Rudy Eugene was born on February 4th 1981 at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Florida the son of Haitian immigrants Ruth Charles and policia fanous who divorced shortly before his birth according to Ruth right after Rudy was born she recalled thinking that’s a handsome boy he had a lot of hair and his eyes were so alert Rudy would never meet his father who would later pass away when the boy was just six years old the daughter of farmers Ruth went on to work exhausting hours assembling shoes at a factory in nearby Doral earning
just enough to care for her sons and sent a few dollars back home to Haiti she went on to marry a man named melamine Charles in 1985 and had two more sons who she named Thompson and markinson according to Ruth quote where I came from we were poor sometimes my mom couldn’t buy sugar to put in the tea end quote living in poverty drove Ruth to work hard and demanded that same work ethic from her sons and sometimes the pressure of living up to their mother’s strict standards would spark arguments as a young boy Rudy possessed a talent
for drawing family portraits and a fondness for singing hymns in particular yes Jesus Loves Me on Sundays he and his family attended the Bethel Evangelical Baptist Church in Miami which was made up of a Congregation of mostly Haitian immigrants when her boys turned eight years old Ruth presented them each with a Bible she waited until the age of eight as she felt they’d be old enough to understand its significance when she handed the book to Rudy she told him this is your life anything you want to know about life go there as a teenager
Rudy was just a regular guy he likes Sports fast cars and action movies his favorite sport was football and he played defensive end in both middle and high school he and his younger brothers also like to copy wrestling moves that they saw on TV according to his brother markinson he would pick me up and throw me on the bed he would act like I knocked him out to make me feel good by now Rudy stopped going to church every Sunday but he remained steadfast in his Christian faith every night he would get down on his his knees and pray and he
continued to study his Bible when he was in 9th or 10th grade his mother Ruth shared some pretty tough news with him he shared that her husband melamine Charles the man he had referred to as Dad since he was a toddler was not his biological father and the man who was had passed away when he was just a child Rudy was angry at first but with time he managed to accept the truth now I went through something quite similar when I was about 10 years old my mother shared with me that my younger sister’s father had adopted me when I was two years old
I later went on to meet my biological father and his side of the family when I was 15 after a chance encounter in my experience it made me feel like I was one foot in and one foot out with both sides of my family sort of like the proverbial Black Sheep and like many black sheeps Rudy began to find himself in trouble with the law when he was just 16.
he was arrested for battery but those charges were later dropped however it was the first in a string of arrests on charges ranging from trespassing to possession of weed in all Rudy was arrested seven times in just a span of five years we’ll get into the rest of the story in just one minute please stay with us for the following ad it not only supports the show but it helps us support local charities in our area this week’s episode has been brought to you by Royal match a free to play Match 3 puzzle game that stars the fun-loving king Robert the goal is to
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tough love always ended up with the two of them fighting she said I would go after him to go to college go to Vocational School learn something I wanted him to be in healthcare because you can always get a job but instead Rudy drifted around the city of Miami couch hopping and taking on odd jobs you would detail cars at dealerships sell CDs flip burgers at McDonald’s and he worked as a forklift operator his dream was to be his own boss and open up a mobile car wash service in 2004 Rudy got into a terrible fight
with his mother this time the police got involved after he pushed her out of the kitchen smashed a table and said to her I’ll put a gun to your head and kill you when North Miami Beach police arrived on the scene Rudy was sweating profusely and had his hands clenched in fist when one officer drew his taser Rudy reportedly taunted him saying things like what are you gonna shock me and I’ll kick your ass while the officer did shock Rudy and no he did not kick the officer’s ass allegedly it took three shocks in order to subdue him while
being transported to jail Rudy said officer I’m sorry I should have never acted like that my mother just makes me upset because she always calls me a bum Rudy was charged with battery which his mother later dropped the charges however Rudy pled guilty to resisting arrest and was sentenced to probation despite his legal troubles Rudy never lost faith in God he carried his Bible quoted scripture and wore a four inch cross on a chain around his neck airtime he led a Bible study for friends that had recently been looking for a
church home just weeks before Rudy turned 24 he married a Woman by the name of Jenny ductan who he had met in high school that marriage only lasted 18 months because according to Jenny Rudy was violent in 2007 Rudy would find love again at a red light as he rolled up in his 1995 Chevy Caprice nicknamed The Purple Monster he met rookie across after the pair made eye contact and he honked his horn at her rakia thought he was cute so she gave him her number this chance encounter sparked a five-year romance that was described as Rocky the
