Here are the worst times EVER to have a doppelganger!
7 – Bernard Pagano vs The Gentleman Bandit
Back in 1978, someone who was extremely courteous robbed five businesses in Wilmington, Delaware.
Or maybe in this case we'll say someone "relieved" five businesses of their resources,
because I'm sure that's how the Gentleman Bandit would have described his actions.
This guy got his nickname because he was very polite and apologetic towards his victims.
Hey, someone's gotta fill the role of Robin Hood sometime right?
Anyway, when someone gave police a description of the super nice bandit and released a sketch
of the suspect, it led them to Father Bernard Pagano, a 53-year-old assistant pastor at
a Catholic church in Cambridge, Maryland.
Not one, not two, not three, but SEVEN witnesses confirmed that he was "The Gentleman Bandit"
who committed all the crimes!
I mean, if you think about who'd probably be most likely to apologize for stealing,
an assistant pastor would have to be up there so I don't blame the logic there.
Bernard Pagano was unfortunately charged with five counts of armed robbery.
However, considering that the guy was pretty much a life coach for many people in his community,
many people refused to believe that he could have been guilty for the acts, no matter how
gentlemanly it was done.
So Pagano's defense team started an investigation and found Roland Clouser, a former postal
worker.
Meanwhile, since old guy Clouser here was truly quite the gentleman, he felt so guilty
over the idea of a priest taking the fall for his crimes that he staged even more robberies
after Pagano's arrest, hoping to somehow prove to the police they had arrested the
wrong person!
You know what, that isn't the right move, but it isn't the wrong move either.
Pfffft, that wasn't actually a bad idea at all!
Later on, when the priest continued to be charged, Clouser finally came forward and
confessed his crimes and all charges against Bernard Pagano were dismissed.
6 – Richard Jones vs Richard Amos
If you think you have a bad day, then listen to this story about a Missouri man who spent
nearly 17 years in jail until his doppelganger and real perpetrator was discovered!
It started when Richard Jones was accused of mugging a woman in a Walmart parking lot
in 1999.
However, even though he kept denying the crime and there was no DNA evidence, fingerprints,
or any other physical evidence that linked him to the crime, Richard Jones was sentenced
to 19 years for the robbery!
The prosecutors used only EYEWITNESSES' testimonies to convict Jones!
However, once he was in jail, a lot of other inmates mistook him for another prisoner who
looked JUST like him.
Oddly enough, that prisoner even had the same first name.
So Jones went and told two legal interns at the Midwest Innocence Project assigned to
his case about the rumors of another guy who looked just like him.
To make a long story short, it turned out that not only did the other man look almost
exactly the same as Jones, but he also lived close to the crime scene.
Jones' doppelganger, Ricky Amos, used to live with his mother in Kansas City, Kansas,
near the Walmart where the occured.
Richard Jones lived across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri.
Amos is currently incarcerated after being sentenced for twice failing to register as
a sex offender related to a 2003 sexual battery charge.
Kansas Department of Corrections records show Amos had been in and out of prison for years
on robbery charges, drug possession, sexual assault, and other offenses.
Sounds like a quality guy.
Obviously he denied his newest allegations, but he wasn't officially charged for the
crime anyways.
Soon after the discovery of the new evidence, Jones was a free man.
The perfect storm of sh*tty detective work along with two men who pretty much look like
twins led to an unfortunate 17 year prison term.
Really, if you think about it, if Jones just had changed ONE thing about his look, such
as no cornrows or no goatee, he would have had 17 years of extra life…….
5 – Peter Hamkin vs Italian Police
Imagine yourself doing your job at a bar in Liverpool, England, just to get arrested by
Italian police because you're their main suspect for a murder case.
That's exactly what happened to British bartender Peter Hamkin!
In their search for the suspect for a murder, Italian police requested a search of the British
DNA database.
They found that Hamkin's DNA was a match for evidence found at the scene of the crime back
in Italy.
However, the problem is that Hamkin had never ever gone to Italy before.
I mean, couldn't they have just looked at his travel records?
I guess if you're a professional assassin, you'd have false documents, but then again,
do professional assassins pretend to work at a bar?
Still, Hampkins had to spend 20 days in jail until they performed another, more exhaustive
DNA test which proved his innocence.
