Ruby Morris

Ruby Morris was the daughter of Clyde B. Williams, who was born in 1914 and passed away in 1976. On June 3, 1989, at the age of 49, Ruby was tragically murdered by her husband, a successful accountant, at her home in Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona. Ruby and her husband, Gaylynn Earl "Rusty" Morris, had a fateful meeting in a honky-tonk in Memphis, Tennessee in 1959 and got married later that same year. They moved to Arizona where Earl built a successful accounting service company and ultimately settled on a five acre home in Cave Creek. A number of years later, Earl began having an affair with Ruby's sister, Peggy Williams Hinton. The three got into a confrontation and Ruby demanded a divorce and settlement with threat of reporting Earl's illegal accounting practices with his business. Earl shot Ruby at their home and loaded her body into his El Camino where he proceeded to drive to their boat in San Diego. After loading her body into their family boat named 'Hi Lo', he burnt the body and the boat which then sank into the water. It took detectives a few months to piece together the murder (see Clue to missing woman may be on sunken boat, county detective says), and Earl was ultimately charged and convicted of murder during his trial in 1992. After her passing, Ruby left behind her spouse and three children: Randall "Randy" Morris, who was Ruby's son as a result of sexual abuse from her father, and Ruby & Earl's two daughters, Dawna Kay Wells who was an aspiring singer at the time, and Cynthia "Cindy" who worked as a waitress. Ruby's case was featured on Forensic Files. See Forensic Files Now.