Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray “Granite Woman and Putty Man”.
Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray “Granite Woman and Putty Man”. Ruth Brown Snyder was a 33 year old housewife who was electrocuted in New York’s Sing Sing prison on January 12, 1928, together with her boyfriend Henry Judd Gray, a married corset salesman for the murder of her husband, Albert, on March 20, 1927 in Queen’s Village, Queens, New York. In 1915, Ruth Brown, 20, was employed as a secretary for Motor Boating magazine in Manhattan. She dreamed of marrying a wealthy man and in fact married the magazine’s art editor, 44 year old Albert Snyder. The couple had a daughter in 1918, named Lorraine. Ruth and Judd had been having an affair since 1925 and evolved a plan to kill Albert as he was in the way of their relationship. To compound the crime a $48,000 double indemnity life insurance had been taken out on Albert’s life. Gray hid in a closet until the couple returned home from a night out. He then hit Albert over the head with a sash weight, then Ruth joined in and also hit hi...