Snyder, Ruth

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Ruth Snyder
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Name	Snyder, Ruth Gender: F
born on	27 March 1895 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM )
Place	New York NY, USA, 40n42, 74w00
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	News report Rodden Rating A
Astrology data	06°27' 17°07 Asc. 19°57'

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Biography

American homicide; the killer of her husband with her accomplice, her lover Henry Gray, on 3/20/1927. She met Henry Gray and started a passionate extra-marital affair that culminated with the police finding her and her husband bound and gagged and her husband dead. She and Gray did an incredibly inept job of staging a supposed burglary and murder. An insurance investigation led to the arrest of Snyder and Gray on 4/25/1927. They were both prosecuted and sent to the electric chair 1/12/1928.

Relationships

• lover relationship with Gray, Judd Henry (born 8 July 1892)

Events

• Crime : Homicide Perpetration 20 March 1927 (Involvement in husband's murder)

• Death by Execution 12 January 1928 (Electric chair, age 32)
• Crime : Arrest 25 April 1927

Source Notes

WYNN magazine quotes a reporter of the New York World who interviewed her. Fred J. Cook wrote the biography "The Girl in the Death Cell."

Categories

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Executed (Electric chair)

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide single (Involvement in death of husband)

• Family : Relationship : Stress - Extramarital affairs

• Notable : Book Collection : Crime Collection

• Notable : Famous : Criminal cases (Snyder-Gray case)

• Personal : Death : Unusual (Electric chair)