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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.
James M. Cain based his novella Double Indemnity on a 1927 murder perpetrated by Ruth Snyder, married to Albert Snyder, and her lover Henry Judd Gray, [1] who colluded with an insurance agent to obtain a $45,000 policy with a double-indemnity clause without Albert's knowledge and then have him murdered.
Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder.Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one of the highpoints of Expressionist theatre in history of the American stage.
Murder-Robbery Ruth Brown Snyder: 12 January 1928 Murder of her husband Albert Snyder with her lover, Judd Gray: Judd Gray 12 January 1928 Murder of Ruth Snyder's husband, Albert Snyder Phillip Ecker [85] 1 March 1928 Murder Wilmot Leroy Wagner [92] [b] 21 June 1928 Murder of two police officers, Robert Roy and Arthur Rasmussen [93] Joseph ...
In his first year on the bench, Scudder presided of the highly publicized murder trial of Ruth Snyder and her lover Henry Judd Gray, for the murder of Ruth's husband Albert Snyder. Both were convicted and sentenced to death, though Scudder personally opposed capital punishment and would trade criminal cases with other judges to avoid having to ...
Paul Scrimo, 66, was acquitted on Thursday in Nassau County Court in the strangulation death of Ruth Williams in 2000, Newsday reported. Scrimo was convicted of murder in 2002, but an appeals ...
The latest in nearly a decade of investigations, charges and trials in the murder-for-hire of FSU professor Dan Markel is about to begin. ... Ruth Markel, gives her victim impact statement during ...
The character was based upon real-life murderer Ruth Snyder. [4] The photo of Snyder's execution in the Sing Sing electric chair, run on the cover of the January 13, 1928 New York Daily News with the one-word headline DEAD!, has been called the most famous newsphoto of the 1920s. [5]