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IT WASN'T ME - CAN IDENTICAL TWINS GET AWAY WITH MURDER
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Sometimes even the parents of identical twins can’t tell the difference.
In 2023, a mother of identical twins in Argentina confessed she felt forced to take her 6-week old infants to the local police station for fingerprint comparison because she couldn’t tell them apart.
Mom had placed a blue ribbon around the wrist of one of the twins but cut it off — and then lost track of their identities when the twins got sick one night. But the police were unable to identify the children and doctors couldn’t help either. After several days of confusion, the problem was solved thanks to Argentina’s National Registry of Persons.
The mother’s Twitter thread went viral after explaining her dilemma, and joking that she won the Best Mom of the Year Award. Her tweet collected over 350,000 likes and over 24,000 retweets. As well, a huge number of other parents admitted having problems trying to identify their own twins.
So if even parents can have difficulty recognizing their own identical twins, will the police and justice system face a similar nightmare during crime investigations?
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