S15 Ep1: Hear Me

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Host Bob Ruff begins his journey into investigating a potential wrongful conviction in the City of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Bob, a High School Broadcast Journalism Teacher, is joined by two of his students as together they promise to tell the stories of a community who feels ignored by their City Leadership, and reveal the truth in the tragic murder of Demorrio Lowes.

In this season premiere episode we learn the history and background of the City of Benton Harbor, and discover how this once thriving hub of industry and entertainment devolved into an impoverished community plagued by violence.

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0:30.3	Note to the listener after production of this episode was complete, Director Dan McGinnis
0:35.0	said a response to Bob's June 12th email.
0:37.6	The contents of that response will be covered in a future episode.
0:41.2	Welcome to season 15. Gun fire rang out in Benton Harbor this afternoon and tonight one man there is dead.
1:06.0	Breaking news this midday. Police responding to a deadly shooting in Benton Harbor took place this
1:10.0	morning at a business on Milton Street.
1:12.0	Police in Benton Harbor right now responding to a shooting at the Highland Project.
1:17.0	The city of Benton Harbor is working to keep the peace tonight.
1:20.0	This is after a black man was shot and killed by a white officer after the man
1:24.1	apparently fired at police. A charge in a deadly weekend shooting outside of Benton Harbor
1:28.2	Bar. Twenty-four year old Loeserik Allen Boyd faces murder and firearm charges.
1:33.2	Police are on the hunt for a man, they say is armed and very dangerous and could be in your area.
1:38.6	Police say Uriah Bueford is a suspect in a shooting that happened in Benton Harbor.
1:43.2	You don't have anything to lose.
1:45.6	I have no secrets to how I could just be blunt and people could judge it.
1:50.6	However, they judge. From NBC
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