Identical Twins Connected by DNA and Murder — True Crime
Twin brother’s both grow up to kill in New York State. The only thing they don’t share is actual victims. This is a great family to study nature versus nurture in creating serial killers.
Robert and Stephen Spahalski grew up in Elmira, New York during the 60s. The twins were extremely close, sharing a bond most others have never experienced.
They always just somehow knew where the other one was and what they were doing. Together the twins liked to party. The strangest fact is that they both grew up to also be killers.
Stephen Started Killing Young
Stephen was the first to kill. In 1971 he was only 17 when he hit Ronald Ripley 48 over the head with a hammer, then finished him off by stabbing the storeowner to death.
The authorities pulled Stephen in for questioning, and he confessed. He said he killed Ripley because he had made “unwanted homosexual advances” on him. He gave an interview later saying that Ripley “came after him in a homosexual way, and so, he killed him, he stabbed him.”
