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[Music] as a kid growing up in Chicago there was one horror movie I was too scared to
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watch it was called Candyman the scary cult classic was set in the Chicago housing project it was
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about this Supernatural Killer who' attack his victims if they said his name five times into a bathroom mirror
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candyman candyman candyman candyman candy we all know chanting a name won't make a killer
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magically appear but did you know that the movie Candyman was partly inspired by an actual murder Ruthie May according
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to the medical examiner had been shot four times before she was gunned down in her apartment Ruthie May McCoy a
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52-year-old grandmother tried to get help but what she told 911 sounded almost unbelievable she said The Intruders were
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coming through her bathroom mirror I was struck by both how spooky it was but also how outrageous it was this was in
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1987 and she lived on the 11th floor of a Chicago project building when police came they knocked on her door and called
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out to her got no answer so after about a half hour they just left I'm Dom Pongo
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and from 48 hours this is Candyman the true story behind the bathroom mirror murder we're going to talk to the people
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who were there I'm the one that got them open the door and we're also going to uncover the larger store my architect
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was shocked when he saw how this was created literally shocked plus I'll ask the writer and director of Candyman
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about how a short story is officially credited as the movie's inspiration when many of the details actually came from a
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real life murder you take things from the world around you and put them into new forms that's really what fiction is
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and we'll look at what the story tells us about Injustice in America if you really believed in tough on crime then
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you wouldn't make it easy to crawl into medicine cabinets and kill our women from 48 hours you can find candy men the
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true story behind the bathroom mirror murder wherever you get your podcasts