PWB Blog 4- Newspaper Article of Ruth May

5 Year Old Child Dies in Congo From Accidental Snake Bite or Planned Murder?


March 20, 1960 By: Morgan Huber

The Price family moves to the Congo in 1959 despite the disagreement towards the father of the family Nathan Price who pushed the family to move for mission work. For years the family lived there with the persistent abusive preacher father whose goal was to save the people of the Congo by finding Jesus in their lives. The rejection from the village pushed Nathan price even more and he took it out on his family. (Coming from an inside source) One of the villagers claimed that Nathan Price was like by few people of the Congo and that may have triggered a murderous being to rise up against the family and every one involved with the family.

The inside source also claimed that there had been a previous attempt for murdering one of the family friends by placing a Black Mamba Snake inside the bed of the family friend. Fortunately, the snake was found before going to sleep that night. This act of violence towards the family made the family be on full alert, which in the end resulted in a death in the family.

Ruth May, the youngest daughter of Orleanna and Nathan Price, was pronounced dead after being bitten by a Black member Snake. Inside sources say the family was on high alert and attempted to catch the killer with the help of the family friend Nelson. They placed ashes in the chicken coop where the friend stayed in order to track footprints of any sort so they would know who the criminal was. The next morning all the girls and the friend went to check on the coop. six toed foot prints were left at the scene and the girls knew exactly who it was. Tata Kuvudundu. By the time the girls even realized who the culprit was the snake had fled and had bitten Ruth may on the shoulder. There was nothing the girls could do but watch her die.

Now was this death of an innocent young girl the result of “wrong place wrong time” or the result from a killer wanting the Prices to leave the Congo? The Prices now have their own way of dealing with the death of their youngest daughter and how to avoid or catch the murderer roaming the Congo for revenge.