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  Speaker 1: Today's story inspired a popular horror movie, and when you
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  Speaker 1: day in early January of nineteen eighty seven, a very strange,
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  Speaker 1: fifty two year old woman named Ruthie May McCoy walked
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  Speaker 1: out of her eleventh floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Today
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  Speaker 1: was the day that Ruthie was going to be doing
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  Speaker 1: one of her self appointed public duties. Ruthie was quite tall,
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  Speaker 1: and this particular day, she had on two pairs of
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  Speaker 1: pants with a dress over them.
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  Speaker 2: She also had her favorite long stick.
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  Speaker 1: She was carrying, and as Ruthie marched down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: she began jiggling each of her neighbor's doorknobs to see
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  Speaker 1: if they were unlocked, and then in between each doorknob check,
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  Speaker 1: she would suddenly stop and wave her stick around like
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  Speaker 1: it was a sword and.
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  Speaker 2: She was fighting off some unseen attacker.
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  Speaker 1: And so, after Ruthie had checked four doors in a
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  Speaker 1: row that were all locked, she reached the fifth door,
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  Speaker 1: and when she tried the doorknob, it was unlocked, and so,
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  Speaker 1: without any hesitation, Ruthie pushed the door open. She stepped
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  Speaker 1: inside and began yelling, Hey, look at me, I'm inside
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  Speaker 1: your apartment. And the woman who lived in this fifth
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  Speaker 1: apartment was in her kitchen making dinner at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and when she looked up and saw Ruthie barging into
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  Speaker 1: her apartment.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't scared, she was just totally annoyed.
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  Speaker 1: She rolled her eyes and then began yelling at Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: to get out now, but as always, Ruthie didn't listen,
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  Speaker 1: and before long, Ruthie had moved from the doorframe into
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  Speaker 1: the apartment into the kitchen, where she was waving her
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  Speaker 1: stick around wildly and berating this young woman for leaving
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  Speaker 1: her front door unlocked. In this very dangerous apartment building.
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  Speaker 1: The young woman yelled at Ruthie a few more times
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  Speaker 1: to try to get her to just leave, but Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: didn't fudge, and so eventually this young woman picked up
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  Speaker 1: the phone and called nine to one one. It would
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  Speaker 1: turn out the fifteen story apartment building that Ruthie and
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  Speaker 1: this young woman and all of their neighbors lived in
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  Speaker 1: was indeed a very dangerous place to leave your front
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  Speaker 1: door unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, at the.
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  Speaker 1: Time in the late nineteen eighties, this particular apartment building
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  Speaker 1: was considered to be one of the most dangerous places
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  Speaker 1: in all of Chicago, with a murder occurring there nearly
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  Speaker 1: every week. Gangs basically ruled the building, which was totally
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  Speaker 1: falling apart and totally decrepit and had these long, dark
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  Speaker 1: hallways that thieves and killers could hide in.
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  Speaker 2: And so Ruthie wasn't wrong in trying.
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  Speaker 1: To get her neighbors to keep their doors locked, but
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  Speaker 1: her very hands on approach to delivering this message was
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  Speaker 1: never met with appreciation from the people who lived on
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  Speaker 1: her floor. Instead, her neighbors viewed Ruthie as potentially more
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  Speaker 1: hazardous than anything Ruthie was trying to protect them from. However,
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  Speaker 1: in reality, Ruthie was not a threat to her neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: She was just totally mentally unstable and basically afraid of everything.
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  Speaker 1: For example, whenever Ruthie got mail, she would just assume
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  Speaker 1: that it was terrible news and most likely about someone
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  Speaker 1: coming to take all of her money. And when Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: was out in public, which was quite rare, she was
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  Speaker 1: so scared of strangers that whenever she passed them, she
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  Speaker 1: would just yell out obscenities at them to keep them away.
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  Speaker 1: And then also when Ruthie was in public, she never
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  Speaker 1: ate because she was afraid strangers were going to literally
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  Speaker 1: run up and take her food. So back inside of
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  Speaker 1: this fifth apartment that Ruthie has barged into, Ruthie was
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  Speaker 1: busy berating this young woman about her unlocked door when
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  Speaker 1: the police did finally show up and they dragged Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: out of the apartment into the hall. The police by
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  Speaker 1: this point knew Ruthie really, really well, and they were
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  Speaker 1: not about to arrest her. They knew she was harmless
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of out of her mind, and so,
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  Speaker 1: like they always did in this situation, they told Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: to leave her neighbors alone. And just go back into
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  Speaker 1: your apartment and mind your own business. And Ruthie usually
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  Speaker 1: would mutter something under her breath about needing to increase
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  Speaker 1: the security in this building, but she would eventually do
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  Speaker 1: as she was told and she would go back home.
