Were it not for Frances Lewis, Ruth Cooper would be passing her old age in a nursing home.

Mitch, this is Ruth Cooper.

Beneath her thick cream knit stocking cap and inside a puffy cream and mauve ski jacket, Ruth Cooper was a small, rounded woman in her sixties.

Mitch told them the story of Ruth Cooper and the man who had come to her door after she'd seen him through her kitchen window.

No one knows where he was at six O'clock this morning while Ruth Cooper was meeting our mystery man.

Then came the taunts, the messages, the notebook, his conversation with Ruth Cooper.

After triumphing at Westminster, Willum gave his owner, Ruth Cooper of Glenview, Ill., a big slurp.

An older woman named Ruth Cooper had gone out with her dog to let him run, even though the windchill factor that day had clocked in at fifty degrees below zero.

But I wanted Ruth Cooper on the stand in front of a jury," she admitted.

Chidley Willum the Conqueror, owned by Ruth Cooper and Patricia Lussier, will have a strong following.