9.
Ruslan and Roman Glukhoy
Ruslan and Roman Glukhoy emigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine with their parents as young
boys.
The family settled in California, where the boys became star wrestlers as teens, and even
went on to compete in state championships.
Unfortunately the young athletes veered down the wrong path after a car accident in 2011
left them both addicted to prescription painkillers.
Police records show that the brothers have criminal records dating back to 2012, when
they were still minors.
One day in 2014, Roman and Ruslan got into a high-speed police chase after they were
seen committing a burglary.
They crashed their vehicle on a highway exit, so they abandoned it and stole a truck.
The pair continued to flee law enforcement, reaching speeds of up to 100 miles per hour
(161 km/hr).
They crashed the truck into a car during the early morning hours, killing 35-year-old Jose
Luis Barriga-Tovar and his 14-year-old daughter Anahi Tovar.
Police charged the twins with two counts of murder each.
Ruslan, who was behind the wheel, received two life sentences.
Roman will spend 30 years to life behind bars.
8.
Jas and Tas Whitehead
When mom Nikki Whitehead gave birth to twin daughters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah in 1993, when
she was just 17, she never could have imagined how horrifically things would end.
Being a young mom, she wasn’t a constant presence in their lives, so her family helped
raise the beautiful, outgoing girls.
Jas and Tas lived with their great-grandmother while Nikki got her life together.
She gained custody of her 13-year-old daughters in 2007, and they moved into the home she
shared with her boyfriend in Conyers, Georgia.
During their time at their great-grandmother’s, the sisters had gone from being straight-A
students to cutting class and dating older boys.
Not wanting her daughters to become teen moms and experience the same troubles that she
had, Nikki imposed strict rules.
She and the girls clashed, and soon enough, their fights turned physical.
Jas and Tas returned to their great-grandmother’s until 2010, when a judge granted Nikki full
custody.
Just eight days after they moved back in, Nikki was found dead in her bathtub.
She had been bludgeoned with a vase and brutally stabbed over 80 times.
The house was covered in blood.
Jas and Tas tried pointing the blame at Nikki’s boyfriend Robert, who took a DNA test and
was cleared as a suspect.
Detectives noticed that the sisters didn’t seem very upset about their mother’s death.
Soon enough, they were getting caught in lies.
Their story clearly wasn’t adding up.
But there wasn’t enough evidence to charge them in Nikki’s death, so they returned
to their great-grandmother’s and lived as if nothing had happened.
Months later, a mold of Nikki’s teeth was matched to a bite mark on one of the girls.
It was enough to charge them with murder.
They both took plea deals in exchange for a 30 year sentence each.
As a condition of their pleas, they had to confess to killing Nikki.
Jas and Tas revealed that they had been plotting to murder their mother for quite some time.
They even kept a journal dedicated to how much they hated her and wanted her dead.
Nikki only wanted the best for her daughters.
She paid for it with her life when they got mad at her for telling them to get out of
bed that morning and decided to carry out their sick plot to eliminate her from the
picture.
7.
Robert and Stephen Spahalski
Identical twins Robert and Stephen Spahalski were born and raised in Elmira, New York.
They were extremely close, sharing a bond that included a tendency towards deviance.
The brothers were heavy partiers with a violent streak that ultimately led them both to commit
murder.
Unlike some twins, Robert and Stephen didn’t co-conspire.
When Stephen was 17, he bashed a storeowner over the head with a hammer and then stabbed
him to death.
Robert was already in jail for a parole violation, marking the first of many overlapping sentences
that the brothers served for crimes they committed separately.
On New Year’s Eve in 1990, Robert murdered a prostitute.
He killed his girlfriend just months later; then, he bludgeoned a male sex worker to death.
Robert evaded suspicion for all three murders, and went on to kill his friend Vivian Irizarry
in a crack-induced rage.
Plagued by guilt over Vivian’s murder, he walked into the police station just days later
and calmly confessed to the crime, as well as the previous killings.
