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Criminal

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do whatever it took to find her. She became known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.” Brad Ricca’s book is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

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0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.1

Ruth doesn't come home. And after a couple hours, her sister looks out the window and she sees the snow kind of falling on the Hudson,

0:40.0

and she starts to get worried.

0:42.0

Then the hours... Hudson and she starts to get worried.

0:48.0

Then the hours started to pile one upon another and she still doesn't come home.

0:50.0

At this point they call their father

0:52.0

who's away at a business trip.

0:55.0

They cable him and they say Ruth is missing and he comes home immediately.

1:00.0

On the day before Valentine's Day in 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Krueger disappeared.

1:07.0

So Ruth was very well liked in her high school and very well liked in the church.

1:14.0

She had no boyfriend and back then the term was she had no attachment.

1:20.3

And so when she disappeared it was completely out of the blue,

1:25.0

something completely out of her normal pattern of behavior.

1:29.0

Ruth's father and her two sisters all went out looking for her trying to imagine all of the places she might go in a day the bank the stationary store and the motorcycle shop

1:41.2

Metropolitan Motorcycles where the mechanic had a side business

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