0:01

Identical twins, Jerome and

0:04

Tyrone Page, look like the

0:06

best of friends. They walk

0:08

together, they talk together, they

0:10

function together. It was like

0:12

a tag team. But behind

0:14

closed doors, their relationship is

0:16

filled with abuse and intimidation.

0:19

He was so terrified that

0:21

he would hide in the

0:23

closet from his own brother.

0:25

When their hometown falls on

0:27

hard times, the twins become

0:29

identical partners in crime. Pray

0:31

upon a week and take.

0:34

Take what they want. The

0:36

relationship explodes in a single

0:38

night of horror. He goes

0:40

into Diner, gets a fort

0:42

and makes a momentous decision

0:44

to kill someone. All culminating

0:47

in a courtroom showdown that

0:49

pits one twin against the

0:51

other. You could have heard

0:53

a pin drop in the

0:55

courtroom. Unbelievable. We just don't

0:57

know which one did the

1:00

final act. The

1:14

city of Baltimore has long been

1:16

plagued by crime, but it

1:18

reaches a peak in the

1:20

early 1990s. Baltimore in the

1:23

90s was becoming, by far,

1:25

the worst city in terms

1:27

of reputation were dysfunction. Violent

1:29

crime was on the rise.

1:31

Much of it had to

1:33

do with being fueled by

1:35

the drug trade, both heroin

1:37

and cocaine, now including crack

1:39

cocaine. There were abandoned houses,

1:41

dangerous streets. drug drops all

1:43

over the place. And along

1:45

these desperate streets lurks

1:47

a pair of identical

1:50

twins, poised to menace

1:52

the innocent, and terrorize

1:54

the blighted city. Tonight,

2:00

local authorities are on the

2:02

lookout for 35-year-old Jerome Page.

2:05

This guy was no stranger

2:07

to law enforcement. He had

2:09

a violent past, and he

2:11

had a rap sheet a

2:14

mile long going back decades.

2:16

He's currently wanted for arm

2:18

robbery of a convenience store.

2:21

Many of Jerome's crimes were

2:23

committed in concert with his

2:25

identical twin brother, Tyrone. The

2:27

Page Brothers were living moment

2:30

to moment and would be

2:32

excited toward criminal behavior when

2:34

they would become inebriated. But

2:36

authorities may already be too

2:39

late. Just blocks away, the

2:41

Page Twins have found their

2:43

latest target. After downing a

2:46

few beers, shooting up cocaine.

2:48

The twins come upon a

2:50

15-year-old alone in a park

2:52

at night. She was just

2:55

struggling with the normal adolescent

2:57

things that adolescents struggle with

2:59

and trying to find her

3:02

way, trying to grow up,

3:04

but also still very much

3:06

a kid. This was not

3:08

a safe area for her

3:11

to be. The twins do

3:13

nearly everything in unison, and

3:15

tonight will be no different.

3:17

They had in fact been

3:20

preparing for this for their

3:22

whole lives. Jerome

3:27

Page was born May 23rd

3:29

1957 in Baltimore Maryland. His

3:32

identical twin brother Tyrone arrived

3:34

five minutes later. The twins

3:36

were the third and fourth

3:38

children of Francine Page. They

3:40

also had two older sisters.

3:42

For the most part, Francine

3:44

raised the twins as a

3:47

single mom. When

3:52

the Page Brothers were born, Baltimore

3:54

City and the surrounding counties were

3:56

vibrant areas. There were lots of

3:58

manufacturing jobs. In fact... Baltimore County

4:00

was a good place for young

4:02

African-American blue-collar workers to get into

4:05

unions and get some of these

4:07

good paying jobs at these manufacturing

4:09

plants. It was a boom time

4:11

and any able-bodied person could get

4:13

a job, but not just any

4:15

job, a job that could support

4:17

a family. It was a very

4:20

unusual period in history, and Baltimore

4:22

was at the epicenter of the

4:24

manufacturing boom. These

4:26

factory workers had high hopes for

4:28

the next generation, and the Page

4:31

family was no different. The twins

4:33

themselves would have come of age

4:36

in a period of time when

4:38

things were looking very good. Francine

4:40

had no way of knowing what

4:43

her boys were going to end

4:45

up doing in their life, but

4:48

she knew one thing for sure.

4:50

They were going to do it

4:52

together. Francine's twin babies soon became

4:55

boys, and their identical looks gave

4:57

Jerome and Tyrone a celebrity-like status

5:00

around the block. They walk together,

5:02

they talk together, they function together.

