Salomé

For months, a 13-year-old boy in Ohio searched “how to find the perfect victim” and “how to strangle someone.” In February 2025, he walked into his 64-year-old neighbor’s house in the middle of the night and strangled her in her bed. She fought back and tore out a chunk of his hair. His blood was all over the scene, and it should have been over right there. But the DNA matched two boys: him and his identical twin, and the lab couldn’t tell them apart. In the video below, police put both twins in the back of the same cruiser. “I don’t know what’s going on.” “Neither do I.” “Maybe it’s an intimidation tactic,” one of them says. One of these two boys did it. Then detectives showed his brother a photo of a men’s watch that had been found under her body. He recognized it instantly. It was his twin’s. He put his head in his hands: “There’s no way. There has to be someone who planted evidence.” It got worse. When police first came to the house, one twin had scratches on his face, and their mom blamed the cat. He’d been asking ChatGPT how to beat a police interrogation. The day after the murder, he posted: “This one was a fighter.” Five days after the killing, their parents asked a court to let both boys move with their mom to California. Five days later, he was arrested. He pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. He’ll be released at 21. Will he walk out at 21 a different person, or is this just who he is?