Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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The Unsolved Homicide of Billings Prostitute Ruth Lori Ballew
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The focus of our next 'Montana Murder Mystery dates back 45 years. And today, it is Yellowstone County's oldest unsolved cold case. Saturday, February 5, 19-77, emergency dispatchers received a frantic phone call from the owner of a local helicopter company. He told dispatchers that a couple alerted him that while out walking on Jellison Road near the city of Billings' landfill, they found a woman's cold, lifeless, dead body. The victim? 21-year-old Ruth Lori Ballew, who was known to be a local prostitute of Billings. Almost five decades later, despite a man who admitted to taking money from her and a "confession" from another man, this murder continues to unnerve investigators.
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The focus of our next 'Montana Murder Mystery dates back 45 years. And today, it is Yellowstone County's oldest unsolved cold case. Saturday, February 5, 19-77, emergency dispatchers received a frantic phone call from the owner of a local helicopter company. He told dispatchers that a couple alerted him that while out walking on Jellison Road near the city of Billings' landfill, they found a woman's cold, lifeless, dead body. The victim? 21-year-old Ruth Lori Ballew, who was known to be a local prostitute of Billings. Almost five decades later, despite a man who admitted to taking money from her and a "confession" from another man, this murder continues to unnerve investigators.
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