5:04

I don't think they would have

5:07

been comfortable with anyone else. They

5:09

were like a tag team. One

5:12

of them asked me something, and

5:14

the other one would ask me

5:16

something, and then the other one

5:19

would make a joke about it,

5:21

and the other would make a

5:24

joke about it. I could never

5:26

tell them apart. So I just

5:28

called them twins. But not everything

5:31

between the twins was equal. Even

5:33

though the two were identical twins,

5:36

gene-wise, they certainly were not identical

5:38

twins, personality and brain ones. The

5:40

Page brother's mother said Jerome was

5:43

always a problem. He was always

5:45

getting into trouble as a child.

5:48

Signs of disconnect. Signs of inability

5:50

to empathize. And I think Jerome

5:52

had that. Jerome was a leader

5:55

in terms of bad behavior. Which

5:57

is why his family was concerned.

6:01

And this leads to the

6:03

age-old question. Is it heredity

6:05

or is it environment? Are

6:07

you born evil or do

6:09

you become evil? Who knows?

6:11

Jerome's defiant demeanor stood in

6:13

stark contrast to his more

6:15

docile twin brother. Tyrone always

6:17

went to church with his

6:19

mom. Jerome would never go.

6:21

Tyrone basically would listen to

6:23

his mom. Jerome would never

6:25

listen to his mom. It

6:29

was apparent to all that

6:31

Jerome had a powerful influence

6:33

on his twin brother. In

6:36

talking with Tyrone, it was

6:38

very clear to me that

6:40

he was very malleable and

6:42

was susceptible to suggestion. Coupled

6:45

with the fact that he

6:47

had this symbiotic relationship with

6:49

his twin brother. It

6:55

seemed that Jerome was going

6:57

to be defining, and his

6:59

behavior was going to carry

7:01

over. You had a relationship

7:03

that was basically an inherently

7:06

dysfunctional from which there was

7:08

little escape. As the twins

7:10

grow into identical young men,

7:12

their hometown of Baltimore falls

7:14

into decline. By the 70s,

7:17

when you started to see

7:19

outsourcing of jobs, when you

7:21

started seeing manufacturers going overseas,

7:23

and you started to see

7:25

the... decline of manufacturing was

7:28

a turning point in Baltimore.

7:30

The Page family was hit

7:32

hard, especially the teenage twins.

7:34

As the manufacturing is pulling

7:36

out, as the economic base

7:38

is being destroyed in the

7:41

city, these twins slip through

7:43

the cracks. They found themselves

7:45

in an infrastructural breakdown of

7:47

society and specifically for them

7:49

in the school system. So

7:52

what about school? What about

7:54

school? Can't make no money

7:56

in school? What's wrong with

7:58

you? Mom wants us to

8:00

go back. In this case,

8:03

both of the twins failed

8:05

to get any significant education.

8:07

So they both ended up

8:09

illiterate. Let's go. What skills

8:11

the page twins failed to

8:14

learn in the classroom? They

8:16

picked up on the streets.

8:18

Pretty early on, Jerome embraced

8:20

the life of a hustler.

8:22

He really enjoyed the street

8:25

life and he's developed a

8:27

very aggressive personality. And

8:31

he's showing signs. Of

8:34

not having empathy for

8:36

other individuals. He doesn't

8:38

have a conscience. Those

8:40

are signs of a

8:42

sociopath. And Jerome is

8:44

quick to exploit the

8:47

weakness he sees in

8:49

his twin brother. It's

8:51

clear that Tyrone wanted

8:53

something else during his

8:55

life. He would cord

8:57

a woman. find a

9:00

girlfriend, and Jerome would

9:02

immediately intervene in a

9:04

destructive and pathological way.

9:06

It would destroy whatever

9:08

Toronto had built for

9:10

himself. It's clear that

9:13

he wanted to undermine

9:15

him. Jerome defined his

9:17

role through violence. He

9:19

was extremely aggressive. He

9:21

beat Tyrone. And

9:25

I think those beatings sort

9:27

of solidify the idea that

9:29

Jerome was the leader of

9:31

this relationship and the leader

9:33

in terms of violence and

9:35

bad behavior. Despite their tumultuous

9:37

relationship, the twins grow even

9:39

closer as the years pass.

9:41

Tyrone is just going to

9:43

continue doing what Jerome tells

9:45

him to do. Tyrone

9:50

was inexorably tied to his

9:52

twin brother by that bond

9:54

that we cannot relate to

9:56

and that no one understands

9:58

unless they are. identical twins.

10:00

I love you. I love

10:03

you too. You all right?

