The Bloody Blonde and the Marble Woman: gender and power in the case of Ruth Snyder.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In the wee hours of March 20, 1927, Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, brutally murdered her husband, Albert Snyder, while her nine-year old daughter slept across the hall. The pair bludgeoned Albert with a sash weight, strangled him with picture wire, stuffed chloroform-soaked cloth in his nose, and then set about ransacking the house to make it look like a burglary. As a finishing touch, Judd tied up Ruth and left her in the hallway where she would claim she had been attacked by two "giant ltalians." (1) The cover-up was sloppy, however, and police suspected Ruth from the ...

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