Would-Be Cop Killer Finds Freedom, Seeks Romance, Finds Death

By Ralph Cipriano

for BigTrial.net

Twenty-two years ago, John Ruane was a cop patrolling the North Philly Badlands when he interrupted a turf battle between rival drug dealers.

"We drove right into the middle of an execution in progress," recalled Ruane, now a trustee at the FOP. Four drug dealers were in the process of dispatching a rival drug dealer. But…