fi and YouTube
She was subsequently charged with two counts of murder, as the stepmother of one of the two boys said the family would accept nothing less than the death penalty.
Her neighbor had pulled into his driveway when he saw Lucas walking down his porch steps and told him that her “children were dying” before collapsing.
The boys were discovered in the house with gun wounds and a handgun on the bed after four shots were heard from neighbours’ Ring CCTV footage.
Lucas had said she got the gun and admitted no one else had been home that day. When questioned by police, she had said she was “in such a bad place” and claimed the shooting was an accident.
“I’m so stupid,” she added. “I would never do something like that unless someone was manipulating me.”
Lucas showed what appeared to be a lack of remorse and instead fixated on a deputy’s finger movements during the interrogation
The boys’ bodies were discovered when a neighbor entered their home and found them in a bedroom with a gun on the bed
Bullitt County Detective Richard Beahl testified that Lucas “made statements that she was being manipulated through Facebook, the Internet or through Wi-Fi… into doing what she did.”
The boys were taken to a hospital in Louisville and ultimately died from their injuries.
‘We wanted them. We would have welcomed them with open arms. We loved them so much,” said Jayden’s brother Durrell Howard.
On Facebook, Lucas often posted heavily edited photos of herself and her two boys.
“I love my babies every day of the year, I will always take any excuse to celebrate them and show them how special they are,” she wrote on Valentine’s Day 2022.
In another post, she stated, “I like my kings differently and that’s why Jayden and Peanut are different types of kids. They are SENT OF GOD and every wrong I have ever done or every pain I have ever caused, I am so focused on correcting them and loving them longer and deeper.”
She continued, “I can’t guarantee many things in life, BUT I can guarantee the mother I will always be, the love I will always share, and the best I can ever give and do will be PROMISED to you, my love, Jayden & Pinda!’
Tiffanie Lucas (pictured), 32, plans to plead insanity at trial over the November 2023 shooting of her two young sons
Michelle Rice, Maurice’s stepmother, says Lucas should be put to death.
Rice said the smiling photos were nothing more than an act designed to fool others that she was “normal.”
“A lot of people see the social media side of her, but it’s not really what she was like off camera. In her personal relationships, you saw the crazy side of her,” Rice explained.
“She did things because she wanted people to see her a certain way, but that wasn’t really who she was. That’s exactly how she wanted to be seen on social media.
‘Nobody knew about her drug problems. She has never had a job. She never worked. That kind of thing. The boys were taken away from her before when they were younger because of drugs.’
Police said the mother initially claimed the shooting was an accident and that she had been manipulated into it
In court, Lucas’ lawyers played a video showing footage of her and her two sons in a waffle house the day before the brutal murder, revealing her apparently unstable mental state.
The Waffle House staff recalled her acting as if she was in her “own world” and couldn’t comprehend what was going on, as reported by WLK.
She also reportedly asked a neighbor for help, telling them that God was “talking to her.”
“Do you need me?” the neighbor asked.
‘I need an anchor. I need a good friend. I need a good person in my life,” Lucas replied.
Lucas pleaded guilty in October to two counts of first-degree murder after initially attempting to mount an insanity defense.