S17 Ep1: Quintuple Homicide

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On February 17, 2000 tragedy struck Gary, Indiana. While the city of Gary is known to be a violent place, the events of this night were particularly awful. Five people were murdered across two different crime scenes, within hours of each other. The Detectives on the case quickly determined that the murders were all connected, and arrested a man named Chris Bynum for the crimes within hours, before any meaningful investigation or any forensic testing could be completed. Chris has now been in prison for these murders for 25 years, even though all evidence revealed since his trial indicates that he is most certainly innocent.

In this season premiere episode, we'll be taking a broad look at the events of that fateful night, and begin our journey to bring real justice to Sheila Renee Bartee, Elizabeth Ayers, Anthony "Amp" Jeffers, Angela Renee Wallace and Suzanne Wallace.

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.6	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Music From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:49.2	I'm Bob Ruff.
0:54.0	Music The journey that we're about to embark on is a complicated one. At least one element of the case
1:14.1	is complicated. And that's the crime itself, or the crimes themselves would be a more appropriate
1:20.3	way to put it. We're going to be dealing with five murders spread across two completely different
1:26.5	crime scenes located about a mile apart.
1:30.5	Three people were murdered inside of a house, and two unrelated victims were found murdered in a baseball field across town.
1:38.4	At one scene, the three victims were all shot in their living room,
1:42.4	fully clothed, almost ambushed with elements of the
1:45.5	scene that might make you think of a mob hit, a series of executions. On the other scene,
1:52.4	the bodies of the victims were found outside in the snow, one nude and another one partially dressed,
1:59.2	with bloody drag marks indicating that the bodies had been moved.
2:03.2	At first glance, one might assume that these two incidents are unrelated.
2:08.1	Two random acts of violence, especially in a city like Gary, Indiana,
2:12.7	where the homicide rate ranks ten times higher than the national average.
2:18.0	But a closer look reveals that there are similarities,
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