Killer's Girlfriend Has No Idea Police Cut Her 21-Month-Old's Bloody Carpet Out
September 29, 2026
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5 min readA Mother Interrogated: The Blood-Soaked Carpet and the Missing Baby
The transcript from this episode of True Crime Stories drops listeners into a raw, uninterrupted police interrogation. There is no narrator, no reenactment, no host commentary. The entire episode is the audio of detectives questioning a young woman — the girlfriend of a man named Ruben — about the death of her 21-month-old son, whom she calls "Baby Man." The police have already cut a section of bloody carpet out of her apartment. She has no idea what they've found.
The conversation is jarring in its intimacy. Detectives walk her through photographs of her own home: a green shirt, a white sheet laid on the floor, a child's stool. They ask her to describe the pallet she makes for Baby Man to sleep on. She says she never puts him downstairs. Then they show her a photograph of a white sheet, still wet with blood, that they recovered from her living room. "This is how we found your house," one detective tells her. The sheet is covered in what the lab has already confirmed is blood.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:00) **Interrogation Begins: The Green Shirt and the Baby's Blood** - Police interview the girlfriend, showing her evidence from the 21-month-old's bedroom and asking about a green shirt.
- 2 (06:05) **The Sleeping Arrangement: Pallet vs. Bed** - The detective questions where the child slept, establishing a key detail about the downstairs pallet.
- 3 (09:15) **The Bloody Evidence: Carpet and Hemident Test** - The detective explains the forensic process for the blood evidence found in the home.
- 4 (12:54) **The Bruise on the Head and the Drugs in the Dresser** - The detective presses her about a bruise on the child's head and the possibility of drug ingestion.
- 5 (15:37) **Reuben's Aggravation and the Argument** - The girlfriend describes Reuben's emotional state and the argument over the child's bruises.
- 6 (18:37) **Describing the Bruises and the Child's Symptoms** - The girlfriend details the size and location of the bruises and the child's behavior.
- 7 (23:15) **Reconstructing the Timeline: Brittany's Witness Account** - The detective clarifies the timeline of the argument using Brittany's records.
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