Freaky Coincidences: 2000s

Laura Buxton

In 2001, Laura Buxton released a balloon in Staffordshire, UK. It was found 140 miles away – by another girl also named Laura Buxton."

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Two Aprils

In 2005, April Dawn Shiflett, 33, and April Dawn Davis, 27, were both arrested with murder-by-plots charges.

Here’s the interesting part:

• Both women lived in different parts of Fairfax County.
• Both women had 22-year-old boyfriends.
• Both murders occurred on the same day, but were separate incidents.
• Both were arraigned within a few days of their arrest.
• Both women paid an undercover cop to kill their boyfriends.

—2 Aprils, 1 ‘Freaky’ Similarity For Police, Washington Post
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