By 9:45 PM, the aggressively bright fluorescent lights inside a giant Dollar General are enough to give anybody a headache, especially if you’ve been there all day. Ariel would know. She’s worked there for two years, watching most of the town pass through her register.

But one family stood out. They always came in just before closing, carrying a smell of cat urine, their children clinging close, hair hanging over their eyes, never looking up.

The family always bought the same things: a jug of water… and a large bottle of vegetable oil.

On June 29, Ariel rang them up like usual. The next day, she saw them on the news.

Sixteen children, crammed into a 12-by-12 room, in what’s now called the Ohio “House of Horrors.” And one question lingers: what were they doing with the vegetable oil?

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A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it’s enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty.

Except for identical twins.

It’s not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters.

The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare.

Except for Ohio.

A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins.

Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent?

And which twin is guilty?

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A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it’s enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty.

Except for identical twins.

It’s not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters.

The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare.

Except for Ohio.

A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins.

Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent?

And which twin is guilty?

Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com

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