TWISTED TWINS

FROM ROBBERY TO MURDER, THESE CRIMINAL SIBLINGS ARE DOUBLE THE TROUBLE

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ON THE RUN

Infamous identical twins Albert Ebenezer Fox and Ebenezer Albert Fox used their uncanny likeness to commit a string of crimes in the late 1800s.

The British men - who earned the nickname "the Twin Foxes" - looked so similar, their parents needed to attach colourful ribbons to their clothes to tell them apart.

Together, Albert and Ebenezer shared a life of brazen crime. Their modus operandi was robberies, but the duo never went on a spree together, meaning they could trick the police and claim innocence while pretending to have alibis.

They committed over 200 crimes before the law caught up with them.

The pair were finally outfoxed when police started taking their fingerprints and were able to tell Albert and Ebenezer apart by their distinctive scars.

In fact, the Fox twins were part of the research into fingerprint DNA identification in the early 1900s. Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Edward Henry used them and other twins to prove that fingerprints were different for every individual.