{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\ud83c\udf83HALLOWEEN SPECIAL \ud83c\udf83 Ruthie Mae McCoy | 2: A Life In The Projects","description":" In Part One, we dove into the tragic story of Ruthie Mae McCoy, whose death exposed the harsh realities of life in Chicago's ABLA housing projects and inspired the urban legend of Candyman. We talked about the myth, its real-life origins, and how systemic neglect allowed horrors to happen within these communities. We covered how Ruthie Mae's call to 911 about someone breaking in through her bathroom mirror eerily mirrored the Candyman story. And it wasn't just about ghosts\u2014it was about real, tangible fear and danger that residents had to live with every day. In Part Two, we explore how the systemic issues within the ABLA projects\u2014rampant drug trade, violence, and neglect\u2014created an environment where Ruthie Mae\u2019s tragic story wasn\u2019t just a one-off incident. We\u2019re also going to look at how Ruthie Mae herself fought to survive in this environment, trying to find a way out while battling her own mental health challenges. It\u2019s not just about one person\u2019s fear; it\u2019s about an entire community struggling against conditions that seem insurmountable. We\u2019re going to read more about what life was like in ABLA, and how, despite her best efforts, Ruthie Mae was let down by every system that was supposed to protect her. This part of the story shows just how deeply rooted the problems were\u2014and how the system failed to address them. Support Us: http:\/\/illreputepodcast.com Credits: Compiled by Sovereign Syre Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Josh Darling Produced by Joshua Anderson   Sources: "They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror: A Murder in the Projects" by Steve Bogira, September 3, 1987 Barker, Clive. Books of Blood: Volume 5. HarperCollins Publishers, 1985. Barker, Clive. The Forbidden. Razorline Press, 1985. Bernardi, Daniel Leonard. The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Routledge, 2007. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton University Press, 1992. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 1990. Dika, Vera. Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the Films of the Stalker Cycle. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990. Glass, Ira, and Cecil Adams. \u201cThey Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror.\u201d Chicago Reader, 1987. Hunt, Darnell M. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. Doubleday, 1991. Koven, Mikel J. Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends. Scarecrow Press, 2008. Perry, Imani. More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States. NYU Press, 2011. Turner, Patricia A. I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. University of California Press, 1993. Zipes, Jack. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 2000. \u201cSchizophrenia.\u201d American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), 2013. Siegel, Steven. \u201cMental Health Services in Low-Income Urban Communities.\u201d Journal of Urban Health, vol. 65, no. 2, 1987, pp. 305-312. Hahn, Jeffrey. \u201cDrug Trade and Violence in Public Housing.\u201d Criminology & Public Policy, vol. 4, no. 3, 1996, pp. 187-209. Becker, Howard. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. Free Press, 1963. ","author_name":"ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre","author_url":"http:\/\/illrepute.libsyn.com\/site","html":"