Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 200: Identical Twin Murder
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 200: Identical Twin Murder
Around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, 2008, according to April Lewis, intruders broke in to her home in Columbus, Ohio twin 17-year-old sons, Dennis and Derris. They held April at gunpoint, ransacked the home, then fatally shot her 17-year-old son Dennis. Prosecutors said that Dennis was killed by his identical twin brother Derris, jealous that his twin had more money than he did, and a car. Both twins were model students and devoted to each other.
In March 2009, of the following year, Derris Lewis went on trial for murder, but after a juror needed to be excused during deliberations and no alternate jurors were available, the judge declared a mistrial.
Then on Aug. 6, 2009, all charges against Lewis were dismissed after what prosecutors claimed was a bloody palm print on the wall of the Lewis home turned out not to exist at all, and Derris Lewis was released after being in custody for 18 months. He was awarded $950,000 compensation by the city of Columbus, Ohio.
This episode contains testimony from Derris’s girlfriend, Kristian Holloway, about Derris’s personality, and the night in question. She calls him a “goody two-shoes” who dearly loved his brother.
View all episodes
By Mikita Brottman
4.8
228228 ratings
Around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, 2008, according to April Lewis, intruders broke in to her home in Columbus, Ohio twin 17-year-old sons, Dennis and Derris. They held April at gunpoint, ransacked the home, then fatally shot her 17-year-old son Dennis. Prosecutors said that Dennis was killed by his identical twin brother Derris, jealous that his twin had more money than he did, and a car. Both twins were model students and devoted to each other.
In March 2009, of the following year, Derris Lewis went on trial for murder, but after a juror needed to be excused during deliberations and no alternate jurors were available, the judge declared a mistrial.
Then on Aug. 6, 2009, all charges against Lewis were dismissed after what prosecutors claimed was a bloody palm print on the wall of the Lewis home turned out not to exist at all, and Derris Lewis was released after being in custody for 18 months. He was awarded $950,000 compensation by the city of Columbus, Ohio.
This episode contains testimony from Derris’s girlfriend, Kristian Holloway, about Derris’s personality, and the night in question. She calls him a “goody two-shoes” who dearly loved his brother.
More shows like Forensic Transmissions
View all
Sword and Scale
62,586 Listeners
20/20
11,833 Listeners
Casefile True Crime
38,271 Listeners
48 Hours
10,826 Listeners
In The Dark
28,582 Listeners
Court Junkie
8,588 Listeners
Crime Junkie
368,705 Listeners
Mile Higher
20,566 Listeners
Dateline NBC
47,769 Listeners
Big Mad True Crime
5,915 Listeners
Rotten Mango
25,646 Listeners
True Crime Podcast 2025 - Police Interrogations, 911 Calls and True Police Stories Podcast
81 Listeners
Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise
2,085 Listeners
Law & Order: Criminal Justice System - Season 1 & Season 2
309 Listeners
Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder
1,292 Listeners