A criminal writer called it a "cheap crime involving cheap people." A famous writer and playwright, Damon Lanillon, the murderer was very stupid and he said that the crime was very "stupid" and chanted "a dumbbell killer."
Ruth Brown Snyder in blonde, wide shoulders, and mouth was no longer involved in marriage she could not take. Her husband, Albert Snyder (13), took a young man and took him to a wedding called "I do not really want" at the age of 19 before 10 years old. Snyder said that the art editor of Motor Boating Magazine, Albert, was an average man who was able to persuade her to be married because she was young, innocent, and naive. Snyder told the people that she was too weak on the day they got married and also weak to complete the marriage with Albert.
Ruth Snyder said, "He had to wait until I got better before getting his way, but he was much better than the operator before the exchange worked in the typing pool" Told.
But after the death of Albert, his editor CF Chapman talked about Albert. "He was a man man ... A quiet, honest and honest man, ready to join the drama Everyone in the world is made up of solid and quiet people like him I will.
Judd Gray was a unique, invisible corset salesman who was also involved in adorable marriage. According to gray colleagues, Gray's wife Isabel was a mystery. She was not seen or heard by anyone, she was taking the aspect of 'invisible woman'. Gray colleagues at Bien Joilie Corset Company rarely saw his wife and talked to her. In fact, some of his colleagues did not know that 32-year-old Gray got married.
As he was waiting for the electric chair, Gray explained in his wife's autobiography as follows: "Isabel, I will call it a girl in my house, we will make our house and drive our car I drove, crossed the bridge with my friends, danced and let us marry our children face up.
It began with a blind date arranged by another couple. Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray met for the first time at a small restaurant "Henry '# 39; s Swedish Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. Four hours later, complaining each other about the misery of each marriage, they vowed to meet again at once.
On August 4, 1925 Albert Snyder and a 7 - year - old daughter Lorraine participated in a boat trip to Shelter Island. Gray took advantage of this opportunity to knock the door of Snyder Residence at Queen's Village. Juddy urged Ruth Snyder to take dinner with him at "their place". "Henry Swedish Restaurant" After grabbing more than meals and a few alcoholic drinks, Gray invited Snyder to 34th Avenue and Fifth Avenue office. His excuse is "I need to collect examples of sample corsets"
In the gray office, Snyder complained of gray with an unpleasant sunburn. "I have camphor oil in my desk," gray said. "I will get it for you"
Gray recovered the camphor oil and he began to rub the oil attractive to Snyder's red neck and shoulders that sexually excited them. After secretly, Gray proposed to give Snyder a new corset. Of course, this required a loose that removes her blouse that exposed her breasts' chest. Some got another, and at Bein Jolie Corset Company Gray and Snyder first completed their relationship. As Snyder was overcome by gray affection, she told him, "Now I can call myself as a mommy."
Albert Snyder worked there for 18 months, while Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray encountered a number of trusts at hotels in Midtown, sometimes even at Snyder's residence. During these indiscriminate days, Ruth Snyder's daughter Lorraine was sitting on the sofa in Snyder's living room or sitting in the lobby of a decent Manhattan hotel. In the relationship relationship, Gray kneels at the foot of Snyder and massages his legs and ankle, declaring that "You are my queen, my mama, my mama." She overlooked the gray completely and would say, "You are my baby, my bud, my mistress."
It was during this time that Albert Snyder started a series of strange "accidents". In the summer of 1925, Albert joke the family Buick and made it possible to exchange flat tires. Suddenly Jack slipped, the car fell, and Albert was brought to death. Soon he was hurt. A few days later, Albert had a problem with the crank of the car. He managed to drop himself in the head with a crank, and he fell unconsciously to the ground. When Albert woke up, he could not yet understand how its head was stuck with its stupid crank.
