Episode Fifteen, Ruthie Mae McCoy

Happy Halloween REDRUM listeners! Have you heard of the legend of the Candyman? If you look into a mirror, and chant the name Candyman 5 times... he will crawl out of your mirror, and kill you.   To kick off HALLOWEEK with a bang, today we tell the story of Ruthie Mae, a 52 year old woman, who, one rainy evening called 911 to report that someone was coming through her bathroom cabinet and into her apartment to kill her.  When police showed up at her apartment, they assumed the call had been some kind of hoax when Ruthie didn't answer the door. But when no one had heard from Ruthie the following day... or the day after that... The police returned, and made their way into the apartment... What they found was chilling...                   SOURCES: (Steve Bogira and the Chicago reader, the article ‘They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror’ is an excellent read) https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/Content?oid=871084  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(1992_film) https://screenrant.com/candyman-movie-true-story-chicago-cabrini-green/ https://www.catherinecavendish.com/2020/04/dont-open-medicine-cabinet.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/is-candyman-real https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/1.3_The_globa_cocaine_market.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/magazine/the-towers-came-down-and-with-them-the-promise-of-public-housing.html https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a5vu2f/who_killed_ruthie_mae_mccoy_unresolved_murder/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cocaine-forgotten-addiction-met-20160704-story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLA_Homes https://www.thecha.org/residents/partners-in-education-program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-lbCzS_9fc&feature=emb_rel_end https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/472617/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/skylar-bakerjordan/grenfell-fire_b_17104044.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHhRhdkUKcdXctKm1O80z4pRF1KNIrYAsSS9AtlZ5iGjy9WB5mnSY0k7JunbJyHNa8E57KOtSwD28PsMju4Y1f1cjrIqGI1zf0KVCW3EVxIFsEOTjYvEJ1L4rb4k_CHiII1Fkm6qm_iAP_34hcFkgJm-Wjtm3AI3ogRQheWLglJe https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/why-candyman-is-scarier-than-ever-749776/ https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/why-candyman-is-scarier-than-ever-749776/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.