To this day the actual bill has never been produced as evidence.
Today ruby mccollum daughter loretta picture.
The amount of the bill is unknown.
On august 3 1952 ruby mccollum met dr.
On the day of the shooting ruby had opened a bill addressed to her husband sam.
Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of 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.
This union produced daughter loretta a light skinned child who was unmistakably adams.
Adams but kind of looked the other way as he needed to keep the business afloat.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
In july of 1951 ruby had a daughter loretta and according to ruby s testimony this was adams daughter not sam s.
Sam continued to love her and live with ruby.
Ruby s husband sam was cheating on her with some tramp school teacher.
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.
This shooting was as noted in african america as the o j.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
The strange case of ruby mccollum.
Simpson murder trial 43 years later.
She later admitted to shooting him four times in the chest after he wouldn t agree to leave her alone.
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.
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.
Lewis the daughter of an unwed loretta young and clark gable was 31 before she confronted her mother and learned the truth of her upbringing.
Ruby stated that over a period he had repeatedly forced her to submit to sex and that her youngest child loretta was fathered by.
Sam knew about dr.
In 1952 the community of live oak fla.
Leroy adams a white physician and state senator elect in his office.
The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c.
She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room.
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.
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.
Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman.
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.