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  Speaker 1: And that was basically Ruthie's life in a nutshell, constant
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  Speaker 1: fear and paranoia from living in this totally dangerous place
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  Speaker 1: apartment building, exacerbated tenfold by her very poor mental health.
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  Speaker 2: But Ruthie was not content with her life. She, like
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  Speaker 2: virtually everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: In this high rise apartment building, wanted to get out
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  Speaker 1: and live somewhere else and have a better life. But Ruthie,
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  Speaker 1: like virtually everybody else living in this high rise apartment building,
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  Speaker 1: did not have enough money, and so she was trapped there.
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  Speaker 1: But then in February of nineteen eighty seven, so one
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  Speaker 1: month after busting into that woman's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Ruthie got incredible news.
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  Speaker 1: She had recently begun going to a day program for
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric care at a local hospital, and the staff there
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  Speaker 1: had really taken a liking to her, and they were
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  Speaker 1: going above and beyond trying to help Ruthie kind of
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  Speaker 1: get her life together, beyond just her mental health, and
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  Speaker 1: so one of the things they were doing with her
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  Speaker 1: was helping her apply for various government programs like disability payments,
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  Speaker 1: and so that month, in February, Ruthie found out that
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  Speaker 1: the application they had sent off for her was approved,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ruthie was entitled to disability payments, which meant
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  Speaker 1: right away she would get a check for two thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and then every month going forward indefinitely, she would get
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  Speaker 1: a payment.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be two thousand dollars, but it would be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie was beside herself. She could not believe her luck,
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  Speaker 1: and she now knew that with this money she would
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  Speaker 1: finally be able to move out of that terrible apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Even before the money began coming into Ruthie, she was
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  Speaker 1: already looking for a new place to live, and as
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  Speaker 1: she did this, all she could think about were her
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  Speaker 1: two beloved grandchildren, a little boy and a little girl.
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  Speaker 1: They were the only people in the world, it seemed
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  Speaker 1: to Ruthie that really accepted her and just loved her unconditionally,
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  Speaker 1: and so whenever Ruthie would go visit her grandkids, the
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  Speaker 1: three of them would sit on the ground and just
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  Speaker 1: play together for hours and hours. But to that point,
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie's grandkids kids had not been allowed to visit Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: at her apartment because it was too dangerous. But now
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  Speaker 1: that Ruthie was going to move into someplace much much.
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  Speaker 2: Safer, she knew that was going to change.
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  Speaker 1: She was going to see her grandkids so much more
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  Speaker 1: often and this made Ruthie so happy. And this newfound
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  Speaker 1: happiness inside of Ruthie really motivated her to start looking
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  Speaker 1: at other aspects of her life and see if she
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  Speaker 1: could improve them. And so, as Ruthie is doing this
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  Speaker 1: new apartment search, she began taking classes to finally get
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  Speaker 1: her high school degree. She began picking up these old
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  Speaker 1: art projects she had kind of blown off, and also,
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  Speaker 1: most importantly to this story, she really began leaning into
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  Speaker 1: her religion, something she had not been doing for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Specifically, she began tuning in to these very
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  Speaker 1: animated preachers that she would find on TV. And when
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  Speaker 1: she really liked one of them, she would write them
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  Speaker 1: a letter, and in this letter she would praise them
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  Speaker 1: for their sermons and how incredible they were, and she
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  Speaker 1: would ask them to bless her with miracles, and these
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  Speaker 1: miracles were often just centered on her health.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted to look and feel young again, and some
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  Speaker 2: of these.
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  Speaker 1: TV preachers, who were actually just running scams, would write
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  Speaker 1: back to Ruthie and say, of course we can bless
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  Speaker 1: you with your miracles, but first send us some money.
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  Speaker 1: And so, when Ruthie's disability payments began coming in, even
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  Speaker 1: though she needed to save every penny to be able
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  Speaker 1: to afford moving out to start this beautiful new life
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  Speaker 1: with her grandkids, she still.