couple moved into a two-bedroom apartment in Broward County after only five months of dating rakia worked as a dispatcher for an air conditioning company and was a positive influence in Rudy’s life the couple spent time watching movies riding go-karts and reading the Bible she kept the pantry stocked with his favorite snack Famous Amos cookies both chocolate chip and pecan rakia said of Rudy Rudy was sweet and kind the type of dude you want to be with forever he was my heart some sources have indicated that at the time
of our story Rudy was seeing a woman named Ivanka Bryant a 27 year old single mother of three who worked as an accountant the pair had been together for only a few months beginning in March of 2012. according to Ivanka the pair often read the Bible and the Quran together and watched religious television programs every morning she stated quote he would never leave without it his Bible and his Quran was always by his side he was just figuring out the Quran he just really picked up the Quran and was trying to actually get
into it as he was into the Bible end quote Ivanka said that she felt safe with Rudy and that he was always in a good mood it’s unclear whether Rudy was in a relationship with both rakia and Ivanka at the same time but one could make that assumption based on the timeline of events Ivanka would later go on to release a statement via celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred about her time with Rudy which to me was a bit of tension seeking and a bit strange for someone who’d only been with Rudy for a few months on May 26 2012 Rudy got up at around five in
the morning according to rakia he was rifling through their closet as if he was looking for something shortly thereafter he kissed rakia on the lips and left their apartment carrying his trusty Bible in a brown notebook he used to jot down scriptures however rakia Got a Feeling something was off but she just wasn’t sure what it was hours passed and a worried rakia began repeatedly calling Rudy’s cell phone she tried his friends and family but no one knew where Rudy was finally she hopped in her car and drove around North Miami
hoping to spot Rudy or his car meanwhile Rudy had made his way to South Beach it was Memorial Day weekend which meant one thing on Ocean Drive Urban Beach week Urban Beach week is a hip-hop Festival that’s been going on since the 2000s this annual event has become known for its over-the-top parties fashion and concerts featuring artists such as Flo Rida Funkmaster Flex Pitbull and many others after spending 30 to 40 minutes at the event he was caught on a security camera abandoning his car at around noon according to witness testimony Rudy then
began to cross the three mile long span of MacArthur Causeway stripping himself of his clothing and disposing of his driver’s license as he Advanced Westward he even discarded his beloved Bible shreds of scripture were found littered across MacArthur Causeway it was on the causeway that he encountered a 65 year old homeless man named Ronald Papo at around 1 55 PM Ronald was a graduate of Manhattan Stuyvesant High School where he was a member of the Latin club and worked in the guidance office he enrolled at nearby City College but
Dropped Out in 1966 came homeless in 1976 and had long been presumed dead by his estranged family which included a daughter Ronald had spent nearly three decades on the streets of Miami a few days prior workers from the Miami homeless assistance program discovered him and offered him the services of the Miami-Dade County homeless trust however Ronald turned them down and today he was sleeping underneath the elevated Metro mover Viaduct trying to stay out of the Sun the pair were not strangers to one another Rudy had met Ronald years prior
while doing community outreach work Rudy first approached the man in a friendly manner but things took a darker turn according to Ronald Rudy complained that he couldn’t score at the beach presumingly referring to drugs but he appeared to already be on some then Rudy began talking about how they were going to die totally unprovoked Rudy accused Ronald of stealing his Bible and began to Pummel the man strip him of his pants and bite his face this attack lasted 18 minutes and occurred near Biscayne Boulevard in the Arts and Entertainment
District of downtown Miami this was right next to the Miami Herald building which captured the whole ordeal on their surveillance camera a passing cyclist named Larry Vega Came Upon the scene and immediately called 9-1-1 Miami police officer Jose Ramirez arrived on the scene officer Ramirez warned Rudy to stop attacking Ronald instead of complying Rudy ignored his warning reportedly growled at him he resumed biting the elderly man officer Ramirez shot Rudy once with a service weapon which proved to be ineffective he then
shot him four more times at 2 13 PM the attack ended after Rudy died as a result of his wounds Ronald Papa was admitted to Jackson Memorial Hospital critical condition the same facility where Rudy was born when we said that Rudy was biting the man’s face that might have been a bit of an understatement 75 to 80 percent of Ronald’s face above his beard was missing in his left eye had been gouged out now I have seen the pictures of Ronald’s face and it was bad there wasn’t a face left Ronald underwent facial reconstruction
