Author: Ruth Snyder
Alternate names: Ruth Brown Snyder; May Ruth Snyder
Born: 27 March 1895
Died: 12 January 1928
Bio: May Ruth Snyder (née Brown) was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.