Twins Suicide Pact

While researching something completely unrelated I came upon these old articles if an event that I had forgotten about. Twin sisters from Austrailia who had been severely bullied and suffering from depression decided to take their own lives at a Denver gun range. They admired Eric and Dylan and were fascinated with the Columbine tragedy. Apparently they had been in Denver for over a month. They had also kept in frequent contact with the Browns, both by mail and phone. This part was morbid:

“After the shooting, police found a letter in the sisters' luggage from the family of one of the killers in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which 13 people died.

A copy of a Time magazine cover showing Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was also in their hotel room, while it emerged that Kristin had written to a Columbine student who had been bullied by Harris.”


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“Kristin Hermeler died at the Family Shooting Center November 15, while her sister Candice was seriously injured after they both shot themselves in the head with rented .22 pistols. A week later, as investigators were announcing that their inquiry was now closed, CBS4's Rick Sallinger reported that the twins had in their effects letters from the mother of Columbine gunman Dylan Klebold and the mother of Corey Depooter, one of the twelve students killed by Klebold and Eric Harris on April 20, 1999.

This is in addition to the Time cover story about Columbine found among the twins' things, and the phone calls and e-mails they sent years ago to Brooks Brown, whose family had tried to alert authorities to Harris's bomb-making and threats before the shootings.

More disturbing, perhaps, than the Columbine connection itself is the official effort to pretend that connection doesn't exist. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Captain Louie Perea of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office stressed that the copy of Time was "the only thing that we found in their property to tie into Columbine whatsoever."

Except for the letters. And perhaps other materials still not released.”


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Damn, they were beyond obsessed. Considering these two ladies had been in Denver for a month before this and all of the press Sol got, it’s strange that a bigger deal wasn’t made of this.

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true_crime wrote:

Damn, they were beyond obsessed. Considering these two ladies had been in Denver for a month before this and all of the press Sol got, it’s strange that a bigger deal wasn’t made of this.

It's most likely because there's an impression, rightly or wrongly, that Sol wanted to actually kill others instead of just committing suicide, while with these two they never tried to pull off an attack.

Thanks for sharing the story. I wonder how Candice is doing now.