surgeries that took months to complete and heal but there was no way to fix the damage that Rudy inflicted Ronald was permanently disfigured and left blind due to the fact that he lost both of his eyes in addition he lost his eyebrows his nose and part of his forehead and cheek to help offset the cost of his treatment a fund was set up that collected over a hundred thousand dollars after rehab Ronald put on 50 pounds and had to learn to live in his new body again which included learning to play the guitar thankfully he was granted permission to
stay at the medical facility indefinitely due to the high profile nature of his attack his estranged family who thought he had been dead for decades learned that he was in fact alive it wasn’t until two days after the attack that rakia and Rudy’s family learned the identity of the man shot by police on the causeway it was Rudy same night his mug shot from a prior arrest went viral and would later become the gruesome punch line of jokes about a Miami Zombie cannibal apocalypse although an autopsy revealed no human
flesh in Rudy’s stomach a number of undigested pills were discovered that have not been identified although police sources have speculated the street drug bath salts might have been involved preliminary toxicology reports were positive for only the presence of weed authorities did not necessarily find the negative results to be conclusive according to Dr Bruce goldberger the director of Toxicology at the University of Florida quote we are not incompetent we have the tools we have the sophistication and know-how but the
field is evolving so rapidly it is hard for us to keep track it’s almost as if it is a race we can never win end quote so what does this mean if you’ve been a long time listener of the show you remember Dr Nathan a clinical pharmacist who has weighed in on a few of our last episodes I asked him specifically on why it is difficult to test for designer drugs and here’s what he said quote most commercial drug tests only test for specific compounds designer drugs are compounds which chemical structures similar to known compounds
with a desired effect however the designer drugs are structurally different enough that they aren’t classified by or under the authority of regulatory agencies most commercially available drug tests don’t even test for all known legal drugs within a Class end quote so with that said there’s no real conclusive way to know if Rudy was on bath salts or not now for those that are unfamiliar bath salts are recreational designer drugs you don’t actually want to put these in your bath use of bath salts can be detrimental to human health
and can potentially cause erratic Behavior hallucinations and delusions Rudy’s 1995 Chevy Caprice was later discovered by authorities in South Beach and Toad away inside of the car police found another Bible as well as five empty water bottles that he recently drank as some recreational drugs make you thirsty this could explain the Press of the water bottles and in the wake of Rudy’s death Miami turned their backs on Ruth Charles and her family during a visit to a nail salon Ruth overheard a stranger discussing her son
loudly offering her opinion on how Rudy ended up in the causeway naked and violence the woman blamed the incident on Voodoo claiming that Rudy had come from a line of Haitian practitioners and was under a spell although Voodoo and Christianity have some overlap this was not the case for Rudy’s family and most Evangelical Christians do not consider Voodoo to be compatible with Christianity in addition Ruth had a terrible time trying to find a place to hold her son’s funeral she started by calling churches in Little Haiti in
Northeast Miami after she was turned down repeatedly she made her pleas in person Rudy had been dead for a week before Ruth found a church in Little Haiti that would allow her to hold his service but two days before the service the pastor told Ruth his congregation and church leaders did not feel comfortable having his body in their Church after planning a sermon testimony eulogy and songs Ruth had a start over from scratch that same afternoon she found another church blocks away still in the heart of the Haitian Community but less than 24
hours before the service the pastor called and canceled as well finally Rudy Eugene’s funeral service was held on June 12 2012 at Grace Funeral Home in Miami while lying in a silver and gray casket topped with white flowers Rudy’s family remembered him as a loving relative and a good friend not the Miami Zombie or Causeway cannibal that had gone viral Pastor Kenny Felix who had known Rudy since childhood told the crowd to remember Ronald Papo the 65 year old man Eugene attacked he said this morning I ask as you grieve you remember Mr Ronald
in your prayers Rudy was laid to rest in the corner plot in the Miami city cemetery beneath a simple stone marker to this day it’s unclear what exactly happened to Rudy Eugene on the afternoon of May 26 2012. but according to nationally noted toxicologists such as Barry Logan his behavior was consistent with the use of bath salts still family and friends had other ideas that suggested something more Supernatural was at play according to rakia cross quote what happened to Rudy had to be Supernatural something
humans cannot explain something that leaves us with a lot of questions I just wish he would come to me in a dream and answer all the questions I wish you would tell me what happened that day end quote Joe arelis a childhood friend of Rudy’s had a different take on things he said drugs can open the gateway to the Demons Inside of You whatever he took opened that Gateway and demon came out whatever he was fighting it came out I believe in spiritual battles I believe in demons Rudy was fighting a demon that day and he lost
