Lori Ruff True Identity Baffles Ex-husband, Authorities Years After Her Suicide

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The true identitiy of Lori Erica Ruff, a woman known as Jane Doe to investigators, has continued to remain a mystery to her husband and family nearly three years after she took her own life in 2010.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/authorities-struggle-id-mystery-woman-article-1.1383957

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In 1989 authorities say the woman used a deceased 2-year-old girl's name to obtain this Idaho ID, giving her the name of Becky Sue Turner and age of 19.

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When she moved to Texas in 1989 she changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy and in 2003 met her future husband, Jon Blakely "Blake" Ruff.

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Blake Ruff's family found her mysteries and elusiveness frustrating, however, leading to marriage trouble and her eventual suicide after their divorce in December, 2010.

After Lori's funeral Blake's family searched her home and discovered her Iowa ID and the 2-year-old girl's birth certificate, but who she really was still remains a mystery.
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This is absolutely strange.

 

Identity broker? Sounds like she had money to begin with. Anyhow, now with the internet it won't be long till someone says something.

 

I don't think she had an identity broker. I bet that she either heard about the two year old from someone, or she looked it up in old newpapers at the library. And it was fairly easy from there.

 

She must have been pretty smart for a 19 year old to pull all this all off for this many years!

 

If she was really 19

 

I've been thinking about it, and if she really was older, she couldn't have been much older maybe up to about 25 maybe. I think her last driver's license, she was 41-42, and I'd believe that, she didn't look any older than that. I think she would have tried to find someone as close to her own age as she could.

 

I agree ..
I think this mystery will be solved soon, as someone said above, the internet will help ..

 

Bringing this back because I just read about it in the strangest place - a forum for people escaping the FLDS movement. I wonder if that's why she went through drastic measures to change her identity.
I looked for updates to see if they've identified her, and there are none.

 

Way to get my hopes up on an update lol

 

wah sorry! Websleuths has been working on this case almost nonstop and still haven't found an answer either...

 

Her inlaws sound like dicks.

 

This case is super interesting. Based on that Texas license I think she could have been her early fifties--fifty can look like that if one avoids alcohol, grubs and too much sunshine.

 

IMO she could've been as old as 55... Someone on Websleuths posted a picture from a month or so before her death and she definitely looks like she could be in her early 50s. Just my 2 cents here, my mom is in her late 50s but a lot of people think she's in her mid to late 30s - I'm 19 and we often get mistaken for sisters instead of mother and daughter! The way she aged (looking at the previous DL pictures) looks pretty similar to how my mom aged, which makes me think that maybe she could be a lot older than she said she was.

In case y'all want to look, here is a thread of just pictures from that case on Websleuths. There are a lot of more recent ones that lead up to maybe two or three months before she died. http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215655

 

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Good grief. I typed drugs. Autocorrect must have changed it. I meant drugs, not grubs. I would think that the protein in grubs would help fight wrinkles...

 

Idaho is a heavily Mormon state, with more than a few FDLS communities... That theory has potential.

 

Why don't they run her DNA? Even if they can't get hers, they have her daughters.

 

In laws are resisting I think.

 

I've thought a lot about this case. Like, why is the date of birth on the birth certificate different from the date of birth on the death certificate? Notes referencing 402 months... could be 33.5 years, or code for something else... like perhaps the statute for missing children cases in Colorado....

24-33.5-415.1. List of missing children. (1) For the ... - Colorado.gov

Was she a missing child? Did she find out she was taken? What if she was told all along she was BST, and later found the death certificate.... and her notes are her ramblings of trying to figure who she REALLY is?

One of the other numbers was for San Diego Administration offices, my guess is that is how she obtained info on BST, since she was born in Bakersfield, CA. She listed as ADM in her notes, should be noted that in Idaho, they are called ADM, (like slang for DMV or MVD), and this is where her BST identification was obtained.

One of the circled numbers is for a law firm,
Benthale Nicholas & McKibbin, but I'm having a hard time seeing what type of law they specialize in.

I have so much more, but my brain is discombobulated right now lol.

 

In laws were assholes to begin with according to the story. If they really want to know who she is they could submit. It's like they want to know, but fear actually knowing.

 

IMO I think they have an idea of who she is but they don't want to do anything about it

 

Hmmm... what if she was a twin? BST died in the fire... she was the "apple" of parents eye, so rather than face the truth about being left with the other one... they pretended she was BST... Okay that's a bit lifetime-esq.

I'm gonna go now...

 

Did I miss who they would try to match it to?

 

There WAS a sibling that survived the fire
But apparently she is accounted for.

 

There is this thing that's called a database that contains DNA which is how we are able to connect rapists to other rapes.

Not calling her a rapist but I do believe there are similar databases out there.

 

They'd match it to people who have their DNA in the system for some reason, and also match it to family members of missing persons.

 

No, I know all this, but what I mean is, someone has to have DNA in a database for her to match up. Not everyone has DNA in a database. I don't. My family doesn't. I could feasibly be a Jane Doe for a longtime..

 

Yeah but if you were DESPERATE to find out who someone was wouldn't you give it a shot?

 

I think they think her DNA is already in the database. I think they believe she committed a crime a very long time ago and her DNA was put into the system to try to get a hit but nothing.

If not, it may or may not link her up to criminals who are related to her or missing persons (i.e. other missing family members).

 

And even if not FDLS, there are other "communities" that are similar.. she could have been trying to escape just about any of them and had a hard time. There are a lot of possibilities here. I do really think she was in her 50's at time of death, and well over 19 when she took her new identity.