Woodlawn Cemetery The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Homemaker
Criminal status
Executed (January 12, 1928; 96 years ago (1928-01-12))
Spouse
Albert Edward Snyder
(m. 1915; murdered 1927)
[1]
Children
1
Motive
Resentment
Conviction(s)
Murder
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Victims
Albert Edward Snyder, aged 44
Date
March 20, 1927
Location(s)
Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.
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 RuthSnyder (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...
Etting was then managed by Moe Snyder, whom she married in 1922. Snyder was known for being very protective of Ruth, keeping her out of trouble in the...
Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer RuthSnyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one...
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat...
was the singer and entertainer Ruth Etting, whom he married in 1922 and whose career he aggressively promoted. Snyder and Etting met when she was performing...
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first photograph of an execution by electric chair was of housewife RuthSnyder at Sing Sing on the evening of January 12, 1928, for the March 1927 murder...
months of his four-year sentence at Sing Sing. RuthSnyder, executed along with Henry Judd Gray in 1928, Snyder's execution was illegally photographed. Willie...
performance by a once-promising author who had grown bored and cynical. RuthSnyder of New York Evening World lambasted the book's style as painfully forced...
Later, when living in New York, Treadwell covered the murder trials of RuthSnyder and Judd Gray whose stories influenced subsequent plays. Treadwell also...
mate James M. Cain based his novella on a 1927 murder perpetrated by RuthSnyder, a married woman from New York City, and her lover Henry Judd Gray. They...
ISBN 978-1-442-24620-1. MacKellar, Landis (2006). Double Indemnity Murder: RuthSnyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the Century. Syracuse University...
description of her execution in the electric chair is based on that of RuthSnyder.[citation needed] Kenneth Penmark:The father of Rhoda and husband of...
News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of RuthSnyder being executed in the electric chair. The next day's newspaper carried...
on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016. "Albert Pierrepoint hanged Ruth Ellis but she was just one of more than 400". 22 March 2018. Retrieved 4...
1994) New York Governor Al Smith denied clemency to convicted murderer RuthSnyder and her partner Henry Gray. The New York Giants traded star player-manager...
arrested. The character was based upon real-life murderer RuthSnyder. The photo of Snyder's execution in the Sing Sing electric chair, run on the cover...
electrocuted for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley. RuthSnyder was one of the very few women executed at Sing Sing. She was put to death...
January 2014). "Broadway Revival of Machinal, Inspired by Murder Trial of RuthSnyder, Opens Jan. 16". Playbill. Brantley, Ben (15 August 1997). "Singing the...
Institute. In 2006, Gary Snyder wrote, "Her writings from the sixties were ahead of their time and remain accurate and relevant." Ruth Fuller was born and...
Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor...
RuthSnyder in New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928, and Willie Bragg, Mississippi's first electrocution in 1940. List of homicides in Illinois Ruth Snyder...
Leader: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) Congress: 70th January 12 – Murderer RuthSnyder is executed at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York. A surreptitious press...