The suicidal twins: the incredible case of Úrsula and Sabina Eriksson
In case of Úrsula and Sabina Eriksson It is one of those stories difficult to understand. For those of us who know history ask ourselves: "How is it possible that two twin sisters decide to commit suicide at the same time? How two relatives are capable of suffering the same madness together?
The terrible case was recorded by the BBC
But this terrible story not only draws attention to the fact that two sisters wanted to commit suicide together, something unusual, but that his suicide attempt was recorded on a program of the British BBC . But there is still more, because a few days later, in the middle of a psychotic outbreak, one of the sisters was able to kill an innocent man.
If you still do not know the story, and before continuing reading this text, we invite you to visualize the video that we present below, so you can see this striking case with your own eyes. We warn you that the images are hard, so if you are an extremely sensitive person, we recommend that you do not watch this recording.
The strange behavior of the two sisters
This incredible story that you just saw, in which the protagonists are Sabina and Ursula Eriksson, happened on the M6 motorway in the United Kingdom and had an audience of 7 million viewers the day it was broadcast on television .
Apparently, the agents arrived in the area warned because there were two women who were behaving very strangely in the vicinity of the road. When the police tried to talk to them, they behaved very aggressively. They had in mind to commit suicide, and nobody was going to avoid it .
In a dismissal of the agents, Ursula managed to throw herself under the wheels of a truck that traveled at 60 miles per hour, and that seemed to swallow her and then expel her lifeless body. Right after, Sabina took advantage of a mistake by the agents to carry out her suicide, and was hit hard by a car. Both lie on the ground and seem unconscious.
The sisters survived the suicide attempt
To the surprise of those present and the spectators, neither Úrsula nor Sabina achieved their goal . Although the first one ended with several fractures, Sabina left completely unharmed of this incident. In fact, he tried to remove the agents by shouting: "You want to steal our organs. You are not real. " As the minutes passed, Sabina found herself better and got up to face the agents of the authority, for which she was arrested and handcuffed.
The murder of Sabina
But what happened on this fateful day was not enough for Sabina, but, a few hours later, when she was released, she became the author of the tragic death of a man innocent who crossed his path, Glenn Hollinshead.
The murder occurred because two men gave Sabina help while he was lurking in the streets in search of the hospital where his sister was. Glenn with a friend were walking his dog, and alerted by the strange behavior of Sabina approached her. Despite everything that had happened, she was sympathetic and asked for a place to sleep. They offered him shelter, so he accompanied them.
Once at Glenn's house, his strange behavior continued, and as a result of his delusions he stabbed Glenn Hollinshead until his death. Sabina was sentenced to five years in prison .
A case of Folie à Deux or shared psychotic disorder
The two twin sisters suffered a shared psychotic disorder or Folie à Deux, which does not happen very often. It is characterized because two or more people share the symptoms of a psychotic disorder, usually delusions .
Both suffered symptoms of a paranoid disorder, because they thought there were people who were against him. For example, in the case of the police, when they tried to help both of them, both had the belief that they wanted to steal their organs.
Another case of twins who try to commit suicide
In 2010, two 29-year-old Australian sisters who were shooting in Denver (Colorado, United States) agreed to commit suicide together. For this, they decided to shoot themselves in the head at the same time. After the shooting, one of the two survived, but the other lost his life.
