Introducing 'Killer Questions with Daryn Carp' - Who Is Lori Ruff? (with Citizen Detective Kenda Martinez)
Shaken and Disturbed
John Thrasher and Daryn Carp
4.6 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When Lori Ruff dies by suicide, her family finds a hidden box containing documents suggesting there is much more to her tragic story. Who, or what, was Lori running from? What had she done, and what was done to her? Was Lori even her real name? And who is to blame for her eventual suicide? Lori’s death opened a pandora’s box of unanswered questions. Host Daryn Carp is joined by Kenda Martinez, the citizen sleuth who led a community of online detectives to get to the bottom of Lori’s story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Darren here. We're bringing you something special today, a full episode for my other podcast, Killer Questions. |
| 0:06.4 | On Killer Questions, I dive deep into the cases that keep me up at night. Go subscribe to Killer Questions with Darren Carp, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:15.8 | Even if it's for your own safety, hiding and laying low in trying to disappear, gets to you after a while. |
| 0:22.5 | Given the suspicion around the details of Lori's identity and the overall strangeness of this |
| 0:29.1 | case in general, was there any evidence that her death may not have been a suicide? |
| 0:34.5 | We don't know. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to Killer Questions with Darren Karp. |
| 0:41.0 | Today we're talking all about the confounding case of Lori Ruff. |
| 0:44.8 | Let's get right into it. |
| 0:49.2 | On January 1st, 2011, Miles Ruff began searching the home of his brother's former wife, Lori. |
| 0:56.4 | Lori had recently passed away with her divorce from Blake Ruff, still pending, and her in-laws |
| 1:00.8 | had a lot of unanswered questions about her. |
| 1:05.0 | Miles entered her home in hopes of finding some of those answers. |
| 1:10.7 | The Ruff family had long suspected there were parts of her personal life she purposely kept hidden from them. |
| 1:17.4 | One of the things Miles finds hidden in the back of a closet is a lockbox. |
| 1:22.3 | And this lockbox contains an even bigger mystery than the Roughuffs or anyone else could ever dream up. |
| 1:29.2 | Turns out, when Lori took her own life, she also took with her all the answers. |
| 1:35.5 | But with the help of police investigators and amateur detectives, the ruffs will spend |
| 1:39.4 | years trying to crack the case of Lori's true identity. |
| 1:43.5 | On this episode of Killer Questions, I'm going to be talking to one of the sleuths who |
| 1:47.2 | knows this case inside and out to get into the things that have been uncovered and the mysteries |
| 1:51.9 | about this woman that still remain. |
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