The 33-year-old Kentucky mother convicted of murdering her two boys told a police detective during an interview that her “sugar daddy” had been “manipulating” her mind for three years, driving her to murder the children.
Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas was sentenced to consecutive life terms this week for the murders of Maurice “Peanut” Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, in Shepherdsville,
Some 20 miles south of Louisville, late last year. Lucas pleaded guilty in October to two counts of first-degree murder after initially claiming insanity.
Law&Crime got video footage of her interview with police in the hours following the murder.
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The detective from the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office questioned why she would want to harm her children. Lucas was the only one present with the children when the incident occurred at their Brentwood Drive home. She claimed she was having an out-of-body experience.
“I would never do something like this unless someone manipulated me,” she told me.
She then claimed she had a “sugar daddy” who had been “manipulating my mind for like three years” via her phone. Lucas stated that the man never commanded her to kill the children, but that he did give her the gun she used in the massacre.
“He’s been putting stuff up in my house,” she told me. “Real evil, dark, weird stuff.”
Lucas maintained that she was a “good woman” and a “really good mom.”
“I feel like it’s not me,” she explained. “I am right with God, so it is not me. I am not in my mind. It is not me. “It’s just not.”
The now-convicted murderer could never admit to shooting the children or the number of shots she fired.
“I have no words,” she said.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Lucas also claimed that game consoles such as PlayStation and YouTube videos “manipulate” her children’s minds.
“I know I look crazy, but I’m not crazy,” she informed the detective. “I love my kids. I adore my boys. I would not have damaged them, but I felt like I was letting them play video games and not focusing properly, you know?
Video games, YouTube, and youngsters all interfere with their heads, allowing them to manipulate their parents or do anything they want. Someone seems to have placed something on my house, me, or whatever. I’m just not feeling right. I do not do this. “I love my children.”
Lucas later admitted to firing four rounds in 30 seconds, claiming it was an accident and that she was “manipulated through Facebook, through the internet, or through Wi-Fi […] to do what she did.”