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  Speaker 2: Found a way to set aside some of that.
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  Speaker 1: Money and sent it off to these TV preachers, And
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  Speaker 1: soon these preachers were sending things back to Ruthie, things
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  Speaker 1: like a blessed piece of wood for her to sleep on,
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  Speaker 1: or bottles of water said to be from the Holy
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  Speaker 1: River Jordan. These spiritual items were often accompanied with a
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  Speaker 1: letter from these preachers telling Ruthie that in order for
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  Speaker 1: them to fulfill her her miracles request, she would need
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  Speaker 1: to keep these spiritual items close to her and also
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  Speaker 1: send us some more money. And so Ruthie did as
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  Speaker 1: she was told, and after sending off all this money,
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  Speaker 1: she would excitedly wait inside of her apartment for her
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  Speaker 1: miracles to come through. And while she waited she began
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  Speaker 1: tacking up all these newspaper articles all over her apartment
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  Speaker 1: of these people who miracles had happened to them that
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  Speaker 1: supposedly God had fixed their teeth, or eradicated a tumor
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  Speaker 1: in their brain, or cured them of cancer. And in
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  Speaker 1: all of these stories, the person who the miracle happened
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  Speaker 1: to would describe looking in the mirror one day and
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  Speaker 1: just looking different, and that was the moment they knew
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  Speaker 1: that this miracle had occurred. And so Ruthie, believing this
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  Speaker 1: was bound to happen to her any day because she
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  Speaker 1: was working with these TV preachers, began going to her
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  Speaker 1: bathroom mirror all the time and just looking at herself,
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  Speaker 1: looking for some visible change in her appearance that would
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  Speaker 1: indicate one of her miracles had come true. But by
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  Speaker 1: April twenty second, so roughly a month after finding out
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be receiving these payments, and this
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  Speaker 1: was about two weeks before she was set to actually
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  Speaker 1: move out into her new.
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  Speaker 2: Place, Ruthie had still not seen any sign in the.
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  Speaker 1: Mirror that she had changed, and so she believed these
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  Speaker 1: miracles had not happened yet.
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  Speaker 2: But something else.
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  Speaker 1: Had begun happening when Ruthie was in the bathroom looking
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  Speaker 1: at herself in the mirror, and that was she would
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  Speaker 1: hear somewhere off in the distance the sound of someone
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  Speaker 1: talking to her. It was almost like they were whispering
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  Speaker 1: to her, but she couldn't quite tell what they were saying. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie wanted to believe that these disembodied voices had something
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  Speaker 1: to do with her miracles coming to fruition. But Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: was naturally a very paranoid and scared person, and so
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't help but be a little bit scared of
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  Speaker 1: these voices. And so that afternoon, when Ruthie was on
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  Speaker 1: the bus back home after a doctor's appointment, she told
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  Speaker 1: a friend on the bus about these strange whispers she
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  Speaker 1: was hearing. And Ruthie would also say that she felt
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  Speaker 1: like these whispers meant that somebody was out to get her. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie's friend knew Ruthie really well, and this just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: unusual behavior for Ruthie. Ruthie routinely thought people were out
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  Speaker 1: to get her, and she talked about hearing voices before
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  Speaker 1: in the past. And so this friend told Ruthie that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you really should tell someone about this, but
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  Speaker 1: deep down, this friend was not that concerned. This was
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  Speaker 1: kind of normal Ruthie behavior and this couldn't be a
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  Speaker 1: big deal.
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  Speaker 1: back to the story. That night, around eight forty five pm,
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  Speaker 1: when Ruthie was back home at her apartment, she called
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  Speaker 1: nine one one, and when the dispatcher answered her call,
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie was in a total panic and she was talking
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  Speaker 1: about something to do with the cabinets and with her
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and how her neighbors wanted to use her bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: and the dispatcher just did not understand and they tried
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  Speaker 1: to ask Ruthie some clarifying questions, but Ruthie just could
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  Speaker 1: not put together a coherent sentence and so the dispatcher
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  Speaker 1: took Ruthie that they would send police over right away,
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  Speaker 1: and then afterwards the dispatcher would put out to the
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  Speaker 1: officers in the area that, hey, Ruthie McCoy seems to
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  Speaker 1: be having some sort of argument with her neighbors over cabinets.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know, but someone needs to go check
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  Speaker 1: it out. And when the officers got that call, they
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  Speaker 1: were not quick to respond. They knew Ruthie, they knew
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  Speaker 1: that this was likely nonsense. But fifteen minutes after Ruthie
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  Speaker 1: called nine to one one nine one one got another
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  Speaker 1: call from somebody else inside of Ruthie's apartment building, and
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  Speaker 1: they were calling to report hearing loud noises coming from
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  Speaker 1: inside of Ruthie's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: And so at this the police did act quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They rushed over to the apartment building. They went to
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh floor, They went to Ruthie's door, and they
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  Speaker 1: began pounding on her door because it was locked, but
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie didn't come to the door, and it was totally
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  Speaker 1: silent inside of her apartment. And so at some point
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  Speaker 1: the police called back to dispatch and asked.
