Ursula and Sabina Eriksson were identical twin sisters born in Sweden in 1967. They were the youngest of 4 children, and had an uneventful, happy childhood without an evidence of mental health issues or substance abuse. Eventually, Ursula moved to the US, and Sabina moved to Ireland where she is living with her partner and two children in 2008. On Friday, May 16, Ursula went to visit her sister in Ireland. Overnight, the sisters traveled by Ferry to Liverpool, arriving Saturday morning at 8:30 AM. At 11:30 they board a bus to London. However, the sister’s gotoff the bus at a service station and begin walking down the M6. The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the UK, and it is 6 lanes wide with a median running down the middle. CCTV camera capturs the girls on the median, and motorway cops, being filmed for a reality show, are sent out to check on the girls. The girls are initially calm, on the side of the road chatting with cops, when suddenly, Ursula, bolts into the street, running into the side of a truck traveling 90 km/hr and crushing her legs. While officers tend to Ursula, Sabina bolts into the motorway where she is promptly hit by a car. She remains unconscious for 15 minutes, before waking up combative and fighting with police. The girls are shouting at each other “I recognize you, you aren’t real” and “they’re going to steal your organs”. Sabina again tries to bolt from the officers, and is restrained by officers and pedestrians. It takes 6 people and chemical restraints to subdue her. Both sisters are taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. Ursula is taken to surgery and spends months convalescing in the hospital. Toxicology screns are negative for drugs and alcohol. Sabina, however, is released after evaluation and arrested for trespassing and assault on a police officer. At booking, she denies any medical history, psychiatric history, or suicidal ideations. While there, she is pleasant and joking with the officers. She states “We say in Sweden, that an accident rarely comes alone. Usually at least one follows, maybe two.” On May 19, she pleads guilty to her charges for assaulting the police officer and trespassing on the motorway, and is sentenced to 1 day in jail (or time served).

She is released from jail, and while praying in front of a church she meets Peter and Glenn. Peter Molloy (27) and Glen Hollinshead (54) are out walking Glenn’s dog after being at the pub around 2130. They run into Sabina who is looking for a B&B recommendation and tells that she is looking for her sister. As there was nowhere nearby to stay, Glenn, a retired RAF and part-time paramedic, full time welder, invites her back to his house for the night and promises to help her locate her sister. Glenn’s friends said this was normal behavior for him and he was a helpful guy. Peter says that he thought that she was on the run from an abusive ex, and seemed paranoid. In fact, at one point while having a few drinks she offers the men a cigarette from the pack she had been smoking from all night. But when they put them in their mouth she starts screaming that they may be poisoned. Peter leaves at about midnight, and Glenn assures him that it will be fine. The next day, after reaching out to his brother for help finding Ursula – he goes next door to ask his neighbor for some tea. Glenn goes back into his house, and less than a minute later he comes out bleeding and saying “she stabbed me, she stabbed me”. The neighbor calls the cops, and Glenn begs him to look after his dog before dying. Sabina is then seen fleeing the scene on CCTV. She runs for a while before stopping, then hitting herself in the head with a hammer that she had carried out of the home. A pedestrian tries to wrestle the hammer from her for her protection but she hit him over the head with a roof tile that she had in her pocket and kept running before leaping off a 40 ft bridge. After suffering a skull fracture and bilateral ankle fractures she was hospitalized before being released into police custody and charged with the murder of Glenn Hollinshead. In the end, there was no trial. Psychiatrists for both the defense and prosecution agreed that she was clinically insane at the time of the crime, but was sane at the time of the trial. She pleads guilty to manslaughter with diminished responsibility. The defense claimed that she had Folie a deux: French for “a madness shared by two” and it is a rare psychiatric syndrome of shared psychosis between two people, usually related. The lawyers alleged that Ursula was the primary sufferer, and Sabina was the secondary sufferer. So when Ursula went to visit Sabina, Ursula was insane. Them spending time together caused Sabina to become insane. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and became a Christian. She served 3 years and was released in 2011. The judge described it as ‘one of the most difficult cases he had ever had to sentence’, saying “While the mental illness resolved quickly, both psychiatrists agree it was serious and that she behaved in the way she did because of her illness. “Her culpability for her behavior is, on the medical evidence, accordingly low. She was suffering from delusions which she believed to be true and they dictated her behavior. It is also not one of those cases where the defendant could have done something to avoid the onset. It had a sudden onset, it was a serious illness while it lasted and it resolved rapidly.” The sisters have since disappeared, and nobody is aware of their current whereabouts. There is no record of them ever committing another crime.