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Evil Twins: Chilling True Stories of Twins, Killing and Insanity
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John Glatt
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They give a whole new meaning to the phrase Dead Ringers
Identical twins, with the exact same genetic information, are a fascinating study in human behavior. It is a known fact that when separated at birth, they will often end up with very similar lives, without ever having met one another. So it seems to follow that if one twins turns out to be a bad seed, the other will also go to the dark side. the shocking stories in Evil Twins prove this to be the case time and time again. And even more astounding are stories of twins turning upon each other in furious rivalries that may date back to the womb. Her is just a sampling of the compelling true stories about evil twins:
Sins of the mothers: Harvard-educated chemical engineer Jane Hopkins stabbed her two young children to death before killing herself-six years after her twin sister Jean had tried to poison her own two children...
My brothers killer: Identical twins Jeff and Greg Henry were close as brothers could be, inventing their own language and often exchanging identities. But they grew up to become violent alcoholics, and on one fateful binge, Jeff turned on his own twin brother and shot him in the heart with a shotgun...
Loathsome Lotharios: Handsome, charming twin brothers George and Stefan Spitzer went to Hollywood to become famous actors. But their movie-star good looks never landed them any parts-except in the lurid home movies they shot of themselves raping the unconscious women they doped up on Roofies...
Evil twins: Double the deadliness...with eight pages of shocking photos!

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Table of Contents

For I Have Sinned

Evil Twins

Cradle of Death

Blind Passion

Depraved

Cries in the Desert

Twisted

Deadly American Beauty

One Deadly Night

The Cookie Ladies Dorthea Beck and her twin sister Mary lived and worked together until they retired in their late sixties. Known to most as the Cookie Ladies, who baked and gave away delicious chocolate-chip cookies, they shocked their quiet Illinois community when Dorthea turned on her sister in a violent rage and beat her to death with a walking cane.

Doctor, Doctor Cyril and Stewart Marcus seemed to have it all. Handsome successful twin gynecologists, they were the talk of New York medical circles. But their growing addiction to painkillers, amphetamines, and barbiturates began to consume them, jeopardize the lives of their patients, and ultimately, result in their own untimely deaths.

Twisted Sister At one time, Sunny and Gina Han, strikingly beautiful 23-year-old South Korean-born identical twins, had been inseparable. But when Sunny turned her sister in to the police for stealing, Gina spent six months in jailallegedly plotting to kill her once-beloved twin sister.

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CHILLING TRUE STORIES OF

EVIL TWINS

SEPARATED BY MURDER

O ne brother was a saint but his identical twin was a sinner. Yet Greg and Jeff Henry were inseparablelocked together in a sadomasochistic relationship that would end in a grisly death.

It is a twisted tale of a strange, dysfunctional Southern family that could have come straight out of the pages of an Erskine Caldwell novel.

Throughout their lives Greg delighted in intimidating and terrorizing his meeker brother, ordering him to fetch beer after beer and then clean up. To reinforce his dominance, Greg often fired his .22 caliber rifle at Jeff to scare him, spraying their apartment walls with bullet holes.

The Henry brothers lived and worked together in a strange masterslave relationship for nearly thirty-seven years, until they were ripped apart by a single shotgun blast at their home in rural Georgia.

Killed instantly was Greg, the brutal power monger, who finally pushed things too far onenight after a marathon drinking session, when he threatened Jeff with a shotgun. For once the docile brother turned, savagely killing his twin before giving himself up to the police and being charged with murder.

Even as babies, Greg and Jeff Henry faced an uphill battle for survival in a world they could never quite come to terms with. They were born on January 23, 1955, in Dublin, Georgia, during a freak snowstorm. It became a family joke that the real reason the towns antiquated switchboard broke down from too many calls wasnt the snow, but the arrival of the Henry twins.

Their father, Dick Henry, was a successful executive, managing a local chemical plant, and their mother, Sue, once the most beautiful girl in Dublin, had won many local beauty contests in her youth.

Dick and Sue, who already had two boys, were overjoyed when the twins were born after a difficult Cesarean section. But within a few months Greg became sick and almost died. He was diagnosed with a brain disorder and had to have his spine tapped to save his life.

As infants, the Henry twins captured the imagination of the town. Sue, then thirty-six, would proudly push them through the streets to church every Sunday in their double stroller. And they caused quite a stir at Dicks country club, where they would play with their two older brothers, Chris and Mike.

From the very beginning they were known as the twins and never referred to by their names. Even their mother couldnt tell them apart and would ask them to raise their shirts to identify them, as one had an inner bellybutton and the other, an outer.

Sue Henry dressed them alike in fabulous no-expense-spared outfits and the twins became her pride and joy. She spoiled them rotten. As infants Jeff and Greg were inseparable and even sucked each others thumbs. They played together and slept together and seemed like a single person inhabiting two identical bodies.

If you had one, you had them both, declared their mother. I dont remember them being any different.

Even before they could talk English they had instinctively developed their own language, which no one else could understand. They would happily jabber away for hours, using strange words like Jogabawamama and Debogdoogwotama.

But the Henrys perfect world fell apart when, in April 1958, Dick was diagnosed with brain cancer and died a year later. While he was on his deathbed, Sue brought Greg and Jeff into the hospital to say their final good-byes.

Arent they adorable? said their dying father as he kissed them for the last time.

So at the age of forty, Sueor Ma, as the twins called herfound herself a widow withjust a small trust fund to support the twins and their two brothers.

Im a survivor, says the tough Southern belle, who became a secretary to make ends meet. You do what you have to do to get by.

There seemed to be an almost supernatural, psychic bond between Jeff and Greg as they grew up. At the age of five Greg disappeared and couldnt be found anywhere. When Jeff was asked where his brother was hiding he immediately walked off and found him a mile away from their home. Somehow he was just drawn toward him.

Together the twins created their own world of fantasy and didnt seem to need anyone else. But from their earliest days Greg appeared to dominate Jeff, assuming the role of leader in all their games. By the time they started at a private pre-school and kindergarten, Jeff cheerfully took a back seat to his more extroverted brother, who always got better grades and made more friends. And wherever Greg led, Jeff followed.

From a young age the twins discovered a fascination for electrical appliances. When they were seven they surprised their mother by completely rewiring their bedroom, connecting every appliance to a single master switch so they could turn on everything at once.

It inspired them to want to become inventors when they grew up and they started reading everything they could about technology.

In 1962, Ma Henry remarried a local mannamed Jack Wright. The seven-year-old twins hated their new stepfather, a strict disciplinarian who tried to rein them in. Jeff and Greg considered him physically abusive and would avoid him at all costs.

At home there were frequent arguments and fights between their mother and new stepfather, who did not get along. Ma Henry turned to drink to overcome her problems, finally divorcing Wright in 1973.

Painfully shy and far slower than his smarter brother, Jeff struggled through Henderson High School as a C- and D-grade student. The introverted Jeff was physically frail and far weaker than Greg, and developed an inferiority complex after failing to have his brothers success with the girls.

Jeff could barely read or write, but he found that he had a talent for fixing radios and stereos, spending hours happily tinkering away with the electronic devices. The tall, skinny teenager, who sported long, blond hair, dreamed of inventing revolutionary machines that would change the world, like the ones he read about in science fiction comics.

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