My morning started as normal – I get to work, sit down and read the news (Usually MSNBC.com, but not always, and a few others). Sometimes an article will catch my interest, so I will “Google” it. This morning’s article of interest – ‘Brooke Shields blasts Tom Cruise’s rants’. As I read through the article I became interested in some of the things Cruise said about Scientology, so that’s what I Googled.

I came across thier website, as well as sites that denounce Scientology, of course. Many sites that refer to scientology as a cult, locking people up, trying to heal them, whatever. I didn’t think much of it until I went to this particular website.

Apparently the site deals with peculiar deaths where the church of scientology are involved. I really didn’t see much in it. You know, a hell of a long page of a number of names and events that could have very well been made up. I thought that – until I got about halfway down the page and saw a photo of someone I recognized, as well as the name below it… Carrie Slaughterbeck.

The Carrie I was thinking of was a girl who had a twin sister, Sandie. I went to school with them since first grade. We used to pass notes in fourth grade, you know?

I wasn’t really sure that this was correct, even though I’m sitting here looking at a picture of her. I mean, maybe it’s someone else, right? Again I Googled it… and found what appeared to be a personal site for her…

On this web site, under the ‘About Me’, I saw the name ‘Sandie’. That’s Carrie’s twin sister, so at that point I knew this was the right one. I also ran across another web site, so I just decided to follow it up – having to do with dead children of parents who reside in Lafayette. About half way down this site it has Carrie… and Sandie… both of them. Apparently Sandie died in 2002, about five years after Carrie.

It’s incredibly tragic. My regards to the family of the girls. Having a twin brother it would be hard for me to imagine such a thing.