Depending on how you are viewing it, after two fortunate breaks, or unfortunate breaks, Albert has caused the third accident. In August 1925, Albert was working again under his car at the indoor garage while running the engine. To be a good wife, Ruthrought to her husband Cool whiskey and soda, he helps fight the heat. Ruth also told Albert that she was proud that she was such a great mechanic. Ruth then left the garage, and a few minutes after Albert drank whiskey, he began to feel drowsy. Albert looked at the garage door and knew that the doors were not open, they knew that they are now closed, sucking harmful carbon monoxide from the exhaust pipe of the running car with shock There was.
Ruth Snyder associated these three accidents with Judd Gray. Even though Albert Snyder did not know what was going on, Gray certainly did. "What are you trying to do?" Gray asked Ruth. "Do you want to kill poor people?"
"Momsie is not alone," she needs help, lover will have to help her "
At the time, Good Judge thought they were drinking, so they were talking with alcohol instead of Ruth. However, when I met next time, Goo first realized that Ruth seriously thought about killing her husband.
After a fierce romance, Ruth smiled a little and said, "It's okay for the money," she said. "I have deceived Albert as a terrible life insurance, but he thinks that it is $ 1000, but in case of death from an accident it is actually $ 96,000, I am $ 1,000, $ 5000, and $ 45 thousand, and in case of accidental death double damages will be imposed.
Even after Ruth Snyder told Judd Gray that she was trying to kill her husband in a life insurance colony, Gray was still doubtful. Albert Snyder died nearly three more accidents while two birds continued their enthusiasm. In July 1926, Albert fell asleep on the living room sofa and almost died as someone mistakenly left the kitchen gas jet. In January 1927, Albert experienced a hiccup violence incident. Ruth Snyder said he had the perfect cure for pickups and she gave her husband mercury dichloride glass. Albert made a drinking noise, and soon he became sick and fierce. But Albert did not die. Soon the next month, Albert Snyder fell asleep in the bedroom of the living room, and most of the time it was lost as someone inadvertently got on the gas station in the living room.
After trying to kill her husband six times, Ruth Snyder knew that she needed help to succeed. She said to Judd Gray, "My husband has become brutal! He buys a gun and says he will shoot it to me"
In February 1927, Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray were challenging at a hotel in Waldorf Astoria in Midtown Manhattan. Ruth was in charge properly. And after giving gray a nice roll of hay, she went to Grayston to purchase gray, chloroform, window sash thickness, and picture wire. She said to him, "We have three means of killing him.
Gray protested, but Ruth was not deterred. She said, "If you do not do exactly what I am doing, there will be our end on the bed.
Gray was tired of not being a type of murder, but Ruth continued to put pressure on. One night, when Albert and her daughter Lorraine were not at home, Ruth took gray to the courtyard of her Queens Village. They climbed the stairs, went to their daughter 's room and had passionate sex. At this point Gray was absolutely afraid that Ruth's crazy love could not be enjoyed anymore and agreed to participate in the murder of Albert Snyder.
From this point, Ruth did all the plans and Gray told her. They had several secret meetings, and Ruth staged the way to kill her husband step by step. One such conference was "Henry & # 39; s Swedish Restaurant", Ruth's daughter Lorraine was sitting at the same table, but he did not understand what he was talking about. Her father is killed.
Early in the morning on March 20, 1927, I took a bus from Minto Downtown to Queens' Snyder House to replenish a few drops of whiskey from a pint bottle. Ruth and Albert Snyder, along with her daughter Lorraine, crossed the bridge at Milton Fizzin's mansion, one of his neighbors, so the house was empty. Ruth leave the side door unlocked and allowed Gray to enter the house. Gray was hiding in the upper room. Gray will later buy an Italian newspaper and plant it later as a baby for the police.
About 2 o'clock the Snyder family went home. By this time Albert Snyder was pretty drunk and immediately fell asleep as he was sleeping and invited by alcohol. Ruth slept with Lorraine and she slid the hole into the extra bedroom that Jud had hidden. Ruth just wore slip and negligee.
She kissed Gray, "Did you find the weight of the sash? Gray said that she had it. Ruth said" If you keep quiet you can return home as soon as possible ".