In 2006, Robert received three sentences of 25 years to life.
He’s serving them consecutively and will never get out of prison.
Stephen was released in 2009 and returned to a life of crime.
Just six months later, he landed himself back in prison for holding up a bank.
He was released again in 2016, and it remains to be seen whether the brothers will end up
doing more time together.
6.
Daniel and David DeWild
During the summer of 2003, a young mother named Heather DeWild disappeared in Golden,
Colorado.
Her family immediately pointed the finger at her soon-to-be ex-husband, Daniel.
The couple were just days away from finalizing their divorce, and the process had been nothing
short of contentious.
Heather was last seen alive at Dan’s home.
He told police that she had left their kids with him to go shopping.
His story seemed suspicious, but police didn’t have enough evidence to charge him in her
disappearance.
They continued to investigate, and in the meantime, Dan’s twin brother David, who
was also a suspect, moved in to help out with the bills.
Heather’s remains were found a month after she vanished.
It was clear that she had been murdered, but detectives still couldn’t link Daniel to
the crime.
The investigation continued to lag, and Heather’s family began to wonder if she would ever get
justice.
It was clear to police that Daniel was more stubborn and controlling than David, so they
focused on trying to get David to crack under pressure.
It worked.
He told investigators that Dan was sick of paying child support and had been plotting
to kill Heather for some time.
David admitted to being there when Daniel and helping his twin brother to dispose of
his estranged wife’s remains.
Daniel is serving a 74-year sentence, and David received 12 years.
5.
Doris and Yvette Gay
Twins Doris and Yvette Gay were born into poverty and sadly never managed to escape
it.
In 1990, when they were 27 years old, the identical twin sisters found themselves living
in an abandoned bus in Washington, North Carolina.
They shared the unheated, tiny living space with Yvette’s two children, who were fathered
by her married boyfriend Renwick Gibbs.
Renwick had spent several years bouncing back-and-forth between Yvette and his wife, Ann.
Yvette became increasingly jealous of Ann and wanted Renwick to herself.
He told Yvette that they could finally be together and get married if she cooperated
with his plan to murder Ann and his in-laws.
She agreed, and Doris watched her kids.
Yvette and Renwick went to his in-laws’ house, where Ann was living after recently
leaving him.
What Yvette didn’t know was that Renwick didn’t plan to murder Ann.
He wanted to kill her parents, because he thought they were influencing her not to reconcile
with him.
Ann’s mother, Louise, and her teenage brother and sister were the only ones home.
The couple bound and gagged them, and Renwick mercilessly shot them dead, execution-style.
Police immediately suspected Renwick, who had trouble keeping his story straight from
the beginning.
It wasn’t long before he confessed to the murders and implicated Yvette and Doris for
their roles in the crime.
Even though Doris stayed behind, prosecutors believed that she played an integral role
in the plot.
Yvette and Renwick received three death sentences, which were later commuted to life in prison,
and Doris received three life sentences.
4.
Jerome and Tyrone Page
Fifteen-year-old Amanda Lee Hall ran away from her home in Baltimore in 1993 after getting
into a fight with her boyfriend.
After staying with various friends, she sought refuge at a local recreation center, where
she slept in an outdoor area.
It was there that she encountered twins Jerome and Tyrone Page, who were drinking and using
cocaine.
The brothers had long rap sheets and had both done time years earlier for watching a gang
rape.
Not surprisingly, Amanda turned up dead after crossing paths with the twins.
Her body was found along an old road, and an autopsy determined that she had been raped
and strangled to death.
Because identical twins have the same exact DNA, detectives had a tough time determining
what role each brother played in the crime.
Jerome admitted to raping and sodomizing Amanda and took the blame for the murder, even though
prosecutors believe that Tyrone was the brother that actually killed her.
He received a life sentence.
Tyrone’s defense lawyer argued that he was the more innocent and mild-mannered twin,
and that Jerome had influenced him to participate in the crime.
