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Mysterious Circumstances

The Real Identity of Lori Erica Ruff aka Kimberly McLean

Mysterious Circumstances

13 Stars Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After the suicide of Lori Erica Ruff in 2010 it was found that she had been living under a false identity for most of her life. In September of 2016 this six year old mystery was supposedly solved. But is it?? Why did Kimberly McLean leave home at the age of 18 and assume, not one, but two different identities? I'm not sure we will ever know.

Huge thank you to Rachel who did an amazing job on this episode as listener co-host for the week!!
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Mysterious circumstances is an American crime cast production.

0:14.4

Remember everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

0:18.8

All right, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Mysterious Circumstances Podcast. I'm your host Justin. And today we have a listener co-hosted episode.

0:35.0

But before we introduce Rachel for the day, I would like to say thank you to the

0:41.6

increasingly Mad Hatter who left a four-star review.

0:45.2

It says exceptional among peers. It says I do, you know, good job researching and

0:51.6

reasonably well presented.

0:54.3

Says I am amiable, which I appreciate that.

0:57.9

It says it wouldn't hurt to slow down a little and speak

1:01.5

a touch more clearly. I do agree with you there. I do get pretty fast

1:06.9

pace sometimes. I'm really not reading from anything. I'm just kind of talking

1:10.9

so I forget that you guys need to hear what I'm saying

1:13.8

sometimes and I would like to thank Robert for making a monthly donation to the

1:20.0

podcast I appreciate that good sir but I guess without further ado let's introduce

1:28.7

Rachel and talk about the case we're gonna try to get to the bottom of, which is the mystery of

1:37.4

Lori Erica Ruff, also known as Kimberly McLean. But I guess for right now go ahead and introduce Rachel.

1:48.6

Hey everybody my name is Rachel and I'm an actor from Southern Pennsylvania kind of near Harrisburg and I got into podcasts because I used to have a really long drive to work, but now I just listen to them at work and true crime is my absolute favorite topic.

2:11.6

It's hard not to love true crime that's for sure. It's

2:17.5

always that one piece of information you think you can find to solve everything

2:22.2

you know but well Rachel I suppose you want you want to get

2:28.3

us started I guess okay so I get up to the talk minute here.

2:35.0

Yeah, so Lori Erica Ruff, she kind of just appeared in Texas.

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