Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr.
Today loretta mccollum ruby mccollum children.
Leroy adams continues to baffle people to this day.
As is the location and occupations of those children.
What she did in the time between is anyone s guess.
Ruby mccollum s fate is mulled st.
Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman.
The true crime story that shook the foundations of the segregationist south.
On august 3 1952 mccollum shot and killed state senator elect dr.
And was the second of six children.
It happened in live oak a small farming town in north florida.
She then drove to the office of clifford leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect.
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.
Arthur ellis jr and leslie e.
This shooting was as noted in african america as the o j.
She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room.
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.
She married sam mccollum in 1929.
What happened to loretta mccollum.
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.
Ruby mccollum was born in zuber fla.
Psychiatrists report woman slayer insane daytona beach morning journal september 24 1954.
The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c.
Ruby stated that over a period he had repeatedly forced her to submit to sex and that her youngest child loretta was fathered by.
Ruby was tried found guilty imprisoned and lost her mind there and was removed to a mental health facility.
Clifford leroy adams and shot him four times with a revolver.
She later admitted to shooting him four times in the chest after he wouldn t agree to leave her alone.
Simpson murder trial 43 years later.
On august 3 1952 ruby mccollum met dr.
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.
The trial of ruby mccollum.
In 1952 the community of live oak fla.
In 1974 she was released dying at 91 in 1992 at a nursing home in ocala florida.
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.
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.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
Petersberg times december 10 1973.
Ruby mccollum murdered dr.