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  Speaker 2: Them to call Ruthie on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: She had just used fifteen minutes earlier to call nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one, And so these police officers are standing
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  Speaker 1: right outside of Ruthie's door, and they're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: sound of Ruthie's phone ringing inside of her house, but
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie didn't answer it, and again the apartment stayed totally quiet,
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  Speaker 1: and so the responding officers turned around and began walking
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  Speaker 1: down the hall and knocking on other people's doors and
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  Speaker 1: began asking them, Hey, did you hear any loud sounds
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Ruthie's apartment And everybody said no, and
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  Speaker 1: so the police eventually just kind of gave up and left,
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  Speaker 1: despite not seeing Ruthie, not talking to Ruthie, not seeing
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  Speaker 1: what's going on inside of her apartment. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: when one of Ruthie's friends on her floor noticed that
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  Speaker 1: Ruthie had not come out of her apartment all day,
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  Speaker 1: and when she knocked on the door, Ruthie didn't answer, this.
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  Speaker 2: Friend called the police. The police came out again, they
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  Speaker 2: knocked on Ruthie's.
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  Speaker 1: Door, and after a while, when she didn't answer, the
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  Speaker 1: police again just left. Ruthie's friend who had called the police,
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  Speaker 1: was furious that the police were not taking this seriously,
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  Speaker 1: and so she wound up contacting maintenance of the building,
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  Speaker 1: and a janitor went up to the eleventh floor, went
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  Speaker 1: to Ruthie's door, drilled through the lock, and pushed her
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  Speaker 1: door open. The janitor immediately yelled out for Ruthie, but
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  Speaker 1: there was no response, and so he stepped inside and
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  Speaker 1: kind of looked around, and right away he was struck
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  Speaker 1: by two things.
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  Speaker 2: One, it was a total mess inside of her apartment.
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  Speaker 1: There were all these religious books and pamphlets all over
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But as messy as the apartment looked.
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  Speaker 1: It also seemed weirdly empty, like there was no TV,
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  Speaker 1: there was really no furniture or anywhere to sit. It
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  Speaker 1: was almost like this apartment had been half moved out
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  Speaker 1: and then whoever was moving it out had just kind
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  Speaker 1: of stopped. The janitor started to get a really bad
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  Speaker 1: feeling about being inside of this apartment, but he mustered
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  Speaker 1: the courage to walk a little farther into the apartment
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  Speaker 1: to look into the bedroom. And when he turned the
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  Speaker 1: corner and looked into that bedroom, he froze because there
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  Speaker 1: on the ground was Ruthie McCoy.
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  Speaker 2: She was lying on the ground in a pool of
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  Speaker 2: her own blood. She was dead.