10:05

And the page twins will

10:07

always have each other's backs,

10:09

no matter what. Now 17

10:11

years old, the twins spend

10:13

most nights combing the streets

10:15

for action. And tonight, a

10:18

horror show awaits them. in

10:20

a neighboring county, a young

10:22

woman was abducted from the

10:24

front of a movie theater

10:26

by a number of men.

10:28

The individuals then drove her

10:30

to Baltimore County and it

10:33

happened to be very close

10:35

where the Page Brothers grew

10:37

up. The Page Brothers at

10:39

some point approached the man

10:41

and actually watched as a

10:43

gang rape took place on

10:45

this poor young woman. Once

10:48

the individuals finished the gang

10:50

rape, The girl is left

10:52

alone. Jerome and Tyrone have

10:54

been watching. At this moment,

10:56

it is a crucial turning

10:58

point in their lives. They

11:01

have to decide what they're

11:03

going to do. Do they

11:05

walk away? Do they help

11:07

the girl? Or is there

11:09

another alternative? The brothers then

11:11

emerge from the shadows to

11:13

take a closer look at

11:16

the victim. Then

11:23

they pick her up and

11:25

they take her back to

11:27

where they were hiding. This

11:30

woman's night from hell was

11:32

far from over. Now two

11:34

criminals come into their own.

11:36

I'm scared of you, Jerome!

11:38

But instead of walking away,

11:41

he goes into Diner, gets

11:43

a fourth, comes out, and

11:45

staves men. But the most

11:47

heinous act of all is

11:50

yet to come. This was

11:52

a case in which... Two

11:54

very evil people decided to

11:56

take advantage of a situation.

11:59

And it's tough to catch

12:01

a killer when he has

12:03

an exact double. Identical twin.

12:05

have identical twins, Jerome and

12:08

Tyrone Page, came of age

12:10

as the city of Baltimore

12:12

plummeted into decline. Dolly was

12:14

their neighborhood falling apart, but

12:17

the surrounding communities were on

12:19

the brink of extinction. In

12:21

the world in which they

12:23

became young men, aided them

12:25

in that criminality, and they

12:28

aided each other. Then they

12:30

followed each other. down a

12:32

deadly road. After witnessing a

12:34

brutal rape, Jerome and Tyrone

12:37

move in for a closer

12:39

look. They looked down at

12:41

someone who had just been

12:43

brutally assaulted by multiple men.

12:46

She was physically in shock.

12:48

She was violated. The Page

12:50

Brothers decided to pick up

12:52

the woman. Carry her somewhere

12:55

else and during the course

12:57

of that both of them

12:59

sexually assaulted her It is

13:01

a vicious act that shows

13:04

how far the page twins

13:06

will go to take what

13:08

they want Their instincts appeared

13:10

to be animalistic in their

13:13

behavior They had no mental

13:15

guidelines from behaving this way.

13:17

Distinctions between the two become

13:19

blurred in the heat of

13:21

the crime. Tyrone and Jerome

13:24

become one and the same.

13:26

No longer are they separated

13:28

by Jerome's aggressiveness and Tyrone's

13:30

reluctance. Instead, they become two

13:33

criminals, both justice savage and

13:35

both seemingly just as willing

13:37

to commit crimes that are

13:39

unthinkable. What makes this so

13:42

interesting is that Jerome's sociopathic

13:44

nature starts blue leading into

13:46

his brother's personality. Otherwise, these

13:48

crimes can't occur. Otherwise, Tyrone

13:51

can't do this. He's purely

13:53

emulating his brother, who he

13:55

idolizes. The next morning, Baltimore

13:57

police launch a man hunt

14:00

to track down all those

14:02

involved in the assault. Through

14:04

witness accounts, the brothers were

14:06

identified and quickly arrested. They

14:09

were only 17 years old.

14:11

They were only 17 years

14:13

old. They were both convicted

14:15

of a crime and went

14:17

to jail for several years.

14:20

They weren't punished as if

14:22

they were adults. They were

14:24

actually charged as juveniles. And

14:26

that's a big distinction. Because

14:29

that means they weren't going

14:31

to spend too much time

14:33

in jail. Now behind bars

14:35

and apart for the first

14:38

time, the Paige twins respond

14:40

to prison life in very

14:42

different ways. Jerome was unaffected

14:44

by his time in prison.

