The two younger boys' shaven heads, with BERZERKER and SIEG HEIL tattooed across their foreheads, supposedly gave the teenagers away as neo-Nazi Skinheads. As far as most people were concerned, their appearance explained everything. The "neo-Nazi Skinhead connection" was exploited by every single news report as the "cause" behind the seemingly senseless murders. The fact that the three "innocent" victims were JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES only made such a conclusion that much easier.

However, Jehovah's Witnesses and those familiar with the Jehovah's Witnesses lifestyle and culture should have numerous questions racing through their mind:

How could such a thing have occurred in a JW family; not just the murders, but teenagers who were "neo-Nazi Skinheads" of all things? Surely, this family couldn't have been a genuine JW family. This family must have been the typical unbaptized "hangers-around", who good JW families "marked" as "bad association".

Otherwise, the picture just doesn't make sense. Or, does it?

Contrary to the many rumors which the WatchTower Society allowed to circulated without correction among JWs across the world, this family was not only a Jehovah's Witness Family -- it was a JW "super family". The parents were not merely ordinary Jehovah's Witnesses -- both parents were TWO-TIME BETHELITES. The father had once been a prominent local elder often seen in assembly programs, even once giving the keynote address at a summer District Convention.

The two younger teenaged killers had been reared similarly to the way most JW children are reared by "super-JW parents", that is, by strict WatchTower rules and regulations that govern every aspect of family life.  As very young children, they had been required to go out in the door-to-door ministry.   As very young children, they had been required to join the "Theocratic Ministry School" at their local Kingdom Hall, in which they were trained to deliver "sermons". They had done everything all good JW children are forced to do. The JW community was their life, and the outside world was their enemy.

But something went wrong somewhere; seriously wrong. Few people outside the JW community realize how stressful is the life of a child reared as a JW. The pre-school years of a JW child's life is spent in an environment which totally rejects society outside the JW community. Then, the young JW child enters school and must continuously deal with a world and people that he or she has been taught is evil and will be destroyed by their God at any time.

The Freeman children were not able to cope with the two conflicting worlds. After rejecting and being rejected by the outside world, they rebelled against their own JW world, and were in turn rejected by it. Like good JWs, the parents started "shunning" their own children in their own home. Like cornered animals, those children lashed out the only way they could find to do so. They eventually killed what they perceived to be the source of all the problems in their life.

In BLOOD CRIMES, the author Fred Rosen attempts to tell the story of "The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders", as this book is so (mis)subtitled.  Unfortunately, Rosen was not familiar with the JW lifestyle and culture when he research this book, which resulted in his failing to ask both good questions and appropriate followup questions.  Rosen also failed to comprehend much of the limited info provided by the few JWs who did speak with him. Yet, Rosen still manages to provide answers to many questions as to why these murders happened. Most answers are found hidden between the lines. This is an excellent read for those familiar with or interested in Jehovah's Witnesses.

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