The murder of Ruthie McCoy | Ep 199

In 1987, 52-year-old Ruthie Mae McCoy, a mentally ill resident of Chicago's dangerous Grace Abbott Homes, was murdered in her 11th-floor apartment after intruders broke in through her bathroom medicine cabinet, a vulnerability known to residents. Despite her frantic 911 call reporting the break-in and a subsequent call about gunshots, police failed to enter her apartment, leaving her body undiscovered for two days; her tragic story inspired the 1992 horror film Candyman.