14:47

It hardens him. and he

14:49

starts observing and learning from

14:51

the people in prison. He

14:53

learns how to be a

14:56

better criminal. He would probably

14:58

be spending every day figuring

15:00

out how he could be

15:02

the king of his domain

15:05

in that cell block or

15:07

area of the prison. God,

15:09

get out here! I think

15:11

Tyrone on the other hand

15:13

expressed remorse and said he

15:16

couldn't believe that he got

15:18

involved. in doing that to

15:20

that girl. After serving three

15:22

years, the now 21-year-old twins

15:25

returned to the old neighborhood

15:27

to find their community under

15:29

siege. Drugs started taking over

15:31

the city and small parts

15:34

of Baltimore County. And the

15:36

drugs of choice were not

15:38

easy drugs, but hard drugs.

15:40

The twins walked into a

15:43

veritable drug supermarket, a place

15:45

where heroin was a wash.

15:47

and cocaine was easy to

15:49

find. What are we going

15:52

to do? There's nothing going

15:54

on here. We got to

15:56

make something happen for ourselves.

15:58

Are you with me or

16:01

not? Despite the fact that

16:03

Tyrone has decided he's going

16:05

to try and make a

16:07

new life for himself. He

16:09

follows his brother right back

16:12

out onto the street, and

16:14

they start scamming. Trust me.

16:16

I'm a handle with. The

16:18

twin soon develop a taste

16:21

for a powerful narcotic. Cocaine

16:23

is probably the perfect antidote

16:25

for misery in that sense.

16:27

You know, you can feel

16:30

empowered, you can feel important.

16:32

With every high comes a

16:34

cost, and each score drags

16:36

the twins deeper into a

16:39

darkening world. For the twins,

16:41

they were continuing a pattern

16:43

of violent crimes. It wasn't

16:45

just petty crimes. It was

16:48

robbery, assault, things that have

16:50

consequences. Their year of living

16:52

dangerously comes to an end.

16:54

The party doesn't last very

16:57

long again because the law

16:59

gets in the way. Tyrone

17:01

gets arrested for narcotics possession

17:03

and resisting arrest. In some

17:05

way, the charges are disposed

17:08

of and he doesn't do

17:10

any time. But it becomes

17:12

a turning point. Tyrone decides.

17:14

that he's going to try

17:17

and reform. And they both

17:19

decide they're going to go

17:21

straight, get jobs, and get

17:23

relationships. Jerome got a job

17:26

at entry-level construction, and Tyrone

17:28

got a job in one

17:30

of the few factories that

17:32

was still operating. For the

17:35

first time in their lives,

17:37

Jerome and Tyrone are becoming

17:39

responsible citizens. As far as

17:41

the police are concerned anyway,

17:44

they're staying out of trouble.

17:48

For Tyrone steady work

17:50

leads to steady romance

17:52

Tyrone is working in

17:54

a factory as a

17:57

packing person and he

17:59

meets a woman named

18:01

George who's working as

18:03

a machinist, and they

18:05

form a relationship. And

18:07

she seems to really

18:09

keep him on the

18:11

straight and narrow. So

18:13

this is probably the

18:15

best moment of his

18:17

life in many ways,

18:19

where things are actually

18:21

looking up. As Tyrone

18:23

moves away from his

18:26

twin for the first

18:28

time in his life

18:30

and settles down with

18:32

someone else, Jerome returns

18:34

to his old haunts

18:36

and habits. Things take

18:38

a different term for

18:40

Jerome. He doesn't seem

18:42

to want the job

18:44

or the stability. He

18:46

starts to make his

18:48

way back in the

18:50

street, seemingly the place

18:53

where he's most comfortable.

18:55

A community that is

18:57

full with drugs and

18:59

filled with violence is

19:01

perfect for someone like

19:03

Jerome to test his

19:05

skills. Jerome was in

19:07

a diner in Baltimore

19:09

and he was having

19:11

some discussion with a

19:13

guy about hubcaps. And

19:15

they get into an

19:17

argument. And the argument

19:19

escalates. And now they

19:22

take it outside, a

19:24

couple of punches are

19:26

thrown. And then he

19:28

makes a momentous decision.

19:30

The guy goes down.

19:32

Blood is spurring everywhere.

19:34

Police and paramedics arrive

19:36

quickly on the scene,

19:38

and Jerome Page is

19:40

front and center. While

19:42

the man survived, Jerome

19:44

Page was arrested and

19:46

charged with attempted murder.

19:48

The depth of Jerome

19:51

Page's savage nature is

19:53

on full display. Jerome

19:55

was a true psychopath.

