Inset: Tiffanie Lucas. Background: Lucas during her interview with the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO).
The 33-year-old Kentucky woman convicted of murdering her two sons told a police detective during an interrogation that her “sugar daddy” had been “manipulating” her mind for three years and drove her to kill the children.
Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas was sentenced last week to consecutive life sentences for murdering Maurice “Peanut” Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, in Shepherdsville, about 20 miles south of Louisville, late last year. Lucas pleaded guilty in October to two counts of first-degree murder after initially mounting an insanity defense.
Law&Crime obtained video footage from her interview with police in the hours after the slaying.
The detective with the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office inquired as to why she would want to hurt her children. Lucas was the sole person in the house with the kids when the shooting occurred at their home on Brentwood Drive. She insisted she was having an out-of-body experience.
“I would never do something like this unless someone manipulated me,” she said.
She then said she had a “sugar daddy” who she claimed was “manipulating my mind for like three years” through her phone. Lucas said the man never told her to kill the kids but claimed he gave her the gun that she used in the killing.
“He’s been putting stuff up in my house,” she said. “Real evil, dark, weird stuff.”
Lucas insisted that she was a “good woman” and a “really good mom.”
“I feel like it’s not me,” she said. “I’m right with God, so it’s not me. I’m not in my mind. It’s not me. It just isn’t.”
The now-convicted murderer could never bring herself to actually admitting that she shot the children or how many shots she fired.
“I have no words,” she said.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Lucas also said that game consoles like PlayStation and YouTube videos “manipulates” the minds of her children.
“I know I look crazy but I’m not crazy,” she told the detective. “I love my children. I love my boys so much. I wouldn’t have 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? 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.”
Lucas later admitted to firing four shots in 30 seconds, claiming the shooting “was an accident,” and claiming that she was “manipulated through Facebook, through the internet or through Wi-Fi […] into doing what she did.”
