They killed Snyder’s husband by hitting him with a weight from a window sash, stuffing chloroform-soaked cotton up his nose and strangling him with picture frame wire. Police also discovered that just before her husband’s murder, Snyder forged a double-indemnity insurance policy in his name for nearly $100,000 in the event of his accidental death.īesides the failed insurance fraud, one of the most notable aspects of the crime was how ineptly Snyder and Gray committed it. When the police got to Gray, he confessed but accused Snyder of seducing him and planning the murder of her husband, an art editor at Motorboat magazine. Within a few hours, she gave up the name of the married corset salesman she was sleeping with-Henry Judd Gray-and pinned the murder on him. They also found her “stolen” jewelry stuffed under her mattress. Police were immediately suspicious because Snyder didn’t look like she’d been knocked out. Corset salesman and murderer, Henry Judd Gray (1892 - 1928).
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