Prison is always Gothic in various forms, but another level of horror appeared in Kansas this month. Authorities released an inmate when it became clear that he had been incarcerated instead of the real perpetrator, his mirror image.
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In booking photos, the two men looked nearly identical, with the same facial hair and cornrows. They are both close to 6-feet-tall and weigh around 200 pounds. The two men are also roughly the same age: [Rick] Jones was born in 1976, while Kansas corrections records show Ricky Lee Amos was born in 1977.
It took more than a decade for this to surface, which is still another form of horror:
In 2015, other inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility began telling Jones there was another inmate who looked like his twin. On top of being doppelgangers, the other man had the similar-sounding name of Rick.
(thanks to Jesse "the real one, honest" Walker)
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