18: Throwback Thursday: Laura Nirider
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
4.5 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this throwback episode, Bob chats with renowned attorney and false confession expert. She and Bob share an interesting conversation while recovering from a recent trip to CrimeCon.
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| 0:00.0 | From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Bob Ruff. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you. crowdsourced investigation in real time. I'm Bob Ruff. Oh, how are you? |
| 0:41.8 | Recovering. |
| 0:42.3 | How are you? |
| 0:44.6 | I'm just going to say the same thing. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm so dead and bye. Oh, my God. |
| 0:46.8 | Me too. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm absolutely wiped. |
| 0:49.2 | We're going to have to energize for this because, wow. |
| 0:53.0 | Did you have any events yesterday? |
| 0:55.8 | No, I came home yesterday. |
| 0:57.9 | But it's like one of those days where, like, they booked this like afternoon flight home, |
| 1:03.3 | but I had nothing in the morning, but I was like completely wiped from Saturday. |
| 1:06.5 | So it's like one of those like weird lost days. |
| 1:08.5 | We're just kind of like, you know, I have to check out of the hotel and then sit at the airport. We had, we left at, um, at six in the morning, I had a flight Saturday because I had nothing, or on Sunday. I had nothing going on Sunday. And then ended up with a seven hour layover. Oh, Jesus. Where do you live? I live in Michigan. Okay. Not far from, because you're near Chicago, right? I'm in Chicago, yeah. Yes, I'm just right around the lake. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm not far from me because you're near Chicago, right? I'm in Chicago, yeah. |
| 1:45.4 | Yes, I'm just right around the lake. I'm just barely in Michigan. Oh, really? Yep. Awesome. Just north of South Bend, Indiana. Nice. Nice. Nice. How was the, how was the airport when you went? Because it was a nightmare. I'm crowded. I had no idea. Like, what was going on? |
| 1:44.3 | We got there at 6 for an a nightmare. I'm crowded. I had no idea. Like, what was going on? |
| 1:45.9 | We got there at 6 for an 8 a.m. flight and I have the TSA precheck and the clear thing |
| 1:52.4 | I travel all the time. |
| 1:53.3 | So I zipped through and got coffee and then my wife and Zach and his wife spent an hour |
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