A few minutes later, Ruth left the master bedroom and entered the bedroom where Gray waited. They finished the last of whiskey Gray bought with him. And she grabbed gray by hand and said, "Yes, this is it."
Ruth led Gray into the master bedroom. Since gray was wearing rubber gloves, I left no fingerprints. Ruth carried the weight of the window sash, chloroform, piano wire. When they opened the door of the bedroom, Gray saw Albert Snyder for the first time. After closing the door of the bedroom behind them, Gray raised the weight of the sash, bought it with his head and quickly dropped it onto Albert Snyder's head. That was not such a serious blow, Albert Snyder sat on the bed and tried to protect himself. Gray bought a sash on the head of the second Albert Snyder. I draw a little blood this time. Albert Snyder hugged a gray necktie and began to strangle him. Gray cried like a girl. "Help Muncie!" Said Gray. "Help me for God!"
Ruth grabbed the weight of the fallen fold and shook it over her head and hit her on her husband's head as much as she thought. It was a debilitating blow, but now Albert Snyder of quasi-consciousness was still alive. With the strength like her man, Ruth Snyder clothed her husband's body, cottoned, tied with chloroform, packed in the nostrils, and in the mouth. When the gray stand got stunned, Ruth Snyder bound her husband's hands and feet, strangled her husband with a piano wire.
Albert Snyder (Albert Snyder) has died, so Ruth and Gray were busy washing blood from clothes. After that, Gray wore a clean blue shirt belonging to Albert.
Ruth hid her jewelry, fur, and sash which was one of the murder weapons so that it looks like stolen goods. Then they descended into the living room, ruining all the pillows and furniture, and the robbery showed as if he had overturned everything in search of valuables. So gray tied loose gently, wrapped her in cheesecloth, put an Italian newspaper next to her and left her in the empty bedroom.
Mr. Gray planned to resume corset sales by visiting Onna Gaga Hotel in Syracuse, New York. But before he got out, he looked back at Ruth Snyder and said, "It may be two months, maybe a year, maybe never before meeting again."
Immediately after the dawn of the next morning, Lorein Snyder woke up with a loud noise that came out of the corridor. She called parents, but there was no answer. Lorraine jumped into the hallway and found her mother bound to the floor. Lorraine unleashed his mother and took out the gag from his mother's mouth. Ruth jumped on her feet and cried out of the house while awaking her neighbors Harriet and Louis Mulhauser. Ruth cried and said, "It was horrible, I was terrible! I was attacked by a fool, he bound me, and she paused," Albert is okay?
Louis Mulhauser entered Snyder's house and climbed the stairs into the master bedroom. He discovered that Albert Snyder was tied down and dead with two large head injuries.
The police were called at once, and they immediately suspected the way the living room was thrown. The police interrogated Ruth Snyder as if she were the culprit of her husband's death. But Ruth adhered to her exotic talk. She opposed the police. "I was attacked by a big and rough man about 35 years old with a dark mustache.
Harry Hansen examined the remains of Albert Snyder and was called to the police to investigate Ruth Snyder whether there was no sign that she was assaulted. When examining Albert's body and Ruth, Dr. Hansen was convinced that the story of Ruth Snyder was complete production. He handed his findings to the police secretary George McLaughlin, and the police secretary agreed to Dr. Hansen's conclusion. Police immediately immediately surrounded the Snyder resident at 60 police officers and Ruth was arrested immediately for interrogation.
As Ruth was burned down at the station house, Snyder 's house was searched. The police found Ruth's ring and necklace under the mattress and a fur coat hanging on the closet. It is most likely to convince the police that Ruth has made up all episodes and bear the responsibility of her husband's death.
In Snyder's residence, the police also found an address book with the names of 28 men including Judd Gray's name. They also found a careful mirror made gray by $ 200 by Ruth Snyder. The police knew now that Ruth Snyder was accomplices.
Police armed with this information stuck the screws to Ruth Snyder. They wielded her to give a gentle confession to her by telling her that Judd Gray had already been arrested and named her her husband's murderer. Ruth admired that her lover was going to drive her away soon and finally accepted that she participated in the plan to kill her husband but fixed all to a shy corset salesman. "However, I did not aim for a blow to Albert," that was all of Judd.
