They Will Kill

When Blake Ruff met his wife Lori she was private about her past. Blake respected her privacy but when Lori’s life ended too soon the Ruff family was left with a proper mystery and would spend years trying to learn who Lori really was.

This episode was researched and written by Delly Mozingo.

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On Christmas Eve of 2017, a family moved into an apartment and their downstairs neighbor asked if he could borrow a drain snake because he was having trouble with his plumbing. Little did anyone know, those plumbing issues would lead to resolution in the cases of two missing young women. 

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When 22-year-old Mindy Morgenstern is found brutally murdered DNA found at the scene seemingly leads to the killer but isn’t as clear as it initially seems.

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In 1999, best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman vanished during a slumber party to celebrate Ashley's 16th birthday. 

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When Ashley Wadsworth was 12-years-old she started an online friendship with 16-year-old Jack Sepple. Despite being more than 4,500 miles away the two talked for more than 6 years before finally meeting in person. Tragically, Ashley would never make it home from her long awaited trip.

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In 1962, 18 year old Paula Herring was brutally murdered while babysitting her 6 year old brother, and a man went to prison for the crime. Several decades later, however, a man named Michael Bishop stumbled upon some evidence that called that conviction into question and spent the next 20 years learning what really happened that night. 

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What Johan Kotze did to Ina Bonette was pure evil but his terrible actions didn’t start with her. He had been terrorizing those around him for decades.

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When Ina Bonette met Johan Kotze she believed she was getting a second chance at love but when the relationship turned sour Johan’s actions toward Ina and her family gave him the title of the Modimolle monster.

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22 year old Janet Chandler was a music student at Hope University in Holland, MI when she was abducted and murdered. It took 25 years to get justice for her murder and the truth behind what happened to her that night, is unthinkably awful. 

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Mark Stover was known as the Caesar Milan of the Pacific Northwest and was the owner of a very successful dog training business. When he went missing in October 2009 the tragic and bizarre story of what happened to him would quickly unravel.

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