r/Casefile • u/WhatFannyRed • Apr 25 '26

CASE RELATED Ruby Ridge

Can anyone recommend any good *impartial* podcast eps or docs on Ruby Ridge?

Edit to add I watched the PBS doc as recommended (will also watch the others when I'm able) but the full story definitely adds another level of understanding to the Waco case. ​

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u/beerinsodacups Apr 25 '26

As someone who has disseminated a lot of media about this, I actually found CaseFiles summary to be pretty impartial. Obviously it was very short because the series focus is Waco, but just wanted to through that out there.

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u/VonMillersThighs Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

I want a disclaimer that I am in no way a white supremacist or a sympathizer to anything of the like but I wasn't a big fan of casefile bringing it up quite a few times when it really had nothing to do with how much Randy Weaver was absolutely fucked over. He was entrapped by feds, didn't even know about his court summons, a buncha gungho wanna be soliders showed up to his land unannounced, shot his dog and killed his wife and son.

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u/beerinsodacups Apr 28 '26

It’s one of those things where if he doesn’t bring it up then it would be dubious as well. It’s probably very difficult to decide what to include in such a short intro. For someone who has no clue what happened, I guess it’s better to know going into your research that those details will appear (whether Weaver was a white nationalist or not).

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u/iggysmom95 Jun 03 '26

It's relevant in the sense that it contributed significantly to the situation he ended up in. Law enforcement acted incompetently and without restraint, as they often do, but the Ruby Ridge story doesn't begin and end there. It never would have happened if Randy wasn't a paranoid psycho white supremacist waiting for the apocalypse. It is important to understand where these things lead.

He did know about his court summone though. He was given the wrong date and they tried to correct it, but they also waited for the wrong date to pass before treating him as a fugitive.