Rachel Brown

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1,519 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons? · The Poet | 2. Where’s Ruth? · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Her attacker was never caught.

Detective McKenna and the other officers connect with the local police in Fort Scott.

They hope that a fresh look at the file might reveal something about the man who was targeting Ruth.

But those hopes are quickly dashed.

The only details that remained were those found in sensationalist media coverage in the Parsons Sun and the Wichita Eagle under headlines like, Sadist Mutilates High School Girl and Chloroform Fiend Brands Fort Scott Girl with Flatiron.

The police cast a wide net, looking for anyone who knew Ruth at the time who might have known something about the attack.

They ask around to different local construction companies to see if Ruth's description of the man who kidnapped her fits anyone working in demolition in Fort Scott.

Ed, Ruth, and the cops come back to Wichita empty-handed.

Another dead end.

But Mike McKenna isn't ready to let up just yet.

After a bit of digging in property records, he learns that Ruth's Fort Scott landlord at the time was actually living in a nursing home in Wichita.

He goes to visit her on his own, without Ruth and Ed.

McKenna tells her he wants to ask her about something that happened in one of her rooming houses in Fort Scott when a woman named Ruth Smock lived there.

Mike McKenna records her saying this, then heads right to Drowatzky's office and plays it back to him.

So McKenna, a loyal officer, continues on with the investigation.

But he starts to wonder, what actually happened in Fort Scott?

After Fort Scott, the letters keep coming.

And just like BTK's letters, these are misogynistic and perverse.

Ed hand-delivers each one to the cops down at the station.

Reporter Fred Mann again.

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