19:57

Take a fork and

19:59

shove it in his

20:01

throat and feel nothing

20:03

about it. Several days

20:05

later, the victim succumbed

20:07

to the injuries and

20:09

in fact died and

20:11

the charges were elevated

20:13

to first-degree murder. Jerome

20:15

is then brought before

20:17

a judge and jury.

20:20

Eventually Jerome pled guilty

20:22

to second-degree murder and

20:24

was sentenced to 25

20:26

years in jail. As

20:30

his twin sits in jail,

20:32

the now 25-year-old Tyrone puts

20:34

together a life of his

20:36

own. In 1982, Tyrone gets

20:39

married to Georgia, and they

20:41

have a son, Tyrone Jr.,

20:43

and he's leading a regular

20:46

life of a family man.

20:48

Tyrone, I don't believe God

20:50

in any trouble while Jerome

20:52

was incarcerated. which kind of

20:55

shows my point about Jerome

20:57

leading him into these things.

20:59

This was the first time

21:01

they really been separated. Despite

21:04

the new life he has

21:06

constructed, Tyrone's loyalty to his

21:08

twin remains unshakable. You think

21:10

that Tyrone would look at

21:13

his life and say, I'm

21:15

doing well now? Without Jerome's

21:17

influence, my life is great.

21:19

But he does something that's

21:22

really odd. He visits him

21:24

in jail. How you doing?

21:26

I'm okay. It's as if

21:29

he needs his brother. Despite

21:31

the fact that his life

21:33

is better, he can't live

21:35

without Jerome. And that's telling.

21:38

Mission. Mission. Mission to a

21:40

road. No matter how good

21:42

his relationship is with his

21:44

wife and son, it's not

21:47

good enough to fill up

21:49

the whole that's there. in

21:51

his being because Jerome is

21:53

behind bars and physically they

21:56

can't connect. After

22:02

nearly a decade behind bars,

22:04

30-year-old Jerome Page is given

22:06

a second chance. He received

22:08

25 years in jail, but

22:11

only served 10. I've learned

22:13

a lot since I've been

22:15

here. I can't believe that

22:17

I was incapable of actually

22:19

becoming very active in the

22:22

church. I could see him

22:24

pulling the wool over the

22:26

parole board's eyes in indicating

22:28

that he was rehabilitated and

22:30

that he saw the error

22:33

of his ways. Total lie,

22:35

but... convenient for him to

22:37

be able to get out.

22:39

The twins quickly reunite, and

22:41

for the first time in

22:44

their lives, it's Jerome who

22:46

follows Tyrone's lead. Jerome gets

22:48

a girlfriend, settles down, and

22:50

it's a really strange and

22:52

somewhat different twist on their

22:55

relationship. I love you, man.

22:57

I love you, too. Together,

22:59

the twins tried to leave

23:01

their criminal ways behind. They

23:03

even find steady work laying

23:06

cable. It's very much as

23:08

if their past has been

23:10

wiped clean. All the crimes,

23:12

Jerome's abuse. It's all forgot.

23:15

The wives hang out together,

23:17

the twins hang out together.

23:19

They have the same job.

23:21

But Jerome's good behavior doesn't

23:23

last long. The twins were

23:26

together at Tyrone's wife goes

23:28

to bed early. Jerome

23:31

sneaks into the bedroom, presses

23:33

up against the wife, and

23:36

tries to pretend like he's

23:38

Tyrone. Tyrone? Tyrone? When he

23:40

speaks, she realizes, my God,

23:43

this is not Tyrone. This

23:45

is his twin brother. Oh

23:47

my God, get the hell

23:49

out of here. What's it

23:52

doing in my bed? What

23:54

are you doing? Where's my

23:56

husband? I'm not coming down.

23:58

I'm calling the cops. That's

24:01

what I'm doing. for the

24:03

twins because this is Jerome's

24:05

pattern of behavior. What do

24:07

you want? Huh? How he

24:10

ruins Tyrone's life. How he

24:12

undermines his brother and keeps

24:14

him under his control. What

24:16

do you want to do?

24:19

Nothing. This is a classic

24:21

ploy by Jerome to take

24:23

control of his brother. It

24:26

is a turning point for

24:28

Tyrone. The relationship reverts back

24:30

to old patterns. And just

24:32

like when they were children,

24:35

he is powerless to do

24:37

anything about Jerome's disturbing behavior.

24:39

He just lets it go,

24:41

because remember, he's not only

24:44

emulating the brother, he's afraid

24:46

of the brother. The toxic

24:48

relationship between the twins gets

24:50

worse when they both fall

24:53

back into substance abuse. So

24:55

these two guys would get

24:57

paid, disappear for a couple

24:59

of days by shooting up

25:02

and drinking. and the family

25:04

wouldn't know where they were.

