Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Murder of Ruth Whitman

  Ruth Anne Whitman

On December 8, 1959, 18-year-old Ruth Whitman was attacked soon after eating oranges. She was driven to Sand Creek Road in Colonie, New York. Her killer then would beat her and drag her through the bushed and dump her into a water-filled ditch. This would be where the poor girl would drown around 3 a.m. A school bus driver then would soon find her body at 8:20 a.m. 

At the time her family was not alarmed that she did not return home that night. She would often stay with her fiance's mother at night. Her fiance at the time was not suspected and was working at the time of her murder. It was believed at the time that murderer had known Ruth. 

SOURCES: 

New York Troopers

The Kingston Daily Freeman December 9, 1959


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