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 · Ruth Snyder's crime and subsequent execution were nothing out of the ordinary until a photographer captured it all in a now-infamous photo.

Apr 10, 2014 · 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...

Jan 12, 2023 · In four minutes, “ Ruthless Ruth ” Snyder, a woman who’d murdered her husband for insurance money, would die in the electric chair. Tom Howard (seated) shows how he strapped a...

Sep 24, 2018 · On March 20, 1927, Ruth Snyder claimed two “giant Italians” had broken into her house in Queens and knocked her unconscious. They tied her up and left her in the hallway, she said.

On the night of January 12, 1928, Ruth Snyder, a Long Island housewife, was electrocuted at New York's Sing Sing prison for the murder of her husband Albert Snyder. Following her to the death chamber was (Henry) Judd Gray, her lover and accomplice.

Aug 17, 2018 · Ruth Snyder was a 30-year-old housewife when she met Judd Gray in a Manhattan cafe in 1925. That chance meeting changed both of their lives. Soon after, the two snuck off to a room at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Dec 5, 2024 · The story of the Ruth Snyder Execution photograph and how “ruthless Ruth” became the subject of the most famous tabloid picture ever taken and the crime that shocked the nation. The room was cold, and the air was palpable as …

Jun 11, 2014 · On the night of Mar. 20, 1927, suburban housewife, Ruth Brown Snyder, and her secret lover, Henry Judd Gray, murdered Snyder’s husband, Albert, in their Queens Village home.

In 1925 a woman named Ruth Snyder too up with a salesman—a corset and brassiere salesman to be exact—and together on March 20, 1927, they murdered her husband in his bed. Months later, they were both electrocuted.