Ruth Brown Snyder was an American

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 murderess. Her execution, in the electric chair

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 at Sing Sing Prison, for the murder of her husband, Albert, was captured in a well-known photograph.
In 1925, Snyder, a Queens Village, Queens

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 housewife, began an affair with Henry Judd Gray, a married corset salesman. She then began to plan the murder of her husband, enlisting the help of her new lover, though he appeared to be very reluctant.