The Cup on the Ledge: How a Judge Quietly Died in Chambers

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Aug 23, 2026 · 21m

The Cup on the Ledge: How a Judge Quietly Died in Chambers

A small white coffee cup from the courthouse break room was found on the outside ledge of a window open four inches while Judge Linda Snyder sat dead at her desk in robe, her right hand on a blank legal pad. For thirty-two years that cup and a single planner note remained unexplained - who brought the cup, and why was it placed outside a window she rarely opened?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the Tuesday evening in April 1991 when Judge Snyder was discovered, through the autopsy findings and the investigative…