The Receipt That Hid a Killer for Twenty-Seven Years
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A folded pawn-shop receipt sat in a dead woman’s breast pocket for twenty-seven years with the name of a man no one in town recognized - and that name was the key investigators never pulled. How did a $42 Casio watch receipt, dated April 29, 1991, and logged by detectives, remain untraced until a podcast and one listener reopened the file?
In this episode, we lay out the facts of Ruth Fitzgerald’s death, the evidence photographed and logged by the original investigator, and the chain of events that led a listener to follow the receipt’s paper trail decades later - could a single pawn receipt really point to her killer?
Person: Ruth Fitzgerald
Date: May 8, 1991
Location: Marsh Road culvert behind Caldwell Textile mill, Hollen, North Carolina
Item: Pawn-shop receipt for a Casio wristwatch, $42
Investigator: Detective Ray Tibbs
- Ruth Fitzgerald was 31 years old and a shift supervisor at Caldwell Textile on May 8, 1991.
- Medical examiners determined she was manually strangled between 10:00 p.m. and midnight on May 8, 1991.
- The pawn receipt found in her breast pocket is dated April 29, 1991 and lists the sale price as $42.
- The receipt was issued by Brennan's Buy and Sell on Colton Road, approximately four miles from the drainage channel where her body was found.
- The name written on the receipt and on the business carbon copy is Wayne Kowalski.
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