Nikki Reynolds

Jacquiline Nicole "Nikki" Reynolds (born July 16, 1979) is a villainess who murdered her adoptive mother, Billie Jean Reynolds, in 1997.

Jacquiline Reynolds was adopted by Billie Jean and Robert Reynolds as an infant, and as Nikki (short for her middle name, Nicole) herself stated in her interview on Snapped on October 4, 2009, she had a fairy tale life as a child. She also admitted that she discovered boys as a teenager, and at age 16, Nikki was in a relationship with schoolmate Carlos Infante. By 1996, Nikki began lying to her parents, first claiming that she was raped and then making the false claim that she was pregnant with Carlos' baby. It was after Carlos found out about the lie that their relationship ended.

A distraught Nikki became suicidal after the relationship ended, but on May 14, 1997, Nikki turned heel and planned to kill Carlos out of revenge for being dumped by him. She planned to kill him during first period on the following day, but she realized that her parents planned a counseling session that would get in the way of her murderous plans. With that, the evil Nikki decided to kill her parents as well, and it was later that same evening that the 17-year-old villainess grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and began attacking Billie Jean. According to reports, Nikki asked her mother if she hated her, only for Billie Jean to reply that she loved her daughter and she needed help. Those were her last words before Billie Jean succumbed to her injuries; she was stabbed 25 times by Nikki.

After killing her mother, Nikki couldn't go through with killing Robert and Carlos, and she later called 911 and confessed to killing her mother, leading to her arrest. Nikki revealed to police that she had planned to kill both parents and Carlos originally, but after killing her mother, she stopped because it was "too hard." Nikki pleaded guilty to the planned murder, and on January 7, 2000, she was sentenced to 34 years in prison. On April 4, 2001, however, the sentence was deemed unconstitutional, and she received a new sentence of 21 years, eight months, with a release date originally set for sometime in 2019. Nikki was eligible for parole in 2015, and she was released from prison on September 18 of that year.