Today Loretta Mccollum Ruby Mccollum Children
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Today loretta mccollum ruby mccollum children. Clifford leroy adams and shot him four times with a revolver. As is the location and occupations of those children. When the couple moved to fort myers fla sam became involved with his brother s racketeering business thus gaining the name bolita sam. The true crime story that shook the foundations of the segregationist south.
Ruby was tried found guilty imprisoned and lost her mind there and was removed to a mental health facility. Ruby mccollum s fate is mulled st. It happened in live oak a small farming town in north florida. On a sunday morning august 3 1952 ruby mccollum who was the richest african american woman in suwannee county and had grown up in marion county walked into the office of sainted white physician dr.
Ruby stated that over a period he had repeatedly forced her to submit to sex and that her youngest child loretta was fathered by. What she did in the time between is anyone s guess. What happened to loretta mccollum. Ruby mccollum born ruby jackson august 31 1909 may 23 1992 was a wealthy married african american woman in live oak florida who is known for being arrested and convicted in 1952 for killing dr.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them. Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman. She later admitted to shooting him four times in the chest after he wouldn t agree to leave her alone. On august 3 1952 ruby mccollum met dr.
The trial of ruby mccollum. She then drove to the office of clifford leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect. Leroy adams a white physician and state senator elect in his office. She married sam mccollum in 1929.
In 1952 the community of live oak fla. Leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect the judge restricted her testimony but she did testify as to their sexual relationship and his paternity of her child. And was the second of six children. Sam mccollum jr the son of ruby and her husband who resided in his childhood home until his death in december 2014 declined to meet with the film crew not wanting to talk about his mother.
After the shooting ruby mccollum put her nickel plated smith wesson away locked up his office and walked to her 1951 two toned blue chrysler. Leroy adams continues to baffle people to this day. On the quiet sunday morning of august 3 1952 ruby mccollum the richest black woman in the town of live oak florida put two of her children in the backseat of her blue chrysler. She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room.
The strange case of ruby mccollum. Ruby mccollum was born in zuber fla. Petersberg times december 10 1973. Arthur ellis jr and leslie e.
Psychiatrists report woman slayer insane daytona beach morning journal september 24 1954. Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr. In 1974 she was released dying at 91 in 1992 at a nursing home in ocala florida. The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c.