25:06

The brothers chose their own

25:09

relationship as opposed to their

25:11

relationship with their wives and

25:13

child, and at the same

25:15

time, they chose to have

25:18

a relationship with drugs, which

25:20

became one of the most

25:22

important things in their lives.

25:24

How do you finance a

25:27

drug habit? Through crime. Jerome

25:29

walks into a convenience store,

25:31

walks up and down the

25:33

a couple times, picks out

25:36

a couple of snacks, and

25:38

he pulls out a gun.

25:40

Give me the money. Give

25:43

me the money. Give me

25:45

the money. All of it.

25:47

Right back to working the

25:49

streets. And he was going

25:52

to drag Tyrone along with

25:54

him. Your

25:57

home in Tyrone continued to

25:59

abuse drugs. I think twins

26:01

are different in the sense

26:04

that it's almost like you're

26:06

looking into a mirror. Two

26:08

people who influence each other,

26:10

two people who develop a

26:12

criminal mindset together. It's almost

26:15

a weird doppelganger effect. The

26:17

drugs had taken over the

26:19

lives of the twins. Jerome

26:21

especially had a bad cocaine

26:23

habit. Tyrone's

26:27

wife found him in the

26:29

bathroom, shooting up cocaine, not

26:31

far from his child. Georgia

26:33

decides to split with Tyrone.

26:35

Tyrone and Jerome at this

26:37

point in time are in

26:39

their 30s. They're illiterate. They

26:41

don't have jobs. They're heavy

26:43

duty into drugs. At least

26:45

one of them has alienated

26:47

his significant other. The twins

26:49

hid rock bottom together. These

26:51

guys were only really qualified

26:53

for labor jobs. They couldn't

26:55

read. They'd both done time.

26:57

But even in the old

26:59

neighborhood, people still look out

27:02

for one another. People, man,

27:04

I gotta get some work

27:06

done over here. You know

27:08

anybody that could probably help

27:10

me? I need a couple

27:12

of hands. I asked a

27:14

neighbor, did he know of

27:16

anyone who could help me

27:18

with my gardens? And he

27:20

sent me one of the

27:22

Page Brothers. Jerome

27:26

was the first one

27:28

that came to work

27:30

for me. Tyrone came

27:32

later. Years on the

27:34

street have left the

27:36

twins mere shells of

27:38

their former selves. I

27:40

saw two creatures, if

27:42

you will. I wasn't

27:45

looking for negative indicators,

27:47

but their eyes would

27:49

be deep and staring,

27:51

missing the normal human

27:53

tree. 15

27:57

year old Amanda Hall has

27:59

led us short. but troubled

28:01

life. Amanda went to Lansdowne

28:03

High School which is a

28:05

nice high school on the

28:07

western side of Baltimore County.

28:09

She was having some troubles

28:11

in her life and she

28:13

decided to run away from

28:15

home. Except she didn't run

28:17

very far. She only ran

28:20

a half a mile and

28:22

she camped out on the

28:24

steps of the local community

28:26

center that the brothers would

28:28

pass every day. Her parents

28:30

had filed a missing persons

28:32

report shortly after she disappeared.

28:34

While Amanda may have felt

28:36

safe at this particular area,

28:38

this was an area where

28:40

older people tended to congregate

28:42

They would drink someone would

28:44

use drugs people that she

28:46

shouldn't been around The presence

28:49

of a young loan female

28:51

catches the attention of several

28:53

people Hello, how you doing?

28:55

Good. My name is Brian.

28:57

What's your name? Amanda. When

28:59

I first met Amanda, she

29:01

was in a park. I

29:03

noticed you've just come to

29:05

hanging around over here by

29:07

herself. Are you okay? Mm-hmm.

29:09

I'm fine here. She told

29:11

me she was in runaway.

29:13

I told her, you need

29:15

to, you know, go home.

29:18

I said, it's not safe

29:20

out here. Go home. This

29:22

is a park you don't

29:24

want to really be at

29:26

by yourself, especially when it

29:28

starts getting dark. I'll be

29:30

okay. I'll be okay. If

29:32

anybody, even somebody's trying to

29:34

give her a good advice.

29:36

Do you have a place

29:38

to stay or anything like

29:40

that? Just over at the

29:42

rec center? The rec over

29:44

there? Mm-hmm. She says she

29:47

was going to sleep up

29:49

under one of the hall

29:51

entrance ways. She asked me

29:53

to walk her down there.

