• 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...
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    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...
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  • A. Photographs during the 1920s. His photograph of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, on January 12, 1928, has been...
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    influence of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray case. Hoopes, 1982 pp. 232–233 MacKellar, Landis (2006). The "Double Indemnity" Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray &...
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    Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one...
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    first photograph of an execution by electric chair was of housewife Ruth Snyder at Sing Sing on the evening of January 12, 1928, for the March 1927 murder...
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    Maudine Nickell, 1986 Judy Buenoano, 1971-1983 Janie Lou Gibbs, 1966–1967 Ruth Snyder, 1927 Belle Gunness, 1900-1908 Black Widows of Liverpool, 1880–1883 Portals:...
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    months of his four-year sentence at Sing Sing. Ruth Snyder, executed along with Henry Judd Gray in 1928, Snyder's execution was illegally photographed. Willie...
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    Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat...
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  • librarian and civil rights activist Ruth Snyder (1895–1928), née Brown, American executed for the murder of her husband Ruth Brown (writer), born 1941, British...
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    ISBN 978-1-442-24620-1. MacKellar, Landis (2006). Double Indemnity Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the Century. Syracuse University...
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  • United States." He executed 387 people, including Sacco and Vanzetti, Ruth Snyder, Irene Schroeder and Bruno Hauptmann. On January 6, 1927, he carried...
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    office James M. Cain based his novella on a 1927 murder perpetrated by Ruth Snyder, a married woman from New York City, and her lover Henry Judd Gray. They...
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    performance by a once-promising author who had grown bored and cynical. Ruth Snyder of New York Evening World lambasted the book's style as painfully forced...
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    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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    Ruth Selwyn (born Ruth Virginia Wilcox; November 6, 1905 – December 13, 1954) was an American theater producer and actress. Ruth Wilcox was born in Tazewell...
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  • description of her execution in the electric chair is based on that of Ruth Snyder.[citation needed] Kenneth Penmark:The father of Rhoda and husband of...
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  • Ruth Ruth is a pop punk band formed in New York City in 1993, with the original lineup consisting of Chris Kennedy on bass/lead vocals and songwriter...
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  • January 2014). "Broadway Revival of Machinal, Inspired by Murder Trial of Ruth Snyder, Opens Jan. 16". Playbill. Brantley, Ben (15 August 1997). "Singing the...
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    electrocuted for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley. Ruth Snyder was one of the very few women executed at Sing Sing. She was put to death...
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  • News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair. The next day's newspaper carried...
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  • girlfriend Ruth and young daughter, he takes a job at a service station, upsetting Snyder when his job conflicts with his commitment to training. When Snyder learns...
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    Ruth Snyder 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...
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  • 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...
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    Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host...
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  • 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...
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    arrested. The character was based upon real-life murderer Ruth Snyder. The photo of Snyder's execution in the Sing Sing electric chair, run on the cover...
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  • Snyder, Louisiana politician Ross S. Snyder, American recording engineer and inventor Ruth Brown Snyder (1895–1928), American murderer Scott Snyder,...
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    journalist Camille de Borchgrave d'Altena, married American heiress Ruth Snyder, granddaughter of Charlemagne Tower Elie de Borchgrave d'Altena, aka...
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    1994) New York Governor Al Smith denied clemency to convicted murderer Ruth Snyder and her partner Henry Gray. The New York Giants traded star player-manager...
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