Ruth Snyder who knew she was deceived talked to the police where he can find Greed Judd. The police chased the gray at the hotel in Syracuse and arrested him. Immediately, usually quiet gray started talking nonstop. Like all that happened he named Ruth Snyder the incendiary of the annihilation incident.
"I've never killed Snyder, but I will not have killed it for her," Gray said. "She gave me this power, she taught me what to do, I did it.
Every day New York City newspaper played a test with "The Granite Woman" compared to "The Man of Putty". This trial that started on April 18, 1927 lasted 18 days. During the trial, Ruth Snyder exclusively dressed in black (apparently subject to mourning for her dear husband). She was crossing the chain around her neck, but she held hands with the rosary beads wearing costumes around her with both hands. Judd Gray wore a double-breasted blue pinstripe suit, wearing a strongly-pressed pants, sitting badly as if he resigned in his fate.
A celebrity nationwide wrote a book, probably attending the movie with a suspicion of murder. These people included mysterious writers Mary Roberts Rinehart, DW Griffith director, author Will Durant, actress Nora Bayes, and evangelists Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson.
One of New York City's highest criminal reporters, Peggy Hopkins Joyce wrote to New York Daily Mirror. "Patti Man" was a wonderful modeling material for the Swedish Norwegian vampires, but her passion was gray, cold blood was for her husband woman knew that she was crazy about men But I will do anything for them. "
The trial itself was a three-ring circus, and each defendant condemned the opponent for Albert Snyder's murder. Ruth Snyder was a witness stand and said that it was Gray Judd who took her to illegal speakeasies and night clubs. And he drank until he drunk. Snyder said that he did not drink himself, that he certainly did not smoke. And she told a big lie. She swears that it was Judd Gray that guaranteed to take expensive life insurance for her husband's life. Ruth said to the court. "Once he sent me poison and told my husband to give it.
When Judd Gray stood up he was a much more credible witness than Ruth Snyder. He told the court that Ruth Snyder was trying to kill her husband several times before, but said he was failing every time.
Gray said under the pledge, "Although I said that I was crazy about her, she said that she gave her husband poison as a treatment for trouble.
While Gray was in the witness's position, Ruth Snyder sat down with his head down, constantly cried, pointing to her Rosary beads. Ruth's sorrow explosion was very big. The judge lighted her and told her to control herself.
A gray lawyer wrote a wonderful summary to the jury and tried to save the client from the electric chair. A gray lawyer told the jury that his client "is the most tragic story that grabbed the human heart." He stated that Judd Gray is a citizen of law compliance that was deceived and dominated by "design, deadly unconscious abnormal woman, human serpent, human criminal who disguised women". His lawyer also said that Judd Gray was in this desperate anger when the reasons disappeared, the mind was gone, the men were gone, and the heart weakened by desire and passion. "
After the jury was sentenced to just 98 minutes, on May 9, both Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray were convicted for the first planned murder. The judge promptly instructed both to die at the Sing Sing prison electric chair. While waiting for her execution, in her prison cell, Ruth Snyder received 164 marriage proposals.
On January 12, 1928, Judd Gray sat on an electric chair first. After speaking to the director that he received a letter forgiven from his wife, he told the director, "He is ready to go and is not afraid."
Four minutes after gray received the juice, Ruth Snyder sat down and blindfolded the electric chair. Reporters of the New York Daily News interpreter managed to enter the executive room with a small camera tied ankle somehow. The moment the electric shock hurt Ruth Snyder's body, the reporter took her picture. The photo of that death was posted on the first page of the New York Daily News the following day.
In 1944, staring at Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, a very successful, reputable movie Double Indemnity was released. The plot was based on the murders of Ruth Brown Snyder and Judd Gray. In 2007, the American Film Institute raised Double Indemnity to # 29 in the list of the top 100 American movies in the United States.