29:55

So I walked down and

29:57

made sure she was okay.

29:59

I gave her my blanket

30:01

and pillow. So at least

30:03

she could be comfortable. I

30:05

said, okay man, you know,

30:07

I'm getting ready to go.

30:09

You're gonna be okay. She

30:11

said, yeah. Yeah, that's. last

30:13

time I saw him. All

30:16

the while, Jerome and Tyrone

30:18

have been watching from afar.

30:20

Jerome said to Tyrone, you

30:22

know, we're gonna get me

30:24

some of that. With the

30:26

park nearly empty, Jerome and

30:28

Tyrone close in on Amanda's

30:30

campsite. They came up with

30:32

a crazy idea that somehow

30:34

they could seduce her. That

30:36

they could convince her to

30:38

have sex with him. The

30:40

twins convinced Amanda to walk

30:42

with them in the direction

30:45

of their house. The brothers

30:47

make sexual advances. Amanda rejects

30:49

them and quickly it escalates.

30:51

The brothers attack her. They

30:53

throw her down on the

30:55

ground. They rape her. And

30:57

they strangle her to death.

31:00

They wrapped the body in

31:02

the blanket and they went

31:04

home and they acted as

31:06

if nothing happened. The twins

31:08

think they can get away

31:10

with murder, but a dramatic

31:12

double cross will put the

31:15

fate of one in the

31:17

hands of the other. He

31:19

essentially was letting the state

31:21

hang his brother. You could

31:23

have heard a pin drop

31:25

in the courtroom. The

31:35

page twins dangerous lifestyle has

31:37

come to a deadly conclusion.

31:39

The twins raped and murdered

31:41

Amanda Hall. She was only

31:44

15. It's almost like the

31:46

twins reinforced each other's behavior.

31:48

The fact that her twins

31:50

made the crime worse. And

31:52

with identical looks and DNA,

31:55

the crime may be even

31:57

harder to solve. A

32:01

guy was walking through the

32:03

playground area and found the

32:06

body, reported it to the

32:08

police. A homicide squad was

32:10

called, they roped off the

32:12

area, cordoned everything off, and

32:15

preserved the scene of all

32:17

the evidence. It turns out

32:19

Jerome and Tyrone have left

32:21

a trail of evidence behind.

32:24

By wrapping her in a

32:26

blanket, actually preserved a tremendous

32:28

amount of the evidence. It

32:30

was one of those... fibrous

32:33

sticky blankets that anything you

32:35

put on stuck to. That

32:37

included hair, and therefore the

32:39

blanket was full of hair,

32:42

dozens and dozens of hairs

32:44

that had obviously come from

32:46

Amanda's assailants. As the buzz

32:48

of the murder hits the

32:50

streets, the twins begin to

32:53

feel the heat. Jerome's lips

32:55

were sealed. He said nothing

32:57

to anyone. Tyrone on the

32:59

other hand kept telling... people

33:02

and one guy in particular

33:04

about what happened to that

33:06

girl, what we did to

33:08

that girl, that person eventually

33:11

came forward to the police.

33:13

They were picked up, taken

33:15

back to the Baltimore County

33:17

Police Department, and interviewed. Now

33:20

in custody, these identical twins

33:22

get two very different statements.

33:24

No. The homicide detective decided

33:26

to talk to Jerome Page

33:29

first. And during that interview,

33:31

he denied knowing Amanda, denied

33:33

having anything to do with

33:35

it, denied knowing anything about

33:37

the whole case. During the

33:40

interview of Tyrone Page, it

33:42

did not take long before

33:44

Tyrone broke down, and eventually

33:46

he confessed to sexually assaulting

33:49

her. his brother sexually assaulted

33:51

her and that he in

33:53

fact had strangled her. I

33:55

wasn't trying to hurt, I

33:58

was just trying to get

34:00

her to stop speaking. As

34:02

a result of Tyrone's statement,

34:04

they felt that they had

34:07

plenty of evidence to charge

34:09

both twins with murder. With

34:11

a confession in hand, the

34:13

case appears airtight against Tyrone.

34:16

But it isn't as clear

34:18

cut when it comes to

34:20

Jerome. We were able to

34:22

definitively prove that the DNA

34:24

from the twins was on

34:27

Amanda Hall's body. But

34:29

now here's the problem.