Contrary to popular belief, DNA tests aren't as accurate as everyone thinks.
99.9% of the DNA from any two people will be identical.
But the 0.1% of DNA sequences that varies in everyone are what make each person unique.
It's easy to tell if DNA from two samples don't match.
But a match doesn't always mean that samples came from the same person.
There's always a small chance that two different people's genetic markers could be the same,
especially if they're related.
To reduce the chance of error, scientists test more than one genetic marker.
The more identical markers there are in two samples, the more accurate the test.
However, testing more markers takes more time and is more expensive.
Forensic DNA tests usually examine six to ten markers.
In the US and the UK, 13 markers are considered a match but in other European countries, that
number varies, and European countries don't all follow the same rules.
The Italian police department that did the test to find Hamkin, only looked at 6 markers,
which of course, wasn't accurate enough and in this case, led them to a man that's
never even been in the country before.
4 – Ralph Alsman vs John Dillinger For a quick memory jog, John Dillinger is
one of America's most well known and infamous criminals who did his work back in the 30's
with a group of men known as his Terror Gang.
Dillinger was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations, among other activities.
Seriously though.
Who the h*ll robs police stations?!
It's pretty bad luck when you look exactly the same as one of the most famous gangsters
ever in the US.
This is exactly what happened to Ralph Alsman, a pretty regular guy who didn't find joy
in robbing banks.
As if the obvious normal physical resemblances weren't enough, Alsman also had a mole next
to one eye, a scar on the left wrist, and a cleft chin to, all of which Dillinger had,
to complete the "Really, I'm John Dillinger" look.
Wow.
Are we sure these two weren't the same guy?!
Since Alsman lived only 54 miles from Dillinger's hometown of Mooresville, Indiana, Alsman was
easily mistaken for the infamous outlaw.
In fact, Alsman was mistaken for Dillinger so often that he got arrested 17 times in
total!
Alsman often underwent stressful interrogation sessions to convince authorities he wasn't
Dillinger.
The poor guy got paranoid someone would shoot him before he proved his real identity, and
I don't blame him.
He only finally found peace when Dillinger was ultimately gunned down by federal agents.
3 – 26 regular people vs 26 trained assassins If you're six months pregnant, logic tells
me that you wouldn't exactly run around and assassinate powerful people with bodyguards.
That was exactly what was accused of Nicole McCabe.
She wass one of three Australians, including Joshua Bruce and Adam Korman, who had their
identities stolen.
Their passports were held by the alleged assassins of the senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
who was found dead in January 2010 in Dubai.
Wow, that escalated pretty quickly.
The Australians were all regular people who happened to live in Israel at the time.
Nicole McCabe lived in Tel Aviv with her husband and was six months pregnant, Joshua Bruce
was a student, and Adam Korman ran a music shop.
Not exactly the typical assassins' profiles.
The 26 members of some sort of secret squad, supposedly acting on the orders of the Israeli
spy agency Mossad, stole their identities, along with stealing the identities of another
group of 23 people, who were mostly Westerners.
Apparently, back in 2004, Ali Kazak, a Palestinian representative in Australia, came forward
and said that it was an open secret that Israeli agents were trying to get "clean" passports
from countries such as Australia and New Zealand to be used by their spy agency, Mossad.
I'm still wondering why they don't just make fake passports like they do in movies?!
All three Australians linked to the murder share one common trait: they're all from
Melbourne and no one had any idea whatsoever about how their identity was stolen.
In fact, Nicole McCabe said her passport hasn't even left her bedroom!
Let's just say making it on a list of suspected assassins doesn't exactly make traveling
go smoothly.
2 – Carlos DeLuna vs Carlos Hernandez Spending a decade or two in jail probably
isn't that bad compared to the case of Carlos DeLuna, who was sentenced to de@th for a crime
he didn't commit.
Of course, his innocence was determined AFTER he was de@d.
Actually this case isn't quite as clear cut as it seems!
I wanna know what what you guys think by voting in the poll after hearing the story!
DeLuna was arrested and convicted of st@bbing a gas station attendant to de@th in Corpus
Christi, Texas.
However, DeLuna insisted he was innocent and that another man named Carlos Hernandez had
committed the crime instead.
