Colorado: Australian Twins Carry Out Suicide Pact, One Survives; Had Articles About Columbine
November 19th, 2010This reminded me of the strange case of Jane Greenhow, Stefan Bateman and Ruth Fleming from 1996:
Stefan Bateman and Ruth Fleming, both 22, were wearing the same style of black garb when they rented pistols at the range and took a few dozen practice shots Wednesday afternoon.
Then they turned the pistols on themselves–apparently counting down together so the guns would go off at the same instant, Arizona authorities said.
“Witnesses said they both fell at the same time,” said Mesa Police Sgt. Earle Lloyd. “It was ruled a double suicide.”
Another very strange case involving twins: Ursula and Sabina Eriksson.
Via: Daily Telegraph:
AUSTRALIAN twins Kristin and Candace Hermeler were carrying articles about one of America’s worst school massacres when they shot themselves in a bizarre suicide pact.
The revelation has made their transformation from cheerful best friends in a middle-class Melbourne family to an unimaginable death plot at a shooting range more difficult to understand.
As police interviewed the surviving twin, Candace, officers said a search of their bags had found magazine articles, clippings and letters related to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.
“But there was never anything we came across to indicate that they had intended to do another Columbine,” Arapahoe County Sheriff’s office Captain Louie Perea said.
The pair turned .22 pistols, which they had rented for $20, on themselves at the Family Shooting Range in Denver, Colorado on Monday, leaving Kristin dead.
In terrible scenes, the pair fell backwards simultaneously before Candace, with blood pouring from a bullet wound in her own forehead, stumbled towards her sister’s body.
Known as Candy, the 29-year-old was “devastated, frustrated, distraught and angry at times” during a two-hour interview with police.
She repeatedly declined to say why she and her sister had shot themselves.
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They returned to a Melbourne private school for their final two years and both completed double university degrees. Together they had travelled to Canada, San Francisco, North Carolina and had worked as nannies.
They had spent five weeks in Denver on cultural exchange visas.
One of the twins had been due to leave on Tuesday.
Their cousin Jacky Sole in Washington said the pair were raised in a comfortable, middle-class family.
“They grew up in a loving home. They didn’t lack for anything,” she said.
Another relative said: “They were close, they knew each other, loved each other.”
Captain Louie Perea confirmed the twins had made a suicide pact.
“The surviving sister has confirmed that they had planned to commit suicide together, and did in fact shoot themselves,” he said.
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Before the shooting they chatted with other shooters.
Here is a recent case in California where twin boys did that. http://www.ktvu.com/news/25572366/detail.html
creepy twins. A store cashier recently noticed that I have green eyes with a hazel splotch, and she asked ‘do you have a twin?’ And I asked how she knew, and she asked if the twin has solid colored eyes, because her twin friends are like that. Also there is a horror movie with this theme?
This twin stuff is far out. I went back and watched the footage of the Eriksson twins again http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636577.stm and it still makes no sense, although in the context of the other twin suicides etc., it starts to make a completely different type of sense.
Do twins share everything, including insanity?
Is this some kind of programming / deprogramming?
Pay attention to the reported comments they are supposed to have made. The Eriksson girls are totally loco, almost like they are living in a completely different reality overlaid on the one we experience. The details are freaky, one of them offering cigarettes then snatching them out of mouths saying they are poisoned. The Hermeler twins apparently chat with others and then try to blow their own brains out. The Hayward High teenage twins go to considerable lengths to kill themselves, and leave an apology for their parents.
In each case, the results are unequal – either one twin dies and the other does not, or one twin suffers much more. Why is this?
Why are the Hermelers carrying Columbine articles? Are they trying to tell us something? Why put those in your bag and then try to kill yourself? What happened to them in Denver for those five weeks? I wonder if they checked out any airport murals when they flew in and flew out?
And why does foreign travel (albeit independently of each other) seem to figure in this?
My spider sense is tingling, but my brain is totally fried on this one.