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- The girls adopted a life of crime involving petty theft and arson. A judge sentenced them to indefinite detention at the high-security Broadmoor facility. The duo’s writing and creativity reduced significantly in Broadmoor due to the effects of the antipsychotic medication doctors pumped into their bodies.
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Feb 21, 2024 · Upon being reunited, the silent twins hewed even more tightly to one another and became more withdrawn from the rest of the world. They no longer spoke to their parents, except for communicating by writing letters.
The twins began seeing a succession of therapists who tried unsuccessfully to get them to communicate with others. They were sent to separate boarding schools in an attempt to break their isolation, but the pair became catatonic and entirely withdrawn when parted.
Dec 23, 2018 · The shocking execution-style shootings of an elderly couple in a Welsh farmhouse and how their daughter stood by a wrongly convicted killer. Natasha Gordon (Jennifer) and Demi Oyediran (June ...
- Two Lives Turned Toward One Another
- An Unparalleled Body of Creative Work
- Animating Jennifer and June’s Imaginations
June and Jennifer were born in 1963 to Barbadian parents who raised the girls and their three siblings in the U.K.: first in England and then in Wales. In 1971, when the twins were eight, they started at a new school in southwest England. “Eight or nine, we started suffering, and we stopped talking,” June told Hilton Als for the New Yorkerin 1998, ...
The only publicly available work by either of the twins is June’s The Pepsi-Cola Addict—about a teenager from Malibu who drinks 300 cans of Pepsi-Cola every day—which is now available at just a handful of libraries around the world. But Smoczyńska dove into research, starting with Wallace’s 1986 book The Silent Twins, for which the author built dee...
Rupik won third place for the Cinéfondation prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 with her animated short The Little Soul. In an interview about the film, she said that one of her major goals “was to show repulsive matter in an attractive, mesmerizing way”—a sensibility that served her well in The Silent Twins. (Rupik told TIME she found many o...
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Jun 18, 2024 · Two sisters from the UK became known as the 'silent twins' after making a chilling pact. For 29 years, June and Jennifer Gibbons only spoke to each other after giving up trying to speak to their family, who June says could not understand them due to speech impediments.
Dec 10, 2022 · For years, they spoke only to one another and, as teenagers, committed a variety of crimes including vandalism, petty theft and arson resulting in them being institutionalised indefinitely. They...
