12 Pairs Of Twins Who Committed Murder Together

Twins Pete and Pat Bondurant of Tennessee took lives separately.Andtogether. In 1991, they got convicted for the 1986 killing of 24-year-old Gwen Dugger. Pete reportedly used drugs to 'incapacitate' her. The brothers then assaulted Dugger and beat her with an ax handle in front of Pat's wife, Denise. Since her body never appeared, they got 25-year sentences.They received 25-year sentences.This was instead of life in prison.

That wasn't their only conviction. TheThe Bondurant brothers.committed more crimes in 1986. Pat was found guilty of fatally beating a co-worker. Pete took his girlfriend's life. Pete also faced charges for helping Pat dismember his co-worker.

In 2014, Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead of Georgia pleaded guilty to the voluntary manslaughter of their mother. While they were still teenagers in 2010, the twins disconnected their mother's spinal cord with a kitchen knife.Their mother's spinal cord.Nikki Whitehead complained about the "" behavior of her daughters.Investigators said the teens attacked their mom after a fight between the three. They said it was a crime of passion.

They stabbed their mother and strangled her beforedragging her to the bathtub.She reportedly passed there. The 16-year-old girls watched. The twins got 30-year sentences.

In 1992, twins Betty Wilson and Peggy Lowe of Alabama allegedly planned a capital crime. When Jack Wilson, Betty's husband, took a fatal beating with a baseball bat, people thought Wilson hired James Dennison White to kill him.A baseball bat.It was thought that Wilson hired James Dennison White to take out Jack.

Wilson was sentenced to life in prison. Lowe was acquitted, but the prosecution strongly believed she was involved in Wilson's death.

The Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie, were boxers who became criminals in the 1950s and 1960s. The notorious London criminal pair reached celebrity status.. celebrated status. Though they did mafia-related things—arson, robbery—they only got convicted of murder.They were convicted of murder.. Reggie was arrested for ending Jack "The Hat" McVitie, and Ronnie was charged in George Cornell's death. They acted together for everything, including crime.

Many books and movies feature the infamous twins, including John Pearson's biographyThe Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays.Reggie died from cancer soon after his 2000 prison release. Ronnie had a heart attack and died in 1995.

In 2011, the 48-year-old Berndt twins, Edwin and Edward, faced charges for killing their 88-year-old mother after neighbors reported they hadn't seen her in months. Officers found the mother face down on the floor of the Houston house, which was in bad shape. The twins claimed she slipped and fell. They also said they left her there for three days before she died. She was reportedly conscious the whole time.

After she died, the twins lived in the house for three months. They walked over the body. Charges eventually dropped because of the twins' mental states..

In 2015, Keishon and Kenyata Blake faced charges for killing a woman returning from a South Los Angeles grocery store. Sixty-two-year-old Maria Elena Rivas shopped for Christmas dinner ingredients; the eighteen-year-old twins allegedly approached her and stole her purse.

According toan LAPD detective, the Blake brothers had a criminal record involving robberies and assaults. Having these two thugs off the streets now makes people feel much safer.

In 2015, twins Deo and Charles Tamale from Edmonton, London, committed a brutal assault during a robbery. The nineteen-year-olds allegedly tried to steal phones from four people at a party. Twenty-three-year-old Khiry Ford intervened and sustained over a dozen stab wounds. Ford apparently said, "It's my cousin's 18th birthday, there's no need."

His mother, Joanne Duncan, spoke strongly about wanting the twins never released. The Tamale twins weresentenced to 22 years..

In 2016, twins David and Ryan Murphy were members of the UN, a gang in British Columbia, Canada, involved in selling drugs. The Murphys admitted helping the criminal organization take outJonathan Barber and Kevin LeClair.. They each got only a two-year sentence even though they pleaded guilty to knowingly participating in the UN "for the purpose of enhancing the ability of a criminal organization to commit the indictable offense of conspiracy to commit murder."

Though they stressed they had no direct part in the separate crimes, some people thought the sentences were too light.

In 2014, twins Jared and Gerald Smith were beating up a woman in Fresno, California. They stopped when anattempting to intervene on the victim's behalf, Good Samaritan interrupted them.The twins, who were eighteen then, turned on Nathan Halsted. Halsted tried to protect the woman, and the twins ultimately beat him unconscious in the street while attempting to intervene on the victim's behalf.

A car, allegedly unrelated to the crime, hit Halsted while he lay there, ending the life of the forty-nine-year-old. The teens faced charges for Halsted's death and went to trial in 2015.

In 2006, twenty-two-year-old twin brothers Donte and Dante Hall tried to rob a house but crashed a party. They found themselves among the guests.The masked twins opened fire, ending the lives of two men.Donte's AK-47 killed at least one man; Dante also reportedly had a weapon. Donte already had a warrant for a prior Orlando murder. Both brothers faced being the first set of identical twins sentenced to death.Death row.They died together.

The trial became messy. Dante's team tried to make Donte the only person responsible. Donte got the death penalty. Dante received two life sentences. In 2016, Florida state law changed. The law now requires a unanimous jury decision for capital punishment.Florida state law changed in 2016 to require a unanimous jury decision for capital punishment.Donte's sentence was overturned. The court sent Donte back for a new sentencing hearing.

In 2001, Canon City law enforcement answered a call. Twenty-four-year-old Joel Stovall shot his neighbor's dog five times. Sheriff's Deputy Jason Schwartz arrested Stovall for reckless endangerment suspicion. Other reports claim Stovall still had weapons when he entered the deputy's truck. Before they departed, Stovall's twin, Michael, and other family members arrived.

Verbal arguments happened. Schwartz eventually arrested Michael Stovall too. As he drove the twins to the station, the situation unfolded.Joel shot Schwartz in the back of the head.The brothers took over as the truck left the road. They shot Schwartz sixteen more times. Then, they began a twenty-four-hour chase involving several robberies.

The brothers stole weapons and fired multiple times during their escape attempt. Law enforcement backup from several counties tried to capture the twins during gunfights. After a full day of pursuit, police caught and convicted the Stovalls. Both pleaded guilty and received life sentences plus 896 years.Life sentences plus 896 years.They received these sentences without parole.

In 1999, Nathan and Justin Bawcum, 11-year-old twin brothers from North Carolina, faced first-degree murder charges. Their mother found a .223-caliber assault rifle under the covers in the twins' room. When the mother tried to take it, one twin wrestled it away while the other shot her with a .38-caliber pistol. Their father heard the noise and ran toward it. He shot one of the twins twice upon entering the room.The rifle was found under the covers.One twin wrestled the rifle from their mother while the other shot her with a .38-caliber pistol. The father heard the noise and rushed toward the commotion. Upon entering the room, one of the twins shot him twice.

Their teenage sister was targeted when she called the police. Police arrived and found a scene officials called "gory"."gory"" - amid which the pre-teens calmly played with their pet rabbit. The twins' mother and sister survived their injuries, but 45-year-old Bill Bawcum died. The Bawcum brothers asked for lighter charges and private trials. They then received six years in a state reformatory.Six years.In a state reformatory.