NUMBER_TOKEN after NUMBER_TOKEN years of appeals ran out interestingly james's only son publicly opposed the death penalty for them as for sean berry the third man involved he made a deal to testify against john and lawrence in exchange for life in prison with the possibility of parole in NUMBER_TOKEN if he makes it that long in the aftermath of james's murder texas passed the james bird jr hate crimes act in NUMBER_TOKEN to make punishments stricter for racially motivated violence and in NUMBER_TOKEN the matthew shepard and james bird jr hate crimes prevention act became federal law now take a minute to collect your thoughts and catch your breath because when we come back we're going to tell you the creepy true story behind one of the strangest cases featured in both the NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN candyman movies the murder of ruthie mae mccoy if you're anything like us you have a subscription to almost everything right our favorite podcasts our at-home fitness classes i should really i should use that more often especially because we even have a food delivery subscription yeah now that one we use a lot it's called dash pass by doordash and unlike our other subscriptions we love it because this one practically pays for itself with your membership you can save an average of four to five dollars on each order you place for delivery or pickup and doordash delivers from so many more places than just restaurants i'm telling you they do groceries pet supplies this is it's actually getting embarrassing how often we order from them but let's just say we place an order more than twice a month and dash pass saves us money on delivery fees from thousands of eligible restaurants grocery stores and convenience stores now when you've got zero delivery fees you're free to get more because you can start your free month today you're gonna love it now on with the recap ruthie mae mccoy or ruthie jean as she's known in the movie was killed by a man who came in through her bathroom mirror this is nightmare fuel on the night of april NUMBER_TOKENnd NUMBER_TOKEN ruthie made a frantic NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN call but the words she was saying didn't make sense to the dispatcher she thought she heard her say people threw her medicine cabinet down and they were coming in through the bathroom it sounded insane the dispatcher figured ruthie was talking nonsense but she sent a police car to her apartment in the abla public housing projects in chicago to check it out except in all the confusion it wasn't reported as a robbery in progress it was downgraded to a disturbance so the police didn't make it a priority but they quickly realized something more was going on because in the time it took them to get there NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN fielded more calls from abla reporting screaming and gunshots coming from ruthie's apartment on the NUMBER_TOKENth floor but even though they got multiple calls about shots fired all was quiet by the time they made it to her door and they left when she didn't answer their knock so the next night ruthie's neighbor called them back out to the apple projects she hadn't seen her friend since the day before and she normally spoke to her at least twice a day she was
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN if you're anything like us you have a subscription to almost everything right our favorite podcasts our at-home fitness classes i should really i should use that more often especially because we even have a food delivery subscription yeah now that one we use a lot it's called dash pass by doordash and unlike our other subscriptions we love it because this one practically pays for itself with your membership you can save an average of four to five dollars on each order you place for delivery or pickup and doordash delivers from so many more places than just restaurants i'm telling you they do groceries pet supplies this is it's actually getting embarrassing how often we order from them but let's just say we place an order more than twice a month and dash pass saves us money on delivery fees from thousands of eligible restaurants grocery stores and convenience stores now when you've got zero delivery fees you're free to get more because you can start your free month today you're gonna love it now on with the recap END_SPONSOR_TOKEN