Twin Kills Twin in Freak Accident

By Karen Araiza
|  Monday, Sep 28, 2009  |  Updated 8:16 AM EDT
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Twin Kills Twin in Freak Accident

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The victims wife says the family is focusing on the loss, not the circumstances surrounding her husband's death, according to The Morning Call.

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One twin brother killed the other while parallel parking Saturday in Bethlehem, according to police.

Timothy Willgruber was behind the wheel of his minivan and his brother Thomas was outside, helping him park. Thomas somehow got pinned between the van and an SUV and it killed him.

"Alcohol played a role, but how much, we don't know," Bethlehem police Capt. Dave Kravatz told The Morning Call. Timothy failed a field sobriety test and investigators are waiting on results of a blood-alcohol test, according to the report.

The identical twins, 56, lived in Allentown, had been close all their lives and talked nearly every day.

"They didn't need a reason. They just talked about life,'' Nancy Willgruber told the Morning Call. She and Thomas were married for 26 years. "They were so close, like best friends," she said.

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Posted Sep 28, 2009
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