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  Speaker 1: The police were called, they came out, they walked around
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: her apartment, and they concluded that this was kind of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: an open and shut case. Ruthie must have opened her
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: door for the wrong person who came inside and killed her.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Remember this apartment building saw one murder nearly every week.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: So this really was kind of routine.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And just a couple of days later, the police would
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: arrest a nineteen year old living in this apartment building
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: named Edward Turner because he was found to be in
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: possession of Ruthie's TV. Edward did not admit to doing anything,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: but the police assumed that, you know, he must have
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: tried to rob Ruthie, and in the course of this robbery,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: perhaps Ruthie had tried to fight back, at which point
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Edward had.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Overpowered her and killed her.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: But the police did suspect that there was at least
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: one other person involved in Ruthie's murder, so they did
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: keep investigating.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And then in June.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: So about a month and a half after Edward was arrested,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the police began hearing this very disturbing rumor about the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: building where Ruthie had lived. At first, the police completely
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: dismissed it because it sounded totally made up, But when
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: it kept coming up over and over again whenever they
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: interviewed anybody in this building about Ruthie's murder, the police
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: finally decided they had to at least look into it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: in order to confirm that it was not true. However,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: when the police looked into this rumor, they would discover
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that it was true and it absolutely played a role
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: in Ruthie's murder. Back on the night of April twenty second,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. So the night that Ruthie called nine
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: point one in a panic, saying something about her cabinets,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and her neighbors and her bathroom.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Well, what had.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Really happened is ruth was home around eight forty five
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: when she heard this loud banging sound coming from her bathroom,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and then before she could go over and inspect the.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Bathroom, her her bathroom.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Door flung open, and standing in the doorway was this dark,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: tall figure who just suddenly took off running through her apartment,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: out her front door, out.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Into the hallway. Ruthie was so startled she had no
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: idea what to make of it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: She knew that sometimes she saw things that weren't real,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and so she likely struggled to figure out did that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: really happen?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Am I dreaming? Am I hallucinating? What's going on? And so,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: with all these thoughts going through her.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Head, she called nine to one one to get help,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but she couldn't quite describe what had even happened, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: so that's why she began rambling about how her neighbors
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: wanted to use her bathroom and the cabinets were somehow involved.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It was all very confusing, and so the dispatcher obviously
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: didn't understand what was going on, but they told Ruthie, Okay,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I'll pass this along and the police will be out soon.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And so as Ruthie is waiting for the police to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: show up, she wanders over to the bathroom where this
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: dark figure has appeared, and she walks inside and she
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: looks at where her mirror had been above her sink,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the mirror that she had spent so many hours looking into,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: hoping for signs of a miracle. And the mirror was gone,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and in its place was this big dark hole.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: On the wall, almost like an entrance to a dark tunnel.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And as Ruthie is staring at this void, she sees
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: these two dark hands emerge from underneath that come out
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of the hole and grip onto her sink, and then
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: eyes pop up, and a man's head pops up, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: then he uses his arms, which are clutched onto the sink,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to pull himself up and out of the hole in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: her wall, where he plopped down on the bathroom floor
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and then stood up and stared at Ruthie. And then
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: everything after that point would have happened really fast. Ruthie
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: likely began screaming, at which point the first man, the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: dark figure that had run out into the hallway and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: prompted Ruthie to call nine to one one, he must
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: have heard Ruthie screaming, and so he came running back
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in through the front door into Ruthie's apartment with a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: jacket over his head.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And then at some point he or the other.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Man who had come out of the hole in the wall,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: yelled at Ruthie to.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Get down on the ground.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe she didn't comply, maybe she did, But after that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: four gun shots rang out. All four shots hit Ruthie. However,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: these four shots did not kill Ruthie right away, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: so Ruthie was very alive.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: As these two men stole.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Her TV they stole her rocking chair and some other things,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and Ruthie was almost certainly still alive when the police
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: did finally show up and began knocking on her door
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and calling her phone, but she was bleeding to death.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: She couldn't move, she couldn't make a sound, but the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: police just abandoned her, at which point she did die.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It would turn out that disturbing rumor that the police
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: heard about this apartment building was that apparently people in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: this building had learned that you could pull off your
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: mirror in side of your bathroom and literally climb into
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the walls, and from that point you could basically wander
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: all over this building and then punch other people's mirrors
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in their bathrooms in and then climb through that hole
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and do whatever you wanted to the people inside of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that apartment.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And so when Ruthie began hearing those whispers when she
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: was in her bathroom looking at the mirror hoping for
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: a miracle, those were the sounds of thieves.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And killers and criminals slinking about her wall. Detectives speculated
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that the two men who killed Ruthie likely found out
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: about her disability payments and decided to rob her However,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the two men that police arrested, the nineteen year old
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Edward Turner who was found in possession of her TV,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and this other man who was also arrested, were ultimately
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: acquitted because there were so many people crawling through the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: walls all day and night inside of this building that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: there was no way to prove that those two were
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the ones who actually.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Went in and killed Ruthie. To this day, no one
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: else has ever been charged with Ruthie's murder.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: What happened to Ruthie became the basis for the very
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: popular horror movie called The Candy Man starring Tony Todd.
• 24:18
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