A gruesome murder scene at the Freeman family’s suburban Pennsylvania home led investigators to a dark, hate-filled subculture — and a horrifying conclusion about the parents’ two eldest sons. It was a tranquil Monday evening in suburban Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania — 55 miles northwest of Philadelphia — when Valerie Freeman called 911 on Feb. 27, 1995. What she’d see across the street in her brother and sister-in-law’s home was anything but. “She told us that her nephew, Erik Freeman, would usually stop by her house, basically across the street, every day after school and he had not stopped there. So she went looking for him,” Salisbury Township Police Officer Jeffrey Renninger told “Killer Siblings,” airing Fridays at 8/7c on Oxygen. “She told us she found him and the room was just covered with blood.” (…) “Because of the injuries, the victims are unrecognizable,” retired FBI Special Agent Michael Tabman told “Killer Siblings.” “But after speaking to Valerie Freeman, police believe these are the bodies of Dennis Freeman, his wife, Brenda Freeman and their son, 11-year-old Erik Freeman.” (…) “In 10th grade, there’s a very dramatic change where the Freeman brothers started dressing like neo-Nazis, wearing Doc Marten boots, Army fatigue pants,” their classmate Joe Pochron told “Killer Siblings.”
The brothers apparently openly wore swastika armbands, Nazi-style medals and, eventually, neo-Nazi tattoos. Bryan Freeman had the word “Berzerker” (a neo-Nazi band) tattooed along his then-hairline and a skull and bones swastika on his neck; David Freeman got “Sieg Heil” along his then-hairline. The boys were also growing: By the time of the murders, both were over six feet tall and well over 200 pounds. The family told police they’d already come to blows with their father, Dennis, and both Erik and Brenda were afraid of them. Kids at the high school recounted other incidents, including an altercation with the driver’s education teacher and one with the school principal the Friday before the murders in which Bryan referred to the man by an anti-Semitic slur and threatened him with violence, the AP reported.
via oxygen: 2 Brothers Raised As Devout Christians Become Neo Nazis, Then Kill Their Family