Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus

back at you once again for another journey into madness as we examined Swedish twins Ursula and

Sabina Ericsson, who became infamous in 2008 following their involvement in a series of inexplicable events,

which began with a seemingly shared psychotic breakdown in the UK,

and culminated in murder.

Now, while I have no doubt this story actually starts at a much earlier time, the common sentiment regarding these sisters is that very little is known of their background, including family history, mental health, and everything else for that matter.

The general consensus is that there is no history of mental health issues in the family, but I'm guessing,

based upon the result we're going to talk about, that there

was rampant, untreated mental illness present in one form or another.

Anyhow, the twins were born in Sweden on November 3rd, 1967, and there doesn't seem to be a linear

history that offers a great deal of insight about the how, what, where, and why of their

movements over the coming decades, right up until the start of this

incident.

There are scattered sentiments that they were loners in school growing up, or even just a bit

odd, perhaps occasionally violent, but nothing concrete

that allows us to scan the situation from a bird's eye view and hone in on a reason

for what's to come.

So, if we don't have these elements to assist us in our assessment,

we simply fall back on evolutionary considerations related to movement.

We'll utilize the nature of their actions

to assess their psychological disposition which will reveal their desires. Now we

know Ursula moves to the United States in the year 2000, which means these sisters

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