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It was February of 1917, and 18-year-old Ruth Cruger was missing. Her family panicked. They called the police. But detectives didn\u2019t seem too concerned. They assured the family that Ruth would come back. And if she didn\u2019t? Well, Ruth was probably\u2026 on the prowl. The Crugers were offended by the implication, and incensed that the police weren\u2019t taking them seriously. Months went by. Despite a credible suspect, the case went cold. So the Crugers did the only thing they could think to do. They hired a courageous, tenacious attorney named Grace Humiston. By the end of the saga, Grace would be dubbed, \u2018Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.\u2019\xa0\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about a shocking event that bystanders initially wrote off as a joke. It was the day before Halloween, in 1985, at the Springfield Mall in Springfield, Pennsylvania. A woman approached the mall wearing fatigues. She carried a gun. Most people thought she was in costume. Then she fired her very real weapon.\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cMrs. Sherlock Holmes Takes on the NYPD\u201d by Karen Abbott for Smithsonian Mag\n\u201cMissing in Action\u201d By David Krajicek for the New York Daily News\xa0\nThe \u201cMrs. Sherlock Homes\u201d episode of Criminal, where Brad Ricca is interviewed for his book, \u201cMrs. Sherlock Holmes: The true story of New York city\u2019s greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation\u201d\n\n\u201cCocchi implicated in police grafting,\u201d New York Herald June 23, 1917\n\u201cBuried Truth,\u201d by Joseph McNamara for The Daily News\n\u201cCocchi says his wife killed girl,\u201d Daily News June 26, 1919\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cSylvia Seegrist: Guilty But Insane\u201d by Katherine Ramsland, The Crime Library\n\u201cSylvia Seegrist went psycho and killed three innocent people at the Springfield, Pa., mall\u201d by Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News\n\u201cDecades After Sylvia Seegrist, Mentally Ill People Are Still Murdering Innocents\u201d by Victor Fiorillo, Philadelphia Magazine\n\u201cSylvia Seegrist\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n\xa0