Rachel Brown
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1,519 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She passed away years before.
But I needed to talk to the people closest to Ruth to understand.
Who was she?
And was there anything about her that could have helped them anticipate the wild events to come?
In 1977, Ruth was in her late 40s.
A mother, a wife, a secretary at the telephone company.
Not somebody you'd expect to have enemies or big secrets.
Most people I spoke with told me Ruth and her husband Ed were normal.
This is from a home video of Ruth celebrating New Year's with her friends.
That's the voice of her best friend, Emma Dillinger, who told me Ruth was a ton of fun.
At the New Year's party, you can see Ruth sitting on a couch next to her husband, Ed, joking around.
Ruth and Ed had met in Fort Scott, Kansas in the late 1940s, fell in love, married, then moved a few hours away to Wichita and had two sons in two years.
What was he like for Ruth?
Ed worked as an accountant.
Ruth had taken some time off when raising their boys, then returned to work as a secretary at the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Life was simple, until it wasn't.
Ruth was at work at the telephone company, checking the office mail as usual, when she saw her own name on an envelope.
There was no address, no room number, just Ruth Finley in crude, blocky handwriting.
The letter must have been hand-delivered.
Inside is a yellowed clipping from the Fort Scott Tribune newspaper about her assault, just as the man on the phone had threatened her with.
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