![]() On an April evening in 1987, she was shot to death by someone who entered her apartment through the hole in the bathroom wall for her medicine cabinet. The victim of the murder, 52-year-old Ruthie Mae McCoy, may have been schizophrenic, but definitely was paranoid. My story, “They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror,” slipped over the minimum by 8,217 words. ![]() Longform is a website that curates articles-most of them current, some of them old-of at least 2,000 words. On Monday, Longform posted a Reader story I wrote 27 years ago about a murder in a Chicago housing project. The killer or killers entered her apartment through the hole in the wall for her medicine cabinet.
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