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Carolina Crimes

EPISODE 273: "The Wrong Man": The Murder of Ruby Rawls Thompson

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In 2007, a wonderful and free spirited young woman fell into a relationship with a very troubled man. He exhibited all the signs of an unpredictable and short fused partner. Unfortunately, his temper turned deadly one February morning.

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For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed.

0:44.9

Some have gained global notoriety. Some have been forgotten. And others have been swept under the rug completely.

0:53.6

Now, two South Carolina natives and true crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these heinous acts in detail,

1:01.4

giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto State.

1:07.0

You're listening to Carolina Crimes.

1:13.1

And welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode 273.

1:19.1

I'm one of your host, Matt Hires, along with Daniel Myers.

1:22.6

And we're over the moon, thrilled that you joined us here for Mother's Day.

1:26.8

Thank you so much. And I saw you.

1:28.7

You're getting a little bit sleepy-eyed. It's been a long weekend. We've been busy.

1:33.8

We got our bellies full. Mother's Day, you had some fried chicken. I had some fried seafood.

1:40.7

Okay. So we're, yeah, we're a little, might be a little bitthargic today, but we're

1:46.3

going to try to crank it up for you. Oh, we will. We will. Yes. And, uh, this is a, a wild one coming

1:53.2

out of maybe our smallest landmass town that we've ever had. I know you love to do the ones from

1:59.5

the small, small town, small

2:01.1

population. This one has a small population as well, but this was actually suggested by two of

2:07.4

our very loyal listeners that are from this area. So we want to thank them very, very much.

2:14.1

Thank you for all the feedback with last week's episode. We certainly appreciate that.

2:18.9

This is, this one this week's going to be pretty gruesome. It's going to be, it's going to be

2:24.2

kind of hard to listen to. It doesn't not involve children. Usually we give that disclaimer,

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