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Tag Team Criminals and Murderers What causes two people to murder when separately they would not attempt such atrocities? When two people commit these crimes, several questions always arise: Did they just possibly bring out the worst in each other? If they had never met, would their lives have turned out differently? I am certainly no psychologist, nor am I an expert in this field. However, I’ve read enough true crime to ask the above questions over and over again. Do you remember peer pressure in school? I do. I always used to think that when someone who invited you to partake in drugs or drinking with them, it was because they did not want to do it alone – if more people are doing it, it couldn’t be so wrong, right? Or, if I get caught, so will them. What is it that makes people stronger in groups – when alone they probably wouldn’t wrestle with a flea? It is just those questions I asked myself as I read "Fall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town" by Ron Franscell, This book is about two small time criminals that kidnap an 11 year old girl and her 18 year old sister in a small Wyoming town in 1973. What follows is a chilling and disturbing night of drinking, rape and murder, throwing their victims off of 110 foot bridge. Something they didn’t count on was the survival of one of those victims. Ron Kennedy and Jerry Jenkins were a couple of hoods that both had families. They were both raised in alcoholic, abusive homes and spent many nights in jail during their adolescences. Ron Kennedy’s brother and Jerry Jenkins were hanging buddies. It wasn’t until Ron’s brother was sent to prison that Jerry and Ron began spending time together, changing the course of their lives forever and leaving you to ask, “Would they have committed this crime separately?” I don’t think so. I believe had these two hoods not connected, two beautiful women would still be with us today. Ron Franscell was a teenager and living in the small town where the murders occurred, connecting him to thecrime and making this book one of the best I’ve read in a very long time. From the early days of "The Lonely Hearts Killers" to the modern day "Ken and Barbie Killers ", we may never truly know what makes two people kill together when separately their lives might have been much different. |
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