While waiting for more SvWM news, I poked around for any other recent case of matricide by a teen daughter. They are so rare. [SBM]
It's such a horrible thing: a girl killing her own mother.
There's another awful case, that of the identical twins Tasmiya and Yasmiyah Whitehead, who murdered their mother in 2010 when they were just 16.
Like the Sheila von Wiese Mack case, the mother had been attacked by her daughters before, and the girls had faced juvenile court. They also stole money from family members. In spite of all that had happened as the daughters became more violent and unruly, another family member said after the murder, "Nikki [the mother and murder victim] still loved those girls."
As to the murder, of course the daughters, like Heather Mack, said they didn't do it and didn't know who did. (At least they weren't crazy enough to attribute the crime to a gang, although their story began to unravel thanks in part to some CCTV footage.)
When they finally began to talk, the story told put the mother in a very bad light, including the claim that the knife which was used to stab the mother multiple times, had originally been wielded by the mother herself. Mother murderers, it seems, like to blame mom.
One friend of the victim later said, "They showed no remorse. No emotion. They said nothing." Which sounds just like Heather Mack.
The twins were kept apart after arrest. They are now both serving 30 year sentences.
See:
http://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/whitehead-sisters.htm
Four years after the murder the two finally confessed. You can see some excerpts from the video-taped confessions at the site below, which includes the video along with a story. The local news station which broadcast part of the confessions noted that the prosecutor isn't sure if they are even telling the truth now or if the apparent remorse is genuine.
See:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ess-killing-mom-late-school-article-1.1793291
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