Bathroom Mirror Killer
With CBS' '48 Hours' podcast 'Candyman: The True Story Behind the Bathroom Mirror Murder' truly living up to its title in every way imaginable, we get a true-crime tale absolutely unlike any other. That's because it delves deep into the 1987 homicide of a loving yet troubled mother and grandmother inside her own Grace Abbott []. Through the opening in her bathroom wall where the medicine cabinet ought to have been you could see the pipes that her killers wriggled past, and beyond that, the bathroom of 1108.
A TikTok video that went viral this week for revealing an eerie portal between two apartments has prompted another chilling revelation involving bathroom mirrors and murder. In the creepy clip. In one scene, the movie's heroine climbs through a hole behind a bathroom mirror and finds the titular Candyman's lair.
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But savvy true crime aficionados might recall the real-life case that served as the inspiration for Candyman: the murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy. In 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy was found murdered inside her Chicago apartment after telling police that someone was trying to break in through her bathroom mirror - and with that, the story of Candyman was born. On the night of April 22, 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911 at around 8:45 p.m.
to report. "Candyman: The True Story Behind the Bathroom Mirror Murder," revisits the real-life account of McCoy's strange death. Ruthie McCoy was murdered after criminals entered her apartment through her bathroom mirror.
Set in a Chicago housing project, the 1992 horror movie "Candyman" features a deadly ghost who can be summoned by chanting in a bathroom mirror. But some plot points were inspired by a real life robbery homicide in which the killer broke into an apartment through a hole in the medicine cabinet. A re.
Candyman: The True Story Behind the Bathroom Mirror Murder, Chicago native and journalist Dometi Pongo uncovers the terrifying reality of McCoy's murder, which was one of the inspirations for the "Candyman" horror franchise. Listen to the rest of the "Candyman: The True Story Behind the Bathroom Mirror Murder" series now wherever you get your. Transcript and discussion of The Strange Death of Ruthie Mae McCoy from Candyman: The True Story Behind The Bathroom Mirror Murder podcast.
