97-year-old twins die just outside house after being dropped off on a frigid night
Ninety-seven years ago, Jean Haley and Martha Williams entered the world together. They died tragically together outside Haley’s home over the weekend, most likely of hypothermia, according to police in Barrington, Rhode Island.
On Friday night, the twins went into town for dinner with their younger sister, an unnamed 89-year-old who lives in another home in Barrington.
After dinner, she left the twins at Haley’s home on Opechee Drive around 8:30 p.m., and drove off before they were inside. The sprawling home is somewhat isolated, sitting at the end of the quiet road, where it meets the Hundred Acre Cove.
Investigators believe that Williams, of East Providence, Rhode Island, may have fallen in the driveway walking to her car, according to a police statement. Haley may have tripped on a rug in the garage as she tried to enter the house and call for assistance, the statement said.
Haley was left immobile, with the garage door wide open to the harsh weather outside, and her sister still stranded on the driveway. As the night wore on, temperatures dipped to 16 degrees.
