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May Ruth Snyder (née Brown; March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York 's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
May 23, 2018 · Learn about the notorious murder case of Ruth Snyder and her lover, and how a photographer smuggled a camera into Sing Sing prison to capture her death by electric chair. See the iconic photo that shocked the nation and changed the rules of execution coverage.
Jan 12, 2023 · In 1928, Tom Howard of the New York Daily News smuggled a camera into Sing Sing prison and captured the first image of an electric chair killing. The photo of Ruth Snyder, who murdered her husband for insurance money, shocked the public and sparked debate over journalism's limits.
In 1925, Ruth Snyder, a housewife from Queens, New York, took a lover, Judd Gray, a corsetmaker from upstate. Already married to Albert Snyder, an arts editor at MotorBoating magazine, she...
Sep 24, 2018 · Ruth Snyder was a housewife who killed her husband with a corset salesman in 1927 and tried to claim insurance money. Her affair, murder and trial became a media sensation and a famous crime novel and film.
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Aug 6, 2018 · Learn how the murder of Queens housewife Ruth Snyder by her lover Henry Judd Gray in 1928 became a sensational tabloid story and a classic film noir plot. Find out how the case influenced James M. Cain's novel Double Indemnity and the Hollywood adaptation.
Ruth Snyder was executed in 1928 for killing her husband with her lover Judd Gray. Her case was one of the most sensational and scandalous crimes of the 1920s, covered by rival tabloids and phrenologists.
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