Asked why she murdered her sons Kentucky mom Tiffanie Lucas told a detective that she ‘would never do anything like this unless someone manipulated me’ after murdering her two sons in Nov 2023

Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas, 32, Friday was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison

She was accused of fatally shooting her sons, Maurice ‘Peanut’ Baker Jr., 6, and his half brother, Jayden Howard, 9, at home in Shepherdsville, KY

Four gunshots were fired in 30 seconds, hitting both children in the head

She claims their deaths were an accident, that she was being ‘manipulated through Facebook

Tiffanie Lucas [photo], was tried for shooting her two young sons in the head. She claims their deaths were an accident, that she was being ‘manipulated through Facebook’ She was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms

Following her guilty plea in the the cold-blooded murder of her two young sons, Kentucky mom Tiffanie Ann Katherine Lucas, 32, on Friday was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the double-homicide of her two young sons.
Prosecutors said Lucas killed her sons, Maurice ‘Peanut’ Baker Jr., 6, and his half brother, Jayden Howard, 9, with shots to the head at home in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, back in November 2023.
The mother-of-two was convicted last month.

Tiffanie Lucas, 32, was charged with two counts of murder for the shooting of her two children Maurice Baker Jr, 6, and his half-brother Jayden Howard, 9, on November 8, 2023

Bodycam footage obtained by Law and Crime revealed the bizarre response she gave when asked why she murdered her two young sons. ‘I love my children,’ the convicted murderer 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 wasn’t like focusing how I was supposed to, 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 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.’

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Lucas appeared to be lack remorse and instead fixated on a deputy’s finger movements during questioning: ‘I’m watching you on camera move your fingers several times,’ she told an officer in the video. ‘You just keep moving them. Stop. I’m watching. It’s not right.’
‘I know I look crazy, but I’m not crazy,’ Lucas told detectives in a rambling interview just hours after allegedly killing her own children. 
After the deputy left the room, Lucas reportedly admitted to firing four shots in 30 seconds, insisting the shooting ‘was an accident,’ according to the outlet.
She said she was ‘manipulated through Facebook, through the internet or through Wi-Fi […] into doing what she did.’
The murders happened November 8, 2023, when Lucas’ neighbor called 911 after she collapsed on their driveway, hysterically screaming that her children ‘were dying’.
Police rushed to the scene on Brentwood Drive to discover the two boys dead. Each boy shot in the head.

On Nov 8, 2023, a neighbor pulled into his driveway, then he saw Lucas walking down the stairs of his porch and had told him that her ‘kids [Maurice and Jayden], were dying’ before collapsing

She was then charged with two counts of capital murder, with the family of her stepson insisting nothing less than the death penalty will do. 
Last year November 8, her neighbor said, he had pulled into his driveway when he saw Lucas walking down the stairs of his porch and had told him that her ‘kids were dying’ before collapsing. 
The boys were discovered inside the home with gun wounds, and a gun left on the bed, after four shots were heard from a neighbors Ring camera footage. 
Lucas had said she was given 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 spot’ and claimed the shooting was an accident.
‘I’m so stupid,’ she added. ‘I would never do anything like this unless someone manipulated me.’ 

Lucas is seen in bodycam footage telling a detective ‘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.’ – her explanation when asked why she murdered her two young sons. She displayed what a lack of remorse, instead fixated on a deputy’s finger movements during questioning 

Bullitt County detective Richard Beahl testified that Lucas ‘made statements that she was being manipulated through Facebook, through 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 wounds. 
‘We wanted them. We would have taken them with open arms. We loved them so much,’ said Jayden’s brother Durrell Howard.

Deputies were called out after a neighbor entered their home and found the two boys shot dead in a bedroom with a gun on the bed

On Facebook, Lucas would often post heavily edited photos of herself and her two boys.
‘I love my babies everyday of the year, I will always use any excuse to celebrate them and show them how special they are,’ she wrote on Valentine’s Day 2022.
In another post, she proclaimed: ‘I love my kings different and that’s why Jayden & Peanut are different types of children. They are GOD SENT & every wrong I have ever done or any hurt I have ever caused I am so focused on correcting and loving them longer and deeper.’
She continued: ‘I can not guarantee a lot of 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 & Peanut!’

‘A lot of people see the social media side of [Tiffanie Lucas], but it’s not really how she was off camera. In her personal relationships you would see her the crazy side of her,’ explains Michelle Rice, the stepmother to 6-year-old Maurice

Michelle Rice who was a stepmother to Maurice says Lucas should be put to death. 
Rice said that the smiling pictures 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 how she was off camera. In her personal relationships you would see her the crazy side of her,’ Rice explained.
‘She did things because she wanted people to see her as a certain way but that’s not really how she was. That’s just how she wanted to be seen on social media.
‘Nobody knew of her drug issues. She never had a job. She never worked. Things like that. The boys were taken from her previously when they were smaller because of drugs.’

Facade; On Facebook, Lucas would often post heavily edited photos of herself and her two boys. ‘I love my babies everyday of the year, I will always use any excuse to celebrate them and show them how special they are,’ she wrote on Valentine’s Day 2022.

Lucas pled guilty in October to two counts of first-degree murder after her initial attempts to mount an insanity defense crumbled. Her lawyers played a video footage of the defendant and her two sons at a Waffle House the day before the brutal murder, to show the court her seemingly unstable mental state. 
WLKY reports that employees at the restaurant recalled Lucas acting like she was in her ‘own world,’ oblivious of events around her
She also reportedly asked a neighbor for help and told them that God was ‘talking to her.’ 
‘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.