Lori Erica Ruff
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Lori Erica Ruff was a secretive person. She was very private and didn't open to people about her past. In 2010, after she took her own life, secrets were revealed and the truth about her past began to unravel. But, it didn't happen easily and it took the hard work of a number of people and a little bit of luck to learn the truth.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the mysterious Lori Erica Ruff. After her death, Lori's husband found a lockbox with papers inside that shed light on his wife's past. It took hard work on the part of investigators and some unique forensic genealogy for the truth to come out. Lori definitely was not who she portrayed herself to be, so who was she? And, why had she changed her identity and hid her past from those closest to her?
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| 0:59.8 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing |
| 1:04.3 | topics. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:34.3 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 184 of the Criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 1:43.8 | And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Mike Morford, what's going on with you, buddy? |
| 1:47.7 | Not too much, a little bit under the weather, but I don't know what it is since I turned |
| 1:51.5 | 50. I'm sort of catching everything that comes along, but I'm going to try and be a trooper |
| 1:55.9 | and get through this episode and hopefully my voice holds up. |
| 1:59.2 | Yeah, the voice is kind of important, right, for a podcast, so hopefully we can get through |
| 2:04.4 | it. We had no new Patreon shout outs this week, but we can talk about CrimeCon a little |
| 2:09.3 | bit. It's getting closer. I don't know about you, Morford, but I'm getting excited. I think |
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