But the judge didn’t buy the “good vs. evil twin” argument and also sentenced him
to life.
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3.
Betty Wilson and Peggy Lowe
Jack Wilson was an ophthalmologist and a well-liked community member who lived in Huntsville,
Alabama.
He arrived home one day in 1998 to an intruder in the house, who beat him with a baseball
bat and stabbed him to death.
At first, locals assumed that Wilson was the victim of a burglary gone wrong.
Police later traced the crime to a carpenter named James White, who lived 150 miles (241
km) away.
He told detectives that the doctor’s wife, Betty Wilson, along with her twin sister,
Peggy Lowe, had hired him to kill Jack.
White received several thousand dollars to carry out the hit, but said that he wasn’t
in it for money.
He was in love with Peggy, who was married, and made a sarcastic comment one day about
how he could arrange for something terrible to happen to her husband.
Peggy allegedly responded by saying that her twin sister needed someone to kill Jack.
Betty denied having anything to do with her husband’s death and said that the couple
got along fine.
Locals told a much different story, claiming that Betty was having numerous affairs.
She supposedly even bragged about how smart she was for getting away with her double life
while Jack spoiled her courtesy of his six-figure salary.
Peggy, on the other hand, received plenty of sympathy.
Her church friends even raised money to pay her $150,000 bail.
She denied having a romantic relationship with White.
Her lawyer painted him out as crazy, citing his lengthy history of psychiatric hospitalizations.
White and Betty received life sentences, and Peggy was acquitted.
She claimed that both she and Betty were innocent, and that her sister was falsely convicted.
Betty is still in prison, but continues to maintain her innocence as her loved ones fight
to get her released.
2.
Donte and Dante Hall
In 2006, an erotic dancer named Angel Glenn was hired to dance at a house party in Eustis,
Florida.
While there, she called her boyfriend, Donte Hall, to tell him that there were valuables
in the house, and where to find them.
Donte and his twin brother, Dante, showed up at the house with guns and shot out the
lights.
They continued firing bullets as partygoers got on the ground and began handing their
jewelry over.
Two men were shot dead while numerous others were injured.
After the robbery, Donte told Angel that he was upset about how the robbery went, because
he didn’t get as many valuables as he thought he would.
Days later, police caught Angel pawning some of the stolen jewelry and arrested her.
She and another dancer who were at the party opened up about what happened and agreed to
testify against the twin brothers.
A jury convicted Donte for both murders, although many believed that Dante may have fired one
of the fatal shots.
Donte received the death penalty, but the sentence was thrown out and he is awaiting
his resentencing.
Dante is serving a life sentence.
1.
The Bawcum Twins
One day in 1999, Deborah Bawcum entered her twin sons’ bedroom and found an assault
rifle under one of their bed covers.
She confronted the 11-year-old boys, and one of them tried wrestling the rifle out of her
hands while the other twin pulled out a handgun and shot her in the arm.
Their father, William, rushed upstairs to see what the commotion was about and received
two bullets to the neck.
The boys’ 16-year-old sister, Robin, tried dialing 911 and was also shot.
She collapsed outside in a porch swing.
Deborah and Robin survived, but William died from his injuries.
The scene was oddly calm when police arrived.
One of the boys was outside feeding his rabbits, and the other was wandering around inside
the house.
Their nonchalant demeanor led some to speculate that the twins are sociopaths, and investigators
initially said that they believed the boys were plotting to kill their family, and that
Deborah interrupted them right as they were about to carry out their plan.
But when the case finished working its way through court, District Attorney David Waters
told the Associated Press that they do not believe the twins meant to injure anyone before
they turned the guns on their family.
Under North Carolina law, they couldn’t serve time past their 18th birthday, and their
records would be wiped clean at that time.
The boys were sentenced to six years in a juvenile detention facility.
Their reasons for shooting their family remain a mystery.
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