The murder of Ruthie McCoy | Ep 199
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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You ever hear something so strange it sounds like a made-up urban legend...until you realize it actually happened?
This week, we talk about Ruthie Mae McCoy, a woman trying to piece her life together in one of Chicago’s most dangerous housing projects. She’d finally started turning things around, getting treatment, going back to school, planning her escape from a place that had swallowed so many lives. But then, she made a 911 call. She said someone was coming through her bathroom wall.
What happened next is one of the most haunting true stories we’ve ever covered—eerie, tragic, and almost impossible to believe. If you think “Candyman” was just a movie, wait until you hear what really happened in apartment 1109.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's |
| 0:07.9 | Allison. And my name is Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey, Ali Handro. How are you? That's not actually her full name. |
| 0:13.3 | Her full name is Allison. It is. Thank you for that clarification. I'm doing quite well. How are you? |
| 0:18.2 | I'm good. I'm good. should we tell our audience about one of the |
| 0:21.9 | most criminal things you've done today. Did you, do you remember? No, I have no idea. So, uh, we were at |
| 0:28.2 | our son's baseball game and my wife was talking to my daughter and she started singing pink pony |
| 0:34.8 | club to my daughter. And what did my daughter say? So we were driving home. |
| 0:38.6 | We drive separate. |
| 0:39.5 | And we were singing, pink pony club, I'm going to keep on dancing, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:44.9 | And our daughter said, do not dare sing that in front of dad. |
| 0:50.0 | And because when we do, we've noticed it gets stuck in his head and he will sing it no less than 545 times. |
| 0:57.4 | So I was putting my sunglasses away and I wasn't thinking and it came out of my mouth. |
| 1:02.3 | And in my head, I was like, crap. |
| 1:04.2 | But I was like, maybe he didn't hear it. |
| 1:06.4 | And then we're in the bathroom together. |
| 1:08.2 | You know, just kind of getting ready before the big show. |
| 1:10.9 | And I sort of started singing Pink Pony Club. |
| 1:13.8 | And then you're like, oh, no, and you told me the story. |
| 1:16.1 | And I went back and told our daughter, I was like, I have to confess something. |
| 1:19.5 | I accidentally sang it in front of dad. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.1 | So because I have to sing it in my head, I love the song. |
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