DeLuna took the stand in his own defense and testified that he was hanging with his two
sisters when Carlos Hernandez approached them.
Although DeLuna didn't originally recognize Hernandez, after talking to him he realized
that they had known each other as kids.
DeLuna and Hernandez decided to go to a bar located directly across the street from the
gas station.
Hernandez told Deluna that he was going over to the gas station to buy something, so DeLuna
waited at the bar.
DeLuna began wondering why Hernandez was taking so long, so he stepped outside to see what
was going on.
DeLuna could see from across the street that Hernandez was attacking the gas station attendant.
Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time!
Worried that people might say he was involved with Hernandez, DeLuna decided to leave the
bar.
When DeLuna heard sirens, that's when he started running and decided to hide.
Police found DeLuna hiding a few blocks away underneath a parked truck.
Despite it being February night, DeLuna had on no shoes or shirt and was lying in a puddle
of water.
The police pulled him out, and found that he had a black wallet containing 2 one dollar
bills in his rear pocket, and a wad of crumpled up bills totaling $149 in the front pocket
of his dark pants.
DeLuna testified that his shirt was ripped clean from his body while climbing over a
fence, and the wadded up bills in his pocket were from two recent paychecks.
Despite testifying his story in court, people that mattered didn't believe him.
His innocence however, became more and more likely when a Columbia University law professor
and his team of students decided to do research on the case.
They concluded that the state of Texas executed the wrong man.
According to law professor James Liebman, the police didn't pursue other leads, they
didn't have concrete evidence linking DeLuna to the crime, and DeLuna had a very weak defense.
Despite a very bloody crime scene, DeLuna didn't have any blood on him when he was
taken into custody.
Also, supposedly there was evidence that Carlos Hernandez stabbed the gas attendant but police
ignored all of the potential evidence linking the crime to Hernandez.
During the trial the prosecution called Hernandez a phantom, because DeLuna was unable to identify
Hernandez from all the known Carlos Hernandezes they had on file.
The prosecution had branded Hernandez as a figment of DeLuna's imagination.
The Columbia University team however, rather easily discovered extensive details about
the mysterious Carlos Hernandez.
They found that Hernandez was a career criminal living in the same neighborhood as DeLuna
and had a history of ass@ulting women, robbing gas stations, and carrying knives.
The Columbia team found people who knew Hernandez and said he bragged to them about murdering
Lopez and letting DeLuna take the fall.
They also learned Hernandez had been arrested as a suspect, before charges were dropped,
in the death of a woman k1lled several years earlier in the same area.
Lastly, Hernandez also later served 19 months of a 10-year sentence in prison for stabbing
another woman with a lock-blade knife nearly identical to the one used in the Lopez k1lling.
Despite all these facts, Corpus Christi police still maintain that DeLuna was the person
who committed the crime.
What do you guys think?!
Was DeLuna innocent or guilty?!
Let me know by voting in the poll!
1 – Will West vs William West
Back before all the sophisticated methods of identification was invented, police used
something called the "Bertillon method" to prove someone's identity.
That method included a lot of measurements; they'd measure the size and shape of different
parts of someone's body and face.
The Bertillon method worked pretty well for the time, or better said, it worked great
until 1903.
The fault in the method was discovered when a guy named Will West got arrested for a minor
crime.
While being interrogated, they asked him if he'd ever been in trouble with the law before.
He answered no, but they checked his measurements and thought he was lying because c'mon,
back then it was impossible to beat the Bertillon method!
So of course, he ended up being charged for lying as well.
Sigh.
Will West obviously wasn't lying about never being in trouble with the law before.
It turned out that a convicted criminal who matched Will West's measurements was ALREADY
imprisoned and weirdly enough, his doppelganger was in THAT same prison.
To make things even more ridiculously complicated, both of them had the SAME FIRST name AND last
name!!!
Feel like you're taking crazy pills yet?
However, Will's doppelganger preferred being called William.
Well that clears everything up pfffffft!!!
Authorities had major trouble telling the two Wests apart, because let's be for real
here who on earth wouldn't?!
William was serving a life sentence for murder, while Will was in for a much lesser charge.
Luckily, the prison warden heard about the fingerprint method which was considered new
at the time and they were finally able to tell both guys apart.
This is still blowing my mind right now.
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