34:32

Identical twins have identical

34:34

DNA. They both participated

34:36

in killing her. We

34:38

just don't know which

34:40

one did the final

34:43

act. The key was

34:45

keeping the two of

34:47

them together, acting in

34:49

concert. Jerome Page's case

34:52

was set first, Tyrone

34:54

to follow about a

34:56

month and a half

34:58

later. And we did

35:00

it. Based on Tyrone's

35:03

confession, they sought to

35:05

seek the death penalty

35:07

against Tyrone and only

35:09

pursued life without parole

35:11

against Jerome. It did

35:14

not take the jury

35:16

long to find Jerome

35:18

guilty of first-degree murder.

35:20

Shortly thereafter, he was

35:23

sentenced to life without

35:25

parole in prison. While

35:32

one page twin begins his

35:34

life sentence, the other faces

35:36

a far graver punishment. We

35:38

seek the death penalty against

35:40

Tyrone Page. Under Maryland law,

35:43

Tyrone was eligible for the

35:45

death penalty because by his

35:47

own words. He was the

35:49

one who actually killed Amanda

35:51

Hoff. It appeared to everybody

35:53

like Jerome was going to

35:55

let Tyrone. go to the

35:57

gas chamber. I think for

35:59

Jerome, this only reinforced his

36:01

sense of empowerment. The fact

36:03

that he had control over

36:05

his brother. Then on the

36:07

last day of his brother's

36:10

trial, Jerome makes a surprise

36:12

appearance in court with full

36:14

impunity. He was without fear

36:16

of any further punishment because

36:18

he's already been convicted. The

36:20

prosecution can't go back and

36:22

ask for the death penalty.

36:24

It's already over with. It's

36:26

adjudicated. He was sworn in.

36:28

I had no idea what

36:30

he was going to say.

36:32

You could have heard a

36:35

pin drop in the courtroom.

36:37

So in perhaps one of

36:39

the most dramatic moments I've

36:41

ever been in a courtroom

36:43

in my life, he proceeds

36:45

to tell the judge that

36:47

in fact he, Jerome Page,

36:49

killed Amanda Hall. He didn't

36:51

kill her, I do. Okay,

36:58

so how did you kill

37:00

her? One of the questions

37:02

I asked him was, how

37:04

did you kill her? And

37:06

he said with a belt.

37:08

A belt? I said what

37:11

belt? And he said he

37:13

was wearing it. Show us.

37:15

He's giving a courtroom confession.

37:17

And he's telling the prosecutor

37:19

that he still caught the

37:21

belt that he used to

37:23

kill the girl. He clearly

37:26

felt absolutely no remorse. for

37:28

a man to call. Unbelievable.

37:30

With an admission of guilt

37:32

from both twins, they receive

37:34

identical punishments. The court could

37:36

not decide which one of

37:38

the two evil twins had

37:41

killed her. Tyrone Page also

37:43

received life without parole. Maybe

37:45

somewhere deep in the crevices

37:47

of that evil brain of

37:49

Jerome Page. A little synapse.

37:51

A little synapse. sparked and

37:53

he felt this tinge of

37:56

obligation to his twin brother,

37:58

to come into court and

38:00

tell the truth. And in

38:02

the very end, the bond

38:04

saved Tyrone Page from the

38:06

death penalty. The Page Twins

38:08

are forever linked by a

38:11

need for one another and

38:13

a shared evil. Jerome was

38:15

a textbook, sociopath, textbook. When

38:17

he wanted to take drugs,

38:19

he would do them. When

38:21

he wanted to get in

38:24

a fight and stab a

38:26

guy in a throw with

38:28

a fork, to get the

38:30

better of him, he would

38:32

do it. When he wanted

38:34

to have sex with a

38:36

15-year-old and then kill her,

38:39

he would do it. I

38:41

do not believe that Tyrone

38:43

Page was a sociop. I

38:45

don't believe it. Tyrone was

38:47

sort of a creature habit,

38:49

but he would tag along

38:51

with Jerome. And that was

38:54

his undoing ultimately. Even today,

38:56

the Page Twins are still

38:58

inseparable. We recently did some

39:00

checking to see where the

39:02

Page Brothers were now. And

39:04

it's rather ironic that they

39:06

share the same cell. The

39:09

two twin brothers who did

39:11

everything together, including a gang

39:13

rape in 1974 and including

39:15

the murder of Amanda Hall

39:17

in 1992, will now spend

39:19

the rest of their lives

39:21

sharing a cell together. At

39:24

date of production, Jerome and

39:26

Tyrone were serving their life

39:28

sentences at the North Branch

39:30

Correctional Institution in Western Maryland.

39:32

They spent over 20 hours

39:34

of each day together and

39:36

a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell. Maryland abolished

39:39

the use of capital punishment

39:41

in 2013.